The president a short time ago huddling with members of his National Security team. Secretary james mattis among them. Mattis said the president wanted to go through all the various military options for dealing with north Koreas Nuclear program, made more urgent by the detonation detonation of what the u. S. Intelligence believes to be a Hydrogen Bomb. National security advisor hm mcmaster and mattis went through all the options available to the president. Heres mattis. Our commitments among the allies are ironclad. Any threat to the United States or its territories including guam or our allies will be met with a massive military response, a response both effective and overwhelming. Early in july, President Trump as earlier in august, rather, President Trump threatened north korea with fire and fury if kim jongun attacked guam. Today secretary mattis made that threat a little bit clearer, saying if kim jongun threatens the United States, its territories or its allies with Nuclear Weapons, the u. S. Will destroy north korea. Listen here. We are not looking to the total annihilation of a country, namely north korea, but as i said, we have many options to do so. That really was a particularly remarkable threat and one designed to make kim jongun think twice about doing anything like that. U. N. Ambassador has asked for for an emergency meeting at the u. N. Security council tomorrow morning. At the same time, as the president is weighing military options, he is also looking at more economic options, targeting trade with countries that do business with north korea, for instance. The president tweeting quote the United States is considering in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with north korea. The president also considering tougher economic sanctions against north korea and others to cut off the flow of money to the regime. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin telling Chris Wallace this morning on Fox News Sunday that he has a new package of sanctions ready to go. Listen here. I think the president made it clear that he will consider everything, but we are not going to broadcast our actions and, you know, we will continue to look at all our options but my focus right now working with the president , with others, to make sure that we put additional economic sanctions. We work with china and others. China has a lot of trade with them. Theres a lot we can do to cut them off economically. Much more than we have done already. Now, the last time President Trump talked tough back in early august, north korea appeared to get the message, at least for a little while, and was kind of settling down a little bit. And then of course all of this bad behavior thats ensued ever since. Mike, we will see if maybe the message sent by mattis this afternoon sinks in more deeply. Ron john roberts on a very serious and busy day at the white house. Thanks. That does it for us. We will be back at the top of the hour with more news with the latest on this developing story. We now join media buzz already in progress. Its probae consensus of the military establishment. I dont think the military wants a war. This is a war it hasnt worked well in the past, but it has saved off the situation up to this point and we havent had direct diplomacy for many many years. Other people would argue it hasnt been tried. Howie you look at the president s tweets, rogue nation, hostile and dangerous. Only understands one thing. Is twitter a good vehicle for these kind of threats . Erin i think mollie is right in some respects that this is not just about donald trump. But the media should do a better job of helping the American People understand the threat. I have gone to pentagon briefings where they say the u. S. Is three years ahead of north koreas technology. Fox and friends showed the difference in the Technology North korea has and the bombs they are trying to create. We should see more segments like that. Howie we should educate the public about the situation and not just reduce it to donald trump versus kim jongun. Well have much more on the north korea threat. Let me turn to the hurricane situation in texas. The media set this up as a major test for donald trump. After his first visit to corpus christi, many in the press accused him of insufficient compassion. Very little in terms of empathy or emotion or talking directly to the people of texas. It was very striking he didnt mention the number of people who died or even sort of try to empathize with the fact that people are genuinely suffering. President trump went to texas but he forgot to bring any empathy for him. But he did bring a hat, a hat that is for sale. This is a dangerous thing to be playing when you think feeling are more important than fund. Feeling dont save lives. They dont. Howie the press remove the yardstick. It was an unbelievable focus on empathy. Last august there were deadly floods in louisiana, and president obama stayed in marthas vineyard. The Media Coverage said its good not to go down there, it would just cause more problems. Every Single Person was talking about empathy. It was bizarre actually. Howie i think its fair, its a comparison to bill clinton and obama. But to reduce it and put an intense spotlight on did he hug anybody. Michael i think thats fair, and i think obama deserves the criticism. Mollie he didnt get some. Michael i am saying he deserves some. He should have left marthas vineyard. And george bush went way too late and it hurt him in the polls. I think trump its not a question of going. Going is good. And he started out on the wrong foot about that thing about how great his crowd was. Howie the effort seems to be going all right so far. This reinforces the media never has anything good to say about the president. Erin i think the president walked into the medias trap on this. One story saying he didnt need a single victim or floodwaters, but hes trying to say hes working on this problem. But the president often steps into it when he shouldnt. Because he later in the week he tweeted saying he saw the devastation firsthand. Then andrew base who traveled with the president tweeted he traveled with the president and would not claim to have seen the devastation firsthand. Howie the rescue efforts were taking place and the flooding was out of control. The president went to houston yesterday, he visited a place where a lot of children were and he had this to say in an impromptu session with reporters. Its being done efficiently. There is a lot of love. Its been well received. Even by you guys its been well received. Mike i was watching the channels, nbc and be i msnbc. Mollie when we have such a focus on optics, and the obsession with melania trumps stilettos. Howie we want to put up headlines on this subject. She for 5 or 6inch heels. Vanity fair, who wears stilettos to a hurricane in. Michael that was heartless but silly. Howie it portrays the first lady michael she is not the first fir lady to get picked on. Hillary clinton got picked on when she wore a page pant suit to a press briefing. This thing he said about the media not getting in harms way and being cowards as you off key. Howie a lot of journalists did go into dangerous conditions there. Erin when the president was focusing on tack reformulater in the week i saw a number of cable news chryons saying the president is pivoting to tax reform when there is a death toll in can. Thats too much to say pause we expect the president to walk and chew gum at the same time. Howie these are on msnbc. Trump talks taxes as gulf death toll climbs to 19. Erin i remember seeing that. On cnn as well. That was just irresponsible. When i talked about the media setting a trap for the president , they did that with that. Mollie you talked about how he fell into the medias trap. They meade it all about empathy. Then you have the kid running up to the president and the family members talking about how much they love him. Howie the dual traps as you guys would put it. Well go to houston and check in with a top newspaper editor. Many journalists are dealing many journalists are dealing with their own fmy day starts well before im in the kitchen. I need my blood sugar to stay in control. I need to shave my a1c im always on call. An insulin that fits my schedule is key. Tresiba® ready announcer tresiba® is used to control high blood sugar in adults with diabetes. Dont use tresiba® to treat diabetic ketoacidosis, during episodes of low blood sugar, or if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. Dont share needles or insulin pens. Dont reuse needles. 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Yes im gonna just go back to doing what i was doing. Find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. Howie the Houston Chronicle is covering the monster storm. Joining us is vernon loeb. What happened when you tried to walk to your newsroom to your home 4 1 2 miles away . Vernon i found water up to my waist two blocks from my apartment. I knew a big storm was coming, but i was emotionally unprepared for how much water was everywhere. Our initial challenge was getting a few people into the newsroom and deploying from there. We basically told everybody if you cant get in, work from home. Start reporting from your community and stand by and well send you where you need to go. Howie you say you were emotional unprepared for the sheer magnitude of this hurricane. You reported from afghanistan. And people kept asking you, are you okay . Vernon yeah, all week. Its one thing to go to a war and be embedded with soldiers. And get prepared for such an extraordinary event. Its quite another thing to have an extraordinary event come to your neighborhood. An entire city. I remember thinking as im sort of slogging my way into work. Where is all this water going to go . I think the latest count is 27 trillion gallons. I thinker sort of reacted that way. Your instinct as a journalist kicks in and you start reporting. Howie we have been showing pictures of your reporting in the Houston Chronicle. People working dane night while they have their own flooded homes and their own families to deal with. Vernon this is the first time in my career that i put the entire paper on one story because nothing else mattered at that point. Numerous staffers lost their homes. Everybody had some sort of flood damage. I put a narrative in play monday, the second day of the storm. A 6,500 word narrative. Two of the writers told me i would love to do this but im watching the water creep up to my front door. Let me get back to you. One of them actually evacuated his house. He lived in an area that got hit by tornadoes on day one. I had evacuees working on this narrative. Howie its heartbreaking to hear these details. Journalists take a lot of abuse, and some of it is well deserved. Something like this happens you see the value of journalism in a crisis. Vernon it was inspiring to me to see everybody step up and be available and say i want to do more, where can i go. We had a bunch of people who just wont stop working. You do reach physical and perhaps even more important emotional exhaustion at the end of the week. We are starting to tell people to go home and take a day off. But most of of them i cant get to stop. Howie vernon lobe, thanks for joining us from houston. Ahead. Is the press rooting for President Trump to keep obamas Dreamers Program . Shawn evans its 6 am. 40 million americans are waking up to a gillette shave. 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But this speaks to a rationale n rationality that isnt often covered by the western media in our portrayal of him. Howie you are saying hes describes as an erratic madman and thats off the mark . James his concepts of rationality differ from our own. One of the people he killed, a relative of his, was destroyed by antiaircraft fire which is not a typical means for execution. The north korean regime over time has displayed a sort of rationality in its pursuit of nuclear capability. When to seek talks and when to give concessions. They are fond of saying, if the americans, you have the watch, but we have the sun. Howie a lot of journalistic reports are staying we are not speak with one voice. President trump said talking is not the answer. Jim mattis said we are never out of diplomatic solutions. Rex tillerson, is he a factor here or is Foreign Policy being run out of the white house . James hes a factor. He seize the president weekly. Heads of state respect tillerson and say he has genuine influence with the president. But tillerson is frustrated that hes probably going to leave after one year. You hear hes also staying simply because he believes that his time is needed right now. We hear that about other officials surrounding the president. But its true that the United States has not spoken with one voice on north korea. But thats also true in the middle east the rift between our gulf allies. We didnt speak with one voice on that either. Howie the press does tend to pounce on every little difference. James rosen, thanks for calling in. As the president decides on the Dreamers Program, the russia story is back. But is it being overplayed . Lets dance grandma you dont let anything keep you sidelined. Come on thats why you drink ensure. With 9 grams of protein, and 26 vitamins and minerals. For the strength and energy, to get back to doing what you love. Ensure, always be you. 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