trump s comments with criticism saying they were reckless, bombastic and unhelpful. the secretary of state is returning from a trip to southeast asia where he spent days to have countries crack down on north korea and force it to surrender its weapons program. one intelligence officials say have developed a nuclear warhead small enough to fit in a missile. he spoke with chinese and russian officials who met with north korean diplomats. it s a sign this pressure campaign against it is beginning to show against north korea. shannon: also president trump tweeting about our nuclear arsenal. what s that all about? this was just about 90 minutes ago. the president of the united states tweeting my first order as president was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. it is far stronger and more powerful than ever before. hopefully we ll never have to use this power but there will never be a time we are not the most powerful nation in the
korea. the worst thing would be do it halfway. to try to make nice and have a clean war. if we must go to north korea with our military force, we need to hammer them and give the world a lesson of what we can really do. bill: thank you for your time and comments. keep that as an if for now. yes. bill: we don t want it. ralph peters there in washington, d.c. thank you. shannon: in the next hour we ll have more on the north korean threat. senator rob portman, a member of the foreign relations committee. he also fought to try to get american otto warmbier back to his family will join us live. bill: is disney spying on your kids by the apps they use online? hum.
world. the obama administration began a process pushing to modernize the nuclear arsenal in the previous administration. shannon: rich edson live at the state department. bill: we re bringing in former new mexico governor bill richardson. i want to share with our audience what we believe is possible and there are a lot of ifs in the scenario as you will admit as well. if the icbm can be launched successfully and reinterthe atmosphere and deliver with accuracy from north korea to hawaii 20 minutes. los angeles a little more than half hour. chicago close to 40 minutes. new york city 38 to 39 minutes. advance it one time. this is the length it would have to travel. alaska, 4,000 miles. l.a. 6,000, chicago, new york and washington, d.c. between
bill: fox news confirming north korea s missile ready nuclear weapons. the u.s. territory of guam is considered on high alert after a threat from pyongyang. president trump promising fire and fury if the north doesn t back off. secretary of state rex tillerson said this on board his plane to guam. the pressure is starting to show. i think that s why the rhetoric coming out of pyongyang is beginning to become louder and more threatening. whether we have them backed into a corner or not is difficult to say. but diplomatically you never like to have someone in a corner without a way for them to get out. bill: correspondent greg palkot spent time in north korea and reporting now from london. hello. yeah, i think what we can say is the words coming from secretary of state tillerson are somewhat reassuring.
bill: very interesting numbers. shannon: president trump says the u.s. nuclear arsenal is stronger than ever. as we learn that north korea has produced a warhead that could fit on an intercontinental ballistic missile. the latest reaction from the state department at the top of the hour.