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Poppy, back to you. >> paula hancocks, thank you very much. joining us rear admiral john dir by and daily beast columnist, author of "north korea takes on the world," nice to have you both. the message from the administration this weekend is diplomacy above all. you had dunford coming out of that meeting today and saying the priority of the u.s. military is to support a peaceful resolution to the north korean crisis, is this the president trying to tamp down his own rhetoric from last week? >> i think a lot of what we've seen since the fire and fury comment has been senior cabinet officials an...

Mean, that is probably the most hostile diplomatic atmosphere you could enter. >> well, it's never -- it's been pretty frosty of late, that's for sure. >> yeah. >> i think, look, the president ought to take advantage of the leverage he may now have with the russians with respect to diplomacy and put tillerson on a plane a little early. send him to geneva. try to set up a meeting with russians and the u.n. and try to restart some meaningful political talks. one of the things they knew before was that there wasn't necessarily the threat of military force when we sat down at the diplomatic table,...