tour next month. he is now meeting with his defense colleagues in the philippines, strong words coming from the new defense minister of south korea. he says and i m quoting here, that the reckless provocations of north korea must halt. it is leading that country into isolation and collapse. again, secretary mattis goes on to thailand and south korea and coming up next month a five-country asia tour by president trump. north korea at the top of the agenda on most of the talks that he will be involved with. bill: big headlines. south korea, japan, china, big trip. thank you, greg palkot reporting live in london. sandra: tax reform front and center on capitol hill now. you heard house republicans talking about how it s their top priority. less than one hour from now. mike pence will give a big speech on the issue. in hours from now republican
threatening to launch four missiles at the u.s. territory. arizona republican trent franks talked about north korea s capability of carrying out that threat when he said this. the reality is that north korea has multiple opportunities there to attack guam if they wanted to. they have the missile capability and, of course, you know, there has been recent reports about the potential ability to attach nuclear weapons to those missiles. bill: greg palkot reporting in london. what more do we know about the north korea plan to shoot a missile at guam? exactly. bill, i think you and all of our viewers know that north korea is no stranger to threats. this one is alarmingly specific. in the sights of the regime is the u.s. pacific island territory of guam complete with u.s. navy and air force bases being submitted for approval to
as for young north korean leader, kim jong un, he has been in office for just over five years, it looks like he is someone to be reckon with. chris. chris: greg palkot reporting live from pyongyang, greg, thanks for that. let s bring in kristin fisher with reaction from the white house. kristin. chris, the reaction from the white house has been very restrained, no tweets from the president, the first response came from defense secretary jim mattis, he put out a very short statement that reads, quote, the president and his military team are aware of north korea s unsuccessful missile launch. the president has no further comment. now, the vice president was in the air and on the way in south korea when the failed missile took place. he was briefed on board air force two and landed in seoul nine hours later where he told american and south korean troops that their courage and valuer valor are needed now more than ever. the provocation from the
that he doesn t believe a firing is imminent but they are mobile launched and they are quickly readied. by the way, a target date for the launch has been monday. that is the birthday celebration of the founder of north korea, kim i will sung. a possible path right over japan. secretary kerry wraps up in japan on monday. chris: greg palkot reporting live from seoul south korea. thanks for that. team for the sunday group. scott brown. democratic strategist marjorie clifton. karl rove and former democratic senator evan bayh. guy arguru is a nice thing. you should be happy with that. you can call me swamee. chris: said they would
a u.s. official here tells me that he doesn t believe a firing is imminent but they are mobile launched and they are quickly readied. by the way, a target date for the launch has been monday. that is the birthday celebration of the founder of north korea, kim i will sung. a possible path right over japan. secretary kerry wraps up in japan on monday. chris: greg palkot reporting live from seoul south korea. thanks for that. team for the sunday group. scott brown. democratic strategist marjorie clifton. karl rove and former democratic senator evan bayh. guy arguru is a nice thing. you should be happy with that. you can call me swamee.