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Actively engaged in the military, ever experience death in combat in the family in the 21st century. these four deaths that we have been discussing for the better part of the last week have brought our focus on this in a way that it hasnt been in a very long time. staff sergeant brian black, staff sergeant jeremiah johnson, staff sergeant dustin wright and sergeant la david johnson. tonights last word goes to myeshia johnson. >> i dont know how he got killed, where he got killed or anything. i d...

These four deaths that we have been discussing for the better part of the last week have brought our focus on this in a way that it hasnt been in a very long time. staff sergeant brian black, staff sergeant jeremiah johnson, staff sergeant dustin wright and sergeant la david johnson. tonights last word goes to myeshia johnson. >> i dont know how he got killed, where he got killed or anything. i dont know that part. they never told me and thats what ive been trying to find out since day one, sinc...

Realized that the american people deserve to know what happened. that the family of the four fallen american soldiers deserve to know what happened. but as the facts as we know them right now, theyre on their way back from a reconnaissance mission, there was 12 people in their unit, they were ambushed by 50 isis fighters. the firefight went on for an hour before they asked for help. a drone was then sent in and started showing aerial photographs. from that point on, french fighters game in about...

President and possibly not join him on things like the tax bill. lets listen to this. >> yes. >> people thought you were talking about -- >> trump. >> mr. trump because he had a doctors note that said he had bone spurs. >> i think more than once, yes. >> more than once. >> chronic. chronic bone spurs. >> do you consider him a draft dodger? >> i dont consider him so much a draft dodger as i feel that the system was so wrong that certain americans could evade their responsibilities to serve the co...

Loss of four lives in niger, staff sergeant bryan black, staff sergeant jeremiah johnson, staff sergeant dustin wright and sergeant la david johnson. we should not leave this subject without mentioning the sacrifice, the ultimate sacrifice, that they gave. eugene and david, thank you both for joining us tonight. coming up, john kelly talked about khan and gold star families last week and mr. khan will join us tonight and respond. and later, a very special rewrite about what fox news had to s...

Most effective way? as we all know, when you express grief, sometimes you dont have the perfect words and sometimes you say something like he knew what he was getting into. ive talked to a lot of soldiers about that and they say that is exactly right. that is actually a compliment. but you could certainly see how people would say, no that was not taken the right way. >> i get that. im in full agreement with you. but then the fix to that is the president calling back and saying, you know, im sorr...

Tragedy over niger. not just what happened in africa, but whats happened to discourse in america? plus, senator joe manchin on the budget and rolling back a law that allowed the flow of opioids back into his state, west virginia. laerkts governor terry mcauliffe on the scorched earthcom pain in virginiao succeed him in office. and brand-new reporting on what the president just told house republicans on a conference call. sources say the president told lawmakers if they dont pass his tax cu...

Years old. the names of his three comrades also fallen in this ambush attack in niger. staff sageant bryan black, staff sergeant jeremiah johnson, and staff sergeant dustin wright. the circumstances surrounding their deaths still very cloudy, brian. the fbi, as weve been reporting on the ground in niger also trying to talk to witnesses, gather evidence. which is customary when there are deaths that involve u.s. troops. but this investigation has reached a certain level, you know, a particular pi...

Lindsey graham, were seeing congressional officials pushing for more information, as well as members of the press corps, pushing for more information from the pentagon about the circumstances of what happened that day in niger. this is, like i said, i think its a moment to see up close right here in our living rooms the consequences of these ongoing military actions. we rarely see these sorts of funerals taking place. and its partly because it was politicized as the week went on. we see the cong...

And, again, it is confusing. combat is an amazing, horrifying thing. and its difficult to put all these pieces together. so to answer your original question, it will take some time. this will take a month to put all these pieces together, to analyze everything they need to analyze and come up with a finished product. so we will have to be a little patient. >> thank you, gentlemen, i appreciate it. i want to take a moment now to remember the soldiers in the midst of this. sergeant la david johnso...