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The word war is not good. i am not sure what hes trying to do. i thought he would tamp it down. i thought some of his aids would get him to get under control, maybe general kelly or tillerson, he did not. he should be the guy be quiet and let his secretary of state and defense to be the bad cop and him weighing in at the appropriate time. thats not whats happening. by doing that, hes limiting his options and making things a little tenser. >> and again, he seems to be setting a confrontation that...

The lack of rhetorical patience. that is the time it takes for something to come into his mind and pop out of his mouth. the fact of the matter is, this is a very serious and dangerous moment. when which we think about president kennedy doing the cuban missile crisis and his insistence that the state department and the white house be on the same page with respect to the message. >> and they are. >> which presumes that there is a message. >> it just seems they had to come come out quickly and giv...

Just of war, but perhaps preemptive war, also a collection of remarkable statements, and blunt language some directed to a key ally. the bottom line, plenty to talk about after two memorable appearances by the president today. heres a sample. >> the people of questioning that statement, was it too tough? maybe it wasnt tough enough. theyve been doing this to our country for a long time, many years. its about time somebody stuck up for. >> reporter: what would be tougher than fire and fury? >> we...

He knows what happens in war. he compares itapolcolyptic lang. it was striking to me. when you look at trump and i was thinking about this today, it is very mump like a real estate guy saying, okay, my building is the biggest and the best and i am going to -- this is what i can tell you because you are going to have to go check me out and there is no way you can figure me out that it is not. hes using the same kind of tactic in real estate and new york only, it does not work in international dip...

We have not convinced him yet that it is in his best interest to take aggressive action to help him stop this threat. >> gloria, there is someirony, his name is mad dog is the one ratcheting down. he knows what war looks like which the president has not served and to actually have mattis but the one, say, look, we adodont need to describe it any other way. >> i meryl streep ycould not he that general sciutto showed of a sober diplomat. he becomes the diplomat in this situation.

Question and he blew through that. >> its chaos or lack of discipline. the fact that we have a president who tweets by the moment, who opines on every issue from the top of his head is not a reassuring idea. particularly with the country. literally quite anxious about going into a nuclear war. and where you have a president literally has a message thats all over the place with respect to the russians, with respect to the russians, with respect to the north koreans, with respect to his cabinet se...

>> maeve, he usually doesnt address his critics so head on. were you surprised with what he said? >> i was. and its also interesting that most of his critics are not advocating for the use of force. theres almost no one now advocating for the use of force in the ukraine situation. its interesting he would take it out that far to deflect criticism. when really the criticism has been that hes not moved quickly enough on sanctions. and perhaps that the u.s. should have acted more unilaterally. >> t...

From faith to freedom and all of the crazy in between here are todays "top lines," you aint seen nothing yet. >> you know what? before i pass away i would like to have a republican in the white house again. >> you aint seen nothing yet. >> war is not a game or a sport and any politician who speaks of preemptive war with gleeful bravado should not be leading any nation. >> that whole beach boys song, bomb iran, bomb, bomb, bomb. anyway. >> i can recall no utter rans of jesus in favor of any war o...

Into eiran? >> when you have a big lie, you have to have a big denial to follow it, and that denial has to be resist yent. one of this size is the type that people go to the grave with, and its hard to watch cheney and then the whole gang of neocons sort of smiling at the camera saying, okay, now what do we do? next syria, next iran. because the fundamental principles thats behind this, the big idea, so to speak, of this whole gang is one that they still believe in, that of preemtive war, that t...

Tensions that exist are because of the war, preemptive war, war of choice by president bush in iraq and then afghanistan and thats part of what president obama has actually been trying to, you know, in addition to getting us out of the wars, undo some of that damage. thats not a conversation they want to have. i find it talk about the sabre rattling, noecons going into iran, if we did that, it would be a similar situation, american forces on the ground, american resources not spent at home. it c...