Progress in north koreas missile technology. Barbara starr is live at the pentagon with more. What are they thinking at this moment about this launch . Reporter whats most interesting, john. A number of u. S. Officials, its july 4th, should be at home, are in at work today from the state department to the pentagon. A series of very quickly called meetings to discuss all of this. When north korea said overnight our time here in washington that they had launched an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile not of shorter range at the u. S. Initially thought, it caused a scramble. All night looking at the data from the missile launch. Data gathered by satellites and other u. S. Classified sensors, recalculating everything. And we could see indeed the Trump Administration come to a conclusion today that this was north koreas first launch of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. This changing the security calculation across the world, because what it fundamentally means is, kim jonguns Testing Pr
Welcome to your new day. Allison is off. Brianna joins us this morning. If you havent tuned in yet, shes thrown me under the bus once. Maybe twice. Lets see how it goes this hour. We do begin with breaking news. North koreas state news agency releasing a statement saying President Trump is driving the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the, quote, brink of nuclear war. This comes hours after President Trump doubled down on his warning to north korea saying the threat to unleash fire and fury may not have been tough enough. Defense secretary James M Mattis says despite the effort the effort on north korea is diplomatically lead. The Global Resources of cnn have all of this covered for you. We want to start with will ripley live for us in beijing with the latest. Will. Reporter brianna, i want to get right to this brand new statement that has been released by north korea just within the last few minutes. The title of this statement on the north Korean News Agency is u. S. Nuclear war f
Winning. Plus behind closed doors, donald trump jr. , Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort will answer questions about Russian Election meddling during last years president ial election. Thats right. And angry protesters demand justice after two policeinvolved shooting in minneapolis. We are live with the fallout. Of course we begin a busy saturday for President Trump and his administration, embattled press Secretary Sean Spicer is out. Hed only been in the job for six months before resigning just yesterday. President trump had given spicer a dual role as communications directeder before offering that to one of his closest supporters. Listen to what spicer told sean hannity last night. The president wanted to add to the team more than anything. I just think it was in the best interest of our Communications Department and press organization to not have too many cooks in the kitchen. Joining me now is Nbcs Kelly Odonnell at the white house with the latest. Kelly, i got two questions for you.
Into that uranium deal with russian investors under president obama and senate and house investigation looking deeper into the notorious antitrump dossier. Bill the news broke 12 hours ago. Both the Clinton Campaign and the dnc helped to fund that document. Meanwhile republicans spreading across the media landscape last evening with all the same message. They want answers on everything. We want to find out whether or not the f. B. I. Or d. O. J. Or both had an open investigation at the time this deal was approved. It had to have approval from several cabinetlevel people including secretary clinton. We want to know what those arrangements were, what he knows that the public at large doesnt know. And why he had this nondisclosure agreement in the first place. Is the f. B. I. Trying to not let public know . The department of justice is not above scrutiny and not above review. I have Great Respect for them but they arent above scrutiny. In 2016 in my opinion left a lot of Unanswered Questi
Russian Business Access to 20 of the uranium supply in this country. They want to know whether the Obama Administration hid what they knew about the case from congress. And the reason were hearing about a 2010 case now, this deal, is because an informant has come forward. Its all because of new information thats come to light, what we didnt know, and we still dont know, was there an open fbi investigation or not back in 2010 . Thats what were aiming to find out. Reporter lawmakers who were at the News Conference this morning, none have spoken with the fbi informant, but the allegation is theyve got information, maybe even videos that go to the idea that the russians were trying to buy their way into this deal through Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time and the Clinton Foundation. This informant is under an nda, nondisclosure agreement, or gag order. The lawmaker is working with the Justice Department to get that lifted. For Hillary Clinton, she did an interview with