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Site and perhaps strangest of all, north korean workers have been seen playing volleyball there as though theyre passing time. chinas influential global times newspaper, which is pun established by the peoples daily, the official paper, has weighed in on misstatements made by u.s. officials about the u.s.s. carl vinson. "the truth seems to be that the u.s. military and president jointly created fake news and its without doubt a rare scandal in u.s. history, which will be bound to cripple trumps ...

A navy official who says "we certainly did not say that the carl vinson was headed to north korea and the vinson never got north korea as a final destination. amid all of this, kim jong-un and his regime are mocking the united states over the mishap and calling it all a bluff. more on that ahead. john roberts is live on the north line. what else is the white house saying about the very powerful warship? >> theyre saying what are you talking about? theres nothing to see here. you think an aircraf...

China and your own allies some messages that they hear, receive and take seriously. >> sandra: are we doing that? >> i think were in early days. were just after the summit. it seems to have some legs. it may be paying off for the president. and it is a very delicate situation. you never know, if its monday, will the north koreans test on tuesday or friday? so i think its wise that he doesnt box himself in. i dont think he should be out there saying, well, if you do this, were gonna strike milita...

Keep trying to improve to deal with these launches throughout the entire trajectory of it. but you know, to piggyback on something phil said, this isnt -- this wasnt a failure. every time he tests something, even if it doesnt work for whatever reason it doesnt work, whether it is internal or external, he learns and keeps developing this capability which again is -- >> good point for it. >> the race against the clock right now. >> former u.s. ambassador of south korea christopher hill thinks this...

Of communications for the bipartisan center, joining us nbc military analyst and retired four-star general barry mccaffrey a former national security council member. a little more of what the vice president had to say today. lets listen. >> every step of the way, north korea answered our overtureses with willful deception, broken promises, and nuclear and missile tests. the era of strategic patience is over. >> thats really the headline here, general, the era of strategic patience is over. does ...

Grave national security risks and privacy concerns of the hundreds of thousands of visitors annually. axios reported the obama administration disclosed more than 6 medical records of visitors during pregnancy although it did try to maintain right to withhold records and often left logs incompletely. back in 2012. donald trump tweeted why is barack obama trying to hide his records. least transparent president ever and ran on transparency. >> west wing while new reports dive deeper. new issue of v...

My top adviser is jared. have a seat at your new desk. id like you to just fix everything, okay? if you need me, ill be at my desk, okay? >> so now jared, too. >> no, no, no. >> how funny. >> taken the spotlight off the infighting on west wing while new reports go deeper. "vanity fair" details drama in the white house between jared kushner and steve bannon. sources tell the magazine that bannon had repeatedly threatened to leave the administration if he were ousted from the national security cou...

Experts on this i could breathe a little bit easier. but if he leaves it to himself and thinks that kim is some like young kid who doesnt know what hes doing and is going bonkers, that would make me very nervous. >> and one thing that kim is actually calling president trumps bluff because the question for the north koreans is how much pressure are the chinese ultimately going to put on pyongyang? and the north koreans are betting theres a limit to how far china will go because, still, china valu...

Look, i think president barack obama and his red line was a terrible bluff. america was not willing to make good on its threats. clearly with the recent actions of this administration, with the action that we took with regard to syria, it goes to show, look, if youre going to continue to kill innocent people and kill innocent civilians, then america is willing to step up and take action and be strong and be a leader with regard to our foreign policy. these are important course corrections with p...

South korea. your concern it could happen over the next couple days? >> absolutely. this is a throw-back to my youth when we were at the height of the cold war. the problem with this is that you can have north korea decide to call the u.s.s bluff. you see me one vice president. ill raise you one nuclear test. this is exactly why we have treaties. this is exactly why we have on going discussion for decades now and solid doctrine thats supposed to contain all of these kind of possibilities of seri...