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Afternoon. eastern time. ive got a team for this as well. nbc pentagon correspondent hans nichols joins me first. what do we know about this launch? what launched? where did it go? >> theyre still getting final analysis. it looked like a kn-17. the important thing, what officials here stress, is the distance. this is the farthest one has flown. 2,300 miles. and we know went over hokkaido, the island in japan. theres been a series of firsts here in the last two or three tests. this is the farthes...

The amount of television he watches, whom he tweets or whom he chooses to pardon. i think there has been some normalization but i dont think they thought they could make wholesale changes. i dont think the pardon came as a surprise or a major disappointment. >> thank you. we have to take a break now, but its an important point that you raised in terms of what is donald trumps ideology, does he have an ideology? we all thought it was steve bannon, that donald trump was malleable. maybe not. may...

Thats why intelligence doesnt have a great indication before they are launched. they can basically pop them up out of the ground and shoot them off. it was an intermediate ballistic missile. the intermediate range. irbm. when they teased this out it looked like it might have had a bigger payload on it than the one launched in may. this one probably didnt have the range to reach guam. i couch all that with probablies. theyre still doing all the telemetry on it and trying to figure out just exactl...

Latest north korean missile test. that missile flew right over our ally in japan prompting president trump to issue this, saying "threatening the stabilizing actions only increase the north koreas regimes isolation in the region and among all the nations of the world. all options are on the table." national security correspondent now live at the pentagon. what is the view of this launch from their agenda? >> we have not yet heard from defense secretary jim mattis, but he needs his south korean c...

President trumps words this morning after north korea carried out one of its most provocative missile tests yet, this time over japanese territory into the pacific ocean. prompting many to take cover. the white house warning again today, all options are on the table. nbcs hans nichols has been following all this out of the pentagon. what do we know about the missiles that were fired? how were they fired? were they truck-based, permanently based? what do we know? >> we know they were mobile launc...

Verify line. they look at kim jong-uns actions, not necessarily his rhetoric, his actions, they have seen through satellites that theyre moving around these kn-17, these mobil missile launchers. these potentially can be launched quickly in part because they have solid fuel. now, we asked secretary mattis earlier today, a group of reporters asked them what he thought about his latest statement. he didnt address that. he did say the united states is prepared for any conflict, have a listen to what...

U.s. military generally considers something that flies 6400 miles is considered an intercontinental ballistic missile. >> obviously the whole world has close eyes on north korea and their nuclear capability. its believed they have a dozen or so nuclear weapons. what do we know about their ability to put that kind of a warhead on this kind of a missile? >> so what we know is that they havent demonstrated that capability. i dont know if you would find anyone in the u.s. military at the highest lev...

>> obviously the whole world has close eyes on north korea and their nuclear capability. its believed they have a dozen or so nuclear weapons. what do we know about their ability to put that kind of a warhead on this kind of a missile? >> so what we know is that they havent demonstrated that capability. i dont know if you would find anyone in the u.s. military at the highest levels who would say with confidence or certainty that they dont absolutely have that capability. i think that theyre hope...

Before by u.s. intelligence. u.s. intelligence will now classify this as a new north korean intercontinental ballistic missile, something brand-new to the inventory they havent seen. why is that so important, of course, because u.s. intelligence tracking every move north korea makes. they ee trying to assess exactly what configuration this may have, how soon it could be able to actually launch and reach the united states, possibly alaska. what they now believe is that the salt light initially sa...

That north korea says can carry a nuclear warhead hans nichols is following the story from the pentagon. warninthe u.s. it has capabilities to hit the u.s. at home but you say youve heard something different? >> well, the assessment here the preliminary assessment this missile couldnt reach that far to the west coast but thats not to say this isnt a serious event. what officials here are telling me they believe this missile to be a kn-17. i wont bore you too much with the details. suffice it to ...