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Welcome back, everybody. at 52 past the hour, you're looking at video from earlier this morning from charlottesville, virginia, where there was certainly a clash between two opposing groups regarding the removal of a statue of robert e. lee. we heard from the president about 30 minutes ago. here's the tweet that he sent out. we all must be united and condemn all that hate stands for. there is no place for this kind of violence in america. let's come together as one. let's bring in former counsel to president obama with a welcome to you. first of all, the statement by president trump that he ju...

Story. more on our top breaking story right now north korea level agnew threat crossing the president's red line warning tonight that its military is seriously examining in their words a plan to simultaneously fire four ballistic missiles near the u.s. territory of guam. about 19 to 25 miles away. this follows president trump's red line saying he would unleash fire and fury if pyongyang continued to threaten the united states. the former assistant to president obama for homeland security and counterterrorism. you've been at the center of the north korean conversation and all the classified bri...

This. i want to point out something that's very important to the trump critics that all through the campaign all we heard is he was undisciplined in his message therefore he's going to lose this state, he'll lose this group, he offended one senator or somebody else. yet he kept going on. i would suggest a lot of what he says is not spontaneous, although it may look that way, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is. and i don't think that statement yesterday was an off the cuff statement at all. i think it was very deliberate. >> dan, if it was then what? >> look, i worked on campaigns and i wor...

Been animus. there was a substantial misjudgment. it was clear to me that from what i've read and what i saw that this wasn't a carefully laid out plan to leak strategically. what it was, in fact, was an off the cuff statement that may or may not be helpful in the fight against isis. but offers, i think, a great opportunity for our own credibility as alex correctly pointed out in europe and the middle east to be undermined with our core allies. that's what worries me. i just think wherever this stuff happens, we ought to look at it, investigate it and act appropriately. >> shannon: you guys ha...

When he drew a red line and i think the military is now being forced into supporting this thing, which i think they have a visceral opposition to it. >> it is interesting he says the president went off his teleprompter. it has now been fairly well documented that was an off the cuff statement when he said this would be a red line for us. his aides didn't know he was going to be saying that. that wasn't part of his prepared remarks. now he has been standing by that. >> he hasn't been standing by it. >> international -- >> our red line. >> national red line. >> in fact it is his red line. there'...