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Taking on a florida congresswoman saying he fabricated his remarks to the widow of a fallen soldier. what are those phone calls like days after your loved ones are killed in action? our guests know too well. thanks to both of you for being here and thank you so much for the sacrifice to our country. >> thank you, alisyn. >> thank you for having us. >> craig, i will start with you. i dont know if you have been following everything that has happened over the past 24 hours with president trump clai...

And the president felt attacked. and what he did when he felt attacked is counterpunch on this most solemn of subjects. and theres not an excuse for it. because i work with these gold star families. and they dont want to be brought into it. and you can talk about these heroes without turning it into this. you can just say look, there is different timelines for different areas. this is how were dealing with the sacrifice that these families make very generously. were doing it very sensitively. en...

If you ask any president they all say the hardest thing you do is send someone in battle and deal with the consequences. bush 41 was talking in his diary and kept an audio direry throughout his presidency, in iraq of 1991 and hes watching cnn up in the treaty room. and he sees a father hugging his son. and he immediately, his mind goes back to when his father dropped him off at penn station right over here, and it was the only time hed ever seen his father cry, putting his son on his 18th birthd...

The -- the president sent $25,000 to the family of a u.s. dead soldier. what is the white house now saying about this, kaitlan? >> thats right, wolf. the "washington post" reported this afternoon with the drama of all of these calls and the president saying hes been more attentive to the families of fallen soldiers than his predecessors that when the president called the family of one fallen soldier, a 22-year-old who died in afghanistan over the summer, that the president spoke to the family, t...

Nine months if not before is that its always about him and he can never be wrong. and those two qualities ultimately will defeat him. but in the meantime, its a shame for the country, its a shame for these families, and its a shame that he would sully his predecessors this way. >> and david gergen -- i mean david alexrod, said its a shame for the country. the president himself is without shame. i think the other thing we have learned is theres really nothing off-limits when it comes to hes been ...

Up? he made something up. and then when he was called on it he back tracked. and he said thats what i was told, maybe they did or didnt, thats what i heard. >> at the heart of it was obama didnt call every one of them at the same schedule anyone else did. i dont know. i think that seems pretty reasonable. i dont really know what the problem is. >> hes lying about the problem. >> about what? >> he made something up. >> what was the lie? >> he didnt like the question being asked of him. he interpr...

Kept throughout the presidency. sunday night before air war began in iraq in january of 1991, and hes watching cnn up in the treaty room, and he sees a father hugging his son, and he immediately his mind goes back to when his father dropped him off at penn station, and the only time he saw his father cry, who on his 18th birthday, three things happened. he turned 18, graduate d from te academy and joined the united states navy. >> what we have heard and seen from the president this week, his com...

And really going into this multi-day news cycle about whether or not who is more compassionate, is he the compassionate one, were his predecessors more compassionate, and it is not a great political win for him either way. >> it reminds me of the recording of a call made after guam was threatened by north korea and there was a recording made of the presidents conversation with one of the leaders there. and the president said, well, at least your tourism numbers are going to go way, way up. he sa...

>> no, it doesnt. >> and if youre focusing on your predecessors during this point, then youre missing the entire point. >> its not about that. >> and ive said before that american presidents make a difference regardless of their party when they touch down in an area impact bid a hurricane, by national -- it makes people that have lost everything on the ground, that has lost wedding pictures that, have lost pictures of their children when they were born, that have lost everything that matters to ...

Struck by the loss of men and women in the field. barack obama, i think, often went out to dover to receive the bodies. am i right, katty? >> yeah. >> george w. bush, to this day, his tribute to the men who fell in iraq and afghanistan and those who were injured is to make paintings of them and give them the paintings by an american president. ronald reagan made a lot of personal phone calls. and they werent short phone calls. they were long phone calls. they knew they were talking to a mother a...