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Town moving to higher ground because of the threat of flooding? >> reporter: right. at least they have the option here to moving to a bluff right behind them. were in the old part of valmire, big baseball tournament. this is quintessential small town usa. but whats noteworthy about that baseball field is 25 years ago, when you take a look at first base, it was under water because of all that flooding. thats part of the reason that they decided to make some changes here. >> its the defining image...

Levy and lingered for months. >> everybody was kind of like punched in the stomach. >> reporter: almost immediately dennis, who was mayor at the time, and most of the nearly 1,000 people in the town decided to do something drastic. [ train horn ] >> reporter: erase the community that was their home for generations. >> i saw how the people suffered in 93. i didnt want to see future generations have to go through that. >> reporter: fleeing the wrath of the mighty mississippi, valmeyer moved on to ...

Korea. thats the kind of made for tv moment the president crafts, lives for, believes has a big influence on his political fortune. >> moment over substance. forgive me, erol for saying its not political interest but a political win. >> on some level thats okay. tend of the last several political administrations, we suddenly see initiatives for middle east peace. if thats what a president attempts to do with the political capital he has, so be it. >> north korea a nuclear power, 20 to 60 weapons...

This is not different than that. i think you always have to remember, he does not view the presidency as fundamentally different than being a reality tv star or being a business man, a deal-maker. i think hes taking the same approach. now the question to your point, wolf, at some point do foreign adversaries or even the political opponents get wise and say you just threaten that youre going to do this stuff and you never actually do it. the scary thing to think about there is what if he calls th...

Theres no answer for. >> heather, just really quick, i want to bring you in on this idea. i think some of what muted the condemnation of trumps conduct last week is a lot of liberals were happy that he ended up not doing something that cost iranians their lives. as somebody who worked for a very unpopular republican and most watching this show probably thought were too eager to engage in military operations, sometimes you end up saving more lives in the wrong run at least as jeremy said doing wh...

>> i can tell you from my experience at the pentagon, when ever theres a call for providing military action, very detailed assessment of what type of missile or vehicle will be used, wheres the target, how many people are likely to be killed, whats the collateral damage, most of that is done well in advance. it calls into question the decision making process in the united states and that is the downside of what the president has done. the up side is, he didnt take military action. the down side ...

Whether or not the president who really does intend to take military action other countries feel its a bluff and they do something that encourages military action, thats the disaster that awaits us. we were geared up as a result of the president saying were going to attack. i had to come back from wake isla island. flew back from washington. i traveled to 11 countries in two days. testifi it was the right thing to do under the circumstances. we waited a month.

Advisers and that the president himself i think is really on the hot seat here in a way that many controversies of the administration, you could say, well, others are involved or he isnt left pinned with the blame. but in this situation the president is given extraordinary latitude. it really comes down to him. and i think that is the risk of a major embarrassment for the president. essentially the iranians are calling his bluff here, and they are taking a measure of our president and thinking h...

Interests, given the starting point that the president seems reluctant about this whole thing to start with, how then can we proceed here because if we continue to shoot drones down and shoot missiles into tankers, this thing could miscalculate itself into a war. >> well, thats right. you have to find, you know, x-ramps for a situation like this. and then you have to be able to execute those in a reasonable and thoughtful way. there are really a couple of problems here. one and the obvious one i...

>> i guess i go back to the politics of it. the best way to call the bluff of the democrats on this, if mitch mcconnell thinks this is some sort of political thing they want to do is to actually hold the vote. >> yeah. i get that. thats why i continue to work on the bill. at the end of the day my responsibility is to get a bill ready, the leaders responsibility is to be able to bring it up or down in committees. >> what do you think it would take to convince mcconnell to bring your bill to the f...