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Discussion and preparation potentially for what the administration has called preventive war, or preemptive war. envision the united states potentially attacking north korea in the absence of an imminent or actual threat against the united states. deterence makes good sense, that's very essential for us to maintain, and obviously we don't take off the table the threat of the use of force. but preemptive war if one were thinking of executing that, would be catastrophic. >> oh, susan. so san , susan. i nearly walked out of the room. the great tabby bruce is with us. i've got to say this, tabby. ...

Amazing speed, coverage and control. change the way you wifi. xfinity. the future of awesome. >> back now to president trump's new stern warnings for north korea. the president's been receiving pushback from some critics like former national security advisor susan rice, who don't like this tough talk aimed at kim jong-un. >> preemptive war, if one were thinking of executing that would be catastrophic. trump's initial threat was tied to not an attack on the u.s., which we need to be clear about, but kim jong-un making another threat. so we need to be careful,

Discussion and preparation potentially for what the administration has called preventive war, or preemptive war. envision the united states potentially attacking north korea in the absence of an imminent or actual threat against the united states. deterence makes good sense, that's very essential for us to maintain, and obviously we don't take off the table the threat of the use of force. but preemptive war if one were thinking of executing that, would be catastrophic. >> oh, susan. so san , susan. i nearly walked out of the room. the great tabby bruce is with us. i've got to say this, tabby. ...

Understand the president is angry and expressing the anger of the american people. and as as a republican am angry. >> go nuclear on congress? >> no, i didn't realize you were so war-like. but no, in terms of the senate, what we're talking about is a pe pequisite, basically, a prerogative of senators only in the u.s. senate is a majority 60. that's an outrage. that's what is holding us back. and it is a false -- >> because they couldn't get 60 for health care. >> but here's why. when you try to craft a bill under the terms of reconciliation, the path is so narrow that you cannot -- jeffrey, yo...

>> you can say the president's language in north korea and this time, james mattis, says that the diplomacy is the u.s. priority now north korea. >> my portfolio, my mission and responsibility is to have military options, should they be needed. right now ambassador haley, you can see the american effort is diplomatic led and it has diplomatic tractions and gaining diplomatic results. i want to stay right there, right now. the tragedy of war is well enough to know, it does not need another characterization beyond the fact that it is catastrophic. >> mattis commanded the u.s. force and he knows ...