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The dprc regimes will continue to be grossly overmatched by ours and would lose any arms race or conflict it initiates. steve: absolutely. keep in mind, theyre not going to do it. this is more bluster from north korea. we have been hearing this for 15, 16 years. something like that. and when you think about if they were to be so stupid as to try to shoot at gawrges and you know when things are coming in at guam, you are going to have to defend the country, its a suicide mission. we would strike ...

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 the north korean strategy? are they just working on the assumption that for decades now, the american president has felt incapable of any kind of strike there because any kind of strike would end up, no matter how successful from the american perspective, would end up with a retaliation from north korea in which we would have tens of th...

In communication that will prevent them from getting the things that the president wants passed? >> i hope its a little kerfuffle. i hope its bluster and not a serious breakdown. if theres not a strong working relationship between the republican in the house and the senate and the white house, if were going to be conducting twitter wars and insulting each other, then nothing will get done. i frankly think that senator mcconnell, maybe it wasnt good for him to make the comment in front of the rot...

Outside advisors. a lot of them who dont have any experience will give him advice on any rake nge of topics. the president is bristling at this, and i think perhaps the forcefulness of the articulation, the fact that president trump likes to break glass, it contributed, i think, to the bluster that he exhibited the other day. >> and true, david, ignatius, is it not, theres only so much even a great man like general kelly can do with the president? the argument about putting the right people arou...

It was a sent that trump has shared privately with staffers. some say he has used planning reflected fire and fury bluster in sporadic fits of venting about a north korean regime that his administration has sought unsuccessfully so far, to rein in through diplomatic channels. hopefully we will never have to use this power but there will never be a time that we are not the most powerful nation in the world. in fact, the first tweet is not accurate. theres a plan underway to overhaul the nuclear a...

Government is telling people to give them at least some sense of ease, andrea. >> miguel almaguer on the island of guam, a u.s. territory. and in south korea, our colleague bill neely, bill, youve spent time in north korea as have i. you know the bluster is excessive. but what they are now doing is turning all that back against president trump. because of how harsh his language was, language that there has never frankly before been used by an american president, alluding to a first possible nucl...

Some of his aides. in a statement today, the white house secretary insisted kelly had been in the loop with the security council. general kelly and others were well aware of the tone of the statement of the president prior to delivery. the words were his own. some suggest the comments reveal the presidents real thinking about the nuclear impasse. it was a sent that trump has shared privately with staffers. some say he has used planning reflected fire and fury bluster in sporadic fits of venting ...

Him from being the next saddam hussein or the next qaddafi. we need to make him understand that if he achieves that capability he will not survive. he will fail. we have to importantly change the chinese calculus. the thing that they most fear is a unified korean peninsula that is friendly to the united states and the west on their borders or a failed north korean state and they have to deal with a 25 million refugee problem and we have to make the chinese understand that war on the peninsula is...

Does something different, how can you do that? the old pattern didnt work. donald trumps bluster is different. its shocking to the ear. we can have the same results if we dont shock some people. s that what donald trump is pushing up against. the country that needs pushing is china. if china is convinced that donald trump is different, they will put pressure on north korea. if they think hes the same as the three predecessors, they wont do anything differently and north korea will get away with ...

Bush. this is a successive failure by american diplomacy. >> does the united states look weak if the president doesnt enforce the red line. may have been the wrong thing to say the next time you threaten ill do this. is it worse now to allow the threat to happen and do nothing. >> i dont think we should worry about looking weak. what we should worry about is trying to prevents a nuclear catastrophe. back in 1962 when president kennedy and the russians over cuba, we came as close to nuclear war a...