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Right now we're playing a bit of brinksmanship with them. so, i got to believe that president trump and the president of china had a conversation about this, and there might be some strategic messaging going on here through the tweet that you read. that's how president trump communicates. and so, as we look at where north korea gets its power from, it's one-minute mig flight from seoul, one of the largest economies of the world, the republic of korea, it can hit with ballistic missiles, japan, one of the largest economies of the world. that's where it gets leverage from. this has been a fester...

What we call flexible deterrent options. we can do a show of force, we can do a surgical strike, we can do much more than that. i think the discussion is what comes next, i think what comes next is president trump saying "how do you like me now"? don't do this anymore or you're going to get more of this. we talk about regime change, that's not something i think we want at this moment. i think it's something eventually that politically and diplomatically we should go after, but right now but we need to do, we cannot let use of weapons of mass destruction stand anywhere in the world because ther...

Military situation changed in syria? >> well, john, poppy, thanks for having me on. you know, the key thing is we've got boots on the ground in syria, and so we need to protect them. and i can assure you that they have all the protection that they require. this is a very legitimate act. it was the right thing to do, president trump did. and we have a series of what's called flexible deterrent options, and you can do a show of force with the six fleet and the med, or you can launch some cruise missiles, or you can do a lot more. and so, this is on the lower scale, in my view, of things that pre...

What we have is flexible deterrent options. when you look at an objective you want to achieve from u.s. military standpoint when our vital interests are threatened and weapons of mass destruction are used, we can do more. to me. this is exactly the right response because we have to remember that warfare is politics by another means. there is a political outcome we want which is for assad not to use chemical weapons. i would take it a step further. we have to have a plan now. i'm sure that plan is already in the works or not already done to enact a coalition to pull together a coalition to get ...