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Its people are safe. and we had similar threats. in 2013, and that was the time when i met with senator pinetta and -- or secretary pinetta and secretary hagel, and they immediately, after that discussion, deployed the thaad to guam, which is a missile defense operation with 300 army personnel. and i recently have discussed, very recently, maybe a couple weeks to three weeks ago, during a hearing, with secretary mattis and admiral harris about the situation. are we safe. were always hearing thre...

>> lets lay down the stark facts. this is a president who repeatedly criticized president obama for his red line that he never observed. he laid out a red line yesterday, okay. it said if you threaten im going to unleash fire and fury the likes of which the world has never before seen. he cant follow through with that. he cant observe that red line tonight. lets just face the definition here, right, congressman? his red line he put out yesterday is not worth anything. >> well, i think the critic...

Very strong statement directly to north korea, but i think what the president was just reaffirming is the united states has the capability to fully defend itself, from any attack and defend our allies and we will do so. so the american people should sleep well at night. >> secretary of state rex tillerson trying to calm nerves this morning. 3:00 this morning on the way to guam after ominous threats from both president trump and north korea. joining me now, juan zarati, a deputy national security...

In those forces defending guam within the terrestrial land of guam but also those at sea and the bases of guam. >> thank you for appearing today, we appreciate it. former campaign chair paul manafort in a pre-dawn raid. what could that tell us about the special counsel for russia? stay with us. (burke) at farmers, weve seen almost everything

Thats why i want to continue to see him put pressure on the republicans in congress to eventually find something that lowers premiums and deals with the problems that everyday people are having. look, this was a core promise. failure to keep it means hell to pay from the voters who have voted for this not just once, but repeatedly over seven years. but listen, republicans on the health care bill, all of them had very low support among republicans. i want to bring mark in now. the president has a...

White house. thats why i want to see him continue to put pressure on the republicans in congress to eventually find something that lowers premiums and deals with the problems that every day people are having. look, this was a core promise, failure to keep it means hell to pay for the voters who voted for this not just once, berepeatedly. >> among republicans and the health care bill, all of them had very low support among republicans. i want to bring mark in now. mark, president has a trust issu...

Missile intercept at launched from the uss paul john jones failed, jon. now critics on capitol hill said president trumps defense budget actually cuts missile defense but the house armed services committee chairman matt thorn berry says he wants to put language and get more money for missile defense. jon? >> jon: so what are they doing there at the pentagon? what options does the u.s. military have? >> well, jon, the military also has offensive options, including having over 400 intercontinental...

July 4th, north korea for the first time in its history successfully test-fired and intercontinental ballistic missile. a missile from north korea and hitting alaska and possibly part of the west coast of the united states. that missile traveled 1700 miles into space it flew for 39 minutes. and then late last month, in its second test, north korea launched another intercontinental ballistic missile. this one at night, which was very rare for the rogue communist regime. that missile flew 2300 mil...

Pentagon talking about this at all, this comes from the defense intelligence agency, sometimes they dont always agree with the pentagons own intelligence assessments. >> that is correct. the dia is not located at the pentagon, they are across the river. nobody is shooting down this report but they are taking it very seriously, they are not commenting right now. it is worth noting that the trump defense budget actually cuts missile defense, so while they are planning for 44 ground based intercept...

The republican party is not excited and enthusiastic midterm elections are almost always a battle of the two bases, and if you have a lot more enthusiasm among democrats than among republicans that kind of enthusiasm gap creates big turnout problems, and losses in midterm elections. >> the big headline from this could be if you want to be rosy about it, i guarantee you the presidents people are going to be rosy when theyre looking at it, there is opportunity within this poll, because it does see...