john kirby, ryan brown, thank you so much. that is it for me. going to be back at 5:00 eastern in the situation room for our international viewers, amanpour is next. for our viewers here in north america, "newsroom" with brooke america, "newsroom" with brooke baldwin is next. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> hi there, i'm brooke baldwin, happy fourth of july. thank you for tuning in to cnn on your holiday. we have to talk north korea. north korea's claimed that it successfully launched its first icbm, that's intercontinental ballistic missile, something a u.s. official now says the probable. it would be a significant advancement in the regime's effort to build a nuclear weapon capable of actually reaching u.s. soil. the launch triggering an emergency meeting of president trump's national security team. you have japanese officials saying the missile may have landed in their exclusive economic zone, some 200 miles from japan's coast. after this launch, president trump

i want to get straight to our pentagon reporter, ryan brown, and ryan, what can you tell us?ell, the leader's name is abu sayyid, he's the emir or leader of isis, the terror group's local afghan affiliate. the u.s. has been engaged in a lengthy offensive against this terror group since march. really going after it. it's based out there in eastern afghanistan. they've really taken a direct role. there's been several u.s. casualties in this conflict against isis k and this is actually the third isis leader that they've killed in a year out there in kunar province in the country's east. this is kind of isis's power base right there on the remote part of the country, on the border with pakistan, where they dropped that very large bomb several months ago, also where they've conducted several of these counter-terrorism raids and he was elected after the last leader was killed in an april raid that cost the lives of two u.s. soldiers and killed several isis fighters so the u.s. having some success in these raids against the isis leadership in that part of the country, but it still r

cnn's pentagon reporter ryan brown joining us with more on this now, ryan. >> reporter: fred, this airike was part of an offensive that afghan troops were conducting against the taliban down there in helmand. and there's been a series of these offenses in recent days and weeks, the u.s. providing a lot of air strikes. there's been significant increase in u.s. air strikes in afghanistan during the last few months during the summer fighting season as it's called when violence tends to tick up in the country. and, again, this all coming as the u.s. is reviewing its strategy in afghanistan and what to do kind of in the ways ahead how to best help the local afghan government combat the taliban and other terrorist groups in the region. secretary mattis speaking to reporters yesterday saying that the u.s. was close, quote/unquote, to unveiling this strategy, something he initially said might be done by mid july. we're kind of in that timeframe now. so the u.s. though still not waiting on that strategy. we've seen that on the ground they're upping the number of air strikes, they're using advis

cnn's ryan brown following the latest developments from the pentagon. so ryan, what more can you tell us about this meeting, and the options that are being weighed? >> hi pam. yes this meeting is being conducted for several reasons. one is to assess whether or not this actually was an intercontinental ballistic missile. pacific command which oversees u.s. military forces in the region initially labeled it an intermediate range missile but north korea is making this claim it's an icbm which is potentially capable of reaching the mainland united states. this is the first thing the pentagon want to do, assess, look at the data from the missile to determine whether or not north korea has this improved capability but again, if that is the case there is a series of options that could be under consideration, diplomatic sanctions option, attempting to get countries to sanction more forces strongly. also military, boosting the u.s. military presence in the region with more ships or troops, in an effort to kind of allay the concerns of the u.s. allies, japan and

so we begin the hour with ryan brown.nt trump's national security team. what are you hearing from the pentagon about the launch in terms of the precise missile that was used, and next moves. >> reporter: well, that's right, brooke, in fact, this meeting was convened in part to make an exact determination as to what exactly was fired yesterday by north korea. initially, the u.s. military put out a statement calling it an intermediate range missile, something we've seen before, but now in a revised assessment, the military's now saying that it's highly likely that it was an icbm, intercontinental ballistic missile, that had two stages,

so we begin the hour with ryan brown. the launch triggered an emergency meeting here of president trump's national security team. what are you hearing from the pentagon about the launch in terms of the precise missile that was used, and next moves. >> reporter: well, that's right, brooke, in fact, this meeting was convened in part to make an exact determination as to what exactly was fired yesterday by north korea. initially, the u.s. military put out a statement calling it an intermediate range missile, something we've seen before, but now in a revised assessment, the military's now saying that it's highly likely that it was an icbm, intercontinental ballistic missile, that had two stages, so it fired, and then it had this booster rocket that fired again. so, something that a little bit more technological sophistication being displayed by pyongyang in this most recent test. so now that they've identified it as an icbm, options are being considered. we're told potentially diplomatic options, attempting to increase sanctio

let's bring in cnn reporter from the pentagon, ryan brown. tly did this operation go so wrong? >> well, it's part of a string of operations that the afghan military has been conducting and afghan military and police have been conducting in helmand province. there's a large taliban presence there and a lot of intense fighting going on right now. there's been a big uptick in the amount of u.s. air strikes being conducted in the area in support of afghan forces. we have seen hundreds of air strikes in the last month, conducted by the united states. so there's more opportunities in this fighting for things to go wrong. and that appears to be what happened here. you had the remote outpost, changing hands multiple times and it looks like the u.s. air support struck the wrong target in an attempt to support troops on the ground. there had been some successes by the u.s. military forces earlier in the month but apparently this time they definitely did not hit the target they were intending to hit. >> in recent months we talked about the civilian death

let's go to ryan brown. are you learning. >> reporter: we're learning that the leader of isis is affiliated in afghanistan. isis-k was killed in a drone strike earlier this month by u.s. forces. this is the third isis leader in afghanistan to be killed within a year, demonstrating the u.s. has a renewed push, along with its afghan allies and yielding some successful results. secretary jim mattis told us this was an obvious victory for the united states as they kind of push, take an aggressive push against this affiliate of isis. u.s. military commanders say they have eliminated over half of the local fighters for this group, as well as reducing two-thirds of its territory, restricting it to this isolated remote part of afghanistan right there on the afghanistan/pakistan border. as the u.s. is mulling options for afghanistan, moving ahead, weighing whether or not to send more troops, looking at a new strategy, this is a victory for the united states and afghanistan in this moment. >> thank you. >>> finally to

we have a bond with speaker ryan because it goes back to campbell brown, dan senior. >> what happens bus stays on the bus. >> so speaker ryan, perfect gentleman. you know, we crashed his party when he became speaker and he had a big party at the botanical barr gardens. so we feel like a real bond. for this fourth of july, i feel like i should tell everybody how about we're friends with the bushes and speaker ryan is such a gentleman and leader mcconnell wanted me to film in washington. he didn't want me to use the capitol as a hollywood set, he said i would like to film at the national republicans commission. so i went and i was working in the actual building where the republicans go to do all their fundraising calls, and there i was set up to film all the senators coming and going. and leader mcconnell said to me, you never thought you would be working in a place like this. >> say something nice, it's fourth of july, let's have a little group hug on the how much. >> the documentary film "the words that built america" tonight on cnn at 7:00 p.m. pacific. >> and fredericka whitfield p

manu raju, jeff zeleny, pamela brown and ryan nobles on the newest incarnation of the senate health care not rushing to embrace. we begin with manu raju. what are you learning? >> well, anderson, tonight the senate intelligence committee saying that they planned to ask to put both donald trump jr. and jared kushner for more records, records about past meetings that may have occurred between russian officials and themselves over the past several years and months. now, this of course comes in the wake of donald trump jr. revealing that he had that meeting with the russian lawyer, a meeting that was told to him was to get dirt from the clinton campaign. both paul manafort and jared kushner were in attendance of that meeting. mark warner, the top democrat raising concerns that jared kushner left off what he said were three meetings with russian officials on his appropriate forms.

bob brown was killed. congressman ryan time somebody would fall down wounded they would walk over and shoot them in the head with a shotgun. >> i was shot five times. i was lying on my side with my head down, pretending i was dead. and then all of a sudden they just came and -- shot me at point-blank range. >> they are shooting. people die including leo ryan. and back in jonestown, jim jones is calling for a revolutionary suicide, where we are all going to kill ourselves and make a statement to the world. >> i first flew into jonestown last evening around sunset. there was absolute silence. nothing living was around. jonestown last evening was a city of the dead. >> they found tremendous quantities of potassium cyanide poison. it had been mixed with kool-aid. it killed quickly, within five minutes. >> we will never know how many people voluntarily drank the poison. but other people were either coerced, brainwashed or took it against their will. they were murdered. >> i was lifted into this medevac plane, and i was so grate

ryan nobel is on capitol hill. pamela brown with some new exclusive video. we begin at the white house and jessica schneider. so donald trump jr. addressing that meeting with reuters. >> the president saying he gnaw nothing about that june 26th meeting between his eldest son and that russian lawyer. the president really, this is the first time he's spoken out about this, saying he didn't know anything about it. of course, his lawyer and the deputy press secretary, this is the same message that they've been pushing for the past 24 to 48 hours. the president telling reuters this, saying, i didn't know until a couple of days ago, when i heard about this, i think many people would have had that meeting. of course, i think that's the exact same sentiment that his sob, donald trump jr. issued in an interview last night. donald trump jr. saying that he was a political novice, a businessman, and as a businessman, he believed taking this meeting was okay. his father tonight, the president, issuing that same sort of sentiment. anderson? >> as the president dparts fepa

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