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Human Rights Barely Registers In Meeting Between Trump, Philippines' Duterte

Trump declined to say if meeting with Philippine president touched on human rights over Duterte's bloody war on drugs, but the White House says it did come up, briefly.

President Trump, in Manila on the last leg of his tour of five Asian nations, only briefly touched on the question of human rights with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who has waged a deadly extra-judicial war on drugs that has left thousands dead.

Duterte, who just days before had boasted of killing someone as a "just over a look" and once called President Obama a "son of a whore" for criticizing his bloody crackdown on drug dealers and users, which

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