John roberts at the white house to tell us where we are in the tax package. We start with nationals security correspondent jennifer griffin. North koreas first missile test since september. Good evening. Expert telus north korea can launch a missile over 7500 miles on a flattened trajectory, putting every city in the United States now in range. If the warhead survives rancheria. It is the third time north korea has ever fired and intercontinental Ballistic Missile. The icbm flu 2800 miles into space for a total of 15 minutes. Thats more than ten times higher than the orbit of nasas space station. It went higher frankly than any previous one. It splashed down in the waters off japan within 280 miles of shore. Translator today at 3 18 00 a. M. , Ballistic Missile was launched from north koreas western coast and has landed in our exclusive economic zone. The launch time unusual. North. Normally they launch at dawn or daylight. The latest provocation comes more than a week after President
With lawrence odonnell. Good evening, rachel. When i got the transcript today, i knew you had it in your hands. Surely before i did, before we managed to get it printed, because it takes a while. As i started reading, i thought you know, rachel and i could just read the whole thing. She could do an hour. I could do an hour. Okay. Im going to be glen simpson. Now youre going to be glen simpson. But you just did it. You just read basically the whole thing, the real meat of it, everything that was worth highlighting pretty much. You saved people a lot of reading time. I gave you some earmarks at least. Some corners to turn down. But it is. Its really irresistible and dramatic stuff. I hope its not just us when we hold those pages just find it just read aloud to be truly dramatic and revealing stuff. And senator feinstein getting it out there changed our understanding of this in a way that nothing else could have. And lawrence, do you know of any other example of a senator doing Something
Im george howhowell. And natalie allen. We begin right now. Russia has a message for dozens of diplomats, it is time to leave. They are being expelled as relations between russia and the uk, the u. S. And its allies continue to crumble. The u. S. Consulate in st. Petersburg is being closed. Workers have been seen packing up and leaving. And russias actions may extend to the courtroom. Its ambassador in washington told reporters his country may sue the United States for closing moscows Diplomatic Properties in the u. S. On friday, ambassadors from more than 20 countries were called to the Russian Foreign ministry, they were told some of their diplomats need to go home. All of this in retaliation for the expulsion of Russian Diplomats in those countries. The fight started with a nerve gas attack on a former russian spy and his daughter seen here. Britain says russia was responsible. Moscow denies that. Sergei skripal remains in critical but stable condition and his daughter is showing si
Staff john kelly is growing increasingly frustrated with the president , telling Senior National Security Officials that the president is becoming, quote, unhinged. Kelly making that comment specifically to the secretary of defense jim mattis, joseph dunford, and Senior National Security Council officials and this happened during a discussion about syria. This comes as nbc news is reporting kelly referred to trump as an idiot. Thats an accusation kelly denies. Saying, i spend more time with the president than anyone else and we have an incredibly candid and strong relationship. He always knows where i stand and he and i both know the story is total bs. But cnn has reported tensions between kelly and the president have been brewing for some time. The president has been ramping up his personal cell phone use, one source saying thats because he doesnt want kelly to know who hes talking to. Were reporting the president has been bypassing kelly by having john bolton and larry kudlow basical