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Nonetheless. this is just how he operates. theres this is constant motif, everything that came before me was awful and bad and wrong and we were dupes. and now everything is great. but he goes overseas, he doesnt put the country first as john mccain said and i made the same observation immediately when i learned of his comments. hes putting putin and putting his own, donald trumps own narrow personal self-interest before the country. and that is a terrible quality to have in the president of the...

It. >> our thanks for filing that report. these drills follow a new battle in the ongoing war of words between president trump and north korean leader kim jong-un. the president tweeted over the weekend while in vietnam, "why would kim jong-un insult me calling me old? when i would never call him short and fat. oh, well. i try so hard to be his friend and maybe some day that will happen." joining me now to take a closer look at this is bruce clingner. a former cia deputy division chief for ver...

Calling me old wheuln i would never call him short and fat. it was surreal to see those insults and then talking about the possibility of a friendship. when i showed the tweet and the transcript of his remarks in vietnam, they said they dont believe anything the president says. they said his words dont matter to him but the action of the united states and they refer to the military drills happening over the weekend. these large scale military exercises involving three u.s. aircraft carrier strik...

And fat it is incendiary language that frankly the president avoided when he was in seoul. remember that speech at the national assembly earlier on on this trip? he won praise for the tone of that delivery, sort of that sober assessment of the threat from north koreaing that very direct message to both kim jong-un and the north korean people laying out the contrast what is and what could be if the world were to confront the threat of north korea and take more action against pyongyang. you had th...

Kim jong-un and north korea, he still has quite a lot of real bite behind him. >> that is a serious group of ships coming in there and, of course, all the associated ships. quite a visual and impression. >> how would you feel if you were one of the men or women who are on those ships, and the president is tweeting that kim jong-un is short and fat? >> right. >> there you go. >> these are families who understand the job they signed up to do, but theyre hoping there arent unnecessary wars or accid...

Election. then there was that back-and-forth with north korean leader kim jong-un, who had some tough words for the president, calling him old. the president said on twitter again, you know, he wouldnt call him short and fat. he said he tries to be friends with him, and then later suggesting that maybe they could be friends, and finally here, with rodrigo duterte, there was a question would when they met he bring up the whole idea of human rights. this is someone who has run a campaign and anti-...

Morning in pyongyang. we have a new in1usult. what are you hearing? >> reporter: just stop and take that in for a moment that you have the president of the united states telling the leader of north korea that hes short and fat. you have north korean state media calling the president a dotard which translates to senile old person. what grade are we in here? thats the question a lot of people are asking. from the north korean perspective, theyre certainly wondering which president trump do they be...

Words for days, he engaged in a weekend fight with the north korean leader saying in a tweet, why would kim jong-un call me old when i would never call him short and fat. after telling reporters on air force one he believed putins denial of meddling in the u.s. election, mr. trump backtracked. >> i believe that he feels that he and russia did not meddle in the election. as to whether i believe it or not, im with our agencies as currently constituted with their leadership. >> reporter: so that qu...

Washington, d.c. the president tweeting after the kim jong-un leader of north korea made a joke about his age and insulted him he said i would never call him short and fat. i talk to my kids about this all the time. when you say the thing youre not going to say, now i have to punish you. why is this such a big deal? why is this not just trump being trump and his twitter persona, which is something his base voted for. >> this is trump reverting to bad behavior. going into this trip, we know he wa...

>> you see that as a legitimate concern where a lot of people say hes looking for an excuse not to go ahead. >> very quickly on this tweet on kim jong un, the leader of north korea. the president tweeted why would kim jong un insult me by calling me old when i would never call him short and fat. oh, well, i try so hard to be his friend and maybe some day that will happen. is that realistic that he and kim jong un some day could be friends? >> this whole trip, the major strategic issue was what t...