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And japanese prime minister shinzo abe. the head of the u.s. pacific command will be on capitol hill this week testifying to congress about the north korean threat. >> bret: jennifer, thank you. new sanctions tonight against syria over its use of chemical weapons. president trump is calling for penalties against 271 employees of serious scientific and research center, the government agency for developing, producing nonconventional weapons. this is one of the largest sanctions in u.s. history. thousands of people today participated in a 2-mile march from the site of the nazi death camp at ausch...

For a nuclear test and we're told that the united states was having this big show of force sending the strike force to the sea of japan when it was going the opposite direction. at the briefing, sean spicer said there's nothing misleading and what was said. >> what i was asked, what signal was sent that it was going there. it signalled foreign presence and a strength. you're asking me why you didn't know better. i don't know. that's a question that should have been followed up with pacom or the department of defense. the only question we were asked is what signal it sends. we answered it corre...

>> there has been a lot of inaccurate reporting on the u.s.s. carl vinson's location. the vinson aircraft carrier hasn't been off the coast of the korean peninsula. over the week ago the head of u.s. pacific command cancelled a visit in australia and escort ships. it led many to believe vinson would immediately head north to the korean peninsula. we've learned the strike group has continued a training exercise with its australian counterparts near australia and will begin steaming north in another day or so arriving later this month. vice president mike pence is in japan today part of a 10-day...

Could be fake. >> this warning that president trump gave to the north koreans. >> we're sending an armada, very powerful. we have submarines, very powerful. far more powerful than the aircraft carrier. that i can tell you. >> shepard: as it turns out, the powerful sub and armada were 3,500 miles away and headed in the opposite direction. what happened there? >> shep, a lot of inaccurate reporting of the location of the u.s.s. carl vinson strike group which started with a misleading statement from u.s. pacific command amplified by statements from the white house. over a week ago, the head of th...

What has happened here. we all but -- it's been all but confirmed that we're probably not looking at an intercontinental ballistic missile, which would have a long range with the potential to reach the united states. this is more than likely, according to some sources that we're speaking to here, a submarine launched missile because sinpo is where the north korean army has its submarine assets. so putting two and two together, they're saying this is the likelihood. again, nothing is confirmed at this point on exactly the sort of device that we're dealing with. we know that it failed almost imm...