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Speech, he preceded it by some very important words, and that was if the united states is forced to defend itself or its allies. so, you know, president trump has been careful even though he uses bombastic language, he couches it in self-defense. eric: and that is -- >> the north koreans arent doing that. eric: thats always been the u.s. policy anyway, hasnt it been? >> it has been. and matter of matter of fact, ik at president trumps words, and fiery as they were, they really were just a restat...

>> theyre basically following the united states rain now because trump has the initiative. you have to remember that what the president said was we will totally destroy north korea, but that was after the words if we are forced to defend ourselves or our allies. what trump did was he restated the american deterrence policy. he put it into different words in that choice of words is catching attention. not only of the chinese and russians, but the japanese and south koreans as you pointed ou out. ...

Intemperate -- with his intemperate moral weakness in response to charlottesville. its very concerning for all of us as americans. while all this has been going on, of course, theres the debate over what to do about steve bannon. it was front and center when i was at the state department yesterday. mattis and tillerson both were asked about bannon undercutting the north korean deterrence policy. you have the japanese officials standing there and witnessing all of this. now, there are reports -- ...

Many republicans have raised in the wake of charlottesville. you have bob corker coming out with some very strong language saying it all raises significant questions about the presidents ability to lead. and could potentially peril the country. so not only is it a problem in terms of messaging, but its a problem in terms of the presidents relationship with his own fellow republicans. that could create some significant problems, not only as he grappled with the foreign policy issues you mapped ou...

The united states invented the internet and its time to maintain our values on it. speaks to a deterrence policy long overdue. >> bret: where are we on cybersecurity? lot of the news is focused on russia and what happened during the election. every day our institutions are under attack. >> the president trump issued an order in may and it took these issues. one key issue was the security of small and medium-sized businesses. global companies like mastercard and microsoft. small and medium-sized ...

Im going to stop with those three and take questions. >> first -- >> if i could. >> first, was the russian hack in any way responsible or an impetus for this? number two, ive talked to i.t. people who say putting stuff on the cloud actually can be problematic as far as security. so what additional security members would you apply to the cloud to make sure that its not as risky as some of the i.t. people tell us it would be. >> a couple questions there. so let me say three things, first. the thir...

Thats the larger context of whats going on. this morning we were down on the border in mission, texas. thats one of the key crossing locations for migrants that come into the country in order to present themselves to the border patrol to seek asylum. the big question you have to ask as far as is this policy working are people still come something according to border patrol, they are. the department of homeland security told me this morning that they believe that this deternd deterrence policy th...

Strategy instead of preventing him from getting the weapon, just accepting that -- there will be a nuclear north korea and then what? >> i just came back and why this is not a stated policy. i do think more people are now painfully realizing we might have to live with a nuclear north korea. the u.s. has to also make that painful decision. as ive mentioned, i dont think north korea is going to give it up and i think more provocations are coming expedite these sanctions. i see another nuclear test...