Katty kay and National Security reporter ken dilanian. We got ken . Yeah. How did we fare so well . Okay, youre punchy. Its friday. No, im still focused on seth good morni gorkin. I was a right wing cold warrior for a very long time. Thats why dr. Brzezinski and i got along very well. I know it would be a shock to dr. Brzezinski, though, were he still with us, god rest his soul, to find out he spent hissin tihis entire life trying to defeat stalinist russia when he thought it was about tierney when in fact we learned that it was about hamburgers. When is your speaking lot at cpac . Mine i think got lost in the mail sadly. But i would attend if i was offered. I would probably explain that the quota system in the Old Soviet Union was about production and less about destroying your capacity to intake protein. The stupidity, though, thats being exhibited right now is breathtaking. Its just breathtaking. Well, he is playing off a foil that is a very convenient one for republicans in the form of alexandria ocasiocortez, who is voicing opinions that agricultural production, particularly in the form of beef and milk and cattle noah, noah, noah, its a stretch. Its not a stretch. It was in the fact that they said was doctored and leaked and accidentally handed to npr. Theyre not taking our hamburgers. Theyre telling you to reduce the amount of beef that you eat. Well, there is nothing wrong with that. I actually think that sounds like good advice, noah. We were just talking about that last night, that i need to stop eating four steaks a night and i think she may be right. Its a little unhealthy. Lets get to trying to sum up this week and what happened at home and abroad and some of the things that happened in between that are just staggering at this point. So there are some disagreements between the Trump Administration and north koreas kim regime for why the hanoi summit ended in failure. Basically they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldnt do that. They were willing to denuke a large portion of the areas that we wanted but we couldnt give up all of the sanctions for that. But it was about sanctions. I mean they wanted singanctions lifted but they werent willing to give us the areas we wanted. While President Trump was aboard air force i heading home, north korean officials called a rare News Conference where they offered their own view of what went wrong. According to north koreas foreign minister, they proposed a, quote, partial removal of sanctions, not in full, in exchange for the permanent and complete dismantlement of the Yongbyon Nuclear facility and long range rocket tests. The foreign minister adds that, quote, the u. S. Insisted we should take one more step and was not ready to accept our proposal, adding it is difficult to say whether there might be a better agreement than this one, end quote, our professional posal will never be changed even though u. S. Proposes negotiations given in the future. White House Press SecretarySarah Sanders says that President Trump, quote, is aware of north koreas disagreements and would not comment further. So there was that discrepancy. But stateside, the big issue was one of the more controversial statements that President Trump made during his postsummit News Conference regarding the death of College StudentOtto Warmbier, who died days after returning to the u. S. In a knorr vegetative state after being imprisoned by north korea. Yesterdays News Conference occurred on the third anniversary of Otto Warmbiers blackplea while in north korean custody. I entirely beg you people in government of north korea for your forgiveness. Please i have made the worst mistake of my life but, please, act to save me. Please. Think of my family. I did speak about it and i dont believe that he would have allowed that to happen. It just wasnt to his advantage to allow that to happen. Those prisons are rough. Theyre rough places and bad things happened, but i really dont believe that he was i dont believe he knew about it. He knew the case very well, but he knew it later. But he tells me he tells me that he didnt know about it and i will take him at his word. Its an example of the ruthless nature of this regime. We shouldnt be naive about this regime and about the way they mistreat their own people and certainly the way they mistreated Otto Warmbier. The mistreatment of Otto Warmbier is unforgivable. Otto warmbier, they made a spectacle out of him before the world, accusing him of being a spy. The blood of Otto Warmbier is in the hands of kim jong un. He knew about, it he directed it and the responsibility lies directly with kim jong un. That poor boy begging for himself life and being brutalized and beaten and killed by kim jong un. Kim jong un was a murderer. Nothing happens in that country that he doesnt order. He is a tyrant of the first order. And there is no way anybody would lay a hand on an american on an american in north korea unless kim jong un wasnt delivering the direct orders. And kim jong un had him beaten to death, beaten to death, put in a vegetative state to come home and die in front of his parents and this week donald trump once again embraced 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 soninlaw 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 un. Exactly. She says our hearts are with the warmbier family, we will never forget otto. 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 at a lower level. Just this week Jared Kushner sat down with mbs in their first known meeting since the saudi governments murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. They talked about how the saudis wooed kushner with mohammed bin salman. They said given his experience, which is zero, could make him susceptible to manipulation. And they discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communication channel between trumps tra Transition Team and the cremkre. And the New York Times reported they were working overseas to solicit money for projects in the United States by highlighting their ties to kushner. Enough of that. We know about kushner and what hes done. He got his money, of course, from qatar, so they ended up getting what they wanted. He was just shopping around, like his fatherinlaw just shopping around for money after theyre out of the white house. Katty kay, it seems that again donald trump has not just hasnt met a tyrant he doesnt love, he doesnt respect, he doesnt believe over american intel officials. I mean, again we showed the clips of individuVladimir Putine believes his kgb guy over the intel community. Stupid me, i grew up a republican and conservative and i found this Ronald Reagan quote. To this day america is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less. For reagan, for conservatives during the cold war. Certainly for us republicans while i was growing up. Our organizes principle was small government and standing up to tyrannical religigimes acrose globe. Donald trump has completely turned that on its head. Yeah, and supporting democracy and supporting human rights. This is a very far cry from even president bushs second inaugural address where he promised to help the down trod i dont know trodden around the world and there was no question of horrific acts during that sum the and it was symbolized by the Otto Warmbier comment the p president made. If the president is prepared to take kim jong un on his word on this when there is so much intel that kim jong un must have known about it, must have ordered it, how could kim jong un not know about that . It not possible he didnt know about it. If hes prepared, the president , to give kim jong un the benefit of the doubt on Something Like that, what else is he prepared to give these people the benefit of the doubt on . What else is he prepared to give away of americas interest in this quest of what he calls his fantastic relationship diplomacy. Ive spoken to Jared Kushner about this. They believe in this notion that President Trump can change the facts of the world just by his personality, just by who he is, just by these relationships he has with people. I think what happened in hanoi particularly symbolized by those Otto Warmbier comments is an awareness that just doesnt work. There are real limits to relationship diplomacy. Donald trump is not able just because of who he is to fix the intractable problems of the world. And susan del percio, you, too, another republican. Certainly the past, i dont know about now, but we grew up believing that the United States as reagan said was a city shining brightly on the hill for all the world to see, that we were the example to the world when it came it freedom, or organizing principle was freedom, we stood up against tyrants, we learned our lesson at munich. Yet if yourer loved one the ben to death in north korea, this president will not stand up to a tyrant. If you no someone assassinated in russia, a political opponent or someone that crossed Vladimir Putins path, you know President Trump will take the word of Vladimir Putin offer hver his o intel community. A Washington Post journalist is killed, carved up with a bone saw while he is still alive, donald trump says he believes the murderer and then his soninlaw goes over there to continue their dear, close relationship. This is not the Republican Party of our youth. Hell, its not the america that we grew up in where you have a president , a commander in chief that embraces tyrants and has utter contempt for our nato allies and people who were elected democratically. Thats right, joe. And the president is one thing he does is he acts out of his own selfinterests. He did not go to hanoi representing the United States of america. He went there representing himself. He thinks that he can do these deals one on one. The one thing that has just been nagging at me since we heard his comments about Otto Warmbier is did he ever think for a moment about his parents . He took his parents and showed them around and he used it to his own selfinterest and he was out there basically telling his ottos parents saying your suffering, it wasnt at the hands of north koreas leader. We put faith i trust him. I just cant imagine how they must feel this morning and yesterday hearing those comments because this is a president with no humanity, with no empathy and no decency. Thats how he crafts his policies, thats how he can go and send jared on his mission to saudi arabia, thats how he can continue to look people in the eye and say hes out there trying to help make America Great again. He is not trying to do anything of the sort. He is trying to make himself matter and relevant and he does it and makes this country suffer, unfortunately not just for the days to come, for the weeks to come but for the years to come. Again, theyre oldies but goldies, meekia but for republicans who no longer support freedom and actually 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 educating him and yet he still does it. You have to wonder why. So keep in mind the background issues surrounding Jared Kushner and i think this is related that we just reported when listening to this next story. The Washington Post has confirmed a New York Times report that some of the highest ranking Trump White House appointees put their concerns in writing after President Trump ordered his chief of staff to grant soninlaw and Senior AdviserJared Kushner a top secret security clearance, overruling intelligence officials and white house counsel. After Domestic Abuse allegations against then staff secretary rob porter revealed that scores of officials lacked permanent security clearances, then chief of staff john kelly ordered a review in february of 2018 downgrading kushners clearance and limiting his access to information. And it was recommended to trump that kushner not be given a clearance at top secret level. But the next day trump ordered. Four people briefed on the matter told this to the New York Times. Trumps decision so troubled Senior Administration officials that kelly wrote an internal memo about how he had been ordered to give kushner the clearance, mcgahn also wrote an internal memo outlining the concerns that had been raised about kushner, including by the c. I. A. Be c. I. A. I dont think i have the authority to do that. Im not sure i do. But i wouldnt do it. Jareds a good i was never involved with his security. I know that he just from reading, i know that there was issues back and forth about security for numerous people actually, but i dont want to get involved in that stuff. The president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husbands clearance. So no special treatment . No. I mean, ken dilanian, its so funny watching the republicans on capitol hill act so shocked and stunned and so deeply saddened that Michael Cohen told a couple of lies. Again, the president lies every day, lies repeatedly every day, lies about north korean dictators killing an american College Student. Hes reckless abroad and hes reckless at home. This is a really serious process and the recklessness and the lying by ivanka and donald trump show once given they are just extraordinarily reckless people in charge of some of the most sensitive secrets in the United States government. About a month abe nbc news reported that two Security Officials inside the white house took a look at his clearance and recommended denying it. The Washington Post reported that u. S. Intelligence picked up information that four countries thought that they could influence Jared Kushner through financial or other considerations. Those were intelligence reports. So all this information was in the hands of these people and they said, no, he cant have a top secret clearance. They were overruled by their supervisor. What the post and times are reporting today is that the reason he overruled these people and but they memorialized it because they were deeply concerned about it. President trump had the slul absolute legal right to do this. But instead of just onning it and announcing he was going to overdue the testimony, he lied about it and his daughter lied about it. And there is a real Public Policy concern here. Even though he had a right to do it, career people have decided that Jared Kushner did not merit the trust to see the nations secrets and donald trump decided otherwise and now hes got them. Heres an important qualifier, though. The cia never granted Jared Kushner, our reporting shows and the post says this as well, never granded him that s. C. I. Designation, which is the richest and best intelligence that top officials review. He doesnt have that, unless the president is handing it to him despite his lack of a clearance. Which of course, steve rattner, as reckless as these people have been in the white house the past two, two and a half years, who knows if hes doing that again. Im stub again by hearing republicans acting so shocked that somebody in front of them had told some lies that while they worship at the feet of a man who lies repeatedly and gets caught in these lies every day. I was never involved in jareds security. I dont like to get involved i