on the couch today. >> you have been throwing me some compliments. it is a season of hungry dogs here. it is great to have you, absolutely. great to have all of you. i will see you back on monday at noon eastern, "happening now" now. >> jon: a fox news alert, the pentagon confirms that north korea has fired a ballistic missile, happened it just a couple of hours ago, japan's government saying that the muscle flu for about 45 minutes and landed off of the japanese coast between japan in the, japanese president shinzo abe calling a meeting for his national security council, we will bring you more on these updates throughout the hour. >> jenna: republicans are now looking to pick up the pieces as their latest efforts to repeal obamacare goes down into feet, the white house and congress now regrouping, after the senate failed to pass a skinny version

of their repeal efforts, and president trump is said to make remarks this hour, before law enforcement about to the notorious ms-13 gang. welcome to the second hour, the dismantling of obamacare but in the dead of night, it came crashing down on the floor of joined all of 48 to democrats the so-called "skinny repeal" a bill, reaction came swiftly from both chambers. >> i don't think it is dead at all, i think what we have is an opportunity to move forward and to do this the right way. >> the good news is maybe we go back and start from health care, everyone has been making up skinny phrases, and that is not doing health care. >> changes, improve improve it,

but don't just take a knife and tried to destroy it," nothing in its place. >> i think the american people are going to regret that we couldn't find a better way forward. >> people who seek leadership have an obligation to do this, and in respect to health care, mitch mcconnell has been an abject failure. >> failure is not an option. >> jon: we have fox team coverage by the man who has the latest from capitol hill, and a president trump will speak this hour, but we begin on all of this with brett, just a couple of days ago, john mccain essentially left his hospital bed to fly to washington and cast a vote that would keep this possibility alive, and that last night at 1:00 a.m. in washington, he cast a vote that essentially killed it. how does he explain that?

>> good morning, he says that he was voting his conscience, he didn't like the bill that they were looking at, it was always the case that john mccain has been a maverick it, as you see, he put his thumb down on the inside of the senate chamber, and as he was walking in, the reporters that stopped him as he was walking into the chamber, they said do you know how you're going to vote, he said yes, and they said well? and he said wait for the show, he knew what was going to happen, and i think if you look back to his feet on the senate floor on tuesday, he essentially was saying that he wanted to go back to the committee process, the old way the senator worked, and we will see if that happens, back to the beginning, we are talking about bipartisan efforts, trying to figure it out. >> jon: and there are other republicans who really didn't like the bill that they were

voting on, probably wanted to vote no, they voted yes just to keep the process alive. >> they did, and with mccain's vote, he protected some of those conservatives who desperately wanted to vote no, but they didn't, the thought was it was a vehicle, it was not clearly repeal and replace of obamacare, it was a vehicle to get you to a conference committee and the hope that the house and senate could then work out something that would be acceptable and better than obamacare, and now they are going back to ground zero, they are going back to square one, and senator mitch mcconnell said it is time to move on, the question is how much can you move on if your constituents are feeling pain and some of these states of the obamacare affects? >> jon: let's talk about some of the intrigue at the white house, is it just a week ago that's sean spicer resigned? it seems like so much has happened since then, any departures today we need to know about? >> the only departure was that on the flight that reince

priebus was on, he was on the flight, anthony scaramucci was asked about all of the comments that he made to the new yorker, he said it is best not to comment. so we don't know what is going to happen, i assume there will be some shakeups still the summer ahead of -- with the white house hopes is a major push for tax reform because that is the crown jewel of legislative achievements that they hope to get this year. >> jon: all right, stick with us were just a moment, we want to speak more with north korea. >> melissa: we have an update on the latest aggression from north korea, the nation firing another ballistic missile just hours ago, the pentagon confirms that the launch took place, and a japanese officials say that the missile launched into the sea of japan, live with more no now. >> melissa, spy satellites detected the missile launch at

10:45 a.m. eastern time, a rare nighttime launch for the regime, it is 12 and half hours ahead of the u.s. eastern time, the pentagon is still assessing the results. it is the second lots lunch launch since july 4th, flying some 1700 miles into space, seven times higher than the orbit of nasa's international space station, officials say that they can hit alaska, japanese media says a reentry vehicle may have landed near japan, yesterday in washington, general mark millie talked about the dangers the u.s. faces with north korea. >> a war on the korean peninsula would be terrible. however, a nuclear weapon detonating in los angeles would be terrible, we are at a point in time where choices will have to be made, one way or another. none of these choices are

particularly palatable. it north korea normally likes to time their lunches with important dates, this is no different, on july 27, they celebrated the 64th anniversary of its armistice day, ending the korean war, they say that the bad whether it was bad the test. the defense agency is planning to test its antiballistic missile for the second time this month, it has already been deployed to south korea, it is used to shoot down missiles. recently, the u.s. air force flu bombers to the korean peninsula, a sign that tensions continue to escalate. >> melissa: thank you. >> jon: for more on this, let's get back to brush. clearly this is not going to be something that is received well at the white house. any indications from the white house or the pentagon on

what her response there might be? >> you know, last time we saw a response from the south korean military and the u.s. military, at least a visible firing and it testing of antiballistic missiles, they are in south korea, you are hearing talks of sanctions possibly more ballistic missile sanctions on north korea, but that has happened through the united nations and other ways, and it has not had an effect. the biggest effect so far is what congress passed, and that is a sanctions bill, north korea, iran, and north korea, and all indications are that he is going to sign it, he has not signed it as of yet, and they are hoping it is going to move the needle, but north korea is definitely bold, and this action proves to be an icbm, and you are going to see the u.s. intelligence community and the pentagon really step up

the other options. >> jon: the president has said that china needs to get involved in stopping this kind of behavior, but to this point, the chinese leadership has not seemed it to really step up to the plate. >> no, and top talking to experts, sometimes china uses north korea and almost weapon eyes is the issue, so we don't talk about human rights or cybersecurity, and they don't to change the dynamic. so some of the use sanctions passed the congress deal with that, not only companies through china and north korea, but hoping that these banks are providing money that could be affected by the sanctions. >> jon: the president has famously so that he will not telegraph this, whether economically through sanctions or militarily and semi, he will respond to this, it could be the plan then no one is talking about. >> wright, and you have a couple

not pretty options here, and for military options, that would be dire. and opening the door to nuclear weapons in asia, japan and others, and that would move the ball is china. but you also have antimissile batteries, that you could sprinkle all over china, and they wouldn't want that either. and perhaps that is being considered, as far as getting china to put the screws to north korea to stop this. >> jon: very dangerous game of chess underway there. we will see you tonight on special reports. >> melissa: back now to capitol hill, republicans losing their latest battle to repeal obamacare was last night's senate vote, michael warren is a senior writer at the weekly standard, and he joins us now, what do you think is next? i mean we can't really afford to give up on this? >> this is a matter that the republicans have been promising for years, as a practical

matter, mitch mcconnell use of the procedures at the senate to keep it open, and the possibility here that the house bill has passed, and the senate could take up another health care bill, and other health care idea, and if they did so, perhaps they could do what john mccain wanted, which was to return this to where the committees have hearings about this, and the political reality is that the white house doesn't seem to want to do this anymore, republican leadership on capitol hill sort of seems to want to move off as well, it just seems like there is not much of a political path therefore during this, but the option is still there. >> melissa: the idea of going to regular order and working together, to me, that sounds very far-fetched, is that a high in the sky, or is not something that could realistically happen? >> look, i think it could realistically happen, the question is is there a lot of political will? the leadership in congress is really not interested in this because i think they

perceived -- suite you let me stop you right there, i mean how is that possible, when anyone says they are all going to share the blame, if nothing happens in the sink collapses, they have to know that, when they go home for recess, they have to hear the angry people on their front lawns who are mad that health care is falling apart, and it doesn't matter what party you are and, if you let this thing go to hell in a handbasket, you are going to get blamed for it. >> and i think without any broad consensus, they have to figure out what to do to fix it, the doing something, doing anything, could end up certainly forming the health care system as it already exist, and shifting the blame to republicans, the game that i think republicans are going to try to play politically now is look at, we can find consensus, but that is certainly what you're hearing from the president, he said i will elect this, and maybe we can get democrats on board, but i do

think that sort of does a deal with the political rally, which is that republicans do have complete control of the political arms of government, and they still haven't been able to do anything. voters may punish them on that. >> melissa: i think that the americans voters are not stupid, and they will blame the whole group of them. >> jon: a trip to the grocery store it turns tragic when a man armed with a knife attacks people in a supermarket. what officials are saying about that. and to the senate's latest effort to repeal obamacare -- dead on arrival, so what is next for g.o.p. lawmakers, looking to fix the health care system in this country, we will get some insight from the other side nex next. and our only regret tonight, our only regret, is that we didn't achieve what we had hoped to accomplish. and up go your rates. what good is having insurance if you get punished for using it?

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>> melissa: one person was killed and four others wounded when a man with a knife went on the attack inside a german supermarket, the incident happened earlier today in northeast hamburg, police say the suspect fatally attacked the first person, who died on the scene, he then stabbed for people, and he ran away. witnesses overpowered the suspect and held him until the police arrived. so far, investigators say that they do not know the motive for the attack. >> jon: the g.o.p. suffering another setback and its effort to repeal obamacare, as a teardown plan that would get rid of some of the laws, most of the unpopular parts, it goes down in defeat in the u.s. senate, the republicans that siding with, sinking of the bill with a "no" vote. armed services committee, where do we go from here? are you convinced that obamacare, as it stands right

now can continue to survive? >> i think there are things that we can do on a bipartisan basis to address cost, we can go after the hospital facility fees that no americans believe in, we can go after some of the insurance laws to make sure that they are doing reference pricing, so there could be a bipartisan consensus on cost, and that's what i would urge my republican colleagues to do. >> jon: they say that the cost of malpractice is a huge heart. >> i think that everything should be on the table, but malpractice costs are far less than the cost that hospitals are charging and facility fees and the cost of pharmaceuticals, they are charging for drugs, americans think that it is a bipartisan bucket, it looks that all of these things that are jacking up costs, and i think that if we go over those costs, you could get democrats and republicans to agree on basic reform. >> jon: but back to the

original question, i mean, insurers are leaving the obamacare exchanges in droves, are you confident that obamacare can continue to stand the way that it exists right now? >> i think one of the reasons they are leaving is because of these acts are in, hospitals are gouging the american people, $100,000 hospital bill, then you have hospital ceos making 3 million or $6 million, i think if you go over some of the cost, we could stabilize a lot of the markets, and i personally believe that we need to expand medicare, which basically donald trump was fourth in his book it, "the america we deserve," he talked about the canadian and australian models, and i would like him to put forth some of the ideas that he put forward in his books in. >> jon: what would you do to encourage americans to stay healthy and prevent some catastrophic illnesses in the first place? >> well, i personally supported michelle obama's call for

exercise and good diet, and i think that these are not political issues, i just came back from swimming this morning, i live a healthy lifestyle, we are talking about good nutrition, exercise, these are things that republicans and democrats can't agree on, and it will be lowering our health care costs. >> jon: but how do you work that into some kind of proposal, so that the government is not to necessarily running a national health care group? >> well, i think that's this is for community leaders and our teachers and church leaders, and political leaders, people in the media to talk about, to have a successful left, to have a successful family, people need to care about nutrition from a young age, they need to have physical activity, and i think that's those efforts should not really be political, they should be more broad-based and community-based. >> jon: in a word, are you optimistic? >> i am because in the long run, i think that democracy is messy,

but we tend to do the right thing, and i think when it comes to lowering costs, there can be compromised in expanding coverage, and i think that's the goal needs to be to continue to advocate those ideas to find some common ground. >> congressional democrat from california, good to have you on. >> thank you. >> melissa: the president of traveling to long island, where he will speak to law enforcement about cracking down on the violent street gangs, ms-13, we are live in brentwood, new york. whoooo.

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>> jon: fox news alerts, reporting that baby charlie garda has a died in london, the 11-month-old boy who struggled, captured the hearts and the attention of the world has apparently died in hospice care,

according to the daily mail, his parents fought to bring him to the united states for medical treatment, that of course was a denied by the courts in london, they even had to fight to the courts to try to bring him home to die. and the courts denied that request. so charlie was moved to a hospice just yesterday, and the little boy, who had a rare genetic disorder, apparently has died in hospice. in london. morehead. on the short life of charlie gard. president trump is set to speak to law enforcement, to highlight the priorities for his administration, the president will talk about the crack down on the ms-13 ms-13 a street gaa notorious game, blamed for at least one dozen murders on new york's long island. brian yannis live in brentwood new york at, where the present will speak. >> high, john, the president is

expected to arrive any moment now he, an auditorium full of local law enforcement that has been citing ms-13, especially in the last of several months, thanking them for their efforts as well as to map out his plan as to how he plans to eradicate the gang nationwide, ms-13 is a transnational gang, which began in the 1980s, and really, it has spread about it 10,000 members throughout the country, from los angeles to houston, two here in long island, they are no not really for their size but for their brutality. they are known to be tend to butcher their victims, and the president claims what would he go's field obama immigration policies, like century cities, and to the flood of unaccompanied minors, for ms-13 insurgents, initiatives led principally by his attorney general, jeff sessions, by increasing collaboration with the government of el salvador where most of the members are from, yesterday, they announced

hundreds of arrests for ms-13 members, he will also likely hire more i.c.e. officers, and here, there have been many murders since last january, and he is leading the offensive over the last ten months, making over 240 arrests, and he believes that the government needs to get more resources to get unaccompanied children who have crossed illegally, and have fallen to ms-13 recruitment. >> i certainly am optimistic about the relationship now between local law enforcement and the department of health and human services, so that is definitely a step in the right direction. the sharing of information, the decision that yes, this is a global population, and yes, we need to do more to protect these children, so that is certainly a positive. >> jon: you will remember that three months to the day, the

attorney general jeff sessions was here and promised to bring millions of dollars and more, it hasn't happened yet, the hope is that with the president's visit, that will soon come, the officers that are seated behind me that will be seated behind the president are those who took part in ms-13 covert operations and arrest, so a big thank you from the president it today. a >> jon: on long island, where the president is about to speak. thank you. >> melissa: republicans coming up short again and there are to repeal obamacare, the senate shutting down the so-called "skinny repeal" in a late night report, senator john mccain, 1 n the bill, chief congressional corresponded live on capitol hill with more. >> good afternoon, after coming up one vote short, we speak today about next steps. >> whatever micah meant as we go through the committee process, we take the bill, the original

one, go through each piece by piece, break that up into pieces, and see what we can do with each part. >> most resources assumed late tonight's event either republicans have the 50 votes to pass this health care repeal, or else they were going to get stud 50 devoted to be able to make it happen, bottom line, it fell apart coming into the sun democratic leaders spoke about health care challenges in a bipartisan way. >> we should sit down and trade ideas. lamar alexander and patty murray are already talking about doing that, and i am hopeful that they can begin a series of hearings, nobody has said obamacare is perfect. nobody has said our health care system doesn't need fixing. >> three republican senators voted against the is "skinny repeal" ," susan collins of maine and murkowski of alaska were nose from the beginning, and then at john mccain killed the bill. >> yes, it is a disappointment,

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>> we have seen the president's criticism of you, do you think it is very? >> well, it is kind of hurtful, but the president of the united states is a strong leader, he is determined to move this country in the direction that he believes that needs to go to make it great again, and he has had a lot of criticism, and he is steadfastly determined to get his job done, and he wants all of us to do our jobs, and that is what i intend to do. >> melissa: that was attorney general jeff sessions reacting to a flood of criticism

over his decision to recuse himself from the russian investigation, in the meantime, sessions has been working on fulfilling president trumps campaign promises, like it cracking down on sanctuary cities, earlier this week, he announced to those cities will lose federal funding and less i.c.e. agents are allowed into their jails and at detention centers. >> it is kind of ironic that he is one of the most dogged people working on the things that are present to trump a promise. >> right, exactly, it is such an interesting thing, where they have failed it to deliver on any of his central campaign promises, sessions, and you really get the sense of this by watching his interview, he is very much a low-profile person, he doesn't quartz the spotlight, he is not a grim standard, even though on policy, he agrees with trump on just about everything,

although, they really couldn't be more different on this, and that is the reason he has been so effective at keeping so many of his core campaign promises, not just on century cities, but also when it comes to the relationship between the doj and the local police department's, when obama was president, the doj did elect to intervene when they work controversial shootings shootings like in baltimore and -- so, sessions was a core part of how trump is keeping his campaign promises, whether he is happy about it or not. >> melissa: and this most recent action just seems so logical, he is talking about withholding federal funding if a city doesn't give i.c.e. agents access to their jails, so the people that would already be in custody, because they had been arrested for suspicion of doing something that was illegal, they

may in fact be someone that i.c.e. agents were looking for anyway on the other charges, or they could be gang members or someone who came through the border illegally, this gives i.c.e. access to go in and it to do what's, then? >> to arrest them, they have been arrested by local law enforcement, perhaps they are not going to be pressed charges against, the new rules that would be put into place a lot of these sanctuary cities really rely on these grants, it would make it so that when local police arrested somebody who i.c.e. is looking to take into custody and to potentially deport, that they have to give i.c.e. agents a 48 hours heads up before they release that person, and additionally, they have to let i.c.e. agents have access to their jails facilities, a lot of cities are very critical of this, they are worried that i could cause a

strain between a police and immigrants, and of course i.c.e. and overwhelmingly trump space, they believe that this is a move that he could be touting as a big win if he were not single-mindedly going after sessions. >> melissa: especially when you look at the last one, 48 hours notice before releasing anyone who i.c.e. has a retainer on, i have this guy you want, and i have to tell you before i just let him run away. that doesn't sound very outrageous. >> great reporting, thank you. >> jon: will come of the u.s. is ordering americans to get out of venezuela, controversial votes that could change that country's constitution. president making a power grab there, as of violence protests rage, with clashes between the government and opposition forces. we are alive from the state department with more from all of that. >> good afternoon, the united states is warning venezuela against holding that vote on sunday, it would create

a national assembly, and it would rewrite the country's constitution, seen as a way for president madura to consolidate power there. they have already sanctioned more than a dozen current venezuelan officials, and they say if they move forward, the u.s. will enact more sanctions. >> we are prepared it to continue taking strong and swift economic action if the government of venezuela insists on holding those july 30th constituent assembly elections, we see these constituent elections is just a way to further endure a resume, and we have seen what has happened to the people of venezuela. >> there is a political and economic crisis in venezuela, with shortages of food and medicine, protesters, the government, armed motorcycle gangs supporting the government, the u.s. is that more than 70 people have died in the fighting. now the state department is also

ordering diplomats family members out of the country, saying in a statement "the departure to family members from the u.s. in caracas, the political security situation in venezuela is unpredictable and can change quickly." u.s. civilians have been subject to arrest, detention, if they wander close to this protest. back to you, john. >> jon: pretty ominous there. >> melissa: the pentagon has assessed this north korean ballistic missile, as an icbm, they have confirmed that it is and in fact an icbm. we will bring you more. >> jon: in the meantime, the new white house communications director, anthony scaramucci, unleashing on his colleagues with some very salty language. will his tirade to her to the administration and trying to get his message out? our panel debates next cause i gg bonus check every six

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>> melissa: so, this is the cover of "the new york post," it was catching our attention today, six top advisors to the president, as contestants in a reality show, the logo for the "survivor" show, this comes after anthony scaramucci as a fiery interview with a new yorker, and which he asks the reporter about a dinner meeting at the white house, the reporter writes that scaramucci said "is it the link to the present?" okay, i am going to fire everyone of them, and then you aren't protecting anybody, so they will be fired over the next two weeks. former chief of staff for speaker paul ryan, and michelle is vice president of legal action for the center for american progress and a former senior advisor, thanks to both of you for joining us, david, i was around when the story broke

last night, and people went oh goodness, my gentle years, i have never heard this language, i'm so horrified, although if you are a new yorker and you've ever been on a trading floor, i don't know, did it strike you as a mistake or more contrived? >> well, i'm not sure which way it was, but frankly, you don't have to use language like that, and there's obviously something going on in the white house here, at the senior levels. >> melissa: you don't have to, but maybe you want to to make a point. >> and that may well have been his purpose, but it doesn't serve the president in my opinion, it doesn't serve the goal in my opinion, what you need and white house staff is independence of soft and unity and purpose, it seems to be a shell of eight people, some of whom are sitting in opposition to the others, and going against the others, that is not how you get things done for the president, for the united states, that is not how you achieve the goals of the present has set a. >> melissa: of michelle, if i

go ahead and granted david that, and we do want unity, is that what we have been seen? that is precisely what that is about, you don't have her way one rowing in the same direction, someone is out there leaking, and again, i wonder if this whole conversation and the article in the entire exercise was about showing that they are not scurrying around when it comes to figuring out who is doing the leaking and what they are going to do with that person when they find them. the whole thing might have been sending a message, what you think? >> i do think there is something to be set up for coming in with strong leadership, but what is more important is coming together and figuring out can you use that leadership to work on behalf of the american people? and when you're coming out there, and you're sending out tweets about fellow senior administration officials, there is no common purpose, and you are definitely not focused on how you can get things done for the american people. you know, if you are focused on the leaks as opposed to how you move the president's agenda forward, then that it distracts

from everyone in the white house, and over and over, we have seen this kind of chaos, as the name of the game in the white house, and that can't be helpful for anybody. >> melissa: all right, but may be some take issue with the idea that's that isn't working on behalf of the american people, when you look at the way that politics is normally played on how nice everyone is, to their face and how cordial, and they are all going to sit there and say nice things, and at the end of the day, they walk out of the congressional chamber having not achieved anything on health care, having not achieved anything with the american people again and again, and maybe it is precisely this type of break in the normal action that might actually for the first time in a long time get something done, what do you think? >> well, i think to be effective, you need to be consistent, you need to be dedicated to a purpose and a cause, and there is -- president trump has a very powerful weapon at his command, but it has not been used consistently. and they need to start doing that in the white house because

it can be very powerful. >> melissa: let me ask you, how has it not been used consistently because he has been consistently fiery, consistently aggressive in his language, and his approach, how is this inconsistent with what we have seen? >> when i talk about consistency, i mean that if you want to use your tweets and use them effectively to talk about health care in the united states, how do we make it better, how do we solve the problems that obamacare has cost people, you have people who can no longer afford their deductibles, can no longer afford their premiums, there hasn't been a consistent use of this in a policy, and that is where the presence powerful weapon can be used so effectively, but it hasn't been consistent, and i think it would be very effective if he could do that. >> melissa: i don't know, all those men and women leaving congress this week, having not achieved anything this week is pretty frustrating. so thanks to both of you, i appreciate your time. >> jon: while, north korea defies the world once again, lunching with the pentagon now

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>> high, everyone, we are awaiting president determined to take the stage, and the health care battle on the hill, he will be talking about immigration and gang violence, we will be bringing that you live, plus new details from north korea's latest missile launch, and some experts already saying that it went further than the last one, so can it reach the continental u.s.? we will be weighing in on all of this and much more, see you on america's news headquarters. >> jon: it north korea at test fires another long-range missile today, the pentagon now says it

was an intercontinental ballistic missile, it landed in the ocean off of the coast of japan, the test comes about three weeks after the latest launch, joining me now by phone, anthony, he worked at the state department, focusing on the u.s. and north korea relations, obviously, not good news, that's the kim regime is launching a nether icbm, what is the significance of it to you? >> well thanks for having me, i think that with the revelations earlier this week that they now say that they will have a reliable missile by next year, doing this test in a short period of time, it certainly could be an issue next year. >> jon: and that is capable of

carrying a nuclear weapon to the mainland of the united states, right? >> yes, i think this is unfortunately the result of ten years of kicking the can down the road, we really pulled our punches when it came to north korea sanctions, really tried to convince ourselves that the chinese will solve this problem for us, and neither have those have worked. at the north koreans of still they are not isolated, like we like to talk about, they need items from outside, for both of their programs and to make their people happy. >> jon: so do you think that there are sanctions that could be employed that would perhaps change the mind of the kim regime? >> well, the sanctions have a dual purpose, of course, we would want to have a verifiable negotiating solution, but with this regime, it is unlikely, and the second purpose would be to protect ourselves and to start to rollback these programs, have the test be less successful,

have them start to question whether they are even reliable in terms of deployment, so those are ways that you can use sanctions to try to rollback some of their successes. >> jon: what about sanctions on china? >> it is really the only way to do it, we can certainly talk about north korean activity outside of china, if it is significant, there was a report in the associated press today about north korean laborers in the middle east, there is evidence out there, but china is the big game, and that is what happens, the chinese leadership is either complicit in this or they are making a conscious effort to just allow them to obey sanctions, and that is what it is really going to come down to. >> jon: so in your view, we have not exhausted all of the possibilities, short of a military response, is that you review? >> yeah, i may not even close, north korea is at least fifth, if you are comparing sanctions

programs, we aren't really even focused on the north koreans or the people outside of north korea, engaged in national business, the fact that we did one thing and a couple of individuals and companies, chinese, that is, it is good, but it is really the first step when you talk about ten years of really allowing north korea to run around china and buy whatever they want, and make whatever kind of financial transactions they want for their programs, you know, it is not going to happen in a month or two, but certainly time is running out, i think there is a way for the trump administration to increase these kinds of sanctions very rapidly. >> jon: they are threatening a nuclear attack on america, those words from their defense minister just the other day, anthony from the defense of administration. >> melissa: just landing on top of a very exclusive list, we are going to tell you what it is in the final 30 next. d it reall.

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>> jon: jeff >> president trump: and justin named it the richest person in the world, but fortune can be fleeting. >> melissa: by the end of the day, bill gates reclaimed the top spot, he can give us 10 million, and not even message. >> jon: america's news headquarters right now. >> donald trump set to speak any minute now, and as we just learned from the pentagon, north korea did in fact pass and icbm, hello, everyone, i am julie banderas, we'll talk about what that means a just a moment, president of trump's and long island today were he will be addressing law enforcement and community leaders on his new crackdown, targeting the notorious deadly violent central american gang, known as ms-13, and this comes from more provocation from north korea, as