Longest war. Also, a deepsea mystery takes a bizarre turn. After the submarine inventors claim about the death of a journalist. Plus, nature puts on a spectacular show that dazzles the eye. So long as you wore the right glasses. Its all happening now. We begin with this fox news alert, it is wheels up for President Trump, he is heading to arizona for a rally tonight. Hello and welcome to the second hour of happening now, im jon scott. Melissa i melissa francis, the president should be landing in arizona just ahead of a Campaign Rally in phoenix, that event comes a day after President Trumps primetime address to the nation, outlining a new military plan in afghanistan, a plan he says will help our nato allies. We will ask our nato allies in Global Partners to support our strategies. We are confident they will. Since taking office, i have made clear that our allies and partners must contribute much more money to our collective defense. And they have done so. Melissa chief Congressional C
Senate Judiciary Committee after comey revealed he leaked details of a memo to be friend to be given to the media. Bill the response. Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication is what the president writes. And wow, comey is a leaker. Lets start there at the white house. Kevin corke begins our coverage from the north lawn. How else is the white house reacting today . I think the word is with indignation. In the case of the president s private attorney, with the promise of a formal complaint to the department of justice Inspector General. Just part of the fallout from yesterdays riveting testimony lasting some two hours and 40 minutes. In addition to director comeys assertion that the president lied about him, he also detailed that he shared private memos detailing his recollection of conversations with the president with a columbia law professor with the express intent to leak it to the press and spur the creation of a special prosecutor. Comey defended h
That term. Abc this morning, i dont watch it much, but im watching in the morning. They have a Little George stephanopoulos and theyre talking about the speech i made last night, which believe it or not, had great reviews. They had a hard time. The only people giving a platform to these hate groups is the media itself and the fake news. I spoke out forcefully against hatred, bigotry, and violence and strongly condemned the neo nazis, the white supremacist, and the kkk. It is finally time to rebuild our country, to take care of our people and to fight for the jobs our Great American workers deserve and thats what were doing. [cheers and applause] melissa alecia q mills is reporting live from reno. Whats the reaction like today . Hi melissa. You can imagine its quite extreme on both sides. This was a Fiery Campaign style event in which the president of the United States spent a good half hour just letting the media have it. Unloading about the negative coverage he received in his respons
Jon north korea has repeatedly threatened to launch a missile attack on guam in response new sanctions. A state run newspaper says the mainland could be reduced to ashes at any moment. Rich edson is live at the state department. As the white house and north korea continue to trade threats, we are getting news from the Associated Press the senior u. S. Diplomat is conducting back channel talks with north korea. Ongoing discussions that have been ongoing for several months. This is the president tweeted about north korea again this morning, saying in a tweet, military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should north korea act unwisely. Hopefully kim jongun will find another path. The Korean Peoples Army say its developing a plan to develop muscles around guam. Its planners say they will finish the proposal by the middle of the month and then kim jongun will decide whether to implement that proposal. Japan and defending its ally, the United States essay and will intercept
Of nonsense. Adding to that, only absolute forceful work by the president and while some at home have been critical, others say the tough talk is necessary. The president s comments, secretary tiller since comments are all about that, making sure they could understand, there has been a dramatic policy change with this administration. We mentioned their previous administration, they never believed the Obama Administration was serious about the military option. With this administration is trying to do was change that thought process. Jon we have it live coverage with rick leventhal, but first to rich edson at the state department. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is returning from asia, a diplomatic assignment much of corralling north korea. North korea responded specifically to the linkage of the president in which he said north korea would be brought down upon fire and fury. The North Koreans people army said that sounded dialogue is not possible with him as he is bereft of reason. The