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About who called who. and the reporter was asking why we cant heard about the four fallen soldiers. we ended up here five days later. the political football continues to be thrown. everybody is politicizing it from president trump and general kelly and the congresswoman. howie: lets revisit the moment when john kelly, white house chief of staff who lost a son in afghanistan came out in the briefing room and said this. >> i was stunned when i came to work yesterday morning and broken hearted at w...

When he was killed. he knew what he was getting into by joining that 1%. he knew what the possibilities were because were at war. and when he died, and the four cases we are talking about niger, my sons case in afghanistan, when he died he was surrounded by the best men on this earth, his friends. thats what the president tried to say to four families the other day. i was stunned when i came to work yesterday morning and broken hearted. at what i saw a member of congress doing. brian: so you und...

Father defending the commander in chief taking the podium producing a riveting condemnation of frederica wilsons claims about donald trumps condolence call. listen. >> i was stunned when i came to work yesterday morning and brokenhearted at what i saw a member of congress doing. member of congress who listened in on a phone call to the president of the united states and in his way tried to express that opinion, that he was a brave man, fallen hero, he knew what he was getting himself into becaus...

When he died, in the four cases here and my sons case in afghanistan, when he died, he was surrounded by the best men on this earth, his friends. thats what the president tried to say to four families the other day. >> kelly said he couldnt believe it that fredricka wilson listened in on the presidents call to the family. >> i was stunned when i came to work yesterday morning, broken hearted at what i saw a member of congress doing. a member of congress who listened in on a phone call from the p...

Of the congresswoman. he was listening to the condolence call. kellys son, marine lieutenant robert kelly was killed in afghanistan in action since 2010. kelly has not wanted to talk about his familys loss publicly. today he did and didnt hold back much. take a look. >> i was stunned when i came to work yesterday morning. and brokenhearted at what i saw a member of congress doing. a member of congress who listened in on a phone call from the president of the united states to a young wife. and in...

Supreme court cases, rather court cases, at least a dozen -- this is 100% the prerogative of the commander-in-chief. to have a district court judge stepping in and saying oh, no, he doesnt have that duty, what else could a district court judge say? oh, no, we are overruling your decision to go to war because someone in hawaii could be affected. this is what we need congress doing. i was hoping for a better repeal of obamacare. sean, they have had seven years to work on it. no one aint in washing...

Listen to jay carney here. >> its been the presidents position and just one that he holds to this day that thats not the appropriate way to go. and that we aught to remove congress, republicans aught to remove the threat of default as a point of leverage in budget negotiations because theyre only doing harm to the american economy, theyre only doing harm to the american people, and you know, the president cannot, as he said so many times, pay ran some in exchange for congress doing its -- fulfil...

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Keeping our troops in afghanistan if its going bad, if its going good, they will ask for the same thing. this is an endless war. we must begin to extricate ourselves from it and begin to look at how we can help develop a political solution to what has been a war without end. >> well, but heres the question, right? it seems like if -- if whats coming from the white house sounds like a sort of broken record, i mean, the same thing seems to be happening in congress, and you deserve tremendous credi...

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