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Concerned. but in general, there was a sense that gosh, this is something we haven't seen before in our recent memory. we know that secretary tillerson spoke to president trump for an hour in the last 24 hours prior to secretary tillerson coming out and giving that comment today. but then of course shortly after tillerson did that, we saw the president doubling down, repeating his warning from yesterday via a retweet and then talking about the unprecedented strength of the u.s. nuclear arsenal. so not really a move by the president to also take it down a notch. i think there's a tendency for u...

They are willing to do more. will they do as much as trump wants? that's really a stretch. that's i think the basic problem with this strategy. >> david ignatius, thank you so much for spending some time with us. matthew dowd, let me get you to weigh in since you're the celebrity guest today. very generously on loan. from our friends across the town. let me just ask you about the character of a president who would threaten fire and fury without having any respect for his national security adviser, for his chief of staff and for his secretary of state to give them a heads up. >> so the first th...

He was talking about the north korea situation, and on the campaign trail, he said look, i don't to want telegraph to my enemies, to the enemies of the united states what potentially we could be doing. so yes, it's entirely possible this is part of a more concerted strategy, a good cop bad cop if you will between rex tillerson and the president regarding what the american posture is. the question is, whether in fact that is a productive way forward. whether in fact that will convince the chinese to get tougher on north korea, whether it'll mean that north korea is going to feel that they are p...

Diplomatic way. is it positive? >> you would hope so. the president in the past also didn't want to telegraph what he was going to do unless he's playing a little game here, play into their propaganda. then kim jong-un can say, look, the americans are trying to provoke us and this is what they want to do. this is not us. this is them trying to provoke it. if this was planned, what would be the sort of overarching theory of that? good cop/bad cop? >> yeah, the idea that tillerson

Is one of them, has said the opposite. here's mike pompeo. >> it would be a great thing to denuclearize the pennsylvaninsu get those weapons off of it, but the thing most dangerous about it is the character who holds the control over them today. so from the administration's perspective, the most important thing we can do is separate those two. >> so, jeffrey lord, which is it? separate those two, meaning regime change or no regime change? this is a crucial question. this administration should be on the same page, right? >> yeah. well, to slip into the american vernacular, i think we may be see...