state of the union, and he spent several minutes delivering a blistering indictment of kim jong-un for the death of that young man. and now he offers him absolution here. or you know, accepts his denial in the face of the obvious evidence. the truth is, you know, david said he s believing them over their own his own intelligence. i don t think he believes him. i think he knows what happened in north korea. i think he knows what happened to jamal khashoggi. i think he knows what putin did. he has decided that it is in his interest to overlook those things. and that is what, when you add all these stories up, what you get is a guy who doesn t believe in rules, doesn t believe in norms, doesn t believe in valuse, doesn t believe in institutions. he believes only in self-interest and doing in the moment what he thinks is in his own self-interest, and that is
most important, he will not have died in vain. they have become a tremendous symbol of strong passion and strength which will last for many years into the future. i love otto and i think of him often. the president today, because nothing says love like telling his family you re welcome. nothing shows american resolve like playing defense attorney to a dictator, and nothing inspires respect in a dictator, whether it s the one in pyongyang or riyadh or moscow, in letting them lie to you and saying you believe those lies over the professionals, the american professionals whose only job and whose sole sworn duty is to tell you the truth. in addition to appeasing dictators, the president has a record of antagonizing grieving families whether it s the warmbiers, john mccain s family, and the parents of a fallen soldier who was killed in a suicide attack in 2004. the president attacked his parents during the campaign. joining us now is his father, khizr con. thank you for being with us. i app
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 you have heard the warmbier family response. this is the full question along with a piece of the president s answer. thank you, mr. president. you have a personal relationship, and i believe vice president pence does with the family of otto warmbier. i m wondering, you talked this week about kim jong-un being my friend. you said on twitter you have a great relationship.
dictatorship. 80,000 to 120,000 people are in starvation camps and gulags in north korea. and he calls him leader, as you said. it is political expediency. my concern is now we have thousands of american students in various parts of the world. we have thousands of americans deployed, our law enforcement, our military, our other americans working in various parts of the world. who is responsible for their safety? if this is the reaction that the bad guys in the world are watching and listening, that this president does not care, he will favor a dictator. he will favor a fascist. he will favor a strongman who will torture americans. he will stand with them.
he s a real leader, and he s pretty mercurial. i don t say it necessarily in a bad way, but he is a pretty mercurial guy. i don t want to say mercurial in a bad way, i don t want to say anything bad. if mercurial is the worst thing you can call kim jong-un, you need to read a book about north korea or perhaps read and absorb your own intelligence community s assessment of what life is like in north korea. earlier in the week mr. trump said he trusted kim as well. now, maybe you think, well, kim jong-un is just killing his own people and it is not really america s problem. well, it is not just north koreans whose deaths he is responsible for, but the president doesn t see it that way. here is what he said yesterday when asked about the murder of otto warmbier in custody in north korea. what happened is horrible. i really believe something very bad happened to him and i don t think that the top leadership knew about it, and i will i did speak about it, and i don t believe that he w