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For us too, but now we're worried that north korea poses a threat to us directly. there's a structural tension between the united states and its close ally in seoul, so we don't want to be adding fuel to that fire. instead, what we want to figure out is can we come up with a common stance against a north korea that's hell bent on developing a large nuclear arsenal with missiles able to deliver those nuclear weapons around the world? >> well, you are speaking logically, but david, how can you be adopting a common stance when you have the president of the united states this weekend actually accu...

Carefully drafting state department officials were describing in private in detail where they thought this was going. last weekend shattered that. the president i think is now scrambling. he alleges reacts impulsively, i think, to new developments. he had a long conversation monday night south korean time with south korean president moon, so the rhetoric of appeasement, the threats of trade war, i think, were put in in a separate category, and there's now intensive discussion, i'm told, behind the scenes about new diplomatic efforts centering on china, centering on a much tougher effort by chi...

>> kids go back to school today. >> no, they really don't. >> your kids aren't back in school yet? >> one is. one isn't. >> when does -- >> they never go to school. then they come back for, like, a month. >> what, are they -- scloo there's no empty nest. >> isn't there a time where you go at the end of september and come back at the beginning -- back with us, we have national affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc john hallman and richard haass, and in washington columnist and associate editor for the washington post david ignacious. we begin again this hour with the laes on the increasingly v...

Certainly our relationship with cuba is going south fast. >> yeah, that is what is the bottom line here, we are all digging down into xa exactly happened t. relationship is back if trouble. well, thank you so much, david ignacious, thank you so much, john. great to see you. coming up. more on what the north koreans are up to. stay with us. knowing where you stand. it's never been easier. except when it comes to your retirement plan. but at fidelity, we're making retirement planning clearer. and it all starts with getting your fidelity retirement score. in 60 seconds, you'll know where you stan...

That. >> i think your choice of the word obsessed. we're not obsessing about it. this is the president of the united states threatening a nuclear armed country. whether you want to accept it or not and a country that is armed with nuclear weapons. >> i'll let the president's statements stand for itself. >> it's not obsessing to want to know more. >> you know, i see a packed room of journalists here, normally, there aren't half as many as there are here today. >> the state department scolding from a specs person who understandably had a tough assignment, batting cleanup after president trump so...