to use, where he has talked about the u.s. military being locked and loaded. this was a tweet that got a lot of the conversation going today. military solutions are now fully in place. the president tweeted, locked and loaded, should north korea act unwisely. hopefully kim jong-un will find another path. so today the president will have a chance to hear from some of his most important voices in the administration who have been dealing with other world leaders when it comes to the u.n. sanctions that were just completed last weekend. or secretary tillerson, who has not only been in the region, but made that refueling stop in guam, as a show of support for our u.s. protecterriate there. the president in a chatty mood yesterday, had a lot of things he wanted to talk about. there will be opportunities for journalists in the rotating pool today to see the president up close, and we would anticipate, given his willingness to talk so
what the president has said. let me play what he said this morning when he stopped in guam for a planned refueling stop. i think the president what the president is doing is sending a strong message to north korea in language that kim jong-un would understand because he doesn t seem to understand diplomatic language. i think the president just of theed to be clear to the north korean regime that the u.s., you know, unquestionable ability to defend itself, will defend itself and its allies and it was important that he deliver that message to avoid any miscalculation on their part. he s clearly not saying the next time you threaten we ll strike he s trying to say only to defend. will north korea listen to him or will they say we ll listen to the president? i hope. now, again, getting the help of other countries like china who whether we like it or not is very important here and
base and naval base. guam is also home to more than 162,000 american citizens. the threat does not stop at guam, north korea has demonstrated that the missiles could reach u.s. soil that they could arm with nuclear weapons. this morning president trump doubling down, retweeting this report, president trump vows america will respond to north korean thoughts with fire and fury and warning to the rogue nation. then he added, my first order as president was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. it is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before. hopefully we will never have to use this power but there will never be a time we are not the most powerful nation in the world. secretary of state rex tillerson addressing the situation this morning aboard his plane before making a previously scheduled refueling stop in guam enroute home from the trip to asia. i think the president sending a strong message to north korea,
power the likes of which this world has never seen before. reporter: north korea swiftly responded with a threat, saying it could carry out military strikes on the u.s. territory of guam. the white house today declined to discuss the origin of the remarks. sarah huckabee sanders issued a statement saying, general kelly and others on the nsc team were well aware of the tone of the president prior to delivery. she added, the words were his own. today the trump administration struggled to get on the same page. flying to asia to a refueling stop in guam, secretary of state rex tillerson defended and sought to explain the president s warning. what the president was doing was sending a strong message to north korea in language that kim jong-un would understand, because he doesn t seem to understand diplomatic language. reporter: he also attempted to allay concerns the showdown would lead to war. despite north korea s ability to
indication from the flight crew that something catastrophic was starting to happen. and they reported the that. and that will be the main clue and i think that the egyptian authorities are relying on that communication to dismiss terrorism. and then, peter, reuters is now reporting that russian officials have launched a criminal case against the airline. they re checking from fuel samples from the plane s last refueling stop, for instance. is this standard procedure, or what does this say to you? it is standard procedure. and many of the european or eastern nations. they have a concurrent criminal investigation. the french have that. many of the eu countries that have it, that starts with the accident investigation. in the united states, we don t have that process. but certainly, fuel contamination will be one of the things that people will check at right away, to see whether they got a bad fuel reload.