joining me now is jack jacobs, medal of honor recipient and msnbc military analyst. and good morning, colonel. i have to ask you, is president trump bringing these countries to the table? >> well, he could argue that he has. that he has driven them together. south korea's terribly scared about north korea. they're also scared about what trump might do individually, and unilaterally, and, yeah, i think he has driven them together. and that's not necessarily a good thing because these conversations are going to take place between north and south korea. but without the united states. and i don't think that's a very good thing at all. we have been effectively shut out, no matter what the conversation is about, if it's about the even something as mundane as the olympics, i think having the united states not a party to those discussions, when, in fact, we're still actually still at war with north korea. we just have a cease-fire, not an armistice. the fact that we're not involved, and have driven them together to talk, indicates that we're not in control of the situation,

let's bring in colonel jack jacobs, msnbc military analyst. colonel that message that was played at the top of the hour with that deep and scary voice ended up as a false alarm. but it told people to stay indoors and if you're going outdoors, go indoors. if this were a real attack would that have really helped? >> well, not really. you know, i remember when i was in grade school, and we would have to drill and hide under our desks as if that would really assist. at the end of the day what's our ability of a counterstrike, our ability to knock down incoming missiles, our reliance on cyber countermeasures and so on? no it's not going to help at the end of the day if you're on the wrong end of a thermonuclear device. >> colonel, if this had not been a false alarm how quickly might have a missile reached hawaii? and from the response would it suggest that the state was unprepared on some levels? >> well, if it's coming from asia, between 20 and 30 minutes depending on who launches it and what kind of vehicle it is. early warning is the best detect

. >>> colonel jack jacobs is skro joining me on the phone.u were here and left before this got under way. put this in perfective here. this is a major alert went out. how does something like this happen? how does it get generated? >> in the middle of the biggest revolution and distribution of information since the printing press, and it didn't take much to get a rumor started and not just get it started but promulgated worldwide going viral is exactly the term that one would use for something like this. it doesn't take much to sotart panic. it's important to make sure that the information gets out gets verified as we have done and that everyone is getting nipped in the bud. >> this is just been handed to me and it's very interesting. i'm going to read specifically the statement from u.s. pacific command. u.s. pacific command.com has detected no ballistic missile threat to hawaii. earlier message was sent in error. state of hawaii will send out a correction message as soon as possible. ww would that be a message attributed to u.s. command? >>

governor bill richardson and colonel jack jacobs, thank you so much. coming up, one of president trump's favorite senators is retiring and one of his biggest critics could be taking over. the 11th hour back after this. >>> republican utah senator orrin hatch announced today he will not seek an eighth term in >>> republican utah senator orrin hatch announced today he will not seek an eighth term in the senate. president trump confirmed last month that he had encouraged hatch to run for re-election. the two have been very complimentary of each other, especially in the wake of the fw op's successful tax bill push. to make matters worse for the president, vocal trump critic mitt romney is reportedly exploring a run for hatch's open seat. romney took the unprecedented step of speaking out against trump during the 2016 campaign. >> think of donald trump's personal qualities. the bullying. the greed. the showing off. the absurd third grade theatrics. >> trump didn't hide his feelings toward romney at a campaign rally a month later. >> the last election should

army colonel jack jacobs, medal of honor recipient and msnbc military analyst. i am embarrassed to even read that in front of the two of you, two men i respect very much. governor richardson, let me start with you, on whether or not a former diplomat said to me tonight it's quite clear that this doesn't help. i want to ask you if tweets like this from the president could hurt? >> well, they can hurt. it's incredibly unhelpful, especially after the north koreans and south koreans maybe are going to talk for the first time after two years of very tense peninsula. i mean the president with these tweets, he gets into personal insults. the north koreans are easily provoked. i've dealt with them for years. those little personal insults really great on them, and they're unnecessary. especially at a time when the peninsula is in a very grave situation. but, you know, you've got kim jong-un for the first time maybe saying, negotiations with the u.s. aren't working so i'm going to make another move, a geopolitical move to talk to the south koreans who have reached out to

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joining me now colonel jack jacobs.look at times we've had threats of shutdown, is it an individual saying politically charged comments in a situation like that, is that surprising to you? have you seen it before? >> it's unusual. i've been through, when i was on active duty, government shutdowns and listened to speeches but they've never been juxtaposed like that. so it's not particularly helpful for the vice president to make comments like that in front of the troops serving. >> it makes it no doubt difficult for those in attendance, some of which may come from the communities he's eluding to, those who are daca recipients, those who are first generation or newcomers that are serving in our military. discuss that and how the topic of immigration in the military is discussed. >> it's not discussed very much. it's interesting when you're in a military unit, whether you're deployed and in combat or not, back in the states or some other place that's not deployed, and you're conducting the normal business of defending the

joining me now colonel jack jacobs.hen we look at times we've had threats of shutdown, is it an individual saying politically charged comments in a situation like that, is that surprising to you? have you seen it before? >> it's unusual. i've been through, when i was on active duty, government shutdowns and listened to speeches but they've never been juxtaposed like that. so it's not particularly helpful for the vice president to make comments like that in front of the troops serving. >> it makes it no doubt difficult for those in attendance, some of which may come from the communities he's eluding to, those who are daca recipients, those who are first generation or newcomers that are serving our military. discuss that and how the topic of immigration in the military is discussed. >> it's not discussed very much. it's interesting when you're in a military unit, whether you're deployed and in combat or not, back in the states or some other place that's not deployed, and you're conducting the normal business of defending

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