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This is haranguing. this is bluster on both sides, and its not helpful. >> rick, i want to talk to you about u.s. sanctions. are you troubled by this or are you okay with it? >> oh, no, im totally okay. but first i should sigh that we totally agree -- i totally agree with ambassador richardson. i think there is a diplomatic solution. i still think that theres a lot more that we can do. i dont think the rhetoric is the problem, don. i think if we look back and you go back to april 2016, president...

Hes not backing away from it as ana is saying there, but it makes you wonder if these are just going to be throwaway words that are bluster and dont mean a lot, or are these words that could go down in history at some point? >> well, look, lets see how we got here. i mean, it wasnt just the republican base. the country elected a president they wanted to have a stronger position in foreign policy. we had weakness, leading from behind for the last eight years with the last president and the countr...

Society and a former senior analyst for the u.s. state department. steven, off the top, listen to or reading the presidents tweet, is the u.s. locked and loaded? >> the u.s. is always locked and loaded in terms of preparedness of the korean peninsula. its the articulation of that. its the verbal rhetoric that has now intensified and has intensified now between both the united states and north korea. and clearly, theyre not used to a u.s. president saying this. so it has the region and the world ...

The presidents part? >> i think it is bluster on both sides. it is nothing new coming from the mouths of the north korean dictator. whats different is the way the president speaks is a little bit hand fisted. he said my same words coming out of somebody elses mouth would be smart. well, theres a nouance here. hes saying to kim jong-un, stop saying this or well come after you. thats different than saying, dont act. dont attack us. if north korea attacks us, everybody knows the retaliation would b...

Basically on their own, and were having a completely different response. this time the ratio between the size of the catalyst and the size of the administrations response is a very, very, very, very, very large ratio. this existential dread and worry that we have been experiencing, that the world has been experiencing about this stuff between our president and the north korean leadership, the threatened potential start of war, its all based on intel we have never seen that apparently doesnt have...

Kim jong-un, will not get away with this and say he will regret it fast if he fires on guam. watch that story. well bring in a panel. we have edmond and jessica here with us. good day to both of you. >> hi, bill. >> bill: we brought you in to talk about mitch mcconnell. how is the president doing managing this? >> i think hes been doing a good job since he took office managing north korea through china. he has talked about getting china more involved. sanctions chinese banks and businesses that ...

Here it is. >> frankly, the people who were questioning that statement, was it too tough? maybe it wasnt tough enough. >> what did you hear in that as you told nicolle wallace at 4:00 p.m. today? >> i heard a president who is aware of the reaction and a person who as we all know, when you cover him, he never goes back. he never walks anything back, but, you know, to phils point, this was a guy who went out today twice. clearly wanted to speak. he wanted to create a lot of news, but honestly, did...

Rhetoric as much as president trump. so im very troubled. im diskournld. i want to see a diplomatic solution. i think there is one, very difficult, but, you know, im troubled. this is not diplomacy. this is ha ranging. this is bluster on both sides, and its not helpful. >> rick, i want to talk to you about u.s. sanctions. are you troubled by this or are you okay with it. >> oh, no, im totally okay. but first i should sigh that we totally aagree with -- i totally agree with ambassador richardson....

Subjects. there was more of the same brashness and bluster on north korea, and i think it was phil when he was asked, what does fire and fury mean? he said, youll see. the same question came up at the second briefing. the answer again was, youll see. they will see. nobody knows what that means. its so opaque, and thats typical of his statements too. he throws a lot out there to see what sticks and what gets a reaction. one of the things this does, it obscures and drowns out a lot of the news abo...

And youre right, behaving like, you know, arnold suarchwarzeneg or something like that. >> trump will take credit and say, see, i make them back down. they didnt fire the missiles, they once said they might fire towards guam? thats a victory for the u.s. we stop north korea from attacking part of the united states? i dont think thats a huge success in north korean policy but i hope north korea doesnt do that and i suppose trump would take credit. would it embolden him to think, i handled this th...