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That keeps on giving. a disaster for democrats, watch her in action and vote "r." she was a mentor to sergeant johnson. she tweeted niger is the real donald trumps benghazi. he needs to own it. johnson was one of four troops killed in an isis ambush in niger. an investigation continues. all of this as the president gears up for a major push on tax reform and ponders whether to appoint a new chairperson to the federal reserve. les bring in boris sanchez. what is the president up to today? >> repo...

Prepared just pitiless critique of a democratic congress woman frederica wilson from south florida. she had been physically with the family of sergeant le david johnson, she had been with his widow when sergeant johnsons widow took the condolence call, the widow took it on speaker phone so members could hear the conversation n. that conversation, president trump used language intentionally or not that the family found disrespectful and hurtful. john kelly yesterday criticized congress woman wils...

The district where sergeant johnsons family lives, known the family for years and with the widow when she received the president as call. >> spoke to the widow of sergeant johnson, maisha. how is she doing? >> shes very distraught. we were in the car together, in the limousine, headed to meet the body at the airport. so i heard what he said. because the phone was on speaker. >> what did he say? >> well, basically he said -- well i guess he knew what he signed up for. but i guess it still hurts. ...

Say that, here is what the president said about that today. >> i was really nice to her. i respect her. i respect her family. i certainly respect la david. who i by the way called la david right from the beginning. they put a chart in front. la david. says la david johnson. no hesitation. one of the great memories of all time. no hesitation. i think shes a fantastic woman. i was extremely nice to her. extremely respectful. >> so his defense on remembering the name is that they put a chart front ...

Support for that first hour, my judgment would be that unit thought they could handle the situation without additional support. >> thats different from the timeline first provided by the pentagon saying the french jets were overhead within 30 minutes after they were urgently requested. officials say the 12-man special forces team could not communicate with the french jets above making it impossible for them to drop bombs because the jets -- the french jets couldnt tell the difference between fri...

In africa said he only had a quarter of the reconnaissance flights to do his job and that did impact the search and rescue mission. is the white house concerned that u.s. forces in africa do not have adequate resources and that could have contributed to what happened in niger and had there been an outreach? >> as always, the safety and security of our military is a top priority in terms of specifics, well wait until that investigation is completed. as general dunford said yesterday, were going t...

Calls, because theres nothing you can say that will, that people will want to hear, and that its an incredibly difficult moment and there is very little condolence you can offer, and the president decided to do it anyway, and so he gave him some words to speak. clearly general kelly was correct. the presidents decision to make that phone call was a terrible blunder. it hurt mrs. johnsons feelings. it created an eight-day firestorm, but the president is exacerbating this and putting guys like con...

4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. the u.s. president and the white house both standing by the chief of staff, john kelly, despite his false claims about a u.s. congresswoman. the press secretary even going as far as calling -- questioning kelly highly inappropriate. our sara murray has this report for us. >> 2 the presidents response to a u.s. soldier in niger, developing into a political brawl. trump taking to twitter again to blast the congresswoman who accused him of being insensitive in a co...

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. >> those comments by the president kicked off an entire news cycle focussed who how he treats the families of fallen service members known as gold star families, compounded by reports close relatives of one of the soldiers killed in niger, sergeant la david johnson, felt the president had disrespected their fallen loved one. in the meantime weve learned few deta...

Myesha johnson said she doesnt have anything left to say to the president and were told right now, be kate, there are no plans for the administration to reach out to the johnson family again at this time. >> all right. kaitlan, thank you so much. lets turn to the investigation, though. and what exactly happened in the ambush and what exactly the pentagon still does not know. ryan browne is at the pentagon with much more. you heard myesha johnson. she wants answers. what are you hearing right now...