NBC’s Lester Holt reports from North Korea, says the dictatorial regime treated him ‘with respect’

“NBC Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt reported from North Korea that the dictatorial regime of Kim Jong Un currently holding millions of South Koreans under threat of nuclear holocaust treated him and his crew “with respect.”

Here’s video of Lester Holt from North Korea:

Inside North Korea: @LesterHoltNBC shares details of his trip so far.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs “crafted much of the itinerary of where we can go and advising us on what they don’t frankly want us to shoot.”

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— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) January 21, 2018

North Korea, where citizens were found to be infected with gastrointestinal worms from fields fertilized with human feces, greeted the NBC crew cheerfully as the news team traveled from their cloistered lives in the United States to their carefully crafted visit to the Hermit Kingdom.

“This is the bunny slope at a very modern ski resort here in North Korea,” Holt said, marveling at the modern advances of a country where many people are so deprived of nutrition they have cognitive and developmental deficiencies.

“We’re here because some of the athletes from the South and North, based on this new alliance, will be doing some of their training here,” Holt added, neglecting to mention that the Kim regime is trying to mount anthrax on intercontinental missiles, a move that would threaten the lives of millions of people.

“It’s been announced the North Koreans will field 22 athletes in the upcoming Winter games in South Korea. That’s fueling some sense of hope and optimism of cooperation in other ways between the two countries,” he added, without noting the hopelessness and angst of the parents of Otto Warmbeir, who was returned by North Korea to the U.S. in a vegetative state and died from injuries of an indeterminate nature.

“We arrived in North Korea on Saturday, we flew the North Korean state airline, it’s about an hour and a half flight from Beijing, they even make an announcement in flight when you actually cross the border into North Korea,” Holt noted, ignoring the plight of North Koreans that were starved so brutally under Communist control that they were forced to slaughter their own children to survive.

“We quickly passed through immigration, uh, went through a very lengthy and very detailed customs inspection of not only our equipment but our personal items down to the novels we were reading, even in one case, a toothbrush of our crew members,” Holt added, as he explained his crew’s entry into a nation of totalitarian oppression.

“But we have been treated,” Holt paused, “uh, with respect here.”

Holt seemed upbeat and hopeful about his visit to the Hermit Kingdom, despite a State Department warning that any American citizens traveling to North Korea should expect to be kidnapped and most likely murdered by the terrorism-sponsor state.

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Comey and Sessions Are Questioned for Hours in Russia Inquiry

The attorney general announced in March that he had recused himself from all matters related to the 2016 election, including the Russia inquiry. The disclosure came after it was revealed that Mr. Sessions had not told Congress that he met twice with the Russian ambassador to the United States at the time, Sergey I. Kislyak, during the campaign.

Mr. Sessions, an early supporter of Mr. Trump’s presidential run, had been among a small group of senior campaign and administration officials whom Mr. Mueller had been expected to interview.

Mr. Mueller’s interest in Mr. Sessions shows how the president’s own actions helped prompt a broader inquiry. What began as a Justice Department counterintelligence investigation into Russia’s election interference is now also an examination of whether Mr. Trump tried to obstruct the inquiry, and the nation’s top law enforcement officer is a witness in the case.

For Mr. Mueller, Mr. Sessions is a key witness to two of the major issues he is investigating: the campaign’s possible ties to the Russians and whether the president tried to obstruct the Russia investigation.

Mr. Mueller can question Mr. Sessions about his role as the head of the campaign’s foreign policy team. Mr. Sessions was involved in developing Mr. Trump’s position toward Russia and met with Russian officials, including the ambassador.

Along with Mr. Trump, Mr. Sessions led a March 2016 meeting at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, where one of the campaign’s foreign policy advisers, George Papadopoulos, pitched the idea of a personal meeting between Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin. Mr. Papadopoulos plead guilty in October to lying to federal authorities about the nature of his contacts with the Russians and agreed to cooperate with the special counsel’s office.

As attorney general, Mr. Sessions was deeply involved in the firing of the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, and the president has repeatedly criticized Mr. Sessions publicly and privately for recusing himself from the Russia investigation.

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When Mr. Trump learned in March that Mr. Sessions was considering whether to recuse himself, the president had the White House’s top lawyer, Donald F. McGahn II, lobby Mr. Sessions to remain in charge of the Russia investigation.

Mr. Sessions instead followed the guidance of career prosecutors at the Justice Department, who advised him that he should not be involved with the investigation. When Mr. Trump was told of this, the president erupted in anger, saying he needed an attorney general to protect him.

After Mr. Mueller was appointed in May, Mr. Trump again erupted at Mr. Sessions and Mr. Sessions offered to resign. Several days later, Mr. Trump rejected Mr. Sessions’s offer.

Two weeks ago, Mr. Mueller subpoenaed Mr. Trump’s former chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, to testify before a grand jury. Mr. Mueller is expected to forgo the grand jury appearance for now and will have his investigators interview Mr. Bannon in the coming weeks.

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