i am just kind of disappointed that now we have politicized mike hayden wrote in a wonderful op-ed the other day, it was the only two hours as a cia director he would go to the games and lose himself. at the end of the game for the spectators, it is a game. i get that it is a tough press that profession, but it brought people together and now we are seeing actions that are dividing them. in that sense, i am disappointed and i hope we can turn the volume in the heat down and let's get back to enjoying football and people not having to make political statements at the beginning of the games. [applause] mr. tapper: the north korean crisis is obviously foremost on the minds of the u.s. military right now. to a lot of our friends in europe and other parts of the asld, they see this crisis two erratic unstable world leaders, kim jong-un and president trump squaring off against each other and they are afraid of how it is going to end . is that a fair way to look at this crisis and what do you think of president trump matching, in some cases, the rhetoric we have come to be used to from north

i've heard mike hayden talk to you about that, and i know he's written about it.sober warning. civilization, in part, is the institutionalization of the rule of law, of minority rights, of a free press, of the kinds of incredible guarantees that we made as a nation from our very founding. civilization also requires leadership so that when people start engaging in white supremacy talk and they parade as neo-nazis and they're in the ku klux klan, we need leadership at the higher part of our government to say that's not acceptable. part of what makes us this dynamic extraordinary country which i'm very optimistic about long term is your diversity, is the fact we brought people together from all over to be part of the american dream and the american experiment. so our civilization which has the attributes of the kind of institutional supports and democracy and citizenship and voting being absolutely core to that, has to be defended internally and externally. i'm just hoping that more people, and particularly more republicans will speak up because if we begin to see th

say, i'm just sort of disappointed that, you know, now we have politicized football, you know, as mike haydenhours they'd go to the games and you just lose himself in the game. so in that sense, i'm just sort of disappointed. i hope we can turn the volume down, and let's get back to enjoying football and people not having to make political statements at the beginning of the games. [ applause ] >> the north korean crisis is obviously foremost on the minds of u.s. military right now. to a lot of our friends in europe and in other parts of the world, they see this crisis as two erratic, unstable world leaders, kim jong-un and president trump, squaring off each other against each other and they're afraid of how it's going to end. is that a fair way to look at this crisis? >> well couple items here, i think. first of all, to put this in context and to be fair to this administration, i think you have to acknowledge that they are facing a reality that no other president has faced previously. and that is that this individual, kim jong-un, impulsive at the very least, i don't think suicidal, and that'