Back to episode — Episode 103 - WAKE UP, PUNCHY
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Colbert refutes me nightly. Well that's his job. And why did he praise Kim Jong-un? Same reason. Praising Kim is one of the ways that Kim will feel comfortable with the president. It's one of the ways that Kim will learn to trust him. It's one of the ways he'll have a good feeling. Because remember, people who use the facts to make decisions, they use how they feel about things to make decisions.…
← Previous segment →Now if you say to yourself, hey but what about concrete promises of getting rid of their nukes and everything else? We definitely want all that stuff. But ask yourself, is it easier for North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons when we're trusting them in public and complimenting the leader and offering to help and stopping our war games that are provocative? Is that a better situation for him to go back to his own people and say look, I think we've got something good here. Here's our one opportunity. According to that video I just watched, let's make something happen.
Now it's very important. This is why you want a Bolton on the team. The value added of Bolton is that nobody thinks he would have done any of those things I just mentioned. In other words, Bolton is the badass. He's the bad cop. And he's not going to be pleased until we have verification and we have real legitimate denuclearization in progress. And I don't think the Trump administration ever wants to be in a situation where later Bolton says hey I told them to do it this way and it didn't work out. So I think they have the perfect set of assets in place for a good result there.
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Now I wanted to put down to one idea that apparently there are many ticklish, sensitive elements to making peace with North Korea. And one of them is the number of people who are alleged to be in prison camps. And I've heard some people speculate that you can't loosen up the North because it would bring to light all the people who were in prison camps and there's so many of them it would be a big…
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