it is my pleasure to talk with mark bowden about his book, "hue 1968". for those of you that do not know, his resume, he is among other things a national correspondent for the atlantic contributing editor for vanity fair, longtime philadelphia inquirer writer for 24 years. author of many books. on subject all over, literally all over the world from colombian drug lord pablo escobar to an account of the d-day to the killing of osama bin laden. probably best known for black hawk down. an account of the 1993 raid in somalia that led to a two us army black hawk helicopters being downed over mogadishu. the new book which is out this week from atlantic monthly press, it is a very different scope i would say then black hawk down. it is also being made into a miniseries. already. it has not even been out three days. and the producer and director of what will be between eight and 10 hours in the end of this miniseries, it is michael mann. he has said, i like this description. his is in mark's book, there are no background people. people abstracted into statistics

[applaus [applause] >> the book is "hue 1968", mark bowden is the author. thank you for your time today. [applaus [applause]. >> all right, thank you very much. we've got hue 1968 sold right outside the auditorium. >> thank you very much, appreciate it.

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you know mark bowden of black hawk down fame. he interviewed all sorts of military leaders, and essentially says, look, when all is said and done, there are four options, three of them are military, ranging from an all-out assault on north korea to decapitating or assassinating kim jong un. he goes through the pluses and minuses of each of the four, but it's option number four that people are going to find hard to stomach but that is acceptance of a nuclear north korea and amazingly, when we polled our audience on this, and thousands of people have voted, they say, yeah, that's probably where it ends up. now, that sounds like capitulation, but it's the least bad of four bad options. >> the least bad of four bad options. okay. >> yep. >> okay. i'll report back after i've read this thing. michael smerconish, always a pleasure. see you on tv tomorrow morning. >>> 14 minutes. that is how long the u.s. says a north korean missile will take to reach guam. we'll talk about what the president would do if the north fired one. >>> also, af

then we have mark bowden author of "hue 1968" a turning point in vietnam. after that the former house speaker newt gingrich on his book, understanding trump understanding by roxanne gaye on her book, hunger, a memoir of -- >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top authors every weekend. >> author and new yorker staff writer david grann recalls the murders of members of the osage indian nation in the 1920s with his new book, "killers of the flower moon: the osage murders and the birth of the fbi".

options there for anyone that thinks a military strike is a good idea, you must, must, must read mark bowden'siece in "the atlantic" on how to deal with north korea. there's no way for us to hit him without endangering all of south korea and much of japan. and to say nothing of american bases in the pacific maybe even cities on the west coast. according to experts in the state department and the military, we may just need to accept a nuclear armed north korea, because the other options are unthinkable. i would love to take out kim jong-un, but not at the cost of tokyo. of course, i'm not a go-to go on thermo nuclear war, but i am the go-to guy in the event of a thermo nuclear war have cash, gold and velveeta i'm told that it survives even nuclear war. you should always have some cash and maybe 10%, 20% of your portfolio right now. i want some gold for the possibility of a calamity, even as i think in actual nuclear exchange is unlikely i prefer bullion i also am standing by my long-liked stock of rangold, which can go much higher it's looking good here i've been recommending defense stocks for

. >> 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 korea will have a nuclear capability. and he concludes, that's probably the most acceptable of these bad outcomes and the one that we're headed toward. >> absolutely disagree with him. the first thing is when he laid out those options, the number one thing he did was say here are three military options or capitulation. the fact that he didn't even consider the diplomatic pressure that can be applied on china so that we can develop a comprehensive and in-depth set of sanctions that can be applied against that country who has aided and abetted the north korea nuclear program for years if not decades, providing economic, financial, technical and military support to allow them to do that, unless that pressure gets brought to bear, we're not going to be at the point of capitulation. if we do that, t

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. >> chery, we appreciate that >> everyone has to read mark bowden's piece in the atlantic he wrote downlack hawk down. he is to me the great reporter of this era. he says this is going to be appeasement. he says we're going to have to accept it. this idea that china is somehow in on -- china is behind this. i wish we'd stop being stupid about this china is behind this it is in china's interest to do this stuff we keep thinking china is a member of the nations and they're our buds are you kidding? watch "manchurian candidate. that'll tell you what to do. but bodden's piece is good >>> when we come back this morning, the content wars are heating up as facebook unveils a new video platform we'll continue to follow netflix and disney pluls adp nominating to the board. carlos rodriguez the ceo will join for an interview. look at the premarket. gold's near a two-month high t puthe markets on the worst week in six. we're back in a moment more valu. and at $4.95, you can trade with a clear advantage. fidelity, where smarter investors will always be. and at $4.95, you can trade with a clear adva