for many months u.s. state department officials have been pushing to able to visit or at least the swedish embassy in pyongyang to visit as they work on behalf of the u.s. who has no diplomatic ties with north korea. then eventually last month that was granted. there was a meeting between north korean officials and a state department representative. we understand that s when they found out. so just one week ago was when it was known that he was in a coma. north korean officials claim that he contracted botulism while in north korea. they claim he took a sleeping tablet and then fell into a coma and never woke up. senior state department official told cnn they don t necessarily believe the north korea juan version of events but can t say any more until they have them and have doctors look over him. now he s in the united states. but bear in mind there are still three americans detained in north korea. u.s. secretary of state rex
american college student otto warmbier is back in the united states. his parents say he s been in a coma for more than a year. questions swirling this morning about his health and what happened to him while he was in cap negativity. we want to get the latest from paula hancock live in seoul. i understand maybe a week ago, it was only a week ago they learned there was a grave medical problem for their son here. can you bring us up to speed? reporter: that s right, christine. really devastating news for the parents to finally have their son back. but he is in a coma now currently being create treated in the united states. what we know is what north korean officials told the united states. they claim that otto warmbier actually contracted botulism just after his trial back in march of 2016 and then after taking a sleeping tablet he slipped into a coma and has not
sales of sleeping tablet, medicine to treat anxiety have soared as well as pills for erectile dysfunction. yes, there is a reason thoeeaso couple is sitting outside in bathtubs because that s all that s left after the drone blew up their house. joining us now, mike doyle and chuck todd. and former white house press secretary, robert gibbs also at the table. okay. wow. where to begin. i guess i ll start with the meetings yesterday. fwifr give us a sense of what happened behind closed dwooroors. there were frank discussions going on. what do you mean by frank? i m from pittsburgh.
his laptop bag. we know from passengers on the flight at that point they built a bunker around his backpack with blankets and pillows on board that flight. it goes on to say that when he was questioned later, he believed that people on board the plane had been following him and ridiculing him and trying to interrogate him. it says he said he decided to claim he had a bomb in order to divert attention from the fact that he had classified information. what may be the most telling paragraph according to this fbi agent who filed this affidavit, sta stansberry told him he had taken one ambien earlier in the day but he told them he had taken eight and previously used valium but not on the flight. so that s the latest details of what happened yesterday. ambien is a sleeping tablet. he says, i will take whatever coa the u.s. wants. i assume he means course of action? that s what i would assume. there s a lot of military jargon