And tonight, a u. S. Senator, marco rubio, has called his death murder. Back on american soil, Inka Pass Tated after 17 months in a north korean prison. His fathers first words to his son. What did i say to my son . I knelt down by his side and i hugged him and i told him i missed him and i was so glad he made it home. Reporter but the 22yearold was in a state of unresponsiveness waitfulness, damaged throughout his brain, rendering him able to brink and at times move, but there was nothing left of the adventurous young than that had departed nearly two years earlier. Otto, i love you and im so crazy about you, and im so glad youre home. You are such a great guy. Reporter the north korean government claimed that warmbier contracted botulism, took a Sleeping Pill and fell into what they call a coma. A north korean mri confirmed the
he was accused and tried for hostile acts after the north korean government claimed he took down a Propaganda Poster in the hotel where he was staying on the night before he was to depart the country. This video provided to cnn by the Warmbier Family Shows Otto in north korea with his tour group, no indication of any hostile acts toward north korea. Just a young man experiencing the world. Miguel, any reaction from the Trump Administration . And do we know at this point any retaliatory actions are being considered . Reporter the president spoke about it, called it brutality what the north koreans did, and hopes to keep this from happening to anyone else. Interestingly, the Secretary Of State tillerson said he holds the north koreans accountable for the unjust imprisonment but stopped short of saying that they were responsible for his death. This administration it does not
appear wants to go to war over otto warmbier. Thank you very much. There were no cameras today at the White House Press briefing or microphones either. However, whether on camera or off, there was no answer to a very simple question. Mr. President , are you under investigation by the Special Counsel . Mr. President , are you under investigation by the Special Counsel . The president said nothing. But thats okay, because he didnt have. We already know the answer. I am being investigated for firing the fbi director by the man who told me the fbi director. Witch hunt. It seems clear, by i am being investigated it would appear that he means i am being investigated. Unless perhaps he really meant something very different, like, i dont know, maybe the exact opposite. It was 141 characters. Theres a limitation on twitter. And the president is a very ekttive utilization of social media. So the president issued that social Media Statement based on
a fake report, a report with no documented sources, from the Washington Post. There should be no confusion, that the president is not under investigation. So thats one of the president s new lawyers, jay sekulow, making the rounds on the sunday news programs. That was the line. It was the president practicing media criticism, not actually saying hes under investigation, which hes not, unless of course he is. But who would dare contradict jay sekulow about this claim he says there should be no confusion. Who i ask you . How about jay sekulow himself. Now hes being investigated by the department of justice, so hes being investigated for taking the action that the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney general recommended him to take by the agency, who recommended the termination. Okay. So if youre keeping score, according to jay sekulow, the president both was not and was under investigation. That was just sunday. What about today . To fire the fbi director. Witch hunt. Maybe instead of meaning hes under investigation or hes commenting on a Washington Post story, maybe its none of those things. Maybe its Something Else entirely. Thats the president with his social media platform telling everybody look at the irony here. I honestly do not know what that means. I do not know what that means. Cnns jim acosta joins us from the white house to clear up any irony there may be. Jim, this seems to be another example of the president simply i dont know, not being on the same page with those that represent him is. That what it is . Reporter im not sure theyre on the same planet, anderson, and i dont understand that east whatever you just played. Not only have we heard the white house say, well, the president s tweets speak for themselves, weve already heard the president say he likes to use social media because it goes over the filter of the main
stream news media. So that would come with the suggestion that you should believe his tweets as theyre written, as theyre posted. So to have jay sekulow Go On The Sunday Talk Shows and the morning talk shows this morning and explain this away you have to come back to the simple truth, and that is when the president tweets something, the white house believes that is the gospel around here. I will tell you today that we tried to get answers to other questions, whether he has recordings of his conversations. We did not get an answer to that. The president said we would get an answer to that shortly. And also this question of whether or not he believes he can fire robert mueller, the Special Counsel. That question was asked time and time again today and we did not get an answer. The briefing today was off camera, there was no recording of audio actually allowed. What is the reasoning behind that . What justification is there . Reporter the reason today, and keep in mind the reason today may not be the reason
were given tomorrow. But today they said the president was going to be speaking in front of the cameras when he was with the president of panama, and also later in the day when he made those comments about the death of otto warmbier. But as you played at the beginning of this broadcast, the president was asked are you under investigation . And he didnt answer the question. So we have a situation, anderson, where theyre simply stonewalling us. And you have to say it the way it is. When you have a Press Briefing here at the white house, we have pen and pad opportunities from time to time, and we dont record those meetings. Theyre there basically for editorial purposes. But when you drag the Report Sboers the Briefing Room and insist they cant record via audio what is said in that briefing from the White House Press secretary, you are taking us into a strange new world where accountability doesnt exist. And it removes the possibility that we could ask followup
questions to some important inquiries. Thats something that happened today. We allowed it to happen, and something we shouldnt allow to happen again. If we continue to allow this stonewalling to go on, theyre just going to do it time and again, where the new normal will be we just dont have Press Briefings on camera anymore. In the united states, they do it at city hall with the mayor and your statehouse with your governor or other elected officials, why cant the president . Ive got to ask this, what are they afraid about being on camera . Clearly weve seen time and time again, they say things which turn out to be not true or the president declares not to be true the next day. Is that the concern, they can in the past theyve said this president is so fast, i dont want i cant remember the exact quote, but hes so on the go, that his spokes people cant keep up with him to get factual information, which makes no sense. Reporter it doesnt make sense. There was one instance today
where sean spicer, the Press Secretary was asked, does the president believe in Climate Change . You said you would get back to us. That question was asked again today, and the White House Press secretary, sean spicer, did not have an answer to the question whether or not the president believes in Climate Change. The president said a month ago that he was going to have a News Conference in two weeks on isis. He said two weeks ago that he was going to have a News Conference on isis. I think were just getting to the point, anderson, where not only can we not believe the president when he makes a claim about when hes going to talk to us, but what the White House Press office is saying in these Briefing Room it is theyre not willing to deal with this on the up and up. I think that is the problem right now that were dealing with, and i hate to say it, but these Press Briefings arent going to serve much of a purpose if we dont go back to the old rules where were allowed to videotape. I could have held up my phone today, anderson, and tried to
record the press Secretary Sean Spicer speaking to us, and play for you what would have happened to me had i done that . Would they have hauled us off . Taken our Press Credentials . I dont know. Thats just the upside down world were living in right now where they refuse to answer these questions on camera or audio. And seemingly refuse to ask the president a question, does he believe in Climate Change, is he recording conversations in the oval office. Theres a host of things they seem reporter lots of yes and no questions. More Breaking News involving Michael Flynn whose contact with the russians are already under investigation. Jim acosta joins us now. What have you learned . Reporter jim sciutto this time. How many times have i done that to you . Reporter thats right. Im not taking it personally. This is a letter from the ranking democrat on the House Oversight committee and the
ranking democrat on the House Foreign Affairs committee, Drawing Attention to two foreign trips that Michael Flynn took in 2015. One in the summer, the other in october of 2015. They say the first he did not report at all on his Security Clearance form. And the second one he omitted Key Information as to why he went, who he traveled with, et cetera. This coming on the heels of previous nondisclosures by flynn of meetings. And theyre looking at it now because russia involved again, the trip was to saudi arabia, but general flynn went to saudi arabia to help broker a deal between russia and saudi arabia for building a number of Nuclear Power plants there. I reached out to flynns lawyer. He did say they received this letter, and i reached out to republicans on the committee to see why they didnt sign onto this letter. Im told by democrats on the Oversight Committee that republicans declined the chance
to sign on. Im told by a gop aide on the Foreign Affairs committee they did not hear of this letter until i came to them for comment on it. And not reporting foreign travel on a Security Clearance form, is that considered a crime . Reporter it is. Its right there, a u. S. Code title 18, section 1001, knowingly falsifying or concealing such foreign travel is a felony, punishable up to five years. Its clear on these forms when you read them, it says right there at the top, report all your travel, and also crucially your meetings with foreign officials during these trips. This is Something Else that the ranking democrats on these committees are Drawing Attention to, that seven years before general flynn applied to regain his Security Clearance before entering the Trump Administration, he did not list a single meeting with a foreign official for seven years prior to then. So they are raising questions here, not just about a couple of
trips but multiple meetings with foreign officials that he did not report. Maybe theres an innocent explanation, but there does seem to be a pattern, flynn, kushner, sessions, of nondisclosure on Security Clearance forms. Reporter we had this with Jared Kushner for his first form, did not list any of the meetings. He later, under questioning from members of the media and others, supplied that information on the Security Clearance form. And Attorney GeneralJeff Sessions did not supply his initial explanation was that a retired fbi agent said that travel while he was a senator was not relevant. Very hard questions about that, because no such exceptions are made in the u. S. Law. He later supplied some of that information. But you have a pattern here. It could be an innocent omission. But the fact is, it becomes the subject of these continuing congressional investigations. And many of those questions,
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