didn t answer i tried to ask a couple different ways. i understand the president was repeat ing what chairman kim told him. what does he believe, does he trust the north korean leader, someone he has been in love with and talked about they re pen pals? i didn t get a convincing answer one way or the other from conway about that question. that was a remarkable answer. chairman kim did not know what happened to otto warmbier when it was happening. that s some wordsmithing. reporter: and i asked her. do you really believe an american citizen could be essentially tortured in the north korean regime for as long as otto warmbier was there and that the leader of the country would know nothing about it? she said that s what the president was told. garrett, thank you, my friend. garrett haake for us at cpac. up next, the senate narrowly confirmed the president s new pick to head the environmental protection agency. we re going to take a deep look at who this guy s andrew wheeler and why s
with kellyanne conway about the president s comments about otto warmbier, which have now had a response from the warmbier family that was very critical, particularly of kim jong-un. what did kellyanne have to say? reporter: i read her about the statement from the warmbier family. she stopped me and said she had just gotten off the phone talking with the president about this and tried to recast the way the president discussed this. take a listen and decide for yourselves what you think. the president agrees with them completely that their son died at the hands of the north korean government. what the president is saying is that chairman kim saying that he did not know what was happening to otto as it was happening when it was happening. that was the genesis of the president s statement. but it has never changed that and the president has never changed completely that north korea was completely responsible for otto warmbier s death. reporter: the question conway