Tillerson dials back rhetoric

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By Joshua Berlinger, Zachary Cohen and Angela Dewan, CNN
Updated 10:44 AM ET, Wed August 9, 2017

... Tillerson defended Trump's comments but said there was no sign that the threat level from North Korea had changed and that Americans should "sleep well at night."

His unscheduled remarks, on a flight out of the region early Wednesday, appeared designed to dial back the unprecedented rhetoric from Trump ...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/09/politics/north-korea-donald-trump/index.html

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1. Tillerson gives the baby a bottle.

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2. Threat to North Korea Was Improvised

By PETER BAKER and GLENN THRUSH
AUG. 9, 2017

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Trump delivered his “fire and fury” threat to North Korea on Tuesday with arms folded, jaw set and eyes flitting on what appeared to be a single page of talking points set before him on the conference table at his New Jersey golf resort.

The piece of paper, as it turned out, was a fact sheet on the opioid crisis he had come to talk about, and his ominous warning to Pyongyang was entirely improvised, according to several people with direct knowledge of what unfolded. In discussions with advisers beforehand, he had not run the specific language by them ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/09/us/politics/trump-north-korea.html