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It was stephen miller. so you have an aide that is not john kelly the chief of staff, who is trying to push the president in a more centrist and even tempered direction but ste outside advisers and it's stephen miller who won't try to pull him back from pushing out these tweets. >> i think you bring up a great point, bob. a lot of people are talking about trump finally untethered, maybe trump unhinged. i'm sure donald trump has never read "the art of war" but one of the key bits of advice from that is that when you are weak, look strong, project strength and he certainly has to feel, does not ...

Anything, does that project strength to anybody? as the congressman was saying earlier, anybody who's bragging about the size of anything, doesn't that project weakness? >> it does. you have to remember north korea has a history of making provocative comments. they're not just making them now. and barack obama used to ignore them and that's what most presidents do. whereas donald trump is sort of projecting insecurity by having to respond to this and then sort of do this one up man ship mine is bigger than yours. and then saying mine works, it's like baiting him to say yours doesn't, show us t...

This magnitude always brings that back into the political conversation. president choosing to focus more on what he called a deranged gunman. president asked about this does signal how difficult it can be for a president traveling overseas to manage domestic crises that come about and large issues about his nearly two week long trip here in asia. president has tried to project strength, friendship and notably, restraint, something we should point out, when he's coming to japan, talking about north korea. didn't repeat some of the rhetoric we've heard, referring to kim jong-un as little rocket ...

Ukraine. and this is going to be an ongoing source of controversy between the two. so what president trump needs to do is project strength because russians respect strength. he needs to bring up the cyber intrusions in the u.s. democratic process. putin will not respect him if he doesn't do that but should open the door for cooperation. in summary, president trump needs to confront where he must on these cyber but talk about where can we find zones of cooperation. if he does that the meeting will have a reasonably good outcome for both sides. >> admiral, i don't know if our control room has th...

President was normal. right before his statement on syria, this is not normal for a president. it creates a huge distraction, gets tons of coverage and yesterday should have been about project strength as he did on syria. but it is pure trump and classic trump for him to also be willing to address bill o'reilly. there's no reason to address it, none. >> none at all. alleys, wh elise, what do you think? >> i guess he can juggle multiple issues at a time that are of importance to him. it's shocking that so many staffers are around this president and he still continues -- he cannot control his im...