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Missile and reach california. we might not take it out and intercept it in the air so would have to strike preemptively at their launch pad and that would create a humanitarian crisis. not a lot of options. >> has the president put forward as weve discussed a strong stance on foreign policy? what message is he sending to north korea? >> this is a challenging one. you have a crazy guy. with putin, you know where youre coming from. in north korea, you have one crazy man. hopefully china will work ...

Griffon. >> the president ordered the aircraft carrier group to reverse course and head of south korea after meeting the chinese president. what is not clear is this show of force has any real teeth behind it. on board the uss carl vinson arf fighter jets, but they would pose little threat to north koreas air defense system for the u.s. has 33,000 american troops in south korea, and north korea has artillery trained on u.s. positions and south koreas capital with its population of 25 million peo...

Directly confront the strike group, but he could respond in other dangerous ways. >> its not beyond him to launch special forces. he could launch an arrow artillery barrage. >> he may decide to launch missiles toward japan in order to test their capabilities and provoke the united states. >> reporter: what has military officials worried tonight is if a mistake is made, if forces launch a missile test while the carrier group is there and put the group in danger, then the american forces would lik...

Which is human rights. >> he will not talk about it. >> even as a point of leverage, one would hope he would go in and not discarding the major strength sitting down with the chinese leader. >> the go it alone strategy perked up ears. ash carter was on the sunday shows this weekend and tried to layout a scenario of what that would look like or mean. watch this. >> if it comes to the necessity to protect ourselves, we always had all options on the table. i wouldnt take any off. >> preemptive stri...

Its a refrain thats been needed over and over again four decades now and one of the measures is that the trump administration could seek to punish chinese firms, banks, frimfor example, with north korea. as weve just heard from the financial times journalists is the possibility of pretemp t-- pre-emptive strike. im going to play some sound from this weekend ashton carter who was asked that very question. lets take a listen to how he responded. >> how do you think north korea would respond? -- to...

Could hit these missiles as theyre coming off the launch pad. the chinese are upset about it. the russians are upset about it because it can reach into their territory. weve been working with the chinese since the clinton administration to try to turn north koreas missile program and nuclear program off. it hasnt worked. im glad to see us moving forward. the other thing i wanted to mention, also the leaks from snowden, the cia cyber packing tools just leaked, that represents an important middle ...

High ground because i think there isnt anybody in america who isnt concerned about the fact that the russians can meddle with our elections or potentially some actor can get into our cia computers and cause some disruption. >> hans nichols at the pentagon. what are your conversations with those in the defense field and the intelligence field, what are you gleaning from them about this leak from wikileaks? >> reporter: its significant sean spicer didnt refute this idea, that the cyber arsenal has...

This case there is absolutely no motive. >> reporter: the north korans say the kim jong-un government will take measures. this new tension comes as president trump according to a senior administration official is characterizing north korea as the greatest immediate threat to the united states, with a violent unpredictable dictator wielding long range bombs, what can the u.s. do to stop kim jong-un? >> could a preemptive strike on his nuclear facility work? >> it would be the best time to launch ...

To recover. this evening ups is testing drone delivery. look at the company with a test flight in florida. the ups driver delivering one package while the drone delivers another package at the same time. there is a launch pad on the top of the truck. once the drone is loaded, it takes off, makes its delivery, catching up with the driver at another location. the testing is in the early stages and it still needs government approval. by the way that super bowl mystery continues tonight. the pol...

The launch was supposed to take place saturday, that was called off with 13 seconds left on the clock because of a slightly odd reading with steering mechanism. elon musk tweeting it was 99% likely to be fine but the 1% chance isnt worth rolling the dice. better to wait a day. it was a crucial decision especially after a spacex rocket caught fire and exploded last september, a major setback at the time, but no problems today, on a historic launch pad known as launch complex 39-a where apollo 11 ...