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All right, so we can give you the latest on North Korea in just a moment.

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Okay, so the hubbub over North Korea

continues to unfold and evolve.

So President Trump, I do love the fact that for President Trump,

not only does he never back down,

he always doubles down.

Like everything is a double down for President Trump. If you ever played poker with him, you would always want to go all in. And this is sort of the problem. The reason being that half the time he's bluffing and half the time he's not. And you really don't know when he's bluffing and when he's not. But you have a pretty good indication that he's bluffing sometimes because he can never get out of a hand.

He never just puts it down and says, okay, walk away from this hand.

Everything has to be doubled down on.

So you remember a couple of days ago, Trump said about North Korea that if North Korea were to continue to threaten,

then he would unleash the fire and the fury and frankly the power.

You remember all of this. The fire, fury, furiosa, frankly power, Mad Max Fury Road. Unbelievable. Draconis. And so everyone went nuts. The left just thought this was insane. He's going to burn everyone alive. And I was saying, calm down everyone. That's not going to happen. There are negotiations happening behind the scenes scenes Trump tweets stuff because that's what Trump does and even the North

Koreans know better than to fire a nuclear missile just because Trump is

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