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Make those calls, he has to make more than a couple every day and suggesting again none of the former chiefs did, again, i know we are going on about this. >> no. >> sometimes, there is a moment that adds all the kwcontext a story need. when it comes to donald trump, this is that story that he made the deaths of our american heroes about himself having to make a tough phone call and then attacked barack obama and his other predecessors for not doing it. >> can you imagine a president in recent m...

Unjustified apparently. all the predecessors. peter alexander comes back and asks him the follow-up, how do you know now it? i dont know it, i heard something about that, ask the generals. id love to ask the generals, donald trump, whether he ever asked them about what his predecessors did. i dont believe any of them would have told him any of his predecessors -- i know what george w. bush did and a bit about president obama and they were conscientious in performing this duty, did a lot of thing...

Repeatedly, not only by barack obama, but by george w. bush and past presidents as well and for that to occur yesterday for this sitting president of the united states to so demean the office and by implication try to demean his predecessors, is really a new low. >> you know, mike, i did see president obama in a variety of circumstances show his enormous respect and for those who had paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country. in doing so president obama also revealed the enormous burden that i...

House response to the back and forth, particularly after your former colleague had that to say about the president. they say the president wasnt criticizing predecessors but stating a fact. when american heroes make the ultimate sacrifice, presidents pay their respects. sometimes they call. sometimes they send a letter. other times they have the opportunity to meet individuals in person. individuals claiming their bosses called each family of the fallen are mistaken. alissa never made that cl...

Heroes but in fact to console and con dolly the families and friends of the loved ones. and it was a huge haul and i saw the president personally, president obama go up to each family member and spend several moments with each. this is and the president did regularly. president bush had to do it. they make phone calls, write letters, visit with gold star families. so for president trump today to say that his predecessors did not speak or reach out to those families is a disgraceful and despicabl...

Warriors throughout his presidency through calls, letters, visits to section 60 at arlington, visits to walter reed, visits to dover, regular meetings with gold-star families at the white house and across the country." other responses were less measured. former obama deputy chief of staff alyssa mattromonico wrote on twitter, "thats a bleeping lie to say president obama or past presidents didnt call the family members of soldiers killed in action, hes a deranged animal." former deputy national s...

All the considerations that should go with that. >> right. but this is a trait weve seen in the president time and time again. when theres a larger principle at stake, four service members dead, is he the commander in chief. this is a moment that should not be him comparing himself to his predecessors. it should just be a moment for him to lead, express to the country what happened and his sympathies, of course, to the families. and yet its about him. because whenever there is the slight e sligh...

Advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain the last best hope of earth for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that americans consigned to. ive written them personal letters. theyve been sent or theyre going out tonight. >> reporter: the president immediately growing defensive, m...

Today. but also to defend himself. puerto rico is the biggest one here where he has been really frustrated with what he has seen as he believes unfair negative media coverage of the response to that hurricane and he wanted to try to get his side of events out there. but as the president so often does, he sort of steps on what his intended message was going to be. today the headline were all getting from this, the thing thats resonating the most, is the idea of his accusation that president obama...

For president trump today to say his predecessors did not reach out to the families is a disgraceful and despicable lie, especially 12 days after the biggest combat death in his presidency, played. 126 holes of golf and yet to reach out our even speak publicly about those deaths. >> paul rieckhoff, of course, ha thankfully the tempo of battle has cooled. were not seeing the numbers sometimes weekly of killed in action, wuounded in action as w were when both of these post-9/11 wars were at their ...