In washington, d. C. And descending on the white house. Lets begin with north koreas latest missile test deemed a failure by the u. S. Military, the missile traveled just over 20 miles but its message of d y defiance has swept the globe. Paula hancocks is in seoul where they are watching rising tensions between pyongyang and washington. Paula . Reporter hi, fredricka. Yes. This is being condemned by south korea, by japan, by washington. We have seen from one u. S. Official telling cnn that they believe this was a Medium Range Missile that north korea was testing potentially one which is solid fuel launched from a mobile launcher. This really seems to be what pyongyang is trying to perfect at this point. The mobile launching of missiles, which obviously is far more difficult to detect. Far more difficult to track and this is what we are seeing as it exploded mid air but the fact they continue to carry out the Missile Launches concern many. It came just after Rex Tillerson held that spec
Office. The u. S. Official telling cnn at this hour that the landbased Ballistic Missile blew up over land. President trump coming back to the white house ignored reporters questions as the Missile Launch news broke. Any reaction to the Missile Launch in north korea . The white house issued a short statement. Thats all the statement said. 24 hours ago, though, trump issued this grim warning. Well, theres a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with north korea. Absolutely. Tensions between the u. S. And north korea are high. North korean Officials Say theres an imminent threat of allout war. North korea staging what officials there say is north koreas largest ever series of military drills. You see this new video of those drills right now. Will ripley is the only western Television Journalist in north korea now. Hes in pyongyang. North korea has been pbbuildingp to this. Is there more to come . Absolutely more launches to come, according to the north korean officia
Was hired anyway. And why is the family of Jared Kushner apologizing after his sister tried to win over a business deal in china. Over in th name of kushner. The 11th hour begins now. As we start a new week, good evening from our headquarters here in new york. Day 109 of the trump administration. This afternoon we were live on air with what turned out to be a dramatic day in the u. S. Senate. At the center of it, a 27 year veteran attorney general named sally yates. She was the acting attorney general running the Justice Department in transition waiting for Jeff Sessions in effect to be approved as the you in attorney general back in january. But there came a day during just the second week of the Trump Presidency when she called the white house and asked the president s lawyer if they could meet. She said she had something important to tell him. Now we know it was about president Trumps National security adviser at the time, retired general Michael Flynn. Sally yates told the presiden
General running the Justice Department in transition waiting for Jeff Sessions in effect to be approved as the you in attorney general back in january. But there came a day during just the second week of the Trump Presidency when she called the white house and asked the president s lawyer if they could meet. She said she had something important to tell him. Now we know it was about president Trumps National security adviser at the time, retired general Michael Flynn. Sally yates told the president s lawyer that mike flynn was potentially vulnerable to blackmail and had been compromised by the russians. We began our meeting telling him that there had been press accounts of statements from the Vice President and others that related conduct that mr. Flynn had been involved in that we not to be the truth. The first thing we did was to explain to mr. Mcgann that the underlying conduct was problemate it in and of itself. Secondly, we told him we felt like the Vice President and others were e
I said to myself wow everything john dean is saying to that committee, i hope they know, it is true. The counsel was retained at that time. What date was that . That was on the 25th, as i recall. We absolutely believed what he was saying and the more evidence we got the more it confirmed what he was saying. Meeting of march 21. As i have indicated, my purpose in requesting this meeting, particularly with the president was that i felt it was necessary that i give him a full report of all the facts that i knew and complained to him what i believed to be the implications of those facts. We had white house logs of meetings. So when he said i met with the president on march 21st, we could look at the log and say, certainly, he did. How do you expect us to resolve the truth in this matter when you state one story and you testified here and made yourself subject to crossexamination and the president states another story and he does not appear before this committee . Can you give us any inform