Options and the president wanted to be briefed on each one of them. We made clear that we have the ability to defend ourselves and our allies. We are not looking to the total annihilation of a country but we have many options to do so. How soon might the administration announce its planning for dealing with the north and can it do so without the full allies in the region . Thats the full question. Essentially the president may be forced to act to protect the homeland. Doing so could bring cat os traffic consequences to our friends in the region and its the reason why each president over the last several years have struggled with. The president has been dealing with this. The north once again as you pointed out on sunday had another nuclear test, its sixth. This one triggering a 5. 7 magnitude trem orr. Shaking abilities in northeast china. The president took to twitter to sort of remind our allies in the region of what is at stake. He said this, south korea is finding, as ive told them
The president is spending the holidays. Steve, good to see you. Reporter kelly, good to see you. Now, this information is coming from an article in the New York Times which cites unnamed officials both u. S. And foreign. It says the entire impetus for the fbi investigation into possible russian meddling in the 2016 president ial election may be the former young, unpaid Foreign Policy adviser, George Papadopoulos. The story says that papadopoulos meeting in a london wine bar withc australias top diplomato london told him, quote, that they had dirt, the russians had found dirt on Hillary Clinton through hacking with her emails. Now, papadopoulos, of course, now has already pleaded guilty to lying to fbi officials in the information, and he is a cooperating witness. As far as the Trump Administration response goes, the initial response comes from white house lawyer ty cobb. It comes as follows out of respect for the special counsel and his process, we are not commenting on matters such a
Announcer the u. S. Pacific command has detected a miss el thre missile threat to hawaii. This is not a drill. If you are indoors, stay indoors. If you are outdoors, seek immediate shelter indoors. Stay indoors well away from windows. Seek shelter in a building or lay on the floor. Students at the university of hawaii running in panic. In honolulu people packed parking garages and basements searching for cover and protection. Many of them called their loved ones and said their goodbyes. Terrifying parents pulling up Manhole Covers and dropping their kids into the sewer pipes. Everyone in hawaii believed Ballistic Missiles were coming their way. Why wouldnt they believe it . This came from the state emergency center. This is not a drill. Nearly 40 minutes later, it was a sigh of relief, no missile is coming. Hawaiis governor is, by his own words, not a happy man today. What happened today is totally unacceptable, and many in our community was deeply affected by this and im sorry and im,
Administration and could easily strained relations between the two nato allies. It getting faster brunson saying this is the day our family has been praying for. Im delighted to be on my way home to the United States. On the ground in turkey and jones is now on the phone with the latest. What we witnessed is really the end of a nightmare for brunson who has been in jail here in turkey for most of that ordeal. It all began this morning when brunson arrived in a secured heavily armed convoy then after trial lasted just four hours, the prosecutor first recommended that his house arrest, finally a travel ban of the judge announced he was free clearing the way to returned to the u. S. President trump is always pushed very hard for his release and it was because of sanctions and major terror was proposed by the president and the threat of more sanctions that they finally conceded. Just release will be home soon. In that sense, he was commuted. He had faith 35 years in jail for espionage and
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