all right. thanks for joining us this afternoon on america's news head quarter was. i'm sandra smith. here's bill hemmer in for shepard smith. >> bill: president trump says the military is locked and loaded ready for north korea. and north korea's threat to pound our nation to a jelly. also, caught in the cross hairs, what it's like for tens of thousands of americans living under the threat of attack. we're live on the ground if guam this hour. despite all the tough talk, no worth that the u.s. and north korea have been holding secret negotiations. we'll talk to the editor at the a.p. that helped to break that story. that is ahead this hour live on the fox news deck. good afternoon.

3:00 here in new york. i'm bill hemmer in today for shepard smith. locked and loaded. president trump says that his military is ready to strike if north korea acts unwisely. kim jong-un's regime warning that president trump is driving that standoff to the brink of nuclear war. now leaders of countries like russia and germany are asking both sides to dial it back. president trump tweeting today, military solutions are in place, locked and loaded should north korea act unwisely. hopefully kim jong-un will find another path. today north korean state media warning this: "it's ridiculous that the u.s. war mongers are unaware that a single shell dropped on the korean peninsula might lead to the outbreak of a world war. we consider the u.s. no more than a lump which we can beat to a jelly any time." we will take you live to the president's event this hour as soon as it begins to hear comments if they come up regarding north korea.

meanwhile, japan reports they began moving their missile defense system due to a possible strike near guam. north korea has announced they're in the final stages of getting ready a plan to launch missiles over japan into the waters near guam. that island home to more than 150,000 americans, several u.s. military bases. about 2,100 miles southeast of north korea. said to be in range of that country's missiles. we're going to begin the hour with rick leventhal not far from the president's summer white house. rick, hello. >> hey, bill president as you mentioned, we might hear from the president. the press pool is in the clubhouse at bedminster where the president has an event scheduled. there's a reporter there. the president has not held back. three times with pointed remarks blasting his counterpart in north korea and telling him that the u.s. is ready to strike and his tough talk was backed up by

jim mattis this week who said that kim jong-un's military is overmatched. american forces are said to be battle ready. there's no indication that this will get past the statements and punches and counter punches we've seen being played out. yesterday afternoon, a reporter asked the president about his threat was a dare. >> is that a dare? it's a statement. it has nothing to do with dare. that's a statement. he's not going to go around threatening guam and he's not going to threaten the united states and he's not going to threaten japan and he's not going to threaten south korea. no, that's not a dare, as you say. that is a statement of fact. >> those comments came after the president's security briefing yesterday afternoon that was attended by h.r. mcmaster and john kelly. the president, as you know, bill, said they're all on the same page on this one.

>> bill: he's holding a meeting with two of his top advisers what more do you have on that, rick? >> we know the national security adviser has been there today. they have been speaking with the president. he's been speaking with the president and has a meeting scheduled a couple hours from now with the secretary of state and nikki haley. rex tillerson has just spent a few days in asia. he was actually in the room with his north korean counterpart and an a.p. report that back door discussions are being held between the u.s. and pyongyang. nikki haley has been instrumental in getting the economic sanction as proved by the security council. today would be an opportunity for the president to get briefed on all sides of the north korean dilemma, bill, the diplomatic angle, the sanctions angle and his military advisers are there as well. >> bill: thank you. rick leventhal, bridgewater, new jersey. i want to bring in chris wallace

from "fox news sunday." good afternoon. saw you earlier today on "america's newsroom." we met again. think for just a moment, phrase this perhaps in the frame of what president trump's position is at the moment. as commander-in-chief, the first real international test of a relatively young presidency. how he manages this will go a long way quite possibly toward other matters around the world, be it with iran or elsewhere in the middle east. how do you then pull yourself out of a situation or, as he said at one point, negotiate your way out of this matter with north korea? a way where other people say, you know what? he stood up to him. he was tough. we cannot take a similar chance. what do you think about that? >> well, certainly the whole world is looking as i completely agree with you, this is the most serious foreign policy test that the president has faced. of course, he did launch those cruise missiles into syria after

the chemical weapons attack there. that was his first use of force, this is a much bigger situation involving the possibility of a nuclear confrontation. you can be sure that other nations, allies and adversaries are watching. there's a possibility for a tremendous success or conceivably for a possible setback. when you look at the way other presidents have handle north korea, we've tried sanctions, engaging china, direct party talks, six-party talks and none of it has worked. we're now closer to a nuclear icbm-armed north korea than we've ever been. so you may say the tougher rhetoric from the president to impress the regime and to impress the regime in beijing. the flip side is setting red

lines. he said a red line if they do any more threats, we'll respond with fire and fury. now he says if they launch missiles towards guam, those will be a response. those are red lines. north korea has gone ahead with threats. let's see if they go with this planned missile test towards guam. if the president doesn't respond, people will wonder is it like barack obama who set red lines and didn't enforce them. so the whole world is watching to see how this president handles this situation. >> this weekend will tell us a lot. probably won't tell us everything. certainly if it's calm, that would be a good indication that things have dialled back. when you mentioned the fire and fury line, fire, fury and power, a lot of people jumped on the president. they did not consider what james mattis is said. they talked about the destruction of the regime and

the destruction of its people. it's a stronger statement. he's saying to kim jong-un, if you make a move you will be destroyed and so will many men and women that live in your country. >> the one different is the fact is one is by the secretary of defense and we expect them to speak in more military terms just as we expect a secretary of defense and tillerson has been doing that this week in speaking more diplomatic terms. when you hear it from the president of the united states and i have to say i have never heard that kind of rhetoric before from a president, same will say that is good that he's speaking in a tougher way than presidents. then somebody cared it to harry truman after the hiroshima bombing warning the japanese to surrender or he would drop another bomb, turns out that we did, it's a pretty apocalyptic moment to compare it to. this is unprecedented in 50 or

60 years and got people's attention. >> bill: some of the indicators are the stock market. look what the dow is doing right now. it's barely moved for the day. yesterday around this time when the president took his press conference, it moved quite a bit. i wonder what investors are seeing about this. normally when north korea would make a move like this, you'd probably see more movement. it has not happened. i'm curious why. >> well, far be it from me to predict or explain why the stock market is doing what it's doing. it took a sharp dip yesterday. it's not today. one of the things that people talked, there would be other signs that we might we'll see if we real will were headed to a military conflict. there's hundreds of thousands of americans, troops and dependents and people doing business in seoul, south korea, which is on the front line.

one would think if we were close to a military confrontation there would be a move to evacuate u.s. forces from there. would there be a move to evacuate nonessential personnel from guam, which is in the firing line. there's nothing of that sort. while there's very inflammatory rhetoric, there's no steps on the grounds that indicate we're at the precipice of a military confrontation. >> bill: cornell north said you have to convince china that you're serious. i imagine that message is through. you look at a stat editorial in china, china said if you fire the first shot, you're on your own and we won't back you up. >> if they fire the first shot, there's a military confrontation. the more important point is to try to get china to do more to squeeze north korea and clearly the president not satisfied with

what he thought were promises he got from president xi. there's a question that we have to consider, does china have that kind of control? kim seems to have made a calculated decision the only way to ensure the security and survival of his regime is to have a nuclear-armed icbm-armed north korea. you look at what has happened to saddam hussein or what happened to moammar qaddafi when it turned out they didn't have nuclear weapons, they ended up dead. he may have decided i don't care what beijing does, i don't care what president trump does, i'm going to get a nuclear armed north korea. >> bill: thanks, chris. >> you bet. >> bill: join him on sunday a lot more on this north korean threat. cia director mike pompeo will sit down with chris and

south carolina republican lindsey graham who serves on the armed services committee. that's sunday on your local fox state. while president trump and north korean officials have been in this public war of words, turns out behind the scenes there's conversations, quiet ones. the associated press breaking the news of a back channel between washington and pyongyang. you'll hear from the a.p. report about what the organization has learned. that's next. still waiting to hear from president trump live this hour. we'll bring that to you when it begins coming up. all inside the fox news deck on this friday afternoon. liberty mutual stood with me when this guy got a flat tire

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presidency. a lull for a little while during a u.s. review of north korea policy. and then in april, it really picked up again as the north koreans reached out because of ot otto's fate. he was a 22-year-old college student that was detained in north korea. an american diplomat traveled to pyongyang, brought him home in an unconscious state and days later he died. >> bill: was that the impetus to start talking a again or was it about the nuclear issue or do you know? >> that was the main u.s. focus at the beginning. the u.s. was determined to bring warmbier and other americans detained in north korea home. only warmbier has been brought home. but after his return and heavy

criticism of north korea for the state he came home in, the talks continued. they have touched on matters and on the broader terrible state of u.s. north korean relations. we can assume that must mean nuclear matters as well, though, you know, officials and people that know are being very cagey about what exactly has been discussed. >> bill: okay. you mentioned joseph un. tell me about un and the channel. >> so he's an experienced well-healed diplomat on asia matters. he's been in a leadership at the state department on asian matters for a number of years. he's been meeting regularly with a senior diplomat at north

korea's u.n. mission. they have been, you know, communicating in different means every few weeks or whatever. you know, on a regular basis. sometimes it's just messaging, sometimes it's deeper conversations or exchanges of information. >> bill: rex tillerson's involved in this deeply as you also know. would he have said or referred to as we can start negotiations, but you have to stop firing missiles and end the testing. what do you believe based on your reporting ultimately north korea wants from this? is it money or is it something else? >> i think north korea has bigger goals than money or in the past it was food aid. their nuclear program has advanced so much in the last year that the old proposals of food or loosened sanctions would

really kind of placate them. what they ultimately want is a peace treaty with the u.s. you may recall the u.s. and north korea don't have any formal peace treety. they want an end to u.s. and south korean military exercises that take place every year which the north thinks is a rehearsal for a war designed to overthrow the kim dynasty. >> bill: in the past, it's been money. whether or not that's the case this time, we'll see. interest in reporting. thanks, bradley klapper. good to have you on our program today. in a moment, more than 150,000 americans they call guam home. a u.s. territory that is now in the crosshairs of kim jong-un. we'll take you there live to see how the island is dealing with the threat next. [upbeat music]

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>> bill: as tensions rise between the u.s. and north korea, thousands of american and japanese troops are joining forces for military exercises. u.s. pacific command put that word out today. they say they planned the drills before the latest threats from the north. they're set to run for two more weeks. they're called using a so-called high mobility artillery rocket system. this is video from a recent test a few months ago. one commander says the exercise are getting troops in ready in case a real-world scenario curbs. that is very real in the territory of guam. north korea threatening to launch the missiles possibly sometime this month. william la jeunesse has traveled there. what are they saying about this

threat, william? >> well, bill, do you take kim jong-un seriously and can you afford not to? this that dilemma underscores how people are handling or feeling differently about this crisis. i want to show you this remarkable document. we'll show it to you on the screen. it's a bulletin put out yesterday by the government of guam actually homeland security department here. here's what it says. it's about a warning for an eminent missile threat. it says number 1, don't look at the flash. it could blind you. lie down flat, cover your head and take a shower afterwards and dispose of any closing that's been exposed to a nuclear fallout. some people will read that and they're upset, have anxiety and fear. why? number 1, you're on an island. number 2, you have no where to go and you have a 14-minute warning from basically take off

to impact. >> there's not a lot we can do. >> we're going to get nuked, nothing will change anything. >> how do you feel about that? >> i think when the two heads get together, hopefully they won't do anything stupid. >> now, kim has threatened asylum before. he sees it as an outpost for invasion and provocative, which is one reason he seems obsessed and identifying and targeting guam. bill? >> bill: people are still visiting the island. what have they said? >> yeah, this island is about nine times the size of manhattan. it's a u.s. territory. high school about 160,000 people. most are u.s. citizens if you're born here and 150,000 military and family. a lot of retired military here. they know about u.s.

capabilities and they have competence of the u.s. military to knock down the missiles. they have a naval base here and also the thaad system, which was designed to knock out these medium-range missiles that north korea is threatening us with. it's for that reason that people are saying, no big deal. >> i don't sense people being scared. they know that our nation has defenses that can take care of us. >> at this point, there's no change in the threat level either in a military base in guam or in our civilian community. >> so this is very a catholic island nation. no matter where you stand, the archbishop has called for people to appeal in church and pray for peace. >> bill: wise words. china, north korea's closest

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>> bill: this is breaking news. the president now talking in bedminster, new jersey. >> thank you all. we've been working very hard on being sure that americans have the training they need for the

jobs in the future. i also want to thank ivanka, my daughter, for her leadership on work force training and her efforts. she's working very, very hard to create new economic opportunities for women across america and actually for women across the world who have been working with the chancellor of germany on helping women all over the world. in the past seven months, we've made enormous gains in getting americans back to work. the stock market is at record highs, unemployment is at a 16-year low and manufacturers never expressed more optimism about the future. the optimism has been truly incredible. recently, foxconn announced they're going to invest $10 billion to build a new factory in wisconsin. we want to make sure every job that comes to our shores is filled with american workers. we have a lot of companies moving back to our country. you'll probably see that. two major automobile companies

announced they're moving to the united states and building major plants. they're looking for the site, putting it out to seven or eight different states. they'll be happy building in the united states. going to work out well for them. that's why in june we began a historic initiative to expand apprenticeship and work force training programs. we're expanding pathways to success. so important. apprenticeships are one of the many avenues that lead to the great jobs completely debt-free. who knows more about the word "apprentice" than donald trump. under the apprenticeship, you earn while you learn. so important. so great. and you love getting up in the morning and going to work and a lot of great things involved here. we're also here today to discuss additional steps we will be taking to expand apprenticeship programs. especially for women and minorities in stem fields where women have been truly

underrepresentative. really i goes you could say underrepresented for many decades. technology has become a part of nearly industry from manufacturing to retail. we want all of our citizens, every single citizen, including women and minorities to have access to high-paying tech jobs and other stem-related jobs. american workers are the best there is anywhere in the world and we're finding work for them. they it the skyscrapers of our cities, the roads and bridges across our left-hand and we'll be building plenty of roads and bridges, by the way. the technology that has revolutionized the globe and so much more. their skills and talent and grit have always put america on type. we're going to remain on top at a higher level than we are right now. and speaking of now, it's our job to make sure that they have the training to lead us into the

future. we have great, great hope, we have a great, great future in this country. never been more optimism. again, unemployment at a 16-year low. so we're honored to have all of you, mr. secretary. thanks very much. we appreciate it. ivanka, congratulations on working so hard. we thank you. any questions? >> mr. president, what do you mean by military solutions are locked and loaded as relates to north korea? >> i think it's obvious. we're looking at that carefully. i hope they're going to fully understand the gravity of what i said. what i said is what i mean. hopefully they'll understand, peter, exact will what i said and the words. the words are easy to understand. >> any process on the diplomatic back channel. >> we don't want to talk about back channels. we want to talk about a country that has misbehaved for many,

many years, decades actually through numerous administrations. they didn't want to take it on and i will be. we'll be very successful quickly or in a different way quickly. >> angela merkel says she sees no military solution to fight militarily with north korea. why is she wrong? >> maybe she's speaking for germany. she's a friend of mine, a very good person, a good woman, a friend of ivanka. perhaps she's referring to germany. she's not referring to the united states. >> you said you want to send a strong message to north korea. what do you think about the critics saying about your rhetoric? >> if somebody said the same words, they'd say it was a wonderful statement. but we have tens of millions of people in this country that are

so happy with what i'm saying. they're saying finally we have a president that is sticking up for our nation and frankly sticking up for our friends and allies. this man will not get away with what he's doing. believe me. if he utters one threat in the form of an overt threat -- which by the way, he's been uttering for years and his family has been uttering for years or if he does anything with respect to guam or anyplace else that is an american territory or an american ally, he will truly regret it. he will regret it fast. thank you all very much. thank you. thank you very much. >> bill: a jobs event there in bedminster, new jersey. this is really the meat of the matter as it was yesterday in new jersey when the president took several questions on two different occasions. some of the headlines there, this man, kim jong-un won't get away with this. he said i'm taking it on in a challenge of north korea going

nuclear. we don't want to talk about progress or back channels based on that report that we mentioned ten minutes ago from the a.p. and back channels that have been established for several months. for the locked and loaded comment, we're looking at this carefully. china urging pyongyang and washington to speak and act with caution. those words from the chinese foreign minister. a state-owned newspaper says that china would help north korea if the u.s. launches a preemptive strike, but not if north korea fires the first shot. i mentioned president trump treating earlier today, the u.s. military is locked and loaded if the dictator gets out of hand. while the regime warns the two nations are headed to the bring of nuclear war. rich edson following this live. good afternoon to you. what did the russian foreign minister of affairs say about this? >> the reaction from much of the

world and the counter parts of the president and the secretary of state is for the rhetoric to calm down. you've heard that go back and forth between the white house and north korea the last couple days. the russians are asking for that. sergey lavrov says the rhetoric in washington and pyongyang is starting to go over the top. we hope and believe that common sense will prevail. my personal opinion is when you get close to the point of a fight breaking out, the side that is stronger and cleverer should take the first step away from the threshold of danger. you heard the president mentioned angela merkel's comment. she said the rhetoric is not contributing. she would like to see more action at the u.n. security council. an then there's the chinese. he's saying rather than relapse into the old path, the rhetoric should dial down. bill, you mentioned this piece in a chinese state newspaper

today. the first part is that the piece advocated the chinese government would stay neutral if north korea attacked the u.s. or a u.s. territory. the red line for china in this is if the united states also sought regime change. they do not want the u.s. to start to overthrow the kim jong-un regime in north korea. that's where this article says that china would get involved, bill. >> a lot going on. rich edson from the state department. in a moment, isis on e-bay. there's word that the terror network is using fake products on a shipping site to transfer for money for possible attacks here in the u.s. an american citizen behind bars and facing charges. we'll talk to a former cia military analyst about the scam and how it works today next. (hard exhalation) honey? can we do this tomorrow? (grunts of effort) can we do this tomorrow? if you have heart failure symptoms,

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>> bill: getting back to the comments from the president in bedminster, new jersey. he continues with the tough talk. donald trump saying this man,

kim jong-un, will not get away with this and say he will regret it fast if he fires on guam. watch that story. we'll bring in a panel. we have edmond and jessica here with us. good day to both of you. >> hi, bill. >> bill: we brought you in to talk about mitch mcconnell. how is the president doing managing this? >> i think he's been doing a good job since he took office managing north korea through china. he has talked about getting china more involved. sanctions chinese banks and businesses that provide the life blood to north korea. they undercut sanctions when they're imposed. he should not have said fire and fury but now he's opened that door and we can manage it to the point where he is saying he will protect guam. >> bill: why not say that? >> when you lower yourself to north korea's bluster, it reinforces to north korean's people that u.s. is the big an

my and you confirm that. >> bill: maybe it's the only language he understands. >> at the end of the day, kim jong-un and his cronies understand money. that's where the real thrust from the trump administration has been and these where they will cut off and debell -- debilitate this regime. >> i think the 15-0 win at the u.n. was a huge positive boon for the administration. on sunday, i was very hopeful about what was going to happen going forward. fire and fury was extreme. we've seen other presidents who we don't think as lowly of using language like that. >> bill: harry truman. >> absolutely. i've heard clips of that to remind people. more is about donald trump and

the problem with him than the stance he's taking. >> bill: he referenced that himself, suggesting if someone else said it, they would be praised. >> he does say that. the issue there, this is one of the circumstances that this is actually problem. the problem is he said a lot of other things. he said if somebody else said this it would be okay. but it wouldn't have been. >> bill: my sense is, evan, this weekend will tell us a lot. if things stay calm, we may have found a way out of this. what is your sense? >> i think at the end of the day, we're not going to be engaging in any sort of military action. nor is north korea. they're posturing with us. this is a reaction from north korea to the sanctions that the trump administration led the way on in the u.n. they're trying to show they're strong and want to be taken seriously. president trump as well as secretary tillerson and secretary mattis have a great strategy where they're leveraging our allies and say do not engage or it's going to be a

big mistake. >> bill: jessica? >> i agree with evan's assessment. i add that nikki haley is a critical piece of this and she will be meeting with the president alongside his cabinet secretaries. so i'm hopeful there will be no military conflict there. it's nerve racking to be hearing this kind of language from both sides and this is certainly a unity moment. this has to be somewhere where everybody steps back and realizes the seriousness and severity and cool our jets. >> bill: from another time. >> yes. >> bill: i mentioned this to chris wallace about 30 minutes ago. the markets are not reacting to, this the dow could finish off in positive territory today. do investors not believe this is real? >> let's look at the facts that the north korean missiles. they have no real targeting capability. they have the ability to fly very far and they have gotten to the miniaturization stage. they have 60 nukes.

they're not all miniaturized.. they can't hit with precision. if they target guam, they'll probably hit the middle of the ocean. the markets are realizing the real capability of north korea. >> bill: we don't know what they can hit, if anything. jessica, last word. >> i agree with you. they are stabilized by the officials in guam are being calm about this and saying the united states has it under control and they're not as fearful as it looks in the media about what is to happen. that doesn't mean they're taking it seriously. investors must have adjusted to the trump presidency and we're going to go in this chamber and different things about health care and foreign policy and trucking along and take advantage of the fact that the economy is getting stronger. continuing on from what obama built. >> bill: hope for a quiet weekend. >> thank you. >> bill: quick break here. we'll be right back. you always pay

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>> bill: so now the islamic state using e-bay to get money into the u.s. for possible attacks. an unsealed fbi affidavit says isis used a shopping site to send $8,700 to a suspected operative. the feds say he pretended to sell printers through paypal. the feds arrested him and now he's awaiting trial. he pleaded not guilty saying he never planned to use the cash for terror. the feds say he was part of a global financial network run by a senior isis official. i what -- i want to bring in

tara mueller. nice to see you. this is fascinating. it's so secretive. how was this man in maryland caught? >> it's fascinating but unfortunately it's not surprising. we've seen this happen repeatedly. isis overseas and home grown individuals or cells using online platforms for financing, using it for these type of exchanges and using it for online propaganda. this is one of the main tools that has made isis successful. it's not going to get better. something that we need to crack down on from a law enforcement side and private companies have a huge role to play in this. >> bill: it comes back to them in many ways. but more and more -- i mentioned paypal. they also use bitcoin and other systems of payment that are difficult to track, which makes the job of investigating and stopping it that much more difficult. >> it is. it's extremely difficult. fortunately in this case, we're talking about thousands of dollars, not hundreds of thousands or millions. when you look at this in terms of the money being raised by

isis through smuggling or oil or banks that they have taken money from in iraq or syria, it's a small drop in the bucket. but it's allowing to get the money to the united states potential for use for an operation. it's unclear if there's a specific plot. having said that, investigators have say it's like finding a needle in a hay stack what needs to happen here, there needs to be intelligence sharing between law enforcement, passing names of individuals on ofac, sanctions lists, should these companies know the names of the credit cards associated with the people, the companies that are making these exchanges a and the companies need to take action. it seems e-bay and paypal have been cooperative, but this is something that you need partnership between the private sector and law enforcement on similarly in online platforms like facebook, twitter and youtube need to crack down.

>> bill: you're making the case, the more territory isis loses the more possibility that this becomes an increasing level of transaction. >> right. >> bill: it will become more common. >> right. might seem counter intuitive. i think we are degrading their capabilities substantially in places like raqqa and mosul. but however, one of the unfortunate consequences of this is as we take territory back from them as they lose their operating bases, as they disburse, they'll move to online channels and online ways of financing and moving to inspire people through the internet that will end up happening. >> bill: you mention private industry. e-bay gave us a comment. it says it has zero tolerance for criminal activities taking place in the marketplace and working with law enforcement on the case. so there will be more to come on this certainly in the days and years to come. thanks for your time, tara.

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>> bill: finally this hour, on this day, in 1992, the mall of america opened. it's in bloomington, minnesota, south of minneapolis. back then, there were about 40 stores. today there's more than 500. the massive complex is big enough to hold 32 jumbo jets. it's not just about shopping. there's an amusement park with more than two dozen rides, a wedding chapel so you can get married and fill up your registry in one trip. that's all at the megamall that opened 25 years ago today. now you know. watching the president's comments a moment ago. he said he will regret it fast, referring to the north korean leader, kim jong-un. the markets ticked up a little bit. still in positive territory. looks like we might end up for the week just up a bit. hope you make it a great

weekend. i'm bill hemmer in for shepard smith. trish is here for neil. have a great weekend. >> i hope that they are going to fully understand the gravity of what i said and what i said is what i mean. so hopefully they'll understand exactly what i said and the meaning of those words. those words are very easy to understand. >> locked and loaded! those are the words the president is referring to. president trump warning north korea that u.s. military solutions are now fully in place. so what happens now? welcome, everyone. i'm trish reagan in for neil