TONIGHT. RACHEL MADDOW STARTS RIGHT NOW.
>> GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU TO AT HOME
FOR JOINING US THE NEXT HOUR. A COUPLE YEARS AGO 2015 THE
NATION OF NIGERIA GOT A BRAND NEW P. HE WAS ELECTED IN LARGE
PART ON A PROMISE HE WAS GOING TO CLEAN UP CORRUPTION IN THAT
COUNTRY. NIGERIA HAS A BIG ECONOMY.
IT'S A FAIRLY WELL OFF COUNTRY. BUT IT'S ECONOMY IS REALLY
DOMINATED BY THE OIL DECK OR. THE OIL SECTOR IS FAMOUSLY
FABULOUSLY CORRUPT. AND SO THE NEW PRESIDENT CAME
INTO OFFICE SAYING HE WAS GOING TO CLEAN UP CORRUPTION IN THE
OIL SECTOR, WHICH IS SO DOMINANT IN THEIR ECONOMY.
CLEAN UP CORRUPTION IN THE GOVERNMENT.
AND THEN THIS HAPPENED. LAST WEEK -- LOOK AT THAT.
INVESTIGATORS GOT A CALL ABOUT A SUSPICIOUS LOOKING WOMAN WHO
KEPT TAKING BAGS IN AND OUT OF AN APARTMENT, A SEVENTH FLOOR
APARTMENT OWNED BY NIGERIA'S INTELLIGENCE CHIEF.
I'M NOT EXACTLY SURE WHAT IT TAKES FOR AN ANTI-CORRUPTION
INVESTIGATOR TO RAID THE HOME OF THE NATION'S SPY CHIEF, BUT
SOMEHOW THE ANTI-CORRUPTION INVESTIGATORS WERE ABLE TO GET
THE GO AHEAD TO DO THAT, AND WOW.
WHAT THEY FOUND INSIDE SPY CHIEF'S APARTMENT IN LAGOS WAS
$70,000 WORTH OF NIGERIA CASH. THEY FOUND ABOUT $35,000 WORTH
OF BRITISH POUNDS ALSO IN CASH. AND THEY FOUND $43 MILLION IN
AMERICAN CASH. $43 MILLION.
IN ONE OF THE PICTURES THEY RELEASED, SEE IN THE UPPER RIGHT
HAND CORNER, THESE BRICKS OF CASH WERE WRAPPED UP LIKE THEY
WERE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS MAYBE? THEY ALSO RELEASED VIDEO SHOWING
THAT AT LEAST IN PART THIS $43 MILLION IN CASH WAS VERY
TIGHTLY FILED IN BIG FILING CABINETS, ALSO IN ARM WARS AND
WARDROBES. $40 MILLION IN CASH IS A LOT OF
CASH. ALL STACKED UP AND WRAPPED AS
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS IN HIS ARRANGEMENT APARTMENT.
THE SPY CHIEF SAYS NOTHING TO SEE HERE.
THIS IS TOTALLY NORMAL. THERE IS NOTHING WEIRD ABOUT
THIS. THE SPECULATION FOR WHY HE NEEDS
$43 MILLION IN CASH IN HIS APARTMENT IS THAT THAT'S HOW WE
FUNDS COVERT OPS. HE FUNDS COVERT OPS USING STACKS
OF HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS THAT HE WRAPS UP LIKE PRESENTS.
SO MAYBE. APPARENTLY HE HAS NOT BEEN
ARRESTED YET BUT HE'S BEEN SUSPENDED FROM HIS JOB BECAUSE
THERE'S SOMETHING -- ABGOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HAVING
THAT MUCH CASH AT HOME. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, PEOPLE
TAKING GOVERNMENT SALARIES AND THEN HAVING TEBZ OF MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS AT THEIR ZPOELZ OUTSIDE THE POLITICAL PROCESS WITHOUT
ANYBODY HAVING TRACK OF THE MONEY BUT THEM.
THERE'S SOMETHING EH ABOUT THAT. WE CLOSED OUT THE HOUR WITH A
QUESTION. WE RAISED A QUESTION ABOUT
$107 MILLION THAT APPEARS TO BE SLOSHING AROUND RIGHT NOW
SOMEWHERE INSIDE THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WITH NOBODY
ACCOUNTING FOR IT. THESE IMAGES HERE, THESE ARE
IMAGES FROM THE BIGGEST PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION WE
EVER HAD. THIS IS THE FIRST OBAMA
INAUGURATION IN 2009. BIGGEST EVER EVENT OF ANY KIND
OF THE CITY OF OF WASHINGTON, D.C. TO PULL OFF THAT
INAUGURATION, THE OBAMA INAUGURAL COMMITTEE RAISED MORE
MONEY THAT HAD EVER BEEN RAISED BEFORE FOR AN INAUGURATION.
THEY RAISED TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
THEY RAISED $53 MILLION JUST FOR THE INAUGURATION.
THAT BROKE ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS FOR INAUGURATION FUNDRAISING.
IT BROKE THOSE RECORDS BY A LOT. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, IT REALLY WAS
A BIG INAUGURATION AND IN THE END COST $50 MILLION TO PUT THAT
ON. SO THEY HAD TO RAISE ABOUT
$50 MILLION TO PUT THAT ON. BUT LET ME SAY AGAIN, THAT WAS A
REALLY BIG, REALLY UNUSUALLY BIG INAUGURATION.
LET'S PUT THAT ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE SCREEN.
REALLY BIG INAUGURATION IN 2009. ON THE RIGHT SIDE WAS AN
INAUGURATION THAT WAS NOT NEARLY AS BIG.
AND I DON'T SAY THAT TO BE MEAN. I'M NOT TRYING TO SHUT DOWN THE
PARK SERVICE. BUT THE TRUMP INAUGURATION WHICH
IS THE PICTURE ON THE RIGHT, JUST AS A MATTER OF FACT, IT WAS
MUCH, MUCH SMALLER THAN THE ONE WE SAW IN 2009.
AND IT WAS OF A DIFFERENT CHARACTER.
THERE WERE NO INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN CELEBRITY PERFORMS FLYING
IN AND HAVING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO SEE THEM.
THE ENTERTAINMENT WAS LIKE MIDDLE SCHOOL BANDS AND BATON
TWIRLERS. WHICH IS COOL, THERE'S NOTHING
WRONG WITH THAT. SIZE ISN'T EVERYTHING, AND I
LIKE BATON TWIRLERS. BUT THE TRUMP FOLKS COLLECTED
FROM DONORS $107 MILLION TO PUT ON THIS INAUGURATION.
THE ONE WITH THE BATON TWIRLERS AND THE HIGH SCHOOL BAND.
AND NOBODY LINING BIG LONG STRETCHES OF THE PARADE.
IF THIS IS WHAT YOUR INAUGURATION PARADE LOOKS LIKE,
WHAT DO YOU NEED $107 MILLION. WHY DO YOU NEED TO MORE THAN
DOUBLE THE RECORD AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WAS RAISED AND SPENT
ON THE BIGGEST INAUGURATION EVER FOR AN INAUGURATION THAT WAS A
FRACTION OF THAT SIZE? NOW, THIS IS NOT A GOOD
GOVERNMENT ISSUE, AT LEAST IN TERMS OF TAX PAIR MONEY.
NOT PUBLIC MONEY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
THIS IS MONEY TRUMP FOLKS TOOK FROM DONORS SPECIFICALLY FOR THE
INAUGURATION. THEY TOOK $107 MILLION, AND THAT
$107 MILLION THEY TOOK IN FROM DONORS REGARDLESS OF WHAT NEEDED
TO BE SPENT FOR THE INAUGURATION IN THE END, THAT $107 MILLION,
IT WENT SOMEWHERE. IT OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T GO TO THIS,
RIGHT AFTER THAT $107 MILLION WAS NOT GIVEN BY DONORS TO THE
INAUGURATION. IT WAS NOT NEEDED FOR THE
INAUGURATION. THEY COULD HAVE GOLD PLATED
EVERY PERSON AT THAT NUTRITION AND IT STILL WOULDN'T HAVE COST
$107 MILLION. BUT ASK THE NEXT QUESTION.
IF THAT'S NOT WHAT DONORS MONEY WENT FOR, WHAT DID IT GO FOR
BECAUSE THE DONORS DIDN'T GET THEIR MONEY BACK WHEN IT TURNED
OUT TO BE KIND OF AUTO CHEAP ONE.
WHAT WERE THEY DONATING TO? WHAT WERE THEY EXPECTING TO GET
FORTHEIR MONEY GIVEN IT WASN'T NEEDED FOR THE INAUGURATION.
A COUPLE WEEKS AGO A REPORTER POSTING SOMETHING AT MIC.COM.
ON FEBRUARY 8th, TWO AND A HALF WEEKS INTO THE NEW
ADMINISTRATION, THE WHITE HOUSE HOST ING A MEETING BETWEEN
SEVERAL NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL OFFICIALS AND THIS GUY.
WE NOW KNOW THANKS TO FAC FILINGS THANKS TO THE WHITE
HOUSE THAT WHEN THIS INTERNATIONAL INVESTOR GOT THAT
WHITE HOUSE MEETING WITH NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
MEETING, WE NOW HIS DAD HAS WRITTEN OVER $600,000 IN CHECKS
TO FUND SPECTACULARLY OVERFUNDED INAUGURATION.
ACCORDING TO THE JAKE HOROWITZ'S REPORTING THE SON GOT A MEETING
WITH NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL OFFICIALS ON FEBRUARY 8th.
THEN FOLLOWING DAY HE WAS ACTUALLY USHERED INTO AN EVEN
HIGHER LEVEL MEETING, USHERED INTO THE TOP TIER OF THE WHITE
HOUSE WITH A MEETING WITH STEVE BANNON.
THE PURPOSE OF THOSE MEETINGS, THE NATIONAL SECURITY MEETING
AND THE STEVE BANNON MEETING WAS FOR HIM TO PRESENT HIS DETAILED
TEN-POINT PLAN FOR CHANGING U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD VENLS, AND
SPECIFICALLY DROPPING U.S. SANCTIONS TOWARD THAT COUNTRY.
THE GUY REPORTEDLY VENEZUELA'S GUYS ON THE PHONE, PUT THE
FOREIGN MINISTER ON THE PHONE DURING THE MEETING APPARENTLY
JUST TO SHOW OFF THAT HE COULD GET THE FOREIGN MINISTER ON HIS
CELL PHONE DURING THE MEETING. NOW, VENEZUELA DOESN'T GET A TON
OF POLITICAL COVERAGE IN THE UNITED STATES, BUT VENEZUELA IS
A COUNTRY IN INTENSE TURMOIL RIGHT NOW.
THE SANCTIONS THAT THE U.S. PUT ON VENEZUELA WERE PUT THERE IN
2014 AFTER 43 PEOPLE GOT KILLED WHILE PARTICIPATING IN
ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS, ANOTHER THREE PEOPLE GOT KILLED
IN ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS JUST YESTERDAY.
THERE HAD BEEN WEEKS AND WEEKS OF RIOTING AND PROTESTS.
THERE'S A NEW FAG FILING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE THAT SHOWS THAT
INTERESTING THING ABOUT THE GUY WHO GOT THE MEETING WITH THE NSC
OFFICIALS AND STEVE BANNON. IT ALSO SHOWS WHILE VENEZUELA
UNS HAVE BEEN RIDING IN THE STREETS WHERE THERE HAVE BEEN
BEEN FOOD AND MEDICINE SHORTAGES, A COUNTRY THAT SHOULD
BE A RICH COUNTRY BUT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LITERALLY STARVING IN
VENEZUELA, SOMEHOW IN THE MISDS OF THIS INCREDIBLE CRISIS IN
VENEZUELA, VENEZUELA'S STATE RUN OIL COMPANY SOMEWHERE FOUND A
HALF MILLION DOLLARS TO DONATE TO THE VERY, VERY, VERY
INEXPLICABLY OVERFUNDED TRUMP INAUGURATION.
VENEZUELA'S STATE RUN OIL COMPANY GAVE THEM $500,000 TOO.
SO THEY'RE DUMPING MONEY INTO THE TRUMP INAUGURATION,
MEANWHILE ANOTHER $500,000 WAS APPARENTLY ENOUGH TO NOT ONLY
OPEN THE WHITE HOUSE BUT THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL TO A
VERY WELL-CONNECTED DONOR AND INTERNATIONAL INVESTOR WHO HAD A
PLAN HE WANTED TO SHARE ON VENEZUELA.
VENEZUELA IS IN DIRE STRAITS. IT DOES NOT HAVE THE MONEY TO
SPARE AND YET THEY DUMPED $500,000 ON TRUMP.
AND THIS GUY WHO'S DAD DONATED TO THE INAUGURAL TO TAKE AWAY
THE SANCTIONS ON VENEZUELA, DO YOU THINK HE ONE OF YOU GOTTEN A
MEETING WITH THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL AND THE TOP
ADVISER TO THE PRESIDENT HAD THEY SHOT SHOVELED HIM $666,000
TO PAY FOR SOMETHING THAT WAS ALREADY PAID FOR?
THIS KIND OF THING HAS A NAME. IT'S ONE OF THOSE CATCHY
POLITICAL NAMES. MIGHT REMEMBER IT FROM THE
CAMPAIGN. >> IT'S CALLED PAY FOR PLAY.
SOME OF THESE WERE REALLY, REALLY BAD AND ILLEGAL.
IF IT'S TRUE. IT'S ILLEGAL.
YOU'RE PAYING AND YOU'RE GETTING THINGS.
THIS WAS BIG STUFF. PAY FOR PLAY.
IT'S ILLEGAL. IT'S ILLEGAL.
>> IN A NORMAL ADMINISTRATION IN A MOLL TIME, SOMETHING LIKE THIS
INAUGURATION DONOR THING, IT WOULD BE THE SUBJECT OF MULTIPLE
CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS, RIGHT?
IT WOULD BE THE BIGGEST SCANDAL IN ANY NUMBER OF RECENT
PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATIONS. IN THE TRUMP ERA, THERE'S NO
CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
WE JUST DO NEWS STORIES ON CABLING AND HOPE SOMEBODY PICKS
IT UP. THIS IS NOT ARCANE STUFF.
IT'S NOT COMPLICATED STUFF OR HARD TO FIND.
THIS MONEY TRULY IS NOT WRAPPED UP LIKE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS OR
STUFFED INTO AN NIGERIAN SPY CHIEF'S CLOSET.
DONORS TO THE INAUGURATION DID NOT ACTUALLY PAY FOR THE
INAUGURATION. THERE WAS NOT $107 MILLION WORTH
OF INAUGURATION TO PAY FOR. IF THE POLICE SEE YOU GIVE
SOMEBODY $200 ON A STREET CORNER, AND YOU'RE EXPLANATION
WHEN THEY ASK YOU ABOUT THAT IS YOU WERE BUYING A STICK OF GUM
OR A LOOSE CIGARETTE OF A GUY, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE YOU
THAT THAT'S WHAT YOU GAVE HIM $200 FOR.
AND I KNOW LIKE BIG NUMBERS ARE HARD FOR ME TO GET MY HEAD
AROUND. BIG NUMBERS ARE HARD TO
CONCEPTIZE SOMETIMES. IF WE TAKE THE UNIT HAS
INAUGURATIONS, THE INAUGURATION ON THE LEFT COST $50 MILLION.
IF THAT'S TRUE, THE ONE ON THE RIGHT COULD NOT COST
$100 MILLION. SO WHERE'S THE MONEY?
WHERE DID ALL THAT MONEY GO? WHAT ARE THEY USING IT FOR IF
THEY'RE USING IT FOR ANYTHING YET?
WHO HAS IT? NUMBER TWO, NOT INCIDENTALLY THE
PEOPLE RIOTING IN VENEZUELA WOULD LIKE SOME OF IT BACK.
NUMBER THREE, AND THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT, CERTAINLY THE
MOST SCARY, IN A NORMAL ADMINISTRATION, THE NATIONAL
SECURITY COUNCIL DOESN'T GET USED FOR STUFF LIKE THIS.
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL OFFICIALS DO NOT HAVE TO MEET
WITH HALF MILLION DOLLARS DONORS TO HEAR THEIR IDEAS ON SANCTIONS
FOR SOME OTHER COUNTRY. WHAT'S THE PRICE IN THIS
ADMINISTRATION FOR A MEETING WITH THE NATIONAL SECURITY
COUNCIL STAFF? WAS IT A HALF MILLION DOLLARS
WHEN THAT SAME DONOR WROTE A SECOND CHECK FOR ANOTHER
$166,000 APPARENTLY ON THAT SAME DAY?
TWHAUZ YOU GUYS UPPING THE PRICE?
DID YOU FOLD IN THE MONEY FROM THE STATE RUN OIL COMPANY OR WAS
THAT SEPARATE? HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO GET
MEETINGS WITH NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL OFFICIALS?
BECAUSE IN A NORMAL ADMINISTRATION, THE NATIONAL
SECURITY COUNCIL ISN'T USED TO PAY OFF DONORS.
THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL IS FOR A THING.
IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE CONCOCTING FAKE LEAKS OF
SCANDALOUS INTELLIGENCE TO REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN IN ORDER
TO SUBMA ARENA THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION.
IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE FOR ENTERTAINING DONORS.
IT'S FOR A THING. IT IS SUPPOSED TO RATIONALIZE
AND SYNTHESIZE HUGE INFORMATION ON NATIONAL SECURITY FOR THE
BENEFIT OF PARKING LOT DECISION MAKING ON THOSE MATTERS.
IT'S SUPPOSED TO ACHIEVE CONSENSUS AND A UNIFIED VIEW AND
MESSAGE WITHIN THE GOVERNMENT ON SENSITIVE NATIONAL SECURITY
ISSUES. SO WHEN IT'S IMPORTANT AND
BRINKS MAN SHIP AND WAR AND PEACE ARE AT STAKES, THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT A, MAKES DECISIONS, AND B, SPEAKS WITH ONE VOICE.
SO STUFF LIKE WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW DOESN'T HAPPEN.
YESTERDAY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, SECRETARY OF
STATE, SAID EXPLICITLY IN WRITING THAT IRAN IS IN
COMPLIANCE WITH THE NUCLEAR DEAL YESTERDAY.
THEN TODAY, THE PRESIDENT SAID OUT LOUD THAT IRAN IS NOT IN
COMPLIANCE WITH THE NUCLEAR DEAL.
EVEN IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN OPINION ON IRAN AND THE NUCLEAR
DETERIORATION WHICH OF THOSE ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE AT AMERICAN
POLICY? WHICH IS IT?
THAT WAS JUST TODAY. AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS WEEK
THE TRUFRMGS EXPRESSED GRAVE CONCERNS ABOUT THE EROSION OF
DEMOCRACY IN TURKEY. IT WAS MARK BY SERIOUS REPORTS
OF IRREGULARITIES IN THE VOTE. THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE
WEEK. NO SOONER HAD THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION EXPRESSED THOSE CONCERNS, THEN THE PRESIDENT
HIMSELF CALLED TURKEY'S PRESIDENT TO CONGRATULATE HIM ON
HIS BIG WIN IN THAT AWESOME REFERENDUM.
OKAY? REGARDLESS OF HOW YOU FEEL ON
THE TURKISH REFERENDUM, WHICH IS IT?
IS ANYBODY WORKING HERE? BECAUSE APPARENTLY THIS IS THE
WAY NATIONAL SECURITY WORKS NOW. IN THE MOST POWERFUL COUNTRY ON
EARTH. IT'S TEN-POINT PLANS ON
VENEZUELA POLICY GET STOVE PIPED DIRECTLY TO SENIOR COUNCIL STAFF
AND INTO THE OVAL OFFICE BY DONORS WHO PAY MONEY INTO A
MYSTERIOUS SLUSH FUND AND NOBODY ADMITS TO WROLG IT.
THAT'S HOW WE GET VENEZUELA POLICY ADVICE NOW.
NOW WE SHOOT MISSILES INTO SYRIA EITHER BECAUSE BASHAR AL ASSAD
MUST GO OR BECAUSE THE FATE OF BASHAR AL ASSAD MUST BE DECIDED
BY THE SYRIAN PEOPLE, NOT US. OR BECAUSE THE U.S. WILL
HENCEFORTH WILL MAKE SURE NO INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE HARMED IN
SYRIA, OR BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GOING INTO SYRIA AT ALL.
WHO'S IN CHARGE? TURKEY IS EITHER A CATASTROPHE
RIGHT NOW OR IT'S AWESOME. IRAN IS EITHER IN COMPLIANCE
WITH THAT DEAL OR IT IS OUT OF COMPLIANCE WITH THAT DEAL.
SPIN THE WHEEL. WHOSE TURN IS IT TO TALK?
DEPENDING HOW INVESTED YOU ARE IN FOREIGN POLICY IN DIFFERENT
PARTS OF THE WORLD, DIFFERENCE WARS, I DON'T KNOW WHICH OF
THOSE INDIVIDUALLY MIGHT WORRY YOU, BUT HERE'S ONE THAT'S
REALLY CLEARLY TRYING ITS BEST TO WORRY US.
ON SATURDAY, NORTH KOREA TIME, YOU MIGHT REMEMBER WE COVERED
THE START OF THE BIG START OF THE MILITARY PARADE TO
COMMEMORATE THE FOUNDER, KIM IL-SUNG, THEGRAPHER OF THE
CURRENT DICTATOR. WHAT KIND OF LOW CAN THOSE
TRUCKS BEAR AND WHAT TYPES OF MISSILES THEY HAVE AND HOW FAR
CAN THEY GO, WHAT KIND OF WEAPONS CAN THEY BE FITTED WITH.
THAT WAS THE PARADE. THE BIG FINALE OF THIS WEEKEND'S
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION FOR KIM IL-SUNG WAS A STATE TV BROADCAST
OF LIKE A MUSICAL? I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CALL IT A
MUSICAL. IT WAS A MILITARY BAND AND A
MILITARY CHOIR, KIND OF A MITT ROMNEY ORCHESTRA ON STAGE.
PERFORMING IN UNIFORM AT THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS.
THIS WAS THE FINALE. YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD ABOUT IT
BUT I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE SEEN IT.
WAF THIS. I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU LESS THAN
A MINUTE OF THIS. IT'S GOING TO FEEL REALLY LONG,
BUT WATCH IT. IT'S A LITTLE LESS THAN A
MINUTE. WATCH IT UNTIL THE END.
YOU'LL SEE WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO WATCH IT TO THE EN.
IN PARTICULAR, WATCH THE SCREEN. WATCH WHAT'S BEING PROJECTED ON
THE SCREEN BEHIND THE PROPERLIES.
PERFORMER. ♪♪
♪♪
♪♪ [ APPLAUSE ]
NORTH KOREAN STATE TELEVISION THIS WEEK.
I'M SURE THAT WAS A LOT OF FUN FOR EVERYBODY INVOLVED.
WITH A BIG FINALE, THE BIG CULL MINIMUM NATION IS THE ANIMATED
DID HE PICKS FIRING INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC
MISSILES, NUCLEAR WAR HEADS AT WHAT APPEARS TO BE SAN
FRANCISCO, AND THE CROWD GOES WILD.
AND ULTIMATELY A FEW SECONDS LATER THERE'S KIM JONG-UN
CLAPPING ALONG, YAY. NORTH KOREA LOVES THE UNITED
STATES, THAT'S NOT NEW. THEY'RE MAKING THIS THREAT THAT
THEY MIGHT BE ABOUT TO TEST ANOTHER NUCLEAR WEAPON IN REAL
LIFE. NBC NEWS REPORTING THAT U.S.
PLANES ARE DEPLOYED RIGHT NOW WATCHING FOR POTENTIAL
UNDERGROUND DETONATION IN NORTH KOREA.
THAT INCLUDES AN AIR FORCE PLANE THAT'S BEEN DEPLOYED THAT IS
SPECIFICALLY QUIPPED TO DETECT EVIDENCE OF A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION.
WHETHER OR NOT THEY'VE MOVED FORWARD ON THEIR NUCLEAR
CAPABILITY OR MISSILE CAPABILITY, IN THIS KIND OF A
THREAT ENVIRONMENT, AND THE PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY THE MOST
FREAKED OUT ARE SOME OF OUR CLOSEST ALLIES IN THE WORLD,
SOUTH KOREA AND JAPAN. THEIR BIGGEST PORTION CENTERS
ARE WITHIN REACH. THEIR POPULATION CENTERS ARE IN
REACH OF THE CONVENTIONAL ARSENAL THAT EVERYBODY KNOWS
WHITE WELL THAT NORTH KOREA HAS ALREADY GOT.
AND IN THAT THREAT ENVIRONMENT, THERE IS THIS FREAKING WHITE
HOUSE LITERALLY CAN'T EVEN BE BOARD TO PRONOUNCE PYONGYANG.
>> ALL THE OTHER WAYS IN WHICH WE CAN BRING PRESSURE TO BEAR ON
THE REGIME IN PONIAN. >> IT'S PYONGYANG.
>> ON THE REGIME IN PONEYANG. >> AGRICULTURE SECRETARY.
ALSO, KOREA'S NOT PART OF CHINA, NOR HAS KOREA EVER BEEN PART OF
CHINA. "WALL STREET JOURNAL" RELEASED A
TRANSCRIPT IN WHICH THE TRANSCRIPT BRAGGED ABOUT
LEARNING ABOUT THE WHOLE HISTORY FROM A TEN MINUTE LECTURE HE GOT
FROM THE CHINESE PRESIDENT. AS AMERICANS WE'RE NOT PSYCHED
TO LEARN OUR IF THE IS TRYING TO LEARN BASIC WORLD HISTORY BY
LISTENING TO OTHER COUNTRY'S LEADERS TELLING HIM ABOUT IT.
IF YOU'RE SOUTH KOREA, YOU'RE NOT PSYCHED TO LEARN OUR
PRESIDENT THOUGHT KOREA WAS PART OF CHINA.
SOUTH KOREA'S REALLY MAD AT CHINA ON THE ODD CHANCE
PRESIDENT TRUMP ACCURATELY DESCRIBED WHAT THE CHINESE
PRESIDENT TOLD HIM, NOW SOUTH KOREA WANTS AN EXPLANATION AS TO
WHETHER OR NOT CHINA IS SPREADING A RUMOR TELLING
IGNORANT LEADERS AROUND THE WORLD ABOUT A MADE UP HISTORY
BETWEEN CHINA AND THE KOREAN PENINSULA WOULD LOVE TO BE TRUE.
IN THIS INCREDIBLE THREAT ENVIRONMENT NEITHER SOUTH KOREA
NOR JAPAN, BOTH OF THEM GOD ALLIES OF OURS, WE HAD SENT AN
AIRCRAFT CARRIER TO THAT REGION TO BASICALLY BACK NORTH KOREA
UP, TO PUSH BACK ON THEM TO MAKE AN AMERICAN SHOW OF FORCE OFF
THE KOREAN PENINSULA. DESPITE THE PRESIDENT AND THE
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER AND THE DEFENSE SECRETARY AND THE
WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN SAYING MULTIPLE TIMES WE HAD NOT
ACTUALLY SENT THAT AIRCRAFT CARRIER UP THERE.
THEY'RE NOT PSYCHED ABOUT THAT EITHER.
EVERYBODY SO ON EVERYBODY'S VERY EXCITED ABOUT US COMING UP ON
THE FIRST HUNDRED DAYS. WHAT WILL THEY SAY THEY'VE
ACCOMPLISHED IN THEIR FIRST HUNDRED DAYS?
WILL THE PRESIDENT'S APPROVAL RATINGS BE FOR HIS FIRST HUNDRED
DAYS? FIRST WE HAVE TO GET TO DAY 100.
AND TONIGHT, WE'RE ON MISSILE TEST OR NUCLEAR TEST WATCH AGAIN
FOR NORTH KOREA.
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