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Remarks that they continued to make on behalf of their foolishness. >> just last week, president trump spoke off-the-cuff and he threatened nuclear war with north korea and he carefully read the statement that explicit he did not mention the words kkk, white nationalism and are we to believe that hes not capable of speaking his mind and speaking directly when he wants to about what he wants to. >> i think anybody who has watched this presidents campaign and his presidency thus far knows that pre...

Militarily in venezuela. it makes no sense ended department of defense had to practically come out and say that. there is a very clear strategy for the whole national security team has in place. i think the presidents off-the-cuff remarks this week - we have avoided sanctioning oil because doing so would probably drive prices appear so they are economic levers we can use with this kind of bombastic rhetoric that everyone knows really the solid policy foundation, does not help a regional situatio...

More threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. >> i think americans should sleep well at night. i have no concerns about this particular rhetoric of the last few days. >> point, counterpoint. >> is the white house staff, the cabinet, they getting better at -- at managing the presidents sort of off-the-cuff, one-off remarks on things like north korea? >> its hard to say whether theyre getting better. this white house has shown that off the cu...

All right. so the white house said that president trumps fire and fury comment, his warning to north korea, was not scripted. it was off-the-cuff. also this morning, the president is once again attacking senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell. lets get the bottom line from david chalian. david, im interesting in that fire and fury comment. because it did seem as though it was very deliberate. the president delivered it twice. it was very deliberate. how -- why do we believe that it wasnt -- tha...

The compilation you did, its good and instructive. it happens over and over with trump. he says something and everyone overreacts to come and then come after a night sleep, you wake up and go "oh, okay, wait. i get it." yesterday, it wasnt that it was off-the-cuff, obviously he was talking about north korea with his national security team all the time but it wasnt written down and it wasnt in a teleprompter and did not go a through white house staffing. but this is the president of the united st...

From a trump administration. if you look at the actions of the trump administration, they need to have some sort of peaceful solution. whether its a diplomatic or sanctions that we saw from the u.n. resolution, whether its what we heard from secretary tiller tillerson. it was said yesterday that we are prepared to protect the homeland, so were looking at all avenues, possible from a police peaceful solution. >> trish: what you think of folks coming out saying he wasnt prepared, he was off-the-cu...

Off-the-cuff. but you are right, there was a strategy for a very muscular, strong response. i think the specific words that he used is what caused tillerson and mattis to come in the day after and try to get it back into the box of not just rhetoric, but what does this mean towards policy. >> but what does it mean towards policy? what were getting now is, well, it doesnt have to mean military. it doesnt have to mean force. it could mean that its just tough talk, and that thats what this kind of ...

Stood behind jfk. this is analogous to the cuban missile crisis. we need to come together. >> michael steele is an msnbc political analyst. also former chair of the republican national committee. ron klain served as chief of staff to vice presidents gore and biden. mr. steele, let me start with you, sir. just your general take on the presidents blunt language. do you think his comments likely were off-the-cuff, or do you think that those comments were a scripted and vetted by a national security...

Discipline and order. just moving the senior staff meeting from 8:45 to 8:00, that shows who is in charge and who is running the ship and putting it in a room where theres not a television so the staff is not distracted. the focus should be on the chief and not the chief, because the presidents going to do what he wants to do, but another key point is also limiting the flow of information into the presidents office and into the oval office and his desk. thats where he gets his ideas with his twe...

I want to bring back in the panel. it is interesting for months the white house has been saying everything is running incredibly smoothel. general kelly is an acknowledgment that that has not been the case. thats not truthful. do you think this is going to last? >> theres clearly a new cher rif in town and all of those details that michael pointed out go to show that, yes, kelly is coming in and restoring discipline and order there. and other little things were hearing about, is just moving the ...