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now all eyes are on north korea watching to see if kim jong un takes advantage of south korea's most unstable moment in 40 years. especially concerning because south korea is home to 30,000 american troops. as we know, pyongyang has been ramping up missile launches, most recently firing off what it claims is the world's strongest missile, a missile that could one day. of course, the whole point the whole goal for them is to equip it with a nuclear warhead. south korean president yoon is someone president biden calls a friend has personally met with nine times in just the past two years that he's the one who made this move today. and now tonight, the white house is scrambling, monitoring an unfolding unpredictable and unstable situation minute by minute as the world watches south korea just to the east, japan scrambling up a navy ship and surveillance jet after a russian sub was spotted off the coast of the island near taiwan. putin, of course, extremely close to kim, both leaders watching the chaos in seoul play out. and tonight it is not just the chaos in south korea. it is of cours

pack with us george and molly jong-fast. >> so? >> yes? michael, please.. so now all of a sudden there is, george, there is jury misconduct that suddenly now at this point, given the whole trial and all of the eyes inside and outside of that courtroom, all of the reporters trying to find out everything they can about these jurors and all of the storylines, now there is suddenly juror misconduct? i mean, this -- judge merchan's ruling basically says to me, come and get it. >> come and get it. show us the beef. >> right. >> i mean, and but they throw this stuff around all the time. they threw this stuff around about the judge's daughter, they threw around -- they will pick anything and try to make a big deal out of it. we don't know what they have here, but if their track record -- >> they don't know what they had. >> we would have heard more about it, okay? >> right. >> so i -- i'll hold my breath here, okay? all right? >> reliably. molly, that is the -- that is this case, right? donald trump has been -- he is trying to get this thrown out and if you go to

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i think kim jong-un will be willing to talk. think he'll be very resistant after the fiasco in hanoi to actually make a deal. but i think this means it's always going to be partly the case, but this means that south korea won't be in that process at all, which is going to make people rather unhappy in seoul, whether they're on the conservative side or the progressive side of politics. >> interesting. i have a final question in terms of what this means for nato. you know, over the last couple of months, years i should say, in the wake of the russian aggression in ukraine, there's conversations about whether nato can expand a little more into asia. whether that's having offices there as opposed to, of course, expanding membership. we saw a couple of criticism, critical comments, really, off the back of those discussions. what do you think is likely to happen here in terms of nato itself strengthening its partnership with asian nations? >> well, i mean, clearly -- i mean, there's been a -- i mean, both south korea and japan have re

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kim jong-un ordered the press not to report the death of north korean soldiers. kim jong-un's actions blocking the north korean people's right to know, is it considered a human rights violation? >> are you talking human rights violations in the dprk? human rights concerns related in the dprk has been a concern of ours as it relates to the dprk state for some time. it is one of the reasons why we continue to be incredibly concerned about what we view as closing of relationships between dprk and russia. i won't point any further than the most recent, what we spent time talking about from this podium as it relates to dprk soldiers in ukraine. this is something that is going to continue to be of great concern to the u.s. other allies and partners as well. >> china espionage activities are ongoing, including the establishment of institute -- operation of overseas undercover police stations. and the training institute. what matters is united states taking --? >> i'm not going to get into results and i certainly wouldn't speak to something like this in specificity. of c

a man who pals around and accepts love letters to kim jong un.t to him, that he subsumed all of his other believes in exchange for getting those through and that is the legacy he is leaving this country. >> such an important point about the judges. is there even room for anti- trump resistance within the gop when you look at why would any republican risk their political life when you see what has happened to the jeff flakes and the liz cheneys of the world. why would you as a republican who wants a future in this country say i will try to take trump on? >> i don't think there is. i don't think there is room to go after trump directly. i don't think there is room to directly criticize him. as we saw with the house vote, there is room to disagree with him on specific issues and go after people around him saying they are giving him bad advice. room to critique the way he is doing things and saying okay, we should go try and turn him this way. there are ways to try to influence trump. but i don't think that there is any room for what it would take to

i have to say president trump had this kind of romance going with kim jong unfor a while.st president setting foot in north korea. is the romance done? >> iended in 2019 when president trump walked out of negotiations taking place in hanoi. it was as a result of those negotiations and the trump administration realized the kim jong unwas all talk and not walk away from his nuclear program. as a result of that we pretty much broke off any thought that some nuclear deal is going to be made. when president trump took power kim was testing short and long range missiles and developed very conciliatory tone. this time he has a confrontational tone and recognizes he is competing with a war in ukraine, war in the middle east and china's aggression in the pacific. he is competing for attention. likely that's what he is trying to get here. what is he really after? he wants to be accepted as a nuclear power as the other nuclear powers in the world are accepted by the international community and wants normal trade relations and removal of the sanctions even though he gets around the u.

a man that pelzer and sends "love letters" to kim jong-un.bout from a policy perspective is something donald trump wants to destroy, yet the judges are so important, he subsumed all of his other beliefs in change for getting that through and that is the legacy mitch mcconnell is leaving. >> broadly speaking, is there room for anti-trump resistance within the gop when you look at why would any republican risk their political life when you have seen what has happened to the liz cheneys of the world, adam kinzingers of the world, why as a republican with the political future, you want to take trump on? >> i don't think there is, i think there is room to go after trump directly, there is not room to directly criticize him. as we saw with the house vote, they had to pull the bill with the debt ceiling that he wanted, there is room to disagree with him on specific issues, there's room to go after people around him to say that they're giving him bad advice. there is room to take the way he is doing things and saying, okay, we should try to turn him

de jong, good to see you.t to get your thoughts on lawmakers walking out of the national assembly. and i guess where that leaves this impeachment vote yes thanks for having me back. >> so the ruling party lawmakers they boycotted the vote. um because, you know the the national assembly needs at least 200 votes in favor to pass an impeachment motion. and so the ruling party lawmakers do not want that motion to pass. and so that's why they left the national assembly. um, and so now the question is, what happens next? the chances are very high that the motion will not pass. and so the next move that we can expect from the opposition party is to continue to, uh submit more motions for impeachment, which they have officially declared that they will do and will be their plan. >> dionne. they don't want the motion to pass. and yet the leader of the pdrp came out yesterday and said that the president has to be suspended. so why are they dragging this out yeah so, um, the ruling party wants to buy time because frankly,

south korean defense minister kim jong hyun has submitted his resignation to president yoon. it's not clear if it's been accepted. the question now is, will president yoon fight to stay in power or give in to the widespread demands for his resignation? more protests are expected throughout the day, and president young's decision to declare martial law caught so many in south korea and around the world completely by surprise. cnn's mike valerio was there reporter soldiers clashing with citizens in a shocking scene outside of south korea's parliament as crowds chant dismiss the martial law after the country's president declared nationwide military rule the first time since 1980. >> in an unusual late night tv address, i declare emergency martial law to defend the republic of korea from the danger of north korean communist forces. all this in response to a number of actions by the opposition including rejecting a budget bill and attempts to impeach officials from moon's administration. yoon suk yeol said the moves were intended to quote incite rebellion and accused opposition la

russian president vladimir putin has sent kim jong un a collection of exotic zoo animals.o thank him for providing thousands of north korean troops to bolster ukraine. russia's fight against ukraine as our will, ripley reports, kim has been equally generous in return. >> from the belly of a hulking russian cargo plane crate after crate of exotic animals from the moscow zoo, a gift from russian president vladimir putin to north korean leader kim jong un. arriving in his capital pyongyang, the flight from moscow, nearly nine hours, russian state media says the animals include an african lion, two brown bears, two domestic yaks, five white cockatoos, 25 assorted pheasants and 40 mandarin ducks. their new home, pyongyang's central zoo. you think he wants to be petted? i took this video at the zoo in 2016 when putin gave kim a pair of siberian tigers. they've been exchanging a lot of animals lately. symbols of their alliance against the u. s. led world order. in june, kim sent putin a pair of north korean hunting dogs. in august, putin reciprocated with nearly 450 goats and 24

ruling party who sincerely believe the president is secretly manipulated by north korean agents and kim jongyongyang but it is a bit like saying the united states in the era of senator mccarthy in the early cold war when american right thought everybody who was talking about gender equality, you know civil rights, was obviously on the payroll of moscow. however, such delusional ideas are quite small in number and i was really surprised to see such justification for the president himself. i don't know whether he believes it or not but it is clearly complete rubbish. no serious north korean sympathiser is in south korean society now. there used to be times when some radical student �*s from north korea, say the early 90s mainly the mid— 90s, now north korea has absolutely now north korea has absolutely no impact on the south, it is basically the average south korean sees the north as something pathetic, irrelevant, dirty and poor slightly funny. it doesn't care about north korea at all, sometimes excessively so.- korea at all, sometimes excessively so. how do you think north _ excessively so.

and so the question is how will kim jong un exploit this for his political and strategic benefit? and further exacerbate the internal political conflict which is to kim jong un's benefit, unfortunately. >> what are the implications for the americans who are stationed the american troops stationed in south korea well, i was in 1980s. >> i was in korea during the democracy movement. so i witnessed, uh, the protests there. i don't think there are great implications. first of all, the majority of u.s. troops are no longer in seoul. uh, and so, you know that was a lightning rod. uh back at the time during the democracy movement in the 1980s, i think that i think really things have subsided very quickly with the removal of martial law. but i don't expect that this will turn on, uh, on u.s. troops and have the kind of protests that that occurred during the 1980s, although the relationship between president yoon and the biden administration, um you know, there has been strong alliance relations and there are, of course, some who may take advantage of that, some who who have anti-american

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we've all know for years that kim jong un is crazy.s going to pull some shit like that. >> ronny: josh, that's north korea. you are in south korea! that's a different country. >> damn, ronny! the asian guy seems to know a lot about asia! [cheers and applause] i guess i'm racist and right! >> ronny: goddamn it! forget it. josh johnson, everyone. [cheers and applause] when we come back, lewis black will help you deal with the election. so don't go away. [cheers and applause] (vo) 'tis an ad abouwireless, but please do remember, it's no holiday ad (thougit ns through december...). holidaysre stressful, but visible's stress-free. with unlimited data, and no hidden fees. start the year wh a deal that'll save you a bunch: just 20 bucks a month for 25 mons! you're rlly making all of this by hand. oh yeah. the avocados a hand mashed, the chips are hand tossed. and everything is made fresh you make it fresh every day. yes, every day. the chipotle way is: weake it fresh every day. sounds delicious. [cheers and applause] >> ronny: welcome back to

frenkie de jong lo iban a revisar en el var. yo no sé por qué.ntonces se quedaba abierta la posibilidad para que el madrid sea líder de la liga. y entonces vamos a ver cómo le fue al real madrid que tenía que ir a visitar girona. venía esta jugada de brahim díaz, el rebote y le quedaba quién más sino a jude bellingham, que le pegaba así y la mandaba a guardar mucha suerte de bellingham porque esa pelota pase en medio de las piernas de 2 jugadores. después bellingham esta iba a ser para el arda güler y arda. güler le pegaba así para su primer gol en la liga española y después luka modric iba a encontrar a kylian mbappé. que si hay crisis, que si no mete goles ahí está el 3 a 0. y con esto el madrid con un partido menos. en caso de ganar el que sigue sería líder de la liga española. y vamos a cerrar con el béisbol de las grandes ligas, porque hoy los san francisco giants ahora bajo el mando de buster posey, rompieron el cochinito con su primer refuerzo. según informes los gigantes, han llegado a un acuerdo con el parador en corto de los milwaukee b

the talks were winding down, as ambassador hill used to put it, when it became evident that kim jong-il was very ill. i remember the ambassador taking a car from seoul for what seemed to be a last ditch effort to keep the six party process going. it did not go on, we had testing, we worked with u.s. command in korea as north korea carried out nuclear tests. we had the sinking of a ship in 2010, a shelling of an island in 2010. i refer to all of this in the book, in the chapter. and the things you don't expect like wikileaks were suddenly -- where suddenly mc reporting was recording conversations -- i'm supposed to say allegedly with some of the important contacts in korea. the challenge not only to me but our mission and trying to get washington the kind of information we wanted to manage the relationship. with all that, i tried to write a little about that in my chapter. i guess i also tried to think about and it goes back to something ambassador hill said, in the position of ambassador in a very different time in korea's history and u.s.-korean relations and when i served earlier in t

the soldiers kim jong—un has sent to russia are thought to belong to north korea's elite special forces lines and flatlands of europe. how well do you think they are going to be able to adapt to the battlefields in russia and ukraine? these videos are thought to show some of the men deployed to russia. although it's easy to dismiss them as cannon fodder, that would be a mistake, the defectors say, their loyalty and discipline will count for a lot. this loyalty could blunt hopes in kyiv and seoul that many of these troops will simply surrender. do you think we're going to see a lot of defections from the soldiers who've been sent? it is unlikely these soldiers will turn the tide of this attritional war, but more may follow. they'll adapt quickly, the defectors say, and shouldn't be underestimated. jean mackenzie, bbc news, seoul. a children's charity has rejected a christmas donation from the outgoing archbishop of canterbury, justin welby. the children's society said that accepting a donation from the archbishop, who is its honorary president, would not have been consistent with its wor

returning to south korea, i spoke to jong returning to south korea, i spoke tojong min kim, speakingy party. irate people party, which is the president has my party. we have heard criticism _ president has my party. we have heard criticism from _ president has my party. we have heard criticism from his - president has my party. we have heard criticism from his own - heard criticism from his own party since he took this decision to declare martial law. so certainly a big? about whether he can get his entire party in parliament to back in. you think you might resign by the time it gets that point? i'm thinking about that earlier when president ewan, after a long day of mia, he apparently went back to the presidential office to meet the prime minister and the foreign leader of the ruling people party. the details are not clear. if they ask for the president's resignation, still according to the constitution, prime minister will take over, there's still a requirement for a presidential election. either way, it will be a difficult game for the ruling party. they are in a very awkward posi

and amid all the north korea claims and the whole situation, the most bullying leader kim jong came out with a statement of saying that the south korean president should stop the persecution of the opposition and not violate democratic principles. now, it wasn't just the north korean leader that has something to say, but the south korean opposition leaders are not only call in for the president's impeachment in this situation after the move. but the democratic party of korea's chairman's claims that the president for the presidency, action of provoking or 3 are essentially put in the citizens of south korea in danger. june soon young won't hesitate to cause great destruction for small benefits. there is a high possibility of him endangering people's lives by provoking north korea, causing chaos near the military demarkation line. and in the end causing and the clash, the citizens, you have to find by all side. so what more can you tell us about the south fan presidents and how much popularity does he have in the country after this? uh, we have to understand that after his move to pulls

kim jong un is buying it. >> dan nathan is buying it. >> why wouldn't we be in the same game? it initially was to offset the debasement of the u.s. dollar. >> all these boys in their basements, taking their graduation money and saying i'm not going to college. i am going all crypto all the time. friday, i spoke to high school personal-finance teachers who cannot get their students to focus on learning what mortgages are because they're all in and crypto. >> what if it is the next big thing? you have an opportunity. it can only go to zero and it could go up to the moon. >> you are seeing there is a chance. >> i am saying, think about that. if there's enough people behind it and a government behind it, why would you do -- why would you want to take the other side? >> let's say we buy everything dan is saying but to have that and have a level of success, you need smart regulation and some level of guardrails. right now it feels like we will let it rip. >> we can talk about there's a supply but the price is really high. bitcoin is like a pyramid. the tech guys got in early and the

kim jong-un is getting more practical assistance from the russians than he'll get from the united statesn the form of high-tech military equipment and probably oil and gas and energy as well. so the reality here is that all these different players are not going to want to make a deal because donald trump says he wants a deal. actually this notion that there's a negotiation coming and the united states may be trying to lean on parties, that incentivizes everybody to escalate right now. people have to be prepared for a period of weeks and months where we see more brazen activity from all sides of this conflict as people try to get in a stronger position knowing there's going to be an international push around this negotiation. >> those north korean troops, at least from public reports, have suffered some early casualties. as president trump comes to the table, you have the collapse of the german government, the collapse of the french government. in canada, christopher friedland, the longest-serving advisor of prime minister trudeau, has resigned this morning. >> what you have in autocracie

kim jong un suddenly stopped launching missiles over guam and japan, threatening the united states and that went away as well. they saw how strong this president was in his first term, they know that he means business and that's why they are coming to the table hat in hand and willing to work with them weather that be the president of mexico and closing up order and securing it, whether that be trudeau and canada jetting down tomorrow logo pretty quickly and now hamas want a peace deal. they are not getting one until hostages come back. they know this is a different world now with donald trump running it and they are not going to mess with that guy because they know what happens if you do based on his first term. >> sean: you are a conservative thought leader by every definition. i find it amazing nine years in politics and conservative, some of them don't understand donald trump. donald trump really doesn't want tariffs but he will implement tariffs if, in fact, they don't close the border and they don't close the border to the north. he'd rather not, he'd rather get along. however, j

joining me, the former republican congressman from florida david jolly and molly jong-fast. friday night is when the vote will be. i say friday night because last time with kevin mccarthy it was all week, all day, all night until the 15th vote. what do you sense will happen at this point? >> it's a great question. you ménchen the razor's edge. it comes down to numbers. what is different in the resistance to make junction as it's not organized and it's not a leader. weathered the organized movement against kevin mccarthy or the matt gaetz leadership with the caucus. that's awful to mike johnson, and you have trump weighing in which is helpful to mike johnson. he can only lose one vote. the math gets interesting because thomas massey has said he is a no on johnson. if he votes present as opposed to naming another candidate, johnson could lose a couple more. you have to have the majority from members who named a speaker. if somebody votes present, the math gets easier for mike johnson. what is helping mike johnson most of all right now is nobody else has a pathway to get the vo

>> i think -- i don't mean to be flippant about it, but as long as kim jong-un continues to experiment with icbms, long-strange strike capability, et cetera, et cetera, that is going to remain a threat. i don't know how to characterize reference to history the threat at the dmz. but the differencen between those two actors in north and south korea, i think it sometimes varies with political administrations as well on the peninsula. but i think that tension, again, it waxes and wanes. i don't know that i would put it at a peak or a trough right now. >> you focused on hundreds of thousands of airmen. we have that situation in the middle east where the pentagon announced that they were sending additional squadrons of f-15, a-10s, f-16ths. some have arrived. it was just announced that the 480th f-16 fighter squadron deployed from germany to centcom. is everybody there now? are all the forces from the air force that were supposed to deploy that were announced by the pentagon, are they all in place at this point? >> i don't have the exact numbers with me. i know that -- obviously if centcom

to, that was the party that was the partner of donald trump to reach out to north korean leader kim jong-un what would the opposition's priorities be when it comes to north korea and china? >> on one hand, the opposition party today is less pro-china than it used to be and they are more impressed with -- they would open the door potentially to a new diplomatic initiative with north korea, something the president has staunchly opposed and even had biden wanted to make such an initiative, he would have stood in his way. nick: so this is guessing perhaps, but how would it work with the trump administration? >> i would expect the main issues will still be tensions like support for the alliance forces on the peninsula, and how much south korea pays the u.s. to help support them, as well as trade frictions. president trump is signaling his intention to impose tariffs which would have a negative effect on the south korean economy. so those tensions will still be there, but when it comes to potential outreach with north korea, there may be an opening. nick: finally, this has been a dramatic day. yo

under stress, and these guys do model themselves after putin in russia and or a been in hungry and kim jong-un all the other autocrats and kleptocrats of the world, but we are going to model ourselves after prior generations of american patriots who stood up for the constitution and the bill of rights. >> if you are not worried for liz cheney, you know the truth, you worked with her. she will be fine. what about this threat? brothers going forward, if they look and say, man, look liz cheney is going through. i don't want to potentially be his next target. are you worried about what is to come in the future? >> yeah, i didn't say i wasn't worried, stephanie. i said i'm worried, but we are taking the precautions we got based on our constitutional system, and that is true not just for liz cheney and other legislative and prosecutorial investigators, but it's also true for the freedom of the press. you know, when donald trump says he's going to go after any newspaper or tv station that has that something he doesn't like, that's not the constitutional standard. the constitutional standard is new yo

protection from south korea, because he has cozied up to kim jong-un. he's argued south koreaen alliance is a rip' off, and then if he just doesn't help there, that is something, for example, that has gotten the south koreans talking about developing their own nuclear weapons. and ukraine also, if it doesn't get security guarantees that it is asking for to make it so russia doesn't attack them, they're also thinking about their own nuclear weapons. the israeli far right is feeling emboldened and would not be surprised to see an end to the peace produce and the oslo accords. perhaps permanent israeli settlements in and gaza and other things that people who are critical of joe biden's policies toward them, this is a blank check in when the united states policy would change from years of generally trying to promote stability to trying to allow these authoritarians to run amuck. >> do what they want. >> and one is with nato because nato is based on the united states always guaranteeing it will back up its allies, can those allies have been spend aglot of th

me at the table, host of the fast politics podcast, special correspondent for "vanity fair," molly jongnot shocked, because thanks to your reporting i understand this is what they had in mind, but jolted by it, i want to ask you where this departs from what they did last time and i really want to understand how radical this is, not from any democratic or republican predecessor, but from trump 1.0. can you explain this with that frame? >> well, you know, nicolle, what stuck out to me in the quote you read from president-elect trump there is that he said he would go to the maximum extent of what the law allows only. and that would be going actually less far than he went in the first term because as we all know, the family separation policy was ended by republican appointed judge in the southern district of california who said it was one of the most shameful chapters in the history of the country, because in his words not only did it shock the conscience, but it violated the due process clause of the united states constitution. so, to hear president-elect trump say he will only go to the m

union under stalin, cuba, under castro or china under mao time today think of north korea under kim jong un or venezuela, nicolas maduro. compare those unproductive economies and the societies they created with the freedom and prosperity we've enjoyed the united states for the past 248 years. and, you know, i have some perspective on the threat that stakeholder capitalism poses to our democracy, our economic freedom, and our individual liberty. so who are these financial elites that want to alter or abandon our incredibly successful full of free market capitalist system? well, they're dominated by three massive asset management firms that strangely known as the big three, blackrock state street and vanguard. all three are primarily passive asset managers in the business of investing. other people's money is primarily moneys held in pension funds for one case or other retirement type vehicles. they're called passive asset managers for a reason. they're supposed to invest passively in a group of companies and let the ceos of those companies run them. they solicit money from investors and p

with kim jong-un. over and over again you can see a connection of dictators. the great thing i believe is that with the election on november 5 we can go back to what worked. that was peace through strength. we saw in the middle east. who would ever imagine how exciting the abraham accords -- to see the association of israel with so many of the arab countries. this should be continued. i have the perspective. i led the delegation of congress members to the opening of the embassy in jerusalem. the coverage of donald trump. on may 14, 2018. in 1994, speaker newt gingrich had congress passed legislation that would move the american embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. jerusalem was the only capital the world we did not have an embassy. every time it would come to the attention of a president that they should locate the embassy, the state department would say it would create a dislocation and destabilization in the middle east. it was donald trump that the guts to say promises made, promises kept. there was no destabilization. it was the exact opposite. that was the

we saw this with, just as one example, how he handled kim jong-un. and just some of the rhetoric. i think people know, now they know that is his style, and we can expect how our adversaries and allies respond to that. >> general hawk, how do you anticipate adjusting to a new administration? does the importance of intelligence change? does the kind of work you do change or is a continuity? general hawk: the change we expect is what we see in every transition. as a foreign intelligence agency, we operate off the president's national intelligence framework priorities. we will expect to adapt to what those priorities are and will align our resources to be able to inform policymakers and the actions they take. what we owe to policymakers and military commanders is decisive advantage. how do we use the capabilities and talent we have to understand what our adversaries' plans and intentions are, what does it look like for situational awareness for commanders? and using that for the best of the nation and for our partners and allies. what senator kelly described is increasingly you see us

kim jong-un cut off engagement with seoul, declared it an enemy and ordered roads at the border to be blown up as north korea has struck the close partnership with russia. the last time we saw martial law declared in south korea was in 1979 and that was after the assassination of the then dictator. people protested then too and we're seeing the crowds grow at 2:30 local time in the morning in seoul. it's unclear where things stand with political situation that's tenuous and people in south korea are quite stunned by what's unfolding. andrea? >> it is stunning indeed. janis mackey frayer, thank you. >>> and next, the latest from mar-a-lago and capitol hill as the president-elect stands behind his controversial choices for key positions in the incoming administration. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. rea mitchell reports" on msnbc. so congested! you need sinex saline from vicks. just sinex, breathe, ahhhh! what is — wow! sinex. breathe. ahhhhhh! at harbor freight, we do business differently from the other guys. we design and test our own tools. and sell them directly

nbc news senior national political reporter, tom nichols, staff writer for the atlantic, and molly jong fast, msnbc contributor and vanity fair special correspondent. sahil, i want to let you give us the temperature among the republican caucus, but first, i want to give you a couple more pieces of data from politico, a quote from a republican senator on joni ernst's vote. the threats are already on the table. quote, if joni ernst votes no, she's going to have a hard time with her re-election campaign, said one gop senator, noting during any floor vote, hegseth -- vote on hegseth, trump will be taking names. i want you to listen to senator richard blumenthal, himself a veteran, on opposition to hegseth. >> i have talked to five to ten republicans who have said to me, they're just waiting for the right moment to say no to pete hegseth. and for very good reasons. >> why do you think so few republicans, none by my count, have been willing to come out and say they will not support this nominee? >> nobody wants to defy donald trump if you're a republican. >> how much of all of that are you se

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join now, vanity fair fishel correspondent and host of the fast politics podcast, our friend, molly jong-fastial media, i know you have been monitoring this, many people are heralding mangione as some sort of a modern-day antihero who is waging a battle against accrual system. an online campaign has raised more than $100,000 for his legal defense so far. look, america has a long history of glorifying people who take the law into their own hands, and we are living in a moment of intense rage against institutions, against government but how does this play into public sympathy for mangione? >> yeah, you know, i was actually thinking about this when i was reading about it earlier today. think about all the countries that have had these anti- incumbent headwinds that have had antigovernment movements, anti-expertise, i mean, this really does fit a pattern of a kind of collective rage, and i have to wonder how much of this is from the sort of post-covid, you know, the kind of whatever has happened in american life that has made people so angry, but it is also, i think you really have to look at the

to, that's the party that was the partner of donald trump, to reach out to north korean leader kim jong-unat would the opposition's priorities be when it would come to north korea and china? >> on the one hand, the opposition party today is less pro-china than it used to be. they are more impressed with the importance of the u.s.-japan-r.o.k. triangle. they would open the door potentially to a new diplomatic initiative with north korea. something that president yoon has staunchly opposed and even had biden wanted to make an initiative, yoon would have stood in his way. nick: this is guessing perhaps about how would they work with the trump administration? >> i would expect the main issues will still be tensions over things like close nation alliance forces on the peninsula support for u.s. as well as soldiers in south korea and how much south korea pays the u.s. to help to support that presence as well as trade frictions because president trump has signaled his intention to raise tariffs. those tensions will still be there. when it comes to the potential outreach toward north korea, there

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