Virginia Lieutenant Governor ralph northam. Democratic candidate for governor. Well be watching next week to see how you do. Thank you for joining us, sir. Thanks so much, katy. That wraps things up for me this hour. Ali velshi, my friend it is friday. Are you done . The president is overseas. Right. I think were going to have a quiet weekend. I dont know. Just say it. Might have a quiet weekend. Theres always one. I have property to sell you in florida. Katy have a great afternoon and i hope you do have a quiet weekend. I hope we all do. Im ali val shi, as katy alluded to, President Trump will arrive in hawaii, the one stop before he kicks off his highstakes visit to asia. The longer overseas trip of any president since 1991, but the president is traveling with some hefty political baggage as the russia investigation looms. Mr. President , do you remember George Papadopolos during that march meeting i dont remember much about that meeting. It was a very unimportant meeting that took p
on the diplomatic-led effort in terms of north korea and hot rhetoric from the president as assets are moved into the region. just the other night, b-1 lancers left guam. a strong reaction from north koreans on that. in general when the u.s. does a lot of these trainings and exercises they want to stress the tripar tide nature to say japan involved and south korea involved. where the presidenting first two stops? japan and then south korea. i think, ali, yesterday when we heard from mc345master, we hear timeline. give the dip marry push and every time secretary mattis talks he makes sure it s a diplomatic-led effort. and attaches a timeline. a couple months. give diplomacy, the sanctions, pressure. thanks very much. hans nichols at the pentagon. kelly o donnell in honolulu. we ll be back with you as we follow this trip. former acting attorney general sally yates answered
belief they will not cede this notion that the u.s. and its allies can conduct what they consider to be normal routine operations. these happen almost every month in some form or the other. summertime events, for example, when north korea launches some sort of missile, intermediate range ballistic missile. sometimes you will see the u.s. will fly up the b-1 lancers. the most recent one they did in the dead of night. this part of the drill, this evacuation drill to get the u.s. citizens, the families of those serving there, out, is done annually. they go through it every year. so this by itself isn t timed, isn t in response to a specific event. i have to tell you, if the defense department, also the state department, there s a broad consensus the u.s. needs to be able to continue to conduct what they think are routine military operations. i don t see and i didn t hear anything from president trump just there now that they plan to curtail that simply because the chinese and north korean
those b-1 lancers in the middle of the night. they like to do shows of force and remind the north koreans of their capabilities. what hasn t been planned is moving two other destroyers around, and that s in part, these are ballistic missile capable destroyers and in part because both the uss fitzgerald and uss john mccain the two destroyers with the collisions have been taken out of the theater. moving a few assets around and have another destroyer in that part of the world. remember, it s these destroyers that can launch the ballistic missile defense. these capabilities, to knock out the intermediate ranged ballistic missiles, basically that threatens guam and japan. thanks very much. hans nichols at the pentagon. happening in california, battle with no end in sight. relentlessly battling 21 wildfires and deadliest in the