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Remarks that they continued to make on behalf of their foolishness. >> just last week, president trump spoke off-the-cuff and he threatened nuclear war with north korea and he carefully read the statement that explicit he did not mention the words kkk, white nationalism and are we to believe that he's not capable of speaking his mind and speaking directly when he wants to about what he wants to. >> i think anybody who has watched this president's campaign and his presidency thus far knows that president trump says exactly what he means and means exactly what he says and then when you listen or...

Militarily in venezuela. it makes no sense ended department of defense had to practically come out and say that. there is a very clear strategy for the whole national security team has in place. i think the president's off-the-cuff remarks this week - we have avoided sanctioning oil because doing so would probably drive prices appear so they are economic levers we can use with this kind of bombastic rhetoric that everyone knows really the solid policy foundation, does not help a regional situation that quite frankly is engulfed in flames, could have really serious impact to regional security. ...

More threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. >> i think americans should sleep well at night. i have no concerns about this particular rhetoric of the last few days. >> point, counterpoint. >> is the white house staff, the cabinet, they getting better at -- at managing the president's sort of off-the-cuff, one-off remarks on things like north korea? >> it's hard to say whether they're getting better. this white house has shown that off the cuff is something they prefer. you know, certainly it is unusual to say the least to see a u.s. pre...

All right. so the white house said that president trump's fire and fury comment, his warning to north korea, was not scripted. it was off-the-cuff. also this morning, the president is once again attacking senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell. let's get the bottom line from david chalian. david, i'm interesting in that fire and fury comment. because it did seem as though it was very deliberate. the president delivered it twice. it was very deliberate. how -- why do we believe that it wasn't -- that he and bannon didn't work that out beforehand? >> we believe what our sources are telling us, ...

The compilation you did, it's good and instructive. it happens over and over with trump. he says something and everyone overreacts to come and then come after a night sleep, you wake up and go "oh, okay, wait. i get it." yesterday, it wasn't that it was off-the-cuff, obviously he was talking about north korea with his national security team all the time but it wasn't written down and it wasn't in a teleprompter and did not go a through white house staffing. but this is the president of the united states. he has to make a decision now. he's facing something that noen other president has faced. ...