security figures within the administration as one of the main threats and the priorities for the u.s. going forward. >> absolutely. this is not absolutely that should have caught the administration flat-footed. i'm not suggesting it necessarily did. but it clear that the president is trying to take maybe a little bit less of an aggressive bellicose approach. we've been talking about that tweet he sent at the beginning of january, he said north korea just stated it is in the final stages -- january 2nd, still president-elect. the president-elect said, north korea just stated it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the u.s. it won't happen." now, he did not respond in a similarly aggressive way tonight, so this could be some indication of the difference between rhetoric on the campaign trail and actually governing. we also remember on the campaign trail then-candidate trump talking about how maybe south korea and japan need to pay more