Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170830:01:52:00
Something provocative and we step up the rhetoric which causes them to be even more paranoid and they generate another provocative act. one way to tamp that down is tamp our rhetoric down. i was really impressed with secretary mattis when he said we note the north koreans fired a missile and have no further comment. i think there's real merit in that. one last comment, if i may, chris. >> absolutely, that's why you're on. >> just to compare the situation in north korea with the situation in iran. and what this illustrates is it is much better and easier to negotiate a way a nuclear weapons cap...