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Project strength to anybody? i mean, just from like as congressman haass was saying earlier from the school yard bully to anybody whos bragging about the size of anything, doesnt that project weakness really? >> i think it does project weakness. you have to remember that north korea has a history of making provocative comments. theyre not just making them now. and bah iraqi obama used to ignore them and thats what most presidents do, they ignore these comments. whereas donald trump is sort of pr...

Used to with this guy. hes looking to pull senior level or higher level leaders into a fight with him so he can look -- look really good. heres the other thing, anderson. a smart guy once told me that whenever youre dealing in international relations and youre dealing with one country and youre attempting to keep it transactional, you also have to consider the rule of five. and in this particular case, the other four are russia, china, japan and south korea. and in the case that were talking abo...

Those actually were coalition-building messages to build. this one is a coalition destroying message. when the u.s. has been successful when weve gone into battle, its with a coalition. so for instance the goufl war. thats what we need to do. we need to not only have our allies, japan and south korea, but we have to neutralize moscow and beijing. and a tweet like this does the opposite. he has squandered an opportunity. >> we didnt see that effect with the fire and furry that you mentioned earli...

The united states on why these tweets are not only problematic but dangerous and what the real life implications are not just for american citizens, but our allies and south korea are with tweets such as. and furthermore, i have questions for twitter and the presidents tweets, in my opinion, clearly violate the standards. and so how long are we going to allow the president of the united states to act as a just a reckless bully on the internet? a bull that i has the power to bring us into the nuc...

Diplomacy wins out. >> some say this is a sign of strength by the president who doesnt use the kind of diplomatic language thats been used in the past to not great effect. i wonder what you make of that because general hurtling is saying this is president trump lowering himself to the level of kim jong-un and sort of getting into this war of words on the same level. >> yeah, i mean frankly when i saw the tweet tonight i was pretty shocked, you know, as a national security professional that has d...