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

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

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

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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

secretary of state rex tillerson also has north korea on his agenda this weekend. on is in the philippines for a meeting of the association of southeast asian nations. he met earlier with south korea's foreign minister, and another meeting with top russian diplomat sergei lavrov is only a few minutes away. we continue to monitor. >>> iranian president hasan rouhani has been sworn in for a second term as leader there. and he's accusing the united states of undermining the 2015 nuclear deal. the u.s. announced new sanctions targeting tehran last month right after confirming iran was honoring the deal. >>> in the u.s. state of minnesota, authorities say a homemade explosive device caused a blast at a mosque. it happened around the time of morning prayer at the islamic center on saturday. no one was injured there. authorities haven't said if they are investigating this as a hate crime. >>> we are monitoring the situation in the capital of the philippines this hour. the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is set to meet momentarily with russian foreign minister sergei

let's go back to the asean meetings, where the us secretary of state rex tillerson met the philippineo duterte, both sides appear to want to normalise their relationship, one that became strained when president 0bama criticised mr duterte‘s human rights record. howard johnson sent this report from manila. rex tillerson met president duterte at his official residence here in manila and according to initial reports, president duterte said they discussed many things. he said i'm your humble friend here in southeast asia, you've come here at a time when the world is not good especially in the korean peninsular. he described the south try necib row as a nagging problem and before rex tillerson came here there was a lot of discussion as to whether he would bring up the topic of human rights and the drugs war and according to initial reports those topics won't mention. what we can see is perhaps an attempt by the trump administration to soften and improve its relationship with president duterte by softening the rhetoric. under president 0bama we saw there was a lot of criticism of the drugs

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

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

seeing such strong pushback on the white house on this story. >> thank you. >>> secretary of state rex tillersononal 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's ramping up the pressure on north korea just days after the u.n. security council unanimously approved the toughest sanctions to date against the kim jong-un regime. >> the negxt steps obviously ar 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 imbracing not just the spirit of -- embracing not just the spirit of those sanctions but the operational execution of those sanctions. >> all eyes on china. north korea's largest trading partner and neighbor. the chinese voted for the u.n. sanctions. the chinese will be key to implementing them. want to go live to manila and bring in ivan watson for the very latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, christine. the chine

you said if cabinet members are to be judged by the gap between expectation and performance, rex tillersonong the worst, he was supposed to be one of the adults in the room, a steadying force, but tillerson is ineffectual and destabilizing, unfamiliar with the workings of government, unwilling to provide inspirational leadership, disconnected from american values and seemingly hostile to the department in his care. that's tough stuff. >> yeah, i think that it is pretty broadly shared, including at the state department by the way. this is a leader that we're in the middle of a crisis, but more broadly supported 30% cuts in his department, used the reorganization as an excuse not to hire a lost people, including assistant secretaries as was mentioned earlier. i think people view him as someone who is not positive about the future of the organization itself. that's had an effect on morale. >> i want to get back to glen in a moment. ann, the pushback really strong pushback including his defense of the reorganization to the embassy staff in kuala lumpur last night is that they want this, that t

thank you. >>> the american secretary of state rex tillerson among those joining efforts to keep the pressure on north korea here. kim jong-un's nuclear program a topic of wide concern at the just-concluded summit of south sabre an leaders in -- south asian leaders in manila. south korea, japan, and china all urging pyongyang to comply in the face of those new u.n. sanctions. we have more live this morning from seoul, south korea. we heard the secretary of state rex tillerson saying there's no daylight between allies here and neighbors in the region. they want an end to the nuclear program. we've heard from north korea there will be no end to its nuclear program. >> reporter: right. and christine, china is taking a strong stand. they're saying all the right things, saying they'll pay the price for enforcing sanctions. they have the heaviest price to pay as they have the largest economic relationship. they say they're doing it for peace and global security. secretary tillerson is spending time in the region talking to his counterparts about what they can do to fully enforce the sancti

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

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

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 and russia t

rex tillerson says he does not believe there is an imminent threat from north korea. washington after a trip to southeast asia, secretary tillerson told reporters he believes president passes warning that north korea would face fire and fury was appropriate. >> what the president was doing is sending a strong message to north korea in language that tim john nunn could understand. because he does not understand -- seem to understand it dramatic language. >> north korea has also said it is considering a missile attack race on guam. the trump and menstruation expanded sanctions against eightela by assets of venezuelans after it seeks to raise pressure on the government of nicholas majuro. several of those sanctions our current or former venezuelan government officials. supporting --m of charged with rewriting venezuela's's constitution. declared itself superior to all of her government -- other government institutions. the action ca

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

national security of this country, is he bas an gorka and here is what he has to say about what rex tillerson said. you've got to hear it for yourself. >> the idea that secretary tillerson is going to discuss military matters is simply nonsensical. it is the job of security mattis as secretary of defense to talk about the military options. >> i mean, that's pretty shocking. >> yeah. >> and by the way, just to be clear, he went on the bbc. >> right. >> to slam the american secretary of state and say that he was nonsensical. >> basic the not his business. mind your own business. play over there. yeah. donald trump has put a structure in place in his white house that allows this sort of thing. there has always been in every white house. we saw this with the obama white house, bush white house, clinton white house, a level of creative tension. the white house, joe biden didn't always agree with barak obama did. guy marriage being a prominent example. so this happens. but when you have had a staff telling a cabinet secretary to sort of be quiet, and by the way, diplomacy in military. >> spoichdel

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

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

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 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

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

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

there has been a suspicion that rex tillerson and mattis are not kindred spirits with the president. son has been out of the limelight for some time. not everybody is surprised by his comments but is this a sign of a crack? >> remember, he said something different about the situation in qatar that president trump said immediately afterwards and there is gary cohen who in that interview with the financial times made it pretty clear that he also disagreed with president trump on his charlottesville comments. and in other reporting, had contemplated resigning. this is you combine this with what is really fascinating about this is you combine this with these business leaders and others who are separating themselves from the president, the business groups that dissolved and you have basically a bunch of people, including members of congress as well who maybe six, eight months ago would have been afraid of backlash from president trump or concerned about a tweet storm coming after them. and now they seem unafraid of the president. >> jeremy, what difference does it make at this point i gues

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.

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

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

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

in his reaction to charlottesville. -- at least in his reaction to charlottesville. >> i'm sure rex tillersonldn't say that on the record. it's definitely possible that's what he was trying to get across without saying it directly. you know, he was -- rex, i think, was trying to make clear that, yes, americans respect each other. when 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 s

us secretary state their rex tillerson at the state department in washington.cussion has been about pakistan, that it must adopt a different approach to afghanistan. he says there is now an erosion of trust between washington and islamabad. of course many have accused pakistan and president trump certainly did earlier today, accused islamabad of harbouring and sheltering taliban elements and extremist militants in the northern frontier province. there will also be a slight change in the way that america approaches the war in afghanistan. not now going to come if it takes territory back from caliban, all that territory. that would be given straight to the afghan security forces for them to deal with the building of schools and infrastructure and so on. american and nato allies have been doing that?. but a lot of discussion there and we can have more analysis of this now. joining me now is dr afzal ashraf, a visiting fellow at nottingham university‘s centre for conflict security and terrorism. dr ashraf also served in afghanistan as a nato security advisor. this

meanwhile, rex tillerson trying to play down a strike on north korea. this a day after president trump said he can unleash fire and fury on the regime. developments.ing we are seeing a market reaction to the extent of long u.s. treasury's are showing a reaction -- treasuries are showing a reaction. when it comes to sovereignties, china asking everyone to cool their heels. germany saying a military solution is not the correct solution. is there still a diplomatic option here? >> i think most allies of the u.s. and most people in the u.s. government are still going to be seeking some sort of a good mac solution. that is a bit of what you heard from secretary of state rex tillerson earlier today when he said he did in some way back up the president's comments, but he also says he does not see any imminent change in the last 24 hours from the heated rhetoric we have had from both sides on this. bill,one congressman, said that trump's comments undermine america's credibility by drawing in a firm redline. is there an element of truth to that? bill: he certain

ambassador to united nations, nikki haley, rex tillerson at that meeting over escalating tensions with north korea. the president's new warning comes in the last hour, and said military plan are lock and loaded some north korea fire any missiles at guam. we're monitoring the president's meeting, we'll bring you the latest. this as multiple pentagon officials tell fox news that u.s. military stands ready to fight tonight on the korean pen know sewell anno peninsula. now chain saichina said it would remain neutral if north korea fires first, but if united states fires first, china said it will step in. here is president trump tweeting, military solutions are fully in place, hopefully kim jong-un will find another path. and secretary of defense james mattis with his first on camera remarks yesterday about north korea's threat to attack guam. saying he still wants a diplomatic solution because war will be quote, catastrophic. >> right now secretary tillerson, ambassador haley, you can see the american effort is diploma diplomatically lead it is gaining diplomatic results and i want to stay

that's where secretary of state rex tillerson landed just hours ago where he addressed to the crisis. >> we are hopeful that this pressure campaign with it the world has joined us in and with the engagement of china and russia that they can begin to persuade the regime that they need to reconsider the current pathway thereon. they need to think about engaging in a different kind of dialogue. >> jon: we are live with rich edson on development at the state department, jake sherman, senior ready for political on the follow here at home. first, we go to greg palkot in london. >> absolutely, the rhetoric is heating up on both sides. the latest rhetoric coming from north korea. it concerns guam, according to state media in pyongyang, the regime has its a site on that territory, specifically a u.s. military base there. ed claims they are carefully examining plans for a missile strike, it will be put into practice when kim jong-un gives the word. and fact, guam has been threatened several times in the past by north korea and its most recent threat is more tied to a flyby earlier this week out

on the news tonight rex tillerson in search of a lab rob hold the first time level meetings between the united states and russia since congress's latest round of sanctions and north korea threatens the united states mainland with a nuclear strike as u.n. unanimously votes to sanction the country and vice president mike pence categorically denies claims by the new york times he will run for president in two thousand and twenty i met charles reporting tonight from the r. t. do is room this is the news on r t america. good evening france we start tonight with a high level meeting between two diplomats from the united states and russia secretary of state rex tillerson met with russian foreign minister surgery lever off during a meeting of the association of southeast asian nations over the weekend the meeting was the first since congress passed a new set of sanctions against russia rex tillerson criticized the damage done to us russian relations by alleged russian hacking into the two thousand and sixteen elections commander in the elections has asserted serious incident we talked about in

secretary of state rex tillerson is heading to manila this weekend. he is likely going to meet with russia's foreign minister. they are expected to talk about the order to cut u.s. diplomatic staff. can we expect anything significant to come out of that meeting? >> this is the first time we have heard the secretary of state address this issue. he said the cuts to the diplomatic personnel here in russia makes the work of that mission more difficult and he will bring that up with sergey lavrov at the asean summit. as to whether this will make a difference to what has been done, that is unlikely. but i think it's worth noting that both sides have saad they do hope for an improvement of this relationship in the future and there are plenty of areas they would like to work together particularly in the fight against terrorism and in the resolution of the syrian conflict. but i think when it comes to the sanctions issue there is an impasse between the two sides. >> we'll see what comes out of that meeting. many thanks. >>> the white house is considering its n

rex tillerson this meeting with his counterpart in manila and the north korean parties in attendance.ere is what tillerson had to say about sanctions. >> we are not going to give someone a specific number of days or weeks. this is about this. and they are ready to said they no longer conducting these missile tests. >> north korea isn't the only subject he's turning the president too. congress returns and gets back to work in september. back to you. cheryl: they are working. attorney general jeff sessions firing back at the city of chicago after it filed a lawsuit of the justice department tried to withhold federal money from sanctuary cities paid to refuse to cooperate to enforce immigration law. chicago says the trump administration's move would be illegal trade through the sessions issued this statement. no amount of federal taxpayer dollars will help a city that refuses to help its own residents. this administration is committed to the rule of law and enforcing the laws established by congress. chicago mayor rahm emanuel says the city will not be blackmailed into changing its value

so rex tillerson 110w state department.s a difficultjob because he has not got to negotiate with china, especially after what donald trump tweeted about china at the weekend, almost putting the blame for the north korean situation in the chinese lap. and then rex tillerson saying it's a north korean problem, and not a chinese problem. so when it comes to his negotiating skills and power, it puts him in a bit of a bind. it will be an interesting trip for him. laura bicker in washington, dc. some of you might be watching in south asia if you are a plate. our next story is about extreme weather warnings in that part of the world. this is long—term — by the end of the century high humidity and temperatures may get to the limit of what humans can survive. this comes from us scientists. they say india, pakistan, bangladesh will be affected. they contain around a fifth of the world's population. and 30% of them will be at risk. i spoke to envrionment correspondent matt mcgrath about the science behind these temperatures. most of t

this coming hours before secretary of state rex tillerson attends a crucial meeting with his north koreanin manila. tillerson also meeting with russia's foreign minister, whose country is stip grappling for meddling in the u.s. election. "cnn newsroom" starts out in. starts now. >>> hello iello again. >>> we start the hour with the ever-widens russia investigation. following a money trail and special counsel robert mueller issued grand jury subpoenas. the man who appointed mueller to lead the investigation, deputy

words coming from pyongyang and rex tillerson is at the same reform as counter parts in north korea. the two have not spoken, but tillerson says there could be a time and place for diplomatic discussions if they would cease their testing. north korea saying that is not happening. rex tillerson sat down with his counter part and complained about moscow's meddling in the 2016 election. it is drawing the countries apart. we are in bridgewater, new jersey, next to where the president is right now. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. clearly the bad weather here in new jersey is driving the president to twitter this morning. though the white house is insistent this is a working vacation that is necessary because of renovations happening in the west wing, the president has no public events on his schedule and spent the morning tweeting quite a bit, nine times this morning. he is clearly watching television as well. in those series of tweets, he criticized senator blumenthal saying he was talking about his past history and military service and went after the phony, fake polling. he isn

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 taking a shot at diplomacy.e says they're willing to talk with north korea if the regime halts its pursuit of nuclear weapons. >> this is going to be a continued effort to put pressure on the north korean regime because our other options are not particularly attractive. >> let's go live to seoul and bring in alexander field for the latest developments. is there any indication at all that north korea might halt its ambitions and what are the reactions to these statements from lindsey graham there in south korea? >> reporter: well, certainly north korea has never given any indication that they would be willing to do that. they see this central to the main objective which is regime preservation. they believe that nuclear weapons are key to that. the only deterrent that would protect them. as for all these lines that are coming from washington, some of them contradictory, some of them alarming to those living in south korea and they're focusing on what they want to hear, that means putting aside some of what lindsey