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>> please welcome tonights most patriotic sportsman, assistant coach for the danbury whalers professional hockey team, john krupinsky. congratulations. >> thank you very much. >> john, you have so many people here saluting what you do every single day as a police officer. but secondly, as a sportsman as well. weve got a man here not just a hall of famer but when they picked the top 50 nba players of all time, rick berry was on that list. >> i wish more coaches would follow your example and take ...

Will happen. the most patriotic sport we have out there. keep that in mind. thank you. >> sergeant john was a police officer 30 years and on the swat and dive rescue teams for over 19. he received many awards over the years. one for rescuing a man during a triathalon. >> i take pride in my country, the flag. ive unfortunately seen it covering too many coffins. i think we can take time out to give two minutes worth of respect to our soldiers, firemen, policemen. i dont think its asking too much. ...

New york or flying out of fort diks where the fbi response team coming out of the new york office would be launching from, its 5,000 miles across the atlantic ocean and parts of africa to get to niger. its a daunting task, but the u.s. government has been doing this for a long time. they assemble whats called a foreign emergency support team. its run out of the state department. its an inner agency team which will certainly have fbi investigators on board. it will have folks from the state depar...

Says should not be questioned. >> well, first of all, like him, i am also a retired general, and it puts him in the same cats gory as i am, which is retired. and even when he was active duty i would say you would certainly question him and he was before congress on multiple occasions being questioned. so that whole line of philosophy is right down the drain. its just ridiculous. and, again, what im concerned most about, john, is the fact that we are using this general officer, my generals, my mi...

Theyll bring in comms so theyll have security communications to the embassy as well as back to the united states. its going to be a pain staking crime scene investigation. the difficulty in this is were not conducting a crime scene investigation in birmingham, alabama or in milwaukee. were doing it 5,000 miles away in an area thats sub sa har an desert especially two weeks after the ambush meaning some of the evidence could be done, some of the evidence or telltale siems of whether this was bow ...

A point of diminishing returns in investigating this issue of collusion. have you reached that point of diminishing returns? >> listen, we want to keep this -- the number of individuals that the members have yet to see in terms of some of the principles that you and your colleagues have reported on, the members of the committee have not even had a chance to talk to the vast majority of those individuals. >> now, john, when i put that question to richard burr, i said, look, are you at a point of ...

Investigation. what can you tell us about that? >> they are doing that. they are looking at the intelligence, trying to figure out exactly who the unsurgery ents were, what part of isis they belong to and if they can begin to identify the insurgents and go after them. i want to also add in that the pentagon today is very adamant they did not stop looking for la david johnson. they made a point of making sure we knew that nigerian, french and u.s. forces were on the ground around the clock lookin...

American does. and i think we need to have a serious conversation. and to pauls point, thats what the president can be folk issing on right now is how to have that conversation in a mature, thoughtful way. >> guys, thank you all for having this mature, thoughtful conversation. i do think its a really important one. up next, breaking news about the deadly ambush that is at the heart of this whole thing. cnn has learned that sergeant johns body was found nearly a mile from the attack. what the pen...

Here is what ill say too, john, to answer your question what you just asked john. and that is, you know, we are wrapping ourselves in emotion and, you know, ar stolgts a long time ago said we should combine our arguments with fact, reasons and emotion. and slopgs we keep wrapping ourselves in the flag, theres no one that loves the flag more than me, the country more than me, but if thats the only thing were looking at and not the facts and rational behind different arguments, were going to be in...

We have breaking news on the ambush in niger that killed four u.s. soldiers including the one who was the subject of president trumps condo lessons call. four administration official familiar with the investigation tell cnn that johnsons remains were found nearly a mile from the central location of the am buck. cnn pentagon correspondent joins me with more. youve got new reporting on how the pentagon is beginning to narrow down what happened to sergeant johnson. what are you learning? >> they ar...