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Victims. i don't disagree with the content necessarily of what he said. i think we all believe in due process. coming from a legal standard, of course, we believe in a presumption of innocence. but that's not the same standard when it comes to employment, especially not employment in the white house. and i think it would have done well for the president to say what mike pence said, that there is a zero tolerance for domestic abuse and even accusations of domestic abuse. and unfortunately he didn't say that in his statement and that's the part i disagree with. >> so allie, you say if you were a...

Thank you, dan, very much. cnn political analyst julian zeleny is with us now as well as cnn national security analyst samantha and cnn international correspondent will ripley. >> we are following up on the comments the president made regarding china and its leadership there. you're there. you know this is not a laughing matter. >> reporter: yeah. this is clearly, even though no official response from the chinese government, they often don't respond to president tr h trump's off-the-cuff marks this has to be discouraging for many people in china that hoped xi jinping would solidify the trans...

Do that. the second thing i would do is see if the president of the united states is sending some kind of message to the potential defendant or other witnesses. that's in two categories. one, is he sending a message of intimidation in some way through himself or his cohorts suggesting people should not be talking and people should keep their mouths shut, which happens in life from time-to-time. the second thing is whether or not he sends a message of reassurance. >> i want to get your legal perspective on this. how prarcht is it to watch how trump reacts to this? >> i think it's very important...

Off-the-cuff at these rallies. and those are the areas where the president has gotten himself into the most trouble with his nfl comments, with his tweets today about puerto rico, his charlottesville comment. all of these things are things that the president does on his own, and no chief of staff, regardless of who it is, is going to be able to stop that. >> matt, it shouldn't be forgotten. tom bar rack said what he said today, but he did originally say that this president is better than that. he didn't like some of the rhetoric, some of the things this president was doing. and again, i have t...

Good and instructive. it happens over and over with trump. after a night's 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 through white house staffing. this is the president of the united states. he has to make a decision now. he's facing something that no other president has faced. now the situation got real. he has to do something. he was talking directly to north korea. i think he...