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>> exactly. you're exactly right. >> let me ask you something. i want to ask you about north korea. you have criticized the president for saying that he took kim jong-un's word when it came to otto warmbier. you were governor of ohio when this happened to otto. you were part of the effort to try to get otto home. i want to play for you what the president said about this this weekend. >> i'm in such a horrible position because in one way i have to negotiate. in the other way, i love mr. and mrs. warmbier and i love otto otto. and it's a very, very delicate balance. he was a special young man. a...

>> bless his heart, otto was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for apparently trying to take a propaganda poster from a hotel. >> that's not the image that i have of my son in my heart. we were told early on by the past administration that we were urged to keep quiet and we accepted that. >> we'll be fine as a family as soon as you get home. >> hang in there, tiger boy. you're coming home. >> the department of state has secured the release of otto warmbier. >> we're also thankful to rex tillerson and to president trump. they wanted otto home. otto is not in great shape right now. he has been...

Question of the trump administration deserves credit, of course, president trump for bringing otto home. what did the trump administration do differently than the obama administration did? what was the difference. listen to what admiral kirby had to say. >> the revelation of otto's physical condition and the urgency it demanded had a lot to do with it. >> do you think it was just that, the deterioration of his physical condition? >> i think that had a large role to play. once the north koreans realized how quickly he was heading downhills or was on the last days, they did not want him to die i...

Are really thankful for him. and we are also thankful to rex tillerson and to president trump. they wanted otto home. and i believe, cindy and i believe made this happen. we are thankful for that. >> tucker: so you said that once this process is over in the next couple of days you hope to get back to being a family and living a conventional life. what do you think the lessons on this are, your son's captivity in north korea? why did this happen? >> being in the wrong place. the lessons of otto's captivity in north korea, that is going to be for others to decide. the warmbiers have been living ...

Here. they have crossed a line with my son otto and so it would be very difficult to look for a lesson here amongst this insanity. i'm not looking for a lesson. i want to support otto. i want to support my other children. my community. i'm proud of the way everybody has handled this. i'm so grateful that otto is with us. he is with people who love him now. that means a lot to us. >> tucker: of course. how is your family holding up after all this time? >> we are doing okay. i worry about cindy a little bit. i think she worries about me. we are taking it a moment at a time. a day at a time. we a...