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Language, and it may escalate. >> greg: does kim want to find out? this is the calculation. >> dana: in the way that the president hass talked using the exact same language. just in slightly different tone tones. essentially saying the same thing. president obama did appeared he's loving, hippie, president obama. if they act, he will be annihilated with our military arsenal. before an attack would not imminent. the intel now shows this is coming to a head. >> kennedy: and this is coming to a hit, because they've given us a time in a place. the president is surmising this with more psychologica...

There. so that aside, speaking not as a democrat but as an american, about how you want him to change what he's saying. and if you really think that will do anything, some people have made the point that he is sounding the bell at least on this. people are listening. and they believe that kim jong-un won't actually do something stupid. what do you say to that? >> i say that we've collected a lot of chips over the years through the leadership of american presidents. we have friends in the world. and so start talking to those friends. seek their advice, understand what would they be willing to d...

Embassy, visited with the russian ambassador, and tried to figure out a way to communicate with russia in a way that nobody else could find out. i've gotta tell you, that throws up a lot of red flags for me. whether classified information was shared or not, i think this is entirely inappropriate, especially for somebody who, i'm not sure had a security clearance at the time. and to set up those kind of back channels with, quite frankly, an enemy of ours, that's been an enemy for as long as i've been alive. i think i told the story in that committee meeting that when i was a first grader in sch...

Especially for somebody who i'm not sure had a security clearance at the time. to set up those kind of back channels with quite frankly an enemy of ours that's been an enemy as long as i've been alive. i think i told the story when i was a first grader in school they talked about what happened in the case of nuclear war, if you can't make it to a fall out shelter you were to hide under your desk. i remember those conversations with the teacher very vividly now we got somebody who is very close to the president who wants to communicate with putin who is not a good actor and potentially pass alo...

Extremely dangerous times for the nato alliance. >> peter, physically we saw the president give the mont negro man a physical manifestation. now we're learning about the enormous omission in the speech. do you think speaking of back channels there are people talking to their friends, career state department, to career diplomats in these countries and their power structures to say what mattis has said in the last 24 hours, be patient with us? >> yeah. i'm certain that's probably the case. i'm sorry the career diplomats are saying don't get too worked up about this. of course the united states s...