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But his most striking departure from previous presidents has been his rhetoric. american presidents have tended to weigh their words carefully, believing that they must preserve the credibility of the worlds leading power. and then there is donald trump for whom words are weightless. during the campaign, he excoriated saudi arabia as a country that wants women as slaves and to kill gays only to make his first presidential trip to the kingdom and warmly embrace its rulers. there are situations wh...

Much different tone in south korea. instead of promising to rain fire and fury on little rock et man, he decided to compare and contrast life in south korea than that of north korea. he had harsh language for north korea. listen. >> i hope i speak not only for our countries but for all civilized nations when i say to the north, do not underestimate us. and do not try us. every step you take down this dark path increases the peril you face. north korea is not the paradise your grandfather envisio...

Sure they rain fire down on a crowd. this was planned with military-style. im not worried about the police on their part they were deal being a killer who went to great lengths to kill as many people as possible. im concerned with police to make sure we get the information right. the senators who said the presidents words and actions could lead to world war 3. and why the white house the s attacking him for all things tweeting. the congressman says we got it all wrong about the neo-nazi in c...

President is saying, we have to rain fire and fury in north korea. who came out first? secretary mattis saying diplomacy is still available to us, we must pursue it. >> and on iran. mattis says its in our national interest to assert that iran is abiding by the conflicines of t nuclear plan. >> but it undercuts his authority, so to use the phrase of senator corker, it makes it more chaotic. >> isnt it built-in when you have your son-in-law doing the middle east negotiations and when you, the pres...

Strike that weve been hearing rumors about is off the table that would require consent of congress. i dont think we can expect that. i dont think well rain fire and fury down if he just makes verbal threats. if theres a missile headed towards guam, theres going to be a response from the u.s. government. they made that clear. i dont think you heard the president that if this goes quiet, the north koreans respect us. the problem also, ed, with the new threat about cutting off trade with anyone tha...

Rain water caused the flooding and caused us to have to start the rescue operations, but that operation is now ceased, but as you know the rain continues, and we are bracing for landfall as harvey is out in the gulf, actually strengthening a bit, reenergizing and drawing that moisture off the gulf. we anticipate this is going to play out over the next couple of days and when it finally starts moving north it will move across a large area of our state and so were trying to make sure that were rea...

Homes. rainfall totals are now near four feet in the hardest-hit areas with more days of rain ahead and the death toll is rising as well. in a little more than an hour president trump heads to texas to survey the damage. the president says hell avoid houston because he does not want to get in the way of first responders efforts. lets begin our coverage with rosa flores, live inside the houston convention center. whats the scene in there, rosa? >> reporter: you know, alisyn, we have seen hundreds...

Level which is why governor abbott called up the entire national guard all able-bodied and available folks who arent in a deployed location or arent evacuees themselves are mobilizing, so help is on the way, help is already there and were working around the clock, whether it be night rescues, in our boats, or airplane operations to make sure that we are saving lives and taking care of our fellow texantexans. >> what is your biggest concern with the more rain that may be coming and what is your w...

Joining us now is lieutenant colonel travis walters, the public affairs officer of the texas military department. its good to have you with us, sir. we know youll be very busy so lets get to it. what are you dealing with on the ground? >> on the ground right now, conditions are changing hourly so i just got off the phone with a ground commander who is in south houston saying that roads that were passable an hour ago are not passable now, so our soldiers and airmen that are currently engaged, thi...

I know its part of the culture of how to deal with this adversity but the 12-year anniversary of katrina this is the worst kind of situation you would want in terms of how to mark that occasion. what do you tell yourself to kind of steel yourself against this kind of situation and threat? >> well, first of all, the katrina situation is one that ever since then because of the experience that we had, we know how to deal with rain, we know how to deal with floods. weve got a lot of experienced peop...