Taxadvantaged Retirement Plan used by millions of americans. Does Congress Even have a tax cut plan . And so prepared. As tensions grow with kim jongun, President Trump now says the u. S. Is prepared for anything. Could the administrations tough talk be leading towards a Military Conflict with north korea . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news. Under growing pressure from congress, the pentagon goes public with an attempt to explain how four u. S. Troops were killed in a secretive deployment in niger. Joint chiefs chairman general Joseph Dunford says the families of the fallen and the American People are owed more information, but hes offering few details on the deadly ambush, saying the u. S. Troops did not expect resistance, were attacked by a larger force and requested support an hour after coming under fire. Still unanswered, why it took 48
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want to get into that because it s still under investigation. wolf, dunford also saying if congress doesn t know what s happening here, then, quote, i need to double my efforts to get the information out. wolf? good point. all right, manu, thank you very much. joining us now, senator ben cardin of maryland. he s the senior democrat on the foreign relations committee. senator, thanks very much for joining us. lots of very disturbing questions on this niger ambush, but let me start with the president of the united states. why do you believe he simply couldn t let the widow of sergeant la david johnson have the last word on this today? she s grieving. she s only 24 years old. she has two little kids, a third one on the way. why did he need to get the last word and tweet about it this morning? wolf, first, it s good to be with you. secondly, it s hard to understand how the president handles these things. we saw the way he handled the khan family during the democratic convention. he s