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The best thing would be for the japanese to have their own nuclear capability so he's not really grounded in history or reason. >> but it's so odd to me that these are index card sized talking points that you have time for on air force one flying across the pacific. if you didn't know that it was the united states idea for japan basically to not have a military, that's something you could have learned somewhere between hawaii and japan. go ahead, david. >> no, no. i was just going to say this has got to be the worst briefed president in history or he is the one who makes the least use of his b...

Very weak rhetoric over the last 25 years. look where we are right now. >> according to japanese media, donald trump has questioned japan in conversations with other asian leaders for not shooting down the north korean missile that flew over japan in august. according to the report, the president said he could not understand why a country of samurai warriors did not shoot down the missiles. japan's prime minister was asked about that report today. but president trump interrupted and spoke for him. >> if i could just take a piece of the prime minister's answer. he will shoot them out of the sky...

Rothkompf, a visiting scholar at a carnegie endowment for international peace. david, so much to talk about here. first of all, that comment of the era of strategic patience is over with north korea, what is the alternative to patience? >> well, there is no alternative to patience and i think one of the most interesting things was that the president's own national security adviser, hr mcmaster, took the time to say just as the president was delivering remarks like this that he didn't think that preemptive strikes against north korea were possibility. so if you can't do preemptive strikes, you ...

Strikes, you actually can't have an alternative to strategic patience. at the same time, by the way, we should note that a couple days ago the department of defense said that in order to deal with the north korean nuclear weapons, we'd have to launch a land war which would cost hundreds of thousands of lives so it seems to me like the department of defense and the national security adviser are reining in the president because they're afraid he's going to say something reckless and insane because he keeps doing that. >> david, apparently no one's explained to the president why the national of s...