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Feeling we'll see a lot of you in the days and weeks to come. thank you. >> thank you. up next, amid all of this uncertainty in north korea, midterm elections are on the horizon. are president trump's falling poll numbers any indication that the democrats are in for a big win? and the senate majority leader takes his own shot at the president saying he doesn't understand the democratic process. >> our new president has not been in this line of work before, and i think had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process. i came across this house with water d...

Thrones. i'm going to fire everybody. it was really wild. >> do you watch that like everybody else does and just say like what the she can going on? >> you're talking about game of thrones or the white house? there are two scenarios where we would go to war with north korea, they attack guam or some other american interest or our allies or if they tried to keep developing a icbm with a nuclear weapon on top to hit the homeland. we would act. >> that's senator lindsey graham this morning as we follow developments with tensions escalating dramatically between the u.s. and north korea. just a s...

U.s. citizens. what are the options for the u.s. military in a situation like this one? joining me now, retired general barry mccaffrey. good to see you. we can start with the premise that all of know that any military option is not a good one. having said that. when you heard the president say fire and fury, did you consider it a threat of military action and when a president says words like that, what are our armed forces doing, if anything, to position themselves in the case they get called on? >> well, obviously very unhelpful comment by the president, you notice that tillerson and governo...

Some talk talk, if you have confusion, if you have our allies wondering who speaks for the united states what exactly is our policy when off dhaesk deals with the korean peninsula that's not fully staffed. what does that mean and what does it mean for americans waking up? seeing these headlines that talk about fire and fury, and yet, they have the secretary of state saying, you know what, sleep well at night. >> well, mixed messages and a lack of staffing in that sort of thing, kris, does as one other guest said tleeds a bad outcome. and that is something to be avoided and the administration n...

Focus on six interviews. it's set to premier next year. the opening bell ringing just moments ago on the new york stock exchange as the showdown with north korea is royaling global markets. asian and european markets have take an hit this morning. right now u.s. markets are down. i want to bring in msnbc contributor josh barro, senior editor for business insider. what's going on? >> the markets are nervous, but they're not panicking. dow down was about a quarter of a percent. we saw asian markets and korea down about a percent and japan down a little more than a percent. so the markets are r...