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Homicidal but not suicidal. if he were to launch or completely ignore any external end fretreaties in terms how th might try to embrace having a nuclear north korea, but wracked in protocols being a part of that. it hes not a place in to that he becomes suicidal. >> rick francona, weve seen at least two intercontinental ballistic missile tests launched by north korea with capability to hit los angeles, maybe chicago, elsewhere in the continental united states. but there are some anti-missile sys...

One thing that we have to be careful of, sandra, we cant just have a policy of defense. we cant just say, well, we can shoot missiles out of the sky from the western united states or we have the thad system in south korea that can protect our allies in the region, japan and south korea and our u.s. military bases. thats great. and i think that always having the missile defense program is crucial. but we should be able to have diplomacy with muscle right now. we should be able to stop the north k...

To strong sanctions. >> continued provocations by the rogue have a hell isnt north korea are unacceptable, and the united states of america is going to continue to marshal the support of nations across the region and across the world to further isolate north korea economically and diplomatically, but the era of strategic patience is over. >> and this morning, u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley had this to say on twitter. done talking about north korea. china is aware they must act. japan an...

It does stress an urgency to come up with options. so far, there have been few. today, there was video from north korea state media and also statements from kim jong-un saying his weapons assets cant be bartered for anything. his goal is to teach the united states some manners. this icbm has been something that north korea has promised or warned for years. the goal is to be able to show the capability of delivering a nuclear warhead to the united states. this is something that the defense intell...

According to the report half of the information in the report clarified secret or classified level not top secret. documents in which mr. comey leaked are at this point unclear. just you wanted to straighten that out. in the meantime 12 minutes after the top of the hour, time for other news with jillian. jillian: we are following a few breaking news stories this morning. lets start with this. a fox news alert. the u.s. flexing defense muscles overnight destroying incoming test missile off the co...

>> while the thad system has mixed test results pretty good at knocking down sort medium-range missiles peter will be tested for the first time against an intermediate range. so not quite intercontinental. but if we want to test this, the more we test them the more confidence you have and what they can do. the missile defense system we currently have deployed in alaska and california the so-called, ground-based missile defense system can shoot down a simple icbmbut anything equipped with counter...

>> all right. andrew stephens, good to see you this morning. >> lets bring in our cnn military analyst. retired air force colonel and former member of the joint chiefs of staff. i want to start with the thad missile defense system designed to intercept short and mid range missiles potentially coming from north korea. its going to be tested sometime in the next couple of days and an official says the test was not prompted by the norths icbm test, well talk about china in a moment. what are the po...

Military options and what that might look like. we need to keep the door open to diploma diplomacy. we have to act unilaterally and take a step that may not have the outcome that we want. this is a very complicated situation. i want to see the state department and the defense department beef up their asia experts that can be a part of this. theyre not in place yet. that would help the team a lot. >> we have the thad anti-missile defense system in place, operational, fully loaded. used kinetic in...

Theyre very much opposed, both russia and china, to the deployment by the united states of an anti-missile defense system, the thad system, being assembled in south korea. they feel it undermines their own strategic defenses, as well. and because it encourages north korea, they say, to escalate its own military tactics. theyre calling for negotiation, talks, in other words, it try and bring an end top this crisis. these words were in response to the apparent testing of the intercontinental balli...

Like to see in the region. also, the president showed restraint. and i think it really was astonishing for many of his critics that, you are know, we can lild those allies over there i think we are in a better place now than we were before that speech. this is a major opportunity to emerge from a lot of the recent turmoil with the white house communications team. i think it was really strong moment for the president to be on that world stage. brian: rob, $109 billion in arms sales to saudi arabi...