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Over five years of his rule, youre looking at a situation where hes been making net progress in terms of these tape of capabilities so this is the latest and when you look at the range, 1,700 miles, this is an effort to test that kind of range. we dont know the intentions. as barbara was mentioning, were trying to piece that together but what we can do is look at the results, and the results here is that north koreas getting into this territory of having this kind of capability. >> the president...

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Firmly in the trump camp are very happy about it. >> karoun were getting breaking news, the president released a statement on north korea, this is a presidential statement. it says donald j. trump says on north korea the world has received north koreas latest message loud and clear. this regime has signaled its contempt for its neighbors for all members of the united nations and for minimum standards of acceptable international behavior threatening and destabilizing actions only increase the nor...

What can you tell us? >> reporter: hes standing by that pardon. the president unapologetic by the credit schism. much of it coming from republicans. both republican senators of arizona saying it was the wrong thing to do in pardoning joe arpaio who was convicted of contempt a month ago for defying a judges orders. basically that involved his harsh anti-illegal immigration tactics. torturous treatments of prisoners. the presidents defense focussed not so much on the merits of the case as it were....

And a list of other republicans that you probably consider establishment republicans saying this was a bad idea? >> my response would be yada, yada, yada. theyre against every single thing the president does thats the least bit controversial. i dont think paul ryan, john mccain, or anyone else in that crowd would have thought to pardon sheriff arpaio or anyone else for that matter who was headed for personal bankruptcy, who was being prosecuted by a very political justice department. they wouldn...

Headed for personal bankruptcy, who was being prosecuted by a very political justice department. they wouldnt have done that. because they dont have the kind of guts to do those things. theyre against anything donald trump does. >> let me raise this business about this was a crusade from the obama justice department. this contempt was initiated by the judge in the case. thats who brought this case. the idea that this was some kind of vendetta from the justice department, i mean, thats just not...

Law enforcement, you couldnt describe a criminal in any way whatsoever. i will say that -- >> youre simplifying the issue, congressman. what happens when you profile? >> thats not generalized. theres a difference between racial profiling and a broader profiling with all of the descriptions that are there. i say its wrong and the justice department has issued a directive that says you shall not racially profile if thats the only component. but if its a component in broader profile -- >> what broa...

>> i dont like it at all but the language in sb-1070 prohibited that there be anyone targeted because of race or ethnicity for that specific purpose. as long as it is part of a list of other things, profiling is necessary for law enforcement. racial profiling set by itself is wrong. >> you say racial profiling as if that wouldnt capture what was happening here. obviously if you were targeting a group of people because of their demographic qualities, their physical qualities, not their behavior, ...

Direction. condemnation of swift. >> no country should have missiles flying over them like those 130 million people in japan. >> president trump responded quickly saying north korea had shown "contempt for its neighbors." and that "all options are on the table to deal with the isolated regime." south korea responded by releasing video of their own. they conducted bombing drills, a rehearsal for taking out the rogue states artillery. the japanese military participated in a drill of its own ballis...

Continue, i dont care what the judges say. thats called contempt by definiti definition, by the way. and this is supposed to be a law and order presidency. >> i dont agree. >> hold on, congressman. if you dont agree with him, then you agree with him being convicted of the crime because thats what he was convicted of. >> not necessarily. >> it was a contempt order. he then said through his lawyer that he unintentionally violated the law. it was an unclear order. i know this is his lawyers, but jo...