Jongun in a heated war of words as a worried world watches. North korea putting out a threatening statement tonight including this quote. Once u. S. Show as sign of starting to carry out the full hearted plot, we will launch the koreanstyle pree. Ive retaliatory operation of justice to annihilate the minds of the thricecursed operation and all the criminals involved in it. President trump responding by threatening kim jongun with quote fire and fury like the world has never seen. So the president are President Trump vows of fire and fury reckless and will they calm a situation that threatens to get more dangerous by the hour. Alexander, hello to you. President trump missiles to strike guam. And when asked about the latest comments, the latest threats from north korea and the response was this, that the words coming from state news and the peoples army in north korea were not helpful. I dont bring that up to minimize the severity of the security issue here. You have a president who has been speaking repeatedly about the need to build up defenses in south korea because of the mounting threat but i bring up the point that they use this term not helpful because it speaks to the frequency with which they hear these kinds of threats from north korea, threats of attack, threats of retaliation. So to some extent they know how to handle threats from kim jongun. Yes, it does raise their level of concern, it does prompt the government to look at their defense capabilities. But many of the threats from north korea ring hollow. North korea proving they were capable of firing off those two Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles just last month and it appears they may have this miniaturized war head that could be fitted to those missiles. Whats different from the people waking up from south korea this morning are threats from u. S. President trump. Incendiary threats. Theyre not used to hearing these kinds of threats from a american president. I have never sensed that people here question or worried that the u. S. Would ever abandoned its commitment to their defense but certainly there has been the growing concern that as the war of words escalates, theres the possibility for someone to misspeak or misstep and the people right here in the metropolitan area of more than 20 Million People know theyre the ones could could be the fairs it it to pay the consequences of a grave mistake. Thank you very much for that. President ial historian douglas brinkly, and also laura who is a senior fellow at the junior marshal fund and scott jennings. Doug, im going to start with you but first im going to play the president today. Watch this. North korea best not make anymore threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening beyond a normal statement and as i said they will be met with fire, fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before. So, douglas, traditionally you see a u. S. President trying to turn the temperature down. The president s comments today intentional, you think . I think theyre intentional of what he was feeling in his gut that he felt humiliated. But he used apocalyptic language. It came off as kind of a blow hard here. He has the world sitting on the edge of their seats, filled with nervousness and anxiety on does this president s words mean anything . How does the world interpret that . I think he owes us to give an address to the nation, perhaps tomorrow night, where he can be a little more calm and tell us what actually is going on. What are these intelligence resnorts what are estimates of the miniaturized Nuclear Weapons there . We need more information from this president instead of these sort of tweetlike outbursts that he gave at the conference today. What do you think is behind this strategy . Is he playing the bad cop role, you think . You call it a strategy. This might have been the president in a hot headed moment. Although i tend to think it is more strategic. Fire and fury. Also he used it if you watch the am tire clip twice. And 20 seconds elapse before he returns to the kpalkt same terminology. So for donald trump to return to specific repetition of language suggests that perhaps that was intentional and planned and perhaps it was an intentional escalation that is certainly a departure from previous american president s but perhaps a calculation is being made that the previous strategy for a decade of republican and democratic president s hasnt workd and he has decided to speak to kim jongun that in a way communist dictators are who are authoritarian dictators understand fire and fury. They understand powerful language. Its almost he was speaking in a way that a military dictator may understand. You bring up a point fire and fury. He said that twice. Also he said the same thing before. When people think it took it over the edge or caused concern when he said like the world has never seen before and thats where im going. Has never seen before. He also used it when he was talking about the opioid epidemic, about the southern border. The country has never seen this kind of strength. So he returned to that there line. What do you make of that . That its trump hyperbole. But hes throwing it out there in a very serious crisis that we have now. Imagine youre in guam or hawaii, japan, south korea, this is a moment you have to start thinking about Civil Defense and this is a president that did do a successful tomahawk strike on syrias chemical facility but they may have made him feel he can do Something Like that a strike, thats easy in north korea and show kind of a wag the dog scenario. Nobodys talking about the russian probe, were all talking about north korea. To me he came off today azine hinged when he needs to be in a mode of deescalating this crisis, reassuring allies and work closely with United Nations which im sure theyre doing behind the scenes. The first question to you where i said was it intengszal. I said was it strategic. Is the United States sending a clear message to north korea by what the president said today . Its a really important question, don. And im quite concerned hes not sending a clear message and hes not sending a clear message to our allies. I havent talked to anyone who knows what the president means by fire and fury the likes the world has never seen. And if we cant make sense of it, our aalis are not go being able to make sense of it and that is incredibly dangerous in a scenario like this where credibility awards matters. Whether hes actually threatening something having not coordinated with our allies or if not, that undermines the very credibility of our warnings that there critical to our deterrent. Ari fliesher who has been a staunch supporter of President Trump and press secretary under a president who went to a war twice. He said my first reaction was how could he say that with the exclamation point. Too inflammatory. Not president ial. And if this doesnt get china to act, nothing will. Well, i think hes extremely frustrated. He just came off the un security counsel vote we won 150 and thought this is going to modify their behavior and then the report of theyre actually having the miniaturized weapon. I agree with mr. Brinkly that he needs to talk to the American People and talk about a couple of things. What do we know about their capabilities . What do we know about our own defensive capability snz and what steps can we take nonmilitary turning the screws on china, to get them to intercede . This was a big win to get china and russia to vote for us. Now were go having to to get them to take the next step, which sfoo step in here with the United States and say we nay have to join in action against you if you dont get your act together. I think he has to lay this out in extremely clear terms. My initial question is is the president s warning, scott, president snl. This is coming from the commander and chief of the worlds most powerful military . I think its terms a dictator would understand. I also think President Trump tends to speak sometimes in rhetoric that is very global in nature as the world has ever known. We had a guest talk fwhouth times hes used that phrase and so if youre trying deconstruct his language, its something he says often. Hes sending a clear message. Were not going to be pushed around by you guys anymore. Youve been jerking us around the past 20 30 years and that time is over. I said that night i thought he was sending a clear message to north korea. 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Its like abe lincoln on top of george washington. Yonder. Get your favorites on top of your favorites. Only at applebees. North korea threatening tonight to strike the United States. A threat taking on extra urgency in the wake of analyst assessments that north korea has rodeuced a miniaturized war head. So what do we know about this war head and its capabilities . Tom . Don, this photograph pruports to show kim jongun with a miniaturized nuke and if its a real deal, this is what we can tell about it. It would be roughly two feet across, possibly several hundred pounds and it would likely have the force of the bombs that were dropped on japan by the United States 72 years ago this week. But look at the comparative size. Each of these was around 10 feet, 11 feet long, weighed around 10,000 pounds. This had to be carried by a heavy bomber to its target. This could fit into the nose cone of some of those missiles theyve been testing. That missile went about 2300 miles up and down well beyond the International Space station, well beyond any satellites out there. It was only 621 miles because it went straight up and down but if you flatten that trajectory out and were to fire across the earth, yeah, it could reach hawaii out in the pacific, alaska, guam and some Scientists Say depending on the weight, it may get to the middle of the country and hit cities in the United States. Technically, they say, that might happen. I say technically because theres still a lot of questions. Lets consider where they stand right now. Even if we give them a green light on range and say more than the thrust to get one this far, Big Questions surround the question of accuracy. Can they get a missile into space, back out of space into the atmosphere without tearing apart and delivering to a target . Bear in mind, the Nuclear War Head question, so many scientists said they dont have the technology to make a tiny nuke. Now others believe they do. So thats a yellow light at least at this point. Tom foreman, thank you very much. Lets bring in a fofrmer senior military intelligence officer. And military analyst, james spider marks. Hello to both of you. Thank you for your service to the country. Based on what we just heard from tom foreman, whats your assessment of the danger of this situation . Its quite sdangerous. They have missile technology, nay have for years. They have now purportedly and weve seen a couple tests, developed an icbm, an intercontinental ballistic missile. Means if given its trajectory could reach the United States. And weve known for the longest time, over the course of many years, starting in 2009 theyve had multiple Nuclear Tests and weve assessed that we the intelligence community, that north korea has an excess of 15 to 20 Nuclear War Heads. Now estimates put that at close to 60. Frankly thats a distinction without a difference. The fact they have any is whats significant and now the assessment is that they can marry those two things together. Weve not seen a National Intelligence assessment, which really has the lead in terms of putting the assessments together. It all leads to the same picture, which is north korea is a nuclear state. The capability to potentially reach the United States and theyve got nukes and an incredibly large military, one of the largest standing armies in the world, in excess of a million men. They own that terrain. They have forever. And you have in the south a very Strong Coalition force of the United States, south korea with a whole bunch of Alliance Capabilities focussed on this thing. If we could put the math back up of the potential range. If you look at that, general, what exactly are these miniaturized weapons and can you talk about the range . Because tom foreman said maybe. Maybe the middle of the United States. Everything that don im sorry that tom laid out makes perfect sense and it follows the trajectory that he described. Can you be more specific . What happened, don, is the tests two tests for an icbm essentially went straight up and straight down. So if that trajectory was going to be extra atmospheric, outside of the atmosphere and come back down, hes demonstrated the range, based on the assessments that have been made by intelligence folks, very bright scientific eyes and minds have looked at the thrust capability, whether its liquid or solid fuel and they have said if it can get thuft atmosphere, its going to be less friction. If it has a reentry capability, its not going to burn up. It comes back in and can reach portions of the United States. All of that ag nostic. Kind of objective. President trump is threatening north korea when he says fire and fury the likes of which the world has never seen. I mean the world has seen some pretty dangerous situations. What does this kind of language mean . First i want to thank the general for serving this country. Thank you. With regard to what the president said i liken it to me being a street cop in a large city years ago. You have to speak the language of your enemies. You have to let them know you mean president. President obama, president clinton, president bush, have done their darndest to bring north korea to the table through diplomacy. It hasnt worked. Weve tried sanctions. Even up to last week where the president , donald trump was able to get china and russia to join in voting for extraordinary sanctions against north korea. Didnt work. February 12th this year, short range medium test missiles. Spring of this year, medium range missiles. Now towards what looks like could be a Nuclear Nightmare that korea is trying to impose upon this country. He assesses all of this and comes to the conclusion theyre not going to listen to diplomacy, its time to get them to know that ewe mean business and i thipg the president is going to strategically cause china to step in. What about our troops on the Korean Peninsula tonight . What kind of danger are they in . Sththeyre tough, theyre miy and they will fight to win. I would say and i was one of them out there. The general was one of the troops youre talking about. We think about one thing. Protecting our country at all cost. I need to get to this north korea reacting tonight, accusing the u. S. In indulging in war hysteria without discretion and they will turn the u. S. Mainland into a theater of a nuclear war if it were to detect a sign of a u. S. Attack. What do you think that means . Well, frankly, what were seeing is what has been used by the north korean regime for 70 years. This is not new. North korea as a matter of routine threatens our troops in the south, the south korean population, its neighbors. It barks very loudly and over the course of the 70 years of this regime has been able to get away with this type of behavior simply because they havent had the capability to threaten globally. They now have the cape lkt to threaten globally. So weve seen this language before and to your very good question what are the threats tonight on the peninsula . They are the threats when i was there a whole bunch of times. They were the threats that were in place this morning before this became what we think is a global congregation. They are no different than they were. Poll after poll hitting record lows pup. But what does this actually mean for the president and his party . Well break it down. At panera, a salad is so much more than one thing. More than one flavor, or texture, or color. A good clean salad is so much more than green. And with panera catering, more for your event. 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