Premptive strike by the United States. The president also is publicly declaring that he has no plans to fire Robert Mueller as his russia investigation heats up. Fbi said he was surprised the raid of the home of Paul Manafort. And pouring more feud on the Top Republican in the senate. He called Mitch Mcconnells failure to get obama care repeals and replaced a disgrace. This after he posted multiple tweets slamming the Majority Leader and urging him to get back to work. This hour, ill talk about the north korea situation with our today, trump said he would consider diplomatic efforts but offered a pessimistic view of their odds of success. We will always consider negotiations, but they have been negotiating for 25 years. You look at bush and obama imploring china to step up their pressure on pyongyang. I think what noo can do more and i think they will. His secretary of state, rex tillerson, taking a different approach. Offering reainsurances to the American People. I think the preside
now you have more rhetoric, and this is mosimilar to what we re used to hears. turning washington into a sea of fire. this is more trip kal rypical r but president trump upping the ante again. they re going to take his words and come up with a response. in the background, you have the region already a tense month here because of the regularly scheduled joint military exercises between south korea and the united states. these are not happening as a result of the latest escalation. these are something that the u.s. does on a military basis, and they re always angered, but given the climate right now, the