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Well see what happens. >> we get along great. why shouldnt he like him? you can tell a lot about a person about the company he keeps or the dictators he likes. today, the warmbier family responded quoting now from the statement they gave to cnn. we have been respectful during the summit process. now we must speak out. kim and his evil regime are responsible for the death of our son otto. theyre responsible for in imaginable cruelty and inhumanity. no excuses or lavish praise can change that. i w...

Young american otto warmbier who died after month of captivity in north korea. trace. >> we pulled up past transcripts from north korea state-run television run by the kim regime and they clearly indicate that kim jong-un knew every detail about the imprisonment. and president trump invited the warmbier family and blamed the north korea regime for his torture and ultimate death. then after this weeks summit in vietnam, the president said this about kim. watch. >> i dont believe that he would hav...

And we move to the white house. president trump facing new backlash in the wake of his summit collapse with north korea. the president seeming to anger the parents of american college student otto warmbier who died after being in prison by the regime. the warmbiers attended last years state of the union issuing a blistering statement after the president defended kim jong-un over their sons death. president trump responding late today. abcs senior national correspondent terry moran is at the whit...

Ive asked and he firmly denied that. >> i dont believe he knew about it. he felt badly about it. i did speak to him. he knew the case very well, but he knew it later. he tells me that he didnt know about it and i will take him at his word. >> president trump has a history of taking authoritarians at their word. this week, president trump absolved kim jong-un for the imprisonment, injury and subsequent death of otto warmbier. warmbier was held captive for more than a year in north korea allegedly...

I was not negotiating with anyone although i did need with a the north koreans discuss it. my role was to do for this family what ive done with a number of other american families who have been arrested and incarcerated in north korea, to help walk them through this process, understand the process, understand how to engage the u.s. government, since i had done this on the other side, working for the government in the past. and just sort of be an adviser, hold hands, give them courage and help st...

Thought it was premature. but they definitely think of that check as, you know, part of the evidence to use typical peach him. i think everyone is waiting for and for the democratic investigations to continue. they only heard from michael cohen. they want to hear from more people before they decide if, you know, whether they should impeach trump because that would be a process that would probably tear up the country a little bit in terms of very divisive -- were still talking about the nixon era...

Reverberating. his nearly two minute response where he essentially absolved the north korean leader for the imprisonment and subsequent death of 22-year-old american otto warmbier. >> i dont believe that he would have allowed that to happen. it just wasnt to his advantage to allow that to happen. in those prisons and camps, you have a lot of people and some really bad things happened to otto, some really, really bad things, but he tells me, he tells me that he didnt know about it and i will take...

North korea for a year. tortured to the point of brain damage for a year. when kim jong-un finally let him go home to die. donald trump says the murderous dictator of north korea had nothing to do with that. >> i dont believe that he would have allowed that to happen. it just wasnt to his advantage to allow that to happen. i dont believe he knew about it. some really bad things happened to otto. some really, really bad things. but he tells me -- he tells me that he didnt know about it. i will ta...

Asked at the cpac conference why the president went ahead and did that. >> why would he tell the "new york times" and these other organizations he has not meddled in that process if it appears de. >> you have to go back to what the president said.ior team to negotiate peace in the middle east. >> all right. looks like we lost that. joining me now i want to bring in daniel litman. as well as our white house correspondent. thank you both for joining us this morning. i want to start with jared kush...

Are giving and saying from the podium about some top figures in the democratic party and rising stars as well. stars this investigation is concerned if you listen to elijah cummings, he says the white house is stonewalling in his request for documents about this investigation that hes under taken way back on january 23rd when he first wrote the white house asking for some documents around the security clearance process here at the white house. as you report since then that bomb shell "new york t...