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Capabilities, you're talking about allies in the region, south korea, for example, and certainly others in the pacific rim. so there's a lot more at stake here that could impact that hot rhetoric. but for the base, it's like -- it's what they like to hear. the question is, are they prepared to deal with the consequences if action is taken. >> ron, the president's remarks reportedly took a number of folks by surprise. not just his advisers, but members of his own party. defense secretary mattis, he issued a statement on noeshrth korea, and it reads in part -- this is from the defense secretary,...

Host of his show on cnn. what do you make of his tweets? >> i thought it was excellent. i particularly like the point about timing. i look at the president on twitter before i go in the radio. yesterday's 6:00 a.m. hour, seven different tweets. my list may not even be complete. what he does is set the stage for programs like yours and alisyn's on television, mine on radio and the entire news cycle of the day. it's almost as if we're playing catchup from the get-go and he's set the tone. one other observation i would make, his base is comprised of people who like him and people who despise his ...

Material support remedy that is available is particularly important to try to prevent attacks as opposed to playing catchup after attacks have occurred. >> thank you. one last quick question. will you commit to informing this committee if you witness or learn of any efforts to interfere with the work of special counsel mueller? >> assuming that i can do it legally and appropriately, absolutely. i'm very committed to supporting director mueller in the special counsel investigation in whatever way is appropriate for me to do that. i worked closely with director mueller in my past government serv...

Could. it's crazy to think that, you know. this whole thing has been all unprecedented ground, right? every single day something new happens that's unprecedented. it's like how do we deal with that, and everything is playing catchup if you know what i mean. but for our show, i mean, it is -- like i said, it's make believe, and these things happen, and hopefully it will be a fun escape for people to step away from the real life politics. >> that's michael kelly, a really good guy. plays a bad guy of course. "house of cards" is back today. i guess you can watch the whole thing all night. when we...

Now you have your state department, your national security team sort of playing catchup which is never a good thing. two, from what we understand, they're going to be background conversations to sort of dial this back as quickly as possible because the president cannot afford to be yet again associated with a dictator and bad guy who has not worked in the best interests of the united states but more importantly worked in the best interests of his own people. >> what is this affinity for strong men? vladimir putin,er doe wan evening saying kim jong-un is a smart cookie because he's murdered the...