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The speech was contradictory, thats a part of the psyche of americas role in the world. >> he definitely made clear he believes kim jong-un will only respond to military force. he gave a nod to north korea, he personally said speaking man-to-man, i will destroy, thats dangerous, its an escalation and takes it to a place that maybe we dont want to be or havent been before. i believe he believes the only thing that will respond to north korea. >> i think one of the interesting things in this speec...

Addressing the u.n. general assembly today. still ahead on ""morning joe,"" its hard, still ahead on ""morning joe,"" we have a packed show to name a few of our guests, new york city mayors past and present, bill deblasio and michael bloomberg. new jersey governor chris christie, tone blair, tom brokaw, catty kay, senator claire mccaskill, david ignacious, all in the making. in the future, a nations technology will determine its power. in its economy, in medicine, in science and in national secu...

To europe with regard to nato, with regard to everything he says about north korea, its not so important or so much what donald trump says, its what others hear. what do they hear in north korea. what do they hear in nato and europe? what do they hear? what do the people our allies and our enemies here. what do they take from it? >> what we are seeing more from overseas, david ignacious is starting to discount his tweets starting to learn to discount his words, starting to understand that someti...

>> breakfast of astronauts. hey, jeffrey, before we get into this. i want to talk to you about north cre why. we had bob wootdwadward on here bob and richard haase and david ignacious. we were talking about whether we have a binary choice to north korea. either were fine with north korea having nuclear weapons that can kill millions of peel on our west coast or were going to have to take some sort of military action to stop them. bob woodward does not think its a binary choice. he thinks we can ...

Obvious possible war. we will have to live with exactly the risks you layout. >> can we live with those risks for north korea? >> well -- >> can we live with the risks of kim jong-un, somebody as unbalanced as him being able to reach soeshlths portland, los angeles with a nuclear weapon? >> it wont be that, if we dont stop tear production of warheads and missiles, they will increase the amount, the number of american citizens and cities they can hold at risk. thats why it will be a controversial...

For us too, but now were worried that north korea poses a threat to us directly. theres a structural tension between the united states and its close ally in seoul, so we dont want to be adding fuel to that fire. instead, what we want to figure out is can we come up with a common stance against a north korea thats hell bent on developing a large nuclear arsenal with missiles able to deliver those nuclear weapons around the world? >> well, you are speaking logically, but david, how can you be adop...

Carefully drafting state department officials were describing in private in detail where they thought this was going. last weekend shattered that. the president i think is now scrambling. he alleges reacts impulsively, i think, to new developments. he had a long conversation monday night south korean time with south korean president moon, so the rhetoric of appeasement, the threats of trade war, i think, were put in in a separate category, and theres now intensive discussion, im told, behind the...

>> kids go back to school today. >> no, they really dont. >> your kids arent back in school yet? >> one is. one isnt. >> when does -- >> they never go to school. then they come back for, like, a month. >> what, are they -- scloo theres no empty nest. >> isnt there a time where you go at the end of september and come back at the beginning -- back with us, we have national affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc john hallman and richard haass, and in washington columnist and associate editor for th...

Certainly our relationship with cuba is going south fast. >> yeah, that is what is the bottom line here, we are all digging down into xa exactly happened t. relationship is back if trouble. well, thank you so much, david ignacious, thank you so much, john. great to see you. coming up. more on what the north koreans are up to. stay with us. knowing where you stand. its never been easier. except when it comes to your retirement plan. but at fidelity, were making retirement planning clearer. and it...

That. >> i think your choice of the word obsessed. were not obsessing about it. this is the president of the united states threatening a nuclear armed country. whether you want to accept it or not and a country that is armed with nuclear weapons. >> ill let the presidents statements stand for itself. >> its not obsessing to want to know more. >> you know, i see a packed room of journalists here, normally, there arent half as many as there are here today. >> the state department scolding from a s...