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Engage with north korea in a way that's not just sanctions but something extra as well. >> yeah. because certainly as you pointed out but we don't know the new leader so much, kim jong-un doesn't want to see the end of his regime and the annihilation of his country, so one would hope he has no intention of using these weapons, but he certainly has been, you know, sending signals to japan and guam as well or is that just bluster? >> it's not bluster because he's been doing what he's been doing. obviously he stepped down in terms of firing them off toward the u.s. territory. but the missiles and...

A few minutes later, a tweet from president trump saying, north korea disrespected the wishes of china and its president when it launched unsuccessfully a missile today. bad, exclamation point. i don't know it's cognitive dissidense. >> there's a lot of rhetorical bluster going on. but what's ultimately different? that's what came out of the meeting with the senators, that they had. a lot of the senators felt like, what was the point of this? ultimately, what they said was, we're going to use diplomacy with our allies and push for economic sanctions. that's essentially what the obama administr...

President obama -- >> anything around here, words do matter. you hear this about the president saying, he -- his words matter. it's not bluster. he is saying things no president said in a long time. >> it's possible that the words are aimed at china just as much as they're aimed at north korea. do something or else i'm unpredictable and you don't know what i'm going to do. >> there's method to that madness. i understand that. just from the flip side of it, the way all of this -- especially the nine attempts that he -- that kim jong-un has launched under this president and trump's responses, fr...

Up, to apply the phrase. >> half baked. >> and i think that's important to note. to heidi's point, he's drawing a very bright line for the country right now and he's saying with these big issues that we have to confront in health care to questions of war and peace, we need to be smart about this and we cannot fall prey to this made up etiology, this made of nationalist approach. i was talking with some republicans today saying, that's always been a part of the republican brand. i've been a republican for 40 years. i never had this conversation. i chaired it for two. we never had a meeting on r...