with me is bill blaine who is a strategist at mint partners. start with the situation with north korea and japan. experts this morning have been saying it was inevitable. the provocation of north koreans are inevitable. the provocation of north korea ns a re co nsta ntly inevitable. the provocation of north koreans are constantly adding by their missile tests and the inability to see where the sense, this is what is causing the instability in the market at the moment. people are not sure what the endgame is likely to be. they see the north koreans push a little bit further, they see the cat might trump government react with bluster, and they are not really sure why goes. —— they see their trump government. it is difficult to see where it goes from here. it has looked for the last 30 days that people have been talking and then there is a pullback and then there isa there is a pullback and then there is a push and do we get another pullback? the markets are very worried about this. everybody is watching it closely now. we know that prime minister

blaine blame on both . i have no doubt about it and you don't either. and if you reported it accurately, you would see. >> bill conference. we moved to another issue. if you look at the number of cities in america in the south and southeast that have confederate symbols, the list is long. these are cities that are either removing or considering it. nashville, baltimore, louisville, jacksonville, lexington, gainesville. if you look at next map, the red dots, they represent 718 confederate monuments and statues that remain. 300 of them in georgia, virginia, or north carolina. according to the southern poverty law center. in addition to that number, there are 109 public schools named for robert e. lee, the confederate president, jefferson davis rather. more figures in the civil war era in the south. we wonder where it goes from here. this really is one of the fundamental statements the president is making. what do you do with this? he said ultimately where does it stop. >> i think more speech is better than last speech. i think what a lot of folks want is to not be offended. that would be a nice world to not be o