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this morning the regime launched a ballistic missile over japan and into the pacific ocean. analysts say it flew far enough to hit the u.s. territory of guam. the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley spoke at the white house briefing. she said if north korea continuing its aggression, she could hand over the situation to james mattis, the defense secretary. there s not a lot the security council will do from here when you cut the trade and the oil. so having said that, i have no problem kicking to it general mattis. i think he has plenty of options. the united nation s security council holding an emergency meeting this hour after north korea s launch. john roberts is live for us at the white house. john, what else did the white house says about north korea? good afternoon. the president left on a helicopter a short time ago to go to joint base andrews for the speech that will be coming in about 40 minutes. he was asked if he was running out of options on north k ....
A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. the government and for manafort to keep things moving along. they did. that is the same judge that challenged the special counsel s office and accused them of just trying to use charges of financial crimes to squeeze manafort in giving them information that they could use against president trump. the trial proceeded anyway and the former trump campaign manager that was a wakened by an fbi agent performing a no-knock raid is being confronted with evidence that he hit $60 million from the irs which he received consulting ukrainian politicians. the charges are for falsifying income tax returns, bank fraud and failing to file reports. if convicted, manafort could face 305 years in jail. there s sentencing guidelines for federal cases like that that would suggest that the judge would probably give him something less than that, shep. shepard: what is the next step in this trial, peter? any minute, shep, we ....
Doomed failure because it was all about show and the proper prep work wasn t done. last week the president said he cancelled mike pompeo s trip to north korea because pyongyang had not made enough progress towards getting rid of their nuclear weapons. in july, you might remember, president trump said that great progress was being made. gordon chang here, author of nuclear show down, north korea takes on the world. almost feels like deja vu all over again. great fanfare by the clinton administration, the bush administration and the obama administration of progress with north korea. and now boom. yeah, goes back to the administration of george h.w. bush that talked about basically trying to get rid of the nukes and safe guards agreement with the international atomic energy agency. this goes back a number of administrations, which have made mistakes. president trump is making new mistakes. the one thing that you can say ....
Striking the united states. the u.s. officials say the north koreans are planning on deceiving the united states about how many war heads and research facilities they even have while pretending to denuke. gordon chang is here, author of nuclear show down, north korea takes on the world. when the president said north korea is no longer a threat, he was not telling the truth. now pompeo comes up and gives testimony and when asked about missile production, he dodged it. that was at the senate foreign relations committee last week. what is happening now, people in the intelligence community are going to the media and showing them the evidence that yes, north korea is continuing to produce missiles. what this means, shep the most important aspect of this story is that men and women in the intelligence community are not only putting their careers at risk and their freedom at risk by going and talking to the media. they want to sound the alarm. this is like paul revere. shepard: so ....
Today we hear from the russian ministry to try to drive a wedge between the president and his generals and saying there s undermining. that s not the message that we re hearing from secretary mattis and others. they believe it would be risky to work with the russians on the ground in syria. shepard: thank you. gordon chang is here. author of nuclear show down. good to see you. good to see you. shepard: is there any evidence that the north koreans are beginning the process of denuclearizing? not yet. shepard: as if you think they might? they might that really depends on whether trump is really shepard: you sat in this studio with me for years and you have told me the same thing for years and years. you ve said they have one crop, they have one voice in the world. it s through nuclear. without it, they have nothing. so you re telling me there s a chance now that they might be on the road to denuclearization? ....