23rd. he returned home and closed a storage unit to save money as they contemplated extending the road trip. the couple was last seen together a few days later, august 27th when they left a wyoming restaurant together. by september 1st, laundrie was back in florida without gabby petito. cassie said she saw brian during that august 17th trip, but she says the last time she saw her brother was when he went camping with his parents at fort desoto park september 26 and there was no discussion about gabby. we just went for a couple hours, ate dinner and had s mores around the camp fire and left. there was nothing peculiar about it. there was no feeling of grand good-bye. there was no nothing. reporter: gabby s parents and step parents speaking out on dr. phil s show saying they believe brian is definitely alive and in hiding. do you believe he s hiding somewhere? i do. why do you believe that? because he s a coward.
prime minister shinzo abe and malcolm turnbull. they are vowing to work with the u.s. on answering the threat from north korea and president trump is saying he s met some important goals on trade. very big steps with respect to trade. far bigger than you know. this has been a very fruitful trip for us and also for a lot of other nations. the way they ve treated us, the respect that japan and china and south korea in h particular, because we went there, have given us has been a great respect for the people of our country, people of the united states. and we ve very much appreciate it. the president wouldn t exactly say what those big steps on trade are but vowed an anounment wednesday. jeff zeleny is live for us this morning in manila. the president duterte is accused
possibility. if that did happen, it would be a good thing for, i can tell you, for north korea. but it would also be good for lots of other places and for the world. cnn s will ripley, the only american network news correspondent i believe on his 17th trip to the north korean capitol hill is live. what are you hearing on the ground? reporter: yes. it was a strange and surreal few hours over the weekend when first there was that tweet from the president then he gives this press conference in vietnam talking about the possibility of a friendship with north korea s leader and the sense that i got when i showed his remarks to the north korean officials we were with this is not an official response. t it was a real sticks and stones kind of feeling. the insults they don t seem to resonate here anymore and frankly the talk of friendship doesn t resonate here either. the north koreans felt in anything the president trump,
respect that japan and china and south korea in particular, because we went there, have greeted us, has been a great respect for the people of our country, the people of the united states and we very much appreciate it. the president not saying exactly what those big steps on trade are, but vowing an announcement on wednesday when he s back on american soil. our cnn white house correspondent jeff zeleny is live in manila with the latest. jeff, president duterte is accused of having his forces commit extra killings by the thousands in the name of fighting drug trafficking. do we know if president trump confronted him about the accusations? that is the central question still hanging over the press s final stop on his trip. of course it was one of the questions going in. would president trump confront president duterte as many human rights groups were hoping he would. the white house saying the
outrage. one woman told me he doesn t have a place to talk about human rights and mentioned the human rights in united states which echos north korean propaganda which talks about gun violence and racial inequality and compared that to what north korea is accused of by the united nations. obviously a much darker picture of life than what anybody here inside the country would tell us. this is my 17th trip here. i ve never heard anybody speak out against the government because it is not tolerated. remarkable how they have the population brainwashed. will ripley live for us in pyongyang. senator bob corker the chairman of the foreign relation is committee holding a hearing next week on the president s authority to use nuclear weapons. tennessee republican claims many colleagues are raising questions about the authority of the executive and legislative branchs when it comes to using