hi, rex.amie, pleasure to meet you. >> i understand that your inheritance is magic, but it's this? >> it's all about magic. my dad collected books, posters, going all the way back to the 1500s. >> 1500s? that's right out of harry potter. cool! rex's father, rex conklin sr., is born in 1904 on detroit's southwest side. what do you know about your dad's childhood? >> i knew he grew up very poor in detroit. his father was a conductor on the streetcars and didn't bring a lot of money home. >> for entertainment, in an era before movies were big, little rex is drawn to a type of performance then sweeping the nation -- magic shows. >> as a very young boy, probably about six or seven, he saw a performer named howard thurston perform in detroit, and that's what really ignited his interest in magic. >> step up, girls and boys, and see how easily it is for your eyes to be deceived. >> thurston amazes little rex. billed as the "king of cards," he's seen here doing a show outside the white house. >> howard

ideally rex tillerson would like to punish north korea.ut as i said, china trying to calm things down this morning. they met with north korea, told it off, wrapped it on the knuckles. said it to its face that the situation is critical and not to be provocative. but china also telling the united states, and other countries, south korea and japan, not to hold military exercises off the korean peninsula and also as we know the united states has tested an intercontinental ballistic missile and also flown two bombers over the korean peninsula. china wants talks. well, there will be talks at the summit, rex tillerson talking not just with the chinese but also with the russians and these will be the first talks since president trump said relations with russia were very low, at their worst, and dangerous. and also since he signed into law new economic sanctions against russia. as we've been seeing in the last hour or so, rex tillerson has met with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov no results from those talks yet but the two men at least t

rex tillerson‘s next stop on his asia trip is thailand.e becomes the most senior us official to visit thailand since the 2014 coup. 0ur south—east asia correspondent, jonathan head, is in bangkok and joins me now. it is good to see you. what are we expecting from this trip of rex tillerson who will he meet with and what will be on the agenda? he is the most important us official in three years to make a formal visit to the body of the late king bhumibol. that is part of the protocol. he will meet with the prime minister, the man who led the coup three years ago leading to a downplaying of relations with thailand. the relation goes back 185 yea rs thailand. the relation goes back 185 years and was essential during the cold war. that alliance, we have seen it with the philippines, has drifted since the coup. thailand has faced human rights criticism. relations would have been upscaled anyway, but given the time the military has been in power, the us has been concerned to see thailand's drifted relations towards china, buying more weapons fro

just a short time ago, rex tillerson saying quote, americans should sleep well at night.omments just a day after president trump threatened fire and fury against the rogue nation. north korea countered making it's own threats to attack guam. home to 6,000 u.s. troops and 160,000 residents considered u.s. citizens. what are the options for the u.s. military in a situation like this one? joining me now, retired general barry mccaffrey. good to see you. we can start with the premise that all of know that any military option is not a good one. having said that. when you heard the president say fire and fury, did you consider it a threat of military action and when a president says words like that, what are our armed forces doing, if anything, to position themselves in the case they get called on? >> well, obviously very unhelpful comment by the president, you notice that tillerson and governor haley have made very moderate, sensible comments, they did organize a security counsel in an admirable to confront north korea's nuke program. you know secretary mattis has disappeared

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and its arms and body were like those of meat eaters such as the tyrannosaurus rex.nd so, chilesaurus became known as the frankenstein dinosaur. but now a british researcher who studied the skeleton believes he has solved the mystery. chilesaurus has been revealed to be the missing link between one group of dinosaurs, which includes things like stegosaurus and triceratops, and another group of dinosaurs which includes things like tyrannosaurus rex. it really is the missing piece of the puzzle. tyrannosaurus rex and stegosaurus were thought to be in different branches of the dinosaur family tree. but the researchers have shown that they are both in the same branch. the frankenstein dinosaur now fits in perfectly, as an earlier animal that came before them, which is why its skeleton is a mixture of both. this reassessment is important, because it will radically change the theory of how dinosaurs evolved and split into different groups. chilesaurus is there at the beginning of one of these big splits. and hopefully, by understanding more about its biology, it will tell

where rex tillerson was. has rejected this freeze for freeze idea.hough rex tillerson did say he would open talks with north korerea as they would suspend de missile test for a while. so i think the door is slightly open therefore diplomacy but it has raised tensions to a dangerous level. nermeen: let's go to yesterday state department briefing. this is spokespeperson heather nauert.. >> i i know that you want too obsess over statements and makee a a lot of noise out o of thata. your choicece of the word "obsessed" - -- we are not obsessssing about this. it is the presidenent of the united states threatening a nuclear armed country, whether you want to accept it or not. a cocountry that has weaeapons, threatening themem with "fire ed fury" " so i don''t think it is obsessssing toanant to know further clarification of what that meansns and whether or nott means you are preparing to send fifire and fury raining down n n ththe north korean regime. >> and i i will let the prpresident's statement answer r itself. >> but it is not obsessing. presidenthat w

secretary of state rex tillerson and the north korean foreign minister.ely to see if they at least acknowledge each other, though top american diplomats have said there is no meeting planned. now, of course, one country that faces a lot of possible repercussions is south korea. so we go to seoul where my colleague alexander field is standing by. >> reporter: thanks, ivean. we know the threat posed by north korea is not felt more greater than in south korea. one of the reasons the government officials here in south korea were quick to stand behind the u.n. sanctions that were just recently announced against south korea. the south korean government sees a step by all strong parties to send a message to north korea and for participants involved to work toward the denuclearization of that country of that regime. today there was also an opportunity to secretary of state rex tillerson so meet with his south korean counterpart here and that conversation focused on the growing threat posed by north korea. they advanced the advancement of the nuclear program that

now rex tillerson meets with sergei lavrov. the expectation at this point is he won't be able to do much. >> at the same time, these investigations here in the united states continue. there are several of them. we also know now that the former russian ambassador to the u.s., sergei kislyak, is making headlines in russia, talking about some of these things. basically saying, hey, there are no secrets here. no secret conversations were had. the conversations were straight forward. but this plays very differently in public perception there in russia as it does here. >> russia's answer to and russia's perception of the russia investigation from the u.s. has always been there's nothing there. in fact, it was the kremlin who called it absurd and groundless, the ongoing investigation. right now it's michael flynn, the retired national security adviser, who is at the center of the investigations with the special investigator or the special council in the u.s. looking into flynn's connections to the turks as well as looking at his assoc

is that what you think rex tillerson is trying to do?tillerson is trying to lower the temperature. the problem is he is out the loop. the president is ratcheting up the temperature in such a dangerous and really historically unprecedented way. we expect this kind of behavior and this rhetoric from the leader of north korea. we in the world don't expect it from the president of the united states. that's why many people across the united states and our allies around the world are extremely concerned. >> can they lower the temperature? is it happening? >> it's not happening yet. if they want to lower the temperature, take the phone, take the twitter account away from the president. when he is out there, maybe it's ad libbing. if it's a strategy, we're not seeing evidence of it. it's completely incoherent. if they're trying to take down the temperature, then do it. you can't say you are doing it and have the president out doing something else. >> hold on. peter, i want to ask you, reporting this morning was that the president has not since y

rex tillerson‘s next stop on his asia trip is thailand. of state becomes the most senior us official to visit thailand since the 2014 coup. 0ur south—east asia correspondent, jonathan head, joins me from bangkok. it has been seven months of erratic policy towards asia. this is important, this visit. it is important. it is a potential gains for the trump administration because relations in thailand have been low since the coup three years ago. to be honest, i think relations would have turned anyway or been upscaled because the military has been there so because the military has been there so long and thailand is a very old ally of the us. us has been dismayed to see thailand move towards china and buy more weapons from them and be more diplomatic towards them. but the donald trump administration with its lower emphasis on human rights and shared values is in a better position to do that with a more transaction —based approach. what is interesting is rex tillerson‘s visit to asia has suddenly shown an almost coherent interest in the region

now rex tillerson has moved on to bangkok.ost senior american official to visit thailand since the coup in 2014. our south—east asia correspondent jonathan head joins me from bangkok. jonathan, tillerson in thailand — and interest in forging close relations7 restoring lotions is the key here, i think. if you think about the obama yea rs, think. if you think about the obama years, and president obama was very engaged in this region, but because of the coup in thailand, relations we re of the coup in thailand, relations were scaled down. he was focused much more on building up relations with non—traditional partners of the us, indonesia and vietnam. i think rex tillerson is in many ways offering a reset and some clarity about what the trump administration means for this region, which we haven't had in the first seven months. he is focused in the philippines, where relations were afraid with obama. less focus on human rights and values, more on transactions. he wants thailand back on board as a close us ally. he is looking for su

i like what secretary of state rex tillerson said. i believe these are things that should have been said and done 10 to 15 years ago. my position is very simple. it is basic math. we can't expect 12 or 13,000 u.s. troops to do what 140,000 u.s. and allied troops could not do. i mean that defies common sense. and so while i do not want a total withdrawal, i want to be laser focused on killing terrorists but secretary tillerson said some really important things, coming down on corruption, absolutely critical. it may be too late. trish i've seen this continent after continent with my own eyes in the military, then as researcher afterward, corruption is the cancer that destroys nation democracies, destroy nation rule of law states and we, st as in south vietnam, we with great intentions poured so much wealth into a poor country we corrupted people to lead that country. we turned petry criminals into crime bosses. trish: we needed to do it with more than a, sort of half you know what, effort, right? when you get into a military situation y

. >>> secretary of state rex tillerson says the international community is united in its expectation that north korea will take steps to denuclearize. tillerson is in the philippines at a forum of southeast asian nations. he is ramping up pressure on north korea days after the u.n. security council unanimously approved the toughest sanctions to date against the kim jong-un regime. >> so the next steps obviously are to see that the security council resolution sanctions are enforced by everyone. we will be monitoring that carefully. and certainly having conversations with any and all that we see who may not be fully embracing not just the spirit of those sanctions but the operational execution of those sanctions. >> all eyes now are on china. north korea's largest trading partner, the chinese, voted for the u.n. sanctions. it will be key to implementingle this. we'll go to manila and ivan watson. ivan, there's such a heavy sanctions regime on north korea already. they've said in a statement just a short time ago that they are going possibly to retaliate. what's in it for the north kore

the policy of president trump and some of the statements talking about war or is it the cool head of rex tillerson saying as he did to the north koreans we don't seek regime change, we don't seek war, you know, there is confusion here and amid that confusion, that's very, very dangerous because miscalculation can lead to war and war would lead to the destruction of this city. andrea? >> and, of course, the implications for the rest of the world as well. bill neely, thank you very much. kristen welker, trying to sort out just who is behind that statement with the president ad-libbing on his own, was it planned, he had talked to john kelly, my reporting and i'm sure yours as well is he had not talked to the secretary of defense. >> that's right. and secretary of state seemed caught off guard by that as well. and, of course, you had that very different tone when he landed in guam. it was a preplanned trip, a refuel if you will, andrea. but he obviously had a very different tone than we heard from president trump yesterday, trying to de-escalate the rhetoric, saying the american people shoul

rex tillerson say those sanctions send a very strong message. he said the whole world wants to see a nuclear-free korean peninsula. tillerson said the u.s. was willing to hold talks with north korea but that there are are some conditions. listen. >> a best signal that north korea could give us that they are prepared to talk would be to stop the missile launches. we've not had app extended period of time where they have not taken some type of provocative action by launching ballistic missiles. i think that would be the first and strongest signal they could send us to is to just stop the missile launches. t >> cnn covering the story with our team of correspondents. our senior koefrnt ivan watson is live at the meetings in manila. and alexander field in seoul, south korea. ivan we start with you. urging leaders to isolate korea more but there is push back from those who say dialogue here is the answer. what do you hear? >> that's right. southeast asian nations which is organizing this diplomatic dwajerring here, they did pitch back from a u.s. prop

yesterday it was secretary of state rex tillerson. today, as you say, defense secretary james mattis speaking to reporters just a short time ago, saying with regards to north korea, that the first priority is diplomacy, that it remains u.s. efforts remain diplomatically led. here is what he had to say. >> right now secretary tillerson, ambassador hailey, you can see the american effort is diplomatically led. it has diplomatic traction. it is gaining diplomatic results. and i want to stay right there right now. the tragedy of war is well it doesn't need another character zblaks beyond the fact that it would be catastrophic. >> there you have the defense secretary. he has commanded troops in war. he's seen the costs of war, and saying right there that he's reluctant to go down that path, somewhat contradict oerg the president's rhetoric at least talking about military responses to north korea. now, i should note, erin, that earlier in the day before his most recent comments, the president did mention a diplomatic off ramp for north kore

rex tillerson has got his lead.sian countries intoa better relationship with the us is now a priority. the us cannot get what it wants north korea does from china. china disagrees about the approach to north korea. the ten asian countries together offer some help. they have generally taken china's lead on this, but now we have a real engagement. that will certainly be high on rex tillerson‘s conversations with his hosts, how to get them to the centrestage. also how to get real diplomatic support on north korea. they will want to ensure that thailand welcome the us as a close military partner. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. 22 people have been injured in a bomb blast in the pakistani city of lahore. officials say the explosive device was planted in a fruit truck and detonated while the vehicle was parked. no—one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. some of the 22 victims are seriously injured. local hospitals are having difficulty treating the victims because of a power cut.

a daily intelligence briefing, and he spent about an hour on the phone with his secretary of state, rex tillerson, and chief of staff, john kelly, to discuss the situation in north korea. of course that left plenty of time to tweet. and tweet the president did. he took aim at the "new york times." he insisted he's not losing his base of supporters and went after democratic senator richard blumenthal, someone pushing for legislation that would protect the special counsel in the russia investigation from any kind of political interference. now some had hoped the president's new chief of staff, john kelly, would be able to calm down these twitter can trums. we are told by sources that kelly's top priority is not policing president trump's social media. back to you. >> sara murray. thank you. >>> one other tweet from president trump is causing confusion. take a look. on monday afternoon, the president wrote, "the fake news media will not talk about the importance of the united nations security council's 15-0 vote in favor of sanctions on north korea." the president tweeted that out yesterda

a call for calm from rex tillerson.tion president trump sends a message to the dictator, kim jong-un, about america's nuclear arsenal. ahead, the rhetoric, the reality and reaction. in moments, i'll speak with a former u.s. defense secretary william cohen about america's options, north korea's forces and what needs to happen next. plus, the second big story developing today and new to us, the fbi raided a home of president trump's former campaign manager, paul manafort. ahead, what we know about the

rex tillerson kept the door open. have a listen to what he said. >> the best signal that north korea could give us that they're prepared to talk would be to stop these missile launches and they could demonstrate they're ready tasit with a spirit of finding a way forward in these talks by no longer conducting these missile tests. so, this is not a give me 30 days and we're ready to talk. it's not quite that simple. >> and, hallie, one other thing to note. president trump had a very long phone conversation. we reckon it was about an hour with the south korean president moon. they agreed to keep the pressure on north korea. president moon of south korea saying it was also important to keep the door open to dialogue. but not a lot of dialogue here. simply more threats from north korea. hallie. >> bill live in the southern philippines. much more coming up on this network and nbc "nightly news" in just a bit. evelyn farks the former deputy of defense and our panel joining us for the next 50 minutes or so. jeff bennett of np

the first astonishing thin i have to say is that rex tillerson is a double no-show, not only did he not attend the summit dinner last ninth circuit, he hasn't actually attended the main meeting of those foreign ministers, 27 nations gathered here. he's doing it in bilaterals so he's meeting the russian foreign minister, the chinese foreign minister, the south korean foreign minister, but today he obviously chose not to be in the same room as the north korean foreign minister. e pretty astonishing. what's he trying to do? pile the pressure on north korea. rallying those 25 other countries to try to force the one country, north korea, to stop its missile testing. two long-range missile tests this year, and stop its nuclear testing, two nuclear tests last year. these are talks about talks. on the sidelines, there have been hints, how could these talks take place. what are the preconditions? what signals should each country send perhaps that it wants talks? here's what rex tillerson had to say about that. >> the best signal that north korea could give us that they're prepared to talk would

you know, he was -- rex, i think, was trying to make clear that, yes, americans respect each other.n it comes to the violence in charlottesville, between antifa and nazi groups, that that was not representative of american values. that's clearly the american fringe. >> it seemed like rex tillerson made a clear line of distinction between the departments and the state department. they have set their message, and the president seems to have another one. he'll be asked to follow up on that. jason russell from the "washington examiner," thank you. we'll check back in 30 minutes. >>> a new escalation from north korea. missiles fired in the midst of annual drills between the u.s. and south korea. cnn the only western news organization on the ground in pyongyang. will ripley live there next. the in-laws have moved in with us. and, our adult children are here. so, we save by using tide. which means we use less. three generations of clothes cleaned in one wash. those are moms. anybody seen my pants? nothing cleans better. put those on dad! it's got to be tide. what's going on here? um...i'm

so did you notice secretary of state rex tillerson and u.n. ambassador nikki haley standing next to the president as he spoke? national security adviser h.r. mcmaster was there too. we don't know if they knew that their boss was going to talk about sending troops to venezuela, but a pentagon spokesperson later told reuters, quote, the pentagon has received no orders on a venezuela military operation, and they referred all questions to the white house. there's been a lot of talk about the so-called axis of adults around the president. the experienced hands many of them generals who are supposed to keep donald trump on track. general john kelly is often cited as a member of the axis of adults and his move to chief of staff was supposed to be such a fix. so far donald trump does certainly seem to like him. here's donald trump praising general kelly today. >> i think that general kelly has brought a tremendous -- has brought something very special to the office of chief -- i call him chief. he's a respected man. he's a four-star from the marines,

philippine president rodrigo duterte a met in manila with rex tillerson.e highest level interaction to date between do tear tape -- rodrigo duterte eight and the trump administration. he dismissed questions about human rights, which she has been accused of abusing by several groups in his war against illegal drugs. the venezuelan president nicolas maduro is claiming victory after what he calls a terrorist attack on a military base over the weekend. twoays soldiers killed attackers and obtained a seven. the military says the attackers confessed they were working with opposition activists backed by foreign governments. in u.s. envoys arriving kuwait as part of washington's effort to defuse the gulf crisis. according to people familiar with the matter, the envoys will also visit the four countries in the alliance before heading to cutter --counter -- qutar. news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am mark crumpton, this is bloomberg. lawmakers have failed to agree on health care, let's turn to the

rex tillerson is at that summit called acsean. and after north korea tested a intercontinental ballistic missile a week ago that could reach the united states. we go our reporter. >> it is 26 against 1. 26 countries who will tell the one country, north korea, to stop disrupting the security of asia by its missile program. rex tillerson is here to pile on the pressure of north korea over the missile program and isolate this already isolated country even more, and to say that two long range missile test s ths t year are wrong, and two nuclear tests last year were wrong, and to condemn the 14 missile tests north korea has conducted so far this year. ideally, the united states would like to punish north korea, and throw north korea out of this asean organizational together, but it is unlike ly to happen, because china, the only ally of north korea won't allow that. and the united states, and south korea, and japan, they will lead the condemnations here at the summit, and north korea through the foreign minister is going to say that th

rex tillerson has now arrived in thailand on the next stop on his asia trip. of state is the most senior us official to visit thailand since the 2014 coup. 0ur south—east asia correspondent jonathan head told me why his visit to bangkok is so important. it isa it is a potential game of all the trump administration because relations with thailand have been pretty low since the coup three yea rs pretty low since the coup three years ago. they have automatically downscaled. i think relations would have returned anyway, because the military has been there so long and thailand is a very old ally of the united states. the us has been dismayed to see thailand shifting closer to china, there would have been a reset under any administration. the trump administration, with much less of an emphasis on the human rights and shared values, it is in a better position to do that in a transactional manner. rex tillerson‘s visit to asia has suddenly shown an almost coherent and determined interest from the trump administration that we have not seen before. we have been reliant

he's told me that to my face that may be provocative but not really however america's top diplomat rex tillerson says his country would like dialogue with pyongyang points although one expert told us the chances of that happening are ready to treat. your thinking in terms of dialogue no if anything. less. than before but if you're being effective for the. collective punishment i'm going to tire a north korean population and bring about the economic collapse of north korea are going to be a factor of unfortunately you're thanks to the thought draconian. the only increase the likelihood of a conflict or increase tensions at the very least. relations south further between russia and the united states on wednesday as donald trump put his signature to the new sanctions bill hits the move this and get america's allies in europe who say that are economic interests are being ignored even president trump himself was reluctant to sign the old saying it limits his power to shape foreign policy. well i favor tough measures to punish and deter aggressive and destabilizing behavior by north korea an

i would listen to what rex tillerson said. riskid there is no eminent -- imminent risk of nuclear war. what is the upside, if any, for donald trump to use such suit -- extreme language in response to pyongyang provocation? thomas: if you go back to what rex tillerson said, he justified the use of such blunt language because north korea does not understand normal diplomatic language. other that is valid or not, i don't know. the fact is, i do not think we are any closer to a confrontation between north korea and the u.s., although risks are rising because of north korea's rapid escalation of its nuclear weapons program and missile program. julia: i think one country that will have welcomed the comments of rex tillerson rather than donald trump is china. they are still pushing for de-escalation. the rhetoric we see, the sanctions approach, more than anything else. what do you think they make of this? just in light of some of the u.s. intelligence we are hearing about western capabilities, where do you think china stands? thomas:

rex tillerson softening things saying the u.s. should sleep well. joining us, lieutenant general mark hertling and author of "besieged" brigadier general anthony tata. you advised president trump on the campaign trail. what is his sense of the korean peninsula, china, all these players and what did you make of his words about raining down fire and fury yesterday? >> bill, i see the fire and fury comment as just another element of national power that this team is leveraging. you've got h.r. mcmaster, general kelly, general mattis. they all understand about leveraging elements of national power to achieve ends, ways and means of national security. i think the fire and fury comment was an informational piece of national power just as we've got military b-1 bombers flying across the peninsula using flexible deterrent options. we have the sanctions that were imposed, an economic element of national power. we use political and geopolitical national power to achieve a unanimous vote on those sanctions. i think what you see here is an administration that re

rex tillerson/u.s. secretary of state:"i think americans should sleep well at night and have no concerns for this particular rhetoric of the past few days."soothing words from the secretary of state ... amid escalating tension between the u-s and north korea.in the wake of president trump's threat to rain - quote - "fire and fury" on pyongyang, he took to twitter wednesday morning, writing in part:"my first order as president was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. it is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before."u-s stocks pushed into negative territory tuesday and world markets wobbled overnight... as north korea threatened to strike u-s interests in the pacific. democrats condemned the president's rhetoric.senator al franken/(d) minnesota:"this is so irresponsible i can't even believe that he did this." representative al green/(d) texas:"only congress can declare war, mr. president." but guam's governor urged the public to remain calm:gov. eddie baza calvo/(r) guam: "this is not

tyrannosaurus rex and stegosaurus we re tyrannosaurus rex and stegosaurus were thought to be in differentsame branch. the frankenstein dinosaur now fits in perfectly as an earlier animal that came before them, which is why it is skeleton is a mixture of both. this reassessment is important, because it will radically change the theory of how dinosaurs evolved and split into different groups. chilesaurus is there at the beginning of one of the big splits. hopefully, by understanding more about its biology, we will understand the driving features to drive the splits. the skeleton was once a puzzle, but now it might be the key to explain how dinosaurs evolved. pallab ghosh, bbc news. before we go, if a visit to the dentist fills you with dread, spare a thought for this tiger in denmark. he had been dealing with a bat to for a long time, so the zoo called in the animal dentist. unsurprisingly, the tiger was heavily sedated before the animal surgeon put her hands in to its huge drawers. don't forget you to get me on twitter. stay with us. the headlines come out, then world business report. don'

and its arms and body were like those of meat eaters such as the tyrannosaurus rex.now a british researcher who studied the skeleton believes he has solved the mystery. chilesaurus has been revealed to be the missing link between one group of dinosaurs, which includes things like stegosaurus and triceratops, and another group of dinosaurs which includes things like tyrannosaurus rex. it really is the missing piece of the puzzle. tyrannosaurus rex and stegosaurus were thought to be in different branches of the dinosaur family tree. but the researchers have shown that they are both in the same branch. the frankenstein dinosaur now fits in perfectly, as an earlier animal that came before them, which is why its skeleton is a mixture of both. this reassessment is important, because it will radically change the theory of how dinosaurs evolved and split into different groups. chilesaurus is there at the beginning of one of these big splits. and hopefully, by understanding more about its biology, it will tell us what the kinds of driving factors leading to those big splits m

what rex tillerson said today he has said before, that he wants north korea to come to the table.to get rid of their nuclear arsenal. those talks are not going to happen unless the nuclear arsenal is no longer an issue. the white house has confirmed reports that president trump did help draft a misleading statement on his eldest son's meeting last year with a russian lawyer. donald junior initially issued a statement saying the meeting was about russian adoption, before acknowledging he was actually offered damaging material on hillary clinton, to help his father get elected. the white house press secretary has now said the president weighed in on the statement, giving suggestions as any father would. according to the washington post, which broke the story, some trump advisers fear the president's intervention could put him in legaljeopardy. the us senate has voted to confirm christopher wray as the new director of the fbi. he's a former senior official in thejustice department who served under president george w bush. after his confirmation hearing last month, he received unanimo

<rex tillerson/u.s. secretary of state> "i think americans should sleep well at night and have no concerns for this particular rhetoric of the past few days."( steve ) words of calm from secretary of state rex tillerson even as president trump was raising the stakes in the confrontation with north korea, tweeting that america's nuclear arsenal is now far stronger and more powerful than every before."that ominous message came one day after he promised a rain of fire and fury on north korea, (vicki )north korea is now calling his warning a load of nonsense ... and says plans to attack the waters near guam will be completed next week. catherine heenan is here with a look at the american pacific island that now finds itself at the center of a nuclear showdown. (catherine) 21=hundred miles of ocean separate guam from north korea. american military installations cover about a third of the island's 210 square miles. it's home port to four nuclear- powered fast attack submarines. just this week -- american bombe

itjust so happens the us secretary of state, the top diplomat, rex tillerson, has been visiting guamthis is what he said. what the president was doing is sending a strong message to north korea in language kimjong—un would understand, because he is not seem to understand diplomatic language. let's consider this a bit. we can pass to jane o'brien in washington for us,jane, pass to jane o'brien in washington for us, jane, you pass to jane o'brien in washington for us,jane, you might pass to jane o'brien in washington for us, jane, you might have expected the pentagon to try to row back a bit of the president has said. but no, quite the other way?” think it is all a matter of emphasis. i think there was a slight and nuanced change of language between what you heard the secretary of defencejim mathis say on the president, because the president was saying, warning north korea about threats. jim mathis is warning north korea of the consequence of its actions. it should stop actions which would lead to the destruction of its people and the collapse of the regime. talking about losing a war

you had your surrogates in rex tillerson, mike pence, out promoting it today.is the time to go, amplify what you said last night and try to build on that, and build popular support. but as you point out, there are some other things we know when he gets in front of an audience feeds off of that audience and often goes off message. melissa: can you imagine how far a message of unity would go tonight? this is set up, this is the perfect opportunity, to step up and say something -- he doesn't even have to specifically talk about anything that's happened recently that has been problematic but just to talk about on the heels of last night in the afghanistan thing to talk about bringing the country together, getting back to work, moving forward? what do you think? >> yeah, i mean he did that a little bit at the beginning of the speech last night. it was a little -- it felt a little awkward, right? we knew he was responding to charlottesville, doing some cleanup work there. then transitioning into afghanistan but i thought the way he did it actually came off pretty wel

rex tillerson here for the u.s. trying to pile the pressure on north korea and everyone is waiting for the very first meeting when he sits in the same room for the first time as north korea's foreign minister. will they acknowledge each other, will they talk to or simply at each other. we understand they will not meet in any private capacity. but rex tillerson wants to punish north korea, but china which is critical of its only ally, north korea, is asking for calm. it says the situation is critical but it wants the u.s. also to stop its what it calls provocative military exercises off the korean peninsula. china wants talks. well, rex tillerson is talking to china and he's also talking to russia and this will be the first meeting between rex tillerson and sergei lavrov since president trump said relations with the russians were at their worst, they were dangerous and also since trump signed into law new economic sanctions against russia. that meeting with sergei lavrov is now over, but the strongest action against

and us secretary of state rex tillerson is in manila at the asean meeting and he is trying to get morete north korea. they're basically trying to put economic and financial pressure on the country so it is forced to stop missile tests. here in south korea the president's office yesterday welcomed the un sanctions. yesterday secretary of state rex tillerson met with south korean foreign minister huang yi and at that meeting she said sanctions were a very good outcome. also we are hearing that south and north korea have had a meeting but at the sidelines of the main summit? that's right. that's what south korean media are reporting here. this is a meeting that was not open to the press. what south korean media are reporting is that the north korean foreign minister has said that sole's offer of renewed talks is insincere. —— seoul's. we haven't had much response from north korea to these sanctions, what we saw was an article in a newspaper yesterday controlled by north korea's ruling party that said that if the us doesn't change its hostile policy to north korea then the only choice for

it between rex tillerson and sergey, and it's the first meeting since that. russia, the u.s. and china agreed tough new economic sanctions. the u.s. ambassador, to the u.n., nikki haley, said don't let anybody be fooled into thinking we solved the problem, not even close, more action is required. that action won't come here, and north korea has been left knowing no doubt, it's isolated and everybody is playing with fire. >>> president trump is reacting overnight to the u.n. santions as he enjoys a working vacation at his golf club in new jersey. kelly o'donnell has more. policy priority for trump than north korea and containing its nuclear missile ambitions and the president is pleased by what happened at the united nations and is claiming it as a victory for the u.s., and already tweeting. china and russia tweeted with us, a very big financial impact. economic sanctions package ever on north korea, over $1 billion in cost to nk. that steep price is not only a punishment but also intended to cut off funding needed by the regime to pursue its missile program.

we want diplomacy, dialogue, some kind of understanding. >> you're clearly with rex tillerson ratherhan lindsay graham. thanks for joining us as usual. >>> it not common to see a cabinet secretary turn down money for his own department, but rex tillerson has -- we have new information for you right after the break. hi. i'm the one clocking in... when you're clocking out. sensing your every move and automatically adjusting to help you stay effortlessly comfortable. there. i can also help with this. does your bed do that? oh. i don't actually talk. though i'm smart enough to. i'm the new sleep number 360 smart bed. let's meet at a sleep number store. >>> a whopping $80 million currently sitting around unused by the u.s. state department, this according to a new report in politico. congress allocated the money to go toward fighting isis propaganda and russian disinformation but secretary of state rex tillerson refuses to touch it. the reason? he reportedly doesn't want to upset moscow. let's bring in our global affairs correspondent who's joining us. you've been reporting on this. what

rex tillerson, there. president gave, he declared there would be more onus on the afghan government to improve both in civilian and military terms. but the afghan government barely controls just over half the districts in afghanistan, and the taliban are gaining ground. it's estimated 31 afghan security force soldiers are being killed every day, along with civilian deaths. from kabul, here's secundar kermani. this is the kabul military training centre, one of the largest of its kind in afghanistan. in a few months, many of the young men here will be on the front lines of the fight against the taliban. for the past two and a half years it's been afghan soldiers, as opposed to international forces, that have taken the lead on the battlefield. there's no doubt that they've sacrificed a lot, thousands upon thousands have lost their lives. yet they've been unable to stop the level of violence in the country from rising. in the first half of this year alone, over 1600 civilians have been killed. whilst the gover

you could hear rex tillerson, saying, the president speaks for himse himself.an hear james mattis saying america is divided right now. we don't have that problem in the military and likelihood that's how the president is going to play this. >> many people in the administration have said the president speaks for himself or the president's tweet speaks for itself. that's not new phraseology. but the way it was delivered, the followup question certainly delivered the message that it seems clear that rex tillerson intended to be delivered. and the president of the united states doesn't have a ton of options. he needs the secretary of state right now. he needs his secretary of defense, members of congress and of the senate have made it clear this was in reference to jeff sessions before when he was on the outs with the president. but it made it pretty clear they don't have room on their dance cards to do a bunch of confirmations now. >> let me turn to mexico. the president gave a press conference today and took some questions while he was with the president of finla

the secretary of state rex tillerson making his way back to the night takes from a -- to the u.s.. "americans should sleep well at night." north korea poses no imminent threat and the reports of comments earlier on his airplane as he flew back, actually first guam and then back to the u.s. the news conference should be coming up shortly with your on c-span. we will take a look next at reaction to the north korea story from this morning's washington journal. host: the president's statements responding to yesterday's news about north korea and reported potential of a nuclear weapon being capable to be inside of an intercontinental ballistic missile. to give us a perspective, errol campbell from the arms control association joins us, their executive director. thank you for joining us. guest: good to be with you. host: could you give us perspective on what this news means and tell our viewers exactly what we are considering when we hear about the potential of a weapon being inside an icbm? guest: we have known for quite some time that north korea is trying to develop a smaller, lighter

secretary secretary of state rex tillerson he did not attend that meeting. presumably not wanting to be in the same room as the north korean minister. pile the pressure on north korea here. he had by laterals with just about everybody. it is on an almost united summit of 26 nations against one here, against north korea. even china giving the north koreans a very public dressing down, saying that their missile tests were provocative and had to stop and that it was destabilizing the region. and tonight secretary of state rex tillerson has been meeting the philippines president the hard-liner criticized around the world for his human rights record. but on two issues they do agree. he has been very critical of kim jong-un, calling him a fool, calling hm a lot worse than that, a man who likes to play with very dangerous toys. so rex tillerson and even the philippines president united on the need to confront north korea. of course, this summit has all been about talks, how do you get to the stage where north korea will talk, and the precondition, if you like, has

regardless, rex tillerson was in front of the cameras insisting there is no, quote, imminent threat to guam. nor, he says, has the situation changed dramatically in the last 24 hours. and here now, trump's original comment, and how tillerson defended it this morning. >> north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. >> i think what the president was just reaffirming is the united states has the capability to fully defend itself from any attack and defend our allies, and we will do so. and so the american people should sleep well tonight. >> let's go to our reporters, nbc's kelly o'donnell in bridge water, new jersey, where the president is on working vacation. and our chief global correspondent, bill neely, standing by for us in seoul, south korea, which is about 35 miles from the north korean border. kelly, let me start with you. i understand we've got new reporting on the fire and fury language. what have you learned? >> reporter: well, from white house officials who are here at the location where we