Plates. Starters, north korea fired a Ballistic Missile flew from japanese air space and it flew far. And despite increasing sanctions. U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations nikki haley didnt take military options off the table. In fact, warned about them and said to let sanctions take their course. You have to look at how much has been cut off. Already started to feel it, but theyre getting ready to feel 90 of their exports going away. 30 of their oil. Imagine what that would do to the United States if that was there . If you look at what i was looking at what north korea was saying. A fullscale economic blockade suffocating its state and people. This is dramatic. Dramatic and thats north korea. Look over here across the atlantic ocean. Authorities in london are investigating an explosion aboard a subway train. Theyre calling it a terrorist incident but as they work to treat the wounded and find the person or people responsible, british Prime Minister theresa may forced to take time to respond to something that President Trump tweeted. Lets get started at the white house. Hallie jackson standing by for us. Give us a full rundown of an Interesting Press conference in that we had nikki haley there and h. R. Mcmaster. Big heavy hitters on Foreign Policy add what is normally the regular White House Press briefing . Reporter plenty of Foreign Policy issues to talk about here, ali. Start with north korea. That took up a lot of the focus for both general mcmaster and ambassador haley. You heard notable comments from both. Nikki haley begging for folks to let sanctions run their course. You might remember President Trump called these sanctions the u. N. Security Council Voted on last week a small step, and seemed to intimate that the secretary of state agreed with him on that. Nikki haley said, hey, call it a small step a big step, its just a start and a small sthaep could lead to a big step. Im paraphrasing. Eventually, north korea will feel this, touting what has been done on the United States side. That said, both she and general mcmaster added diplomacy can only take the United States so far. At some point well kick 2 it or to the secretary of defense. Weve kicked the can down the road and are out of road. So for those who have said and have been commenting about the lack of a military option. There is a military option. Now, its not what we prefer to do. So what we have to do is call on all nations. Call on everyone to do everything we can to address this global problem short of war. Reporter so h. R. Mcmaster, National Security advisers there as we come to you from the Construction Zone of the north lawneer, ali. I know this is the verd Television Program hosted today. Interesting, watching the story develop from 9 00 this morning to where we are now and leading into the early afternoon with these advisers coming out. Yes, there to preview the United NationsGeneral Assembly that begins next week pap ton of policy talk there. The president has already written his speech hell give to the General Assembly and the questions they got focused not entirely on that. Not just whats happening in north korea, also overseas in london after what Police Describe as that terror incident. Well follow both of those. United nations General Assembly, not the most exciting thing happening next week, though. You know what is, hallie . Youll be in new york i. Get to see you every single day. Looking forward to it, my friend. Reporter thank you. And talk about north korea. This latest missile test is the 19th one this year. This one fired as they often are from an airport just north of pyongyang. Flying over the northern japanese island of hokkaido, all the way over japanese air space. That amount of travel took two minutes. And this is the second time in less than three weeks this happened. It landed way out here. This is important. Because it traveled the farthest distance of any missile launched by north korea so far. It was 2,300 miles before falling into the pacific. That is relevant for a particular reason. Because this distance, 2,300 miles, puts the u. S. Territory of guam, which is only 2,131 miles from pyongyang, well within range. You see the distance to guam versus the distance to where this went. Its not clear once you put a head on that missile it would actual dlo that, but pyongyang threatened to fire missiles towards guam. All of this kims after the United StatesSecurity Council unanimously approved new sanctions on north korea on monday. That was in response to the last test, which north korea suspected Hydrogen Bomb test on september 3rd. Its one thing to analyze distances and trajectories on a board here. Its another thing entirely to be there in japan, or in south korea, listening with this day to day. Matt bradley is in tokyo, hans nichols, keeping track of things at the pentagon. Let me before i get to matt, start with hans. Hans, just give us some relevance about this distance and the payload and the missile. The fact that this thing went 2,300 miles into the oacean doesnt necessarily mean an armed missile can hit guam . No, it doesnt. They havent factored in and dont know what the payload was or is on that missile. It went quite high. 500 miles up into the air. Could have teased it out a little more. Theyre still doing the analysis here. This is not the icbm. They still have something a little more powerful than this, quite a bit more. Has quite a bit more range and we still dont know just what the reentry was on this one. Live to what was said at that briefing earlier today, this idea sanctions have taken effect. Ali, theyre not answering the question whether or not sanctions are having an effect. Thats a crucial distinction. Arguing for stronger sanctions, got watered down, weak eer sanctions and now the two of them haley and mcmaster seem to be playing for time. Interesting question. Curious what sort of internal conversations there are in the white house, in the pentagon and the state department on how much time theyre willing to play for. Ali . Hans, thank you. Stand by. Matt bradley is in tokyo for us. Matt, talk about what happened in japan. This is on one hand very frightening. Alarms go off when an actual missile is flying over japan. At the same point we know that north korea has been doing this for a while. What are the japanese making of this . Reporter well, its a good point, ali. You walk around here in tokyo you would think nothing is going on. Indeed, for most japanese, the vast majority, this is just not a cause of concern, because youre right. Theyve been dealing with this threat for decades, and a bit of a boy who cried wolf element going on here, if youll allow me to use that cliche. Theyve seen these threats amplify. The fact is the threats are qualitatively worse now. The frequency of these tests, magnitude of the weapons tested by the north, are much, much greater. At the sim time there is a palpable feeling that the thing thats changed most is in washington. That its President Trump who created this problem with his fire and fury comments back in august. And then some of the comments from other lawmakers. Like lindsey graham, if hundreds of thousands of people die theyll day over there, striking many in the firing line of north korea as quite glib to put it mildly. Matt, what does this do in japan politically . The japanese Prime Minister taking a, sort of a hard line about this. And to some degree, these types of threats do tend to rally a nation around a politician. Reporter thats right. Well, shinzo abe, whos the Prime Minister here, he has wavered in popularity. Been in office for quite a while, but seen as a nationalist, right winger, which causes a lot of concern among other nations in the region who have a very strong visceral memory of how japan behaved back in world war ii. And theyre not willing to forget it and will constantly remind japan of that. For the japanese public, theyre kind of rallying behind their leader. Weve seen popularity polls coming out in the past couple weeks that show a marked increase in popularity for shinzo abe, and some of his rightwing elements. People who want to see japan move april way from its traditional passivist constitution and start to see a more aggressive military, start to arm up and have more aggressive weapons that they can use to make Something Like a preemptive strike. Ali, thats the kind of thing japans constitution actually ties its own hands. Theyre not allowed under their own law to attack north korea and say, blow up a Nuclear Missile on a tarmac in north korea before it strikes. They simply cant and wont do that. Theyre actually barred from get toing the kinds of weapons that would allow them to do that. Japan has one of the most powerful and sophisticated militaries in the world. Right, but legally are not allowed to use it. Shinzo abe, he wants to change that, and hes getting a little more support from the public. That could really alter the balance of power throughout the region. Understand bly. When those sirens start going off, missiles are flying over your country, people tend to be more open to these ideas. Matt, thanks, very much and hans as well. All right. Whenever something happens in the Korean Peninsula were on the phone with my next guest who knows this stuff better than pretty much anyone. Lindsay ford, director of Political Security affairs with the asia society. Talk to me about what you make of this, because its becoming hard for people in the world to understand what pyongyang is hoping to achieve with these increasingly more threatening tests. I mean, albeit, this one is not as threatening as potential Hydrogen Bomb that went off the other day, but it went farther. Whats the goal . I think the goal here is that they want to get the United States to recognize a north korean regime and do it on their terms. So the practical point here is, we demonstrate we have a credible nuclear Ballistic Missile program that we can strike the United States and your allies if we chose. And, therefore, we want you to recognize that this regime and specifically the kim family and this leadership has the right to stick around. Youre not going to threaten us. This is putting jinping in a difficult circumstances. Sometimes xi jinping gets it from President Trump. They have not blocked sanctions against north korea. In theory china is north koreas patron, but seems to be an awkward position for china to be in. Increased sanctions, at some point directed at china more seriously . Absolutely. Xi jinping is between a rock and hard place. And theyre in an incredibly bad position at a time this is the last thing he wants to focus on. 19th Party Congress coming up shortly, he really doesnt want to spend time having to deal with an erratic north korean regime right now, and the u. S. Government made pretty clear basically where they are is the chinese can more fully implement the sanctions that are on the table, and you saw u. S. Officials this past week basically saying in testimony on the hill that they suspect both the chinese an the russians, and said they have evidence, really arent implementing sanctions fully. The way they should be. Or that secondary savg arary sat will take a swipe at Chinese Companies are coming shortly. The chinese are looking at basically additional sanctions with an impact on their companies. Or theyre going to have to actually more fully follow through with the existen sanctions in a way they really havent wanted to so far. Let me ask you something. The president has been talking the last couple of days about the iran deal, with suggestions that in october theyre going to have some decision, and the implication, they may want to cancel this iran deal. The one good thing about the iran deal, whether one agrees with how we got to it or not is that it takes Irans Nuclear program off the table. Given that we have a Real Nuclear Threat right now in north korea, and by the way, iran nerve her a Nuclear Armed missile. Is this risky to now get into a Nuclear Confrontation in two parts of the world . Its incredibly risky. You could not pick a worst time to try to deal with a Nuclear Crisis in two places potentially. In middle east and east asia. The reality is that the iran deal we made was never necessarily going to make iran a nice regime we wanted to hold hands with and get along with, but at least took the Nuclear Issue off the table. If you renege on this deal youre absolutely putting back into play potentially you have to deal with an iranian Nuclear Program and a north Korea Program at the same time. And from a practical standpoint, this has a lot of really concerning implications for the United States. Not least of which, if i was secretary mattis, the last thing i want to think about, how to posture forces in both east asia and the middle east to deal with two crises. Lindsey, thanks for your analysis. Lindsey ford, director of Political Affairs for the Agency Policy institute. The white house continues to send mixed messages on what the plan is for nearly 800,000 d. R. E. A. M. Ers here in the United States. The president seemed to back off significantly on any plan worked out with chuck and nancy. Some House Republicans in the meantime are trying to keep that dream alive. Nbc learned that leadership is uting together working groups of moderates, but also hardliners on immigration to come up with a plan. Not only on daca, but also border security. Its unclear if that includes trumps promised wall. Garrett hake first reported the news and joins me now. Garrett, seems republicans are realizing they have to take the lead on daca and maybe turn this into a legislative win for themselves, or someone else is going to do something with it. The concept, i said chuck and nancy, thats how the president referred to Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi like theyre old friends. Reporter yes. I cant believe thats our usable shorthand. Broadly speaks youre right. Republicans want to turn it into a win for them. They have the majority in the house and senate. They want it to be their deal. First things first. Republicans particularly in the house have to figure out who they are and what they stand for when it comes to Immigration Reform and border security. Speaker ryan said he wont put anything on the floor that isnt supported when it comes to immigration, isnt supported by a majority of republicans in the house. The working groups are an effort to fig are out what exactly the majority of republicans in the house can actually support. Where republicans can start from their negotiates position if theyre really going to negotiate with democrats. The working groups are a part of that. Another part of that will come from the white house, which finally signaled today with a little more specificity what they would like to see in a deal. Here was Sarah Huckabee sanders earlier. Right now our goal, our focus, is making sure that that program gets taken care of with also coupling that with massive border security, interior enforcement, some of the specific things wed like to see into sanctuary cities, expedited removal, more immigration jumps. Support ug thiing things like t act. More of things youll see in the coming days. Reporter some wont be acceptable to democrats but thats why they negotiate and we we are now. Exciting times on capitol hill next couple of weeks. Garrett, thank you, on capitol hill for us. And washington continues to bicker over what to do about daca. States are stepping up to protect their constituents. As of right now nearly two dozen states are suing the Trump Administration. The latest to join the fight is california. In california, we dont turn our backs on those who help build the state. Who work hard. Its unfortunate that President Donald Trump chose to turn his back. Joining me right now, californias attorney general javiar basarro. You just saw there. In light of everything you heard, the conversations youve heard between the president , nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer, the fact paul ryan is now saying well take the lead on this. Where does this leave you and the protections that you wish to extend to daca people in california . Ali, were where we were before. Do everything we can to protect these d. R. E. A. M. Erers, creating jobs by opening businesses. Valedictorians in their high school class, gone some of the best universities in our nation. Were going to do what we need to do defend them and move forward. If congress is able to strike a deal with the president , thats the best of all worlds, but were not going to wait. Were going to continue forward with our lawsuit to defend these folks, because they have pro