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Cop/bad cop could be a strategy where you could be pursuing a strategy where the president is saying one thing and his representatives are saying another. the problem is that as this north korea situation with tillerson revealed, it wasn't at all coordinated. tillerson got actually made a mistake there. trump also made a mistake how he handled it, but they were not on the same page. that's the dangerous thing here that in fact for a lot of world leaders, if you talk about the danger here, world leaders don't know who to listen to and at any given moment it doesn't seem like the administration ...

Process. >> seth, do you think it's intention nal also? >> i'm not sure anymore. one thing that happens with trump is he is a this 24/7 guy and comes from the entertainment world so he doesn't take weekends off so -- and he also doesn't like to not be the focus of the news cycle, so he seeks to capture the news cycle even when it's saturday or sunday. >> even when it's not about him. >> right. i think that's something he did during the campaign. you know, hillary clinton would have -- there would be a bad story about -- negative story about hillary clinton in "the times" or somewhere and you t...

Tillerson? that's one reading. is he playing good cop-bad cop, and thereby giving tillerson more space to negotiate, creating an implied threat so that that pushes the north koreans more in a more diplomatic direction? i mean, who knows. but clearly, we do not want to end up in a situation where a military solution is the only solution. that's not good for anyone. >> yeah, and jeff, the idea of channels, open channels, back channels, whatever they may be, the one on one and the bilateral discussion is also something that north korea has wanted. whether we're doing that is one question. and if ...

Administration. earlier this year, the president, as well as the secretary of state and hr mcmaster national security adviser seemed to be suggesting the u.s. was considering a preventative attack, one in which we might do a military strike even if we feel we are not in imminent danger. lately that message seems to be downplayed in favor of pressure. now we had recently the secretary of state saying recently that they were reaching out and three different channels with north korea and now the president seems to be undercutting it. >> what the president is doing. do you think they read this as ...

Counter point between trump's fiery tweets about north korea, we will wipe you out as comments with the un and the more commends from the secretary of state, the many generals or former generals are either part of an orchestrated good cop bad cop or it's more ad hoc. we don't know if it's part of strategy. >> the style is more ad hoc. the folks around him are dialling him back. >> we have seen evidence before and after the election that the president free lances and his advisers will walk him back. it's possible that that's part of a strategy. we don't know that, but the disconnect is causing ...