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The brinkmanship with north korea could work. this is bad cop routine. it's one of the only strategies that has not been employed. do you agree? does he have a point? >> many believe the trump administration is practicing a rational good cop/bad cop and that's the best possible interpretation. the problem with that is that they are undercutting the chance for diplomacy and the credibility of american diplomats that will be the ones to be called upon to do the hard work of negotiating north korea's nuclear and missile programs. every time they undercut secretary tillerson, and every time they s...

Giving that press conference behind the podium. i can tell you that there is a sense from some sources that i've talked to that the president as well as secretary of state have a good cop/bad cop relationship in terms of the communicative strategy they're using on a host of foreign policy and geopolitical situations. most notably, north korea. but the president with his calm before the storm comment raising a lot of questions about whether or not this is with regards to north korea ahead of columbus day holiday, in which many are anticipating that north korea could have some type of other type...

About the importance of diplomacy and the back channels to north korea, have you president trump saying you are wasting your time, you know, they're going to get what they're going to get and i just thought that in a perfect world that that was a good cop/bad cop. i think the rift is pretty wide right now. we have not yet seen a situation where president trump has said, let's see about a senior staff person and that staff person has abstained. in each case when he says we'll see what happens, that person ends up leaving. >> you are right. thank you both so much. appreciate that. so did the g...

Would be supported. >> representative rooney, is he right? do you have these three men that you named, mattis, kelly and tillerson, all three of them, are they the ones that are keeping this country from descending into chaos? >> no, i don't think senator corker has got that right. we have a president of the united states that's taken a hard line with north korea, and i think that's been a good thing. i think what he said about rex, your talking is not going to do any good, he may be right about that. talking hasn't done any good yet. nonetheless, i think what secretary tillerson has said has ...

Think politically, it's better for us to know exactly what our government is doing and hear the same message every time. >> interesting you said those in japan have learned to take secretary tillerson at his word. last week we saw what happened when the two aren't on the same page, tried to talk good cop bad cop, and wanted to talk about talks and he said, save yourself. >> he effective kneecaped his secretary of state and can't represented an administration policy when the president is contradicting him. what is the policy? we all wait for the president to tweet it out. i'm not sure they beli...