about it, and i will take him at his word. he believes kim jong-un. what went through your head when you heard that? well, it s disgraceful after what happened to otto, to an american citizen who was tortured and mistreated in north korea. but also just think about it from a pragmatic perspective. we re trying to disarm north korea. you re not going to do that by believing blindly everything that kim jong-un tells you. if you believe kim jong-un on otto warmbier, you re going to believe him on nuclear weapons and missiles as well. in fact, the president has. the president has believed him over intelligence that suggests that there s all sorts of activity still happening in their nuclear realm. there does seem to be a pattern here in which the president believes what he is told by powerful people who are accused of moral transgressions, whether it s putin, whether it s mohammad bin salman, the crown prince of saudi arabia, now kim
and headline to get numb to it all and think this is normal, and every now and then the president says something which even republicans start to credit site a little bit. yes. and this otto warmbier comment is it is stunning that yet again the president of the united states, you know, after talking about having a love affair with kim jong-un, who has concentration camps in the country with tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people in it, and obviously was aware of otto warmbier and, you know, everything flows to and from kim in north korea. it can t it is not like he s uninformed. this is not normal for a president to be saying stuff like this. it is not normal and i don t think we will see it again for a long time, at least i certainly hope not. it is actually very chilling. you know, i m glad you raised it in these terms because the central issue here is whether the president yet again is putting his faith in the world s
korean officials to get warmbier who was in a coma at that point out of the country. kim jong-un didn t know about that. pretend for a second that he didn t know. well, he certainly does now and who has been held responsible for otto warmbier s killing? who? mr. trump takes credit for getting warmbier out in time to die in front of his family. what about demanding to know what actually was done to this young american and by whom? the president keeps saying something happened to warmbier, something really that the president thinks something bad happened to him, really bad happened to him. something didn t happen to warmbier. terrible things were done to otto warmbier. that s what this country s top intelligence and national security professionals determined. as far as the president is concerned, no one in the top leadership of the most repressive regime in the world knows a thing. what about the promise he made to the family of otto warmbier, to their faces, a promise he also made to
allow that to happen. those prisons are rough. they re rough places. and bad things happen. but i really don t believe that he was i don t believe he knew about it. did he tell you that he did not did kim jong-un he felt badly about it. he knew the case very well, but he knew it later. and you know, you have a lot of people, a big country. a lot of people. in those prins and in those camps, you have a lot of people. and some really bad things happened to otto. some really, really bad things. but he tells me that he didn t know about it. and i will take him at his word. kim jong-un felt badly about otto warmbier. the young american he imprisoned for 17 months. the president claims in fact that no one in the top leadership in north korea knew about what happened to otto warmbier. he believes kim jong-un didn t know about warmbier until later. america negotiated with north
will not have died in vain. otto and his family have become a tremendous symbol of strong passion and strength which will last for many years into the future. i love otto and i think of him often. the president today, because nothing says love like telling his family, you re welcome. nothing shows american resolve like playing defense attorney to a dictator, and nothing inspires respect in a dictator, whether it is the one in pyongyang or riyadh or moscow, in letting them lie to you and saying you believe those lies over the professionals, the american professionals, whose only job and sole sworn duty is to tell you the truth. in addition to appeasing dictators, the president, of course, has a record of antagonizing grieving families whether it is the warmbiers, john mccain s family or the parents of a fallen american soldier killed in a suicide attack in iraq in 2004. you remember the president attack his parents during the campaign. joining us now is his father. mr. khan, thank you f