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Good evening. im chris matthews in washington. with precious few legislative days this year and a white house agenda crammed with tax cuts, health care, and other priorities, the headlines today were all about president trumps handling of a phone call with the family of a fallen soldier. one reason is because president trump decided to engage in this fight, showing once again hes unwilling to let any perceived slight go, no matter how sensitive the topic. it began with this statement by that flo...

Yesterday. by coming out and saying that she was appalled by how the president spoke to the widow of sergeant johnson. she made this a public fight. she made this a public thing. is there an argument to be made that she was out of line in putting this out there? >> i think there probably is. i think at the very least she gave the president cover to sort of make this -- >> partisan? >> make it partisan, put it more in a political sort of grandstanding debate and say she started it, and, i mean, y...

Who related the details will be on our show coming up later. so we can get into some of that with her. we know how this happened, donald trump heard a criticism at a rose garden press conference. he cant let a criticism go unanswered. he has to say, well, obama did it, too. hes like, i have been told. so that was, we heard directly from general kelly or someone else that he was called about the death of his son. now it bill a story, he said, general kelly, you got to let nbc news and others know...

Politicizing this conversation around the deaths of fallen soldiers? >> someone asked me a question, did you hear the call? tell us what you heard. i told them what i heard. >> mark halperin. >> thats not politicizing anything. that was my constituent. >> yeah. mark halperin? >> congresswoman, thank you for spending part of your time helping comfort this family that sacrificed for america. im wondering what you either knew before or have learned about sergeant johnson that you can share with peo...

Happens. soldiers are killed. its a very difficult thing. now it gets to a point where four or five of them in one day is very, very tough. for me, thats by far, tustest. the traditional way, if you look at president obama and other presidents, most of them didnt make calls. a lot of them didnt make calls. i like to call when its appropriate, when i think im able to do it. >> they asked me that question and for the most part, to the best of my knowledge, i think ive called every family of somebo...

Claimed responsibility for several bombings there. no one claiming responsibility there yet in the most recent one. one of four u.s. soldiers killed during isis ambush has been laid to rest. the soldiers were killed when 50 isis affiliated fighters tacked them. army sergeant johnson, staff sergeant brian black, staff sergeant wright and jeremiah johnson were ambushed. staff sergeant was laid to rest today with full honors. he joined the army in 2012. joining us live. tell us more about how he ...

Future. >> ten days later, the future the brothers discussed was taken away. army staff sergeant dustin wright was serving his third deployment, in the northwest african country of niger when his green beret unit was ambushed by ice is fighters. staff sergeant wright and staff sergeant black and david johnson are the first deaths in niger as the terrorism mission expands. >> its a war zone, even if you dont hear about it on tv. >> reporter: the wright familiar is not unfamiliar with the kas youl...

The military has a rigorous risk assessment process in place, but its only an assessment. >> reporter: intelligence showed it was unlikely they would run into enemy forces, officially tell cnn. they were meeting with locals in advising nigerian forces, but suddenly they were ambushed by more than 50 isis-affiliated fighters. the american troops pickup trucks were shattered by gunfire. they had only rifles to fight back. the isis attackers had rocket propelled grenades and machine guns. but serge...

Are freeing ramadi. they are shipping shipments to iraq over the weekend. >> you had captain, dustin lucasowitz captain christopher nordgren. sergeant johnson, sergeant eric seaman of california. corporeal medina and lance corporeal jacob hub. two police servicemen were killed when that helicopter driven by the marines crashed last tuesday. meanwhile the death toll from those two massive earthquakes nearly 9,000 now. >> that is the deadliest disaster in nepals history. two 19th century nuns have...

Segment tonight, you may remember last year, the factor interviewed chris kyle the deadly sniper. earlier this year, kyle was tragically shot dead by a fellow veteran he was trying to help. now, in the new book carnivore, a memoir by one of the deadliest american soldiers of all time, sergeant johnson tells his own story of how he and his troops killed more than 2,000 enemy combatants. sergeant johnson joins us now. thank you for your service to this country, sir. and thank you for writing this ...