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
empathy with the people that you lead, the people that you guide, the people that you claim to be leading. you empathize with them. you feel their pain. you feel their suffering. you feel what they re going through. but this president has disappointed time after time after time, be it captain khan s mother or sergeant la david s widow or parents of otto warmbier. he has disappointed the nation. he has disappointed us. basically, the element of that empathy is missing. without that we will continue to go through this ordeal, whatever time is left, whatever time we have to endure him being in the oval office. yes. you were obviously vocal during the campaign, you and your wife withstood the president s
praising kim jong-un and saying that he believes that kim jong-un didn t know what happened to otto warmbier, i m wondering what your perspective is on that? well, first, our hearts are with warmbier family for their courage, for their patience, for their putting up with this amazing, amazing political ex pee pediency on the part of donald trump. i have a special connection with otto. he was a student of university of virginia, same school, thomas jefferson s university where captain khan went to school. your son. where i feel a special connection with otto and he never will be forgotten. we want the warmbier family to know that we stand with them, america stands with them, all decent america stands with them.
of hope for the rest of the world as it always has been. yes. momentarily we are going through an anomaly that has taken place in 2016, and i am certain that america s decency, america s leadership will prevail. mr. khan, i appreciate your time. my best to your family. thank you. joining us is columnist kristin powers, author of corrosion of conservative, why i left the right. max, i don t know what to ask. why do you think is it just he is trying to gain leverage in negotiation goes and not alienate kim jong-un for the greater good? i mean i guess that s one argument. but the negotiations have broken down. he seems to genuinely i mean there are ways to not alienate kim jong-un and continue