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Deadly gun violence. vournded by the families of the victims, the president blasted the lack of progress. now he's taking executive action calling if more extensive background checks, increased mental health treatment and improved gun safety technology. our other major story this hour, north korea said it's carried out a successful test of a hydrogen nuclear bomb. new pictures show kim jong-un signing the order to carry out the test. a senior u.s. official says it could take days to determine if the understood ground test was successful. north korea has hes tested plutonium nuclear devices thr...

And the region are reacting. new developments on that front tonight as well. will ripley has just spoken to a north korean official. he joins us now. what did the north korean official tell you? >> well, basically what jim said, that north korea hasn't proven they can bring a warhead back into the atmosphere. that's what north korea still feels they need to prove. this is the same official who told me back in october that north korea basically had to show the trump administration two things. one, they had an icbm, they showed that today. two, that they can detonate this device, which would be ...

He joins us now. what did the north korean official tell you? >> well, basically what jim said, that north korea hasn't proven they can bring a warhead back into the atmosphere. that's what north korea still feels they need to prove. this is the same official who told me back in october that north korea basically had to show the trump administration two things. one, they had an icbm, they showed that today. two, that they can detonate this device, which would be an above ground nuclear test like the kind that north korea's foreign minister threatened back in september, possibly over the pacifi...

North korean officials told him they were going to do. they were showing him calculations and test a missile that could potentially hit the east coast of the united states. the second step would be to detonate a nuclear device above ground over the pacific. a threat that was first made at the united nations by the foreign minster after president trump made his speech threatening to destroy north korea. you have north korea saying before they could sit down with the united states, they want to show they have an icbm that could deliver a warhead to the mainland u.s. that includes the first above...

Campaign. >> i don't think that god is just on your side. i don't think that god is just on my side. i think he is on both of our side, i think she on the president's side t. one thing i do know is the president is on my side. >> trump tweeting this morning, we'll be in alabama tonight. luther strange has gained mightily since my endorsement, but will be very close. he loves balabama and so do i. >> we will be watching closely the president's speech tonight to see what argument he makes for luther strange. whether he mentioned mccain's announcement today and whether he continues to bash kim jo...