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We'll see what happens. >> we get along great. why shouldn't 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. they're responsible for in imaginable cruelty and inhumanity. no excuses or lavish praise can change that. i want to play the full exchange of what the president has said about warmbier yesterday now that yo...

The warmbier's lashed out at the president for giving the north korean leader a pass for their son's death saying kim and his evil regime are responsible for the death of our son otto. kim and his evil regime are responsible for unimaginable cruel at this and inhumanity. no excuses or lavish praise can change that. we have more now from brian todd. >> reporter: analysts call it a low point. >> he tells me he didn't know about it and i will take him at his word. >> reporter: the president saying he supported north korean dictator kim jong-un's stance that kim didn't know of american college stu...

>> reporter: a propaganda stunt by kim. 17 months later, otto warmbier was dead, flown home in a coma after being brutalized in north korean custody. in 2018, president trump invited the warmbiers to the state of the union and pointedly blamed kim for their son's death. >> the dictatorship sentenced otto to 15 years of hard labor, before returning him to america last june, horribly injured and on the verge of death. >> reporter: but in hanoi, the president seemed to absolve the dictator. >> he felt badly about it. in those prisons and those camps you have a lot of people, and some really bad t...

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 don't believe that he would have allowed that to happen. it just wasn't 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 didn't know about it and i will take him at his word. >> warmbiers parents releasing the following statement, we have been respectful...

He's got a feeding tube. and we kneeled down and hugged him and tried to connect with him, and he's a complete vegetable, and his bottom teeth look like they had taken a pair of pliers and rearranged them. >> it's hard to watch. that was fred warmbier describing the state of his son after they got him back from north korea. otto was dead less than a week later. now the warmbier family once again forced to speak out publicly two years later. except this time talking about donald trump and his bizarre, reprehensible claim that kim jong-un knew nothing about otto's apparent torture. here's what t...