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That was Donald Trump speaking with Tim Russert back in 1999.

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That clip was found by a gentleman named Sven Hinderich today on Twitter, Windviral.

Certainly provides a lot of insight into Trump's thinking to kind of get things started here.

So, Mr. Shirazi, I assume you saw the news of today's events.

The things in North Korea have escalated considerably.

The episode that we did on North Korea a few weeks ago has been shared by a few people today.

I'd say a lot, but that's not really true. It's a meaningful percentage.

So, I thought we could revisit what will generically call the crisis, even though we're sort of committing our own sin here by using terms that solicit a degree of power asymmetry, which is something we criticize.

Yes, we're just continually building up the hysteria even by addressing this, I guess.

I don't think that's actually true.

No, I think it's a really good thing for us to address considering actually our very second show was about kind of this exact same thing.

And we're seeing it play out in real time. So, yeah, no, I think we should talk about it.

The first thing at first, is this report this morning in the New York Times and subsequently in BC News in Washington Post.

And then later, I think CNN. Or maybe it was at first that was the post-post.

Post-post broke the story. Yeah.

Yeah, the usual suspects, right? The people who the Defense Department has on speed dial.

The alleging that North Korea has now miniaturized nuclear weapons and can put them.

So, the implication means they can put them on the ICBM.

The implication means that they can fire them. I don't think most people think they can fire them in the United States.

Of course, I doesn't stop the media from saying so.

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