from on that, the op-ed henry kissinger in yesterday's "wall street journal." part of it saying that china would also have a stake in the medical revolution of north korea, whether it is a reification or -- a reunification or a two state union. north korea is kind of a subcontractor to achieve american perspectives. i will let both of you respond to that in a moment. let's get a call from cedar rapids from edward on our republican line. gentlemen.d morning, my question was for the professor. what i am understanding from what you were saying, basically, this is a show to the rest of the world that north korea, if they wanted to, can hit guam with icbm's. us if they want to, they can. host: thanks. --st: again, i do not think the way the north koreans are crafting this, i do not think that is the goal. it would also not be an icbm, from what i understand. it would be an intermediate range missile. uam key point here is the g plan, as i interpret it from what the north koreans are saying explicitly, is different from a lot of things we have been seeing, especially

. >> we conclude with henry kissinger. his latest editorial in the "wall street journal" is " >> how to resolve the north korean crisis." >> the better way is to send chinese emissary and say this is our notion of the evolution of the region if things continue as they are. some military clash by somebody is inevitable sooner or later. the way we can remove this danger, and above all remove the danger of nuclear weapons, is to come to the -- to an understanding. one, the kind of pressure that will be applied. secondly, the political structure that we will recommend to the world to support afterwards. and then to put that forward in some manner in a formal channel. >> rose: robert costa and dr. henry kissinger when we continue. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: president trump continues to weat

characters themselves referred to nixon and the madman strategy that this is where he deputed henry kissingergo around the world that saying to world leaders quite nixon he is crazy enough to do this. he believed leaders would fear him more and accommodate him with peace in vietnam and that kind of think as iam glad in vietnam and that kind of think as i am glad you mentioned him because he comes from that era, the early 70s, where not only was nixon and watergate going on, it spawned the political thriller. i did not have a role in this but the cover is absolutely a 70s era cover design. it could be day of the jackal or day of the condor. it was when people we re of the condor. it was when people were ready to believe the president was a danger and buy into those scenarios. some people will think that by looking at the book, looking at the cover, or reading it, this is at the cover, or reading it, this is a bit rich but you cannot bear donald trump, so you have written a book, portraying him, albeit through an unnamed president in these pages, as somebody who was about to blow up the world i

around 3:30 on saturday she went into the office and calmly explained i have henry kissinger reportedlyting nuclear weapons on ships. the airborne divisions are moving towards airfields. we have american forces on heightened alert. i cannot have my attorney general defined me when we've got the impression it over there watching my reaction to what's going on. i have no choice but to do it and to this day i think the president had no choice. [applause] i think he did the right thing. [applause] so the circumstances of this are all lost. what you see is the president went over to throw everybody out of the special prosecutor's office when they were doing such a nice job. we want to get to some questions. let me talk about the achievements of richard nixon, and again this library has it magnificently. the editorial editor at the post said i think we belong to the nixon generation. we never know if a time growing up when he was not an issue in the election and i think that is right. i don't know if you had him out here he's a democratic strategist, a very bright fellow that worked in the ca

poor henry kissinger. i don't know why, but you can't have a system where henry kissinger is going to be sued everywhere. maybe you could, but i'm sure he wouldn't like it. somehow it has to work out. if other countries do the same thing, you won't have chaos and there is no supreme court of the world to have a final rule on such matters. all of those kinds of difficulties and more are involved in those 10 or 15 or 20 words in that alien tort statute, and it is difficult and it has been to this court at least twice. we've tried to figure out answers and sometimes we agree, sometimes we don't. but that's human rights, a little example of it. it is right there. why did i say treaties? i started out with treaties because i began to think of treaties as always being subject matter for a court. of course. but suddenly we have three cases over two years that involved a single treaty, the subject is the abduction of children. hmm. now, you may know something about abducting children in the law. they're called dom

henry kissinger is here. he served under president nixon and ford. a recipient of the nobel peace prize. his latest article in the wall is "how tonal resolve the north korean crisis ." government i remember has been trying to resolve that. how do you do that? dr. kissinger: it is a way to approach it. the point of the article is the major steps of a report -- our foreign policy has been to bring -- threaten north korea with consequences. the other, to ask china to help us. the threat is not fully effective because for the north koreans, they have spent decades of oppressing their people and depriving them to build these weapons. so, they are not going to yield to threats very easily. charlie: threats of sanctions and the like? dr. kissinger: it is going to take tremendous physical threats even to imagine them yielding to it. on the other hand, china helping us, they are not there to help us. they are there to help themselves. but the point of the article is that we are at a moment when the interests of america and china coincide. we don't want the nu

henry kissinger.is analysis of north korea with ideas that he thinks that i'm states might consider. statesks the united might consider. back in a moment. ♪ ♪ charlie: dr. henry kissinger is here. he served under president nixon and ford. i am pleased to have him back at this table. welcome. you're looking good and i assume feeling well. that is a heavy title there, "how to resolve the north korean crisis" because every government i remember is trying to resolve that. how to you do it? >> it is a way to approach it. visit point of the article is the major steps of a report -- our foreign policy has been to bring it out north korea with consequences and asked china to help us. this threat is not fully effective because the north koreans, they has spent decades of oppressing their people, and depriving them to build these weapons. yieldey are not going to to threats very easily. charlie: threats of sanctions and the like? dr. kissinger: it is going to take tremendous, physical threats. hand, with china

henry kissinger.is analysis of north korea with some ideas he think the united states might consider. back in a moment. ♪ ♪ charlie: dr. henry kissinger is here. he served as secretary of state and national security advisor under president nixon and ford. he is a recipient of the nobel peace prize. i am pleased to have him back at this table. welcome. dr. kissinger: pleasure. charlie: you're looking good and i assume feeling well. that is a heavy title there, "how to resolve the north korean crisis" because every government that i can remember is trying to do that. how do you do it? dr. kissinger: it is a way to approach solving it. the basic point of the article is that the major threats to our foreign-policy has been on the to threaten north korea with consequences and on the other ask china to help us. two this threat is not fully effective because the north koreans spent decades of oppressing their people and depriving them to build these weapons. so they are not going to yield to threats very eas

this is where he deputed his secretary of state, henry kissinger, to go round the world saying to worldn's a bit crazy, you know. he's just crazy enough to do this. which nixon encouraged this strategy, because he believed it would make them fear him more, and therefore accommodate him with peace in vietnam and that kind of thing. but i'm particularly glad you mentioned nixon, partlyjust because it comes from that era of the early ‘70s where not only was nixon and watergate going on, but it spawned the conspiracy political thriller. and, you know, i had no role in this, but one thing i love about this book is the cover. and the cover is absolutely a ‘70s—era sort of cover design. it could be day of the jackal or three days of the condor, which were thrillers i grew up with and loved. and the nixon era really incubated an atmosphere where people were ready to believe that the president was somehow a danger, and therefore buy into those kinds of scenarios. some people will think either looking at this book, just looking at the cover, or reading it, that this is a bit rich. you can't bear

>> well, it's probably a decade ago, henry kissinger, my old professor at harvard, and lee kwan yu, about which i was writing a book which i published -- >> both have done interviews with you. >> and wonderful interviews. these i think are two the strategic leading lights of our lifetime. and each of them kept reminding me-- graham, you're interested in the soviet union, yes, you're interested in the nuclear weapons. china, think about china. i started studying china about 10 years ago. and about five years ago, i stumbled on this idea that the thucydide had a big idea, which was when a rising power threatens to replace a ruling power, in general, bad things happens. that aa lens, as henry says, helps you look through the daily noise and news, to see the-- a primary dynamic here, and that helps us recognize the dangers that are inherent in such a situation. >> rose: i mean,s it as timely as today. this is the "financial times" from today, and it has a picture of xi jinping. "xi jinping, china's president, makes his way to the podium in the great hall of the people to deliver an hour-long

this is where he deputed his secretary of state, henry kissinger, to go round the world saying to world he's just crazy enough to do this. which nixon encouraged this strategy, because he believed it would make them fear him more, and therefore accommodate him with peace in vietnam and that kind of thing. but i'm particularly glad you mentioned nixon, partlyjust because it comes from that era of the early ‘70s where not only was nixon and watergate going on, but it spawned the conspiracy political thriller. and, you know, i had no role in this, but one thing i love about this book is the cover. and the cover is absolutely a ‘705—era sort of cover design. it could be day of the jackal or three days of the condor, which were thrillers i grew up with and loved. and the nixon era really incubated an atmosphere where people were ready to believe that the president was somehow a danger, and therefore buy into those kinds of scenarios. some people will think either looking at this book, just looking at the cover, or reading it, that this is a bit rich. you can't bear donald trump, so you've wr

. >> seven years ago we celebrated the decades old ping pong diplomacy that henry kissinger was involvedof course, president nixon at the time and try to break open the ice relationship between china and the u.s. >> mayor lee said now they continue the tournament as a way to bring the community together and we will be right back.

. >> the mad man in nixon's cabinet was henry kissinger, more than richard nixon.bad man theory is the worst possible approach in a nuclear world. we know frhe wanted to put pressure afternoon the united states by creating crises around the world. he create vietnam and south korea amount nobody thinks it's a smart idea for a superpower to talk about nuclear unpredictability. >> we have had this nuclear condition for 70 plus years, so it seems like we're trying to learn some lessons that are obvious. >> why don't we just say that north korea can have nuclear weapons and then they have to play by the rules and we deter them. deterrence has worked in the 70-plus years that nuclear weapons have existed. and north korea then, we could test the theory, that north korea is a puffer fish, they are afraid of being swallowed and they need to show they have more power than they really are. but right now, they seem to be acting as if their existence is at stake, but tell them, your existence is not at stake, you can keep a very small nuclear program. >> and north korea looks a

that's been my hope for many many years and george shultz and henry kissinger and sam nunn and i formed a project some years ago dedicated that proposition for a few years i thought we were making progress but in the last four or five years it's clear we are moving backwards the russians have already started rebuilding the cold war nuclear arsenal and we're in the process of following suit we have by now in the defense budget a program to have and take many years the realized within the budget already a program to completely rebuild the nuclear arsenal this will be done at a cost of well over a trillion dollars over the next few decades. this is the big think that most people were not even aware of the fact that the program is underway noah this sounds this mr second this sounds like madness. i think it's less madness than it is ignorance that people don't understand the dangers and therefore they're complacent about them if they understood them they would not be so complacent and if they understood them i think we would formulate better policies for lowering the dangerous there's no wi

some say it's the islamic state others say for example this week former secretary of state henry kissinger declared defeating the islamic state might lead to a quote radical iranian empire he notes the u.s. and russia partner with opposing sides in the middle east how do you assess his view and how much of it is based and a cold war era mentality. well it's certainly the kind of cool binary thinking that me so you know from one hundred forty five to one hundred ninety one but there's something quite i think a level and that needs to be pointed out you know mr kissinger who is developed you know an expertise in essentially dividing the world in order for the united states to emerge as the supreme power here utilizes if sectarian logic to understand the middle east in other words he is suggesting that isis somehow is the sunni champion which is an extraordinary part if you asked that i think sunni majority countries in the region including the kingdom of jordan i think they'd be quite surprised to hear that isis is essentially been given the task by mr kissinger of being the champion of the

referredneral mcmaster to the op-ed piece by henry kissinger over the weekend.. an understanding between washington and beijing is the singular prerequisite. china at this point may have an even greater interest in forestalling the nuclearization of asia. does china have that compelling interest right now? >> i think they do. my interaction with china in the last three or four years, the nuclear issue has clearly moved up in terms of their concerns as a priority. historically, it has been instability at the top and nuclearization below that. i think now the nuclear issue is on par with the instability. they have the interest. i agree very much the u.s. and china should figure out a way to figure out the end state and both approach it together to try to deliver that. alix: you mentioned the risks are exceptionally high. the mentioned north korea being willing to use nuclear weapons. i have to think there is a big gap between the rhetoric and actually going to nuclear war. short-term, what is the biggest risk someone in the market is going to have to start paying

david: henry kissinger wrote an "washingtonin the journal" over the weekend. he says not only do we have to be in the same boat as china, we have to be in the same approach. an understanding in washington a preaching is the prerequisite earization in korea. do we have a common approach we can present? max: it takes a lot of work and effort. i think our president should spend more time with their president. there should be private conversations. they should not conduct diplomacyprivate -- publicly. both countries have to cool the rhetoric, start talking, and slowly build up trust and confidence. in my judgment, that is the only way it will happen. you for being here. former u.s. senator and former ambassador to china. we have continued reaction from the situation in charlottesville and the president's reaction. now, a statement condemning the charlottesville violence. he is not saying if he will remain on the president's manufacturing counsel. kenneth frazier announced he will quit the panel as a matter of personal conscience. to whatr ceo reacting happened in

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 president but there are a lot of level heads on the joint chiefs of staff his chief of staff his national security adviser and i think we're all being a little too alarmist right now is not walking around with well wait a minute all of that and now rob rob on that moment double death yeah i know that i know you're not defending trump but the fact is that mattis backed up what the president said yesterday. a couple of days ago heidi your thoughts on that i mean are they speaking with one voice. well i don't think our troops declare war on anybody he's just saying if you started with us you started with our territories we're going to come back at you that's all he's saying it doesn't need to go to congress for that and general mattis made a great point and i'm paraphrasing he basically said if north korea wants to put their peopl

> probably a decade ago, henry kissinger was my professor and a book that i published three, four years ago. these are i think two strategic thirst of our lifetime. and they kept reminding me about the soviet union and nuclear weapons, think about china. i started study china about 10 years ago and five years i stumbled on this idea, when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling power, bad things happen. and that as a lens helps you look through the daily noise and news to see a primary dynamic here and helps us recognize the dangers that are inherent in such a situation. charlie: this is "the financial times" from today. china's president makes his way to the podium in the great hall of the people in beijing to deliver an hour-long speech that warned that china's neighbors that the country would not tolerate any infringement of its territory. warned that china would not tolerate any infringement of its territory. >> he was just coming from spending the weekend with the p.l.a. at their -- charlie: people's liberation army. > and had a celebration of the people's liberation army and

henry kissinger said diplomacy without a force is like an orchestra without instruments. in this case, unless jong-un believes the power is on the table and we would use it, he will continue to do what he is doing, minimizing nuclear warheads. this this case, the threat of force is, can be, a valuable addition to our diplomacy, but it has to be used very, very delicately. >> kelci, you disagree. you make the argument that diplomacy, talks have worked. if that's the case, why are we where we are now? why has north korea developed so much? >> what the white house needs to be doing is making a more concerted effort to send a direct signal to north korea. president trump's threats, the firy rhetoric is increasing the chance for miscalculation. now, secretary of state, rex tillerson is talking negotiations and that's good. when you have the secretary of state making one message and you have threats coming from the president, it's difficult for north korea to know how to respond and that increases the chance in this. >> the lessons from history. it didn't work. then clinton adm

it matters politics, henry kissinger said perception is reality. if you're sitting at 35% in your three most important states everyone's going to look, why do i have to listen to this guy? >> two things, first you brought up his poll numbers among conservatives and republicans and those are eroding at the national level. he was kind of sitting comfortably in the mid 80s, those are sliding down closer to 80, even in the high 70s in some polls that i've seen, that's not great but you're right. what will kill trump politically more than anything else is once these senators and congressmen start to feel like they can derive no more political power from him, their constituents don't care about trump anymore. >> if you're not in the deep south you're getting pretty close, aren't you? >> i think so. part of the issue here is it's not just trump's popularity but it's his ability to, these are intertwined his ability to display competence. can they get something like tax reform through the congress and at the same time have an economy that's humming along n

were recounted in the book and of course, theodore racks of teddy roosevelt i wrote a letter to henry kissinger for while it was deployed there is a book that he recommended that i read to help construct my world view another book he emphasized was theodore racks and recommended other books i have read but i hope to get through the entire reading as one of the largest read said his recommendations. >>. >> i spend a lot more money on books than i ever made. and then with those new titles to read. and then that gives a little bit of time. and with that accountability to have a book club in the office. . >> gretchen carlson is the author what you trying to say?. >> to encourage all women

>> i've read everything that henry kissinger has put out on getting china to help with north korea and two days ago, he put something out in the "wall street journal." you have to look at him as the smartest guy. how do we get china do help with north korea? if everything i've looked at, he's dependent on getting china to keep north korea from getting where they are. we're almost to the point where the military option is the only way. >> trish: you think we're wrong? >> i hope i am. but look at china, we see the same indicators. make sure we do something now. if we don't do anything in the next 1 to 10 years -- i say one year because it can break out any moment and be a nuclear capable country. we need to pay attention to that now. >> trish: this is their ambition. >> it is. today an iranian general said there's no way the u.s. will inspect our military sites. that's where they're doing the weaponization, tests and processes for their nuclear program. we can't see them. this isn't part of the nuclear deal. we're not allowed to inspect them. the national security council is looking at t

kissinger has been an advisor from time to time to president trump and henry kissinger wrote in his white house years said a bluff taken serio seriously. what we have now is something has been taken as a bluff. when it may in fact be serious. we now have to kind of walk it back and say if you take action, which threatens us or our allies, then you will have a response which will be quiet devastating to your regime. we will start moving in the direction of a regime change. saying we tried to work with you. we're going to look at regime change the at some point in time in the not too distant future if you continue along this way. >> you talked about squeezing north korea. you mentioned earlier today squeezing them like a python. what were you talking about? is it just the continuation of sanctions? how do you mean by "squeeze"? >> we've been imposing sanctions on an incremental basis. they've been eroded. we know there is a black market and gray market. we know china is dealing the north koreans and the russians. we have allowed the north koreans to do this. they've been developing the guns

dean atchison, one of our great secretary of states, henry kissinger wrote this in his memoirs. he said a bluff if taken seriously can be helpful, a serious threat that is taken as a bluff can be catastrophic. those words are really important to make sure that we're not seen as bluffing. someone will call that bluff or we're doing something seriously but it's not taken seriously. that can all end in a catastrophe. we have to be clear and concise and precise in terms of what we intend to do and to send that message coupled with the economic and diplomatic messages. that's the way to get a result. >> shepard: secretary cohen, you said using the rhetoric and not following through as you put it, north korea threatens guam would be evidence of a bluff? are you suggesting this was a bluff and it's been proven to be so? >> if the president says if you threaten us again or our territories or our allies, it will be met with fire and fury. the north koreans issued another threat. what does that mean? does that mean we attack tomorrow or the next month or when ever? that would look as we'r

in articles that have been written recently both in "the atlantic" and now this morning with henry kissinger in "the wall street journal." the bottom line is we must denuclearize north korea. we still have a number of diplomatic options available to us before we ever even get to the point where military options need to be truly laid out on the table. the military will always be ready, but now it's time for the hard work, the diplomacy needs to start. and that's going to start with getting china involved, not allowing them to push this away and think that they can just have a buffer state that's going to be nuclear armed and threaten us and engage in a meaningful manner that will stabilize the region and the world. if china doesn't want to do that, they will live with the consequences of that problem. >> commander, the atlantic piece to which you refer was written by mark bowden of blackhawk down fame. he said there are four outcomes. a crushing military strike, a limited conventional strike, decapitation or assassination of kim jong-un or, get ready for it, acceptance of the fact that north

eric: one of the overviews of this in the "wall street journal" this weekend henry kissinger writes inay have even greater interest than the u.s. in forestalling the nuclearization of asia. beijing runs the risk of deteriorating relations with america if it gets blamged for insufficient -- if it gets blamed for insufficient pressure on pyongyang since denuclearization requires sustained cooperation it cannot be achieved by economic pressure, it requires a u.s. chinese understanding of the aftermath specifically about north korea's political and deployment restraints on its territory. basically what he's saying if japan gets nuclear weapons, south korea, that changes the whole counterbalance and the global strategy and it would be a chance for china to see some daylight to maybe actually do something. >> that's right. the second part of his statement points to the long range strategic problem and the choice the u.s. is going to have, which is it willing to accept a denuclearized unified korean peninsula if that means south korea breaks its alliance with the u.s.? this was the choice we

maybe they think they are alexander haig and henry kissinger are holding up the nixon administrations final days. but i think they also have a mind that this is going to cost them socially and i think that must be as much -- >> i need bill cohan to way in on this. if this is about what it's going to cost you socially, tom ford and valentino and roland saying hey steve mnuchin's wife, we're not sponsoring you, that wasn't good for the mnuchin brand this week, what do you think about gary's standing here? >> look, i think gary and steve mnuchin are in totally different worlds here. nuch nooch has drunk tsteve mnu koolaid. it's not pretty to watch. gary is wrestling with this. he's conflated two things. he made very strong comments about, you know, what the neo-nazis were doing in charlottesville, but he did not comment you'll notice on what president trump said when he first spoke about this in new jersey when he talked about the all sides, and he was care to feel say i'm a jewish american and i'm not going to take this anymore and i'm not going to let them dictate what i do, but he di

james schlessinger told the pentagon, if you get a nuclear launch order, please check with me or henry kissingerking heavily, he was despondent. there was fear he would launch an unprovoked nuclear war. there's no stims in place to actually protect against something like that. >> you know what, it is very helpful to know that regardless of the political discussion. garrett, appreciate it very much. garrett graff, a great book. i hope people read it. >>> meanwhile president trump's wild ride to uniter to divider to uniter to divider, how will all this impact his ability to govern? our panel takes that on next. t,! but we can guarantee that you'll get the best price when you book with us. holiday inn express. be the readiest. listen up, heart disease.) you too, unnecessary er visits. and hey, unmanaged depression, don't get too comfortable. we're talking to you, cost inefficiencies and data without insights. and fragmented care- stop getting in the way of patient recovery and pay attention. every single one of you is on our list. for those who won't rest until the world is healthier, neither will

mean the example to use is we always read in the paper whether it's true or not wants to sue henry kissinger. i don't know why, but we can't have a system where they are going to be sued. but the problem is this. if other countries do the same thing, you won't have chaos. there is no supreme court of the world to have a final rule on such matters. and all those kinds of difficulties and more are involved in those 10 or 15 or 20 words in that alien tort statute and it's difficult. it's been to this court at least twice. we tried to figure out answers. sometimes we agree. sometimes we don't. but that's human rights, a little example of it. it's right there. why did i say treaties? i started out with treaties because i began to think of treaties as always being subject matter for a court. of course, but suddenly we have three cases over two years that involve a single treaty but you know it's the subject of abduction of children. you know who knows something about abducting children in the law? they are called domestic relations judges in the states. i know some of them. it's a really hard job.

henry kissinger is between them. he didn't do much when it comes to the fiscal crisis, but he was an important person. also was donald rumsfeld was at that ford's chief of staff. point, mayor beam, working with the governor of new york state , was to go and seek additional id from washington, d.c. in recent years, the federal government had provided financial assistance for certain corporations such as the defense contractor, lockheed, when they were facing problems. perhaps they reckoned it would work for new york as well. but beam and kerry did not find a friendly audience. donald rumsfeld was not induced, he said it would be a disaster. first, new york would delay cleaning up their mess, and second for the president -- theedent it would set president wrote in my view the request is outrageous. alan greenspan said their wares no cuts for personal responsibility. must do right thing 24 hours, bite bullet. what the ford administration wanted to see from the city was a program of speed budget cuts. before the first me

. >> the mad man theory of leadership as referenced there, depended on henry kissinger playing good cop to nixon's bad cop. no secretary for east's affairs, no secretary of asian pacific affairs. but we do understand that rex tillerson, our secretary of state at the moment, on a surprise trip to guam had comments to say. he was flying from kuala lumpur to the pacific island, maybe predicated by the president's comments to go calm that down. we'll play that sound when it becomes available. in the meantime, chris cillizza, how about that diplomatic effort? if in the art of the deal, in donald trump's world, when you open with fire and fury, where do you go from there? >> yeah. when you start at ten, it's hard to get louder. i'm with phil mudd in that i do think the danger here is that trump is 50% of this equation. he's not 100%, and during the campaign the big thing -- after the campaign was, see, you guys, the media, take trump seriously but not literally. his supporters take him literally but not seriously. sorry. the other way around. the point being, they know he just says stuff. he'

this is where he deputed his secretary of state, henry kissinger, to go round the world saying to worldrtlyjust because it comes from that era of the early ‘70s where not only was nixon and watergate going on, but it spawned the conspiracy political thriller. and, you know, i had no role in this, but one thing i love about this book is the cover. and the cover is absolutely a ‘70s—era sort of cover design. it could be day of the jackal or three days of the condor, which were thrillers i grew up with and loved. and the nixon era really incubated an atmosphere where people were ready to believe that the president was somehow a danger, and therefore buy into those kinds of scenarios. some people will think either looking at this book, just looking at the cover, or reading it, that this is a bit rich. you can‘t bear donald trump, so you‘ve written a book portraying him, albeit through an unnamed president in these pages, as somebody who is about to blow up the world. and they say, come on, if you believe that, write it, put your name on it and answer questions, rather than suggesting that i