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Also indicating there that he thought iran had violated the spirit of the nuclear agreement as well. evelyn, the president tripling down, if not quadrupling down. today promising a big, big trouble. what does that mean? any idea? >> im hoping that whatever it is on monday, if it relates to north korea that they will announce some sort of diplomatic breakthrough. his rhetoric still is a bit alarming. as you pointed out rex tillerson the secretary of state made a big poibnt of saying the president...

Congress who are concerned about his rhetoric on north korea has much of an effect on what trump is going to say, because as trump as pointed out, like all the experts, they didnt have a solution to north korea in the past, so im going to do it my way. and of course his way is tough and it makes a lot of people scared and concerned, but the i do the -- listen, theres probably some back channel talks. remember, guam has been threatened by north korea before, but the fact that its a new president ...

Build an effective anti-ballistic missile shield which is fairly easy to do, we can check mate all of this bluster by the north koreans. >> a lot of people have talked -- the language the president and vice president and others have used there is too much of an error of strategic patience going back to the 70s and to now. i guess i like to bring up the iran example where while there are a lot of people who think the iran deal was bad, in a lot of ways they did trade off their nuclear weapons cap...

Past korean dictators? is he more unpredictable than other dictators that weve seen in the past, faced off against, even in nuclear times? >> well, i think his rhetoric, i think the rhetoric is alarming. but let me say that until we had a president had similar rhetoric, a lot of people werent paying attention to it. believe me in the pentagon, people have been paying attention to it for a long time. in some cases, were sort of enured to it. this is how he speaks. this is how he communicates. wha...

Four intermediate range missiles. the north koreans are famous for making these threats and not following through. they say theyre going to turn asia into a sea of fire about once a week and they havent done that so i suspect this is bluster as well. but the united states and our allies do need to be prepared. i suspect the president is preparing for a possible attack. but i dont expect it to materialize. >> the president says theyre all on the same page, you know, mattis, tillerson and himself....

Advisers, but notably hes with his national security advisor h.r. mcmaster and several national security officials out there today. so its very clear that north korea is top of mind for all those guys. >> and what was interesting was and on one hand youre not surprised, the president essentially said, no, no regrets on fire and fury. if anything i would have been stronger and i thought well, thats the trump we all know. but again, we know him. what does the world hear? thats -- >> one thing i fi...

Accidents. you know, if there was any sign that donald trump had ever understood this, thought about it, had a strategy, knew what the next move was, this might be encouraging. but hes not playing three dimensional chess. hes barely playing two dimensional checkers, and i dont think he thinks two moves ahead in circumstances like this. he wants to sound tough. he gives you the bluster, and then hes got a bunch of people scrambling around behind him going, oh, my god. what do we do now? >> whats ...

So a pre-ev pre-emptive attack a good idea. >> you wrote today in the "new york times" that you expect the kind of bluster that were all hearing from north korea, but you added what is unprecedents is the reaction of president trump. explain what you mean. >> what i said in the article, wolf, is that whenever north korea faces tough sanctions from the united states, and i was part of negotiating several such sanctions solutions, this time

Staff kelly im going to do. this he didnt say specifically what he was going to say followed by the secretary osecretaryof state anf defense. i do think that afterwards i was shocked at the anger and the consternation poured at the president for his remarks. ainsley: by the way i said lower 47. i was corrected. 48. i forgot your state kansas. brian: you were thinking we had 57 states. steve: here is the montage brian was talking about. >> president trump sounds more like a north korean leader un...

Tell you? any clues about their actual capability militarily versus actual bluster? >> the north koreans love colorful language. they used to talk about turning seoul into a sea of fire. so that part is pretty normal for them. whats different about this statement is its specificity. what were seeing right now is the north koreans are making threats and then the president was responding with his own threats. theres a kind of escalation going on. and so the north koreans have issued a very specifi...