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Midnight in north korea. state-run television had a special new years message praising kim jong-uns achievements in the face of americas opposition. north korea just released this video of kim in a celebratory concert attended by a lot of the senior north korean leaders including kims sister. kim used it as an opportunity to reaffirm north koreas emergence as a capable nuclear threat to the u.s. >> north korean defector tells cnn the regime has a sophisticated smuggling network and can easily tr...

Other equipment to is saell on the black market. august 2016, a freighter is intercepted headed to the suez canal. with 100,000 tons of iron on board around 30,000 rockets made by north korea. part of what north korea describes as a web of smuggling to line the pockets of kim jong-un. how does the smuggling work? are there people with false flames or ships moved around? >> translator: the smuggling is conducting with any items you can imagine. larger items with the cargo list, for whats written ...

Four ships for the breaching sanctions on the regime. three of those ships fly north korean colors. the flag of the fourth ship is not clear. north korea has defied u.n. sanctions and restrictions in the past. now a north korean defector tells cnn the regime has a sophisticated smuggling network and can easily trade in banned goods. cnns brian todd has this report for us. >> we have new information tonight from this defector on exactly how kim jong uns regime gets weapons and other banned materi...

Smuggling net worth. what have you learned, brian? >> reporter: we have information on how kim jong-uns regime gets weapons out to sell on the black market. this man knows how kim gets his money and helps him get it funneling tens of thousands of years to the young dig tctator. august 2016 a freighter is intercepted. underneath 2,000 pounds of iron ore, rocket grenades made in north korea. part of what is a spider web of smuggling to line the pockets of kim jong-un. how do north korean smuggling...

Impeding the investigation. what kind of coverage would we see if the insurance policy was about hillary clinton as opposed to president trump? august 2016, months before the november election, what would we be seeing in washington? >> kennedy: there certain solid a disparity in coverage. there is no doubt about that. i think, you know, there are plenty of people in the media who would be having kittens. there would be farrell cats running around the halls media institutions. jackie sphere says ...

Mr. strzok could be purged. >> referring to the fbi agent with all of his text messages insurance policy against hillary clinton. you noticed that nbc anchor when she came back, the best she could do is take issue with his language. not with his facts. lisa: isnt that the broader problem here is the fact that the media is not concerned. can you imagine going back to august, 2016? if we had found out and media had found out that these fbi agents had text messages about insurance policy against hi...

Fisa warrants. peter strzok, an f.b.i. official sent numerous pro-clinton, anti-trump texts last year. this text to an f.b.i. colleague from august 2016. quote, i want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in andys office that there is no way he, meaning donald trump, gets elected but strzok added im afraid we cant take that risk. its like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before youre 40. >> laura: did he confirm yesterday that andys office is his office? >> i was ...

>> i think he has a credibility problem. he should have been more careful about who he hired. he has been conducting a sloppy investigation and thats a typical of him. im surprised. when you were going up president you have to be caesars wife. you have to be above reproach. >> another democrat, mark penn who advised democrat bill clinton has just conducted a poll that found 54% of the public believes that mueller has conflicts of interest in this investigation. at 63% of the public said the fbi ...

>> we will get to any minute. rod was assigned testified before congress this week. he took some heavy fire from republicans on this issue. take a look. >> how with a straight face, can you say that this group of democratic partisans are unbiased and will give the president a fair shake? we recognize we have employees with political opinions. it is our responsible to make sure the opinions do not influence their actions. >> and we hope that he will be able to -- [laughter] congresswoman, look, n...

Potentially -- >> we will get to any minute. rod was assigned testified before congress this week. he took some heavy fire from republicans on this issue. take a look. >> how with a straight face, can you say that this group of democratic partisans are unbiased and will give the president a fair shake? we recognize we have employees with political opinions. it is our responsible to make sure the opinions do not influence their actions. >> and we hope that he will be able to -- [laughter] congres...