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They never had before. so in that sense we, by not certifying that this is in the united statess national security interest, we are now taking away a level of access and visibility we had in iran that allowed us to occur fail lots of this behavior. moscow and beijing we cannot forget about those two actors as well. when the united states recedes from the diplomatic table, russia, china, they step up and they start moving a position that is not to the advantage of democracy and human rights aroun...

Says everything on the committee is saying the same thing. we move around in the community in washington d.c., and weve talked to military people. i wont speak for you, but i can say what corker is saying on the record is what people have been saying off the record to me for a long time. where do republicans on the hill go from here? >> joe, i think that there has been deep anxiety about the erratic moves of the president. its been something people have talked about behind the scenes. been conce...

Of the united states senate, particularly in the republican party who know whats going onto speak out directly about it. to communicate truthfully to the american people. they didnt take an oath to the republican party. they didnt take an oath to donald trump. they took an oath to the constitution of the united states. >> and joe, isnt there a false sense of security that they have this team of mcmaster and mattis and kelly, that can somehow contain him. hasnt it been proven time and time again ...

People can be comfortable, if thats the right word, that there wont be accidents or miscalculations driven by those seeming off the cuff comments from the president. >> well, good news and bad news. the good news is weve got fairly sensible people in the immediate environment of the president. and that would be general mattis and general kelly and general mcmaster. thats the good news. the bad news is our command and control system is built for speed. it is built to deliver lethal effect very ra...

Country and to expect counter-measures, among those the threat to shoot down american warplanes, even when they are outside north korean air pace t. white house pushed back. >> we have not declared war on forth korea. frankly the suggestion of that is absurd. its never appropriate for a country to shoot down another countrys aircraft when its over international waters. our goal is still the same. we continue to seek a peaceful dede-nuclearization of the korean peninsula. thats our focus, doing t...

Like salt at least, theyre not going to know the answers to everything. but they have advisers that do. he can pick up the phone and say, general mcmaster this iran test, im about to tweet it out and provoke iran and a lot of people in israel and provoke our allies and our enemies. is this true or is this fake news? he doesnt do it. he sends out the fake news, which again hes always done stuff like this. were talking nuclear showdowns now, as mika and warned what was that last august, july or au...

That or woke up beforehand? >> i dont know. this is a president that clearly his staff, some wonderful people, general kelly, general mattis, general mcmaster, they have no control over the president of the united states, what he does, what he says, what he tweets. >> not sure what its worth to them. >> goading another country into firing a missile at us. this, at a time -- david ignatius mentioned how world war i began, in tragedy, a mistake, takes a left instead of a right. hes dead. world war...

Said is what would the united states put forward in order to bring about a freeze? we dont want to put forward a stoppage of all of our military exercises. why didnt he say, joe, well agree to a peace treaty to formally end the korean war? i heard nothing diplomatically. for eight months theres been a diplomatic vacuum. i dont know what rex tillerson is doing, other than downsizing the state department. the president had a major opportunity to put something forward that the rest of the world cou...

People, again, personnel, his policy, if you look at the people that donald trump has consciously surrounded himself with, his chief of staff is general kelly, a traditionalist, who is advising him on forth korea daily and hes got james mattis and other traditional guides. >> and another general. >> and another general. >> then, of course, his national security director. >> another general. >> general mcmaster. but these are also three generals who exceed the cost of war over the past 15, 16 yea...

Weve heard part of his national security team talk about how he plans to promote peace and prosperity and also focus on sovereignty. lets hear more from national security adviser h.r. mcmaster, who gave a bit of a preview of what we could hear from the president on tuesday, speaking this morning on fox. watch. >> well he thinks the speech is a tremendous opportunity obviously to reach so many world leaders at the same time, and to emphasize three themes. first is to protect the american people. ...