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North korea after a week of threatening. turning to diplomacy. trump spoke to chinas president late friday night to do more to curb the nuclear ambitions. this came after the president urged a nonviolent solution and blamed his predecessors for failing to stop north korea. >> nobody loves a peaceful solution better than president trump. that i can tell you. hopefully it will all work out. but this has been going on for many years. would have been easier to solve this years ago. >> joining me now...

Movies, coupled with his military build-up and use of labor camps. kim jong-un was only in his late 20s when he took over north korea in 2011, inexperienced in the government or the military. he brought an affinity for basketball, mercedes limos, yachts and quickly proved wrong analysts who thought he would be just a figurehead. kim has accelerated the missile and nuclear programs that his father and grandfather started. with more tests in a few years than his predecessors conducted in decades. ...

American citizen. i dont view ignoring guam as viable. any attack on guam is an attack on the united states of america. i think his base would understand that and not default to the position you said. >> guam was only threatened after the president said, if you make more threats, ill incinerate your country. this didnt begin with guam. this began with north korea testing missiles and apparently having a capacity to miniaturize a warhead. and our president saying, if you threaten, ill incinerate....

This is our people. we have military facilities there. we have thousands of soldiers there. they have a governor who is a proud american citizen. so i dont view ignoring guam as viable because any attack on guam is an attack on united states of america. >> of course it is. >> so i think his base would understand that and not default -- >> just for the record, guam was threatened after the president said if you make any more threats ill incinerate your country. this didnt begin with guam. it bega...

>> for 25 years we have been watching the head hanchos with their deals, with their negotiations, with their diplomacy and after all of this time, all of this sweat, they have a nuke, for 25 years north korea is laughing at us, sticking a certain finger into the air at us and now we get people all arguing yelling and screaming about a few little words. i want a new sheriff in town. i want them to know that we mean business and its a good start. kennedy: charlie, what gary is talking about the ma...

President making his policy, his doctrine, indeed, toward north korea clearer than he has ever before. hes saying that he will not accept any action from kim jong-un. but not saying what the united states will do. he did not rule out preemptive strike on north korea. of course, most presidents do not do that. he did manage to criticize all of his predecessors -- president bush, president clinton, indeed, president obama. president trump said that he would be different. of course, that is yet to ...

Predecessors on north korea and was pretty tough still on his -- in his analysis of -- and threats for north korea. i dont see where the red line is, the red line keeps moving a little bit this week. am i wrong? >> its not clear what the red line is for president trump. its not clear that theres a thought-through strategy other than being bellicose and issuing threats. so that becomes a problem. you dont know what exactly it will be that north korea does that triggers some kind of military respo...

The regime and he worked his problem very hard for the entire eight years as did his two predecessors. president trump seis not wrong when he complains about the fact that he inherited a much more accelerated program. hes right to be concern ed abot that. but going back and just blaming past presidents is i think -- its just a ridiculous kind of thing to do because this is a problem that the whole international community has been facing. >> so can you speak to that, though? you look at -- i thin...

Accept any action from kim jong-un. but not saying what the united states will do. he did not rule out preemptive strike on north korea. of course, most presidents do not do that. he did manage to criticize all of his predecessors -- president bush, president clinton, indeed, president obama. but president trump said that he would be different. of course, that is jet to be known. -- that is yet to be known. he made clear the remarks made earlier in the week are indeed the policy of the administr...

Mixed messages. last week was about diplomacy, this week is all about the threat. thats okay. there are moments when you hear multiple messages. we need to know if the president has a game plan in terms of how this unfolds. the rhetoric is hot right now. >> the president criticizing his predecessors saying its their ineptitude that got us where we are today with north korea, now he will deal with it. i want to play the sound byte where he warns north korea better get its act together. >> i will ...