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The novachek poisons. president trump gave putin a pass on all those issues. >> as far as this summit is concerned. jim sciuto, the director of national intelligence, put out a statement responding to what trump had to say, youre getting new information on this, what are you learning? >> reporter: im told this morning after the presidents comments, the director of national intelligence and his team saw a choice, they saw the presidents intelligence assessment, they were not expecting it, and it ...

Jim sciuto tonight right here on cnn. next, growing concern over an irate president trump and the potential that he might fire the lead investigators in the russia probe. could that create a constitutional crisis? well discuss that nec. -- next. billions of bacteria, but life can throw them off balance. try align, the #1 doctor recommended probiotic. with a unique strain that re-aligns your system. re-align yourself, with align.

Now to a cnn exclusive, look inside the uss hartford, nuclear powered submarine challenging russia in the arctic. jim sciuto got exclusive access to see how they deal with potential threats under the ice. >> reporter: more than 100 miles north of the northern-most tip of alaska, we set down on a runway carved into the arctic ice. our objective? u.s. navy submarine exercises called ice-x. cnn was granted exclusive acces access. >> it may not look like it, but its moving all the time. this is the ...

Deploying and demonstrating deadly fire power on top of the world. but everything is harder here. >> five degree up angle. .23 upper velocity and increasing. >> reporter: surfacing through the ice requires enormous power and skill. >> impact! >> 1, 1,000, 2, 1,000, 3, 1,000. >> reporter: weve just broken through two feet of arctic ice. the north pole is this way. russia is this way and alaska this way. and a mission like this is all about sending a message. the u.s. navy can operate or wage war,...

Four ballistic missiles at guam, having them land offshore. the president drew a line. kim jong un tonight seemed to cross it. the question now what. jim sciuto, the statement from north korea, jim, also references that the president is at his golf club. >> thats right. its interesting, because we have to talk about how closely the u.s. monitors north korean state media official statements to see what that says about their intentions. clearly, north korea watching u.s. national media about its c...

And fury in response to any threat. >> jim, thanks very much. this latest threat against guam comes with the island and its 162,000 people already on notice after the last one. ivan watson is on guam for us. what has been the reaction there? >> you know, when we landed shortly after midnight local time, anderson, a u.s. border and customs officer joked welcome to ground zero. a little bit of gallows humor. i dont know if you can see over my shoulder, but theres a beach here with people frolickin...

Facing, in other words this combined -- what we have is a conflagration of words and we can kind of ratchet down the tension and im sure everybody on the peninsula is saying we got the message, if theres going to be fire, if theres going to be fury, whatever else, we the citizens of seoul are going to pay the price, we dont need to be reminded of that, what we have is a very solid alliance with the south koreans and we cant afford to lose that. >> jim sciuto, john kirby and spider marks. coming ...

Such numbers and power as they have not yet seen and with the fighting skill of which they have already well aware. >> here to share their reporting and their insights, michael sheerer of the "new york times," abbey phillips of the "washington post," and cnns ryan lizza. and jim sciuto is here to talk about whats going on, the latest information youre getting from your sources with the situation, you spent a lot of time, you lived in asia, so you understand the complexities of this and the kind ...

Lets go to our panel. it looks like the president, president trump, jim, in a fire and fury threat drawn a new red line. >> if you take his words at face value, he did exactly that. we listened to the tape just a couple of minutes ago, he said if north korea makes further threats, those threats will be met with fire and fury. thats the direct meaning of his words. thats already been belied in the last 24 hours, because north korea has made further threats, as it often does, rhetorically this tim...

The computer systems of a rival scum pan to steal confidential information in a business dispute. the company, imr withdrew the accusation, soon after without providing a reason. in an earlier related case, he denied a similar accusation, saying, in an affidavit, i am not a computer specialist, and i am not capable of hacking. jim, what was this guy known in d.c. political circles? >> he was well known. known to be tied to, powerful people in russia, both in, in government, and in business. and ...