the united states edges closer than ever to war with north korea former congressman alan grayson joins us for the conversation and reports emerged that the f.b.i. raided paul manifolds home it took documents relating to the front campaign's connections to russia and our t's daniel hawkins reports from iraq tonight all the latest in the investigation into the blackwater firm's baghdad massacre. reporting tonight from washington d.c. this is the news on r.t. america. good evening friends we start tonight with the entire world focused on president trump's comments on north korea and the political fallout here in the united states the president stirred the entire political arena threatening to bring fire and fury to north korea the congressional reaction has been mixed although the president has an understanding of some in the senate about what the country is actually facing put yourself in president trump shoes for a moment where does your allegiance slide is it isn't your primary purpose as president stays to protect the american homeland from a nuclear weapon attack by a guy like kim jo

the rational country runs itself not with one man with his finger on the button playing with it alan graysonalways a pleasure good to have you with us tonight thank you thank you thank you for your candid opinion north korea's neighbors and the world community have reacted to the back and forth between president trump and north korea the reigning consensus a diplomatic solution is the only way forward. we are following the increasing rhetorical escalation around the korean peninsula with great concern the situation is really serious further saber rattling will surely not help this regime is its conduct easy legal it's reckless it's provocative it's dangerous and and it threatens the peace of the region the peace of the wolves a conflict would be shattering it would have catastrophic consequences we all understand that the critical thing is that this dangerous regime comes to its senses struggles in the. mid to high in tension over the regional security environment us to turns power is extremely important for japan will in this respect we appreciate the stance that the us takes as they said t

last night on this program i had former congressman alan grayson i asked him the question about can the president legally do this here's his response. no he's the commander in chief and congress has the authority to declare war but in his case he doesn't seem to understand the basic principles of the constitution there is a madman on the loose with nuclear weapons and in addition to that kim jong il also has them that mad men is our president i don't think the president would think twice about using nuclear weapons against north korea rob job why does it take a former congressman to say that whereas the debate on the authority to hit north korea well let's look at history for a second and go back to the cuban missile crisis it was kind of a flip flop we had a more level headed president with john f. kennedy but we had curtis lemay on the joint chiefs of staff who wanted to bomb russia he wanted to bomb cuba we had henry kissinger who wanted to have a limited nuclear war not not too early before all that in europe so there is always going to be differing opinions i think yes trump is the

the united states edges closer than ever to war with north korea former congressman alan grayson joins us for the conversation and reports emerged the f.b.i. raided home and took documents relating to the trump campaign's connections to russia and our t's daniel hawkins reports from iraq tonight all the latest in the investigation into the blackwater firm's baghdad massacre. reporting tonight from washington d.c. this is the news on r.t. america.

on the news the united states edges closer than ever to war with north korea former congressman alan grayson joins us for the conversation and reports emerged the f.b.i. raided home and took documents relating to the trump campaign's connections to russia and daniel hawkins reports from iraq tonight all the latest in the investigation into the blackwater firm's baghdad massacre. reporting tonight from washington d.c. this is the news on r.t. america. good evening friends we start tonight with the entire world focused on president trump's comments on north korea and the political fallout here in the united states the president stirred the entire political arena threatening to bring fire and fury to north korea the congressional reaction has been mixed although the president has an understanding of some in the senate about what the country is actually facing put yourself in president trump shoes for a moment where does your allegiance slide is it isn't your primary purpose is present states to protect the american homeland from a nuclear weapon attack by a guy like kim jong boom my belief is t