today north korea launched a second ic bm. and it traveled nearly 600 miles.orea is our most belligerent enemy so why is america obsessed with vladimir putin in russia. north korea, russia, it's not even a close contest. >> north korea has the tragic problem of being a boring story but the biggest one. the russia story has all sorts of characters. north korea has one character and is literally hiding. stories about hardware, it sounds like we've artie heard the story. it's like groundhog's day. on the russia side, you have the perfect story, characters, mystery. we think this new thing will happen. but it has one important element for a story, a lot of people that see the story look at and say that couldn't possibly be true. the less truly story is, and the more the public is onto it, the more energy it gets. that's how you get people talking about it. there is also confirmation bias because it's a sketchy russian thing. >> tucker: isn't the role of the press to discern between stories that are interesting end of the ones that matter more. a country that is ac

north korea fired its first ic bm missle, latest in the series of test firings. u.s. says it tracked the missle for about 37 minutes before it landed in the sea of japan. the launch of an inter continental ballistics missle could be a game changer, powerful enough to reach anywhere in the u.s. north korea says that they will soon certainly have that capability. they telling the truth? >> president trump criticizing kim junk un, following the missle launch and tweeted quote does this guy have anything better to do with his life. hard to believe south korea and japan will put up with this much longer. >> what does that mean, interesting. >> 6:12. >> vivid reminder of the dangers of the fire works, what an early july 4th celebration sparked huge flames. >> oh, my gosh. >>> governor chris christie still getting roasted for his day at the beach and it has nothing to do with the sun. see the memes that made the new jersey governor a trending topic on twitter yesterday. ♪ pro-tip. get these great smoked ribs. twenty minutes on the grill, they're done. you think he cares if i

we know that they now have missiles and probably an ic bm that will eventually be able to hit the u.ssort of prevent them from trading anything with anybod in any kind of currency at all. would that be against your free trade policies? >> well, i don't think it makes any difference. north korea is an unfree economically basket-cased state. what would they have to trade in the first place. david: but they have been that, john, for 40 years or more, and they still survive. sometimes you can survive just by the power of a dictatorship by the brutality of a dictatorship, even if it's against free market policies. >> yeah. well, see, that, to me, would be all the more reason to have open trading relations because if people get a taste of something, they logically want more. david: every time we open up with them, they just use that occasion to crack down harder on dissidents with their their borders. >> yeah. this is an area where i very much agree with trump. i just don't think this is our fight. they've got an ibm. what are the odds it could hit us? maybe it could. david: i don't want to

did say this morning in his press conference in the 4:00 hour was regarding north korea and their ic bmome very severe things to do to north korea. that's something we haven't heard yet. >> nope. it's because they have escalated. that launch was an escalatory action. and the thing about this president unlike president obama, we never talk about what we're going to do because that's never a good idea. whether you're playing poker or geostrategy or geopolitics. look at what we've seen done in the last five months. look at the moab bomb in afghanistan, the 59 cruise missiles against syria. we understand diplomacy without the option of force is just empty rhetoric. so the president has a great team, general mcmaster, his principles, they're laying out the options and the president will decide in the interest of u.s. and national security what has to be done next. ainsley: what's your message to the critics out there that are upset with the president. they say he only has the u.s. interest in mind and that they were upset with him with the paris agreement. but then you have the other side wh