inbar hyman died while being held captive by hamas. her family says she was a gifted artist, full of love and joy for life. let s go straight to alex marquardt. prime minister netanyahu just spoke about all of this. obviously just the devastating news about the tragic killing of these hostages, it must be reverberating all across israel. what more can you tell us? it really is. it s being deeply felt, and prime minister netanyahu expressed what so many israelis are feeling, that these men were so close to freedom after more than two months in captivity, they were, as netanyahu said, we are so close to embracing them but he went on to say, we cannot turn back time. now, perhaps notably, prime minister netanyahu did not take responsibility, while his defense chief did say that the military is responsible for this. prime minister netanyahu emphasized that he believes it was military pressure, the military operations by the idf in gaza nathat got the first rod of hostages out,
but a good talk and i think he appreciated it. we would be able to help them. these are massive fires like i haven t seen. that was the primary importance of the conversation. i think they very much appreciated it. reporter: on the fed, sir. reporter: russia interfering in the elections. president trump: i watched mueller. i m not sure mueller knows what s going on. he said no collusion with us, no collusion. ultimately no obstruction because it led to no obstruction by a very smart group of people, including our attorney general. no collusion, no obstruction. as far as mueller s performance, you would have to say it was navy not so good maybe not s. reporter: why wasn t a quarter grade cut good enough? president trump: our country is doing very well. we are setting records in every
when it matters. this time he s playing word games over the president s questionable interactions with some of the world s most dangerous characters. he s not saying he s siding with dictators over americans. he believes them. he has expressed his opinion about what they ve said on these various points. points like russia interfering in the 2016 elections, which the president s own intelligence officials said they did. the president expressed the opinion, as john bolton calls it, that virtually anyone could have done it other than that vladimir putin. as for kim jong-un, i want to play you one other opinion that the president has expressed, after meeting the man who imprisons and tortures generations of his own citizens. he s a character. he s a real personality. and he s very smart. he s sharp as you can be. and he s a real leader. and he s pretty mercurial. i don t say that necessarily in a bad way, but he s a pretty mercurial guy. max boot joins us now. he s a cnn global
you got that? what you heard the president say about taking kim at his words doesn t really mean you know that he takes him at his word. except on state of the union on cnn, bolton says the opposite, that the president really does take kim jong-un at his word. do you take him at his word? the president takes him at his word. i know he does, but what about you? my opinion doesn t matter. so now he doesn t want to say, although you know he s been shy voicing his views on foreign affairs, but sometimes he s bucked the boss before. just not this time when it matters. this time he s playing word games over the president s questionable interactions with some of the world s most dangerous characters. he s not saying he s siding with dictators over americans. he believes them. he has expressed his opinion about what they ve said on these various points. points like russia interfering in the 2016 elections, which the president s own intelligence officials said
be allowed to transit safely through moscow without being bothered and change plains in moscow and go home to her home. instead, she was in fact arrested at the main airport in moscow while she went limp and journalists wait in vein to try to talk to her. this weekend, we got this unsettling footage of her in court apologizing over and over and over again, apologizing to oleg deripaska. the russia correspondent reported today that he asked her several times at this court appearance if her arrest and her treatment was related to russia s interference in the election and her evidence about that. she refused to answer any questions about that. quote, after claiming she had evidence of russia interfering, she doesn t want to talk now for fear of deripaska and russian law. quote, i can t compromise myself anymore. criminal cases were fabricated against me in thailand, russia, that s enough for me.