Fell on hiroshima according to one group of experts. President trump reaffirmed the u. S. Commitment to protection its allies in a call with the japanese Prime Minister as south korea, meantime, takes the step of conducting live fire missile drills. We have a team of reporters and Analysts Covering the Nuclear Standoff and the increasing tensions on the korean peninsula. I want to begin with Cnns Barbara Starr at the pentagon because barbara, that statement we just heard from defense secretary mattis was both extraordinary and very carefully worded. Indeed, ana. Extraordinary because it was him out there in front of tv cameras standing at his side, of course, general joseph dunford, general of the joint chiefs and the chief military adviser to the president of the United States and neither of those men particularly cared for appearing in Television News cameras so the fact that they came out was very noteworthy. The message, very detailed and pretty specific saying that the u. S. Would support its allies ironclad commitment that the u. S. Would, if threatened, if attacked the u. S. , its allies and guam that it would respond with massive military power, but what does this all mean . This is still the key question because we have heard this before. The military options, none of them are good, we all know that. Any attack on north korea could lead them to a quick counterattack on seoul leading to tens of thousands of People Killed and it would be brutal and it would be ugly and still making the case for a military option and the reason is according to people who follow this, and officials that we talk to, they need to convince kim jongun that he cannot survive if he was to attack. Thats the key. Make him believe that his regime, not the north korean people, but his regime would be at risk. He is all about survival. The hope is if they can convince him that he cant survive, it could lead to diplomacy. We have heard from experts that the development of the Nuclear Program is some kind of insurance policy ken is enforcing here. I want to bring in ian lee. He is joining us from seoul, south korea and we learned south korea is now responding to pyongyang and i want to know more about these drills theyre conducting. What can they tell us . Ana, early this morning here in south korea, the military carried out two drills. The first was testing Ballistic Missiles that would be use to go in the infrastructure and the other test that was carried out by f15s and they were testing longrange air to surface missiles. A strong response to that north Korean Nuclear test. We also heard from President Trump who has criticized the south korean president moon jaein saying he hasnt had a tough response, and he said south korea is finding as ive told them that their talk of appeasement in north korea will not work. They will only understand one thing. And you know, ana, in the beginning president moon did come out with the softer approach to north korea saying he wanted diplomacy and dialogue, but he inherited a different world and one with a defiant north korea and defiant Nuclear Program and the United States with President Trump who was talking tough. So now were seeing this twopronged approach by the south koreans and one, they are conducting more military exercises and they say theyll work closer with the United States, and they also have called for the most advanced u. S. Strategic military assets and they havent specified what that exactly mean, but they want closer military cooperation with more exercises than on the other hand continue to isolate north korea diplomatically and economically through the international community, ana . Theres still this issue of confirming that this test is what north korea says it was. I know the u. S. Does have some ability to do some testing to try to find out exactly what it was, but theres been some kind of a snag as they were sending these sniffer jets. What more can you tell us about that . One of the typical ways they do this is the u. S. Military has plains with classified sensors onboard that basically collect air samples and they have to wait a couple of tests far Radioactive Material to rise from the earth and get into the airstream and they come into International Airspace and collect samples and one of the wrinkles here right now is the International Sources monitors that weve been talking to tell us they calculate the winds are to the north from this underground test site and that would tack a radioactive cloud over china and russia very difficult to get into that airspace. Barbara starr at the pentagon, and joining me now is cnn military analyst and former commanding general of the army forces in europe and also with us, retired army colonel and pentagon spokesman steve warren and Jennifer Ruben and a conservative columnist for the washington post. How worried are you and how worried should we all be that north korea might have the ability to attach a Hydrogen Bomb to an intercontinental ballistic missile. Thats of critical importance and weve also seen because as barbara just said, various seismic arrays that are measured the size of the force of this bomb from norway, all of the way to japan and there are seismic monitors that say this is a big one. That doesnt mean he can put it on a missile and make no mistake about that. Its much more difficult to have a Nuclear Weapon on the tip of an intercontinental ballistic missile, and they havent tested them the way they need to test them. I am very concerned and all of the National Security apparatus is concerned that they continue to advance their program i think again, kim jongun continuing to make threats and trying to get his face on the world stage. Secretary mattis statement seemed to be carefully worded as a former spokesman for the pentagon and someone who used to help craft these messages. What stood out to you . It was a very carefully worded message and he used a very good balance of some carrot and some stick. He reassured our allies, south korea, japan and others that we were with them and that our commitment to them in his words was iron clad. He also threatened the north koreans, but he only threatened them so far. He talked about overwhelming response and overwhelming force. He was careful to say that we are not interested in the annihilation of korth korea and they spent a lot of time thinking about how to calibrate this message so as barb starr said earlier that the north Korean Leader himself may well feel threatened, but perhaps the north korean people, whether or not they hear this message, we wont know, but this isnt for the north korean people. Its for the leadership. Jen every, the president s last tweet about north korea this morning reads the United States is considering in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with north korea. We know china is its economic driver for north korea. Its also our biggest trading partner in america. Is that a viable option . No, its not and its unfortunate that the president has gotten into the habit of making these over the top, ridiculous, empty threats because what hes doing is losing credibility, and not establishing it. No one believes what he says when he says Something Like that so why should the north koreans believe him when he says anything else. If he would stop making ridiculous promises or getting in front of the cameras, that would be a start and we saw that with general mattis. Secretary of defense mattis, and the other thing that he could do would be to avoid picking a fight of all time of our ally south korea and not only is he promising to pull out of a trade deal. Hes also accusing them, as i said, earlier of appeasement. That just warms the heart of the north koreans and they see us separating from their allies and thats not the way to go about it either, and the president needs to get a whole lot more discipline if were going to get through this. Has the president backed himself into the corner with the fire and fury remarks . And now this new trend to end trade and that doesnt seem like a realistic option. Weve said from the beginning, that this is all about controlling the tempo. In basketball terms, controlling the clock. You, we, the United States have the ability to actually control the tempo on all of these operations and by having blustering remarks, it puts the initiative on the part of the other side, kim jongun. The United States is going to need many, many allies and not only is it continuing to insult north korea, but the insult as jennifer just said to our allies and to a degree, japan and also to china and russia are involved in this and theyre all members of the sixparty talks when we were talking to north korea. Diplomacy has got to come first. I think steve would join me in saying this is not a military fight we want as the secretary said earlier, well take it on if north korea would threaten the United States and we have to get diplomacy on this first in order to try to tamp this down and as jennifer just said, were allowing others to take the initiative especially north korea when someone is blustery or brash or insulting to not only our enemy, but our allies. Youve talked about the importance of diplomacy here and he writes this morning, south korea is finding as i have told them that their talk of appeasement with north korea will not work. They only understand one thing. What is that one thing, colonel . The president clearly wanted to finish that and they only understand one thing and that is power, force or strength and something along those things. The general and jennifer are right on the money when they talk about the damage that it can do if we start speaking about our friends and allies right now, what the north koreans would like to do is drive a wedge into the u. S. South Korean Alliance and drive a wedge into the Japanese Alliance and so what we want to do is be very careful about how we word everything from tweets to more official statements because we risk helping the north koreans drive that wedge. What we saw from secretary mattis today was, in my view, a nice example of more statesmanship which is really whats required here. Statesmanship, thats that blending of the military, the diplomatic, the economic, all of the different types of power that we in america can bring to bear to a problem. Blending all of that together, calm, cool, collected, measured statements from the secretary of defense, this is the type of statesmanship that we need to see right now. Jennifer, the president has talked to some of our allies and we know he spoke to the japanese Prime Minister and he has tweeted at china. He said china is trying to help and having little success. He said he was disappointed to china and he said theres nothing for us, for north korea and we will no longer allow this to continue and china can solve this problem. Is china helping . Are they not helping . Are we going to end trade . Are we not going to ad trade . Do you find there say clear sense of where this president is going at this point . There certainly is not a clear sense, and were not going to end trade in china that would have precipitated a cries of huge dimensions. Part of the problem is the president has no idea that there is a language of diplomacy that when he speaks, believe it or not, people do take him seriously and its not a real estate deal where hes trying to bluff a bank into giving him more money or stop a competitor from bargaining against him. Do you think hes bluffing here . In large part its a bluff. Were not going to cut off trade with china and everyone who does business with north korea. Thats dangerous because then it becomes a question of what is he bluffing about and what has he done . One thing that is very important and we havent touched on, we have decimated the state department. We have a secretary of state who is trying for whatever reason, i think, to shrink, to almost delegitimize his own department. We dont have a Korean Ambassador and an assistant secretary for the east, and we can use diplomatic hands and voices any people on the ground in south korea to talk to the government there when the president says Something Like this. So we are really putting a stumbling block in front of ourselves. Were making ourselves less effective in the international, diplomatic realm. Got to leave it there. Thank you all. Coming up, the emotional moment when a houston flood victim is reunited with the man who rescued her. 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Turning now to the long recovery after Hurricane Harveys destruction. President trump marking a national day of prayer for victims of the catastrophic floods in texas and louisiana. The president and the first lady attending Church Services this morning in Downtown Washington as more texans return to flooddamaged homes and started clearing out the massive piles of debris. Houstons mayor says 95 of their city is now dry. Thats the good news, but there is a long way to go, so lets get right to rosa flores. Tell us more about houstons Recovery Efforts today. You know, that water is receding, people are starting to get back into their homes and putting them in the curb, but take a look at Buffalo Bayou right now. It is still way over its banks and its still a raging river and that area where you see those light lamps, those are actually part of a running trail that right now is still under water. According to authorities about 36,000 rescues happened. That doesnt count all of the Good Samaritans that tried to help their neighbors. Well, we met up with one woman who had an impromptu reunion with a man who rescued her. Take a look. I was right across the street. Oh, yeah. Those are the people who came and got me out of the water. My son couldnt come get me. They dont even know how to speak english, but they came and got me, and i want to thank them because i called for help and they couldnt get to me, but that young man said dont worry, mommy, i got you. I didnt know his name. He pushed me on the walker from here all of the way five blocks in the water way up to his neck and he had on my neck at the same time. This is my hero right here. This is my hero. [ applause ] thank you so much. Because you didnt have to do it, but you did, and i appreciate you so much, and [ applause ] and when i fell in the water his baby say, oh, im so sorry, shes 4 years old. Mommy, we didnt want to hurt you, so i want to thank them for looking out for me and they brought me to my pastors house and that was the only way i was going to get out of this water. [ speaking spanish ] he says that everyone is family. It doesnt matter what race you are. He says that everyone is family. Reporter these are photos taken by riveras family at the height of the storm. Thats how high the water was in that area. I should also add, ana, that javier was not only saving miss evelyn, he also had his pregnant wife and his three daughters with him. Wow. Rosa, what a touching story. Thank you so much for sharing with us. And keeping those people in our thoughts and prayers is so important right now as they try to get back on track with everything. Thank you again. Coming up, a congratulations and some advice. In his final moments in the oval office, president obama left a private letter for President Trump and we now know what it said word for word. Thats next. Rry used some. 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I just went to the oval office and found this beautiful letter from president obama it was really nice of him to do that, and we will cherish that, and we will keep that, and we wont even tell the press whats in that letter. Well, now, for the first time cnn has an exclusive look at the contents of that special letter, and it reads in part, dear mr. President , congratulations on a remarkable run. Millions have placed their hopes in you and all of us. Regardless of party should hope for expanded prosperity and security during your tenure. This is a unique Office Without a clear blueprint for success so i dont know if any advice from me will be particularliful helpful, still let me offer a few reflections from the past eight years. Weve both been blessed with great good fortune. Not everyone is so lucky. It is up to us to do everything we can to build more ladders of success for every child and family thats willing to work hard. Second, American Leadership in this world really is indispensable. It is up to us through action and example to sustain the International Order thats expanded steadily since the end of the cold war and upon which our own wealth and safety depends. I want to bring in cnn president ial historian douglas brinkley. Doug, this couldnt have been an easy letter for president obama to write. What was your impression . No. It couldnt have been easy at all. After all, Donald Trumps the original god father of the birther movement. Saying that obama wasnt born in the United States, and then barack obama had to watch the most brutal political cam camp in recent memory and Hillary Clinton getting pillared and defamed by donald trump, but he wanted here to show that there has to be a sense of continuity from administration to administration. This tradition of hitting a letter, and i think it is a tradition now that really was implemented by George Herbert walker bush after he lost to bill clinton back in 1992, and you see president obama trying to say open handedly saying i am here to help you and ill do Anything Possible to make you a success. In another party of the letter he goes on to say we are temporary occupants of this office and that makes us guardians of those Democratic Institutions like rule of law, separation of powers, equal protection and Civil Liberties that our fore bearers fought and bled for. What do you feel of the fact that President Trump felt the need to write that. I used to meet with President Trump and a group of historians and a few of us at the white house and he would always talk about being a chapter in history thats not about me. That its really about the continuity of american governance and you feel that in this letter. You feel a little bit of the awe that he had, the government agencies. Unfortunately, this letter has kind of dissolved in the sense the spirit of it once donald trump started trying to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act, going after dreamers and pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord and of course, famously claiming that barack obama was sick and that he tried to wiretap him in the trump tower which we know is bogus. So when you pull back from this historians are going to talk about what a gracious letter president obama wrote and how it may have helped donald trump get into the saddle for his first week in office and the deterioration of their relationship since then. Its kind of ironic that were talking about this letter that were just now getting a look at on the same day and were talking about the nuclear test in north korea because youll recall president obama warned President Trump that north korea would be his gravest Global Challenge and in the past we know its been pretty common for president s to call on their predecessors in times of crisis even if they dont like them personally, but these two, as far as we know, havent spoken since inauguration day. Do you think President Trump is putting himself at a disadvantage by not reaching out . Absolutely, and im glad you mentioned north korea because that is president obamas big concern. I personally, was waiting for the contents of this letter to leak out, and i thought it was probably about north korea and that was the most dangerous and north korea is not in it and yes, donald trump would be reaching out to jimmy cart tore ta about the middle east. Why not . Why not try to expand your weizman pool, but thats not who donald trump is. He constantly wants to create a rag ed edge on things and he operates through chaos and disharmony. He wants to be the star of the moment. He doesnt want to seem to the public like he needs to ask somebody like barack obama for advice, particularly when everyday hes trying to dismantle obamas legacy. So this is a fizzle, the relationship between these two, but the letter reminds us of what a class act president barack obama really is. He had harsh words for the current president there. You dont think the president , President Trump doesnt have the best interest of this country in mind, though, do you . I think hes limited in his ability to get advice from others. He has to be the bull who carries his own china shop around him and he has to be front and center and this has been talked about for months now and that doesnt allow him to do equal billing with another president and otherwise, she would have been meeting and talking to President Trump and why wouldnt you talk to president obama about the dreamers and why wouldnt you listen more clearly to the advice about Climate Change . Some president s have just an inability to want to deal with people that preceded them and bush 41 does not like donald trump. George w. Bush doesnt care for him. Jimmy carter doesnt care for him. Barack obama knows its a disaster going on. None of the former president s are keen to donald trump and he doesnt operate in the spirit of that letter where he has to support the govern am agencies and you dont mock people at state department or the Justice Department or fbi and donald trump admitted he came in to drain the swamp and in his mind, all of these expresident s are swamp creatures. Douglas brinkley, thank you, as always. Thank you. Coming up, the president teases a decision on daca with the fate of 800,000 at stake. Is the dream about to be over for undocumented immigrants who came to the u. S. As children . Unstop right there im about to pop a cap of mmm fresh in that washer with unstopables inwash scent boosters by downy. Because this scent lasts up to 12 weeks, which is longer than any relationship ive ever been in. Freshness for weeks whats going on here . Um. Im babysitting. Thatll be 50 bucks. You said 30 dollars. Yeah, well it was 30 before my fees, like the dogsitting fee. 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The white house says tuesday will be the day we learn the fate of daca, the obamaera program to protect socalled dreamers that gives legal status to immigrants brought to the United States as children essentially allowing them to work or go to college if they pass background checks and maintain a clean record. If the president decide toss end this program nearly 800,000 could face deportation and people like bruna distinto, she came from bolivia when she was 6. Theres manuel diaz who came from mexico when he was 2 and hes studying business economics. Hes holding down two jobs just to make tuition payments. Without work, he may not be able to finish school. Theres angel whoaxaca rivas. I spoke to him two years ago about what the daca program meant for him. We gave up our family to be a part of a bigger family here and sometimes thats hard, but now were a little more included. Its a good feeling. Angel is joining me now. We know the white house is going to make this decision on daca this tuesday, angel. How are you feeling right now . On my end its pretty nerveracking, to say the least. Its been a lot of stories and a lot of communities that come out in support in support of daca, and a very a very small minority of people that are against it for reasons that i cant understand. First of all, congratulations on graduating from college. You got this great education. What is next for you . What are your goals right now . Thank you, first of all. You know, its the first time in i want to say something, like, 12 years that i have no set plans. Im in the same spot that most College Graduates end up after school. I have a lot of ambition in the field of neuroscience and i want po get into psychology, but its up in the air especially because of the news that happened, like, during the summer with the daca announcements and the threats that have been made on the daca program. It would change my plans a lot for what i want to do Going Forward and where i want to be able to work especially. So what do you see happening to you if President Trump decides to end daca . To me, personally, i dont know. Its ive always been raised to not think about the difficulties that might be because you might not enjoy the things at the moment and then youll focus too much on the negativity youre going through and not be able to respond the right way. Im waiting until tuesday to think about that. What do you tell those people who say daca is a form of amnesty and people who didnt go through the process to get legal citizenship dont have a right to be in the United States . I dont think its a form of amnesty at all because at the same time its not something that was ever a choice for me to do. Amnesty implies that there was an action committed that is being forgiven or something as being a law that is going to be ignored in the future. I didnt break a law. I was 4 years old and were getting in the car and i get in the car and its just a longer car ride than i thought it was. And you know the president ran on his hard line immigration stance and can you understand why he is under pressure from his base to make good on his promisees . I dont think hes under pressure from any of his base. I think he has farright pressure from a very, very farright pressure on him, but i think the pressure thats coming from i think that number that the ten u. S. State attorneys that are putting that pressure on him unnecessarily because for all that ive seen, the daca program has been beneficial to mostly the country. Its been beneficial for the country and the recipients of daca in so many ways. Their parents have been living in the shadows all these years and i remember when we speak after President Trump took the executive action to help the parents of dreamers and i remember, and how scared is your family right now . My parents dont really show me how scared they are. Theyre not in their way. Its myself and my two younger sisters and my parents know too real the threat that comes from being able to possibly be separated from a family. Its only been in the last few years that ive been able to see some of those moments where they break character a little bit in front of my siblings and myself. Theyre not worried for anyone, but me right now because they know that this program is for me and theyre good parents. Well, angel oaxaca rivas, good luck to you. Well stay in touch and well see what happens this week. Awesome, thank you very much, ana. Coming up, the great communicator in his own words and a sneak peek at the cnn film offering an unprecedented look inside the reagan presidency. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Sailin away on the crest of a wave, its like magic rollin and ridin and slippin and slidin its magic introducing the all new volkswagen tiguan. 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Youre supposed to be saying no, im not going to start this off. [ laughter ] how fun is that. Joining me now is the codirector of the reagan show. Thank you for joining us. This film really explores a reagan median master. What do you think it was that made him so effective . His time in hollywood. He spent years and years perfecting his craft. And so when he, you know, when he came to the presidency, he was coming with 40 years of experience in front of the camera. He was a master showman in that regard. Absolutely. We saw nancy reagan on the other hand, when shes on the horse there and even after that, she was not amused. She seemed so uncomfortable in that photo op. What was her relationship like with the press . She was much more weary of the press and much more concerned that she would appear in some way that she would be made fun of in some way. She was concerned about her, somehow like much more concerned about her self image than president reagan was i think in many ways. He also had, again, all of that experience as an actor. When he wrote, when he was asked about his time in the white house and whether being an actor was impactful in helping him excuse his job as president , he wrote, quote, there have been times when i was in the office when i woshded how you could do your job when you hadnt been an actor. Were there two sides of him . The one in the white house and the one behind the scenes . Watching all of the footage to make the film, i was struck by how much he was the same behind the camera as in front of it, or when the camera is turned off. He would still be performing. He would just be sort of a slightly different performance. One performance was out too the public and the other was for the folks in the room. He was always on. And that was just an important du part of his character was a love of joking with people and pleasing them and entertaining. That was important to him. Do you see any parallels with how Ronald Reagan and what you learned through this project utilized the media and what we see today in this Tournament Administration with President Trump . So, i feel like reagan approached the presidency as if it were a hollywood movie. His sort of template for the job and for the role was that of a hero in hollywood saving the day in the third act as he does in his dealings with gorbachev around the inf treaty. Trumps template is much more of a sort of reality tv template. Hes with trump i always feel like the question is who is going to get voted out of the white house this week, you know. There have been some comparison to the show the apprentice. Sure. As you reflect back, we were discussing, you havent taken on so many projects of this nature in particular. What stands out to you . Oh, wow. What stands out to me. You know, i was really i came to the project because i started to see i started to feel that politics was increasingly being treated as a form of entertainment, or as a kind of spectacle and this was a sort of larger structural trend. And i wanted to know more about the roots of that, where did that start, why did people feel that was okay to treat politics like a game show or like a television show. And did you learn the answer . I think so. Or at least i learned more about a particular moment where during which we saw a very successful performance which also had real political had a political success atactached to it. Nowada nowadays it created a sense that politics, that performance could create political gains. Gotcha. We really look forward to watching the show. Tonight you can catch the cnn film its actually tomorrow night, 9 00 p. M. Eastern right here on cnn. Well be right back. This is the story of john smith. Not this john smith. Or this john smith. 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