tension because if tension only goes up and goes up only, then sooner or later it will get out of control and the consequences would be disastrous. reporter: the emergency session of the security council expected at 3:00 p.m. this afternoon. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n., nikki haley, has called for that session to be open, shannon. shannon: what do they hope to accomplish? reporter: they ll likely call out on north korea to comply with the international community s demands to suspend its nuclear an ballistic programs, but may also ask the u.s. and south korea to suspend military exercises, both of course are highly unlikely, especially with kim jong-un calling the ballistic missile a fourth of july gift to president trump, a decision by the dictator to, quote, hit the americans in the nose. the u.s. and south korea s first response was a precision firing demonstration off the south korea coast yesterday, part of
korea targeting luxury and imports and exports which help the military. what would hurt north korea more is that the u.s. apply so-called secondary sanctions against kim s chief ally, china. it s really well known there s a set of chinese entities that help north korea evade those armed sanctions by the united nations. we ve had a lim t number of cases where weave gone after chinese firms for those reasons. we could greatly ex papd their numbers. reporter: the president s fallen short. tweeting quote, while i greatly appreciate the effort of president xi in china to help with north korean it has not worked out. at least i know china tried. the u.s. say it s looking at a ban to travels to north koreans. in any more danger.
now it is in front of the supreme court. with that in mind the president took to twitter a short time after the attack in london tweeting quote - we need to be smart vigilant and tough.the court should give us back our rights. we need to travel ban as an extra level of safety. and he went on to president trump at least seven dead and 48 when did in terror attacks. the mayor glenn lewis as it was quote - no reason to be alarmed! you re getting british lawmakers to tweet in response. cheap, nasty and unbecoming of a national leader can sort of thing that makes me want to quit politics on the daylight this. evil everywhere we look. it comes as the supreme court will decide if the 90 day travel ban on six countries in the middle east will go into effect immediately or stay suspended. at this point there is no timetable on when the highest court in the country will make this decision but it is all playing out as great britain has been rocked by two violent
earlier today in the middle of a tweet storm the president sent out a tweet that was quite remarkable and something that i have never seen a president say, at least publicly. i have been covering white houses going all the way back to 1999 when he tweeted out, quote, james comey better hope there are no, quote, tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. what the president was talking about was an article that suggested james comey, during that conversation that they had over dinner, was asked by the president to basically give an oral loyalty pledge and that the fbi director declined. sean spicer said the president never asked james comey to pledge his loyalty to him, but he all wouldn t take any further questions about whether or not there were recordings of that conversation or recordings of two subsequent phone conversations that the president had with the fbi director in which the president claims that, like the dinner, the fbi director said that the presiden
context and conversation in that dinner and in the telephone conversations to be classified. one other thing the president tweeted out this morning, quote, maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future press briefings and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy. that was talking about the fact that there has been an evolving story in this white house, among the press operation, the vice president and president as to why james comey was fired. i am told that the president reiterated this idea maybe canceling the press briefing in an interview that he did with our judge jeannine pirro. this full story not told, but the white house correspondents association pushing back strongly against the idea of canceling this briefing because this is the one time when we have an opportunity to question directly in a large forum the communications operation of this white house. melissa: is it possible he s just tweaking you guys, john