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Force can communicate with them. kim jong-un tonight seemed to cross the line drawn in the sand. jim sciuto, the statement from north korea, jim, also references that the president is at his golf club. >> we have to talk about how the u.s. monitors north korean state and media associations to see what that says about their intentions, clearly north korea watching national media about its coverage of the president, references his frequency of golf outings, in their statement saying that president...

Threat. >> jim, thanks very much. this latest threat against guam and the island with 165 people already on notice is on guam for us, what has been the reaction there? >> reporter: when we landed shortly after midnight local time, i understand 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 frolicking and playing on the water. so theres no concern on the beaches here. e...

And a new culture built around customer service. it all adds up to our most reliable network ever. one that keeps you connected to what matters most. breaking news, the presidents eldest son reveals what he his father and everyone is in the trump orbit revealed. he reveals in e-mails from june of last year he did have contact with the russian in campaign capacity to talk damaging information on hillary clinton that he believed was coming from the kremlin. he even believed this was a russian go...

Comey, he can do that. if he wants to interview the president himself, he can, he can ask for the presidents tax returns. details on all of it on the program starting with chief national security correspondent jim sciuto. what exactly does this mean? hes in charge now? this is the fbi investigation were talking about? >> in one fell swoop, the deputy attorney generation has removed politics from the russia investigation, at least from the attorney generals office, the enormous concern had been, ...

Trump teams ties with russia. he insists that the dossier was worthy enough to be shared with intelligence officials. in the new legal filing obtained by cnn, lawyers for the british spy argue that his investigation into possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia, funded by political opponents of trump served a vital national security interest. >> and jim sciuto joins us now, is there anything were going to be able to find out from these testimonies? from what i understand, a lot o...

Always tension between the u.s. and north korea, theres always the exchange of hyper bollic rhetoric, particularly in north korea, right now are you concerned that this has reached a particularly tense level? is there something different about it right now that concerns you? >> there is, jim, and i have commanded in iraq and germany and also in korea. and i have never seen the tension in korea the way it is right now. and has it to do twofold with kim jong-il who is more p provocative than many ...

This regime on the ground in syria. but to go to the point of regime change, that would be another evolution on the part of this president that i dont think administration officials are indicating at this point, anderson. as we. this did not forestall a sharp reaction from moscow. theres that and potentially much larger story emerging about the investigation into russia possibly being complicit in the chemical attack. as jim mentioned, jim sciuto mentioned in his piece, the military is investi...

On whats happening in north korea, whether theres any kind of provocation. we did see the president playing golf, jim got those exclusive pictures, that would make it his 7th time to be in mar-a-lago since hes been president. >> reporter: they do have a secure area where he is able to get briefings, he is able to get classified information, this is where he received information about the strike in syria recently, so they feel pretty confident about that, that they do have the team and the mechan...

Yes, the -- force assad from power. but what you heard today from administration officials was that this was a measured response, proportional response, you heard the secretary of state say, well, they went after this airfield that jim sciuto was just talking about, because they wanted to make it clear that this was about condemning the use of chemical weapons against a civilian population. but at the same time, theyre making it very clear, anderson, at this point is that assad sort of is in cha...

White house spokesman sean spicer said we continue to be -- the fbi, the department of justice, the cia and the office of director of national intelligence all reached by cnn, they had no comment. >> so, jim, you talk about this didnt relate to the salacious parts of the dossier, but they were serious allegations in here. do you have any sense at this hour, what it is that u.s. investigators have corroborated, that is true in this dossier? >> the dossier details about a dozen conversations betwe...