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With one voice, to have a fairly clear point of view on things, you have a president who is just tweeting out utter madness. dangerous madness in the case of encouraging the doj to go after his political enemies, but, you know, it's just -- it's just -- i mean, off script doesn't even begin to describe it. again, i don't know that we've ever been here. you'll recall president obama at one point was considering sending one of our carrier groups into the south china sea, diverting it, and president obama at the time said, hey, we do not bluff with aircraft carriers. and, you know, here's our new...

United states to be speaking with one voice, to have a fairly clear point of view on things, you have a president who is just tweeting out utter madness. dangerous madness in the case of encouraging the doj to go after his political enemies, but, you know, it's just -- it's just -- i mean, off script doesn't even begin to describe it. again, i don't know that we've ever been here. you'll recall president obama at one point was considering sending one of our carrier groups into the south china sea, diverting it, and president obama at the time said, hey, we do not bluff with aircraft carriers. ...

>> they got me doing a lot. they cannot rule it out completely. >> reporter: they made rapid advanced if nirg this year firing in 16 launches since february. the u.s. responded with shows of force at sea and in the air. placing three carrier groups in the region and flying b 1 b long range bombers over the korean peninsula. president trump himself has repeatedly warned of possible military action. even as his commanders warn that an tack on the north would risk thousands of lives in south korea, even short of military action, some warn that the risk of miscalculation is getting higher. >> he c...

Carrier groups near the korean peninsula. three carrier groups is important because with two you can not conduct around the clock operations with three, you can. now the only issue there is some of those carriers have been on deployment for quite some time and will have to be withdrawn but what it does is sends a message that we are prepared to strike if necessary. now, i think the president's pressure campaign will work over time. it will take maybe nine months to a year to do that but you know, basically what he's saying is that all the tools in the american tool box will be brought to bear ...

Would have done something. because the president, if you will, brought in armada, as he said, brought three carrier groups with him. he is traveling through the very neighborhood of north korean and the korean peninsula. why not. >> i actually thought richard there would be some sort of provocation during trump's stay in seoul. because that would have been perfect really sort of indicate that trump was a paper tiger some people in asia are saying. there are a couple of things going on here. they haven't launched a missile in north korea since september 15th. i think part of that is the chinese...