Employees got fired. Lets talk, live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning, im carol costello. North korea says its carried out its most powerful nuclear test yet. The explosion registering the force of a 5. 3 earthquake. Kim jonguns government now claiming it can make Nuclear Warheads small enough to fit on to missiles. World leaders are strongly condemning the apparent test. With President Obama saying just moments ago there will be serious consequences. He also said, and im just getting his statement right now, that north Koreas Nuclear test is a grave threat. He says to be clear the United States does foot and will never accept north korea as a nuclear state. We have Suzanne Malveaux on this story. Shell join us in a little bit. Lets head to tokyo now for north koreas side. Will ripley has that. Hi, will. Hi, carol. That brandnew statement from President Obama comes after he was very busy during the overnight hours speaking on the phone separately with the japanese Prime Minister shinz
the biden administration before they take place how did the us intelligence get the information? mike baker former covert operations officer. great to have you. thanks for having me. mike: your thoughts on how the united states was aware some of this before it happened? i don t want to oversimplify it but that s the job of the cia to focus on russia. obviously over the years going back to the soviet union it was our primary concern and our primary target with intel collection perspective so it s no surprise whether through human sources that that is where significant resources have been and continue to be focused.
were brought over from ukraine by a complete stranger their father was forced to entrust his kids to the stranger so they could be reunited with their mother and a foreign country painful decisions like this are being made every day in ukraine. mike: brian, thank you very much. alicia: us intelligence giving us plenty of insight into vladimir putin s plans ahead of the invasion from the cia covert operations officer.
kudos to be given to our department of state employees and dod and military folks who are trying to process this massive airlift. jacqui: president biden is fulfilling his promise to retaliate against isis by ordering an airstrike that killed two members in afghanistan, just days after 13 americans were killed in a bombing at the kabul airport. joining us now is former cia covert operations officer and ceo of portman squared group, mike baker. thank you so much for being with us, mike. sure is, thank you. jacqui: reporting on this unmanned drone strike indicates that the isis-k planner our military took out was plotting future attacks on our u.s. forces so both human and signal intelligence were used. my question to you would be, if we have the kind of capability, why wasn t it used to prevent thursday s bombing? were there some complicating factors that prevented that?
and a 45-year-old teacher at an elite private school in l.a. is accused of having sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student. teaching biology at the brentwood school now charged with dedicatory rape. melissa: fox news alert, and reports in spain that the van driver behind the barcelona terror attack has been captured. the police right now are not conforming this. but those are the reports. there is a news conference by the interior minister. it is just getting underway. and we will bring you all of its when we get information. but in the meantime, spanish officials meet with political representatives on the attacks that left 15 people dead. a former cia covert operations officer, and he is the president of diligence of global intelligence and security firm. mike, thank you for joining us paid what do you make of the latest development? we do not know much about it.