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Though none conducted air strikes. to fight the impression the pentagon has not been forthcoming, dunford vowed transparency with victims families and the public. >> i think we do owe the families and the american people transparency in incidents like this and we intend to deliver just that. >> reporter: as she said her final good-bye to her husband this weekend, the widow of sergeant la david johnson told abcs "good morning america" she is still waiting for answers. >> i dont know how he got ki...

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Say? i said to him, sir, theres nothing you can do to lighten the burden on these families. >> reporter: trying to diffuse a fire the president himself sparked this week, he guided through condolence calls to those killed two weeks ago in an ambush. >> let me tell you what i tell him, what my best friend, joe dunford told me because he was my casualty officer. he said, kell, he was doing exactly what he wanted to do when he was killed. he knew what he was getting into by joining that 1%. >> repo...

Information, despite repeated denials from senators on both sides of the aisle, cnn has learned that members of congress were told about the niger mission, at least twice this year. president trump, meanwhile, continued the condolence call controversy monday with a gold star widow. the president disputes her count of the call, which she says left her in tears. all of this as president trump heads to capitol hill today to sell his tax plan. mr. trump will meet with senate majority leader mitch ...

That moment. were you surprised? dismayed? your reaction. >> i believe ms. johnson, congressman wilson. this president needs to stop it. but this is who he is. he has a pattern of disrespecting women, especially women of color and african american women. and were saying to this president and to general kelly that they need to apologize, and they need to stop these attacks on women. and especially african american women and congresswoman wilson. she is a respected member of congress. and they can...

Advance about a meeting in a village sympathetic to the local isis affiliates. democrat from congress, one of the women from the congressional black caucus who wrote a letter demanding an apology from john kelly for his comments last week. let me start with that why do you think an apology is needed here? >> well, chris, first, my heart goes out to mrs. johnson and to her family at the loss of her brave husband and all of the brave men who lost their lives. this is really a moment to grieve and ...

Bad for politics. bad for our military. >> i havent even received letters. >> trying to create something that the congresswoman is doing is frankly appall stpwhrg it was received a certain way by the family. apologize and go on. >> the white house is being evasive about niger. >> we dont have the facts yet. >> no reason why sergeant johnson was left behind. >> there is a story here that the american people deserve to know. >> how we lost four service members is and how they were ambushed, the pr...

A lot of this back and forth does not change the fact that this young american soldier died in action and again, depending, the pentagon investigating. this will reach capitol hill, as well. what happened to those soldiers in nijer. >> what were they doing there to begin with. thats another issue that needs to be investigated. did they have the proper support? was the u.s. intelligence adequate. a very have dangerous mission inside niger. jeff, thanks very much. lets not forget what is at the he...

Trump finally spoke out about it on monday, october 16th, 12 days after the ambush. why? because cnns sara murray asked him this. >> why havent we heard anything from you so far about the soldiers that were killed in niger and what do you have to say about that? >> ive written them personal letters. >> you know what happened next. trump misled the public. he said his predecessors didnt really call the families of fallen service members. this triggered days of follow-up coverage proving him wrong...