Well, I think it's an example of ad-lib at your peril. That when you improvise without really vetting this through your national security team and have an interagency process so everyone knows exactly what will be said, then you run the risk, as we saw yesterday, that the president made a statement indicating that a mere threat would be met with a very overwhelming, and the implication was nuclear response.
Former Defense Secretary William Cohen criticized President Trump's off-the-cuff remarks regarding North Korea.
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