Frontier in kim jong uns Missile Program that Nuclear Experts have been fearing for years. So, lets begin with ryan brown, whos live at the pentagon for us on this. And so, i mean, as you well know, north korea has been escalating threats to hit the u. S. Mainland, so if this Washington Post, ryan, if this post report proves to be true how much more dangerous did north korea just become . Reporter well, a lot more dangerous. Again, there are still some things that would need to be assessed here. This Washington Post report citing a Defense Intelligence Agency Assessment that north korea has the ability to miniaturize these weapons on to missiles, but again, there are a couple other capabilities that might need to be developed in order for them to successfully launch an icbm against the United States. One would be the ability to target, a targeting system. Is that have they refined that capability yet . The other is reentry, can the missile with the warhead intact reenter the earths atm
Quickly firefighters can simply not get out in front of them. 1,000 homes, hotels, businesses reduced to ashes as wildfires devour californias wine country. Welcome to the lead. Im jim sciutto in for jake tapper today. We begin with the politics lead. A prominent republican senator sounding the alarm about the president s very fitness for the office. Senator bob corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he fears that President Trump is setting the country, quote, on the path to world war iii and treats the office of the president like a reality show. Pointedly, he says that many of his senate gop colleagues share those concerns. And this is a republican senator who campaigned with candidate trump and who the president considered as his secretary of state. Senator corkers remarks to the New York Times come after the two engaged in a bitter twitter feud this weekend. And while President Trump golfed again this afternoon, this time with senator lindsey graham, o
President a moron. According to new nbc reporting, its what tillerson didnt say that further enraged trump. Secretarys refusal to deny that he called the president a moron in his Opening Statement and in his responses to questions from reporters stoked trumps anger and widened the rift between the two men, officials say. Meanwhile the president has rejected the advice of his Top National Security advisers and decertify the Iran Nuclear Deal leaving it in the hands of congress to decide what to do. The world is looking on in horr horror. According to the Washington Post, President Trumps decision to decertify the nuclear deal could start a chain of events that would sharply divide the United States from its closest traditional allies in the world. None of the three european signatories, britain, france and germany believes that iran is in violati violation. And even l each has said it will not renegotiate the nuclear deal. Then there was the president s bizarre statement just last night
Bob muellers probe is moving closer to President Trump, closer than ever before. We can report tonight that fact because we know now that for the first time there is a leak showing a trump Family Member was facing a grilling from bob muellers investigators. At trumps soninlaw, Jared Kushner. Hes facing a lot of questions about russia. So, i begin with a question about the questions. Is this bad news for kushner, or is it good news . Legally it actually depends. The new reports are that kushner spoke to investigators about mike flynn in an interview that was earlier this month. Flynn and kushner met with the Russian Ambassador at trump tower during the transition and were allegedly brainstorming on how to create a secret back channel for trump aides to talk with putins government. That proposal is suspicious because it allegedly included a discussion of literally using the Russian Embassy for those conversations, but there are no reports that kushner suggested that arrangement for talki
Successfully make the case the once beloved actor had a predatory secret life. And a new beginning for saudi women take a look at how attitudes to womens participation in sports and fitness are changing in the conservative kingdom. And welcome to the program in a moment rich in symbolism the leaders of the north and south korea have met at their common border which remains one of the most heavily militarized on earth kim jong un and when jay and have been holding talks aimed at diffusing decades of tensions on the Korean Peninsula top of the agenda the crucial issue of denuclearization. Months of careful diplomacy and decades of mutual suspicion have led up to this meeting between the leaders of a divided korea. With a handshake north Korean Leader kim jong un and south korean president in kicked off just the third ever summit between the two countries leaders. This was the moment kim stepped over the border to the south in the Demilitarized Zone hes the first north Korean Leader to se