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Retired Gen. Michael Hayden, who served as both the director of the NSA and the CIA, said Monday that some of President Trumps rhetoric on North Korea could lead to great danger.

A very tough, but a very precise statement, Hayden told CNNs New Day, referring to the statementSecretary of Defense James MattisJames Norman MattisThis week: Harvey aid at top of long to-do list as Congress returns Week ahead in defense: Senators pick up work on defense bill | Briefings on North Korea, Afghan troop surge Chinese Ambassador: China will never allow chaos and war on the Korean Peninsula MORE made on Sunday afterNorth Korea saidthat it successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen bomb that can be placed on an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

Which is a little bit different than some of the things the president has been allowing himself to say, Alisyn, which have been very tough, but very imprecise, and that could lead to great danger, Hayden told host Alisyn Camerota.

Secretary Mattis had very strong language, but it was about a North Korean threat, not a North Korean capability, Hayden explained.

In other words, Alisyn, I think he was trying to make a distinction between were willing to pre-empt an imminent threat from North Korea but were not willing, its not our policy at least not yet, to conduct a preventive war to prevent the North Koreans from acquiring that kind of capability.

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