Why President Donald Trump Cannot Run From Warmbier's Death

LOTS GOING ON IN THE REPUBLICAN'S VOTE ON HEALTH
CARE. >> THE SHOCK AND SADNESS OF THE
DEATH OF OTTO WARMBIER. HE WAS CONVICTED IN 2016 FOR
ATTEMPTING TO STEAL A PROPAGANDA POSTER.
HE WAS SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS OF HARD LABOR.
HE WAS RETURNED WITH BRAIN DAMAGE.
THEY CLAIM HE CONTACTED BOTULISM.
PRESIDENT TRUMP, WHO ONCE SAID IT WOULD BE AN HONOR TO MEET KIM
JONG UN WEIGHED IN ON WARMBIER'S
PASSING. >> OTTO WARMBIER HAS JUST PASSED
AWAY. HE SPENT A YEAR AND A HALF IN
NORTH KOREA, A LOT OF BAD THINGS HAPPENED, BUT AT LEAST WE GOT
HIM HOME TO BE WITH HIS PARENTS WHERE THEY WERE SO HAPPY TO SEE
HIM, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS IN VERY TOUGH CONDITION.
BUT HE JUST PASSED AWAY A LITTLE WHILE AGO.
IT'S A BRUTAL REGIME AND WE'LL BE ABLE TO HANDLE IT.
>> SENATOR JOHN McCAIN WAS MORE DIRECT IN A STATEMENT SAYING IN
PART LET US STATE THE FACTS PLAINLY.
OTTO WARMBIER, AN AMERICAN CITIZENS WAS MURDERED IN THE KIM
JONG UN REGIME. IN THE FINAL YEAR OF HIS LIFE HE
LIVED THE NIGHTMARE IN WHICH THE NORTH KOREAN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN
TRAPPED FOR 70 YEARS. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
SHOULD NOT TOLERATE OF MURDER OF ITS CITIZENS BY HOSTILE POWERS.
THREE OTHER AMERICAN CITIZENS ARE HELD BY PYONGYANG.
THE TOUR TRIP THAT WARMBIER WAS ON SAID IT WILL NO LONGER TAKE
AMERICANS TO NORTH KOREA. >> "THE WASHINGTON POST" WROTE A
PIECE PRIOR TO WARMBIER'S DEATH ENTITLED "WHY I CAN'T STOP
THINKING ABOUT OTTO WARMBIER." IT READS IN PART, WE DON'T KNOW
WHETHER NORTH KOREAN GUARDS BEAT WARMBIER INTO A COMA OR WHETHER
HIS ABUSE AND MALLE TREATMENT CAME IN SOME OTHER FORM.
WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THAT A HEALTHY YOUNG MAN FLEW TO AMONG
YANG, WAS WAS JUSTLY SEIZED AND THEN BECAME LOST TO THE WORLD
WITH NO ONE BOTHERING TO INFORM HIS PARENTS.
THE GHOULING A OF THE SOVIET UNION, THE CONCENTRATION CAMP
WAS THE NAZI GERMANY HAVE BEEN ROUGHLY REPLICATED IN NORTH
KOREA. THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS IT AND YET
THE REGIME LIVES ON. HOW CAN THAT BE?
>> IT COMES AT A TIME WHEN THIS HAS BEEN ELEVATED, PRESIDENT
OBAMA ELEVATED IT, PRESIDENT TRUMP ELEVATED IT, SAID THIS IS
MAYBE THE BIGGEST FOREIGN POLICY CRISIS AND CHALLENGE THE U.S.
CRISIS. A STORY OF SOMEONE CAN CHANG THE
ISSUE AND GALVANIZE THE ISSUE. LET'S BRING IN GORDON CHANG, IS
THIS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE ADMINISTRATION TO CHANGE COURSE,
TO GET MORE LEVERAGE OS DOES IT COMPLICATE WHAT WAS ALREADY A
COMPLICATED SITUATION? >> THE ANSWER IS PROBABLY BOTH.
THIS DOES GALVANIZE. PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS SAID TO HAVE
GIVEN THEM 100 DAYS TO ADDRESS THIS.
I THINK THAT ESSENTIALLY THE CHINESE DON'T HAVE A HUNDRED
DAYS ANYMORE BECAUSE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE GOING TO
DEMAND ANSWERS. THIS IS NOT JUST THE BRUTALITY
OF ONE INDIVIDUAL, IT'S PUTTING THE UNITED STATES AT RISK WITH
BALLISTIC MISSILE AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
SO ALL OF THIS IS COMING TO A HEAD AT THE SAME TIME AND
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS NO WAY TO RUN FOR THIS.
>> GORDON, THE CASE OF OTTO WARMBIER IS TRAGIC AND ALSO KIND
OF UNIQUE. THE NORTH KOREANS IN THE PAST
TREATED AMERICANS THIS BADLY. THEY TEND TO HAVE RETURNED THEM
HOME IN GOOD CONDITION. DO YOU THINK SOMETHING IS
CHANGING IN NORTH KOREA, IN PYONGYANG, ARE THEY SENDING A
SIGNAL OR IS THIS A MISTAKE MADE SOMEWHERE?
>> WE DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION.
WE KNOW THE REGIME OF KIM JONG UN IS LESS STABLE THAN IT WAS.
WE HAD THE MINISTER OF STATE SECURITY, ONE OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT PERSONS. SO THERE'S A LOT THAT I THINK
HAS GONE WRONG M PYONGYANG. ALTHOUGH IT IS SURPRISING THEY
WOULD BRUTALIZE AN AMERICAN IN

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