Msnbc. The u. S. Is waking up to a new threat from north korea. Also new today, the secretary of Homeland Security weighing in. He says he does not see the threat from north korea as an active war threat. In the case of north korea, a kinetic threat against the United States right now i dont think is likely, but certainly a cyber threat. So we would raise various threat levels in the event that something happened and we telt as though there was a possible threat. You always want to caution on the side of or come down on the side of caution. Nbcs Janice Mackey frayer is watching all of this for us from seoul, south korea. Janice. Dara, with tensions simmering in the region, there is a show of military strength in pyongyang. A massive parade of missiles and military hardware north korea had been warninger for days that this would be a big event. There were warnings from officials saying if the u. S. Were to launch a preemptive strike, it would be allout war and annihilation. Theres been
Thank you for joining us. Im elizabeth prann. Happy easter and welcome to americas news headquarters. Great to be with you at home, i am leland vittert. Not long before Vice President mike pence touched on in south korea north korean mediumrange missile exploding just seconds after launching. The test, hill profile failure for the north korean regime and it comes as a powerful Us Carrier Group moves toward the Korean Peninsula straining tensions across the region. Kristin fisher is live in maralago with the president is spending his easter weekend. Hi kristin. Hi liz. The president was first briefed about the failed Missile Launch by the outgoing Deputy National security advisor mcfarland. She says that this did not come as a surprise to the president but aside from that, no further comment from the president about the failed Missile Launch. As for whether or not the us had perhaps tried to sabotage this missile attempts, listen to the outgoing deputy supervisors comments. You know we
Sector, i can make a difference. Well, in a statement, taking credit for some of tuesdays big wins for democrats, bloomberg adviser explains the reason for his decision to enter the race now, the current crop of democratic candidates. Quote, we now need to finish the job and ensure that trump is defeated, but mike is increasingly concerned that the current field of candidates is not well positioned to do that. In a cnn poll of poll, biden leads the pack by 27 . Closely behind is Elizabeth Warren, who has unsettled some on wall street with her wealth tax and more centrist democrats with her medicare for all plan. Biden and warren are the only two above 20 . Warren is also tied with biden in the latest iowa poll from monmouth university. Joining me now, cnn political commentator paul beg gal lab, amanda carpenter, cnn political commentator and author of gaslighting america. Also Kirsten Powers and cnn political analyst and New York Times National Political correspondent alex burns, who f
gerald ford, tried to come up with a slogan, with wig inflation now, in part of the wind campaign, these shiny red buttons. inspire americans to spend less, conserve energy, a spoiler alert? it did not work. the campaign was marked as one of the biggest government public relations wonders ever. so forward, loss and economic hard times continued, and three short years president jimmy carter called for some american sacrifice to combat a natural gas shortage, all wall dressed like mr. rogers. all of us must learn to waste less energy. simply by keeping our thermostats, for instance, at 65 degrees in the daytime, and 55 degrees at night. 55 at night! good luck. i don t control the thermostat in my house. but i digress. a few