we begin with the breaking news while you were sleeping. north korea carryin carrying whether or not it was a hydrogen bomb of or a larger version of previously tested bomb, the explosion was five or six times powerful as the last test, the north conducted. this comes increasing attention with president trump, last month warning a fire and fieri if north korea continues to threaten the united states. lets go to south korea of our own roy allen. do the south korea see this test as the most provacative step this year? reporter: yes, chuck, that is huge step. this is a massive explosion. this was registered 6.3
republicans on the hill happy where it always get back to when mitt romney in the debate in 2012 called russia our zbratest gee political adversary, it s a line and belief that the president never embraced. first, i think we can do a good diagnosis on this one, right? one of the benefits of flooding the zone is that contradiction doesn t matter as much, right? because there s so much coming out of the president that s provacative, that when he steps on himself he gets a little benefit. i know a lot of you don t like that. i m telling you how it is, not how it should be. that s one. it distracts from the main conversation of what s going on, that he s looking back at president obama and uses the word collusion in connection with hillary clinton and bernie sanders. that s a nice confusion tactic. the big thing he has going for it, errol louis, jeh johnson, the obama administration official gave him a good basis to look back and blame.
russian contact of americans. interventions, january 2nd, her boss issued sanctions against the russians. she s still getting intelligence, i about conversations, those conversations would suggest that american citizens who are not yet in the white house are interfering of the president s ability to set foreign policies with sanctions of the russians. she has this choice. i want to know who s interfering with the president s provacative. i want these names unmasked. i am afraid to get the names unmasked. i don t want to know. this is going to be toyed with my politicians this week. her decision is not only the right decision, it is defensible. i got to know who s interfering with the president s prerogative. the president had been tweeting on this suggest of
from becoming president. now i m begging mitt romney to become president. i will become a mormon. i will become a mormon and give you a million dollars, mitt romney, if you would please take over the country. i like it. join us tonight for the messy truth. bill maher is van jones special guest, 9:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn. that looks like it will be very entertaining and provacative. a big week as we know for james white, the new england patriots running back who scored three touchdowns in the super bowl including the game-winner. of course, he was on new day. his quarterback, tom brady, won the mvp award, leaving white empty-handed until last night on conan. tom brady said afterwards that you deserved the mvp. they gave him the mvp. he said you deserve the mvp. that must have felt really nice. that felt nice. i wouldn t get 14 catches if he wasn t throwing me the ball.
disputed part of the sea. china s foreign ministry said it monitored the ship s movement and now called for the u.s. to, coa quote, immediately change its mistake. and not take any provacative act. this isn t a huge surprise. expected in many ways. what details is the u.s. providing about this mission and if it s something that will become routine. reporter: well, if you listen to u.s. defense officials, this is or this was a routine mission according to the u.s. they conducted a transit within 12 nautical miles. that s one of the reeves that the chinese have turned into a manmade island and claimed to be a coverage territory. we understand there were u.s. aircraft in the air to provide cover and surveillance. u.s. officials are saying this is a routine mission, what they