congress is not the enemy. true. but he can come to us secretly and that would be leaked within minutes, if not live leaked as we get that secret briefing. so no, if there is a nuclear test and the president decides to act immediately and not fly congress back to washington from their districts and say let s have a big council on this and try to pass an authorization of use of military force or declare war on north korea, i would support them acting, our government acting immediately to respond to a nuclear military test if they chose to do so without consulting congress first. so congressman hunter, let s talk a little bit about a nuclear test. why would a sixth nuclear test on the part of the north koreasy justify this kind of war? so they can hit japan and south korea and they can put nuclear weapons on artill real
military test. the president was briefed in mar-a-lago. the missile was not ab icbm. james mattis said the president would have no comment on the unsuccessful launch. vice president mike pence is still scheduled to land in south korea at approximately 3:00 a.m. eastern time. the white house says there will be no change to his four-country, 11-day trip. now back to lockup. twice a week at the hamilton county justice center in cincinnati, ohio, the jail welcomes a volunteer from one of the city s beloved sports teams. david fulcher used to spend his sundays a mile away playing football for the cincinnati bengals. now he runs one of the jails most popular programs.
regime just days after that horrific chemical weapons attack that killed over 80 women and children in syria. here with an early read on how president trump has handled this first major military test thus far, a senior fellow of the program on national security at the foreign policy research institute and also former fbi double agent. i appreciate your being with us in this late hour here first as we delve into this and knowing what the options could have been taken by the president, by this administration, and knowing the timeline as well. your thoughts on how we went about it and where we stand now as far as the effectiveness and the message that has been sent. let s go back to what the president said, that he wanted to do something that was going to deter the further use of chemical weapons. if that was the intention, i m struggling to see how we ve done that. look, this is perhaps one step better than saying, don t cross that red line. but tactically we haven t stopped at all. we
lutheran church in missouri, and they wanted to get money to resurface playgrounds with state money. they qualified except for one big problem, the missouri state constitution bans giving money to churches and the church is suing saying that is religious discrimination. if you have a program available to everybody, but churches cannot participate, that violates their religious freedom and the constitution. so that will be an important case and he will be able to participate in that one, andrea. pete williams at the kour. and ashley parker, all of this, the successful confirmation of a supreme court justice for the white house but at the same time a lot happening internally in the white house, you have the syrian air strikes, the first military test for this administration. let s talk about what you are hearing. which is the internal warfare between the steve bannon camp
on north korea s latest military test. hours after secretary of state rex tillerson s meeting with china s president today, not long before that sit down, north korea claims just successfully tested a new high thrust missile engine, drawing this response from secretary tillerson. i think we share a common view in a sense that tensions on the peninsula are high right now. and that things have reached a rather dangerous level. and we have committed ourselves to do everything we can to prevent any type of conflict from breaking out. we view there are a number of steps that we can take that are in front of us. uma: joining us now with insight. and reaction to latest development let s bring in retired four-star general jack keane. and chairman of institute for study of war with a fox news analyst, general welcome, good