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| Kim Dong-Chul, Kim Hak-Song and Tony Kim: Those are the names of three men who walked to freedom from North Korea's brutal camps and onto the plane of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Wednesday. All three had been sentenced to years of imprisonment for anti-state offenses. |
| Their release came as a goodwill gesture amid Pompeo's visit to plan the upcoming summit between Trump and North Korea leader Kim Jong Un. (And no, that meeting won't happen at the DMZ, Trump said.) |
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Trump's lawyer, who is under investigation, got $1 million for doing nothing, and 'nothing about it makes any sense at all' |
| You know Michael Cohen, the longtime Trump lawyer who paid adult film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to not talk about her alleged affair with Trump. What you might not know is that Cohen's company, Essential Consultants, got paid millions from companies such as AT&T and a firm tied to an oligarch from - wait for it - Russia. In one case, drug maker Novartis paid Cohen $1 million during Trump's first year in office, even after realizing Cohen couldn't help them. |
| The odd arrangement - Cohen has no experience lobbying for the health care industry - drew attention from special counsel Robert Mueller, who's now investigating Cohen and Russian ties to Trump's campaign. |
| "All he is is a guy who's close to Trump," said Robert Weissman, president of watchdog group Public Citizen. "Nothing about it makes any sense at all." |
| But no worries, Rudy Giuliani said: Cohen's issues got nothing to do with Trump. |
 | | Michael Cohen takes a phone call as he sits outside near the Loews Regency hotel on Park Ave on April 13, 2018 in New York. | | YANA PASKOVA , YANA PASKOVA, GETTY IMAGES | |
Woman who waterboarded suspects on a secret 'black site': I won't do it again, promise |
| This from our friends at USA TODAY's The Short List (our sister newsletter on basically everything): |
| CIA director nominee Gina Haspel promised senators Wednesday that she would not revive the CIA's outlawed torture program if confirmed as its first female director. Questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee focused on Haspel's 2002 oversight of a secret "black site" in Thailand, where suspected terrorists were subjected to waterboarding. |
| Haspel spent more than 30 years as a covert agent before becoming the CIA's deputy director last year, and the Intelligence Committee is likely to vote this month on whether to recommend her confirmation to the full Senate. |
 | | Gina Haspel testifies in front of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence during her confirmation hearing March 13, 2018, in Washington. | | JACK GRUBER , JACK GRUBER/USA TODAY | |
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