In paula hancocks. Paula, the fifth Nuclear Test North Korea appears to have conducted and the most powerful one and coming on the heels of President Obamas visit to asia. Reporter thats right. The timing certainly is interesting, john. The fact is north korea announced on staterun television saying they successfully tested the Nuclear Warhead and they can put that on any one of the Ballistic Missiles. It is impossible for the world to verify that specifically in washington and seoul and tokyo. In the past hour, there has been an intelligence briefing for lawmakers here in seoul. They have said they believe north koreas goal is to mount a Nuclear Warhead on a scud missile. Remember 28,000 u. S. Troops in south korea are here now. This is going much quicker than expected. Intelligence says north korea has advanced quicker than expected. There is large interest around the world in china and japan and russia condemning the nuclear test. It shows that kim jongun is determined to forge ahea
colts game after more than 20 players take a knee to national anth anthem. harvey weinstein is forced out and much of hollywood remains silent after he was fired from his company after more women coming forward from disturbing allegations. i have known weinstein for a long time and i am not surprised to see it. the president trashing bob corker unlike almost inner party feud. corker is not running for reelection but certainly not backing down, calling the trump s white house a reality show and adult daycare center and warning the administration is a threatening world war three. lets go right to the white house to peter alexander.
participate in it because he is the ranking member on judiciary. i m on judiciary. and at some point we would have the obligation to judge in an impartial manner. however, the conversation is a thoughtful, very careful conversation. we know the severity of what we re talking about. but we also know how great this country is and how fast we re going downhill behind a president who we believe does not realize yet that he s president of the united states, leader of the free world and all the obligations that go with it. congressman, thank you. thank you for looking out for my home state as well, louisiana. i appreciate your time. thank you, don. thank you. when we come back, much more on the controversy over nfl protests during the national anthem. we re going to talk to one player who says this whole thing is very personal for him. it s all about his daughter to look up to him. and say, you did something. you tried to make a change. miami dolphins michael thomas is here.
i m kristie lu stodon lemon. we have big stories for you tonight. president trump doubling down on his war with the nfl, telling his base exactly what they want to hear. i think the nfl is in a really bad box. you look at what s happening with their ratings, frankly the only thing doing well is the pregame because everybody wants to see what s going on. the nfl is in a very bad box. you cannot have people disrespecting our national anth anthem, our flag, our country and that s what they re doing. in my opinion, the nfl has to change or you know what s going to happen, their business is going to go to hell. we have to respect our national anthem, we have to respect our country and they re not respecting our country. and most importantly, the fans agree with me. i mean, largely the fans agree. we have to show total respect
bitches. but here is what the players taking a knee are doing and not doing. they are not protesting the flag or the national anthem. they are not protesting our troops. they are protesting racial inequality and police brutality, which is their right as american citizens. some people support them. others are offended. and i m going to talk to people on both sides tonight. it s going to be a very interesting couple of hours here on cnn, so let s get right to cnn contribute tore. also cnn political analyst april ryan, wesley lowery of the washington post, and christine brennan. so good to have you all on. and as i said, this is a very important conversation. we re going to take our time with it and we re going to dig into it as much as possible because we all need to have it. april, i want to start with you. six days it s been since the president took on the nfl. yes. he didn t let up today.