but ken bae's sister is very angry. they simply don't know what they're doing and she said as much. >> it's clear he doesn't know anything about kenneth, about his imprisonment in north korea, and you know, he is no diplomat, and he certainly doesn't have any authority to speak and pass judgment on kenneth. >> reporter: the white house isn't commenting. they never do on private trips but they do want ken bae to be released. nothing apart from that from the white house, however, a democrat from the state of new york was trying to say today that he thought doing this kim jong-un was equivalent to taking hitler to lunch. >> rodman is going to take a pounding on this. he's out of his depth on this. >> reporter: what you have to remember he's the only american, of all the diplomats, leaders, he's the only american to meet this leader. he has opened the door. >> because they won't play that game. >> reporter: the one thing the white house has referred to, jay carney earlier in the show, he has acknowledged basketball diplomac

. >> do you understand what ken bae did. >> you tell me. >> no, no, no, you tell me. you tell me. why is he held captive? >> they haven't released any charges. >> then dennis went menace. >> no, i don't give a [ bleep ]. i don't give a rat's ass what the hell you think. i'm standing here. look at this guy. look at him. ain't no show. let me do this, really? really? i'm going to tell you one thing. people are running the world. i'm going to do one thing. you're the guy behind the mic right now. we are the guys here doing one thing. we're going to go back to america and take the abuse. do you have to take the abuse that we going to snake do you, sir, let me know, you don't take abuse, we going to give it. >> well, it's a little unclear what the hell he was saying. not all of us speak rodman. thank goodness we got ahold of a translated version. >> let me do this. really, really, i'm going to tell you one thing. people run the role of ruining the world. i'm going to do one thing. you're the guy behind the mic right now. we are the guys here doing one thing. we have to go back to ameri

ambassador, simply put, do you think what rodman says hurts the state department's efforts to get ken bae released? >> it's hard to say. usually when you work on these releases you work as quiet as possible and at the end of the fray you may have a public statement of some kind. so this is not the usual place to get the relief. >> although, playing devil's advocate here, here you have dennis rodman talking about, seemingly to suggest to bae deserved to be in prison. that would give kim jong-un some cover for what the u.s. government believes is completely unjustifiable imprisonment. >> that's right. that was an extraordinary statement and i'm glad he apologized for it. i mean, that was really over the top. you know, one has to keep in mind that what really is going on here is the north koreans are using him and others as an internal propaganda show. they don't really care too much what we think. it's more to do with their internal issues. so i think that comment by rodman was very useful to them. if they want to release them, they will release him. if they don't, they won't. i wouldn't wo

. >> reporter: well, it may or may not, but in the meantime, the sister of ken bae is hopping mad.d this guy is not a diplomat. he doesn't know what he's talking about. the limited response from the white house, said this is a private ship. but they say its like taking hitler to lunch. >> wow, let that sit in the room. thank you. coming up on al jazeera, calls for justice and end to violence after a popular, beautiful venezuela actress is gunned down. some say the government is to blame. >>> and bombshell documents that may prove the office planned revenge on a local mayor because he didn't endoo endorse christis election campaign. and the new gadgets live from the consumer electronic show from las vegas. that's next. consider this. the news of the day plus so much more. answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> it seems like they can't agree to anything in washington no matter what. real reporting that brings you the world. giving you a real global perspective like no other can. real reporting from around the world. this is what we do. al jazeera america. j. >> welcome bac

former basketball player dennis rodman apologized again for implying in an interview that missionary ken bae did something to deserve being held captive. rodman plans to return to north korea next month. >> 49ers a step closer to the sixth super bowl title following yesterday's win against the panthers. the 9ers back in town getting ready for sunday's showdown with seattle. >> interesting story. a discussion about cancer has exploded into a full flight on line. >> columnist taking issue with a blogger. >> i suspect nobody set out to hurt anyone. but feelings have been hurt. time columnist bill keller wrote over the weekend about breast cancer called heroic measures and featured a prominent blogger named lisa adams. adams has stage 4 breast cancer, she's made her fight for her health very public on a blog and twitter account. the take away some got from "the new york times" column is that lisa should stop fighting, that there is some kind of point it no longer makes sense and you should have acceptance instead. it has as you might imagine caused strong reaction online. one mother wrote, disgu

during an appearance today ken bae says he wants to return to his family as soon as possible and he hopes that the u.s. can help. bay apologized. said he had committed acts against the northern korean government. he was arrested while acting as a tour guide, accused of using the business to form anti-government groups. he has been sentenced to 15 years hard labor. >> a new report out says a 17-year-old from russia is to blame for the target security breach that compromised the credit and debit card information of 70 million customers. intel crawler says it traced the breach back to an inexpensive malwear program created by the russian teen. the program may also have been used in the neiman-marcus breach. it does not believe they were linked to the people but that he wrote and sold the malwear script. at least 40 cyber criminals bought the script from the teen. >> there are questions whether russia helped nsa's leaker edward snowden before he fled the u.s. >> i don't think it's -- it was a gee whiz luck event he ended up in moscow. under the handling of the ssb. >> he may well have. we don

interview with chris, rodman seemed to suggest he knew why the american kenneth bae is being held in north korea. he said kene must have done something to be sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. today chris asked if he wanted to apologize to bae's family. >> i don't even know the bae family. i keep trying to tell you. i have sympathy with the fact that i don't want anyone to go in any country and be hostage for something maybe they did or did not do. like i say, i'm not in government. i don't know how that works. but with the bae family, you know, like i said, i feel for them. i people for them deeply. let me tell you this. i would do anything. this is dennis rodman talking. if they say we'll take dennis rodman and let bae go, i would do it. straight ahead, i would say, take me. >> chris cuomo is joining us now for a little more analysis. good work. we were all watching. i was riveted at 8:00 a.m. eastern on "new day" when you were doing the interview at the clinic rehab. you spoke about his struggles with alcohol. tell our viewer as what he said. >> yeah. i mean, wolf, that really was the motivation to go a

he's criticized for statements he made about ken neth bae, accused of taking payment from the north koreanes. he's been ridiculed for singing happy birthday to kim jong-un. pandemonium with the press, travelers still trying to come out. press gathered around both doors to see rodman as he comes through, and now rodman's security team are worried about the situation here. they're calling on the chinese to do their job and to push the press back. right now there is no sign of that. >> i'm sorry about all the people and what's going on. i'm sorry. i'm not the president. i'm not an ambassador. i'm dennis rodman, just an individual, just showing the world the fact that we can actually get along and be happy for one day. i would love to see -- i would love to see -- >> reporter: as you can sigh, chaos here. more media today than any other day. chinese police are in the middle there, rodman's personal security team are in the middle there. he's just on the other side, unsure how he's going to get out right now. he's scheduled to fly back to the u.s. sometime later monday. karl penhaul, cnn, beiji

said, i'm not a trader and explains his bizarre outburst over this man, imprisoned american, ken neneth baebassador. i tried to strive and tell people, just because i know the marshall, that don't mean that i know the marshall like that. i don't know anything about the guy, kenneth bae. for people to think that i knew him. >> you also suggested in the interview that he had done something wrong. >> i apologize. i never said what he did. >> you suggested like he did something wrong. >> then, i went back to the question. i said, do you know what he did? people responded so badly. >> you don't think he did anything wrong? >> to this day, i still don't know what he did. i never suggested i knew. he said, did you know what he did, do you know? >> for any offense to the bae family, you want to apologize. >> i don't know the bae family. i don't want anyone to go in any country and anywhere in the world to be hostage for something that maybe they did or did not do. i'm not in government. dealing with the bay family, you know, i feel for them. i feel for them deeply. i don't know. i would do anything

ken niece bae urged the united states during a news conference a short time ago to cooperate with thesive nation to secure his release. he also admitted on camera to committing serious crimes against pyongyang. paula hancock is in seoul, south korea with more for your. >> reporter: carol, he was escorted in and out of the room by two military officials. the u.s. imprisoned citizens kenneth bae said he wants to be freed and go home to his family. he's calling on the u.s. government to do their best to secure his release. he did say that he wanted to make another public apology to the north korean government and also said recent media reports made his situation quite complicated. the assumption is that this is referring to comments that have been made from certain officials saying that bae had not carried out any crime in north korea, in fact just last month the u.s. vice president joe biden said that he was being held for no reason. so what we heard from the u.s. citizen who is still being held in north korea today was basically he said i have committed a crime. i apologized to the nor

ken bay free. >> kenneth bae's family has waited more than a year for his release, and his sister joins us now. to the program. >> thank you for having me. >> first of all give me your reaction to what has happened in the last 24 hours regarding dennis rodman. >> we were shocked and just appalled. it's one thing for him to say -- [ inaudible ] and that's okay. he's a private citizen, but it's another thing to hurl these outrageous accusations against my brother. he clearly doesn't know what he is talking about. he is uninformed about the case, and we were shocked by that. this isn't a game, this is a serious issue with a person's life on the line. >> let us play a sound bite that came from cnn. >> one thing about politics, kenneth bae, if you are going to say what kenneth bae did, do you understand what he did. >> what did he do? you tell me. >> to this country. >> what do you think is behind this, terry? >> it's hard to know. i'm not sure who he has been talking to. where he's getting his information, but, you know, i don't think dennis rodman has any authority to pass judgment on kenneth bae

state department been able to help ken knit bae.nt doing enough here because it is humiliating to have to depend on dennis rod man. what's your take? >> well the problem is that this new north korean leader, we don't know where he's coming from. he's very hostile to the united states. he has refused treaty from the united states states department. american especially voi was going to -- envoy was going to go and the north koreans said don't come. so the state department has tried. the problem is we know very little about this new leader. we know he is having internal problems obviously. this brutal execution. replacing military leaders that he's had that were loyal to his father. he seems a bit insecure. he's only 31 years old, has very little experience. so the problem here is that rodman is about the only person that he has talked to from the outside world. the chinese who are the pa troens of north korea have not been able to move this new young leader into negotiation with anybody, with south korea with the united states. many e

confronted by the media pack and he said he was sorry he wasn't able to do more for american missioner ken earth baeorry about what's going on in north korea. i'm not god, i'm not an ambassador, i'm no one. >> reporter: a slightly different tone from dennis rodman, arriving at beijing international airport after nearly a week in north korea. initially not wanting to talk about his trip, then within minutes, he couldn't resist. >> i haven't done anything wrong. nothing wrong. so i don't know why people are saying that, well, dennis rodman this, dennis rodman that. it's not about me. >> reporter: he believes his efforts inside this reclusive country have been wrongly represented and unappreciated, insisting his basketball diplomacy has been a success. >> i just went over there to show the world the fact that we can actually get along in sports. that is it. >> reporter: members of rodman's team have also spoken out in defense of the controversial visit. >> i think i'm astute enough to understand the dynamics. we did not get paid from north korea at all. >> they were blinded by the pay day. ♪ happy birt