President trump tweeted about a stronger and more powerful u. S. Nuclear arsenal. His defense secretary shored him up, warning the north to cease any consideration of actions that would lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people. Fox team coverage. Kevin corke, doug mckelway. Rich edson starts us off from the state department with a war of words. Good evening. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson returning from several days in Southeast Asia where he tried to convince adversaries and allies to pressure north korea to get it to give up its weapons program. Secretary of state says that campaign is beginning to show signs that its working. As he does so, hes trying to also calm the rhetoric between north korea and the United States. As two Nuclear Armed countries trade threats, secretary of state Rex Tillerson offers calm. Americans should sleep well at night. No concerns about this particular rhetoric over the last few days. I think the president as commanderinchief, he felt it necessary to issue a strong statement directly to north korea. Tillerson returning from several days of diplomacy. He spoke to reporters. Traveling to guam, an island north korea warned it was carefully examining as a missile target. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. That true bipartisan drew bipartisan criticism. The leaders ive seen dont threaten unless they are ready to act. I am not sure President Trump is ready to act. It sort of the classic trump in that he overstates thing. Chuck schumer says we need to be firm and deliberate with north korea but reckless rhetoric is not a strategy to keep america safe. Secretary tillerson explained the president s comments as a translation. The president is sending a strong message to north korea in language that kim jongun would understand because he doesnt seem to understand diplomatic language. The president issued his warning during an event on opioid addiction. The Weekly Standard reports the white house and the National Security council were unaware of the president would offer such a warning. Sarah huckabee standridge responded general kelly and others were well aware of the tone of the statement. The words were his own. The tone and strength were discussed beforehand secretary tillerson pressing international counterparts. He claims kim jonguns regime is responding. The pressure is starting to show. I think thats why they rhetoric out of pyongyang is becoming louder. President trump boasted about the u. S. Nuclear arsenal that its far stronger and more powerful than ever before. In a statement secretary of Defense James Mattis adds while our state department is making every effort to resolve this global threat through diplomatic means, it must be noted that the combined allied militaries now possess the most precise, rehearsed, robust defensive and offensive capabilities on earth. While in asia, the secretary said he spoke with officials from china and russia, noting that those countries have open lines of communication with north korea. He says hes helping those countries use the discussions to try to get north korea to halt its weapons development. Bret rich edson of the state department. Thank you. One of the pieces of advice president obama gave his successor going out the door, refurbish the countrys aging nuclear arsenal. President trump, as confirmed by his defense secretary, issue that order. This morning, the president suggested thats been done. How realistic is that . Kevin corke takes a look. Mr. Trump said it was his first order as president , to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. Technically it was his eighth order but first National Security president ial memoranda, coming on january 27 when he wrote his defense secretary shall initiate a new Nuclear Posture review to ensure the United StatesNuclear Deterrent is modern, robust, flexible, resilient, ready, and appropriately tailored to deter 21st century threats and reassure our allies. Currently, Americas Nuclear arsenals and second only to russia in overall inventory with 6800 warheads. 1950 of which are deployed. By comparison, north korea according to latest estimates have has approximately ten to 20 more. The u. S. Arsenal which includes 400 longrange icbms, more than a dozen nuclear substantive fleet of b52 and b2 bombers is aging, a problem the pentagon planted to shore up with a 108 billion investment. If fixed announced by the Obama Administration last september. Significant modernization plan for the next decade to upgrade the American Nuclear arsenal. Frankly, weve seen him make extremist statements and false statements about all manner of things. Its more concerning when youre talking about nuclear weapons. Do you want to do in five years . Do you want to do something now . Mr. Trump of austrias 1999 interview with tim russert seems to mirror the urgency with which the curtain administration views the north korean threat. Today defense secretary james mattis magnified the prevailing mood writing dd prk regimes actions will continue to be grossly overmatched by ours. Context, the president s 2018 budget calls for a significant increase in u. S. Defense spending, an additional 54 billion. The white house as that would not only go a long way toward modernizing the American Nuclear arsenal but also go a long way toward maintaining it. Something that obviously we certainly need. Bret thank you. Now to the other side of the nuclear football, if you will, americans Missile Defense. How effective is it . Doug mckelway looked where the program stand. In the reagan era, it was called the strategic defense initiative. We could intercept and intergraph destroy strategic Ballistic Missiles before they reached our soil. And reagan launched the program in 1983, opponents ridiculed him as technologically unattainable, star wars fantasy. Seven years later in the first gulf war, u. S. Made Patriot Missile batteries used two intercept scud missiles aimed at israel. Critics have a mostly failed with a few successful hits but manufacture raytheon claimed a hit rate of 60 . Today thaad has successfully intercepted mediumrange missiles. Two other defense arrays have intercepted Ballistic Missiles at a 55 and 83 rate. None is good enough. The problem arises that if you have to engage more than one, more than three, ten, simultaneously you are a problem becomes much more complicated. The problem gets worse if, as expected, north korea expands its arsenal. Stick with the threat were going to face is anywhere from 50 to 75 north korean icbms. Thats the problem. Lets say we do very well and we get 65 out of 70. Thats not good enough. It may explain President Trumps aggressive language on tuesday. They will be met with fire and fury. The tough talk was not reflected in the president s defense budget. He cut 300 million per Missile Defense while the House Armed Services committee added 2. 5 billion, the Defense Authorization remains bottled up in congress. From their august recess, congressional critics slashed out of the president s aggressive words, most noting it was an alarming departure from two decades of more measured president ial responses. Look at what its gotten us. Theres no more room for this president to kick the can down the road. In the cold war, many believed peace was kept through the doctrine of mutually assured destruction, the belief that neither side wants to commit suicide by starting a nuclear attack. Many defense hawks doubt kim jongun thinks that way. In which case, the best defense a be a good offense. Bret thank you. A Major Development tonight in the investigation of the special counsels investigation into russian interference in the election. The home of President Trumps former Campaign Manager has been raided. What does that tell us and whats next . Allison barber has the story. Further signs special counsel Robert Muellers wideranging probe is heating up. Fbi agents executed a search warrant on the home of trumps former care manager Campaign Manager paul manafort. Mr. Manafort has consistently cooperated with Law Enforcement and other serious inquiries and did so on this occasion as well. Agents went to manaforts home on july 26, the day he was supposed to testify before the Senate Judiciary committee. Manafort made a deal with the committee to interview behind closed doors regarding a june 2016 meeting that includes manafort, jared kushner, donald trump, jr. , and a russian lawyer. The next day, manafort met with staff on the Senate Intelligence committee, the Judiciary Committee reached to deal with manafort and dropped its subpoena. July 26, the fbi raided manaforts home and President Trump tweeted about the idea of replacing then acting fbi director andrew mccabe. The post cited sources familiar with the special counsel investigation save the search warrant was wideranging and agents left with various records. Some legal experts say the raid was unnecessary and the timing suspicious. A search warrant is something you do when you have someone who you think is going to destroy evidence or flee the jurisdiction. Theres been no evidence produced that thats the case. Others say it makes sense. Im sure they looked at it and decided they were missing documents, things that didnt fit. Holes they wanted to fill. Thats why they conducted the search. They didnt feel they could trust manafort to voluntarily give them all they needed. Donald trump, jr. Reportedly give the Senate Judiciary committee 250 pages of documents. The Campaign Says they gave the committee 20,000. A federal investigation into manafort began around the time he was forced to resign from the Trump Campaign amid reports of his dealings with foreign governments, specifically ukraine. Mueller has reportedly taken over that investigation. Bret thank you. We were keeping our eyes on the skies in washington. A russian spy plane was in the d. C. Area today. Its not a prelude to an invasion. Its part of the open skies treaty that allows the u. S. And russia to conduct surveillance flights in each others countries. Such missions are usually focused on military targets but this time, russia was said to be flying over washington today, new york and new jersey in coming days. Here in washington, theres new battles during, and intraparty dustup between Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell and President Trump. As we told you last night, my candle jabbed mcconnell jabbed at the president. Tonight peter doocy shows us it did not take long for the president to fire back. Weeks ahead of an important fall congressional season. The president is mad at the majority leader and wants to know whats the holdup, tweetin tweeting senator Mitch Mcconnell said i had excessive expectations, but i dont think so. After 7 years of hearing repeal and replace, why not done . This tweet follows a comment earlier this week where a where longtime senator mcconnell complained brandnew President Trump doesnt get it. Has not been in this line of work before. Had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen. Mccollum may be the reason the president has certain expectations. In january, he said obamacare will be repealed that month. The first several be taken in the senate by the end of this week and it will go to the house. Mcconnell said he expected Health Care Reform and tax reform done within the first 200 days of trump. What the speaker has done which i concur with and the administration is on board with is to lay out a game plan through the august recess. For myself, i intend to stick to the plan. Another deadline that came and went. Despite the rhetoric, the president did the majority leader a favor with a strange endorsement, as in he endorsed Luther Strange, facing a g. O. P. Primary tweeting senator Luther Strange has done a great job representing the people of alabama. He has my complete and total endorsement. Analysts say the president s endorsement is one way to try to keep the agenda on track. Mitch mcconnell may not be on President Trumps good side right now but what he needs our votes and he needs things to happen. While the president may be frustrated with mcconnell, in the end, mcconnell offers production in the best path available to try to get the president s key legislation through. Stick with the president thinks he was sold a bill of goods because majority leader mcconnell could not repeal and replace obamacare in 200 days, as promised. Now the president is trying to turn the 62 Million People who voted for him against the lawmaker who couldnt get one more republican vote to repeal. Bret thank you. Coming up next, a spiritual advisor ways in about world issues that president bret intimates focus on faith, throwing some fire and brimstone into the furor over north korea. An evangelical advisors says god has given him the authority, President Trump. Lauren green tells us not everyone agrees. They will be met with fire and fury. President trump, a reaction to the nations capabilities and threats. A pastor from First Baptist dallas is trump not only has gods blessing but a biblical mandate to take out the testy tyrant. The bible gives President Trump the moral authority to use whatever force necessary, including assassination or even war, to take out an evil door like kim jongun. I think most christians understand that. Citing the book of romans 13, referencing government rulers which says in part for he is the servant of god, an avenger who carries out gods wrath on the wrongdoer. A pastor and theologian who was built a career starting prophecy does not agree. If we use romans 13, for the context or the authority to do that, its evil on society. A ruler who is not good. By that logic, he should have been taken out a long time ago. He is one of several evangelicals who recently prayed for and with President Trump at the white house. Its this kind of mingling of politics and the pulpit is made pope francis fear the growing alliance. Johnny moore, the head of trumps evangelical panel sent a letter to the pope asking for a meeting. The question is, whether the bridge building pope, if his bridges extend all the way the conservatives, catholics, and others that disagree with the premise of this article or if that bridge isnt long enough for us. Jeffers says he respects the pope and would welcome a meeting. On this issue of biblical interpretation he believes the holy father is wrong. Bret thank you. State Department Officials say the department is expelled two cuban taking cuban diplomats. A series of american diplomats left in cuba with physical symptoms. Potential only permanent hearing loss. Ap says cuba may have placed Sonic Devices that produce nonaudible sound inside or outside of the residences of several Embassy Staffers with the intent of deafening them. The americans eventually came home. President trump as he to begin construction on the southern border wall but an invisible wall is currently being built as we speak. Tonight National Correspondent william la jeunesse tells us deportations are up and rulings allowing immigrants to this day are down. A rally in denver protesting President Trump. We have neighbors in our midst that are afraid of. Based on the latest federal data, they have reason to be, something immigration officials predicted. What a federal judge makes a decision, in order to remove them from the country, the decision needs to mean something very figures show the total number of Illegal ImmigrantsCourt Ordered to leave the u. S. Increased 31 over the same period last year. At the same time, those allowed to stay in the u. S. Declined. 21 . They are going to look at these numbers and proclaim donald trump to be the deporter in chief, when this is a return to the way Immigration Law was enforced for decades. President obama granted sanctuary to some 2400 men, women, and children per month. Not so with President Trump, who deported to High School Students back to el salvador. This administration has shut the door and opportunity for so many people. And decided they are going to detain them and deport them. Fixing the policies. People still get deceived due process, they get to see a judge. Once the decision has been made, we need to stand by it. Pre