Murder in court and facing the death penalty. Today new details about his Mental Health history and how authorities once took his gun and then gave it back. Plus, ready to launch . Kim jong un making a birthday threat to fire a missile at the u. S. , and the pentagon is saying it is ready. Good afternoon, everyone, welcome to the lead. Im a jake tapper. Well begin today with politics. In 11 days donald trump will be taken the oath of office right over there on capitol hill. But in many ways his presidency really gets rolling this week with confirmation hearings for some of his top cabinet picks beginning tomorrow morning, including senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, retired general john kelly for Homeland Security and the president elects first News Conference comes smack in the middle of it all on wednesday morning. Se going to be competing with the hearings of his own nominees. All of this as mr. Trump continues to dance around a direct acknowledgement and specific condemnat
All of the financial crisis and this slow grind that weve had of Jobs Creation over the past 74 months. Where were the jobs created . This is really telling, especially given the political climate. Business, net new jobs there. For years thats been a diverse with lots of different kinds of jobs that pay different pay scales. Manufacturing, this is a store of the past generation, honestly. We host about 4,000 manufacturing jobs. Over the past year, down 54,000 manufacturing jobs over the past year. That really dovetails nicely with what president elect donald trump has been talking about on the campaign trail with his crusade with carrier and the like, that is where there is still pain in the labor market. People who live in some of these states where theres factory towns, where they dont feel like they have the opportunity they used to. One quick last chart, on the campaign trail you kept hearing about all of these million of americans sidelined by the labor market. Look at the right s
Nuclear bomb ever deployed by u. S. Forces in combat. How many insurgents does the pentagon think it killed . Plus, what they are calling cooking and dying. Shocking images of the Great Barrier reeve with scientists warning that hundreds of miles of the natural wonder are boiling because of a phenomenon that President Trump has called a chinese hoax. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome could the lead. Im jake tapper. Well begin with the world lead where the worlds attention turns to skies over north korea, saturday morning, a national holiday, the date of the founders birth to mark the location, the leader of the rogue regime, is promising to put on a show. Will kim jongun, the dictator of this reclusive and oppressive nation celebrate founders day by testing yet another nuclear device, and if he does, how will President Donald Trump respond . As the president receives updates in florida on any signs of provocation, Vice President pence is preparing to travel to seoul, south korea this w
Mike pences office is trying to tafrp down rumors of a 2020 Shadow Campaign as President Trumps poll numbers continue to slip. Plus, north korea is vowing 1,000 fold retaliation against american response to new sanctions passed by the u. N. Security council, and President Trump spending a vacation day targeting senator Richard Bloomenthal on twitter where, what the senator says he is unphased. Good morning. It is tuesday, august 8th. We begin with the latest out of north korea and pyongyang is once again responding to a new wave of u. N. Sanctions calling them villainous illegal actions that will be reciprocated by thousands fold. It comes as north koreas foreign minister appeared to reject peace talks proposed by his south korean counterpart. Reportedly calling it insincere. Rex tillerson has recently said he is open to dialogue with pyongyang. A position also held by the russian and Chinese Foreign ministers. The country with the most to lose from the new sanctions besides north kore
Whats described as backchannel diplomacy going on in private. Elise labott is with us. What are you learning about back channel diplomacy . Reporter wolf, even since President Trump took office there have been talks between u. S. And north korean officials. In fact, this has really intensified since President Trump took office, and especially on the release of u. S. Detainees in north korea. You remember otto warmbier, released from north korea, unfortunately he died, but then his release was the product of talks between the u. S. And north korea. A special representative for north korea, joseph yune, had been meeting with north korean officials for the last several months. They were supposed to meet in february, but then kim jonguns brother was killed in malaysia. Those talks have been ongoing, wolf, primarily about the release of americans but also in the sense of, lets try and get our relationship back on track. We understand those talks have continued. Joe yune met in oslo with som