Transcript for White House response to latest North Korea bomb test

One huge X factor is president trump in all this. As he reported, has threaten the north with fire and fury. As Ian mentioned, South Korea is calling on the U.S. To deploy its strongest strategic assets. Reporter: Good morning, Paula and Dan. Radio silence so far from this white house. We have not heard anything from the white house. Other than an off-the-record statement to one of our reporters that they're monit monitoring the situation. The president not tweeting so far. General H.R. Mcmaster has spoken with his counterpart in south kr Korea. That confirmation not coming from the white house. You remember the missile that flew over Japan days ago. On Friday, he talked to the south Korean president. We don't know the content of those phone calls at the time, the south Koreans had been warning that at any time, the north might detonate a nuclear bomb, a test we have apparently now seen. Back on Wednesday, the president did tweet, this racheted up the rhetoric a little bit saying talking is not the answer with North Korea. Saying that that country has been extorting the west for 25 years. We are waiting some kind of statement from the white house. Some kind of reaction to what the north Koreans have apparently done at the test range. Still no response from the white house. For more, we want to bring in

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