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After the white house defended the chief of staff john kelly for calling congresswoman wilson an empty barrel. the press secretary said quote if you are able to make a sacred act like honoring american heroes about yourself then you are an empty barrel so they are not backing down. at the same time, they also want to move on from this dispute. they want the public and the media to focus on other things, focus on more policy issues, like tax reform, but its tough to do when the president himself ...

Fabricated this whole story about his exchange wit widow. i think this was a concerted effort. started with the white . you saw sarah out there, attacking the congresswoman, as well. you saw sarah huckabee sanders do it the day before general kelly did. and then general kelly comes out to attack the representatives credibility. i think hes not done himself any good because most of what he says what just plain wrong. he, in his statement, its almost like he seems to be relishing these attacks on ...

Wilson. take a listen. >> this is going to be trumps benghazi, trumps niger and they need to concentrate on what happened and what is happening. >> so we know how much of an issue benghazi became. it became a political issue during the campaign in 2016, obviously investigation after investigation. do you agree with her assessment that this is being characterized or could potential become a benghazi-like situation for president trump? >> i think possibly so because we dont have all the answers. c...

Place. >> he was so offended that a woman would be -- that somebody would be listening to that call. he was -- he actually couldnt believe it. actually he said to me, sir, this is not acceptable. this is really not. he knew -- i was so nice -- look, i have called many people. and i would think that every one of them appreciated it. i was very surprised to see this, to be honest with you. julie: kristen fisher reports from the white house tonight. president trump is continuing to escalate his feu...

Families and their friends for the heroes who fought for us overseas. >> well, do you think that kelly should have stopped short of then criticizing the congresswoman, should have stayed with the point of talking about the gold star families and his experience in losing his son but stopped short of criticizing the congresswoman? because it seems like thats what most people are obviously criticizing. >> yeah, i think that its just unfortunate that this is where the discourse around the families o...

Question anyone when their facts are wrong. and when they refuse t admit it. that goes for a general turned chief of staff, a press secretary, and a presi the united states. sadly, the truth is that lately it seems no one who stands at that podium is able to admit that. to admit that facts do so i want to bring in cnn senior political reporter april ryan and major general james "spider" marks. here we are at the end of the week, everyone, and what a week it was. i want to be clear, general kelly...

Going to finish this comment. >> i havent interrupted you. >> if you want to have a conversation about why she was listening in, then we need to talk about her identity. her identity is not that of a democratic congresswoman. her identity is that of a family friend. she actually knew this sergeant. she was his mentor. she actually sponsored programs he was a part of. if youve ever been a part of these conversations, like representative wilson has been, she was on the phone with his commanding of...

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Took the podium yesterday and told this story about the dedication of the fbi field office in miami two years ago. >> i went to the dedication of the new fbi field office in miami. and it was dedicated to two men who were killed in a firefight in miami with -- against drug traffickers in 1986. grogan almost retired, 55 years old, duke on the job less than a year old. >> his facts were flat out wrong, even to the name of the fbi agents. they were killed by two bank robbers, not drug traffickers. ...

Closure that the white house probably hoped for from kelly because essentially a fourth of that speech was aimed at representative wilson. i think the first part of it, obviously, was very eloquent and personal, but then he launched into a personal attack against this congresswoman and i think thats why you got this cycle and you had the president wanting to go after her again. its also, it might be at some point that kelly wasnt accurate in some ways in terms of his framing of the congresswoman...