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He is still ad libbing and one thing that strikes me, if you study, which i kept on my desk, if you have an opponent that's of temperamental character, irritate him. the question is, we have two temperamental characters. is president trump trying to irritate kim jong-un, or vice versa? but in the meantime, we are ratcheting up the rhetoric, and secretary tillerson did a great job of tamping it down, but now we have the north koreans upping the ante. they are calling the president's statement bluster and a bluff, and they are calling it, and the question becomes, is the president going to say, ...

Moment, daniel? i mean the president's comments about north korea today remind alarming. he used words like the world has never seen. >> i am not kim jong-un. i would say that this is a serious moment if i were to try to interpret trump here rather than literal. i wrote a piece just earlier this evening about how trump frequently uses the phrase that today became an apparent threat of nuclear war. he likes saying like the world has never seen. he said you know, i created the greatest grassroot movement the world has ever seen. corn prices have gone up so much food prices are going to go up mor...

Has he gone any further? has he mentioned more? >> we haven't heard more from the president on this today. what we have heard from is the pentagon. secretary mattis released a statement that doesn't go as far as president trump with the belacose language but saying that they need to refrain from this language if they want to exist. so the president trying to get additional support for what he's saying from the other elements of the government, trying to cast this as something that is well-orchestrated across the national security apparatus and not something that he was ad libbing on the spot. ...

House national security team clearing a statement. i never heard of a president ad libbing like this especially a president that is not experienced in foreign affairs. it raises a lot of concerns about the direction of u.s. policy. and i say that for this reason. because when i hear the administration say it's intolerable that north korea has the missiles and the nuclear weapons, it won't be permitted, that's what the president said at other times, where's that coming from? what it is connected to? if you articulate the goals like this you get in the same position as saying that we're going to...

Ways either ad libbing or doing -- it doesn't add up. if we had a strategy, we would know it when we saw it. we would be engaging with our allies. we would look at the points of leverage we have on china. we wouldn't be all other the place with different people saying different things and then the president in many ways mouthing off and matching the rhetoric of the north korean leader. the question is, are we stronger, are we in a better position today than we were before the president made these comments? i think that we are not. our allies, china, that went along with the united states with ...