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Four american soldiers and why he has not spoken out publicly about it yet. lets discuss. scott jennings is joining me now and former special assistant to george w. bush. great to see you. president trump was not right in one regard. he seems to be trying to back track. im not clear as to what is actually going on. what do you think president trump is saying? >> i dont know. i dont think there is anything to be gained by trying to litigate what your predecessors did in this regard. my belief is ...

President bush as well. its disheartening and i find it pathetic. we did not publicize all these visits, and neither did bush or his predecessors. >> why did he do that? >> i think the question he was getting, he felt like he was on the defense as if there was a criticism of him. and the white house clarified it, and he was told they did not always call. the part about the story i hate the most is its taking away from these four men specifically that lost their lives in this controversy where i ...

President trumps approval rating holding steady but more americans say he is leading the country in the wrong direction right now. political director david chalian has all of the numbers and insight behind the numbers. what stands out to you right now? >> start with the overall approval rating, brand new cnn poll conducted by ssrs shows donald trump with a 37% approval rating, 57% disapprove as you said, thats been pretty steady, hes been between 37 and 40% for the last four months or so, kate. ...

President trump made false claims about his predecessors accusing them of not reaching out to the families of fallen soldiers at times. former attorney general, eric holder, tweeted this in reaction. quote, stop the damn lying. youre president. i went to the air base and saw him comfort the families. >> president trump talking for the first time, and only then because he was asked about those killed in niger. >> the toughest calls i have to make are the calls where this happens, soldiers are kil...

Theres a new sect of isis thats an outgrowth in this part of niger thats different from al-shabaab boko haram -- >> theyve kidnapped other people. >> so there is some covert stuff going on there, and i think youre right, it is okay for us not to always jump out there. biden was criticized for outing sale team 6 after he took out osama bin laden. that could have been it. if president trump was actually a measured, thoughtful president, he would have been briefed on this and have prepared for it. ...

Responsibility as the federal government. thats my job as president. here, too, as commander in chief, you are someone who is always in a position to be steadfast in the mission but to support the fallen and their families. you have to be able to have both at the same time instead of casting dispersions at your predecessors. >> we saw senator john mccain kind of going at the same set of instincts and their perils in terms of the stability of democracy. listen to what he said as he received this ...

Are great people. >> and then making a national plea against the champion by bannon. >> to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and the duty to remain the best last hope of earth, for the skaeubg of some half baked nationalism cooked up by people that would rather find scape goats than solve problems is an unpatriotic -- >> mr. trump also breaking his silence about the deaths of four servicemen in niger nearly two weeks ago. ...

Comfort the families of both the fallen military and dea. then an obama aide tweets, thats an fing lie, to say president obama or past presidents did not call the family members of soldiers killed in action. he is a deranged animal. david gregory, people felt so strongly about shutting this down. >> yeah, he did. its an attempted stain on his predecessors but also the presidency itself. why does he want to debate these points? we doesnt he have an intuitive sense and stick with that? why when pe...

Didnt make calls, a lot of them didnt make calls. i like to call when its appropriate when i think ill able to do it. >> all right. he backtracked a little bit later and tried to clean that up. to no avail. former obama white house deputy chief of staff made some shocking comments on twitter about that. eric holder as well. the former attorney general. very critical. what do you make of the presidents characterization of those phone calls and his predecessors? >> weve seen repeatedly that when t...

A compulsion when hes under fire as he was for not being responsive to these soldiers killed in niger, i dont know why he always, the first response always is, blame somebody else, and whatever i did, im better than my predecessor. and im better than other predecessors. its a total unwillingness to deal with the facts straightforwardly and instead to put out the lie and then if hes pressed on the lie, he might back offp pit hes planted the seeds and made the case, and hes slammed somebody else. ...