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Strong enough to cause tremors in south korea and china. 1 world leaders join -- world leaders joining president trump in condemning the nuke test. mike: governor greg abbott taking part in services for the national day of prayer for hurricane harvey victims. president trump visiting the two states for the second time. touring the texas neighborhood with the first lady and speaking with survivors as they try to get back on their feet. joining me now is kimberly atkins. it's been observed this is the first major test of the trump administration in terms of a major national disaster. what kind o...

Diplomacy. it actually oversteps the structural organization national security professionals. we have some really good people across the interagency supporting the actual policy. we need to be a little more circumspect, a little more realistic, turn the volume down with this particular test and realize it's very serious. it is a game changer and we need to do it right. let's be a little more reasonable. stay off of twitter and focus on the professionals and be able to communicate since it is 12 hours behind us, they had a daytime test, daytime over here now. let's think about our allies. the t...

And that would put china squarely in the cross-hairs. for his part the president said the time for talking is over prime minister was also critical of south korea's policy of engagement with north korea. tweeting south korea is finding their talk of appeasement with north korea will not work. they north korea only understand one thing. it seems it will be economic sanctions. but we hope to know more after this national security meeting. by was asked and he said "we'll see." arthel: you know he said that, you were there. john roberts, thank you very much. mike: the state department is reacting ...

Bombers from japan. it is not capable of delivering weapons. the u.s. navy had two aircraft carrier strike groups position of the korean peninsula. today it has none. uss ronald reagan strike group in japan could get underway in days. there are some 80,000 u.s. troops stationed in south korea and japan, waiting for any orders along with f-16 fighter jet. arthel. arthel: xi coming thank you very much. mike much. might be a trend to much. mike beard mike: are there any viable responses president trump can consider? the former national security adviser to vice president dick cheney. good to see y...

Thinking back to katrina. so far is it safe to say there is unity among the leader leading this harvey relief? >> i think that's true. all i heard is high praise for the federal response. that speaks to the lessons learned from katrina. fema was on the ground even before the store hit so the resources would be in place to get to work immediately. where in katrina it took a long time for a federal response to make it to the area. democrats and republicans have been positive in their response so far. mike: there is no doubt when you look at the magnitude of this harvey disaster, folks in texas a...