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He is retiring, but there are congress men running for reelection who will get asked this question. do they say this? >> if you have to stand up and say you are stable, i guess that raises questions about your stability. i will leave it to the mental health professionals, but i think the behavior called into question called into question his fitness for sure. >> you are trying to preserve your house majority and districts like charlie dents, that doesnt help. >> thats hard for senate republicans...

Characterization that i saw that he was pushing out was the opposite of what i saw take place every day that ive been here. >> and a follow-up -- quickly on north korea. theres been some folks in town who have said, listen, it doesnt help. it just despite the idea being, were going to be forceful, push back. some have said it doesnt help when the tweets come out the way they do, yet we know that the presidents made clear, i am who i am. going to tweet the way i want to tweet. any consideration t...

Casualties. >> appreciate your time. i want to bring in the panel. gordon, you study north korea for years. how surprised were you by the language of this tweet and what effect do you think it has? >> extremely surprised. and the reason is, if you go through the policy options that president trump has, those policies hes pursuing, this tweet doesnt help any of them. youve been asking tonight, okay, previous policies havent worked, maybe something like this will. but as you go through those optio...

A former diplomat said to me tonight its quite clear that this doesnt help. i want to ask you if tweets like this from the president could hurt? >> well, they can hurt. its incredibly unhelpful, especially after the north koreans and south koreans maybe are going to talk for the first time after two years of very tense peninsula. the president with these tweets he gets into personal insults. the north koreans are easily provoked. ive dealt with them for years. those little personal insults reall...

Was baited with a new years eve message who responded with a tweet and its not about a big border wall, its not about a trade war, its not about any of the normal things that he scares people about when he tweets about, its about a nuclear standoff with north korea. >> i think it doesnt rise to the level above the other things youre talk about because nobody really takes it particularly seriously except maybe the north koreans. >> what do you mean by nobody? >> well, the people who really count ...

Retired u.s. army colonel jack jacobs, medal of honor recipient and msnbc analyst. im embarrassed to read that in front of the two of you. governor richardson, let me start with you on whether or not a former diplomat said to me tonight its quite clear that this doesnt help. i want to ask you if tweets like this from the president could hurt? >> well, they can hurt. its incredibly unhelpful, especially after the north koreans and south koreans maybe are going to talk for the first time after two...

Imagine him in the oval office facing a real crisis. a man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons. >> well now we have a man that was baited with a new years eve message who responded with a tweet and its not about a big border wall, its not about a trade war, its not about any of the normal things that he scares people about when he tweets about, its about a nuclear standoff with north korea. >> i think it doesnt rise to the level above the other things youre t...

That i saw that he was pushing out was the opposite of what i saw take place every day theyve been here. >> very quickly on north korea. theres been some folks in town that have said listen, it doesnt help. despite the idea being were going to be forceful, going to push back. some have said it doesnt help when the tweets come out the way they do. yet we know that the president has made it clear, i am who i am, im going to tweet the way i want to tweet. is there any consideration that tweets like...

And msnbc military analyst. i am embarrassed to even read that in front of the two of you, two men i respect very much. governor richardson, let me start with you, on whether or not a former diplomat said to me tonight its quite clear that this doesnt help. i want to ask you if tweets like this from the president could hurt? >> well, they can hurt. its incredibly unhelpful, especially after the north koreans and south koreans maybe are going to talk for the first time after two years of very ten...

Facing a real crisis. a man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons. >> well, now we have a man that was baited with a new years eve message who responded with a tweet, and its not about a big border wall. its not about a trade war. its not about any of the normal things that he scares people about when he tweets, but about a nuclear standoff with north korea. >> i think it doesnt rise to the level above the other things youre talk about because nobody really tak...