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Studies. guys, we've got a lot to break down. jeremy, let's talk about the president's tweet. do you buy the idea that by threatening north korea he is forcing kim jong-un to seek talks with south korea as a way to bring down tensions? >> no, i don't think so, stephanie. i mean there's deterrence and then there's needless provocation. the way that our president conducted this needless provocation was in a very juvenile, immature and embarrassing fashion. i think it erodes our credibility when the president goes out there and brags about the size of our nuclear arsenal. it sends a signal to kim...

Place nobody has gone before and certainly no american president has gone before. >> david, you wrote in an op-ed about america's foreign policy problems. one of the issues is that we believe being a number one superpower is our god-given right, not something that has to be earned. talk us through that, because just this morning when i wake up to read that china is investing over $2 billion in an artificial intelligence plant, center, it makes me concerned that while we're dancing around this twitter nonsense, you've got other countries truly focused on becoming a superpower. >> i think it's t...

Past and hang your hat on it. >> i agree. >> it was president trump who said in the last year to john dickerson at cbs, i don't stand for anything. he changes his tune every day. brian, i want you to weigh in because you talk so much about the risks about president trump and his authoritarian-like behavior. to david's point, what are the risks around the world of president trump's tweets, the things he says, and how other countries respond to it? >> well, it's destroyed our relationship with allies and destroyed america's credibility. you see the pew research survey from june of 2017 showed th...

About our place in the world, trump's tweets matter. they are presidential statements and they carry the weight of american credibility. he is diminishing the office he holds every day. in consequence, diminishing our country's reputation in the rest of the world. >> jeremy, let's say i'm a true trumper. i might respond to brian's comments saying those numbers, those statistics around the world, you shouldn't listen to the polls, who cares what the people around the world think, we're america and america first. those same people who believe that, believe in president trump and don junior. they...

This is the first step of 2018, stephanie, and it could be a difficult year there, steph. >> hans, thank you so much. moving on, speculation raging this morning over there mitt romney will run for sfath in the state of utah after the current senator orrin hatch announced he will retire at the end of the year. romney, the former massachusetts governor in 2012 and republican presidential nominee, added fuel to the fire after quickly changing his social media location from massachusetts to utah. i want to get my panel to weigh in, matt walsh, david rabcoff. what are you hearing about a senate r...