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Actual neexecutive order. we know that. his word calling that a weapon, played with the judge. him talking about a muslim ban. let me ask you about another topic. mike flynn, do you believe he broke the law? >> well, i dont know the details. im not on that committee. i am not somebody thats going to pile on, as many people know. i would call mike flynn a friend, somebody i have known. i am not someone thats going to pile on. hes resigned from the administration and certainly with general mcmaste...

General mcmaster, focusing on north korea, also focusing on isis, and engaging on that front. they will continue to have other conversations as well, but as far as we go come a great day for the security council, great day with the president and certainly more good to come as of this meeting, they give very much. i have some ambassadors waiting. we will talk to you soon, thank you. >> press secretary spicer: thank you, ambassador appear without further ado, secretary of the treasury, steven mnuc...

Americans as his national security adviser mike flynn, general flynn got traded in for general mcmaster. seems to have a great foreign policy team together, one that john mccain, who doesnt like trump, says is the best of his lifetime. and also ive got to say, yes, his tweets -- he is tweeting, but they are not as hyperbolic. >> they are cleaned up. >> not as damaging -- hes not tweeting about allies as much anymore. >> thats right, joe. >> there san improvement in that area. >> big improvement....

Now they are in briefings with general mcmaster, focusing on north korea and isis. and engaging on that front. and will continue to have other conversations, as well. as far as we go, great day for the security council and more good to come out of this meeting. thank you very much. i have some ambassadors waiting. we will talk to you soon. thank you. >> without further ado, secretary of the treasury, steven mnuchin. >> seems like im becoming a regular here. nice to see you again. earlier today, ...

Administration? >> i have to admit that i had the thought in the last few days, i thought about this. if hillary clinton had essentially misplaced a carrier group, deceived about it, essentially used it as a kind of bluffing threat in a game of brinksmanship with a nuclear power and it turned out it was the wrong place, this would be iconic. this would be dukakis in the tank. for decades we would be hearing about it. >> well, theres no doubt about it. i mean general mattis is a career military o...

North koreans were going to have their parade and the missile test. the south koreans are furious. one of the candidates for president is saying, you lied to us. the chinese are laughing at us. so you ended up with the worst of all possible worlds, and you wonder whos in charge in this administration? >> i have to admit that i had the thought in the last few days, i thought about this. if hillary clinton had essentially misplaced a carrier group, deceived about it, essentially used it as a kind ...

Explanations of what happened here. we cannot match what the president said at the top of the news conference. he said it looks like another terrorist attack. we have been told since that he had come from a briefing of national security adviser of general mcmaster. we cannot label this terrorism one way or the other. chris dickie is standing by with us, anything that you can add from there? >> reporter: well, you know it is too soon to say definitively that this is a terrorist act. the concern o...

Headed in the opposite direction to the indian oh, now were hearing yes it will go to the korean peninsula at the end of april. what gives. president trump made this big stand of an armada heading to the korean peninsula. that didnt really happen. >> well, as you know, president trump and the white house has talked about it and the pentagon has talked about it, has given a lot more lee way to his military commanders. general mattis who is the defense secretary. general mcmaster who is the nation...

Very powerful. >> nbcs chris jansing joins us live now from the white house. chris, apparently, the only reason we know about this is because the navy posted a photo online of the "uss carl vinson" sailing in the opposite direction from the korean peninsula. what is the white house saying about this? >> the white house is pointing fingers at the defense department, saying there were mixed messages. it started with a statement that was made about the carl vinson and its strike group making moveme...

Minimize just how pressing that north korean issue is. and if thats what general mcmaster was telling him he needed to focus on, id give him some slack on that. >> michael isikoff and ned price, thank you both for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >> sure. coming up, mike pence was in south korea on monday talking tough while the presidents national security adviser was sounding like every other national security adviser, talking to every other president who has dealt with north korea....