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Burst. and finally, time for some hard nosed reality. the check that ought to be done right now, and it's a good opportunity to do it when he gets to hamburg, nuclear weapons and icbm programs in north korea and iran have been joined at the hip since the clinton administration and no one's done anything about it. in the two years since the sanctions on iran were lifted by the obama administration and the so called p-5 plus one, we air lifted $1.8 billion in cash tehran. since then the north koreans have conducted more icbm test, 17 of them, than in the previous two decades, 12. now, why? becau...

Meeting both in public and in private. folks in the pentagon this morning are concerned not just that north korea had this successful icbm test. they weren't expecting them to be successful. trump might overreact, might respond in a way that's not proportionate and make a volatile situation even more complicated. something that he ran on and he campaigned on. he might not have the understanding of diplomatic norms. important context here too is that reuters reported yesterday that the president of china, president xi said that both he and the russian government agree that they're both concerne...

Flown it very high so that they can test the range of the missile. if they were to shoot it on a norm trajectory t probably going out 6,000 or so kilometers. by definition, anything over 5500 chomteres is an ibcm. >> yeah i think paula hancock is on the line. what are you hearing? >> well, michael the announcement just come through from north korean television announcing that north korea has successfully tested an icbm, an intercontinental. they say it was a success. this icbm test was ordered directly by kim jung un. a little earlier you say a photo of kim jong-un signing something. we've see...

Personalities. does one or the other have the upper hand as these discussions get under way? >> if anything, i think this icbm test may tilt the scales in president trump's favor in terms of leverage. for a number of reasons. you've got this icbm test which destablizes the entire region. russia in its entirely practically is within the range of this icbm. forget the fact that only the united states is alaska that's in the range of that. additionally the russians are really hurting economically. a combination of u.s. sanctions and the global price of oil has put vladamir putin's regime in a tou...

Test? >> well, this is about the tenth operational test of this system. as been up for about 10 or 11 years and this is the first time, what's significant about today, is that the u.s. test missile, the one coming in, is an actual icbm, coming in from from the marshal islands in the western pacific. these move very quickly. officials here describing it as hitting a bullet with a bullet. later today out at vandenburg air force base, the gbi, ground based interceptor will come up and try to meet the icbm test. the target is somewhere in the waters north of santa barbara. that's where it's suppos...