arsenal including a torpedo that could allegedly reach the west coast. barbara starr fills us in. reporter: while president trump navigates the political minefield of the russia investigation there s been no collusion. there s been no crime. reporter: pentagon and state department unveiled the toughest line yet against vladimir putin s military in a report on nuclear threats and the trump administration solutions. russia has increased its reliance on nuclear weapons and its capabilities. and as we ve pointed out, it s building a large and diverse nuclear arsenal. reporter: the pentagon detailing 2,000 russian nuclear capable weapons that could hit europe including missiles, bombs, torpedos. for the first time confirming russia is developing an underwater drone that can potentially travel thousands of miles and strike the u.s.
vladimir putin this. and increased reliance and capabilities, as we pointed out building a large and diverse nuclear arsenal. the pentagon nuclear weapons that could hit europe, including depth charges and torpedos and first time confirming russia is under water drone that can potentially go thousands of miles and strike the u.s. coastline. russia just one headache for defense secretary james mattis as he begins the second year on the job. u.s. nuclear deterrence also aimed at north korea which the report says which may only be months away from the capability to strike the u.s. with nuclear armed missiles. and if north korea would in a hypothetical launch a ballistic
in his mind and damn the torpedos. that s always been his approach. i think it would be stunning, remember, james comey was the fbi director he inherited. chris wray is the fbi director he picked. he picked? whatever you thinking of the firing of james comey and the circumstances surrounding it, a chris wray resignation based on his the fbi s desire not to have this memo released, i don t know how you spin that one if you re donald trump. you can understand, though, shawn, the frustrations i can t begin to imagine on behalf of the fbi, they released this public statement, grave concerns over the memo s accuracies, evan making the point misleading information despite any kind of redactions that they agree upon, if you re chris wray and you re ahead of the fbi and the president goes ahead and says, sorry, i m releasing it, how do you not resign? that s a good question. if it is the case that the information in this memo is so
a courier came running in with a flash cable saying that american war ships were under attack in the gulf off the coast of north vietnam. i was getting these, because my boss was already down the hall with mcnamar picking targets to retaliate against against north vietnam. minute after minute, more cables came in, three torpedos have been fired. about 1:30 our time, comes new cable from the commodore of the two ships, hold everything, in effect. all previous reports of torpedos are in question. renewed hostile actions against united states ships on the high seas in the gulf of tonkin, have today required me to order the military forces of the united states to take action and reply. within days, it was clearer and clearer there had been no
obstruction of justice generally raises the question of obstruct what. are they obstructing the jury s investigation which is a classic type of case. this meeting in the trump tower with the russians was pretty early and it s hard to imagine that would be the case for obstruction. we d obviously don t know what mueller has. but the danger here is that when people go on the record, they they re risk is magnified. as a criminal defense attorney, this is the most precarious time for a client in my view. you have to stay between those and a halfgational beacons, make sure you have the statements you made earlier under law, which is lying to federal investigation. and in the mix, you have this sort of live torpedos in the water. mueller s putting a lot of pressure on manafort to see,