CNN: Pentagon to Test Ability to Shoot Down North Korean Missiles

‘Pentagon officials are telling CNN that the armada, as President Trump called it, probably will not get to the area until the end of this month’

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TAPPER: "In the face of north Korean provocations with both bravado and seriousness of purpose, President Trump six days ago announced he had sent the aircraft carrier "The "Uss Carl Vinson"" and guided missile destroyers to the Korean peninsula."
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TRUMP: "We are sending an armada, very powerful. We have submarines, very powerful, far more powerful than the aircraft carrier, that I can tell you."
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TAPPER: "It turns out that the warships are currently nowhere near the region yet. Pentagon officials are telling CNN that the armada, as President Trump called it, probably will not get to the area until the end of this month." 

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