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To kim jong-un. joining me now is gordon chang, daily beast columnist and author of "north korea takes on the world." gordon, thank you. is this thing trivial? does this get the attention of the north korean leader? >> it probably does. he should have said missile man. that not only has the advantages of literation, it has the advantages of accuracy. kim jong-un has not been firing rockets, hes been firing ballistic missiles. they let him fire rockets but it does not permit ballistic missile lau...

And north korea, is that nothing seems to be working. the presidents tough talk of fire and fury, the increased sanctions who just got a new set of sanctions including more of a limits on exports to north kore north korea, all the pressure that we are putting on china, threatening to cut off trade with companies, businesses that do business with north korea, none of it seems to be working. the kim regime seems to be determined and seems to feel that its survival depends on having a nuclear weapo...

Report, the accuracy of the report. theyre saying that they -- >> they never said that. im sure theres lawyers in the room that had a conversation about x, y and z and different scenarios but i do not believe for a second when you see these lawyers coming out that all of a sudden they said he needs to go. im sure they talked about different scenarios but the fact is jared kushner is at the white house, i dont see him leaving any time soon. i think the president likes his counsel, i think the fac...

Sentiment. as we were watching irma, two others were floating around. jose and katia. are they at risk at all? >> katia moved into mexico and did some flooding. jose has a chance of doing a loop in the middle of the atlantic ocean and trying to turn back towards the carolinas. thats nine days away. i will tell you this, we didnt get this right 72 hours out. three or four days away. it was back and forth every time the model ran, it was become and forth. to say where we can think it will go in ni...

>> yeah. >> you dont do that. >> sorry. >> in other words in trumps fantasy, he won the popular vote. >> in trumps fantasy. embodiment of everything im talking about, hes actually asked at one point right after he became president by the abc news world news tonight anchor, but dont you think its a terrible thing for our civic stability and republic that youre saying that millions and millions of illegals voted? and he said, no. no. many, many people agree with me about that. >> yes, yes. >> that...

Stability and republic that youre saying that millions and millions of illegals voted? and he said, no. no. many, many people agree with me about that. >> yes, yes. >> that its not about the factual accuracy of his fantasy, of his wishful lies. its, no, people agree with me. reality is majority rules. >> you taught me something again tonight. i didnt know. talk about trying to keep up with the trump lies in the campaign, i dont remember him saying that he would find out who was really behind 9/1...

To action to really start to take climate change research and science seriously to the point made earlier by a senator from the state of florida. >> senator nelson. >> put climate change aside think about the funding going to the national weather service, the hurricane authorities, to really do the research all the data thats provided to help keep people prepared and safe for emergencies like this. >> right 100 years ago we wouldnt have been sure where this was going to hit. people wou evacuate ...

You down quite a bit. >> the purpose of this, paul, you get all the raw information and then feed that to noaa. they help feed that to the models that we see tracking the direction of irma, its because of the information, the raw data youve gotten that then our own chad myers and meteorologists and forecasters like that rely on to tell people where to go, how to evacuate, when to get out. in other words, millions of people are relying on the raw data that youre getting right now. how do you with...

Releasing -- essentially the opposite of the weather balloon, instead of going up the sonds go parachute and data back to the aircraft, temperature, gps, wind direction, wind speed.gets gath the aircraft. we transmit it to the national hurricane center. goes directly into the computer models forecasting the track which everybody in the entire southeastern u.s. is now focusing on that track. to we are dropping 33 of those sonds on our mission this evening in order to refine the accuracy of the tr...

This is the aircraft that flies across the top of the storm at 45,000 feet, and what we do, theres a key element to our mission, is that were releasing dropsondes which are essentially the opposite of a weather balloon. instead of going up, these sondes fall by parachute and send data back to the aircraft. critical temperature, gps, wind direction, wind speed. all that data gets gathered by the aircraft. we transmit it to the national hurricane center. goes directly into the computer models fore...