Meets to confront north korea, answers with this launch into the sea of japan, two u. S. Officials say it happened about 90 minutes ago. They believe it is a former scud missile that is designed to one day target ships. It flew about 25 miles in 15 minutes. One u. S. Official says the launch was unsuccessful as it appears as though it broke up in mid flight. Pacific command, according to officials, is still evaluating this launch. All of this is punctuated by the United States is still far from solving north korean aggression. North korea eating dictator kim jongun supervises a combined combined fire demonstration of the peoples korean army. This is according to north korean state television. It also says this is the largest largestever exercise of north koreas army forces. It is this behavior and this, continued Nuclear Tests, imprisoning americans, and threats against the United States. That has brought the most powerful countries in the world to a special meeting of the United Nations security council. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is chairing it. Failing to act now on the most pressing security issue in the world may bring catastrophic consequences. I urge this council to act before north korea does. Tillersons strategy . Nations should fully implement sanctions, downgrade the diplomatic relations with north korea, and cut economic relations. The secretary of state and singled out to china. It accounts for 90 of north koreas trade. China alone has economic leverage over pyongyang that is unique, and its role is there for particularly important. The u. S. And china have held very productive exchanges on this issue, and we look forward to further actions that build on what china has already done. China is not a focal point of the problem on the peninsula, and the key to solving the Nuclear Issue on the peninsula does not apply in the hands of the chinese side. Under the current circumstances, china is still prepared to work with all parties to make contributions to the resolution of the Nuclear Issue of the peninsula. China also wants u. S. To halt its military issues with south korea and suspended clement of a u. S. Missile deployment system in south korea in exchange for north koreas surrendering its nuclear and missile programs. The u. S. Has rejected that deal, arguing its military exercises are defensive, race north korea is threatening the region and the world. Senior u. S. Officials are waiting to see if chinas actions will soon vengeance writer create the statement says within the coming months it wants to see north korea curb its aggression. How long is the u. S. Willing to wait . Well, weve got to see a real change on the part of the posture of the machine and north korea. How do we see that . Well, well wait as long as it takes, as long as the threat is manageable. Tillerson says the u. S. Is willing to resume aid payments to north korea if it surrenders its nuclear program, but that appears a long way off, as President Trump told reuters, there is a chance we could have a major major conflict with north korea, absolutely. Everything President Trump says about north korea is directed most at beijing and pyongyang, but i think this was especially intended for the security council. And, he says, to meet commitments. As for the probability of war on the Korean Peninsula . The situation on the Korean Peninsula is inherently volatile and unstable, so there always is a potential for war. Now, i think, it is my pickup you have a regime in pyongyang that i believe has a pretty low threshold of risk, the instability we have seen. The secretary of state promises the era of strategic pasi and sarah is over the administration now waits to see if north korea reverses course. Outcomes the state apartment admits are uncertain. Bret . Spohn rich edson live at the state department with breaking news tonight. Thank you. Lets turn to john roberts, joins us on the north lawn where the president just returned on the south lawn a short time ago, trying to get an answer from hi him. The president coming in from atlanta, address the nra Leadership Convention as he made his way toward the residence, and then from there to the oval office. Im sure the president wants to get more information about this before he says anything. But the Senior Administration official told fox news a short time ago that the white house is not surprised by this latest north korean provocation, that kim jongun is predisposed to do this sort of thing. They are also not surprised by the fact that this latest Missile Launch was a failure as well. As rich edson mentioned. But i think it bears repeating, this is believed to be a kn17 missile, that is a liquidfueled Ballistic Missile, really just short to medium range. Not one of the intercontinental missiles, second that fell just seconds after leaving the launchpad, this one flew a short distance further, but didnt get very far. The president is not expected to say anything about this, but we do hope to have a little more information about this. And the white house, again, calling on china to do whatever it can to try to rein in north Koreas Nuclear and missile program. Bret we are getting word from u. S. Pacific command now assessing that the north Korean Missile which, as he pointed out, is like a scud missile, a liquidfueled missile, broke up over the peninsula itself and never actually made it to the sea of japan. So that is a different level of concern. But still, it is a provocative action, john. Is there a sense in that white house that there is a line they are looking for for some kind of different action besides what they are pursuing with china. If there is a land that kim jongun would cross that would provoke a dramatic american response, it is not being articulated by the president. But as you discovered yesterday in your very good interview with Rex TillersonCommittee Secretary of state, the United States has asked china to do more than it has in the past but certainly a line they are pushing with the chinese, and we learned from tillerson yesterday that china has been in contact with pyongyang to urges not to undertake more tests, saying it would impose unilateral sanctions if it did. Well see if this is the sort of test that might provoke that action from china, as he pointed out, this is not one of those big, worrisome missiles, though a missive like this is worrisome and ends in of itself. Well see if that provoke some extra reaction here from the president or at least a phone call to say we need to lean harder on the north korean regime. Bret well head back to the white house and you if there any other braking details. Lets talk about all of this with syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. He is also in washington tonight. Your thoughts . It seems to be a deliberate provocation by the leadership in pyongyang, but it is not, as john roberts pointed out, the kind of icbm that would threaten us. It is still liquid fueled, so it is not advanced in its technology. It seems to me to be a deliberate provocation with us at the security council, or secretary of state, saying we are near, at least there is a threat of a major, major conflict here, trying to challenge the Trump Administration saying, well, show us what youve got. But the administration seems to be saying is, weve got to china. Well, we dont see anything from china. We just heard that the chinese are in contact with the North Koreans to try to put pressure on them not to test. Well, dated test. They did test. I think were going to see whether the chinese action is an illusion or whether trump was taken in with the meeting by xi, the president of china, or whether this is a process where theyve agreed to do things over time. But we havent seen anything yet, and this is a way for the North Koreans to try to, at least for the merrily, to call the preliminary preliminaril the left. Bret when they are in the world spotlight, do something to try to get attention and negotiate a deal. This seems different, this is the commander, head of u. S. Pacific command up on the hill the other day. It seems that p. R. Faced with a threat we are faced with aa leader who is intent on achievil of Nuclear Capability against the United States. And its clear that his goal is a Nuclear Weapon and the means to deliver to United States of america. Is there any doubt in your mind . There is no doubt in my mind, chairman. Bret as i asked secretary tillerson, getting from that point and let goal that they assessed to be the end state to know Nuclear Weapons and taking that away from north korea, it seems like a long way to go from point a to point b. I dont think there is much of a chance of targeting the regime to abandon its nukes. I think what we are looking at, at least in the short run, is, number one, the icbm that can hit the u. S. Is a redline. The president has said the administration has established very clearly, we will not allow that. We are going to hit it one way or another. That is understood. We get, with chinese pressure, a freeze of the program. We are not going to get an abolition of the program. I think that is really unlikely even with chinese pressure. What can we get a freeze, which is sort of an intermediate step, come on, because what he means is, we are not on a burning fuse. Right now, we are. We are a year or two or three away from the red line being crossed even on the east coast east coast and even on the east coast being in the crosshairs of a nuke. Can we freeze the program so there are no marked missile tests of the advanced kind and no more Nuclear Tests to try to militarize the weapons and put it on a warhead . Thats, i think, is the medium range, shortrange objective. If it can be achieved, i think it is something we should want to get paid and then you go from the longerrange stage of abolition of the program. Right now, that is not reachable, but i think it would be worth it to stop diffuse from burning. Bret charles, as always, thank you. Well be following this breaking story throughout the show. The military is investigating the details of the mission of any bandstand that claimed to u. S. Army rangers earlier this week. Pentagon states that sergeants Joshua Rogers and Cameron Thomas may have died from Family Therapy to the military has informed the family members of those involved. Two platoons of rangers teamed with special security forces, pentagon officials saying about 35 isis fighters were killed, including several highlevel leaders. The federal government will not run out of money at midnight tonight. Congress kicked that can down the road a little bit to the tune of one more week, passing a budget extension today. A shortterm continuing resolution, it is called, but republicans did not give President Trump the picture he wanted on health care. House leaders anticipate a vote as soon as next week on that page and President Trump has signed an executive order starting the process of opening parts of the arctic and atlantic oceans to energy exploration. It is yet another reversal of one of his predecessors environmental initiatives. The president says this move will reduce the cost of energy, create new jobs, and make america more secure. Critics say it will harm the environment. The markets hit a bump today. The dow was down 41 points, the s p 500 gave up some ground, down 5. The nasdaq slipped 1. For the week, all three were a pretty down gained almost two percentage points. The s p 500, 1. 5, the nasdaq, 2. 3 . President trump fired up gun owners this afternoon in atlanta. He became the first sitting president to address the nra, the National Rifle association convention, since Ronald Reagan in 1983. Corresponded Jonathan Serries is in atlanta tonight with that story tonight. President trump discussed few specific policy details, but he left no doubt on his support on the right to bear arms. Listen. The eightyear assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end. That message resonated well with members of the nra, an organization that endorsed trump early on in his president ial campaign. Second amendment advocates have praised the Trump Administration for rolling back some of our mate , including one that banned the use of ammunition lead ammunition. And president rarely defend the crowd by rear reaffirming his g touted plan to build a wall among the u. S. Mexican border. We will build a wall. Dont even think about it. Dont even think about it. Dont even think about it. Thats an easy one. Were going to build the wall. We need the wall. After his speech, President Trump posted a private fundraiser for karen handel, buying to fill the seat of health and Human Services secretary tom price. She paces general mike faces n ossef faces i have a feeling that in the next election, you could be swamped with candidates, but youre not going to be wasting your time. Youll have plenty of those democrats coming over and youre going to say no, sir, no thank you. No, man. Perhaps man created an 80 pocahontas, remember that. And to jog some memories, pocahontas, of course, was Donald Trumps nickname for Massachusetts Center to make senator Elizabeth Warren. Bret okay, jonathan serrie, thank you. Speaking of firing power, the ms13 gang has plenty of that. That group is blamed for 11 murders and took a long island President Trump is blaming and has promised to eradicate that gang. Today, his top lawenforcement official went to the heart of the zone. I have a message for the gangs that target our young people. We are targeting you. We are coming after you. Attorney general Jeff Sessions delivering a stark warning from the federal courthouse on long island, new york, following a recent spike in brutal violence from the International Gang ms13. The gang started in the 1980s in los angeles, growing now to 10,000 members nationwide. More than 200 members are on long island. Most are immigrants from el salvador and central america. Many are undocumented. Sessions says open borders and years of lax Immigration Enforcement has allowed ms13 to thrive. The gang has gotten tougher. He is promising more resources to local police and more deportations. We will identify these networks, investigate cases against them, and criminals who are convicted will be deported paid in september, two teenage best friends were beaten with baseball bats and hacked with machetes by ms13. The mother of one of the victims welcomed sessions base that paid is all about working together. The federal and State Government united as one to figure out a plan. Saying ms13 continues recruiting and in schools nationwide. This gorgeous praying on but immigrants activists believe sessions is trying to paint all immigrants as violent criminals. He is using the context of fear of violent gangs and bad things for society and communities to promote his agenda. Sessions did not get into specifics about how much federal funding will be made available to fight gangs, though he did say the department of justice plans to increase the number of prosecutors in high crime areas nationwide. Bret . Bret thank you. The National Security agency, the nsa, says it will no longer collect Certain Communications on the internet simply because they mention a foreign intelligence target. That move is being applauded by privacy advocates. The agency says it will not limit such collection to Internet Communications sent directly to or from a foreign target. Next, we talked all about this week the president s first 100 days. After the br bret this is a fox news alert, updating our top story. North korea has launched another missile. It was a testing of a former scud missile, apparently unsuccessful. Broke up over the peninsula itself. Official saying it was a Medium Range Missile breaking up a couple of minutes after launch, about 25, we are told. Comes the same day secretary of state Rex Tillerson went to the u. N. To urge new sanctions against the communist state. This is similar to previous launches, and it did not operate properly, we are told, by u. S. Officials. The question is, was this another provocation by north korea and what comes next . We are waiting for more reaction from the white house. They are putting out statements through officials saying that they are going to continue to pressure china and other allies to pressure north korea to give up its Ballistic Missile and nuclear program. Well bring you updated news and information here on fox. Meantime, in politics news, for next senator jim commit retold will no longer be the head of the heritage foundation, we have been told that the board at heritage has asked for his resignation. There is speculation on a likely replacement there at heritage, including steve bannon. We are waiting a formal statement f