1/ Otto Warmbier’s family blamed Kim Jong Un for the death of their son a day after Trump said he took Kim “at his word� that the North Korean dictator was not responsible. Fred and Cindy Warmbier called Kim the leader of an “evil regime� that is “responsible for unimaginable cruelty and inhumanity� that resulted in Warmbier death in 2017. Warmbier was arrested for taking a propaganda banner from a hotel in Pyongyang in January 2016 and was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. He was released in a coma after 17 months and died days later. (NBC News / CNN / Washington Post)

The North Korean delegation to the Trump-Kim summit disputed Trump’s claim that Kim demanded that the U.S. lift all sanctions in order for North Korea to move forward with denuclearization. “Basically,� Trump said yesterday, “they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety, and we couldn’t do that. We had to walk away from that.� Hours later, two top officials from the North Korean delegation told reporters Kim had only asked for partial sanctions relief in exchange for shutting down their main nuclear complex. An anonymous senior U.S. official acknowledged that Kim only wanted the U.N. Security Council to lift the sanctions imposed since March 2016, and did not include sanctions from the previous decade. (Associated Press)

The U.S. military will end its annual, large-scale joint exercises conducted with South Korea in an effort to ease tensions with North Korea. The exercises will be replaced with smaller, mission-specific training. (NBC News)

2/ Michael Cohen and Felix Sater will both testify before the House Intelligence Committee on March 14 to testify about Trump’s effort to build a skyscraper in Russia. Cohen interviewed with the House Intelligence Committee for more than seven hours yesterday. Sater is a Russian-born Trump Organization executive who worked on the Trump Tower Moscow project with Cohen. (CNN / Associated Press)

Trump attacked Cohen’s credibility and accused him of perjury. Trump tweeted that his former personal attorney’s proposed “Book is exact opposite of his fake testimony, which now is a lie!� Trump also referenced a description of Cohen’s book as a “love letter to Trump.� (Washington Post)

Who is Felix Sater and what’s his role in Michael Cohen’s plea deal? (CBS News)

3/ Robert Mueller is expected to need five to eight days for Roger Stone’s trial for lying to Congress and obstruction of justice. The anticipated trial length does not account for any witnesses that Stone’s lawyers plan to call in his defense. (