>> nbc's white house correspondent kristen welker is live in springfield, missouri, and courtney kuby joins me here on set. kristen, first to you, the secretary of defense is saying that we're not out of diplomatic solutions, but it really seems to contradict what the president tweeted earlier today. what happens now? >> well, look, bottom line, casey, the president's strategy has always been to talk tough when it comes to north korea. we saw that, remember, when he was on his working vacation in bedminster when the president really ramped up his rhetoric and threatened actions like the world has never seen in north korea, the reality is behind the scenes, if you talk to u.s. officials they still want to see a diplomatic resolution to north korea's nuclear provocations. president trump spoke with the prime minister of japan in recent days, other regional partners, really trying to get them to turn up the heat on

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