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afternoon. eastern time. i ve got a team for this as well. nbc pentagon correspondent hans nichols joins me first. what do we know about this launch? what launched? where did it go? they re still getting final analysis. it looked like a kn-17. the important thing, what officials here stress, is the distance. this is the farthest one has flown. 2,300 miles. and we know went over hokkaido, the island in japan. there s been a series of firsts here in the last two or three tests. this is the farthest. the one before was the first time they launched actually over japan an intercontinental excuse me, ballistic missile. and then of course september 3rd they had what appears to be a hydrogen bomb test. we heard from the top general out of strat com in nebraska last night saying everything is consistent with the hydrogen bomb test. we heard from secretary mattis warning, saying, look, they actually sent thousands, millions of people scrambling in
the amount of television he watches, whom he tweets or whom he chooses to pardon. i think there has been some normalization but i don t think they thought they could make wholesale changes. i don t think the pardon came as a surprise or a major disappointment. thank you. we have to take a break now, but it s an important point that you raised in terms of what is donald trump s ideology, does he have an ideology? we all thought it was steve bannon, that donald trump was malleable. maybe not. maybe we ll talk about that when we come back. up next, president trump warning all options are on the table after north korea fires yet another missile. what does that really mean? electric light orchestra ]
that s why intelligence doesn t have a great indication before they are launched. they can basically pop them up out of the ground and shoot them off. it was an intermediate ballistic missile. the intermediate range. irbm. when they teased this out it looked like it might have had a bigger payload on it than the one launched in may. this one probably didn t have the range to reach guam. i couch all that with probablies. they re still doing all the telemetry on it and trying to figure out just exactly where it landed. and they have said that there is not a threat to either the homeland or to guam. importantly, though, guys, they shot it to the northeast not the southeast. in your reporting and strolls through the e-ring in the pentagon, was this a huge surprise that the north koreans did this? or yes and no. they expected the north korean to do something in conjunction with the joint south korean/u.s.
latest north korean missile test. that missile flew right over our ally in japan prompting president trump to issue this, saying threatening the stabilizing actions only increase the north korea s regimes isolation in the region and among all the nations of the world. all options are on the table. national security correspondent now live at the pentagon. what is the view of this launch from their agenda? we have not yet heard from defense secretary jim mattis, but he needs his south korean counterpart here at the pentagon tomorrow. if the president spoke by phone for 40 minutes last night with the japanese prime minister, who was visibly shaken after the launch. the pentagon has determined last night s missile was what they called a kn-17, an inter-ridge ballistic missile. first one fired at a military parade and pyonyang in april and test launched a day later. this missile is not capable of hitting the u.s., but it could hit guam.