project strength to anybody? i mean, just from like as congressman haass was saying earlier from the school yard bully to anybody who's bragging about the size of anything, doesn't that project weakness really? >> i think it does project weakness. you have to remember that north korea has a history of making provocative comments. they're not just making them now. and bah iraqi obama used to ignore them and that's what most presidents do, they ignore these comments. whereas donald trump is sort of projecting insecurity by having to respond to this and then sort of do this one upmanship of mine is bigger than yours. and putting something in there that is provokative in his own right in saying mine works. so it's almost like baiting him to say yours doesn't, show us that it wrorks. this isn't a game. we're talking about some nuclear war here. >> scott, you were under george w. bush. >> general hurtling said something that remind me of a thought i used to have during the republican primary and that's the thought of president trump then candidate trump