challenging foe in the general election. the one silver lining that the republicans and trump and his allies see is that maybe in the course of this process, joe biden could get pulled to to left. i want to goat a different subject. sam, earlier the president responded to this report in the wall street journal. also a report from the washington post. kim jong-un s half brother was supposedly assassinated and he was assassinated in february 2017 but he was supposedly, acou according to these reports, the president was asked. watch how he responded. i saw the information about the cia with respect to his brother or half brother. i would tell him that would not happen under my auspices.
the wall street journal is reporting kim jong-un s murdered half brother was a source for the cia. he was poisoned in a nerve agent attack at malaysia s airport two years ago. paula hancocks is live in seoul, south korea, with more. what have you learned, paula? reporter: well, alisyn, according to the wall street journal, they are saying there was a connection between the cia and kim jong-nam. although they admit there are details about this relationship that they simply don t know about at this point. we do know when the case was ongoing for the two women who smeared the nerve agent on kim jong-nam s face back in february 2017, in that international airport in malaysia, the defense lawyer brought this up in court and said he believed kim jong-nam had met with what he suggested could be an intelligent agent.
kim jong-un s half brother was a cia source who met several times with operatives according to a wall street journal report. the half brother was assassinated by a nerve agent applied to his face in february 2017. u.s. and south korean officials at the time said his younger brother ordered the hit job. ken, we have been talking to sources going through all of this and anna s book that comes out today has some interesting quotes on it. she talks about the two brothers. she says that kim jong nam name an informant for the cia. would have considered talking to american spies but he provided information to them usually meeting his handlers in singapore or malaysia. it was in malaysia that he was killed. that s right. that s one of the big questions
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after they normally would have been released so the agency can take them into custom. what the aclu is describing is illegal. i.c.e. does not have the authority to detain american citizens. the aclu analyzed data they got from a lawsuit and found 420 cases between february 2017 and february 2019. in which i.c.e. issued detainers for people listed as u.s. citizens by miami-dade records. they argue that i.c.e. cancelled 83 of these cases because the agency ultimately determined that those that had been detained were in fact u.s. citizens. if i.c.e. can make those mistakes in these cases, how do we know there aren t more? the orlando sentinel reports that more than 30 of florida s 67 counties have signed agreements with i.c.e. to hold inmates for i.c.e. in exchange for $50 an inmate. and for the american citizens who have been through this experience, it sounds terrifying. here s more of what peter brown told the aclu.