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Trump Says He Opposes Using CIA Informants Against Kim Jong Un

President Trump says he doesn’t approve of U.S. intelligence agencies using family members of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as assets. This after a Wall Street Journal report that said Kim’s half brother traveled to Malaysia to meet his CIA contact before he was killed there in 2017. Here & Now‘s Lisa Mullins speaks with David Maxwell (@DavidMaxwell161), senior fellow at the Foundation Defense of Democracies and former Army Special Forces colonel.

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