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Stressing diplomacy. james mattis says right now the u.s. effort in the tense standoff is being diplomatically lady by nikki haley. >> president trump thanked russian president vladimir putin for pushing american diplomats out of moscow and cutting the state department's payroll. and the president continues to attack mitch mcconnell telling the senate gop leader to goet wo -- get to work on the trump agenda and asking him to resign if nothing gets done. let's go to barbara starr at the pentagon. >> good morning. the administration emphasizing that diplomacy does remain what they hope is the lo...

August 15th, let's see what he does with guam. if he does something in guam, it will be an event the likes of which nobody has seen before, what will happen in north korea. >> when you say that, what do you mean? >> you'll see and he'll see. he will see. it's not a dare. it's a statement. it has nothing to do with dare. that's a statement. >> that if north korea attacks guam. the secretary of defense going very much down a longer road in his comments yesterday. >> the american effort is diplomatically led. it has diplomatic traction. it is gaining diplomatic results and i want to stay right th...

>> so you continue to see this emphasis by the administration that they are not sending mixed messages, but two very different messages and it goes without saying the u.s. intelligence community now as you would well expect watching guam, watching all of that around the clock. brianna, chris. >> all right, barbara. thank you very much. the u.s. and north korea locked in an intense war of words. kim jong-un regime says america would, quote, suffer shameful defeat defeat and final doom. china is calling for caution here, but will they step up to help fix the situation? that remains unknown. that...

Things to undermine america's leverage. china has a lot of influence. but our ability to pressure china to help on north korea is now less than it was when president trump took office. because we've undermined our allies. we've stepped away from the trans pa scific partnership tha gave us leverage over china. now the united states is weaker in every way. if we were taking strong actions that would strengthen us, that would be great. if we had a message coming out of the administration that gave our allies and the world faith that the united states had a coherent policy moving forward, we would...

People say you need to not say that because we don't know that he can actually guide in one of his missiles into a direct hit on an actual target. i think for kim jong-un it's pretty clear in america anywhere is a good target and we've allowed thoim g allowed him to get to that point where he can accomplish it. i think the president's words are measured. i think it's a new day when it comes to how we're going to deal with him. we're not going to punt to the international community and we're not going to punt to china when china has done nothing to prevent it. >> what are you suggesting? let's ...