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Good evening and welcome to "politicsnation." tonights lead, losers and suckers. that is how donald trump views those who paid the ultimate sacrifice under the commander in chiefs commands. of course he continues to deny the reporting from the "atlantic" and now mutt maltipl sources that he has repeatedly disparaged the nations war dead and wounded. but its a tough sell when weve heard so much like it before from this president, and hes

Good evening and welcome to "politicsnation." tonights lead, losers and suckers. that is how donald trump views those who paid the ultimate sacrifice under the commander in chiefs commands. of course he continues to deny the reporting from the "atlantic" and now mutt maltipl sources that he has repeatedly disparaged the nations war dead and wounded. but its a tough sell when weve heard so much like it before

Their reporting, the president used the words suckers and losers when referring to americas fallen service members. thats created an uproar, members of the democratic party, joe biden, and the military community reacting. president trump has taken the approach we often see, which is to attack the media. at a press conference friday he went after the atlantic, calling it a fake and a hoax. >> i know very little about this magazine. but when a second rate magazine can write things about that, abou...

I came here to go to that ceremony and to the one that was the following day, which i did go to. i said, i feel terribly. and that was the end of it. >> theres a glaring problem with this claim, though. if the president had, in fact, called home, he wouldnt have reached melania because she was right by his side on that trip to france and was scheduled to visit the cemetery with him. there is one man who could serve as either the presidents strongest defender or greatest critic. at the center one...

More than any president of the united states in history. >> trump continues to defend himself on twitter today and he says hes worked so hard for the military, while also taking a swipe at john mccain whose funeral is also addressed in the article. mccain isnt the only one trump is attacking. he also slammed his former chief of staff, john kelly, a retired four-star marine corps general whose son died in afghanistan. have a listen. >> i know john kelly. he was with me. didnt do a good job. had n...

Memorial in france because he was concerned about his hair in the rain, and two, considered the cemetery for americas war dead to be filled with losers. while cnn has not independently verified this report, other outlets have. president trump, however, insists the story is fake. but history is working against him. not only has the president previously denied stories that hes forced to later admit are true, think stormy daniels, but hes also made very public and controversial remarks about servic...

After everything he has said and done why should we believe him? >> thats his problem. the story is too awful to defend. and its too believable to deny. given everything thats happened and everything we have seen. all the clips you have run and others. it makes it very believable the president can say such things and you raise a good point. we havent heard from general kelly who is central to some of the reporting. he was obviously the person who the president spoke to. his sons grave site in ar...

Why should we even believe him? >> thats his problem, don. the story is -- its too awful to defend. and its too believable to deny, given everything thats happened and everything that weve seen. all the clips that youve run, and others, makes it very believable that the president could say such things. and you raised a very good point. we havent heard from general kelly, whos central to some of this reporting. he -- he was, obviously, the person who the president spoke to at general kellys sons ...

Growing questions about the why video wasnt shown until this week despite the incident taking place back in march. >> its scary being black person. how can i not be here? a way to take the day off. >> a new model cited by top health officials is surging its projections. >> were rounding the corner on the virus. its reported to have been called suckers and losers. suckers for serving, losers for dying. >> these statements are true. the president should humbly apologize. >> what you see is a l...

Facts. for that, heres boris sanchez. >> reporter: its a fake story and its a disgrace that theyre allowed to do it. >> reporter: today, president trump continuing his strong and vehement denials of a magazine article, claiming that president trump called fallen service members losers and suckers. >> to me, theyre heroes. its harder to do it. and i say that. the level of bravery. and to me, they are heroes. >> reporter: those comments following a late-night statement to reporters, after returnin...