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From a trump administration. if you look at the actions of the trump administration, they need to have some sort of peaceful solution. whether it's a diplomatic or sanctions that we saw from the u.n. resolution, whether it's what we heard from secretary tiller tillerson. it was said yesterday that we are prepared to protect the homeland, so we're looking at all avenues, possible from a police peaceful solution. >> trish: what you think of folks coming out saying he wasn't prepared, he was off-the-cuff in his comments? that seems a little far-fetched to me. in other words, there was a couple ho...

Off-the-cuff. but you are right, there was a strategy for a very muscular, strong response. i think the specific words that he used is what caused tillerson and mattis to come in the day after and try to get it back into the box of not just rhetoric, but what does this mean towards policy. >> but what does it mean towards policy? what we're getting now is, well, it doesn't have to mean military. it doesn't have to mean force. it could mean that it's just tough talk, and that that's what this kind of mad man in north korea will respond to. is that the best reckoning at this point? >> i mean, re...

Stood behind jfk. this is analogous to the cuban missile crisis. we need to come together. >> michael steele is an msnbc political analyst. also former chair of the republican national committee. ron klain served as chief of staff to vice presidents gore and biden. mr. steele, let me start with you, sir. just your general take on the president's blunt language. do you think his comments likely were off-the-cuff, or do you think that those comments were a scripted and vetted by a national security staff? >> it certainly wasn't the latter, no. this was definitely donald trump sowing donald trump...

Discipline and order. just moving the senior staff meeting from 8:45 to 8:00, that shows who is in charge and who is running the ship and putting it in a room where there's not a television so the staff is not distracted. the focus should be on the chief and not the chief, because the president's going to do what he wants to do, but another key point is also limiting the flow of information into the president's office and into the oval office and his desk. that's where he gets his ideas with his tweets and things that he speaks off-the-cuff at these events that get him into trouble and these a...

I want to bring back in the panel. it is interesting for months the white house has been saying everything is running incredibly smoothel. general kelly is an acknowledgment that that has not been the case. that's not truthful. do you think this is going to last? >> there's clearly a new cher rif in town and all of those details that michael pointed out go to show that, yes, kelly is coming in and restoring discipline and order there. and other little things we're hearing about, is just moving the senior staff meeting from 845 to 800. and putting in a room where there's not television so the s...