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Even if it lands in the waters 20 miles say from the coast as he project, what would you want the u.s. to do in response to that? >> listen, i dont want to put what my ideas are on your show. this is important for the particular ed to continue to consult with his military advisors. but there might be swift and strong response and reaction from the united states government. they have to be aware of that. i do think that the kim regime has been used to playing american presidents and their passivi...

The same page putting pressure on north korea. you cant say one thing to the international community, china, and continue your trade with north korea and support that rogue regime. if you dont want american boots on your soil and dont want to see a nuclear armed conflict, get involved. this is escalating and we have a nuclear hermit regime making nuclear threats to the rest of the world. this is unacceptable and unten al and we need pushback here. and wolf i want to make a point -- under the lea...

The cuban government must have been involved to allow these attacks to go forward. and what were told though, wolf, is that for the time being, there does not appear to have been any further attacks. >> so basically what youre suggesting is some very high-pitched audio with, was sent out to the homes of these u.s. diplomats, that they couldnt hear anything but it would have an impact on their hearing, is that right? >> thats correct, its a sonic weapon. this is a new tool that countries use to d...

Among those meeting vice president mike pence, the security adviser general h.r. mcmatch thor and the new white house chief of staff retired marine corps general john kelly, all participating in this briefing. were also told the president and the vice president, they may speak afterwards. there will be cameras there. well have live coverage of that. the briefing comes as tensions between the united states and north korea near and all-time high and as leaders around the world look for any sign as...

Challenging. you lose your -- your surprise dont if you go to congress and say were going to strike north korea. i want to put this within our generals and with our president who are duly elected by the american people to take that action by surprise if they choose to do so but i want to make it clear, wolf. this can explode. this could be a powder keg and be very bad for the world. a pre-emptive strike is the last resort of all the tools we have in our toolbox, because you dont know how it can ...

Be indicted in, but wolf, right now, there is still isnt any indictment on that and investigation continues, but its expected, possibly, sometime soon. >> ian lee reporting for us from tel aviv. thanks very much to you and thanks to our viewers. the news continues right after a the news continues right after a quick break. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

Third. yet those sanctions will take a long time to even start to take effect. north korea, now months away from having this kind of a weapon, wolf. a weapon they never had before. this is truly unprecedented. always a lot of conventional weapons, can do damage on the korean peninsula. believe to have chemical weapons as well but never until now and icbm take a miniaturized nuclear warhead and potentially threaten the mainland of the united states. >> a huge, huge development. if, in fact, this ...

Have to note, wolf, that this deep, supposed dia assessment, we dont know if thats the assessment of the entire intelligence committee. if they have a near certainty of the assessment that north korea has been able to miniaturize, but certainly the concern is in a theyre not there. theyre almost there, and thats why i think you do see this galvanization of the international community. you saw those sanctions over the weekend. look, theres a lot of tension in the relationship between china and th...

Nuclear weapons. immediately going to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. barbara, this would be a major, major breakthrough in north koreas nuclear capability if they had miniaturized these nuclear bombs so they could fit on these intercontinental ballistic missiles? >> reporter: that is absolutely right, wolf. the "washington post" reporting a short time ago, and let me quote from them -- north korea "has successfully produce add miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missi...

Is true, it seems like the north korean military kim jong-uns regime moved very, very quickly to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile with a miniaturized nuclear warhead and may already have according to the "washington post" as many as 60 nuclear bombs? >> yes, wolf. lets make a couple of assumptions here. number one, that the report is accurate. that the number of weapons that they have is accurate as well. but also bear in mind that # these estimates are essentially that. that they a...