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Access to whoever he wants, but the fact that they all lied about it tells you they knew it wasnt an appropriate exercise. aside from the security risk, aside from the lying, which are big things to set aside, obviously, this is such an insult to the more than 4 million americans who have security clearances. they have to go through a rigorous process. they have to talk about past drug use, about their relationships with foreign officials, any foreign debts they have. they have to uphold a certa...

>> its hardly the first time hes put his faith in tyrants. >> and some really bad thanksgiving happened to otto, some really, really bad things but he tells me that he didnt know about it and i will take him at his word. i have great confidence in my intelligence people, but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. >> i spoke with the king, i spoke with the crown prince yesterday and he strongly said that he had nothing to do with this, this was...

Tyranny and once again basically it was -- its always every day is donald trumps own personal munich. i mean, he appeased yet another dictator, this time for the brutalizing death of an american college boy. >> he cozied up to north koreas dictator while his son-in-law cozied up to saudi arabia and mbs. americas former ambassador to the u.n. naikki haley also weighed in, "americans know the cruelty that was placed on otto warmbier by the north korean regime -- >> hold on, also known as kim jong ...

Something very, very big. >> i dont mean to be sort of -- there is part of me that thinks what does it matter, the president can give him any bit of information that he wants to give him because he can declassify item by item as well. >> absolutely. now look -- >> so if he is a security risk, he is a security risk regardless of whether you give him the clearance or not. >> thats right. and there has to be clarity in the system. you have to know which meetings that he can go into. he is working i...

Support a president who embraces tyrants, the united states remains the last best hope for m mankind plagued by tyranny. the united states will leave other tyrannies that stifle freedom and muzzle the voice of the people. thats kim jong un, the mbs, thats everybody that donald trump embraces worldwide. >> you have to wonder why. i think we can make a simple assumption that people in the white house are trying their best and that theyre telling him these things, theyre informing him, theyre educa...

The united states cozy up and for the president to say he believes this dictator over what we know happened, its a really low moment for the country. >> does the president need to come out and publicly walk back his statements in your estimation and frankly say hes wrong? >> absolutely. the president needs to say loud and clear that north korea, the regime, and kim jong-un was responsible for the death of otto warmbier. the president had the warmbiers for one of his early state of the union addr...

Him out say that theres no way that a leader, dictator like kim jong-un would not have known what was going on to an american national in his own prison system at that time. so its very, very important how you actually talk about that. i can see what the president is trying to do. he did it, as weve talked about, you know, with putin in helsinki, hes done it with mbs, the crown prince the saudi arabia with khashoggi. hes trying to preserve the personal relationship with kim jong-un because he st...

Murder of jamal khashoggi, the journalist, the president again over the assessment of the u.s. intelligence commit community in secretary said he takes mbss word. this is a pattern with this president. its a disturbing pattern with this president that has received democratic and republican outrage and it was a remarkable moment today to watch. >> jim sciutto, thank you very much for all of the reporting from hanoi for us. >> thank you. all right. other big news this morning, the reverbrations ...

Kind of think he didnt know any better and he felt terrible about it. its implausible to me and how you can do that, how you could agree with that. >> not only does he agree with kim jong-un, he agrees with vladimir putin, duterte, mbs. why? >> the only thing -- i cant get in his head on these things and im not here to spend my time bashing trump. you have to tell things as you see them and thats what i do here when i work at cnn. but you cant sell human rights down the river. you cant trade som...

I hate the cover-up. and i will tell you this, the crown prince hates it more than i do and they have veemtly denied it. the cia points it both ways, you know, and as i said, maybe he did, maybe he didnt. >> senator kennedy, do you support this backing the president gives these thugs as you call them? >> i wasnt there. when you meet with someone and you try to assess whether theyre telling you the truth or not, theres several things you can do. you judge demeanor and credibility. you look at cor...