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U.s. carrier strike groups could lead to war. u.s. officials confirm not one but two b-1 bombers were launched monday from anderson air force base in guam, lying nearly 2,000 miles to south korea. a mission intended to send a message to north korea following two tests last week. the b-1 it carries the largest conventional payload of bombs in the air force inventory. it was designed to fly low and fast into soviet airspace during the cold war to drop nuclear weapons, but today, that b-1 was is not capable of carrying nukes. u.s. officials tell me the chinese military contacted the bombers while...

Korean peninsula. the president tweeted this over the weekend. north korea has shown great disrespect for their neighbor china by shooting off yet another ballistic missile. china is trying hard. we're live at the pentagon. what can you tell us about this american bomber flight in that region? >> good morning. u.s. officials tell me b-1 bombers have been routinely flying in the region since february. now on monday two b-1 bombers launched in guam flying 2,000 miles to south korea from japan and it's a message to north korea. the b-1 is a supersonic long range bomber that carries the largest pa...

Korean peninsula. this is so delicate. going to go on your expertise and your specialty, karl, and talk about how fire the president should be going. >> this is what they say every time we do something. you may remember, every four or five years, we have major exercises with the south koreans. it was moved up this year. we have the same kind of rhetoric a couple weeks ago. we shouldn't read too much into this and we shouldn't read too little. what really matters is they need to know we are going to be strong and the cia director's in south korea now, good move. b-1 bomber sent, good move. uss ...

Korean peninsula two bombers were supposed to patrol and only one was able to take off only one scrubbed due to maintenance issues amid tensions with korea and minutes ago fox news learns the chinese military issued a warning to the lone b-1 bomber as it it approached an island saying it was flying in chinese air space. >> shannon: we know there's a big meeting in washington talking about the next steps against isis. what can you tell us about that? >> officials from 68 countries are meet at the state department right now. secretary of state rex tillerson and iraq's prime minister will make op...

Exists in this region. and if we want to help the refugees, the thing to do to help them, is to stabilize the region, to win this war. to make it so they want to stay home instead of millions of them trying to come to europe or to come to the united states. if we want to help these people, let's create a stable environment for them. that's the most important thing we could do and it's not talked about any longer. >> because of your past with the b-1 bomber, let me close on a question to you about this air war. general barry mccaffery was joined by severals on television expressing the need for...