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Speaker 1: Coast to Coast George Nori with you two hours with

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Speaker 1: Greg Hunter, our dear friend and news sound as I

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Speaker 1: call him. He's with you as a Watchdog dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Spent years as an investigative correspondent work for ABC news

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Speaker 1: Good Morning America as well, did a lot of stints

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Speaker 1: with CNN's business shows as well. He's a very dedicated

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Speaker 1: reporter and newsperson, and we're gonna talk with Greg about

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Speaker 1: a number of issues, including what the heck are we

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Speaker 1: going to do with North Korea? Greg, welcome back, my friend.

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Speaker 1: Good to be here, Good to be here, Thanks for

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Speaker 1: having me back on Okay, Korea, you've had a chance

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Speaker 1: to look at this, observe it. What do you think?

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Speaker 1: What's your gut tell you about this whole situation, Greg,

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Speaker 1: if you just look at what is reportable. And since

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Speaker 1: April twentie, you know, China has been asking its citizens

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Speaker 1: to return home from North Korea. The US is another

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Speaker 1: story that kind of slid under the radar, has been

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Speaker 1: doing drills to evacuate Americans out of South Korea. And

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Speaker 1: you know the thing with the Putin and the whole

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Speaker 1: Middle East thing about the rebels, you know, the rebels,

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Speaker 1: that's that's right there. We like them in Syria, we

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Speaker 1: hate them every place else. And and we got and

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Speaker 1: what a hairball the Middle East is um that was

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Speaker 1: started under the Obama regime with the gun running and

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Speaker 1: the help and the turning the other eye, and basically

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Speaker 1: either we overtly and or covertly helped ISIS form. You know,

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Speaker 1: we just had Turkey and NATO member attack the Kurds,

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Speaker 1: which are actually the good guys and are actually fighting ISIS,

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Speaker 1: but the Turkey doesn't like them, and you know, we

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Speaker 1: have our troops over there trying to separate them. They

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Speaker 1: had an air strike I think today it killed out

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Speaker 1: twenty people, twenty of them. And so but you know,

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Speaker 1: when we talk about about the rebels, I mean where

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Speaker 1: we passed the bill that's spent five million dollars. We

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Speaker 1: trained five I'm not kidding five, and they're not the rebels.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know if that is. You know, Trump

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Speaker 1: is calling Putin, and I wonder if he's just I mean, remember,

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Speaker 1: this is the art of the deal, the grand negotiator,

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Speaker 1: you know, the I'd like to meet Kim Jung on

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Speaker 1: under you know, the right circumstances. What does that mean?

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Speaker 1: I mean the thing with if they think that that

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Speaker 1: them to continue to fire missiles uh and test missiles

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Speaker 1: from submarines and everything else, well I bet you we're

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Speaker 1: shattering their submarines all over the Pacific Ocean. And I

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Speaker 1: at some point, at some point, I think they're gonna

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Speaker 1: pull the trigger. They're not gonna send all those ships

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Speaker 1: over there, all those personnel they produced. The THAD system

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Speaker 1: is over there, the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System.

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Speaker 1: It's a missile defense system that put in South Korea's

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Speaker 1: optional today's act. It's an operational today. Shine is all

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Speaker 1: upset with that. They're freaked out because you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: if things get messy, we can start shooting down missiles

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Speaker 1: and they don't have to fly halfway across the Pacific.

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Speaker 1: We can shoot them down, you know, on your continent.

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Speaker 1: So that freaks them out in Russia and in North Korea.

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Speaker 1: Just a little history so people understand, North Korea has

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Speaker 1: got to be the most freaked out, scared, uh surrounded

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Speaker 1: piece of Russia on North Korea. North Korea. It was

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Speaker 1: it was a Russia's idea for them to the north

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Speaker 1: to invade the South. The US got involved, We kicked

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Speaker 1: them pretty pretty hard. I mean we we basically won

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Speaker 1: the war. Then China got involved. They lost tens of

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Speaker 1: thousands of troops in this little skirmish called the Korean War,

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Speaker 1: which they never settled. Right that they never settled in

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Speaker 1: you know, North Korea. Truth be known. You know, North

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Speaker 1: really they don't like uh, they don't like uh China.

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Speaker 1: They're hoping they get Russia and China to help them out,

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Speaker 1: to buy them enough time to have a fully operational

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Speaker 1: nuclear program and listen with it. You know, there was

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Speaker 1: never a time when a small country, let's say, you know,

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Speaker 1: let's say North Korea getst nuclear weapons and they get

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Speaker 1: a hundred two hundred of them, you fire a hundred

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Speaker 1: and you're gonna do serious damage even if a few

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Speaker 1: get through. Greg well, and you know that's the other

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Speaker 1: thing with the UH, I don't know what you don't

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Speaker 1: have any idea. I know what's reportable is frightening. What's reportable?

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Speaker 1: With Kim Jung On putting out the UH, you know,

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Speaker 1: the video of targeting the United States? I mean, what

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Speaker 1: kind of a madman would do that? By the way,

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Speaker 1: I mean you talk about provocation. Maybe he's trying to

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Speaker 1: get the US to strike and trying to get Rush

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Speaker 1: and China to get involved. I don't you know, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, But what I do know is that, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I've seen you know, Kim Jung talking about that,

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Speaker 1: he's going to have a seriously um uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: a big response if we do anything. You know, we're

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Speaker 1: firing off our a minute man three missiles on the

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Speaker 1: West coast last week. Um, we did that as a hey,

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Speaker 1: ours is bigger than yours type thing. Um, we've got, uh,

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Speaker 1: the STAD missile defense system that China does not want there.

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Speaker 1: And you know, we have a hundred senators briefed briefed

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Speaker 1: in great detail a few weeks ago in the White House.

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Speaker 1: Hawaii is scared to death that something could happen the

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Speaker 1: state of Hawaii. Things could happen out of accident. I

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Speaker 1: think they're maneuvering both. I think this is what I see.

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Speaker 1: I think they're maneuvering both politically and militarily to do something.

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Speaker 1: And if they do something, George, this won't be like

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Speaker 1: they did in Syria, which I think. I wonder if

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Speaker 1: what they did in Syria was to test the S

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Speaker 1: three hundred four hundred anti aircraft system. You know, there

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Speaker 1: are reports that they shot down you know, of thirty

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Speaker 1: five of these things well got through. So how good

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Speaker 1: is that? I don't know. But but if they do

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Speaker 1: something in North Korea, George will be devastating. It must be.

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Speaker 1: They will sink submarines, they will sink ships. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: we will devastate them. We will go after Kim Jung

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Speaker 1: on where he lives. We will. It will be a

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Speaker 1: It will have to be. You will wake up and

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Speaker 1: the world will have changed. It will be a devastating

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Speaker 1: It won't be a few missiles, a few shots. It

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Speaker 1: won't be. No. This is this is video. This is

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Speaker 1: all in Greg, isn't it. If we do something, We're

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Speaker 1: all in it. We're gonna go. We're gonna knock them

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Speaker 1: out cold. Now Before we do that, though, what can

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Speaker 1: there be with can there be any retaliation on their half? There?

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Speaker 1: We are going to hope that we do. I say,

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Speaker 1: if we do hit them wherever their subs are, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna attack them simultaneously. I think there we cannot take

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Speaker 1: or we can't do it. We can't or firing a

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Speaker 1: missile into um Yellowstone Nash the Park. Well, they're called

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Speaker 1: Era exactly right. I mean, we fire, they fire, and

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Speaker 1: now can they get close to that and rupture that,

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Speaker 1: and you could have one heck of a geological nightmare,

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Speaker 1: nasty occurrence right here in America. They've thought, I hope

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Speaker 1: that doesn't happen. I hope it doesn't. I don't think

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Speaker 1: I've given them ideas. I think that. I am. I've

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Speaker 1: never seen this in my since the seventies, I've never

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Speaker 1: seen anything like this. I've never seen this kind of

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Speaker 1: brinks and ship, this kind of moving material around, moving

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Speaker 1: nuclear weapons around, with submarines with nuclear weapons. I am.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's worse. Support George is frightening. It's worse

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Speaker 1: than the nineteen six two Cuban missile crisis with the

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