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>> the are in the koreans have enough armaments to kill 20 million people within a couple of minutes in terms of missiles in the air. everybody i speck to yesterday afternoon and early evening, they all had the same question and i dont think its been answered yet. im wondering if david ignatius has an answer to it. who vetted this statement in who helped him write this statement? was it just him or was it the nsc helping him with the statement? was it general mcmaster? was it general kelly? beca...

This was not written by the national security council, h.r. mcmaster. this is right off the top of his head in his hotel. >> that is general barry mccaffrey yesterday with nicole, and just moments ago, secretary of state rex tillerson landed in guam on a scheduled refueling stop on the way back home and despite some hot rhetoric from north korea in response to president trump, secretary tillerson said there is "no imminent threat" and he told reporters this. >> i think americans should sleep wel...

Generals, general mcmaster, general kelly, when lobbing such bombs north koreas way. >> from the first day, his top military adviser, starting with secretary of defense mattis, have been warning that a conflict on the korean peninsula would be at a level of civilian casualties, level of destruction that the world has not seen, one official said since stalingrad in world war ii, a terrible cost in human lives. there is not a good military option here. that said, these senior officials, mat yes, s...

Corner. the issue for mr. kelly and mr. trump is what to do when disagreement inside the white house turns into vilification of his staff from the outside. rather than question the generals loyalties, perhaps mr. kelly should question mr. bannons. the former breitbart publisher has been a white house survivos. but hes been responsible for much of the dysfunction. i have been aware of the efforts on the part of steve bannon for months and months and months to undermine hr mcmaster who came in and...

Reflecting this new low in relations, moscows announcement in response to the sanctions law that it is expelling hundreds of u.s. diplomats, tillerson said the united states plans to have its response ready by september 1st. which is more than a month after the expulsions were announced, bret. >> bret: james, we often deal with speculation in the beltway but the beltway has been buzzing with speculation that general mcmaster, national security advisor may be pushed out or may leave the national ...

>> on the point about general mcmaster, we have all of the reporting that the trump base is very unhappy with him. the president thinks its a crucial decision to increase number of troops there. its one of the key decisions for him so far in this presidency. it is about more than steve bannon. it is what does he really want to have in the middle east. >> well take our first break here. thanks to our initial panel. coming up the president may be on vacation but theres one man still working back i...

>> i know we were able to see this as of late. do you think its a trend thats here to stay? >> i think it is back by default unless we hear otherwise. president seems to be okay with it. general kelly seems to be okay with it. she certainly seems comfortable. i would expect the press corp. to expect it is a matter of course. >> you want to get anything in before we take a break? >> on the point about general mcmaster, we have all of the reporting that the trump base is very unhappy with him. the...

Reflecting this new low in relations, moscows announcement in response to the sanctions law that it is expelling hundreds of u.s. diplomats, tillerson said the united states plans to have its response ready by september 1st. which is more than a month after the expulsions were announced, bret. >> bret: james, we often deal with speculation in the beltway but the beltway has been buzzing with speculation that general mcmaster, national security advisor may be pushed out or may leave the national ...

Sometimes misinformation campaign to remove h.r. mcmaster as president trumps national security adviser. "new york times" is reporting the top hashtag among 600 twitter accounts linked to russian influence operations was #firemcmaster. >> we saw this during the campaign, that they used their social media trolls, bots in order to push things as part of their active measures campaign. in that sense to try to influence the election and in this sense, to try to potentially influence the firing of a ...

The imposition of sanctions on the iranian government over time helped bring them to the negotiating table on the nuclear agreement. whether these will have the same sort of effect on north korea, i dont think given her hermetic nature of the regime, well have to wait and see. >> thats the one thing. time is not on the side of everyone thats working on this, with the forward motion weve seen out of north korea for their ballistic missiles, but is this a sign out of the u.n. that the administrati...