The Korean Peninsula. We have many military options and the president wanted to be briefed on each one of them. We made clear that we have the ability to defend ourselves and our allies, south korea and japan, from any attack, and our commitments among the allies are ironclad. Any threat to the United States or its territories, including guam, or our allies will be met with a massive military response, response both effective and overwhelming. Kim jongun should take heed, the United Nations Security Councils unified voice, all members unanimously agreed on the threat north korea poses and they remain unanimous in commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula because we are not looking to the total annihilation of a country, namely north korea, but as i said we have many options to do so. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. I want to bring in cnns pentagon correspondent barbara starr. Barbara, the significance of this statement, coming from the secretary of defense.
Because as you point out, there is no clear and concise and consistent social media policy that this white house has put forward, so we asked, how many other tweets have you written . The response was, david, one, and this is my last. There you go. And no offtherecord policy at blt steak, i get it. The president also tweeted talking about the fbi, writing after years of comey with phony and dishonest clinton investigation and more running the fbi, its reputation is in tatters, worst in its history, but fear not, we will bring it back to greatness. Former attorney general eric holder now covering in washington, d. C. , writing in response to that, not letting this go. The fbis reputation is not in tatters. Its composed of the same dedicated men and women who have always worked there and who do a great apolitical job. Youll find integrity and honesty at fbi headquarters and not at 1600 pennsylvania avenue right now. Jeff, tell us a little bit about this story that was reported yesterday
Lets bring in our senior White House Correspondent jim acosta. Also from capitol hill Phil Mattingly. Jim, first to you, whats the reaction. So far youre hearing the president clearly was very, very thrilled by this development. Thats right. The president was touting this victory earlier this morning at the white house meeting with his cabinet. This is now a signature legislative achievement for President Trump, no question about it. But instead of selling this policy before passing it, they passed it and now theyll have to sell it and thats what you heard from the House Speaker on the morning talk shows and thats where what you heard from the president this morning with his cabinet. Heres what he had to say about this tax cut package being passed. The passage of the massive tax cuts and reform. Theres a lot of reform in there but the tax cuts supersede and i said very specifically use the word tax cuts. For 34 years theyve been trying to do this and they havent and they used the word