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Studies. guys, weve got a lot to break down. jeremy, lets talk about the presidents tweet. do you buy the idea that by threatening north korea he is forcing kim jong-un to seek talks with south korea as a way to bring down tensions? >> no, i dont think so, stephanie. i mean theres deterrence and then theres needless provocation. the way that our president conducted this needless provocation was in a very juvenile, immature and embarrassing fashion. i think it erodes our credibility when the pres...

Place nobody has gone before and certainly no american president has gone before. >> david, you wrote in an op-ed about americas foreign policy problems. one of the issues is that we believe being a number one superpower is our god-given right, not something that has to be earned. talk us through that, because just this morning when i wake up to read that china is investing over $2 billion in an artificial intelligence plant, center, it makes me concerned that while were dancing around this twit...

Past and hang your hat on it. >> i agree. >> it was president trump who said in the last year to john dickerson at cbs, i dont stand for anything. he changes his tune every day. brian, i want you to weigh in because you talk so much about the risks about president trump and his authoritarian-like behavior. to davids point, what are the risks around the world of president trumps tweets, the things he says, and how other countries respond to it? >> well, its destroyed our relationship with allies ...

About our place in the world, trumps tweets matter. they are presidential statements and they carry the weight of american credibility. he is diminishing the office he holds every day. in consequence, diminishing our countrys reputation in the rest of the world. >> jeremy, lets say im a true trumper. i might respond to brians comments saying those numbers, those statistics around the world, you shouldnt listen to the polls, who cares what the people around the world think, were america and ameri...

This is the first step of 2018, stephanie, and it could be a difficult year there, steph. >> hans, thank you so much. moving on, speculation raging this morning over there mitt romney will run for sfath in the state of utah after the current senator orrin hatch announced he will retire at the end of the year. romney, the former massachusetts governor in 2012 and republican presidential nominee, added fuel to the fire after quickly changing his social media location from massachusetts to utah. ...

Loose and could have fallen on hikers. congress is still staring at a new deadline. pass a new spending plan by january 15th, or the country will face a second government shutdown. david rothkopp, a commentator at cnn.com, blames you, the voter. he writes, you, the voters, have become ill informed, caught up in the name-calling and partisanship, and the climate that created the washington we have today. you got the government you deserve. lets bring in maria cardona, and angie holmes, from bla...

Talking again after two years of communicating via messages on tv and literally megaphones at the border, the president in south korea calls that very significant. now, we understand that secretary of state rex tillerson spoke to his counterpart in south korea today. also among all of this happening, u.s. military officials tell us that north korea may be preparing for another ballistic missile launch. it could come in the next couple of days according to one official. stephanie. >> i need to br...