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Allies that thinks the credibility of our defense commitments aren't real or miscalculation by pyongyang who misreads a signal that president trump inadvertently sends. i think these words matter extraordinarily and that they seem to be uncoordinated from any major strategy is concerning. >> do you want to respond to that, major general? >> words matter but in this particular case, actions are incredibly important. if we, in fact, continue to hold and we do, the military option as being part of the solution, we understand that there is nothing but a bad outcome that would result from that. cle...

How do you see it? >> the key considerations now are stability, deterrence, containing and constraining the regime for the long-run. the trump administration at times has looked like it is trying to manufacture a crisis and enough pressure that north korea falls to its knees and voluntarily disarms, volunteers to eliminate its nuclear weapons. that's just not going to happen now. and so we really need to stop being a force for instability on the peninsula and start prioritizing stability. the first step is to reach out to u.s. allies, reassure them that our defense commitments are undiminished...

Hostilities. >> the secretary of state and a second have to come out and confirm what the commander in chief has already told the world and they have to do it because the president's chief strategist has given interviews saying that the president was out of his mind, that there would be no military response to north korea acting in a way that's hostile towards the united states' interests. >> joe, i think this is the most damaging part of this interview because it undercuts u.s. policy. now, many people will argue that, look, there really is no good military option here with respect to north k...

>> this ceremony is a day for both remembrance and resolve. we remember and mourn those nearly 3,000 innocent people who were brutally murdered by terrorists on september 11th, 2001. our nato allies responded swiftly and decisively invoking for the first time in history article 5 collective defense commitments. >> and yet jack rice he did not reaffirm article 5 himself. he also shoved the representative from montenegro who just resisted vladimir putin and joined nato, which was sort of awkward, just shoved him out of the way, which is a weird thing as well, and said that the germans are very, ...

Was not reaffirmed on this trip at all. >> jack rice, what he did do was essentially say nato owes us money in the united states. let's listen what he actually did say about article 5. listen to what he said. >> this ceremony is a day for both remembrance and resolve. we remember and mourn those nearly 3,000 innocent people who were brutally murdered by terrorists on september 11th, 2001. our nato allies responded swu swiftly and decisively invoking for the first time in history article 5 collective defense commitments. >> and yet jack rice he did not reaffirm article 5 himself. he also shoved...