states that its missiles are intended to deliver nuclear weapons to strike cities in the united states, south korea and japan. and now, it has greater capacity to do so. that s u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley again showing just how seriously the administration takes north korea s missile launch test. andrea mitchell remains with us and getting us victor cha who just penned the right way to play the china card on new york. and blues clingner now a north korea expert at the heritage foundation s asian study center. thank you all for being with us. andrea, you have new reporting about the missile launch taking u.s. intelligence agencies by surprise and about that warning from former president or outgoing president obama to incoming president trump about just this. well, in fact, this was a two-stage intercontinent is ballistic missile. immediately afterwards, we were told by u.s. officials, pentagon and intelligence officials that
republican presidents. is it healthy to be skeptical? absolutely. what alarms people in the intelligence community, this annoys the people in the intelligence community and people across the partisan spectrum here in washington, democrats and republicans and career foreign service and civil service people is doing it so publicly, so publicly and mocking their words, undermining their words and their findings. if he wants to say scrub it, again, that s fine. post-iraq we should all be skeptical of what we get. we re having a conversation about the president-elect, about things he has said during the campaign or during the transition. if you talk to military people or intelligence people here in washington, they think this new president in his very early days and weeks in office may have to make a monumental decision about north korea. this they go to test an intercontinent had ballistic missile what, is trump going to say when the cia, the defense intelligence agency and other agencies
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and good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world tonight. we begin out front with the breaking news. vladimir putin tests an intercontinent is ballistic missile. american officials telling cnn the next couple days will be crucial for vladimir putin will he will decide to move more troops into crimea or ukraine. another huge day of fast moving developments in the crisis. all eyes on what the russian president is going to do. tensions rose today. russia fired that icbm. the launch happened just a couple hours ago. u.s. officials say they were aware it was going to happen. the missile test still rattled nerves though as russian president vladimir putin left the door open to using military force in ukraine. the delicate situation summed up by a face-off between u rainian
than then it really shows south korea and the united states there is significant progress being made by north korea at this point. brianna? barbara, still, as the u.s. and south korea works to confirm, they re clearly concerned it is, however. if this is an icbm, this really changes the calculus. what are you hearing from the pentagon? reporter: brianna, it changes the security calculation, really, across the asia-pacific region, canada, the u.s. really, across the world about the capability of kim jong-un. and u.s. officials are saying, look, this is no surprise. military officials warned for years now here in washington, on capitol hill, everywhere, that this north korean test program was moving forward. that kim is testing and testing and testing, and that his goal was for an intercontinent a ballistic missile and nuclear