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Engage with north korea in a way thats not just sanctions but something extra as well. >> yeah. because certainly as you pointed out but we dont know the new leader so much, kim jong-un doesnt want to see the end of his regime and the annihilation of his country, so one would hope he has no intention of using these weapons, but he certainly has been, you know, sending signals to japan and guam as well or is that just bluster? >> its not bluster because hes been doing what hes been doing. obvious...

A few minutes later, a tweet from president trump saying, north korea disrespected the wishes of china and its president when it launched unsuccessfully a missile today. bad, exclamation point. i dont know its cognitive dissidense. >> theres a lot of rhetorical bluster going on. but whats ultimately different? thats what came out of the meeting with the senators, that they had. a lot of the senators felt like, what was the point of this? ultimately, what they said was, were going to use diplomac...

President obama -- >> anything around here, words do matter. you hear this about the president saying, he -- his words matter. its not bluster. he is saying things no president said in a long time. >> its possible that the words are aimed at china just as much as theyre aimed at north korea. do something or else im unpredictable and you dont know what im going to do. >> theres method to that madness. i understand that. just from the flip side of it, the way all of this -- especially the nine att...

Up, to apply the phrase. >> half baked. >> and i think thats important to note. to heidis point, hes drawing a very bright line for the country right now and hes saying with these big issues that we have to confront in health care to questions of war and peace, we need to be smart about this and we cannot fall prey to this made up etiology, this made of nationalist approach. i was talking with some republicans today saying, thats always been a part of the republican brand. ive been a republican ...