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Always tension between the u.s. and north korea, there's always the exchange of hyper bollic rhetoric, particularly in north korea, right now are you concerned that this has reached a particularly tense level? is there something different about it right now that concerns you? >> there is, jim, and i have commanded in iraq and germany and also in korea. and i have never seen the tension in korea the way it is right now. and has it to do twofold with kim jong-il who is more p provocative than many of the watchers of that part of the world have seen in a long time. he is close to seeing his goals...

This regime on the ground in syria. but to go to the point of regime change, that would be another evolution on the part of this president that i don't think administration officials are indicating at this point, anderson. as we. this did not forestall a sharp reaction from moscow. there's that and potentially much larger story emerging about the investigation into russia possibly being complicit in the chemical attack. as jim mentioned, jim sciuto mentioned in his piece, the military is investigating whether russia bombed a hospital treating victims of the chemical attack to destroy evidenc...

On what's happening in north korea, whether there's any kind of provocation. we did see the president playing golf, jim got those exclusive pictures, that would make it his 7th time to be in mar-a-lago since he's been president. >> reporter: they do have a secure area where he is able to get briefings, he is able to get classified information, this is where he received information about the strike in syria recently, so they feel pretty confident about that, that they do have the team and the mechanisms in place, they do have the trump hotel where some staffers are staying, all of us reporters ...

Yes, the -- force assad from power. but what you heard today from administration officials was that this was a measured response, proportional response, you heard the secretary of state say, well, they went after this airfield that jim sciuto was just talking about, because they wanted to make it clear that this was about condemning the use of chemical weapons against a civilian population. but at the same time, they're making it very clear, anderson, at this point is that assad sort of is in charge of his own destiny, if he chooses to use chemical weapons against his own people, as i understa...

White house spokesman sean spicer said we continue to be -- the fbi, the department of justice, the cia and the office of director of national intelligence all reached by cnn, they had no comment. >> so, jim, you talk about this didn't relate to the salacious parts of the dossier, but they were serious allegations in here. do you have any sense at this hour, what it is that u.s. investigators have corroborated, that is true in this dossier? >> the dossier details about a dozen conversations between senior russian officials and other russian individuals. one thing the u.s. has is a collection o...