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Stressing diplomacy. james mattis says right now the u.s. effort in the tense standoff is being diplomatically lady by nikki haley. >> president trump thanked russian president vladimir putin for pushing american diplomats out of moscow and cutting the state departments payroll. and the president continues to attack mitch mcconnell telling the senate gop leader to goet wo -- get to work on the trump agenda and asking him to resign if nothing gets done. lets go to barbara starr at the pentagon. >...

August 15th, lets see what he does with guam. if he does something in guam, it will be an event the likes of which nobody has seen before, what will happen in north korea. >> when you say that, what do you mean? >> youll see and hell see. he will see. its not a dare. its a statement. it has nothing to do with dare. thats a statement. >> that if north korea attacks guam. the secretary of defense going very much down a longer road in his comments yesterday. >> the american effort is diplomatically...

>> so you continue to see this emphasis by the administration that they are not sending mixed messages, but two very different messages and it goes without saying the u.s. intelligence community now as you would well expect watching guam, watching all of that around the clock. brianna, chris. >> all right, barbara. thank you very much. the u.s. and north korea locked in an intense war of words. kim jong-un regime says america would, quote, suffer shameful defeat defeat and final doom. china is c...

Things to undermine americas leverage. china has a lot of influence. but our ability to pressure china to help on north korea is now less than it was when president trump took office. because weve undermined our allies. weve stepped away from the trans pa scific partnership tha gave us leverage over china. now the united states is weaker in every way. if we were taking strong actions that would strengthen us, that would be great. if we had a message coming out of the administration that gave our...

People say you need to not say that because we dont know that he can actually guide in one of his missiles into a direct hit on an actual target. i think for kim jong-un its pretty clear in america anywhere is a good target and weve allowed thoim g allowed him to get to that point where he can accomplish it. i think the presidents words are measured. i think its a new day when it comes to how were going to deal with him. were not going to punt to the international community and were not going to...

Situation. china put out a statement a few hours ago saying thats basically going down an old familiar road. also within the past few hours a new statement from north korea but this one not responding to the comments from trump. i want to read this. this is actually pretty familiar language from north korea from military officer. it says, quote, our military will turn the u.s. mainland into a stage of nuclear war by immediately attacking it with various strategy nuclear weapons with any small si...