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Region for 50 years. >> so where does this go? weve got, it looks like blustery rhetoric, your response in north korea. that you said. well try to wipe out guam. nobody thinks thats where they are right now. but in terms of, with the statement trump put out today, what can he tolerate from north korea going forward that is not going to make it look like he is letting they will cross his de gloo glookt red line? >> just nasa january, that he said an icbm wont happen. i think hes already embarrass...

Missile to hit the united states. if thats the case, theyve surmounted one of the key technical hurdles that remains in their program. so thats one thing. certainly they have been conditioned to take the world to the point of brinksmanship. they know how to not only bluster and engage in bragging, but they know how to push the national community to the brink and the international community doesnt push back that hard or that often. its been episodic. youre right to suggest that thats been a condi...

In that region. and lets put this into context. we had an incident with president trump where he acknowledged a transgender policy that immediately his generals went back on and said they were unaware of. this is so much more serious than that with this bluster. it would be fine if it wasnt so serious to taking us to the brink. do i have confidence that he is the man in place? absolutely not. do i have confidence there are people around him who can hopefully de-escalate? convince him of the meri...

You can throw things out there but eventually they sort of lose their luster. there is a real worry or concern and that is that with each new sanctions regime that has been imposed upon north korea, they have along with the help of china found ways to -- when theyre hit, to recover. >> leland: theyve been able to get around it. in terms of the rhetoric, the u.s. has gotten involved in this one general saying a couple of weeks ago from u.s. air forces pacific command the u.s. is ready to respond ...

Strategy about how he gets a lot of his apes done with congress. hes thinking through these things but this is still in the beginning stage on the strategy. >> last week there was a lot of talk about donald trump going to war with the republican party. has that cooled off? or do you think if he doesnt get the funding for the wall, perhaps thats his strategy going against both republicans and democrats? >> i think there are elements of the republican party hes eager to go to war with. if you thin...

Nuclear weapon? do we know that it will be? >> no. i mean, i think most experts agree it probably wont be and the provocations will continue. i think as important as the sanctions is simply a show of international unity. that is why the u.n. can be so important, so this saisnt simp president trump versus the north koreans. it comes many allies with different interests agreeing this is the time to take action, whether that is diplomatic or military action. i would add the tweets are a little trou...

Seems to be a chain of command where there wasnt before. all of that is good. heres the bad news. the bad news is that thats not even half the battle as white house chief of staff. now comes the really hard part. which is donald trump. lets assume for the moment that trump learned the big lesson of the first six months, which is that you cannot govern without empowering a white house chief. lets assume hes done it. the second big lesson, which he has not learned as far as anybody can tell, is yo...

All accounts, that is what is frustrating the president. in fact, later dtoday, yet another meeting scheduled at the white house, the president not expected to attend, but his top advisers, once again, sitting down, trying to hammer out a way ahead. the big problem theyre facing with a way ahead in afghanistan right now is they cant agree on what to do. all of the options are there, and they range from complete withdrawal, pulling all u.s. troops out of afghanistan, all the way to adding additio...

It is summertime, and up on capitol hill, senators are wrapping up business and heading out on their august recess, but returning home may not exactly feel like a vacation for a lot of these members of congress. in fact, in his home state of wisconsin just yesterday, the speaker of the house, paul ryan, was asked why when republicans control both the house and the senate and the white house, why wasnt more being accomplished. heres the response. >> theres no plan for anything right now, and when...

His predecessors were unable, trump was so quickly willing to concede that one of his primary campaign promises was, in fact, bluster, that it doesnt really matter who pays for the wall. hes much more focused on the perception and on a political win versus a loss and how it would be received if he was unable to meet a campaign promise and also this assumption that the president of mexico is going to adopt one of trumps most controversial campaign positions, which he had repeatedly criticized all...