warmbier even though this president was perfectly willing to take the dictator s word on that one, too, his word that he had no idea what happened to the 22-year-old american who was in prison in north korea for 17 months. he felt badly about it. i did speak to him. he felt very badly. he knew the case very well, but he knew it later. you know, you got a lot of people. it s a big country. a lot of people. and in those prisons and those camps, you have a lot of people, and some really bad things happened to otto, some real really bad things. but he tells me that he didn t know about it and i will take him at his word. terrible. this president is awfully willing to take the word of a strong man over his own people. let s not forget helsinki.
22-year-old american who was in prison in north korea for 17 months. he felt badly about it. i did speak to him. he felt very badly. he knew the case very well, but he knew it later. you know, you got a lot of people. it s a big country. a lot of people. and in those prisons and those camps, you have a lot of people, and some really bad things happened to otto, some real estate, real really, really things, but he tells me he doesn t know about it and i will take him at his word. terrible. this president is awfully willing to take the word of a strong man over his own people. let s not forget helsinke, july 2018. when president trump stood next to lad mivladimir putin and sai didn t see any reason russia
individual. he probably is based on his record. i think i agree with him on that. but at the same time, my people think it could have been a violation, as you know. i view it differently. he sure does view it differently. go right ahead, kim jong-un. launch all the missiles you want as long as you keep slamming my opponent. the enemy of my enemy is my friend. let s remember exactly how murderous murderous kim jong-un is, just in case you forgot or are condoning this sort of behavior. kim jong-un starved his own people. he executed his own family members. and let s remember that he is responsible for the brutal death of american student otto warmbier even though this president was perfectly willing to take the dictator s word on that one, too, his word that he had no idea what happened to the
it is the institution, it is the power source. you see them having speakers calling president trump a politician, quote, chosen by god, a 16-foot painting that people are taking pictures of of president trump, almost like he s someone who is beyond this world. that is the scene at cpac. that is the republican party. and republicans on capitol hill a few miles away often tell me they want to ignore this reality, accept a bargain on a tax cut, and some of them like that bargain, they say they can swallow it, they don t like this base but they do acknowledge that is the reality. and bringing it back to the death of american student otto warmbier, here is president trump talking about that at the vietnam summit and followed by the president trying to walk it back at cpac and john bolton trying to wangle his way through
the job they have chosen. it s a sorry job. i asked about otto warmbier and he clearly wanted to say pretty directly that he was on the side of otto warmbier s family and that he believed that kim was involved in what had happened. i do think there are some foreign policy issues where you do see republicans being more willing to speak out, but the reality is there s not a lot that they can do. and kind of across the board on domestic issues, whenever we see something like what we saw at cpac for two hours, we watched that hearing, there want a republican in there defending the president s actions and yet they won t criticize him either. republicans will say behind the scenes it was indefensible what michael cohen laid out as having happened but at the same time they do remain silent about it