bob cusack, al weaver from the examiner, thank you. >> jenna: another missile test from north korea. the rogue regime launching a missile once again to find the community. the u.s. military responding today with a test of its own. you live with more on that. plus travis mills, five years after he first shared his story with us on "happening now." an update on his inspiring message of never give up and never quit >> jon: at fox news alert. the pentagon said to test a missile defense system today. the test comes one day after this, north korea's ninth missile test of 2017. today's test will be our military's first attempt at intercepting an icbm, similar to that when north korea is developing. live at the sight of that test, vandenberg air force base in california. >> this is a critical test of a system that has only been successful 50% of the time and tests and has never been tested against an intercontinental ballistic missile. this is what will happen today. sometime between noon and four: 14 pacific, the u.s. will launch an icbm. a few minutes after that, they relaunch the anterior

bob cusack from the hill remembers this very well with democrats -- or republicans wanting to do the on. they look at little over zealous at the time, bob. where is this going? >> democrats have to be very careful of this. maxine waters and another lawmaker al greene from texas basically already opening up the champagne bottles. >> neil: they have made up their mind. >> will any democrat introduce an article of impeachment? they have to worry about overreach. that's what happened in 1988. newt gingrich and republicans went after bill clinton. bill clinton won that in 1998 collection democrats picked up seats. it really hurt them and led to the demise of the speaker at that point. >> neil: they also to deal with that government shutdown, too. >> that's true. >> neil: they got a little too cocky. already we are told the democrats are doing polling on this. how to effect the party not necessarily the american people. they seem to be raining back a little bit on this. what do you read on that? >> democrat leaders like nancy pelosi and chuck schumer want them to hold on. you have to wait f

. >> jon: joining us now is bob cusack, editor in chief at the hill. so interesting what's going on here. since about 4:30 yesterday afternoon when this story broke, all of washington has been a flame with reports that the president has betrayed some kind of national security secrets and yet, his national security advisor is about to step to the podium in the white house and saying it didn't happen. what are we to believe here? >> it's definitely a tumultuous time in washington. i've never seen such a time with some -- how much angst. it's a good move for general mcmaster, he had just -- you're a bombshell on top of bombshell. jim comey being fired, investigations about that, and now you have this information getting out to "the washington post" that the white house denying it, but we need more information of exactly what they are denying and i do think is a small group of people that had access to that meeting and to those emails. this is among the republicans want to get back to the agenda including mitch mcconnell. he is not fond of the presidents t

bob cusack from the hill.com. that is a good group. david: that is a good group as the dow edges higher. the s&p and nasdaq end the day with new closing highs. phil flynn, price futures, fox business contributor is watching all the action in oil and gold. he is in the cme. lori rothman on the floor of the new york stock exchange. lori, president trump making a lot of headway in his foreign trip, really talking truth to power in europe and in the middle east. is that calming market as little? reporter: i think so david, fair to say. we have good earnings. a lot of optimism circulating around best buy. i will show you best buy and some of the retailers. let's break down some of these indexes. the s&p a record up six straight days a gain of almost half a% today. the s&p is up 8% year-to-date. six days is the longest winning streak for the broad market index since february. nasdaq, all-time high for this one as well. up 15% in is set of. has doc outperforming index of three benchmark indexes we follow on regular basis. specific stocks hitt

>> neil: the hill bob cusack. one last peek at the do you dowp 141 points making up most of that ground lost a couple days ago when hersh given up. somehow if people place money we would be okay. >> katherine: hello, everyone, i'm kat timpf along with eboni williams and eric bolling. we are the fox news specialists. ♪ ♪ >> katherine: president trump is currently enroute to saudi arabia with the first lady melania trump leaving the states hours ago to kick off his first overseas trip. the president is scheduled to meet with the saudi king and other members of the saudi family during his stop with combating terrorism expected to be a major focus. the president also expected to visit israel including a meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. then onto the vatican which will include an audience with pope francis. in a stop in belgium where president trump is expected to reaffirm the u.s. commitment to nato. and finally president trump will wrap up the 8-day trip attending the g-7 summit on the island of sicily

to the hill's editor editor-in-, bob cusack.haping up to be a crucial, crucial moment for this president. how do you think that's going to go? >> well, i think it's a good decision, i think, for the president. there's a lot of speculation he was going to cancel this trip. that was never going to happen. i think it's good for the president to do this, to be presidential on his first foreign trip. all of these countries that he's visiting, they're allies, so this should not be a very difficult trip foreign policy wise or the if he were going to someplace like russia. saudi arabia is key especially in the fight on isis, and, you know, there are have been a lot of democrat and republican criticism of the president certainly this week, but on foreign policy, you have some bipartisan support of his team including james mattis at the pentagon. it's fascinating that he picked these countries, including saudi arabia, to start it off. but i do think it's a good pause for this white house. get out of the country. the president's not going