Major Garrett Presses Sarah Sanders: How Can Trump Call Kim Jong Un ‘Honorable’ After Otto Warmbier?

‘How do you reconcile those two assessments of the leader and the regime in North Korea?’

RUSH TRANSCRIPPT:

GARRETT: “On North Korea, during the state of the union address, the president described the north Korean regime as one shamefully tried an American, sent him back to the country nearly dead, starves its own people and is a dictatorship worse almost than any other. That’s what he said in the state of the union. How could that all be true if Kim Jong-un is honorable and open? How do you reconcile those two assessments of the leader and the regime in North Korea?”

HUCKABEE SANDERS: “President is referencing the conversations that we’ve had on going over the last month or so in regards to the meetings that take place and their willingness to denuclearize.”

GARRETT: “What changed his appraisal of Kim Jong-un?”

HUCKABEE SANDERS: “Certainly not that. But he wants to have the ability to sit down and have these conversations and in that process, they have been open with their willingness to denuclearize. That’s been the focus and what we have been pushing for an expect to happen.

GARRETT: “He thinks the regime has changed?”

HUCKABEE SANDERS: “We think the maximum pressure campaign is working. But again, we’re not going to letted up on that campaign until we see some of the words that they’ve made go into concrete action. They’re moving in the right direction. John?”

RUSH TRANSCRIPPT:

GARRETT: “On North Korea, during the state of the union address, the president described the north Korean regime as one shamefully tried an American, sent him back to the country nearly dead, starves its own people and is a dictatorship worse almost than any other. That’s what he said in the state of the union. How could that all be true if Kim Jong-un is honorable and open? How do you reconcile those two assessments of the leader and the regime in North Korea?”

HUCKABEE SANDERS: “President is referencing the conversations that we’ve had on going over the last month or so in regards to the meetings that take place and their willingness to denuclearize.”

GARRETT: “What changed his appraisal of Kim Jong-un?”

HUCKABEE SANDERS: “Certainly not that. But he wants to have the ability to sit down and have these conversations and in that process, they have been open with their willingness to denuclearize. That’s been the focus and what we have been pushing for an expect to happen.

GARRETT: “He thinks the regime has changed?”

HUCKABEE SANDERS: “We think the maximum pressure campaign is working. But again, we’re not going to letted up on that campaign until we see some of the words that they’ve made go into concrete action. They’re moving in the right direction. John?”

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