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Happening again? i have to say, it was president trump who kicked off the politics by falsely claiming that his predecessors dont get involved in talking to the families of the fallen. he did that basically to deflect responsibility from his own silence on this -- this crisis in niger over the past 12 days. so everything thats followed from that has been the result of responding to donald trumps original sin in this, and if the president would just stand up and say, lets take the politics away, ...

Former director of the cia james woolsey, thanks very much. >> good to be with you. >> extraordinary attacks on president trump from his two predecessors. why all five living american presidents are getting ready to get together without the current commander in chief. well tell you whats going on. plus, video surfaces from a 2015 speech by the lawmaker involved in a rather nasty feud with the white house. video that shows chief of staff john kelly made an erroneous claim in his attack on her ove...

Thing for one marine to say to another marine, but it doesnt work at all when the president tried to say it to this young 24-year-old widow. >> let me make this clear and i think youre right. and i tried to do it with jim. this is a very difficult conversation that no one wants to have. but if in that moment you dont say the right thing, the appropriate immediate responses to apologize immediately. >> look, thats all correct. and in terms of politicizing this, i actually think the congresswoman,...

Interviewed u.s. attorney candidates in person or his predecessors either and here you have a concerning situation. all of the time when we meet people in person or feel indebted to them, sub consciously can have an impact on our decision making and here whether it does or not can just create the appearance of in inpropriety. >> the white house didnt deny the interviews, saying these are individuals that the president nominated and the senate confirms, while it is rare to meet with candidates te...

Be, with exactly the people he wanted to be with when his life was taken. that was the message. that was the message that was transmitted. >> reporter: and he lashed out at the congresswoman. >> it stuns me that a member of congress would have listened in on that conversation. absolutely stuns me. and i thought at least that was sacred. >> reporter: but kelly did not address president trumps role in this controversy, that he was the one who ignited the firestorm when he turned a question about t...

Criticism from the chief of staff toward this member of congress may be the area where he will be open to criticism himself, and that is, of course, separate from him trying to explain the intent of the president, trying to offer that he gave the president the words that may have been heard in a very different way by the johnson family in terms of a young man who was where he wanted to be serving with his fellow soldiers in arms, and that that was a a part part of sort of credo for those who ser...

50,000 amazon jobs, salaries of 100 grand. and how far will your city go? good evening. and its great to have you with us here on a thursday night. and we begin with that deeply personal moment at the white house today. chief of staff general john kelly coming into the briefing room, defending president trumps phone call to the family of sergeant la david johnson. and in doing so, general kelly talking about the loss of his own son, right there, in afghanistan. general kelly revealing the pres...

Wouldnt echo the presidents perfect self-assessment. >> did we do a great job? >> what it looked like when president obama returned to the campaign trail today. >> when "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. im chris hayes. two weeks after four american soldiers died while serving in the west african nation of niger, a lot of questions remain about the circumstances of their deaths. in fact, it was a question to the president about why he had not yet talked to the public about th...

Was dependent on the reforms when he was talking about the great potential of the united nations there. trump voters might be surprised to hear that from their president. to the point the president believed this secretary general is beginning to do things at the united nations that some of his predecessors refused to do. >> it was a little bit of tough love. youre a great guy, your organizations just a mess. also, trumps not wrong. the united nations has never done what it had the potential to d...

Policies becoming informed and im paraphrasing but the idea policies are informed by conspiracy theories. sara sanders was asked about that. she turned it around and said as far as she sees it its just the news media putting out things that are fabricated. do you think that what george bush said fell on deaf ears at the white house? or its just something they want want to touch because it was so scathing for president trump? >> i think the latter. i think what you could see there and well see if...