At china. The u. N. Ambassador issued a warping to pyongyang and beijing. Their actions are quickly closing off the possibility of a diplomatic solution. The United States is prepared to use the full range of our capabilities to defend ourselves and our allies. And the top general in south korea said selfrestraint is the only thing keeping the peace right now on the Korean Peninsula. Its just item one for the president in europe now. He will also have his first formal meeting with vladamir putin, who has made a career out of bullying and generally bedevilling his share of foreign counterparts. So say theres a lot at stake hardly says enough. Cnns jeff zeleny starts us off. Reporter President Trump arriving in poland tonight for a critical overseas trip. His second since taking office. Striking an optimistic tone while leaving the white house today. Hes facing rising tensions in europe and mounting challenges across the world. The most urgent, north Koreas Nuclear program. The testing o
Joe speaks badly of me. Dont watch anymore. Then how come low i. Q. Crazy mika along with psycho joe came to maralago three nights in a row around new years eve and insisted on joining me . She was bleeding badly from a facelift. I said no. Quote unquote. Jim acosta with reaction at the white house. Jim, were going to be getting a host of other responses to that, those tweets in just a few moments. First, i want to know what youre hearing from inside the white house on those tweets, which were truly outrageous. Reporter truly outrageous. Appalling. Hearing bipartisan criticism of the president coming from all over washington today, wolf, but so far the white house is issues no kind of apology or statement saying that the president regrets these tweets from earlier this morning about msnbc host Mika Brzezinski. This is what Sarah Huckabee sanders, the spokeswoman at the white house said earlier on fox news. Heres what she had to say. I dont think that the president s ever been someone w
Deny it and not to discuss it with russian officials. Our relationship with russia is not different from any other country. This is new day with chris cuomo. All right. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is new day. Its wednesday, july 5th, 6 00 here in new york and on the starting line, north korea releasing new video appearing to show the successful launch of its first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. The pentagon confirming it was an icbm. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson saying the u. S. Will never accept a Nuclear Armed north korea amid calls for Global Actionments the question is, what will the u. S. Do to make good on that kmicommitment . The immediate answer, the u. S. And south korea conducting joint military exercises. The u. N. Security Council Meeting in an emergency meeting in response to the regimes most alarming provocation to date. All this as President Trump heads to europe in roughly two hours for the second foreign trip
Folks who can help me break all of this down. We have cnn military and diplomatic analyst retired rear admiral john kirby, also with me, cnn Global Affairs analyst and former deputy secretary of state tony blinken. Y you, john, i should mention worked at the pentagon and state department. Help me talk about, really dissect these comments from President Trump. He was taking these nato leaders to task, saying that he said 23 member nations are not paying what they should be. He was schooling them right in front of them. Yeah. To be clear, this isnt a new message that president obama made, president bush before him, five secretaries of defense now who have made this case, but it was extraordinary to me to see him be so bellicose about this and so specific about it in what was supposed to be an opening welcoming ceremony right there at the 9 11 memorial. So, i think the setting was extraordinary and the message was perhaps i think much more stronger than the nato allies would have expected
Hunt. There are new developments in all this tonight. Evan perez joins us with that. The new question is, will the attorney general Rob Rosenstein recuse himself from the russia probe. What are you learning . John, its looking more and more like thats where hes going to be, probably not in the next couple of days, but certainly as probability mueller starts staffing up his investigative staff, hes got about a dozen lawyers now, the real possibility is that Rob Rosenstein is going to become a witness in that investigation, because obviously he was part of the Decision Making to fire james comey the fbi director, and now that is going to be wrapped into whether or not the president was trying to interfere or obstruct the ongoing russia investigation, obviously this is something that has been on rob rosesteins mind. He has said he will recuse himself, when he learns from Robert Mueller whether hes going to be a witness, then hes going to have to make that decision. And were learning more