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Tools short of military action. the united states stand prepared to defend itself and its allies using the full range of unmatched military capabilities if need be. >> reporter: and notably, president trump also saying he sees that his strategy of showing military deterrence and strength, he believes, is actually working. the specific evidence of that we don't yet know, but the president says he thinks there are signs like other nations perhaps coming into o coordination with the u.s. and south korea. pointing to china and russia in particular. hoping they can leverage north korea to stop its ...

People of our country safe. our allies are safe. and i will tell you this. north korea better get their act together or they're going to be in trouble like few nations ever have been in trouble in this world. okay? thank you very much. >> nbc's kelly o'connell is in bedminster with the president and robert acosta joins us from d.c. i want to introduce john heilman and frank bruni, a columnist for "the new york times." here's your title, the white house reporter eli stokols and kasie hunt. kelly o, while we were watching the president's statement that took place about an hour and 15 minutes ago...

Blood, and he was laying there. >> the president adding again that the congressman is a real fighter. >> i would like to take a moment to again send our thoughts and prayers to my friend and a friend of most of us in this room, steve scalise, and his great family as he continues his brave fight. >> joining me now is kelly o connell. first to you, what we're hearing from the white house, and from the hospital shows that he is in very serious condition. >> the president eluded to that

>> thank you to pete and to kelly. nancy pelosi is joining us now, tell me this there has been a few remember members taking the fact that this man was online, against donald trump, against the republicans, to make it more of a partisan issue, what is your response to that? >> that is a path that i don't want to go downright now because it is inappropriate. right now we're all praying very hard and using our energy to transmit to steve that he get well, to give our comfort to his family, and again also to the others who were injured. i think it is completely inappropriate for them to make t...

Know anything was possible. so i don't know. to this day hai have no idea whi was fired. >> let's start in new jersey not far from the president's bedminster estate. kelly o'connell is standing by. what's the latest reaction to comey's testimony? >> reporter: well, we saw that there are a number of lawmakers who think there are new questions that need to be explored and the prous trafrust that you've heard from both parties, frustration directed at the president forn not being in the normal lane of keeping quiet about such matters and lashing out at the fired fbi director. here days later the ...