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From will ripley in vietnam. he has been covering the summit for the past few days. before we get to the summit, yourself, i want to get your thoughts to the presidents response to otto warmbiers death, essentially letting kim jong-un off the hook. given your only in of how that country works, is it possible that kim did not realize what was happening here? >> reporter: its not possible, george. nothing happens in north korea at that level. an american student being held in the country without k...

In ahead of time to break down the difficult questions to get agreement on the minor details that ultimately allow you to negotiate much more significant progress. and that didnt happen here. so the president shouldnt have expected that it would have gone any better. >> amy, there is also the issue around otto warmbier. president trump essentially letting kim jong-un off the hook. what do you think of president trumps response, also saying he was misinterpreted? >> reporter: well, i think what w...

Change that. president trump says he was misinterpreted. he says he was the one that got their son out of north korea and he holds north korea responsible. an adviser to president trump, kelli kellyanne conway had this to say. >> the president is saying that theres no indication chairman kim knew what happened when it happened. >> critics, though, say mr. trump only had praise for the north korean leader. lets talk about it with will r ripley. he is live in hanoi. start with the fall out to the ...

Was a very productive two days. but sometimes you have to walk. >> president trump left vietnam today empty handed. white house cut the summit short with north koreas leader kim jong-un after a breakdown in negotiations over nuclear weapons and sanctions relief. but it was perhaps trumps decision to let kim jong-un off the hook for the torture and death of a captured american student that caused the most backlash. >> i dont believe he knew about it. he felt badly about it. he knew the case very ...

Today empty handed. white house cut the summit short with north koreas leader kim jong-un after a breakdown in negotiations over nuclear weapons and sanctions relief. but it was perhaps trumps decision to let kim jong-un off the hook for the torture and death of a captured american student that caused the most backlash. >> i dont believe he knew about it. he felt badly about it. he knew the case very well. but he knew it later. and you got a lot of people, a big country, a lot of people. and in ...

Otto warmbier, the american student who was brutalized and murdered by the north korean regime. for the president to essentially let kim jong-un off the hook when hes an authoritarian dictator who runs a mafioso state, hes responsible for what happens in that president. the president didnt stand up for otto warmbier and his family. it was a low point for him. the president needs to rethink his strategy. he needs to get china, south korea, together on sanctions. kim is now credible, hes emerged f...

Tore from liability and gives rise to legitimate questions about where his loyalties lie, specifically manafort lied about sharing internal campaign polling data with kilimnik in discussing a so-called peace plan that would benefit russia. as muellers prosecutor told mueller quote this goes to the heart of what the special counsels office is investigating. all of this begs the question why would manafort risk spending the rest of his life in jail to keep those discussions secret? theyve floated ...

Regards to that. i encourage the president not to go down that path. it appears that is the path hes chosen. i understand the argument, the legal basis for doing it. the better approach is force congress to do its job. force congress to step up and get the issue addressed. >> as you know, democrats are already preparing for the possibility of blocking the presidents action which congress can do under this 1976 law. will you vote with democrats to block an emergency declaration? >> lets see what ...

Known or suspected ties to terrorism. >> that sounds pretty scary, huh? but wait. former homeland security secretary john kelly, who is also the former chief of staff, white house chief of staff, defined special interest as, quote, from parts of the world where terrorism is prevalent or nations that are hostile to the united states. a homeland security official in the obama administration told congress in 2016 that, quote, many citizens of these countries migrate for economic reasons or because ...

They either have travel patterns that are identified as terrorist travel patterns, or they have known or suspected ties to terrorism. >> that sounds pretty scary, huh? but wait. former homeland security secretary john kelly, who is also the former chief of staff, white house chief of staff, defined special interest as, quote, being from parts of the world where terrorism is prevalent or nations that are hostile to the united states. a homeland security official in the obama administration told c...