K. T. Mcfarland. And as russia, iran, and syria warned the u. S. Against launching new strikes on the regime, we will break down the president s military and Diplomatic Options with the chair of the House Armed Services committee, max thornberry. Plus, we will ask our sunday panel about reports the president is siding with his moderate advisors against Stephen Bannon and the populace. All right now on Fox News Sunday. Chris hello again, happy easter, and happy passover from fox news in washington. U. S. And north korea are continuing the tense standoff this weekend with the kim regime is showing advanced longrange missiles and conducting a missile test that exploded on launch while President Trump threatens to solve the problem. In a few minutes we will talk with k. T. Mcfarland, second in command of the National Security council about north korea and other hot spots. We begin with team fox coverage. Kristin fisher traveling with the president in West Palm Beach. But first, greg palkot lied stomach live from pyongyang north korea. Chris, a celebration marking the anniversary of the birthdate of the founder of this country ended with a dud this weekend. Sunday morning north korea time a missile grew up at launching, this according to u. S. And south korean authorities. Just a couple hours prior to that we watched dozens of missiles on parade here in pyongyang. Including a mediumrange solid fueled missile which could have been the type used in that lunch on the east coast of the countr country. If successful, it would have threatens the u. S. Ally japan as well as some 35,000 u. S. Service members there. There is some speculation that the missile was a victim of a u. S. Cyber attack, it has been done in the past that results in failures. The regime of kim jong il and has still had no comment regarding the march or the failure. Official admitted a while ago, these kinds of mistakes can happen. A Missile Launch or Nuclear Detonation was expected to mark that anniversary but there was new speculation that this could have been timed ahead of the arrival in south korea today of Vice President pence. In south korea, the launches are monitored at a Flight Control center we were at last week. A four Ministry Official said today that the launch and the military parade or a threat to the whole world. Otherwise, tensions remained high over the bad missile and nuclear program, the Trump Administration demanding that north korea give them up. Officials we have been speaking with your show no signs of pulling back. They brush off the threat of more sanctions and they say they would fight off any preemptive military strike. As for Young North Korean leader kim jong un, he has been in office for just over five years. It looks like he is somewhat to be reckoned with. Chris greg palkot reporting live from pyongyang. Great, thanks for that. Now lets bring in Kristin Fisher in West Palm Beach with reaction from the white house. Reporter there were action from the white house has been very restrained, no tweets from the president , the First Response team from defense secretary jim matus, he put out a very short statement. The president and his military team are aware of north koreas most recent unsuccessful launch. The president has no further comment. The Vice President is in their stomach the air and on his way to south korea when that lunch took place. He was briefed about nine hours later when he told american and south korean troops that their courage and valor are needed now more than ever. This mornings provocation from the north is just the latest reminder of the risks each one of you face every day in the defense of the freedom of the people of south korea and the defense of america in this part of the world. From south korea the Vice President will travel to japan, indonesia, and australia, to reassure north koreas nervous neighbors that the u. S. Has their back, to reinforce those diplomatic promises the pentagon is standing in some military muscle. Right now a Nuclear Powered aircraft strike group is going towards the Korean Peninsula. The president calls it an armada, it was a show of force just like it was to drop the mother of all bombs on the isis fighters. To launch syrian missiles at a single syrian air base. The question now is how does President Trump handle a Nuclear Power led by a man even more unpredictable than she is . Chris thank you. Joining us now from West Palm Beach, President Trumps deputy National Security advisor and a familiar figure to fox viewers, katie from carmen. Welcome back to Fox News Sunday. Chris its great to be back on fox news, thank you. Chris what is the president s reaction failure to the Missile Launch but the failure to launch that missile in open defiance of President Trumps warnings . K. T. its not a surprise, even in the last year president of north korea launched over 30 missiles, most of them have failed. It shouldnt come as a surprise to us, we were expecting something particularly surrounding the birthday of his grandfather, so it wasnt a surprise. I briefed President Trump on it last night, we sought for what it was. The president doesnt have any further comment on this particular launch attempt. Chris is he distressed or upset that they ignored his warning . K. T. no. Let me sort of preface this by saying at the beginning of the administration in january President Trump asked the National Security council and need to chair a series of interagency meetings, thats my job as number two on the National Security council. I go to all of the agencies, the intelligence committee, defense department, state department, the military and say what are the options here . With north korea did a big, wide study and we directed the Intelligence Community and others, come up with things you havent bought a bar, think outside the box, and they came back with some really interesting suggestions, sanctions, diplomatic things we could do, secondary sanctions we could do and obviously military options and we presented them to the president , he was very pleased with it, and that allowed him when he went tomorrow lago for the summit with the chinese president to talk in earnest about north korea. They said a lot of times talking about north korea, the chinese president has a lot of influence over north korea, china provide some 85 of their food, their transportation fuel, their cooking fuel. They have a lot of economic influence. They talked about how china might help along with the other efforts of americans. Chris does a lot there i want to unpack, but i have to ask you another question first. Did the u. S. Sabotage dismissal . K. T. now, chris, you know we cant talk about secret intelligence and things that might have been done, covert operations that might have happened, so i really have no comment on that, and nor should i. Chris as greg palkot pointed out, there have been Cyber Attacks in the past, should the regime consider that possibility . K. T. Cyber Attacks have occurred in the past on the part of the kim regime when the hack the pictures. We are entering a whole new era. Not just with north korea, with everybody, any major country we are entering a cyber platform, a cyber batter field. That is where a lot of the wars of the future are going to be fought. I dont have any particular comment on what happened with the north korean missile. But it was a fizzle. Chris President Trump ratcheted up pressure on north korea and the kim regime this week. This was one of his tweets. North korea is looking for trouble. If china decides to help, that would be great, if not, we will solve the problem without them. Usa, and he said this. It doesnt make any difference if it doesnt send a message. North koreas problem, the problem will be taken care of. Chris despite the tough talk and sending a Carrier Strike force to the area as we were showing pictures right now, north korea showed up new, longrange and submarine launched missiles and conducted a test launch. You talk about this long discussion of options. What does the president do now . K. T. i think in that parade there were a whole number of missiles that were shown and there were some canisters, which may or may not have held missiles, but they were canisters that could have held intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, in other words, missiles that could go from north korea and potentially with United States. I would also state that as a result of the summer stomach summit, the president s were meant to have short conversations, short oneonone conversations. What they ended up having for several hours of conversations. Chris let me talk to about china because the president has indicated after that that he had formed a Good Relationship with president xi and that hes hoping you will help with north korea. There was talk this week about the fact that china is turning back coal shipments from north korea and threatening to cut off its oil supply. North korea depends 90 of its oil comes from china, on the other hand, trade between the u. S. And north korea is up 37 so far this year over last year, so my question is, it did President Trump get a specific commitment from president xi on north korea . K. T. you didnt mean trade between north korea and the United States. Chris notes. Between china. If i said that, between the two. K. T. between china and United States. Chris trade between north korea and china is up 37 . K. T. yes, it is, thats why it has the leverage it does have. Could china use that kind of leverage, which they have been willing to do in the past. The chinese president gave an indication that he would be willing to work with President Trump and with other allies to try to see what could be done. We all understand, the Korean Peninsula the police, russia, the question is how do you do it. The chinese have always been concerned about instability in the Korean Peninsula and i think what the president President Trump was able to convey to the chinese president is that north korea is a liability. Its a liability to everybody and its a threat not just of the United States. Not just to south korea, not just to japan, its actually a threat to china as well. At this point we have to wait and see. The kids in the back of the car on the long trip sing when are we going to get their . In this case i think we should give the chinese president some opportunity, sometime, as well as pursuing the economic and diplomatic pressure that we have and our allies have. Chris ive got limited time, i will remind you of your old job as a Fox News Contributor and ask you to give me specific answers here. During the campaign, mr. Trump talked a lot about getting along or trying to get along with Vladimir Putin and cracking down on china, but this week he seemed to flip 180 degrees on both. Here are a couple of clips. Right now we are not getting along with russia at all. We may be at an alltime low in terms of relationship with russia. I have really gotten to like and respect, as you know, president xi. A terrific president , we spent a lot of time together in florida. Hes a very special man. Chris again, i need a quick answer, is that good for the president to shift so dramatically and so quickly on both china and russia . K. T. first of all, President Trump has now spent a lot of time with resident xi. Hes gotten to know him and gotten to understand what his priorities are, he shared what our priorities are. He is not yet met with Vladimir Putin. The president has said that our relationship with russia really depends on russia. We would like to have a Good Relationship with russia, but theyve been doing some things of late, whether its in syria, whether its with american democracy, that we take very seriously. The ball is in their court. We want a great relationship, but its up to them to take those first steps to stop taking the steps that could potentially adversely affect us. Chris this week the u. S. Dropped the largest nonnuclear bomb in our arsenal, the largest its ever used in combat on a complex in afghanistan, killing dozens of isis fighters. Here was President Trumps explanation. What i do is i authorized the military. We have the greatest military in the world and lived on the job as usual. They have total authorization. Frankly, thats why theyve been so successful lately. Chris k. T. , while that apparently was a success, there have been some tragic mistakes recently, just this week 18 syrian allies, rebels who were allies of us, were killed in a friendly fire incident by u. S. Forces. The question some people are asking is the white house exercising enough over a side . K. T. what the president saw, what we also when we came into office was the Previous Administration had a lot of decisions that should have been made by the battlefield commanders that were being made by the west wing of the white house, and that wasnt the right place. The west wing of the white house doesnt know the battlefield is like, what the conditions are like or the immediacy of the threat they are facing. President trump has taken a number of steps to delegate that back where it belongs, back where it was in the reagan administration, to the battlefield. What you are seeing now is exactly what has happened, sometimes mistakes can be made, and we regret any loss of life, especially to any of our allies. On the other hand, it is a better field commanders decision to make and we do not have a president we have a president whos going to be picking out bombing targets, hes left that to the military. So far with a few tragic exceptions, so far the military has been terrific. Look at syria attacks on the airport that was used by the syrians to deliver those chemical weapons. That was done completely successfully, it was done quickly, and it was done with enormous effect i think. Chris i want to ask you one last question, we are less than a minute left and i want to talk about you. General Michael Flynn brought u. N. Has is number two cult national National Security advisor, now theres a new head of the nsc, general mcmaster, he wants the otm. The reports are that you are out and youre moving to singapore to be the ambassador there. Whats happened and how do you feel about it . K. T. first of all, President Trump hired me and he gave me a call on thanksgiving day to ask me to be the deputy National Security advisor, so i want to set that straight. If general flynn has departed and general mcmaster has arrived. I felt through that transition in a president that i have had a number of conversations over the last two months really about what my role would continue to be and where i could be best used for what his vision is in foreign policy. We talked about it again last night, and there are changes coming, but im not going to tell you what they are, you got enough secrets automate this date chris i wont pack my bags to visit you in singapore quite yet. We do one more thing. Happy easter to you and everybody at fox news, and your entire, very large viewing audience chris thank you, and we wish the same to you and to the president s party, thank you. Its always good to talk with you, k. T. K. T. thanks, chris. 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