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>> thank you very much, jim sciutto. to be loud and clear there's no way to have a preemptive strike that would be total without the possibility of massive civilian casualties. we go to bedminster, new jersey where president trump is. sara, sounds like north korea, obviously, the president laid out this red line. no more threats and they came right back with a threat. has there been a response tonight from the president? >> reporter: that's right, north korea did come back with a athlete. we have asked white house aides who are here with the president in new jersey whether there will be any re...

Castro was useless. the iranian connection, nuclear weapons in the means of delivering, it has allowed kim jong un, ruler of one of the poorest nations on earth, to rapidly acquire the means of striking the u.s. that's why he's talking the way he is. he has doubt as to whether we will do it. i have considerable doubt as to whether the leaders in north korea or tehran have the same survival instinct as the russians. as newt gingrich and speaker -- ambassador bolton pointed out, the programs approved by reagan were never fully implemented. we are virtually naked against this attack. moscow voted...

Barbara starr at the pentagon. thanks very much. the crisis has put the u.s. territory of guam and its sizeable u.s. military presence in north korea's crosshairs right now. let's go to our senior international correspondent, ivan watson. he's on the island of guam for assignment. how seriously are people there, and they're all u.s. citizens, about 162,000 u.s. citizens living on guam. how seriously are they taking north korea's threat of some sort of preemptive strike? >> reporter: when we went through border control at the airport here a few hours ago, a border guard joked with us, welcome t...

Will have this capability before the end of his term, four to five years, to then we progress to they have the capability next year in 2018 to now they have it. so either -- so either something dramatically changed over in north korea and their capabilities and accelerated or our assessments have been a bit off. that's something worth looking into it. to the other point in cooling things down, i agree we have to work through cyber, covert, tougher sanctions. the north koreans and the chinese need to believe the military option is real. >> and what do you think, stephen? do you they think we wo...

And placement of the weaponry that could take this out with redundancy. that gives us 40 or more chances to take something out, if god forbid it's ever launched. >> in terms of ballistic missile defense as a whole, we can blam@ barack obama. he gutted the bush administration's plan for missile defense and we are very much at risk because of obama's policies. sean, i don't think we have the time. as i say, i think we have months to decide whether we will allow north korea to have that capability to have nuclear warheads essentially anywhere they want inside the united states. they are not going...