North Korea and President Trump lashed out at each other within hours on Tuesday, in both cases threatening to hit the other side with a barrage of “fire.”
Speaking at his Bedminster golf resort in New Jersey, Trump vowed to unleash “fire” and “fury.” He said that North Korea’s threats of nuclear war “will be met with fire, fury and frankly power, the likes of which the world has never seen before.”
Peter Brookes is a Navy veteran, who served as President George W. Bush’s deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific affairs and is currently a Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs at the Heritage Foundation. He joined Dan and Amy with reaction to the increasingly hostile rhetoric:
Jed Babbin is a former United States Deputy Undersecretary of Defense and current contributor to the Washington Times and American Spectator. He also joined Dan and Amy with reaction to the situation in North Korea: