. >> reporter: -- personay met with the north koreans to free otto. >> the north koreans stiffed me.hey never said yes. they never said no. otto was in a coma, and they didn't want anybody to know. >> reporter: the former governor has a stern warning to the estimated 1,000 americans traveling to north korea every year. >> don't go to north korea if you're an american tourist. you don't need to go there. go somewhere else. it's too dangerous. and you may end up like otto warmbier. unjustly killed. this is a human being detained, 21 years old, with a great family, a grieving family. north korea should not get away with this. >> reporter: and as america mourns otto's death -- >> i wish there was a way to know that you're in the good old days before you've actually left them. >> reporter: back at his high school his friends remember his bright spirit. >> he said we'll always have each other talking about our class. and i think now more than ever that's really showing to be true. and otto would want that. >> the memories we've created to be played over and over again. thank you. [ applaus

essentially validates, in their view, the president's publ public statements that the prident is n personaysident wanted an satellite associates investigated, esseially. there's this quote that he says, if you find out if they've done anything wrong, that would be good, too. look for republican allies of the president's to point to that and say this shows that the president wanted to get to the bottom of this in the first place. there are contradictions between what james comey has said so far and what the president has said publicly, specifically about the flynn investigation and whether it should be let go. there's a lot of he said, he said. a lot of anticipation. the line was down the hallway before we walked in this morning. >> hallie jackson, cool look inside the hearing room today. thanks so much. >> a lot of people wondering, will donald trump be reacting in real time to this. he has time on his schedule this morning. he has an event around noontime into the afternoon. he has not tweeted in almost 24 hours since he was getting ready to go to cincinnati today. >> the lawyers must have