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    Trump threatens fire & fury

    Will the President start a war with North Korea via Twitter?

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    By Josh Barro • Aug 11, 2017 • 51m Listen

    President Trump has threatened "fire & fury" if the North Koreans don't stop threatening us, so in response, the North Koreans threatened to attack Guam. Is the president going to tweet his way into a war? Two experts join us to discuss Kim Jong Un's options and ours. The FBI raided Paul Manafort's house last month in a significant escalation of the Russia investigation. Maybe that's why the president suddenly got so mad at the acting FBI director? Juliette Kayyem will tell us what she thinks the raid means. Then, John Carney, a recently named editor at Breitbart, addresses the feud between Trump and Mitch McConnell. Is that who's stopping Trump from draining the swamp? Finally, Google and diversity.

    LRC Panel

    Josh Barro (Business Insider) moderates from the Center. Rich Lowry (National Review) is on the Right. On the Left, Katrina vanden Heuvel (The Nation). Juliette Kayyem (Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; former Assistant Secretary at DHS) is our Special Guest.

    North Korea

    Evelyn Farkas (senior fellow at the Atlantic Council) and Tom Nichols (professor of national security affairs at the Naval War College).

    In-Focus

    John Carney (editor at Breitbart News)

    Photo: President Donald Trump speaks to reporters about North Korea before meeting with participants in a workforce and apprenticeship discussion at his golf estate in Bedminster, New Jersey, August 11, 2017. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

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      Josh Barro

      Former host of Left, Right & Center

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      Rich Lowry

      National Review / KCRW's Left, Right & Center

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      Katrina vanden Heuvel

      The Nation

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      Production assistant, 'Left, Right & Center'

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      Producer, 'Left, Right and Center'

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