what is the u.s. doing in africa, in other countries, and how do you explain those missions so that everybody is clearer about what the goals are and why these troops are being put in this sort of danger. sergeant la david johnson who was laid to rest on saturday, there was quite the delay in finding his body. has the pentagon explained more about what happened there, carol? well, one of the things we know in talking to officials is that there appears to have been these two sites of an ambush. that there was the american troops were delayed in this village and then they were ambushed once and retreat and were ambushed again. that could help explain why sergeant la david johnson was separated from his unit and also why it took 48 hours to find him. carol lee, courtney kube, a
more questions than answers, something the joint chiefs chairman acknowledges right now about what happened in niger that left four american soldiers dead in an isis ambush three weeks ago. key questions like why sergeant la david johnson was separated from his unit and took 48 hours to recover his body. but despite all of the questions there are new and important details that are emerging coming from the joint chiefs chairman himself general joseph dunford. ryan, what is the new timeline lay it out for us that the general discussed yesterday? in a rare appearance by general dunford in only his third this year he laid out some of the new details regarding the timeline of the attack and one of the things that we learned was that once the u.s. military troops came under attack by 50 isis fighters, it took them an hour before they called in air support and it took another hour for french mirage jets to arrive. during that time, as u.s. drone was able to fly overhead and
were likely set up by terrorists. three officials briefed on the matter said the theory is to look at the timeline. let s look at it now. militants were tipped off in advance about a meeting between the americans and leaders in a village sympathetic to isis. villagers tried to delay the troops as they left. once they departed, the militants attacked. the soldiers returned fire, then retreated, only to be ambushed again. about an hour into the fight, the americans called for help. a drone arrived within minutes and french jets arrived about an hour later. but it wasn t another 48 hours until sergeant la david johnson s body was recovered more than a mile from the other victims. joseph dunford talked about the need for answers and a big question that remains. we owe you more information. more importantly we owe the families of the fallen more information. that s what the investigation is designed to identify. did the mission change? that is one of the questions that s being asked. it s
to say to the president now? no. i don t have nothing to say to him. and the president couldn t leave it alone. tweeting, i had a very respectful conversation with the widow of sergeant la david johnson and spoke his name from the beginning without hesitation. i spoke with chris ruddy about this a little bit earlier. clearly restrained in his tweet but really keeping this fight going. the question is, though, what actually in niger. and is he trying to cover for something? what s going on? no, i think he s doing what he always does. smeone insults him, he punches back. the only manner of being he knows is fighting. but it matters who you re fighting. it matters who your adversary is. and this is widow who s lost her
president and possibly not join him on things like the tax bill. let s listen to this. yes. people thought you were talking about trump. mr. trump because he had a doctor s 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 don t 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 country. and before we leave this segment i just want to remind us that the reason we have been talking about all of this is the 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