anxiously anticipated missile launch has failed. the missile blew up almost immediately of it after it was fired. >> they are ready to shoot anything down. >> this is certainly the most tense i've ever experienced in 11 trips to this country. >> i'm so sad my presidency is finally coming to an end. >> no, sir. you still have over 1,300 days left. >> i don't know. have you teseen my tweets about north korea? this could all be over by monday. >> start a civil war. >> you never give a tax return

when you're being audited. >> i am here because i think our government is corrupt and i think we have the right to know what our president so involved in financially. >> pope francis offered a prayer for the world saying the world looks as jesus with its eyes lowered out of shame. good morning, everyone. i'm renee marsh in for christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. vice president mike pence is on the ground. >> another ballistic missile test by north korea. but this one fizzled out second after launch. the white house is offering a low-key response but they are also warning another north korean nuclear test could be immine imminent. >> the vice president wrapped up

his visit in seoul. his family attended easter service with u.s. and south korean troops. >> this is a great privilege for me. let me assure you, under president trump's leadership, our resolve has never been stronger. our commitment to this historic alliance with the courageous people south korea has never been stronger. with your help and god's help, freedom will ever prevail on this peninsula. >> we have our team of international correspondents standing by on the korean peninsula with the latest on the vice president's trip and failed launch by north korea. we start with will rippley.

any acknowledgment of this failed launch officially? >> reporter: victor, there has not been any official government acknowledgment and likely won't be. as in previous times i've been inside this country and a failed missile launch it's not act noneled by t-- acknowledged. they will not report inside this country failure because it doesn't serve their propaganda services. >> we know that although this was a failure, they also want to attempt this nuclear test. do we know if that is eminent as well? >> reporter: well, that is the big question, isn't it? we were talking all last week leading up to north korea's most important holiday the day of the sun talk about six nuclear tests because analysts in the u.s. and

south korea believe the nar tuc test site is ready. we saw a military parade more missiles on display be north korea has ever shown before. there were two types of icbms unveiled at this parade and likely mock-ups because real missiles are not put on parades for military displays. given the pace and frantic testing that has occurred, it could be just a matter of a couple of years before north korean leader kim jong-un reaches his goal of a warhead capable of striking the mainland u.s. missile launches is one aspect they are testing and this nuclear test is another way the scientists in north korea get their information to get closer to that goal of having that weapon. >> will, thank you, reporting for us from pyongyang. >> dana bash is in seoul and

joins us on the phone. you're traveling with the vice president, dana. how is the white house reacting to this latest jab from north korea right now? >> reporter: good morning, rene. first, i should tell you that i'm at a military base with the vice president who currently is having an easter dinner with u.s. troops who are stationed here in seoul, south korea. he did give brief remarks. we played some of them at the top of the show. he did give passing reference, but pretty clearly was talking about the failed missile test that happened this morning. he said, this morning, provocation is a reminder of the risk you take. talking about the focus of the world being here on this peninsula where these u.s. troops are stationed. now just about an hour after we took off, i was on air force two with the vice president, took off from a refueling stop in alaska that they got word of

this failed missile test in north korea as we were heading toward the korean peninsula. the vice president was in touch with the president and others back in the u.s. getting briefed on the situation. as we were in flight, white house foreign policy adviser said pretty early on that they felt confident that this was not only failed but it was not icbm, it was not a test of a missile that, you know, was destined or it was supposed to go across continents. obviously, they have been trying to missiles that they hope could get as far as the united states. this official said that -- we are not surprised by it and they anticipated it and it was not a matter of when. sxuc excuse me. it wasn't a matter of if but a matter of when. basically, they had we knew this was coming and certainly a sigh

of relief that it was not another nuclear test. the north korean over the years have tested five nuclear missiles and they were openly glad that was this not the sixth. >> dana, just really quickly, i mean, the response from the white house has been pretty low-key. you're traveling with the vice president. what was -- what was the body movement? was it low key as far as their reaction when they received that information as well? >> it was. it was low key. it was -- i think it was genuinely low key, but their body language was intended to communicate the fact that they were trying to give it a shoulder shrug. in fact, the white house foreign policy adviser who briefed us on the plane said, look, it was a failed test and so there is really no need to focus on their failure, you know, a little bit of not so subtle jab at the

north koreans for whom this was, as will was saying, this was an embarrassment. this was a day after their day in the sun, the parade that we have been seeing all of the pictures of where they were displaying what they claim were new icbms or at least new mock-ups of icbms and the next day, they have this failed test. >> dana bash, safe travels. thank you very much. >> let's bring in steven collinson a senior reporter. rene talked about this toned down response from the federal government. not even from the white house to be clear here on. let's put it up on the screen from defense secretary james mattis. the president and his military team are aware of north korea most recent unsuccessful missile launch. the president has no further comments. it amounted to, yeah, we saw it. what is the strategy? >> i think you're seeing two things doing ogoing on.

it wasn't a intercontinental ballistic missile that could have taken this crisis to a new level of tension with the u. in that sense, i think official are relieved but i think also a willingness and a determination not to react in a way that would give the north koreans any propaganda value for having taken this test, given the fact that it failed. so i think that is the way you're going to see the united states respond. we have seen the secretary of state rex tillerson have a conversation over the telephone according to to chinese media with a top diplomat and i think you'll see the administration continue to press china to do more to exert its leverage over north korea which the administration believes it has to stop it moving on to a bigger step. in other words, a nuclear test or potentially the test of a ballistic missile. >> if it is, what is the political value, the win here for the administration? >> i don't think there is necessarily a political win to the administration other than the fact that it was not worse.

this is a crisis that is going to get much more challenging for the administration. at the end of the day, it appears that the north koreans have made a decision that pursuit of nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them is something that can safeguard the regime and why at the end of the day, it's a very, very difficult question. do we get to a point where north korea has the a nuclear weapon it can package on a missile and potentially deliver it to the west coast of the united states? that is a situation i think no american president could tolerate and that is the point this get very dangerous. the question is if there were in some other part of the world i think you possibly could see military action by united states. the situation here is that, you know, seoul, which is a few miles south of the demilitarized zone in south korea is basically

under threat from thousands of conventional missiles and shells that the north koreans to rain on seoul so they have a great sort of incentive and they have a way of sort of reacting to any military action which could be very, very dangerous, indeed. so the diplomatic tools, i think, here are those of the administration will use. the military reaction really is in this case a last resort. >> let's talk about the diplomacy. is china getting its wish that former officials like former defense secretary leon panetta who said they need to tone down the rhetoric between the u.s. and north korea with the failure and this muted response that potentially that is happening now? we haven't seen a tweet prosecufrom the president and almost 12 hours since this failure. >> that's right. i think this would ab smart move not to antagonize the north koreans even further. china, we don't know what wen on in that summit between the

president and president xi jinping of china. could be their condition to do more to rein them was to tone down the issue. we don't know that but that is one way in which the administration could get the chinese to do more. >> stephen collinson from washington, thank you very much. this is one of the topics on "state of the union" this morning and also bernie sanders will be jake tapper's guest on the show. "state of the union" at 9:00 a.m. eastern on cnn. chaotic scenes in california as fist fights break out at dueling trump rallies. plus, we will take you live to st. peters square where thousands are gathering for faith this easter sunday. a few fan favorites return to take aim at president trump on "saturday night live." that is coming up.

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president to release his tax returns. it happened new york, chicago and 200 other cities according to organizers. te here is tom foreman with more. >> reporter: the number one message that people here wanted to get to the white house was that they really feel they need to see the president's tax returns. it has been customary for presidents for many years. he fought off the demands during the election and still fighting them off. yet, that is not adequate for people here. they feel it's a basic part of transparent government and restoring faith among many people, certainly among them, in this white house. but a lot of other issues came up too. many people carried signs and shouted out slogans protesting his relationship with russia. many people are concerned about his thoughts on working or living wage for people. many people concerned about immigration issues. all of that came to a head when the crowd marched past here. many people yelling out shame, shame, and boo. and some of people even yelling

out "lock him up" echoing what trump supporters used to yell about hillary clinton during the campaign. nonetheless what it comes down is a precursor could be a bigger fight later on. remember, the trump administration later this summer and through the end of the year, plan to work on a big tax reform package and you can bet a lot of people heard on this issue want to be heard on that issue too. a bomb explosion in syria has risen to 112 killed. the buses which were parked at the time were taking refuges from two rebel-held towns into aleppo in a four town agreement. the u.s. has condemned the blast and no group has claimed responsibility for the attack just yet. vice president mike pence just spoke to u.s. troops in south korea but he barely mentioned the failed missile test of north korea.

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north korea's later provocation falls flat but he did not acknowledge that but saying the test is a reminder of the risks that people there face. >> this morning's 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. your willingness to step forward to serve, to stand firm without fear, inspires our nation and inspires the world. >> the vice president's visit there in seoul is the first of an 11-day trip across the asian pacific region. the goal is to reassure allies as the tension mount with north korea. meanwhile, a white house foreign policy adviser says the missile launch came as no surprise and because it failed, there was no need to expand any

resources against it. joining me to discuss did rebecca grant military expert and of independent research. what do you make of the white house's stance that essentially dismisses the missile test as just another list -- another item on the list of failures for north korea? >> right. this was a failure and i understand they are taking a choice to dismiss it so they are not talking publicly, but you can bet they are talking privately. i expect pence will be getting fresh information from south korea's leadership on what they think about the test, what they think about kim jong-un's internal instability problems. pence can also talk privately with south korea and later with other asian leaders about possible military responses and how our allies in the region

perceive the kris crisis at thi point. >> i want to read you from james mattis. the president and his military team are aware of north korea's most recent unsuccessful missile launch. president has no further comments. so my question to you, rebecca, the nation and the world is watching right now. should the president had had a much stronger reaction? >> i love mattis' response. that is so cold. if you are kim jong-un that is is not what you want to hear. he hasn't scored any propaganda value with this. i expect, of course, we will see more from the white house and the team later on, but what they are saying is, look. you've had 50 missile tests in the past several years. this one failed and we are watching you. military sources tell me that our forces are ready to respond. so i like this cold cool response. i also like the fact that tillerson has spoken with china. that is really new in this

crisis to see that quick coordination. that has to drive kim jong-un crazy as well. >> you like that response there and you think it gives us a so what factor. i want to move on to vice president pence who is on the ground in south korea. today, he will be meeting with military leaders or leaders there in north korea. what do you think that his -- or south korea. what do you think his strategy is going into the meetings today in south korea? >> right. well, pence's strategy, number one priority is reassurance. we have major treaty relationships with south korea. of course, we have 28,000 soldiers and airmen and naval forces in the area and 28,000 permanently stationed there. so they are talking about the range of options. they are sharing intelligence. south korea has a chance to

review military deployments and say what they need. i think they will be talking about continued deployment of the high altitude defense system. make no mistake even with the cool response we are seeing, this is still a very serious international cries. and it's going to be on trump's watch to fix this one. we have waited a long time to see these missile tests developing. there is now a concern about mating a nuclear war head with a possible intercontinental missile. pence is in the center of that and in a great position to get south korea's intelligence and share intelligence and plans going forward. >> thank you, rebecca grant, for joining us. >> thank you. a little levity this sunday morning. i look back to "saturday night live" taking aim at the white house and a few familiar faces return to offer their take on the president's struggles. >> read to me again from the

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take aim at the president. >> "snl" hasn't held back when it comes to mocking president trump and his advisers. and it's part of a larger trend of late night shows turning more toward politics for their material. well, here to discuss, cnn media analyst and author of "the war of late night when leno went early and television went crazy," bill carter. bill, fallin' took heat leading up to this during the campaign. he took heat for essentially going easy on trump during the campaign. here is part of his interview. >> could i mess your hair up? >> go ahead. >> yes! donald trump, everybody. >> after that, some said this

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is this? what his stupid name? bazooka al assad. >> he couldn't get get assad's name right the last few days. how did this match up? it felt a little something. flat, hollow? >> there was something different about it and that was she was not live in new york. she was in l.a. so the audience was watching on monitor rather than seeing her live. i think there was a little difference in time. she couldn't hear them when they were laughing so i think a little difference in the comic timing of the bit. there was some very funny lines about, you know, terrible things he was saying about the holocaust, including oh, yeah, they sent him on trains but at least they didn't have to fly united. it was very funny joke in there but i think the timing was a little off. one thing, it was a great inside joke is that sean spicer actually played the easter bunny

during this george w. bush administration. >> i'm surprised they didn't do a fuller united sketch. i guess they know the viewers come to see the political satire? >> i thought a little danger there. we don't have an asian performer, for one thing. airlines are often advertisers on the show. i don't know whether that was an issue or not. >> makes sense. bill carter, good to have you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i liked the spicer skit. you weren't a fan? >> it felt a little off time. i guess that explains it, that she was on the other side of the country doing it live. >> tough crowd. tough crowd. today marks the holiest day of the year to christians around the world. right now, thousands are gathered in vatican city to celebrate easter. we will take you live to st. peters squaring next. listen up, heart disease.) you too, unnecessary er visits. and hey, unmanaged depression, don't get too comfortable.

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we are just learning that u.s. national security adviser lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster is in kabul, afghanistan, this morning. that is according to the official twitter account of the afghan president's office which reads, quote, welcome lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster to kabul and thank you for your continuous support. the u.s. dropped its most powerful nonnuclear bomb on isis positions in afghanistan on thursday, calling it a tactical move. >> translator: oh, god through on this day through your only forgotten son have conquered death and unlocked for us the path to -- >> pope francis in st. peters squaring this morning where thousands gathered to mark the

holiest day on the christian calendar. following the mass pope francis gave his regular easter message from the balcony from the st. peters basilica. >> cnn vatican correspondent delia gallagher is joining us. >> reporter: the pope just finished up his easter mass. in that blessing he spoke to world leader asking that they would have the courage to help stop the -- to help stop the conflicts that are happening around the world and stop the arms trade. the pope said that is something which he has been talking a lot about in recent weeks. he also made a special mention for the attacks on the refuge convoys in syria yesterday

calling them despicable. now, there was tight security as you can imagine for this morning's event but it went off would you a hitch. the streets around the vatican was closed to traffic and there was extra police force there and about 50,000 people in the square had to go through several security checkpoints, including metal detectors, to get into st. peters squaring. today is also the 90th birthday of pope emeritus and pope francis visited him on wednesday to give him the best wishes and the vatican says the pope will celebrate later this afternoon. pope benedict with beer and a visit business his brother who is 93. >> when have we seen the pope emeritus last? has it been some time? >> reporter: yes. absolutely. he doesn't come any more to the main events but he is visited by pope francis and apparently they exchange phone calls quite often

and they discuss matters of the church amongst themselves privately. he does have some private visitors. his personal secretary lets us know. and is doing rather well according to his personal secretary. his legs hurt a bit but his mind is all there and he'll be celebrating today. victor? >> happy easter, delia, and thanks so much. >> thanks. more than 1 million people tuned in to watch april, the giraffe, give birth. why all of the excitement? a wildlife expert is here to explain the phenomenon and how one giraffe can save thousands around the world. "sound tracks" premieres on thursday here on cnn. here is a look. >> music is an explosive expression of humanity. >> every movement has to have a song! >> i can hear you! the relevant of all the word hears you!

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it's the event that captivate millions of people around the world, including you, victor. >> really? april, the giraffe, finally gave birthday and it was broadcast live on the internet.

the new calf, a male, weighs about 150 pounds and is six feet tall! but animals giving birth is really not new. okay? so why was the internet captivated by this giraffe? really to help mend because apparently everybody else loves this. wildlife expert michelle garforth venter. michelle, help mend why a giraffe giving birthday is a phenomenon? >> i think women around the world connect in a big way. pregnancy is tough. let's be frank. when you think about africa an iconic species is giraffe. looks so strange with a tall long neck and gangly long legs and they have the longest eyelashes and longest tongue and a creature people are natural drawn to. >> pretty unusual but elegant at the same time. >> that's right. they say it's over the top and i think god was having a joke that

day when he created this creature. >> april had quite a following. at the peak of this, she had some 5 million people watching and waiting for her to give birth. why do you think that people were so drawn to this live stream of this giraffe? >> i think it's that obsessiveness really, when it comes to saying, when is it going to happen? how long? you know? there we grandpa g. it eventually did happen. in terms of this creature and her birth, did you notice that there was no pushing and no noises? >> i was wondering. she made it look so easy! >> so easy because giraffe don't have vocal chords. it was a very quiet experience, wasn't it? >> beyond the voyeurism here. i shentouldn't say that. it's a learning experience. there some element that help the conservation efforts? >> very much. this is a huge platform. this is an incredible opportunity to shine the light on the plight of the giraffe. there is a silent extinction

happening with this across africa. nine subspecies and two subspecies is endangered and a base that rate species her annum where they are in terms of population number. poaching is a huge problem, especially for the people who are poor, who are hungry. this is a big yield of meat for them. habitat encroachment when it comes to human beings is another primary problem. so this gives us a platform to allow the giraffe to speak so we can hear about what is going on. april becomes an ambassador for all of the wild giraffes. >> okay. >> so then there is a university in south africa that they are strapping gopros giraffes becau population has been declining. tell us a little bit about that project and what they hope to

glean from that. >> we call them critter cameras. you can do this really with a variety of different species. it gives us insight into their secret world. we can then, as researchers, learn more about the challenges that they are facing on a daily basis where they go, how they are interacting, what they are eating. and then we can better manage their conservation. remember, these animals are living in a closed off section and they don't get to move around or interact that much. we really have to micromanage their lives. >> michelle, you know, we were talking about this in the production meeting, that you have a special connection to giraffes. you had one at your wedding? >> i sure did! his name was hamly. hamly, the male giraffe. >> wow! >> how did this come about? >> please explain! >> doves, i've seen, but a giraffe? >> us in the animal world we have special connections with various animal sanctuaries and we decided to get married at an

animal sanctuary. hemally is used to human interaction and was a fantastic poor, i suppose, for our wedding pictures! yes. >> all right. >> michelle, thanks so much for helping me and helping everyonend not just how this was a moment for the internet but it really helps with the flight of giraffes around the world. >> thank you, victor. >> thank you. united has issued several statements on the incident that is what we will call it. they were forced to apologize multiple times after their first few comments were criticized for being tone daveaf. they were not alone. >> a white house spokesman and pepsi were forced to say, i'm sorry, too. here is jeanne moos. >> reporter: for a while, it seemed tough. dragging an apology out of united. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: but finally the ceo said, sorry. >> plight of word of shame comes to mind. >> reporter: you didn't need a poll to gauge public opinion. >> what a week for united

airlines today. >> boo! >> the company lost 255 million dollars of market value in one day! which means they could have given each of those four passengers their own jet plane. >> reporter: it's a banner week for apologies. >> i hit them a pepsi. i know. it's cute, right? >> reporter: then sean spicer had to admit. >> i screwed up. >> reporter: for his hitler comments lampooned on kimmel. >> somebody as despicable as hitler who didn't even sink to the -- to using chemical weapons. so you have to, if you're -- >> oh, no! did i just defend hitler? >> reporter: sean spicer versus oscar munoz. we present the battle of the abject apologies who grovelled

most. >> on not a good day in my history. >> reporter: take it from brenda lee ♪ ♪ i'm sorry >> i'm sorry. >> i apologize. snoo ♪ please accept my apology o♪ >> i'm sore sorry. i screwed up. >> reporter: who was the sorriest? >> painful to myself to know i did something like that. >> reporter: sean spicer seemed most contrite. one poster put him in this wearing a united uniform holding a pepsi. >> it was insensitive and inappropriate. >> reporter: jeanne moos. >> inexcusable and reprehensible. >> reporter: cnn, new york. anxiously anticipated missile launch has failed.

the missile blew up almost immediately after it was fired. >> the patriot missiles are alert in south korea. the cruises a part of that task group are ready to shoot anything down. >> this is certainly the most tense i've ever experience inside 11 trips to this country. i'm so sad my pressy idency coming to an end. >> no, sir. you have 1300 days left. >> i don't know. if you seen my tweets about north korea? this could all be over by monday. >> start a civil war. >> you never give a tax return when you're being audited. >> i am here because i think our government is corrupt and i think we have the right to know what our president so involved in financially. >> pope francis offered a prayer for the world saying the world looks at jesus with its eyes lowered out of shame.