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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...

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 week's summit in vietnam, the president said this about kim. watch. >> i don't believe that he would have allowed that to happen. it wasn't to his advantage to allow that to happen. those prisons are ro...

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 year's state of the union issuing a blistering statement after the president defended kim jong-un over their son's death. president trump responding late today. abc's senior national correspondent terry moran is at the white house. >> reporter: while president trump was enjoying his time with north korean dictator kim ...

I've asked and he firmly denied that. >> i don't 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 didn't 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 after trying to steal a political poster. yesterday hesitate parents issued this statement. we h...

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 i've 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 steer them through the process. >> when and how did you learn that otto wasn't doing well there? >> t...