Korea conducted this year this is the most concern to the u. S. If what the north says it true, it would mean a north korean weapon could potentially reach the mainland. Cnns ryan brown following the latest developments from the pentagon. So ryan, what more can you tell us about this meeting, and the options that are being weighed . Hi pam. Yes this meeting is being conducted for several reasons. One is to assess whether or not this actually was an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. Pacific command which oversees u. S. Military forces in the region initially labeled it an intermediate range missile but north korea is making this claim its an icbm which is potentially capable of reaching the mainland United States. This is the first thing the pentagon want to do, assess, look at the data from the missile to determine whether or not north korea has this improved capability but again, if that is the case there is a series of options that could be under consideration, diplomatic sanctions
Stop it. An emergency session of the security council, the u. N. Ambassador issued a warning 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. Add to that the words of the top American 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 who is in europe to meet allies made uneasy about his words and actions lately. 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, including several u. S. President s. To say theres a lot at stake hardly says enough. Well talk about it all tonight. Cnns jeff zeleny starts us off. Reporter President Trump arriving in poland tonight for a critical overseas trip. His second since taking off
Dysfunction tweeting highest stock market ever. Best economic numbers in years. Unemployment lowest in 17 years. Wages rising. Border secure. Supreme court. No white house chaos. Lets bring in our Senior Correspondent jim acosta. Jim, the president says there is no chaos but does he see the appointment of general kelly as a chance to move beyond all the drama of the past week or so . Reporter well, general kelly or chief of staff kelly, whatever were going to call him in the coming days certainly has his hands full, wolf, and you heard the president praise him early think morning. They feel very good about the job general kelly did over at the department of homeland security. He has has a tough task on his hands getting rival factions under control. Not only the factions between the former Trump Campaign people who work here at the white house and the former rnc people Reince Priebus and sean spicer. They were fighting with each other inside this white house. Also you have the rival fa
Tonight, the president is expected to call for additional troops in a war that has already cast the lives of more than 2,300 servicemen and women, tens of thousands of afghans and cost tax payers hundreds of billions of dollars. For years, before President Trump was responsible for the conduct of the war, he was firmly against the war. October of 2011, he tweeted, when will we stop wasting our money on rebuilding afghanistan . We must rebuild our country first. In march of 2012, afghanistan is a disaster. We dont know what we are doing. In addition of everything else, robbing us blind. January of 2013, i agree with president obama in afghanistan. We should have a speedy withdrawal. Why keep wasting our money . Rebuild the u. S. March that same year, we should leave afghanistan immediately, no more wasted lives. If we have to go back in, we go in hard and quick. Rebuild the u. S. First. When citizen President Trump became candidate trump, his views, as they say, evolved. Do you believe
Cnn. Aport of being of no consequence, the characterizations of misinformed, inaccurate and not pertinent. Wolf that is not a blanket denial that this story is it completely unclear. It is saying the story is inaccurate means parts of it may or may not be true. We have to find out what the white house has to say about all of this at the press briefing coming up in about an hour from now, which is oncamera, by the way. Once again another situation where the white house is having to play damage control over misstatements or statements that did not turn out to be accurate, that theyve issued to us in the past regarding the russia investigation and, of course, nothing could be more critical to this russia investigation than the activities of, of course, the president s eldest son donald trump jr. , who eventually acknowledged, remember, initially that statement said that, well, this meeting was just about russian adoptions. Then donald trump jr. Released four pages of emails. We dont know