video of this burial at sea. we are told that he is not a muslim. because he represents a hijacked version of islam. which believes in 72 virgins in heaven. yet they bury him within 24 hours at sea, all these efforts to clean the body. to wrap him up. all these efforts, 40 minutes on the uss vinson translated into arabic. here s the confusion and the wrong messages we are sending. it shows our enemy that we ourselves are not clear as to who we are fighting and what we are fighting. the president is talking from both sides of his mouth. he s not really a muslim but we give him a burial like islamic royalty this is validating the radical islamist point of view. of their supremacy over the united states. they are looking at america s behavior. they are thinking even
right now. despite the president s best efforts the photographs of a deceased bin laden may still see the light of day. associated press has filed a request under the fry dom of information act for the release of the photos. the administration has 20 days to spoken. the ap is asking the obama administration release the photograph of bin laden s dead body and images taking taken during the burial onboard the uss vinson. we are learning new details on how the intelligence community plotted the raid. the new york times reports a cia team had been monitoring the come bound from a rented compound from a rented house nearby before the raid. bin laden s wife told interrogators she was living in the compound with eight of bin laden s children and she did not leave that compound for five years. while americans continue to celebrate the death, many are
thank you so much to both of you gentlemen. appreciate it. steven collins and jim bittermann. meantime, we ve also learned that president trump will be speaking to japan s prime minister and china s president tonight. one likely topic, not france but north korea. this comes after of the rogue nation arrested a u.s. citizen as the man attempted to fly out of that country. and then today in a state-run newspaper editorial, north korea threatened to sink a u.s. aircraft carrier and claims that it has weapons that can reach the continental u.s. the threat to strike a u.s. carrier comes as the uss vinson strike group holds joint drills with japanese destroyers on the pacific. this morning john kelly was asked how he plans to deal with north korea. the minute i would tell you, dana, the minute that north korea gets a missile that can reac the united states and put a weapon on that missile, a
jong un will do as he says. my forces are ready to fight tonight if called on to do that. reporter: admiral harris announced that the anti-missile system will be ready to operate within days. this week north korea threatened australia with nuclear attack. north korea s missiles point in every direction. reporter: admiral harris took the blame over confusion for when the uss vinson will arrive in the area. it s now nearby in the philippines, he a1450urs. as president trump and secretary mattis have made clear, all options are on the table. we want to bring kim jong un to siz senses, not to his knees. reporter: one option we re
also think kim jong un is crazy. will donald trump do preemptive strike? not preemptive, but a strike from the uss vinson in north carolina and at waters off north korea? we aren t going to give the playbook away. but assad regime is a client state of other nations other nations keep it alive and prop it up. those sponsoring nations are sitting down, i guarantee that, and going through a very simple calculus in their minds. asking themselves, where s my red line for how long i m going support somebody like this, that uses chemical weapons on innocent women and children. that s geopolitics. that s state craft. the president has set that message. not just about syria, it s about those nations that have kept syria alive. you mention these nations. when president trump decided to launch the 59 tomahawks he did