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This is the part of the cemetery where the remains of those -- essentially 9/11 generation veterans are laid to rest. and president obama would go there in private. he would often go with the first lady. i even got criticism and complaints from white house reporters who wanted to cover the president making that visit. and, chris, i use this example not to portray president obama as a martyr, but actually to portray, like president george w. bush, as somebody who felt the weight of responsibility...

F-16 aircraft. to strengthen the air force, worth up to $2.4 billion and would generate thousands of american jobs. we also are making great strides in our economic cooperation. the american people stand with the greek people as they recover from the economic crisis that recently afflicted their nation. ive encouraged the prime minister and his continued implementation of reform and reform programs that i have totally reaffirmed our response for responsible debt relief plans. strong and flourish...

Tonight, president trump taking full credit for the fall of isis, as american officials announce that major military operations have ended in raqqah, syria. the city, of course, that isis claims its capital. today, president trump said its all thanks to him. >> i totally changed our military. i totally changed the attitudes of the military, and they have done a fantastic job. yeah, isis is now giving up. theyre giving up. theyre raising their hands. theyre walking off. nobody has ever seen that ...

I guess he is kind of right that he attacking the whole health care system and not just obamacare. >> thanks for your time tonight. >> thanks. >> i want to read you the white 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. oth...

It was the deadliest combat incident since he took office, and yet there was silence. not even a tweet. today the president said he wrote personal letters to their families and planned to call them later this week. then he claimed his predecessors, including president obama, didnt call the families of fallen soldiers, even though that is a well-established tradition that previous presidents did carry out. last hour i spoke to former clinton white house chief of staff leon panetta who said this. ...

To deliberately be untruthful about what previous presidents have done, an attempted stain on his predecessors and on the presidency. that has no bearing in fact. his desire to distract, to deflect, to come up with something else to talk about, especially when he faces criticism. that very insecurity and defensiveness that we see not just here but around so many issues, around the hurricane response, around puerto rico. its the same over and over again. >> thats why we call it out when we see it...

Offensive to the office and his predecessors that gets in the way of what hes trying -- >> right. >> you have to be careful, david, both davids and us, not to let it work. its a fog of distraction and bs that gets us away from the main premise. why didnt he say anything about this for two weeks? why did these service members lose their lives? what was this about? where is the curiosity from the administration? where is the story of these four men and what happened to them? thats the question, da...

This president, like his predecessors, has done each of these. individuals claiming former presidents, such as their bosses, called each family of the fallen, are mistaken." thats where this debate stands. and with us tonight, paul rico ff, founder and ceo of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. platoon leader in iraq formerly. jeremy bash with us, former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon. also an msnbc national security analyst. paul, i looked up this figures. total wounded, just over...

Gold star families and the president and the way he criticized his predecessors. >> reporter: this is not an issue that i think any of us thought we would be talking about on this day. the president was pressed yesterday on why he hadnt commented yet on the deaths of four soldiers, army green berets, who died in niger earlier this month. he spoke of how hard those calls are, said he had written letters still to be sent, said he would be making calls. he also spoke about past presidents, suggesti...

To prop up assad. it seems as though theres no predicate, no reason for him to ever krcriticize vladimimir put. >> donald trump has not criticized the russian president. we were attacked by the russian, i a psy a cyber attack. the president continues to deny whether we were attacked and he hasnt done anything to prepare our states to harden our defenses, our voting defenses, the security of our voting system in 2018 and 2020 and he chose, president trump, not to try to retaliate and took the sen...