CNN Panel Erupts Over Trump's North Korea Comments

"The North Koreans should understand that they engage in provocative actions, that there'll be consequences to that".

The former oilman could have left it there, but he took another question about what had prompted Trump's statement, in which he said that, if North Korea continued to issue threats to the United States, it would be "met with fire and fury like the world has never seen".

Tensions were ratcheted up this week when the USA president responded to news that Pyongyang had developed miniaturized nuclear warheads with a drastic warning that he would meet their continued threats with "fire and fury like the world has never seen".

The letter says Congress and the American people would hold Trump responsible if a "careless or ill-advised miscalculation" results in conflict that endangers US military members or allies in the region. "It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before". He then added: "Hopefully we will never have to use this power, but there will never be a time that we are not the most powerful nation in the world!"

In Graham's opinion, "the time for talking is running out".

Trump has previously pointed out that he watches the Fox & Friends morning TV show, and its content often appears to influence his daily agenda and public comments, just as the show in turn tends to turn a warm glow on the president's actions and policies. Another included a video clip of Trump vowing to respond to North Korean threats with "fire and fury".

Democrats in Congress, led by Rep. John Conyers Jr., sent a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday warning the administration that it would need congressional approval for any preemptive attack on North Korea. Tillerson said Wednesday as he returned from an Asia trip he doesn't believe there is "any imminent threat". But Tillerson told reporters that nothing he's seen or knows of in the last day dramatically changed the situation.

According to the newspaper, the DIA report says that the intelligence community "assesses North Korea has produced nuclear weapons for ballistic missile delivery, to include delivery by ICBM-class missiles". And I think Americans should sleep well at night and have no concerns about this particular rhetoric of the past few days.

Trump and North Korea have been exchanging escalating threats, with the North saying it was examining plans for attacking Guam.

"The White House, including the national-security team, was unaware President Trump was preparing to speak publicly about North Korea when he did so Tuesday at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey", the Weekly Standard's Michael Warren reported in a piece posted shortly after 8 A.M.