What he was basically doing is threatening a you into clear war against north korea. It is important for our president not to be unpredictable. He does need to reinforce the message of deterrence. By using this kind of language we are playing right into kim jonguns hands. This is new day. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to your in the new day. Bill weir joins me. Weve already had a lot of breaking news. Is it like this every morning . Little bit. This seems to be a bit of a different category today but were glad you are here. We do start with breaking news at this hour. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson makes this surprise visit to guam and he says President Trump is sending a strong message to north korea warning that any threat to the u. S. Would be met with, quote, fire and fury. Secretary tillerson also trying to reassure americans about this threat. His words come after north korea threatened to attack guam where the u. S. Has an air force base and many citizens after bombers flew
Mattis over at the pentagon, he said that north korea should cease any consideration of actions that will lead to the end of the regime and the destruction of its people. And the president tweeted, my first order as president was to renovate and modernize our Nuclear Arsenal, it is now stronger and more powerful than ever before. And he continues. Hopefully we will never have to use this power, but there will never where a time that we are not the most powerful nation in the world. The president s tweet follows his stark warning to north korea. North korea best not make anymore threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson says the president wanted to put north korea on notice. I think the president , what the president s doing is sending a strong message to north korea, in language that kim jongun would understand because he doesnt seem to understand diplomatic language. The heightened tensions with no
The white house already faces another crisis of confidence. Half of americans in our latest poll conducted before todays threats and counter threats saying they disapprove of President Trumps handling of north korea. Only 37 approve. Lets get right now to our top story and our cnn chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto, gordon cheng, the author of nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world, and former allied commander general wesley clark. Gentlemen, good evening to you. Jim, im going to start with you on this one because the president is threatening north korea with fire and fury as north korea advances their Nuclear Weapons program. Here is the president. North korea best not make nim threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening beyond a normal statement. And as i said, they will be met with fire, fury and frankly, power the likes of which this world has never seen before. Its an extraor
There. We want to welcome our viewers all around the world. Im george howe. And Hannah Vaughan jones. Its 10 00 a. M. Its cnn newsroom. From north korea to venezuela a lot to talk about. The u. S. President putting the u. S. Military front and center. Well have more on venezuela here shortly but first the president s latest threat to north korea. The military is locked and loaded. The chinese president xi shin ping is urging restraint. It follows a new warning from mr. Trump to kim jongun whose regime has threatened to fire missiles toward the Pacific Island of guam. If anything happens to guam, theres going to be big, big trouble in north korea. Have you ordered any change in our military readiness . Supply dont want to say. I dont talk about that. You know that. The president made the provocative remark after meeting with his National Security team at his vacation spot in new jersey and refused, however, to sayu. S. Was prepared to go to war against pyongyang. Listen. We think that l
United states and hes not going to threaten japan and hes not going to threaten south korea. No, thats not a dare, as you say, thats a statement of fact. Kat President Trump double down on his previous fire and fury statement against north korea. Frankly, the people that work questioning that statement, maybe it wasnt tough enough. What theyve been doing and what they been getting away with is a tragedy and it cant be allowed. Kat thoughts . Dagen there have been so much made about the president s comments when the upset denier should be a bit north korea. I think you are hearing from President Trump all of his advisors, cabinet secretaries, that there is the approach of telling north korea and the west, the rest of the world, that we have a military option available but also using sanctions and diplomacy as well. Its a twopronged approach. Youve got, if youre going to use carrots, you have to use sticks. Thats what the president is saying. Kat i am very mad at north korea but im also