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Republican leadership will start getting behind him. right now, the confidence level is not there and we saw that with corker this morning and trump coming out and tweeting against him. in order to get him back in his corner, he needs to stay on message and start pivoting again toward tax reform. >> neil: do you know if it's intimidating, that i have to straighten up and fly right to do what he wants, or is it working in the opposite way? >> i honestly don't know the answer to that, neil, because what i've seen so far is when he attacks them, they come back and bite a little bit harder. and th...

President had to say, my confidence level is going down. and that's the problem. that's why you see the -- >> do you think that cooler heads will prevail on capitol hill? >> well, i certainly hope so. you need a partner in the white house to deal with this. and, essentially, you've got a president of the united states who instead is insulting republican leaders in the house and in the senate. which, obviously, makes it difficult for people to come together. but i can assure you that democrats are going to work very hard to make sure we keep the government open and that the united states meets ...

Propaganda verbiage they typically use. i do think it's important to bear in mind that the circumstance here with the on set of the annual joint exercise held between the united states and republic of korean forces which they find quite threatening. so, it wouldn't surprise me if they did a demonstration launch just to convey the optic. >> a demonstration launch towards guam? they said the other day by mid august they might launch four march immediate range missiles toward guam and they would land off the coast. first, do they have the precision and do you believe they might do that? >> i don'...

Significant deployment under the obama administration of regional capabilities and then our strategic defenses in which president obama made a commitment to enhance what we have in the united states to counter a long range threat from the north koreans. >> from what you know of the thaad missile defense system, if they were to fire multiple missiles, i mean, does that -- i really don't mean to boil it down to the layman's way of thinking about it. would that confuse the system? how flexible is that? >> we have multiple systems in place to address a variety of threats. and my confidence level i...

This really added to the tensions, and this new assessment is sort of the thing that evoked this strong rhetoric from president trump. one thing we don't know is what is the confidence level? that is crucially important in understanding how sure the intelligence community is that north korea has achieved this result. >> cynthia, you have reporting on what is needed. >> yes, they have been pursuing a specific strike plan for a unilateral collapse on north korean missiles. the white house asked for their military options. and a key factor in that would be though b 1 bombers stationed in guam. we...