Destruction. This is threatening a feud between the top agencies and the President Elect white house. Were getting phew reaction from moscow. Well get to that in a moment. Lets bring in eugene scott and tom lobianco. Good morning. The strategy behind this statement. Just three sentences. Unsigned. What what is the the calculation here from the trump folks . Its a continuation of Donald Trumps message during the campaign that he believes he knows more than the Intelligence Community. Thats a hard sell to make at this point, given that we know he only is getting about once a week president Daily Briefs Gnat would give him more information about National Security globally. That statement is inaccurate. These are not the same people that were heading the departments when the Bush Administration was in place. This is new information and new revelations about what is happening abroad. Tom, i talk t about the
possibility that this would cause a feud between the Intelligence Community and the
North korean actions just reenforced for both leaders why this is the number one threat to both Prime Minister abe and to President Trump. I think the north korean actions were deliberately timed after what was a pretty good week in terms of u. S. Policy in asia, with regard to President Trumps call with xi jinping and secretary mattiss trip to the region, i think the Trump Administration said look, were here and were not going to be an easy issue to deal with. Right now the National Security advisor is said to have broke on the law and critics call for him to be fired, for him to step down. How much does that impact the advice that this group can give the president at this time . I think the precedent is going to get advise from a wide range of people, including the folks in the State Department,
particularly those commitments to china that would affect the finances that north korea has for building these missiles, there may be a statement that comes out of the u. N. Security council
Iphone 7 is here Headphone Jack is out, what else is in . Good afternoon, everyone. Were going to begin today with our politics lead. Peace through strength. That is how donald trump started a majoruation National Security speech. Immediately after taking office, the g. O. P. Says they will have 30 days to quickly defeat isis. Those of you paying attention know that the claim is at odd odds with previous trump pronouncements. He says he knows about isis than the generals do and a Foolproof Plan to destroy the terrorist group. In june trump said the generals dont know much and now the generals have to come up with a new plan. Did mr. Trump elaborate at all on how, under a Trump Administration he would destroy isis . Not with too much specificity other than the call for generals to come up with a new plan within 30 days of him taking over. He say its will require cyber, financial, and side ideological efforts. She is trigger happy and unstable. Whether we like it it or not. Trump also sa
Promised there would be no Ground Troops used if iraq or syria. And shes gotten some criticism from people who say shes taking an important option off of the table here, anderson. She said that she would support american troops, Special Forces, doing reconnaissance assisting, indigenous or local forces and providing advisory roles which is the terminology currently used by the white house. Some also thought that by not acknowledging that some Special Forces are currently in combat situations in iraq and syria, she was also, you know, sort of perpetuating this idea that there are no troops who are in harms way. In fact, they are. Some of them have actually died. Dru donald trump hitting her on this saying shes telegraphing isis, she commented on donald trump not having a firm grasp of the facts when it comes to National Security and the issues that were discussed last night. Trump had an event earlier today. He also tried to address some of the things that were said in the forum last ni
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