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otto warmbier, the college student arrested and brutally tortured while on a tour of north korea, and even as the nation s focus turns to new global threats there s a new push to make sure nobody forgets what happened to him, especially not north korea. eric shawn is live with more on this from new york city. new york city does have a defiant and also poignant message for kim jong un. the mission to the united nations on second avenue in manhattan, but that soon could be named otto warmbier way. named after the 22-year-old u.s. college student with all but killed by kim s regime was left for dead. he was sent home to ohio suffering from brain damage and was unable to see or hear after his torture and arrived days later after arriving back home in 2017. now, new york city mayor bill de blasio is backing a
remember and we care. former secretary of state mike pompeo tells us it would be fitting to name the street in new york city in honor of otto as a reminder to north koreans and that america will never suffer brutal dictators without responding. as with all street renaming the new york city, otto warmbier way must pass the 51 member new york counsel before it signed into law by mayor de blasio. sandra: thanks for bringing up story to us, eric shawn, thank you. john: seattle s mirror touting a vaccine milestone. she set up the first major city to fully vaccinate over 70% of eligible people. so the question is why isn t the downtown area of the city open, bustling and booming? dan springer is live in seattle to tell us why. a couple of things. we talked to a market, who had a
to move to work on wall street. councilman kumar you were afraid that that will end with north koreans? joe: the proposal for insulting north koreans being part of it is to put a little bit of thumb and nose to it but if you look at the other streets we have renamed in the past, can month square in front of the chinese mission and rename soviet dissidents for the former soviet union embassy and we have improve those relationships over time. i don t think this is any stumbling blocks or preventative measure that will prevent us from moving forward with korean peninsula peace, but it will serve as a reminder of the authoritarian and brutal nature of that dictatorship. eric: hopefully that sign otto warmbier way will go up this year and do you think that colleagues and mayor bill de blasio will support this? joe: i think so and they can certainly send letters to my office we will make sure they get to the right place, but we have about a couple of months before we take up this measu
sandra: so what responsibility does the media have to come out and looked back at the way they cover this now defunct report from the special counsel? some are choosing to do that on their own. let s face it, meghan mccain from the view tweeted out my friend is one of the journalist, the best journalists i know. i like many others but may have reacted too quickly. apologize for being part of the media please read his piece. david brooks from the new york times tweeted out yes i had one impression anthemic story we are getting to up the kids from kentucky after seeing more videos i have a more complicated impression and makes all the hot take seems silly. that moves us to the story of covington high school student who is now charging character assassination after we get the full picture of what really went down they are, it was pretrade much different by the media, howie kurtz. just an absolute rush to