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Also tonight, president trumps new warning to kim jong-un is raising a lot of questions among members of both parties. lets bring in republican senator james risch. hes a key member of both the intelligence and foreign relations committees. senator, thanks for joining us. >> thank you, would have. glad to be here. >> all right. so, you just heard the president say that if north korea makes any more threats, they will be met with, in his words, fire, fury, and the power, the likes of which the wo...

To those stories and more from republican senator james risch. hes a key member of both the intelligence and foreign relations committees. and our correspondents and specialists are also standing by. first, lets go to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. barbara, as the danger from north korea escalates, president trump may be drawing a new red line. >> reporter: and, wolf, tonight the uncertainty about what exactly the president means and what he plans to do about it is nerve racking. an...

United states. ive spoken with him about it. he has a passion for it. he means it. and as has been said, all options are on the table. its hard, like i say, to overstate how serious this is. and the problems that we can face. and the problem is you have a d despot over there, like saddam hussein, they believe their own baloney and really miss assess a situation and wind up in a very bad place. >> but, senator, you know the president is not simply tweeting. this is a carefully considered statemen...

Secretary of state in rex tillerson. and his job is to work diplomacy as best it can be worked. but as your reporters just put on the table, theres a long ways away between the parties. its really hard to overstate what a serious situation that this is. there are some keys here, but this is a very serious situation. >> because the president seems to be drawing a red line, not as if north korea has to actually take some military move that would provoke the u.s., but he says north korea best not m...

So when you hear these types of issues, you know, as the senator said, what were his precise words? words do matter. they constitute the elements of crimes. those elements are not here. >> martha: what about the dinner description of "i need her loyalty. i would like your loyalty." he describes it as a tony soprano as it was mentioned before kind of moment, it is very clear to me what he was trying to do, he was trying to put the screws to me on this. >> martha: even if that is true, that does n...

Wants me to do. i did not obey that, but i took it that way. >> you may have taken in that way, but thats not what he said. he said i hope. >> those were the words, correct. >> you dont know anyone who is charge of hoping something, is that correct? >> i dont as i sit here. >> martha: senator james risch, good to see you tonight, sir. he is saying thats the way that he interpreted it was that he was getting a lot of pressure put on him in that moment. you are saying what really matters only are ...

>> martha: what do you think? >> it is not obstruction of justice, not even close. obstruction of justice is a crime. it has elements prior to senator is correct. there isnt any case ever prosecuted on these types of facts. so the question is, how significant is it that the president allegedly said these things? it isnt in my view inappropriate for some of these things to be set if they were said, but we have to distinguish between what is a crime or impeachable and what is bad form. you do not ...

Russias ambassador to the u.s. sergey kislyak. my -- myself, my colleagues are told that this is based on russian-to-russian conversations, intercepts discussing this meeting and i should say, as you noted wolf, we were the first to report that congress investigators were looking into the possibility of a third meeting, this taking place at the may flower hotel in november of 2016. when we reported that story last week, the can justice department quite definitively denied that any such meeting t...

>> martha: eric swalwell, good to have you with me. on my left, ron housecoat, former assistant director to the fbi, you are listening to the conversation, what stands out to you? >> first the directors opening commentary, very powerful and talking to the fbi employees, i communicated with a friend who has still been there for a number of years on the way over tonight, and she said that it moved her to tears. that connected with me too. the way that he was terminated in his ability to talk to th...

Himself he wouldnt be in the position he is right now with a special counsel because he thought sessions could have at least taken charge of this and perhaps handled everything for him. clearly that wasnt to be. hes mad at him about other things. theres this issue now lingering out there that comey raised today an were going to have to see what segszs says going forward or what occurs. >> even today to rebeccas point when sarah huckabee sanders gave word -- she wouldnt say that the president had...