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They will be met with a military response. is it a bluff? would we use a massive military response? >> jesse: i would not want to make mad dog any more bad than he already is. thats a dangerous game that north korea is playing. even nikki haley looks like she wants to hop into a g52 and fly over. they are messing with fire and fury. to use the presidents language. it turns out we want to make sure the chinese enact some sort of energy embargo against north korea. oil and fuel. its about time. i ...

Finally, as you noted, there are plans to get out of here just in case trouble that the japanese government is planning to get 60,000 citizens out if there is provocations coming from the north. there are something like 200,000 americans here. including 28,000 troops. again, they have been practiced getting out of here as well. again, yeah, we have been here numerous times. i think one of the biggs variables here, guys, is the trump administration. its not clear on this peninsula exactly how pre...

>> joining us now, our cnn political commentator david jacobson. is the president facing the consequences of his own words? even before he was inaugurated, he was tweeting this. north korea just stated it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the u.s. it wont happen. it is about to happen. since then we have heard about fire and fury, locked and loaded. it sounds like he is drawing a bunch of red lines and kim jong un has pulled his bluff on pretty mu...

That are doing business with north korea is not just about making sort of increasing the pain point for north korea, it is also about getting the chinese to change their calculus about how they see the north korean situation and deciding that at the end of the day, theyre not willing to prop up this regime anymore. >> all right, but in that -- to that end, donald trump tweeted a couple of days ago that were going to cut off all trade ties with anybody who does any business with north korea. chin...

Call the presidents bluff. well see whether he will actually end this thing in six months. if he does well blame him and take the issue to the mid-terms. >> bill: what happens next? >> i think if donald trump were genuinely concern he would renew daca for two years plain and simple. he would renew it. its renewed every two years. i have agree congress has got to act on this. weve been sitting band-aids and short term fixes on the immigration problem in our country for years. when you look at the...

>> i think everyone recognizes that a military option will have a significant consequence. it could be catastrophic and loss of life. it really is -- it has to be a last resort. the way to change north koreas calculation is to get china much more engaged in its actions with north korea. that requires diplomacy, not threats, but diplomacy. and thats what we havent seen from the administration. we havent seen really a game plan that could lead to a diplomatic end to this crisis. >> because couldnt...

Second. you made headlines saying that, but john to you. we talked about the bellicose rhetoric, the fire and fury, that the u.s. is locked and loaded, but now were seeing, to borrow the generals phrase, kjus most powerful nuclear detonation, just over a japan, has kim jong-un effectively called the presidents bluff? >> what we are seeing is an ongoing program, irrespective of what the president says, youre looking at a north korean pace that is somewhat predictable, if anything its accelerated....

The world think the north koreans are pushing ahead because they see the trump administration as weak -- >> vulnerable. >> incompetent, unable to deal with this crisis and keep pushing the envelope. its no accident they have done so many missile tests and keep pushing forward now on the first months of the trump administration. and the president tweets this and then his cabinet secretary says that. and the north koreans are just seizing on that. so it remains to be seen whether the trump adminis...

Its not a positive ka joel, ill grant you that, but i actually thought it was restrained and he was basically saying, well, why doesnt she support it. >> i think its restrained for trump, but i say most presidents actually try woo them with saying the arguments. i get his strategy is to attack republicans and democrats. i guess what im saying also is that youre absolutely right. you know, my greatest fear was that he would start with popular bills to bring those folks in that a lot of obama trum...

This problem. is china helping? are they not helping? are we going to end trade? are we not going to ad trade? do you find there say clear sense of where this president is going at this point? >> there certainly is not a clear sense, and were not going to end trade in china that would have precipitated a cries of huge dimensions. >> part of the problem is the president has no idea that there is a language of diplomacy that when he speaks, believe it or not, people do take him seriously and its n...