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Right after chief of staff john kelly gave emotional remarks at the white house today after he talked about the ways that the presidents talk to grieving military families. john kelly opened it up to questions and this was the first question he got from the briefing room. >> why were they in niger? we were told they werent in armored vehicles and there was no air cover. so what are the specifics about this particular incident and why were we there and why are we there? >> let me start by saying ...

Those very emotional remarks about condolences for family members of service members who are killed. but when it came to what happened in niger, he was circumspect and that theres an investigation. >> general mcmaster, the national security advisor, i asked him about the event in niger, and he also was relatively circumspect. the incident is under investigation, but right now theyre really hiding behind the fact that its under investigation to give us any real specifics. one of the things you ta...

Been the military of chad. and its interesting, even though the chad military has been leading the fight against these groups, there havent actually been many attacks by these groups inside chad. and theres not a lot of chadian civilians who have been joining the islamic militant groups. nigeria has a really big problem with them. nigerian troops go and fight these guys and chad does too. troops from niger fight these guys and chad goes too. mali has a big problem with these guys. chad goes too....

Politico that a statement was prepared for him to give the day after the deaths happened in niger. he hasnt given that statement, he still wont talk about it. after two weeks of ignoring those deaths, the president exerted public pressure on that matter into instead this discussion and attacks about notifications and condolences for the bereft. the only reason that public discussion has happened now for four days, with all the emotional strain it has called to the country is because of the presi...

1,000 troops in niger, but i think it helpful to see that map there, in part to remember which country borders which country, if youre not that familiar with that part of africa, but also just to remember, these are really large countries were talking about. niger is a former french colony, but no terms of nigeria, its twice the size of france, mali is about the same size, these are large, landlocked countries, that have big long international borders with each other, by necessity, they end up v...

Attacks. and those troops started pulling out, as best we can tell, right after the trump administration inexplicably did what they did. those troops from chad got pulled out the 29th. right after that, thats when four u.s. army soldiers got attacked by a large contingent of isis fighters in niger, and four of them killed, within days of the start of the chadian soldiers being withdrawn so no wonder the president doesnt want to talk about it, right? there had been some speculation that maybe the...

Through u.s. military facilities in europe, home to dover air base, and then home to be interred and he said what he personally had been told when he got the notification that his son had died in combat. and trump attacked her because the widow put her on speakerphone and allowed that congresswoman and it feels disgusting as americans to have any of the private grief, to see our president mishandling it at all. its inconceivable, that trump may have directed the publication of these private matt...

That they had completed the withdrawal of all chadian troops in their neighboring country kn niger, where they have been fighting its sit militants aed the most battle hardened most effective in the region, fighting islamic militancy. the reuters bureau in that region, said immediately upon the withdrawal of those troops, boko haram militant attacks started to tick up in niger. residents immediately started to leave their villages and move out of whatever region they lived in for their own safet...

As is the worst combat fatalities of the trump era. the story of four u.s. special forces members killed in the line of duty in niger. because the president made no public acknowledgement of their deaths. nbc is reporting about the swarm of unanswered questions that the pentagon is still trying to get answered on the attack, basic questions like why were those solder s attacked. and the level of confusion both during and after the commission, was, quote, tremendous. joining me now is courtney ku...

Best, most battle hardened most effective military for fighting islamic extremism in that part of the world. in early 2015, when boko haram held that huge amount of territory, they brought in troops from niger and from chad, they kind of routed them, they ran them out of town after town. boko haram declared that they had formed a new islamic militant branch in that part of western and central africa. but that regional and military effort against them, let out of chad, broke that stuff up, took b...