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Project strength to anybody? i mean, just from like as congressman haass was saying earlier from the school yard bully to anybody who's bragging about the size of anything, doesn't that project weakness really? >> i think it does project weakness. you have to remember that north korea has a history of making provocative comments. they're not just making them now. and bah iraqi obama used to ignore them and that's what most presidents do, they ignore these comments. whereas donald trump is sort of projecting insecurity by having to respond to this and then sort of do this one upmanship of mine ...

Used to with this guy. he's looking to pull senior level or higher level leaders into a fight with him so he can look -- look really good. here's the other thing, anderson. a smart guy once told me that whenever you're dealing in international relations and you're dealing with one country and you're attempting to keep it transactional, you also have to consider the rule of five. and in this particular case, the other four are russia, china, japan and south korea. and in the case that we're talking about, russia and china want us to look somewhat like the irrational actor. south korea wants our...

Those actually were coalition-building messages to build. this one is a coalition destroying message. when the u.s. has been successful when we've gone into battle, it's with a coalition. so for instance the goufl war. that's what we need to do. we need to not only have our allies, japan and south korea, but we have to neutralize moscow and beijing. and a tweet like this does the opposite. he has squandered an opportunity. >> we didn't see that effect with the fire and furry that you mentioned earlier and the rocket man comments before. as a matter of fact, it drew more attention to the issue ...

The united states on why these tweets are not only problematic but dangerous and what the real life implications are not just for american citizens, but our allies and south korea are with tweets such as. 'and furthermore, i have questions for twitter and the president's tweets, in my opinion, clearly violate the standards. and so how long are we going to allow the president of the united states to act as a just a reckless bully on the internet? a bull that i has the power to bring us into the nuclear war. >> i got to say, if those tweets violate twitter standards, 90% of the tweets i see viol...

Diplomacy wins out. >> some say this is a sign of strength by the president who doesn't use the kind of diplomatic language that's been used in the past to not great effect. i wonder what you make of that because general hurtling is saying this is president trump lowering himself to the level of kim jong-un and sort of getting into this war of words on the same level. >> yeah, i mean frankly when i saw the tweet tonight i was pretty shocked, you know, as a national security professional that has dealt with north korea for many years. i personally just was agassed at what was said on twitter. i...