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Weekend simply was not sufficient to give them certainly that view. >> when the president says on many sides, on many sides, and he seemed to be ad libbing that phrase. what signal was he sending there? because you had one group coming in, they were mostly out of towners, as best we can tell, they were wearing uniforms, they had helmets, its an open carry state. they had weapons many of them, their carrying confederate flags and swastikas, many of them. so obviously you cant say what everyone in...

Equivocation, condemn -- that he condemns white supremacy, neo-nazis and hateful groups, and he missed that moment by sort of ad libbing that from many sides. it made it seem as if he was creating some sort of false equivalent, and that made people really uncomfortable. look, republicans are trying to the best they can not only to condemn this because they find be it repugnant, but they dont want these people to be seen as an aspect of the republican party. you see people like senator gardner an...

Anything and that was by design. that this new chief of staff, this new general to be in this job doesnt see it as part of his role at this point to rein in donald trumps impulses. how do you think thats going in light of what weve heard unfold in the last couple of hours? >> what were seeing in bedminster is not necessarily by design. but its an acknowledgment of the reality of how president trump operates. my sources who are in bedminster and working from washington say that most of the nation...

That, and i think that greater care has to be taken. the president doesnt really feel the gravity of the responsibility of the office, and its surprising that with all of the comments made about dont tweet, dont say things off the cuff. dont ad lib. he is still ad libbing and one thing that strikes me, if you study, which i kept on my desk, if you have an opponent thats of temperamental character, irritate him. the question is, we have two temperamental characters. is president trump trying to i...

Care has to be taken. the president doesnt really feel the gravity of the responsibility of the office, and its surprising that with all of the comments made about dont tweet, dont say things off the cuff. dont ad lib. he is still ad libbing and one thing that strikes me, if you study, which i kept on my desk, if you have an opponent thats of temperamental character, irritate him. the question is, we have two temperamental characters. is president trump trying to irritate kim jong-un, or vice ve...

He is still ad libbing and one thing that strikes me, if you study, which i kept on my desk, if you have an opponent thats of temperamental character, irritate him. the question is, we have two temperamental characters. is president trump trying to irritate kim jong-un, or vice versa? but in the meantime, we are ratcheting up the rhetoric, and secretary tillerson did a great job of tamping it down, but now we have the north koreans upping the ante. they are calling the presidents statement blust...

Moment, daniel? i mean the presidents comments about north korea today remind alarming. he used words like the world has never seen. >> i am not kim jong-un. i would say that this is a serious moment if i were to try to interpret trump here rather than literal. i wrote a piece just earlier this evening about how trump frequently uses the phrase that today became an apparent threat of nuclear war. he likes saying like the world has never seen. he said you know, i created the greatest grassroot mo...

Has he gone any further? has he mentioned more? >> we havent heard more from the president on this today. what we have heard from is the pentagon. secretary mattis released a statement that doesnt go as far as president trump with the belacose language but saying that they need to refrain from this language if they want to exist. so the president trying to get additional support for what hes saying from the other elements of the government, trying to cast this as something that is well-orchestra...

House national security team clearing a statement. i never heard of a president ad libbing like this especially a president that is not experienced in foreign affairs. it raises a lot of concerns about the direction of u.s. policy. and i say that for this reason. because when i hear the administration say its intolerable that north korea has the missiles and the nuclear weapons, it wont be permitted, thats what the president said at other times, wheres that coming from? what it is connected to? ...

Ways either ad libbing or doing -- it doesnt add up. if we had a strategy, we would know it when we saw it. we would be engaging with our allies. we would look at the points of leverage we have on china. we wouldnt be all other the place with different people saying different things and then the president in many ways mouthing off and matching the rhetoric of the north korean leader. the question is, are we stronger, are we in a better position today than we were before the president made these ...