this drill was personally directed by the country's dictator, kim jong-un. rts say kim's forces have good intelligence on the layout of the south korean leader's residence. >> here we see a very well detailed reproduction of the blue house. we have the main facility here, the two auxiliary buildings and even the carport and even the unique pattern of sidewalk in front of the building. they paid very close attention to detail when they built this. >> the north koreans have staged an actual attack on the blue house, january 1968. armed with these weapons, dressed in south korean uniforms, they got to within 350 feet of the blue house. in a furious gun battle, at least 30 south koreans were killed, as well as 29 north korean commandos. one north korean attacker who was captured spoke to cnn. >> i came to kill the president. >> it was a mission that failed. and that leader's daughter is the country's president. she's just been impeached in a political scandal, has had her power taken away. experts say kim jong-un will use the south korean crises, the political in

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brian, what is kim jong-un's regime saying? eporter: tonight, they are saying that these sanctions are an effort by "obama and his lackeys" to get north korea to stop manufacturing nuclear weapons. kim says it won't work and is threatening retaliation for those sanctions. tonight, kim jong-un, north korea's saber rattling dictator, again, defiant. apparently pushing back against new united nations tonight, north korea's news agency says they show kim's army practicing to target south korea's island and its capital to "erase all enemy nests and wipe them out." from one news anchor, another warning that the latest round of sanctions from the u.n., south korea and japan against north korea will bring retaliation. >> translator: it will tringer off countermeasures for self-defense. what is do they mean? >> cyber attacks, special operations forces, provocations across the line, provocations across the demilitarized zone. other missile launches that could provoke a response. >> reporter: the sanctions will cut off hundreds of millions

that's the fiery 125i789 coming from kim jong-un.pictures released by the state media, we see kim jong-un overseeing a military training. he's focusing on artillery battle training in this particular picture, and we can see him laughing and joking, surrounded by his troops and soldiers, and artillery lined across the coastline, and firing rounds. now, according to kcna, this is a practice run for a mission to target islands off the coast of south korea south korea, even to use long-range missiles to target this city, where i am, sowell. of course we can't independently verify when these pictures were taken, but certainly this is the first time we're seeing kim jong-un since the u.n. sanctions slapped on north korea two days ago, and could this be a response to those sanctions? , a defined response? that may well be the case. of course we have heard from the north korean foreign ministry immediately after the sanctioning came. the ministry said it categorically rejects the sanctions from the u.n. that it imposes on north korea's sover

kim jong un. he saw gaddafi.ay, gaddafi decides to give up his program and later on he's killed. so he's not going to give it up because he can only depend on his own arsenal. >> when i asked --. i simple said how would you describe kim jong un. here is what john brennan said? >> a megalomaniac. calculating. he is delusional. because he believes that the world is going to accept a nuclear north korea and allow it to maintain that arsenal. he's invested so much in this effort of building a nuclear capability and he thinks this is his ticket to greatness. i think it is his ticket to oblivion. >> you also said while he was a megalomaniac and calculating, not reckless. donald trump as we know can lash out. use twitter to do so. would he be able to sit across from kim jong un and negotiate? could he crack the nut nobody else could crack? >> remember the regime right now looks to be unstable. every once in a while you have these executions, demotions. these big events -- >> -- kim jong un himself. >> yeah. even if kim

and then, kim jong un might have a frightening new year's resolution. why the north korean nuclear threat could be greater than ever before. that's coming up. stay with us. >>> we're back with our world lead now. moments ago japanese prime minister shinzo abe and president obama visited the "uss arizona" memorial at pearl harbor in hawaii. both leaders are expected to give remarks, which we expect to hear in just minutes, and we'll bring that to you as we get it. the visit comes 75 years after japan's surprise attack. abe is the fourth japanese prime minister to visit pearl harbor but the first to visit the "uss arizona" memorial which sits above the battleship destroyed. cnn's athena jones is in honolulu covering president obama. athena, the visit is something of a return gesture of sorts to president obama. tell us about that. >> reporter: that's right, jake. president obama visited hiroshima seven months ago to this day. he became the first sitting u.s. president to do so, to pay his respects to the tens of thousands of people who died there. now pri

he also said it doesn't really matter what north korea or kim jong-un is offered in returned.er it's $1 trillion or $10 trillion, he won't stop his nuclear amambitions. he said it's not about economic incentives, and crucially why 2017? well, that's because we're going to have now president-elect trump, then president trump in the white house in 2017. here in south korea, of course, you know i've been following the protests against president park. she will either be impeached or step down, and there will be a presidential election. so more transition time here in seoul. so apparently pyongyang is now count oging on this new transit period and new administrations in washington d.c. and seoul to take place and unable to take military action against north korea. they feel this is the ideal time to make progress on nuclear ambitions. simultaneously, apparently kim jong-un believes he will come to the table for dialogue but only once north korea is a nuclear state, it's then that he would be willing to approach some kind of dialogue with washington and seoul. and by the way, north

then father of kim jong-un.oralmost arranged president clinton to visit north .orea president-elect trump is also talking about having discussions directly with kim jong un. what lessons from your visit, you're dealing with them, more than any american official in decades, tell you about his idea. sec. albright: we had had a lot of talks with the north koreans throughout the clinton administration. there were breakdowns with them. a lot of issues that came up in the united nations, we had the agreed framework and a number of different ways and then president clinton had asked us because things were not moving in any way to do a complete , review of korean policy and he asked former secretary of defense bill perry to do a review. and then we had some meetings with the north koreans and explained this is fork in the road time. you will either negotiate about some of the missile limits or we are going to take some action here and they chose negotiation. what happened was, they chose -- the vice marshal came to the

in order to deal with north korea, he has got to engage kim jong—unin korea, he has got to engage kim got to engage kim jong—un in a dialogue to freeze north korea's nuclear and missile testing, which is helping north korea to improve its nuclear capacity, which is still relatively small compared with its neighbours. he needs to avoid ripping up the nuclear deal with iran which is successfully blocking their path to a nuclear weapon. so that is the way to hold back proliferation, not to brandish nuclear weapons and talk about expanding capacity at a time when we have far too many then we need, and we cannot afford to spend more. your report mentioned how much these cost. $1 trillion over the next 30 years to sustain and modernise the us force. that is putting great pressure on the us defence budget. thank you very much. we will see how seriously to take all this, as jonathan said, we will see how seriously to take all this, asjonathan said, words in this matter. donald trump has asked a leading plane manufacturer to provide an estimate for a new fighter jet, after complaining about sp

he also revealed he believes when north korea is a nuclear state, he'll come to the table, kim jong-unhat is for discussions. >> thanks so much for that report. >>> let's get an early start on "your money." as we get closer to new year's stocks are creeping higher. i keep on sounding like a broken record. has the dow reached 20,000? no. but today could be the day. the dow sitting -- what, 55 points away from that 20,000 psychological milestone. so, we watched the stock market really enjoy a great run since donald trump was elected. but analysts are really wondering if this trump bump that we're seeing may have actually eaten into wall street's potential gains that we could see next year. we're going to have to see whether or not donald trump is deliver on his promises. >>> we're seeing dow futures up, european markets mixed and asian stocks ended lower. obamacare is not in a death spiral. insurer prospects in the individual markets are looking brighter. premiums shot up 25% for 2017. but this report is saying that 2017 -- or that 2016 was a one-time pricing correction because insurers

he accompanied kim jong—un's brother to an eric clapton concert. despotic north korea. if you read our papers and magazines and photos you can see how socialism is carried on and put into practice. now he has turned utterly. today he performed a ritual. signifying the desire for the two halves of career to unite. north korean leader kim jong—un wants to rule a fully fledged nuclear power. but experts doubt his test warheads are yet ready. but the defector thinks it might only be a year before the posts are borne out and north korea has reliable bombs, small enough to go on missiles. north korea is 50 miles away from this city. tay yong—ho's new home. but it is a world away. he has made an immensely, from one of the most repressive places, an immensely, to one of the most vibrant. but defectors fear retribution from the north. surrounded by guards, he goes now to help south korea bring down kim jong—un. north korea now to help south korea bring down kimjong—un. north korea has called him human scum. russia says the syrian government is holding talks

north korea has marked the fifth anywhere anniversary of the former king kim jong-il and kim jong-un took over. in the past pyongyang has timed test launches of missiles to coincide with such occasions. tnchs. >>> south situations changed on thursday. the opposition party familiar mousily decided park need not been impeached if she agrees to step down. opposition leaders met later in the day, they said they'll try to get a vote on the impeachment vote later next week. meanwhile park performed official duties outside the capital for the first time in a month. she visit the scene of a fire in a market in her hometown. around the same time, there was a fire at the birth home of park's father, the late former president. police detained a man they suspect committed arson. they say he claims he started the fire because park is refusing to resign. >>> french president hollande will not seek re-election. >> i have decided not to be a candidate in the presidential election. >> hollande was elected in 2012. he faced intense public criticism over his unemployment and counter terrorism policies.

this month alone kim jong-un has carried oh out missile testing. so much testing in such a short period of time. during the campaign trump referred to kim jong-un as a bad dude, as well as saying he'd be happy to have a hamburger with the guy. not the worst idea according to some experts. >> trump is a self-professed deal maker. i think that's the way he sees the landscape. he's saying something offensive and defensive. >> reporter: one negotiating play that may backfire is trump's apparent willingness to confront china. the u.s. needs china on board for the u.n. sanctions against north korea to have any chance of working. if beijing starts to move further away from washington, experts say it may start to move closer to pyongyang just to teach trump a lesson. paula hancocks. >> paula, thank you. >>> extreme weather conditions continue to grip parts of the united states causing crippling weather on the roads. rough situations there. we'll have a check of the weather as news room continues. at planters we know how to throw a remarkable holiday party.

godace in human hearts by cannot be removed by kim jong-un. the regime attempts to control every mind, every tongue, every , but the refugees with us today demonstrate that no oppressor can control the soul. the north korean people are pleading in their silence for freedom, and the world needs to listen, and the world needs to respond. two elements, the security challenge and the humanitarian challenge, are closely linked. the threats we face arises out of the nature of the north korean regime itself. history is clear. a country that does not respect the rights of its people will not respect the rights of its neighbors. this is one of the main arguments of an excellent report victor and bob have put together. thank you for coming. these men are two of the foremost experts on north korea. , one is aemocrat republican. they make a strong case that security and human rights are inseparable. case that therong promotion of human dignity is not a distraction from security policy. inis a distinct advantage that wasthat policy the theory of the north

a former north korean diplomat said kim young jong-un is racin get nuclear weapons. more from seoul. >> reporter: suzanne, this information is coming from one of the highest ranking diplomatic defectors from north to south korea in history. he was pyongyang's deputy ambassador to london. that means he is a man in the know. he has information that many analysts suspected but few could actually confirm. now he was speaking to south korean media here in seoul for the first time he made his escape saying what you just said about north korea's nuclear development. i want to read you this quote. he said as long as kim jong-un is in power, north korea will never, ever give up its nuclear weapons. he goes on. the north will not give them up, even if the country's offered 1 trillion or $10 trillion in return. it's not a matter of economic incentives which a lot of analysts have said before. offer them money and maybe they'll change their mind. now 2017, why 2017? according to this defector kim jong-un has carefully calculated that that's when president-elect trump should be i

a defector from kim jong un's regime speaking out tonight. do all this research on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. and if you do have an accident, our claims centers are available to assist you 24/7. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. >>> tonight an ominous warning from a top north korea diplomatic turns defector. barbara starr, an enormous challenge to the next administration. >> it is indeed. the u.s. long suspected this was the root kim was going down. but now the new problem, the new part of the equation is what will donald trump's reaction be? a hi level north korean defector says kim jong un is determined to complete development within a year, putting the north korean nuclear threat front and center for donald trump. the one-time deputy ambassador givi giving rare insight into the reclusive

our policy said kim jong-un was crazy and eight pervert. he was not crazy. [laughter] there,bright: when i got they put me in a guesthouse and because we did not have an embassy there with no idea what was going to happen. i first got ensure action i had to go see his father also. it is very hard when you are trying to pay respect to somebody not to bow to low because that is disrespectful and not to kind of pay no respect. once i had agreed to do that i went back to the guesthouse and all of a sudden i get a message that the dear leader would see me. so we in fact had a meeting and press conference and it was something out of the 1950's, really. i have standing there next to him and i see we are the same height. i knew i had on high heels and then i looked over and so did he and his hair was a lot happier than mine. puffier than mine. we had amazing talks in terms of our limits. there were a number of different agreements made and began, it was one of those strange times, the northgrief for koreans but the bottom line is many americans work confused about t

but that may not be the point, the point is this is a big signal that kim jong-un is determined to get a nuclear weapon that could potentially strike the united states and that put this is potential threat front and center for donald trump as he prepares to take office. martin? >> no question, that is some wonderful insight, i guess although frightening as it sounds coming from this recent defector from north korea. barbara starr reporting from the pentagon. thank you very much. >>> just in, with 24 days left in office, secretary of state john kerry is said getting ready to outline a middle east peace plan tomorrow. we'll go live to israel next. >>> israel's going ahead with a plan to build hundreds of new homes in east jerusalem, that's defying a u.n. resolution condemning settlement construction there. in what the international community refers to as occupied territory. the resolution led to a bitter war of words between the israeli prime minister and the white house. because although the u.s. abstained from the vote, a spokesman for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu told cnn

hope in place by god cannot he removed by kim jong un. the regime attempts to control every mind, every tongue, every life but the refugees with us today demonstrate that no oppressor can control the soul. the north korean people are pleading in their silence for freedom. and the world needs to listen and the world needs to respond. these two elements the security challenge and the humanitarian challenge are closely linked. the threat we face arises out of the nature of the north korean regime itself. the lesson of history is clear. a country that does not respect the rights of its people will not respect the rights of its neighbors. this is one of the main arguments of an excellent -- that's victor cha and robert gallucci have put together. thank you all for coming. these men are the two most experts on north korea. one is a democrat and one is a republican. they make a strong case that security and human rights are inseparable. they make a strong case that the promotion of human dignity is not a distraction from security policy. it is a

where is -- [ cheers and applause ] the leader of north korea, kim jong-un, did something fun. multiple news sources are reporting that he got drunk at his vacation home and ordered his military leaders to stay up all night writing apology letters for their failures. so they did. they stayed up all night, terrified, then the next morning he woke up and he was totally confused, he didn't remember any of it. what are you doing in my house? what are these letters for? and some of the leaders started were about to be executed or deported. given a choice i'd go with deported. [ laughter ] is deported even a bad thing when you're living in north korea? i don't know. but apparently kim jong-un drinks a lot, which helps to explain this snazzy new haircut he has, parted in the middle now. [ laughter ] [ applause ] that should be in the window of every supercuts in america. terms were powerball, prince, hurricane matthew, and pokemon go. which i think that sums our priorities as americans up. money, celebrities, the weather, and playing games on our phones. it's going through this list,

china, and its willingness to and determinations to use its powers to influence the behavior of kim jong-un and the regime. michael: but that is uncomfortable with raising human rights issues more broadly, right? sen. gardner: look, china has its own issues that we should focus on, too. are they afraid to address north korean human rights violations when they know they have their own? these are things we should address of the same time. but in the report that victor and bob put out, they talked about, why don't they have reports, naming nations that import the labor from north korea? that's a great idea. let's start naming nations that are enabling north korea's bad behavior and violations of human rights. let's bring attention of this. let's make sure every american understands what is happening to the people in north korea, what they are subjected to each and every day, the brutality of this regime. i don't think we should be afraid to use these levers of power. we know china is against those who are unwilling to use those levers of power. michael: to follow-up, victor, what is the nexus

. >>> activity at a chemical weapons plant as kim jong un overseas a night drill by fighter jet pilots. wolf blitzer is off and i'm brianna keilar. you are in "the situation room." >>> breaking news. germany puts out a warrant and a cash bounty for a 24-year-old tunisian who prosecutors say is under suspicion in the attack. he's been linked to a pro isis network operating in germany. he had been refused asylum, was arrested and released last august. raids are being carried out amid an urgent man hunt. >>> president-elect donald trump calls the berlin rampage an attack on humanity. asked by a reporter if this week's incidents caused him to rethink plans to create a muslim registry or ban muslim immigration, trump responded, quote, you have known my plans all along. i have been proven to be right 100% correct. what's happening is disgraceful. and sources say rausussia has tested what's believed to be an anti-satellite weapon and may have an arsenal of killer satellites which could carry out attacks in space. this is a big concern for the u.s. this comes as a kremlin official says dialogu

official revealing to cnn why the threat from kim jong-un is "keeping me awake at night." >>> and james bonds' boss, the real-life mi-6 chief comes out of the shadows to offer a rare glimpse into the britain spy agency, global threats, and more. >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> we heard from the president-elect just moments ago calling it an honor to meet with victims of the isis inspired attack at ohio state university. this hour he's headed to iowa, taking another lap in his thank you tour as he keeps working to build his cabinet. a source tells cnn he selected his labor secretary. and hillary clinton is diving into a sensitive issue for the trump team. she's warning about the dangers of so-called fake news. she called it an epidemic that's putting lives at risk beyond any influence it may have had on the election. >>> also this hour, we're learning that the u.s. is stepping up contingency planning to deal with the threat from north korea. this amid growing concern that kim jong-un's reg

we are hearing from a high level north korean diplomat that just defected that kim jong un wants nucleareapons to end by 2017 at all costs. do you buy that? >> i certainly do, don. i think this regime has made its singular purpose to perfect the long-range nuclear missile that can reach the west coast of the united states. that and the survival of the regime are simply the two things that this leadership cares about and nothing else, really. >> do you think that this could be saber rattling? he is known to do that. >> yes, it could be. but at the same time we have seen under his leadership something like 65 missile tests and nuclear tests in the past eight years. whereas his father only did about 17 prior to that. so, there seems to be a real uptempo in the provocations and a military program that is designed to develop nuclear weapons. >> even though most of the recent missile tests have been unsuccessful, how concerned should we be? >> i think we should be fairly concerned. a lot of them have been unsuccessful but a couple of the recent ones cross technical thresholds that we didn't ex

korean central television said on wednesday kim jong-un watched a rocket firing contest. it said kim organized the event. the broadcaster also said kim inspected a nighttime flight drill by fighter pilots. state media has done numererous reports on kim's military inspections since last month. new u.n. sanctions were approved at the end of november. the latest propaganda comes just ahead of kim's fifth anniversary as the country's top military commander. the u.n.'s top human rights official asked to investigate philippines p president for murder. there's a claim he killed people when he was mayor. rodrigo duterte made the comments in a speech last week. he said he would look for criminals to kill to set an example for police officers. he serveved on and off as mayor from 1988. he implied those actions took place in the earlier years when he was in office. the u.n.'s high commissioner for human rights say the killings would constitute murder. hussssein released his statemen through a spokesperson. >> it should be unthinkable for any functioning judicial system not to launch

and, you know, trump has joked about having kim jong un killed.rience with the north koreans is they don't find that at all funny. and if we are in a situation where north koreans are looking for a sign that an attack is going to come, they might read that into it. so, you know, i'm not so crazy about the tweets. >> they could read that on the other hand, there are others who think that we overread kim john u.n. and that is he just a tubby tyrant and yes he has nukes and we need to be careful. but his bark is bigger than his bite. >> so i think that may also be true but ultimately that still bothers me. because, you know, we're sitting here having this discussion about whether we read them correctly, whether they read us correctly. whether we're overinterpreting trump's tweets. whether we're under interpreting them. what that really illustrates to me is that human beings are fallible and in a crisis, if you are not incredibly careful with language, you run the risk of somebody making a mistake. it is kind of like it doesn't matter who is right or

handing power down from grandfather, to father, and now son, kim jong-un. the kim regime has maintained its grip on north korea by imprisoning its enemies and by controlling and censoring the mass media-- newspapers, tv, radio, with only a privileged few getting access to the internet. tv shows on state-run media tout the achievements of north koreans and their leader. even at the border, anthems praising the kim regime are blasted into south korea, as we saw and heard on our recent trip there. but in the last few years, north korean defectors based in south korea have been undermining the country's information blackout. just a few miles from here, nearly 25 million north koreans are living under total government censorship. activists have been smuggling in foreign tv shows, movies, e- books to give north koreans a view of the world outside their tightly controlled borders. one of those activists is kang chol-hwan, a north korean defector. in 1992, kang says he bribed a border guard and fled across the border into china-- the route most defectors use to esca

the north koreans, who were upset by a truly terrible movie produced about the assassination of kim jong-un, the north korean leader. that stroyed about 70% of sewn a's computers and also released a lot of emails along the way. in the end there were fairly light sanctions issued against the north koreans. clearly, if he does that now the russians won't feel it. there are sanctions for their annex sation of crimea, many other things. so he doesn't have a whole lot of options and that's part of the difficulty. he could do sanctions, something that embarrasses put be with his financial ties with. oligarchs. pete: he said he wanted to wait until this report from the intelligence community is done. what's that going to tell him he doesn't know already? >> i suspect he's going to have to act before the intelligence report is done. he's asked for it before he leaves offices, just 34 days away. this is going to be a rapidly done report. his best hope, most in the white house say is declassifying enough of this material that it leaves a paper record that can't be ignored by congress or even by the p

kim jong-un is into testing the new president, and with all the turbulence of the world, i think it wille a time for him to do something that will test the new president, and that is very dangerous. i think the president-elect is going to have to send a very strong signal that it will not be acceptable. i will not sit back and idly watching you destabilize the region or threaten the united states. laura: secretary cohen, thank you for joining us. in other postelection news, an attorney for trump supporters is moving to block recount efforts in wisconsin, pennsylvania, and michigan. legal motions are designed to stop jill stein's request for a ballot review. the green party says it is focused on ensuring the integrity of the voting system. but even if the recounts take unlikely toare change the result of the election. in other news, gambia's long-term leader yahya jammeh has been defeated in the election. leader adama barrow made his first comments since the victory. agency warns the islamic state militants are likely to step up attacks on european targets. it says foreign fighters will t

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there was one that kim jong un won time magazine's sexiest man alive. this ran in the china's people daily because the onion put this out. i think people are beginning to realize this isn't necessarily true. it's not helpful for the president-elect to be retweeting things like he won the election despite all the millions of illegal votes out there. and there were big fake news stories out there about five, six years ago, that there was evidence that president obama was born in kenya. so people are talking about maybe reclaiming twitter. >> and there is a report about a member of the electoral college refusing to vote for donald trump and calling on others to do the same. what's the story on that? >> this is a bit farfetched in terms of its likelihood to happen. there is a republican elector from texas who says he can't vote for donald trump. he points out the reason we have the electoral college in this country is chiefly because the framers like alexander hamilton were worried about the masses falling for a demi god. he says, this is a perfect example.

we knew very little because of the policy spending some time with him him, our intelligence then kim jong-il was crazy and the pervert. key was not crazy. [laughter] so when i got there they put me in the cast house so we had no idea what would happen. i had to follow instructions on when you try to pay respect to somebody so one-sided reid to do that i went back and all of the sudden i get a message he was sitting so we did have a press conference and it was something out of the '50s and nightstand next to him and ac we did this same height and a.c. that i had on high heels and so did he and his hair was bigger than mine laugh laugh but we had in raising talk on -- amazing talks said to keep the forces since south korea and there were a number of agreements made and it was the strange period that i hold no grief but many were confused of the election. when i came back i briefed: paul and he was very interested but then the washington post had a headline continuing of clinton policies but then was told no way so then they had reason to be confused. by the way dennis rodman is my fault becaus

history's most ferocious despots, like genghis khan, kim jong un, justin bieber.use and i realize there's for, but i'm so powerful i'm calling it three. all of us have one thing in common: we bring the heat of the sweet beats, and we all have a big furry hat! ( cheers and applause ) ( cheers and applause ) now that this hat is upon my head, any and all proclamations i make are now and forever law. let us begin. let it be written that if you give someone an itunes gift card for christmas, they're allowed to use that card to jimmy open your front door and steal your wallet to buy themselves an actual present. ( cheers and applause ) in addition, if you give me socks for christmas, i get to fill them with d-cell batteries and then hit you. ( laughter ) ( applause ) i declare pilots will no longer start their announcements with "this is your captain speaking." from now on they will say, "attention peasants, it is i, your skylord." ( laughter ) ( applause ) the term "alt-right" is officially banned. ( applause ). ( cheers ) from now, we will call these people what they

maybe donald trump can strike a deal with kim jong-un, that could be a deal that we'll put in the history book to cut those nuclear weapons. lets hope he uses it and uses it early. >> thank you very much for joining us. >> lets go to pennsylvania, our bob casey. senator casey, welcome to the show, i got to get it from you. >> thanks ali. >> i was surprised because many people are in both parties. if there is one subject that you should not tweet about cavalierly or even in terms of a short message, it is nuclear capability anlilities and weapo. we have to be deliberate and smart and prepare. and not only to protect the country but to do it in a way to use some discretion before you comment on this. it is alarming. >> what are you and your colleagues -- president-elect trump is not president yet. this is definitely a place where the cooler heads in the senate on a bipartisan level probably need to make some phone calls or get together and talk to each other and say what are we doing about this? >> well, i think as the new administration comes in, we may have to have that kind of collaborat

mattis well led an unbeatable combination, and i think it will give pause to our enemies, including kim jong-unn north korea. adam: what do they call him? little fat boy? >> little fat boy. adam: there is a morale issue among our servicemembers, this is the kind of appointment that can restore morale, is it not? >> i am a fan of president obama but he has vacillated hugely. we don't know what u.s. policy is in the middle east, for instance, the vote on the red line in syria, the withdrawal, the precipitous withdrawal from iraq. i was on the last combat convoyoud of iraq in 2011. what was that about? right now with the clear thinking, very carefully, basically expressed policy, i think donald trump can really improve morale. i think that his election already has. adam: what might this is a? we got word that president-elect trump spoke to the president of taiwan that breaks protocol and risk a clash with china. what does this say? >> i hadn't heard that. seems undisciplined. seems idiosyncratic, you're going to formosa to taiwan and you built years of telling the republic of china that the republ

going to sooner or later run into serious trouble zwl and unpredictable leaders like north korea's kim jong un could call his bluff. >> there is no question there is a time and place for performance art, even in diplomacy. there are times when you kind of make your adversary just not sure at all what you are going to do. but i don't think you could play that all the time and i know you can't play it as a substitute for knowing what the issues really are. >> and joining me now. cnn senior political analyst and formula are a advisor to richard nixon and three other presidents david gergen. jeffrey lord, and white house and state department official shammia choudary. >> you were in the nixon white house. do you buy the idea that donald trump is implementing his own version of what is known as the madman theory? >> absolutely. and john, please understand. it didn't start with nixon. it goes back a long way. macc machiavelli 500 years ago -- and i do think donald trump embraced the theory. he talks regularly of henry kissinger and kissinger often talks about this of a way of controlling events.

trying to tone down the whole "dictator" thing, maybe don't give a cabinet position to your son, kim jongittle on the nose. okay? and there's more. the leading candidate for attorney general is rudy giuliani. ( audience reacts ) excuse me. i have something i just need to do here. excuse me one second. attention, black people. attention, black people. starting january 20, please build an extra 30 minutes into your daily schedule for the nationwide stop-and-frisk. ( laughter ) i don't know how to translate vomiting over a microphone. ( laughter ) ( applause ) guys, it's probably not going to happen because this was just a prop. it's not connected to anything. ( laughter ) and for secretary of state, trump is considering former speaker of the house and angry sack of ricotta cheese, newt gingrich. ( laughter ) ( audience reacts ) that's not bad. i have got to say, that one is not bad. i personally could support sending newt gingrich out of the country. and for secretary of agriculture, trump is considering texas' sid miller, who caused a firestorm just days ago after his campaign's official t