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I thought yesterday in congress we saw a leader who is dealing in hope and i think unfortunately our president tends to deal in fear. and i'll give you a pragmatic point as well. that macron i think sees, which is they look at this administration as a big complicated difficult machine. i think macron has taken a very french in a sense a very pragmatic approach. he quoted voltaire yesterday, which is that life is a shipwreck, save what you can. i think the french are trying to save what they can. and i applaud it. i think the u.s. and france together, especially if we can pull nato into this. w...

Denuclearization in north korea, i'll write my letter saying give it to president trump. i'm just skeptical that this strategy is going to succeed because we really have not seen evidence that the north koreans are prepared to go all the way to denuclearization, and until i see that -- until i see that trade space that might happen, keep me in the skeptical camp. >> we've seen north korea will make good on their word. we want to see the denuclearization, and if this president can accomplish it, all the better. great. michael mcfaul, always great to see you and get your insights. thank you. >> ...

Sea. secondly, it's like the movie, "ca "casa blanca." i have spoken and written about the idea of a maritime blockade. blockade, a strong word, but maritime separation. that would force china to really comply or not. i think we have really got to push them in that direction. in terms of secretary tillerson and should we sit down without preconditions, i'm in the camp of, yeah, we ought to sit down. i think there ought to be minimal level of preconditions. i think we could probably find trade space in there to get it moving in a better direction. to richard os points, are sanctions enough, the...

Secretary tillerson, but they didn't. he should be the guy being quiet and let, in my view, and let his secretary of state and his secretary of defense be either the good cop/bad cop and him weigh in at the appropriate time. but that's not what's happening. i think by doing that, he's limiting his option and making things a little bit tenser. >> admiral kirby, again, he seems to be setting up a confrontation that somebody has to blink on august 15th. >> yeah, this is brinkmanship. it's playing chicken on a geopolitical scale. look, i still think there's room for diplomacy. if you listened to s...

The word war is not good. i am not sure what he's trying to do. i thought he would tamp it down. i thought some of his aids would get him to get under control, maybe general kelly or tillerson, he did not. he should be the guy be quiet and let his secretary of state and defense to be the bad cop and him weighing in at the appropriate time. that's not what's happening. by doing that, he's limiting his options and making things a little tenser. >> and again, he seems to be setting a confrontation that somebody has to blink on august 15th. >> yeah, this is plain chicken on geo political scale. if...