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Intervened. this effort led by dean that powell, these women here will land in d.c. tonight and will compete in an international robotics competition next week. if there's ever a time to say you go girls, it's right now and they do have the white house to thank.
Korea tomorrow. cnn's will ripley in pyongyang, north korea for us. will, thank you very much. let's get back to senator chris murphy, member of the foreign relations committee. first of all, the president says he's not so sure, senator, that kim jong-un is so strong like he says he is. those are the words of the president. do you think he could underestimate kim jong-un right now? >> well, i don't think his escalation of rhetoric is helpful, and we shouldn't underestimate a leader who clearly has designs on obtaining a nuclear weapon put on to an icbm that can reach the united states, and we ...
Amount of pain with an unresolved issue, a murder, a disappearance, the injustice that many of our families have experienced, we need to right those wrongs. and the justice department, this is a bipartisan effort led by congressman john conniers along with senator burr out of north carolina, senator blunt as well, mccaskill have been instrumental in making sure that bill has received the attention it's received. now we're moving forward. it's important to implement this bill. no longer should it just sit in the law books or as just a law. it needs to be implemented. it needs to come to light.
Approval process. a lot of them can be anywhere. what did you make of that and rejecting the president's first effort led to this? >> that's interesting. this is the first time we've seen this number. remember, director comey introduced 900 to 1,000 active investigations of people for potential self-radicalization or terrorism. of that amount, 300 of them are part of the refugee program. some of them have come from these six countries as well. so that is a new number and it certainly gives credence to what the president is doing. on the refugee program itself, for the last ten years, we've bee...
Rights attorneys from washington, d.c. to help us solve a very difficult investigation into the unconscionable, horrendous death of a young african-american coming home from the 7/11 store at night simply because he was black. michael donnell and actively backed the attorneys throughout the case and they broke that case. that effort led to a guilty plea and a life sentence in court for one defendant and his testimony against the other defendant. there was no federal death penalty at the time. i thought it was appropriate in this case and i pushed to have it tried in state court, which was done...