since south korea is so close to the dmz and the capital of south korea is so close to the dmz, there's -- with this new leadership in south korea, there is concern that the thad missile system, which is designed to stop any incoming north korea missiles, that it could be seen as provocative and they're worried about their northern neighbor, kim jong-un at this moment in time. the pentagon would like to have six missiles as part of that thad battery. they only made two of them operational. they were hoping to get the other four in place in order to have a solid system to defend seoul as well as the u.s. troops there. we had just heard in the last week from the assistant secretary of defense for asian affairs, david helsey, he was on the trip with defense secretary

live outside the dmz in southeast washington, sam sweeney.rginia governor's race, ed gillespie will campaign in northern virginia. visiting to businesses in out of and rhea and a 4:15 he will be at the talk of old town on mount vernon avenue and then stop by port merrill barbecue across the street. larry: alec baldwin says he wants to make tv great again. saying he will reprise his role as donald trump. he says that he knows his trump impersonation is become one of his . it has also sparked a feud between him and the real president. autria: sometimes i you have to do is check the weather. look at this. plenty of scattered showers. all of your latest traffic. all of your photos, plus a bit of -- whoa. [laughter] autria: derek hartigan, a meteorologist in ireland, swept away during a weather report last week. his anchors can't hold it together. wrestling a broken umbrella. he quickly him -- pretty recovered even if the umbrella did not. [laughter] veronica: i'm surprised that hasn't happened to me yet. [laughter] autria: any gusty winds like th

. >> reporter: even though the base is about 25 miles away from the dmz, safety was never a concern for us that it was a great place to grow up. you were safe. even though you were in the middle of a foreign country in seoul, south korea, i could ride my bike. they would say, go play. >> it's a close kmint. we're proud of it r i visits it. this is my fourth great classroom. >> 30 eyes aelg. >> this was in your >> this would sbrp my classroom. >> it's virtually achallenge. 6. >> can you believe i was ten

within 20 or 30 miles of the dmz? >> that's true. we have to hope that as unstable as kim jong-un is, that he's not suicidal, and i do not believe he wants to commit suicide. so he has to understand that any attack on the part of his regime against us or our allies would be met with a devastating response. to that end, we are building up our military again. we just finished the markup of the national defense authorization act this week in the senate. we marked a $640 billion number, higher than in the past. higher than the house was able to, but they marked to $621 billion. so suffice it to say the house and the senate are building up our military. the president's called for over 350 ships in our naval fleet up from 276, where we are now,

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a comfortable, dry day across the dmz. is -- across the dmv. doug hill is here with your forecast. will holdof the rain west of metro washington. temperatures cooler than this time yesterday. 82 in leesburg. 80 and hagerstown. or 91 at noon yesterday. the next several days, we will look at the heat index. humidity levels will creep up again. wise, 86 today, 96 on saturday. father's day is the worst of it. there could be afternoon storms and monday is very muggy. futurecast shows a few showers and thunderstorms possible. ridge, probably not making it much farther east than that. most of the rain and storms stay well to the west. washing out totally before reaching the metro. you can donate online to support d.c. charities. days and about six minutes. adrianna: coming up, london inferno. investigators are searching for a vick runs after flames tore through a high-rise. for victims after flames tore through a high-rise. a world record broken. first, let's get a check on traffic. we have road maintenance operations tying us up around the region. if you are traveling in southern marylan

marine fire bases just south of the dmz. this is where he was born.ground up to 100 feet down into darkness. [ speaking a foreign language ] >> the villagers carved over 5,000 feet of tunnels out of the earth creating a complex that would house all 90 families of vinh moc. 13 entrances and exits leading from the inland to the beach. showing me through the labyrinth is this kum tok. born in hue during wartime, she since moved to the dmz to work as a guide. how did they dispose of all this earth and rock without revealing the tunnels? >> the craters, the craters were everywhere on the landscape of the moon, and you know, the dirt of the craters are so fresh, look new, so they just left them there. >> this was the maternity ward where ton was born. >> where did people sleep? >> they have sleeping places. just like this, but smaller. two square meters only, just enough to put a bamboo bed. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> how long did it take to build? >> 20 months of digging. >> 20 months of digging. >> by hand. >> by hand. with hoes and -- you know,

>> that was my room right there. >> reporter: even though the base is about 25 miles away from the dmzer a concern for us that it was a great place to grow up. you were safe. even though you were in the middle of a foreign country in seoul, south korea, i could ride my bike. and my parents weren't worried about me at all at ten years old they said go play. >> it's a close community. very, very close community. we're proud of it. >> we also seoul american elementary. >> so this would have been my fourth grade classroom. >> this is where you went to school? >> 30 years ago. >> let's take you inside. >> this was in your classroom. >> this would have been my classroom. he oh, my gosh. it's virtually the same. this is the same. right. >> the one thing changed -- >> -- there's a tv. >> it's an interactive smart board. >> can you believe i was ten years old in this classroom. >> reporter: today the elementary school upholds it's education for delivering a top-notch education. >> our students are able to go to school any where in the country. >> you have a graduate who's a journalist on cbs. >

the dmz, the demilitarized zone is the barrier between to standing armies ready to fight.linton administration, any travel to north korea was forbidden. this is part of that ill-conceived idea of kumbaya. let's interact and even gang with them. this man because of the academic program -- lou: i understand you are blaming the chinese. the reality is the u.s. government is permitting this. and this is nonsense. >> the first thing to do is stop all travel there. and we have to look at economic relationships and how we work with our allies. something called the free trade zone, the caisson free trade zone where the south koreans benefit from north korean labor. all that money goes to the north korean government and people never see it. this is slave labor because we allow the south koreans to do this. lou: let me turn to james comey and whether he should be in your judgment investigated. whether we should shut down the bob mueller democratic parade that he's turned the special counsel's office into. >> i'm surprised mueller hasn't offered bill clinton on his team. if you want

toianna: golden boy comes the dmz with the national shout out. autria: kevin durant, you can see even his mom joining in to celebrate. john gonzalez is live this morning, where kevin durant played ball growing up and they had a special video message for him this morning. john: his mother has always been so supportive. we are live at the activity center on addison road, known as the home of kevin durant. this is where it all started for the 28-year-old and he has never forgotten that. , these are the nike sneakers he released two years ago. it's not the same as the redskins are the wizards, but for prince george's county, a champion is coming home. >> look at me. kevin, i'm proud of you, son. john: that right there is the embrace with his proud mother moments after the golden state warriors defeated cleveland for their second title in three years. the game was on abc and for our local guide not only his first abc championship, but he was also named m.v.p. of the series. during the playoffs the team almost went a perfect 16 and one . from 28 hundre

i was stationed there in south korea in 1995, in the second infantry division on the dmz when his fathern, has taken it to a whole new level. when you deal with bully, throw a punch back and hit him square in the nose, and i think we're going to come to that time. china is not doing what is necessary to step in and get him under control, we have a south korean president that believes he can talk his way out of it. president obama's policy of strategic patience didn't work, it's about time we have to be ready to take a different course of action. charles: are you happy overall with respect to our foreign policy thus far? >> i think that we have a foreign policy that is showing once again we want to be a leader. i know the people say that if you pull away from a climate change agreement, that means you're withdrawn from the world. i don't see it that way. i think the fact that saudi arabia and several other gulf cooperation council nations challenged qatar, they would not have done that in the previous administration because they were not sure about where this administration stood, so i th

aaa explains that was million people in the dmz are traveling at least 50 miles from home between fridaynd tuesday. that is the highest volume in specific holiday tracking travel since 2001. get ready for some company on the roads, doors. almost 960 8000 people are expected to drive to their holiday destination. one bit of good news, record low gas prices. one tracker is projecting an average of $2.21 per gallon, the lowest price for the holiday since 2005. what's that, 12 years? pretty low. go somewhere. autria: even go there with windows down. absolutely. by august some of you may be traveling to see that solar eclipse, you know? that nasa and the u.s. postal service, doing their part. check out these cool stamps. when the sun hits it, they turn and you can see the moon. la adrianna: cool. autria: you can get these right now? veronica: you can get them right now. they are available. just the coolest thing. there you go. suddenly you are like -- these stamps are changing. >> that's any collectors item. veronica: isn't it? i should buy another sheet. we will be about 80% here, but for so

in the '70s, the americans wanted to prune a tree on the dmz and the north koreans chopped it up.launched operation paul bunyan. we came back with troops and ships and pruned the tree and left the stump. this has been going on for decades. >> eric: i think it's new. you don't think it's new? donald trump is commander-in-chief. 59 tomahawk missiles into syria. he has put three aircraft carriers in the region. six destroyers will help those three strike groups. cruisers, aircraft. 96 vertical missile launchers. each one of these carrier strike groups typically travels quietly with submarines as well. these are nuclear vessels. look at those pictures. >> kat: and sending a message that this is us trying to start a war. >> michael: we have been engaged in military exercises in south korea since he '70s. they are like, we are basically threatening us. >> eric: one was the last time you had three carrier strike groups? >> michael: they have nukes. >> eric: this is not an exercise. >> michael: know, the idea that we are going to say shut up and provoke them, it's not that simple and ther

. >> within rocket range of the dmz, the boundary between north and south korea is a whole bunch of rocketshat could hit a city of 26 million people. i.e., seoul, south korea. >> three americans being held in north korea are being held there unlawfully. a background conference call, the state department doesn't regard those three americans as the pivotal issue. bret. >> bret: james rosen, thank you. presidential son-in-law jared kushner is in the region to try to jumpstart peace talks there. kushner met with ives israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. west bank city, president trump has passed kushner the ambitious goals of laying down the ultimate deal. there is a new future king in saudi arabia. a major shakeup in the line of success in their has allies such as the u.s. wondering what other changes may be in store for the oil-rich kingdom. the story from our middle east newsroom. >> study of saudi arabia, shocs through the middle east when he reversed decades of tradition and appointed his son, mohammed bin solomon as crown prince. the former air to the throne, mohammed bin solomon pl

. >> eric: in north korea we have 30,000 troops in the dmz. that's an issue for us.ve been ally in south kore south korea. >> stephen: in these instances, these guys are whacked. i >> eric: not threatening u.s. persons or allies. >> so if he bombs 50,000 people, we do nothing? >> leo: your position is inconsistent with the white house, eric. >> eric: clearly. >> eboni: coming up, how america first is shaking up the world's view of the u.s. later, eric bolling's new book "the swamp" comes out today. we are kicking it off in grand fashion. jack be nimble, jack be quick, jack knocked over a candlestick onto the shag carpeting... ...and his pants ignited into flames, causing him to stop, drop and roll. luckily jack recently had geico help him with renters insurance. because all his belongings went up in flames. jack got full replacement and now has new pants he ordered from banana republic. visit geico.com and see how affordable renters insurance can be. ♪ if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis,... isn't it time to let the real you shine through? maybe it's time

we have to be calibrated, and i think we also have to keep in mind that within market range of the dmzndary between north and south korea as a whole bunch of rockets that could hit a city of 26 million people, i.e. seal. we need to approach it very carefully. it's going to need to be responded to. to not do that is not something the american public or frankly, should be the case because it was sad to see, obviously. tragic. >> jon: i want to touch on syria as well, things seem to be heating up there. the u.s. shot down what appears to be an iranian drone. also, the close pass of russian jets, threatening to shoot down american forces. what are your concerns about the status of the battle in syria right now? >> my concerns are we still don't have an overall strategy and that is paramount in importance obviously. we've been in this conflict for years and years. second of all, we have to make clear to the russians, we are not going to let them attack american trained and equipped troops. that's what caused the shootdown of that russian airplane is and was attacking american trained and eq

monstrous disgusting -- >> they may do something crazy but who is to say they wouldn't do it anyway, the dmz west coast -- >> we have a president that is not afraid or doesn't come off afraid to say what's on his mind be, tough and act. in that sense, i don't know what the solution is. is it worth a military conflict where a student dies? may be if you're talking about the bigger picture. >> look at their increased ambitions. in 2009, the beginning of the president obama administration, the first bomb they tested was two megatons. now who knows what they're willing to do. >> no denying this is bad. what is a good way to handle it is a hard question. >> i agree. we have to look at the role of china in this. china likes the fact that there's a communist country separating it from japan. china has been -- gave nuclear technology to north korea along with the pakistanis and the russians. so they have been sending parts for missiles. they're helping the north koreans build these bombs and missiles. so this is a bit political push for the president. what do you do about that? >> a quick question.

i'm not sure rodman is going to create peace on the dmz. but i'm just as upset as kimberly.grading. this is dehumanizing. i'm sickened by it. i'm disgusted by the fact that north korea would send this guy back in this sickened state. it's disgusting. i hope the trump administrationn punishes north korea as severely as they possibly can.uc i know you can't do much to that kingdom. it's so isolated. it is unacceptable to parade this guy out there in this condition? and treat him like garbage like that? anymore, because he's too expensive or you don't want him to die? it's just unbelievable. >> juan: dana, having been inside, how does this now impact the difficult relationship between u.s. and north korea when it comes to nuclear weapons?t >> dana: it strengthens america's hand. we have a strong hand in this anyway. other regimes holding us hostage, we have americans being held in very tough prisons in iran. those are deteriorating situations as well. i think the administration is on top of it. i don't want to go that far and say that the previous administration wasn't, but nor

that is how close the major city of seoul in south korea is to the dmz or the demilitarized zone of north be really careful because that's within nuclear warhead hitting targets; right? >> it is. it's even within the range of some conventional. and it's a pretty short drive from the border to seoul. seoul is not only a capital politically, it's a financial capital, it's really -- it is south korea to a great degree. and that's the single block to military operations because if we are compelled to do everything we can to prevent at the last minute the development of an icbm that can deliver a nuclear warhead to the united states. if we're compelled to hit the military, to hit seoul and why the south korean's are so on the fence about all of these. liz: well, what could we do? what in your mind with your expertise would you say is the best way to move forward here? >> well, the best thing to hope for would be the chinese somehow tightens things to the point where there would be a coup in north korea. the odds are very, very much against it. i don't want this to happen, liz, but i fear that

we have been out on the front lines of the dmz with thousands of american troops who are there to diehere is a north korean invasion. we might want to reconsider. >> bret: breaking news all day today. when we come back, how you can keep watching the all-star panel tonight after the show. will you be ready when the moment turns romantic? cialis for daily use treats ed and the urinary symptoms of bph. tell your doctor about your medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas® for pulmonary hypertension, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess. to avoid long-term injury, get medical help right away for an erection lasting more than four hours. if you have a sudden decrease or loss of hearing or vision, or an allergic reaction, stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. ask your doctor about cialis. and get medical help right away. ♪ to err is human. to anticipate is lexus. experience the lexus rx with advanced safety standard. experience amazing. when you ha

north koreans have like a million-man army north of the dmz facing 15, 20 million citizens 20 miles belowhere are options. the trouble is, you don't know which are going to work. they are not great options. previous administrations, republican and democrats in the same situations have tried the same negotiations. they've sent bill clinton, bill richardson, the assumption being that that treatment at that level of a senior leader gives respect to the north korean regime and that's led to good results. the fact is, as a country, the u.s. needs a strategy because this is not a one-off. this is a north korean policy to take foreigners, including americans, and this is not by accident that they say he stole a poster. it was a show trial. they take americans as bargaining chips in this case with the worst outcome unimaginable for the country. the u.s. needs a strategy but the options are all difficult. >> the one thing i could add, i agree completely. we could continue to try to ratchet up international pressure. this is another example of the brutality of this regime and another reason why --

given the proximity of seoul to the dmz and the artillery and chemical weapons, and the human scale ofict in the south, there simply is no good military option. that said, the president already tweeted today that he thinks he has given up on the notion of china solving that crisis before us. that is the refreshing corrective that will get us to a better policy going forward. jeffrey: in your living personification of the foreign policy establishment, is there a broad consensus that the paradigms that mark bowden lay here, that there really is nothing to do except wait, contain, and hope for the best? >> yes. jeffrey: thank you very much. >> there tend to be two kinds of problems in international affairs. one is the problem that everybody knows what to do about them but they cannot do it because politics get in the way. classic example is the peace process. you could design a peace process that would ultimately work. so could you or i, but we just can't. the other type of problem is no one knows anything about how to deal with it. pakistan and north korea, permit examples. -- perfect ex

. >> reporter: even though the base is about 25 miles away from the dmz, safety was never a concern forup. you were safe. even though you were in the middle of a foreign country in seoul, south korea, i could ride my bike. they would say, go play. >> it's a close kmint. we're proud of it r i visits it. this is my fourth great classroom. >> 30 eyes aelg. >> this was in your >> this would sbrp my classroom. >> it's virtually achallenge. 6. >> can you believe i was ten year agos in hitz classroom. >> reporter: today they uphold their delivery of being a topnotch education. >> you have a graduate who's a journalistist on vn ben. it's a great place? a great plate to live. who knows e. >>> high, everyone. this is norah. >> this happens to be where i started my career in broadcasting, giving on camera english lessons. >> voice, voice. >> for the korean educational development institute. >> see you next week. bye-bye, everybody. >> good-bye. >> good-bye. >> that's so great. >> i was hoping those tapes would never make the lute of day. >> why would you hope that? that's adorable. it shows how mu

to drop a 10 or 20 megaton hydrogen bomb on 25 miles fromt is the dmz. nuclear weapons just cannot be used on that continent to bring about any kind of result. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> this weekend on american history tv. today at 6:00 p.m. eastern, the disbanding of the northern confederate army of virginia. hademember, lee's terms surrendered his army. they had said nothing about declaring the confederacy defunct. there had been no peace treaty. as of may 9, jefferson davis remained on the run. 8:00, university of notre dame professor on the east texas oil boom of the mid-20th century and the expansion of u.s. oil businesses to saudi arabia and canada. geologists framed the idea of oil saying the american oil reserves were going to collapse by 1970, forcing the country into a difficult situation. this kind of apocalyptic year of america losing its oil sources will drive ex

they're next to the dmz, as you pointed out. seoul is in artillery range. they say never mind, we don't think he's that big of a deal or that big of a threat? >> this is the truth of saying elections have consequences. the new president of south korea has talked about in the past the possibility of reopening a joint economic venture. wanting to renew the sunshine policy of more trade with north korea. many, many american analysts are saying that it's a horrible eyed. leland: does this tie the hands of the president trump administration? >> if that's the former policy that the south korean president pushes, that would create a horrible dilemma. we need to work on south korea with whatever policies we pursue. leland: whatever policy we pursue, we have 30,000 or so u.s. troops there who, no matter what their policies are, from the south koreans, it's american lives who are going to end up defending them if this comes to war sthoo absolutely. if the south korean president decides to pull back, then americans lives are at risk. leland: and that perhaps could put

military, south of the dmz. that is big topic a right now for these two to discuss. economically. at the same time now, you will have a meeting in about a week's time between president trump and vladimir putin at the g20 summit in hamburg germany. we know that henry kissinger, former secretary of state, is in moscow had of this meeting with vladimir putin. today, as our understanding, he was received by the u.s. secretary of state at the kremlin. that is what we have heard from moscow. we have all this moving right now. the geopolitical forces of what is happening between russia and syria and iran and also in asia between north and south korea. korea it was said to be, if you remember on inauguration day, when president obama then and president-elect trump were on the way to the capital for the swearing in, it has been said that president obama told president-elect trump at the time was his biggest issue would be the korean matter. that was on the radar of the previous administration. clearly it has been on the minds of the current administration. we will see what th

you've got them watching over kim jong un. 45 seconds, it would take a missile to go right over the dmz. it would be the prospects would be horrific. general jack keane, always good to see you. thank you. >> good talking to you, eric. eric: arthel? arthel: an emotional memorial today in our nation's capital as world war ii veterans join to mark 75 years since the battle that turned the tide in the pacific, the battle of midway. >>> plus, new developments on the president's stance on climate change following his decision to pull out of the paris agreement. but first, epa administrator scott pruitt. >> does the president believe today that climate change is a hoax? that's something, of course, he said in the campaign. a couple of days ago he refused to answer, so i'm wondering if you can speak -- >> you know, i did answer the question, because i said the discussions we've had have been focused on one key issue, is paris good or bad for this country. we focused our attentions there. he determined that it was bad for this country. managing blood sugar is not a marathon. it's a series of sma

show force against kim jong un's north korea right after the death of otto did it right around the dmzo next time they have a rocket launch? >> shoot it down. if the north koreans test anything, i think we destroy it before it goes down. i think we have got to show them that we have the resolve and that we have the capability to do this. and we also got to make sure the new south korean regime is helping here. you know, the new south korean president wants to engage with north korea, and if come jong un wants to show is he serious, then releasing the three americans still in captivity is -- would be good start. brian: i believe, congressman, you know better than most because you are cia and lawmaker. we have to send a message that will not stand. if we allow otto to die without any retribution. what about the rest? what about the next? >> if there is no consequences to negative behavior, then that negative behavior will continue. and what happened to otto, i can only imagine what the family is going through and what they will be going to through losing, you know a child in the prime of