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President. mccain aligns himself more with james mattis, people in the administration that may be more in line with that. hes making these points because, look, i know more, the generals who serve with the president know more. he should listen to the people who have served and they know more than perhaps the president who spouts off from time to time. >> is it just senator mccain can be a prickly guy? sometimes thats a compliment, sometimes a criticism. is it just this peak that he doesnt like t...

Roy moor. mcconnell also told cnn he trusted. >> the widow of slain sergeant la david johnson said to give her first national interview since her husband was killed. she expected to discuss the condolence call she got from president trump in an interview this morning with abc. the controversy from that call publicized by democratic congresswoman has not subsided. >> the president tweeted whacky congresswoman is a gift that keeps on giving. you watch her in action and vote r. >> the president say...

Where ryan brown is. ryan, this is where hopefully some answers are going to start coming from, not only for myesha johnson and all the families that lost those four soldiers in niger, but, you know, members on both sides of the aisle in congress. clearly have questions. >> thats right, poppy. theres a lot of questions remaining unanswered and the united states africa command which oversees u.s. troops in the region is conducting an investigation to try to determine exactly what happened to serg...

Frederica wilson who is calling niger trumps benghazi. what do you think? >> i wasnt party to any of those conversations. what i understand and know is that we need to be focused on the issues. were getting lost too much on twitter feeds -- >> no, but this is the issue of the niger ambush being a failure that would haunt the president like benghazi haunted president obama and hillary clinton. what do you think? >> i think that we need to look into what happened out there. no one knows at this po...

Feeling that way, im sorry that youre hurt right now. general, there are also very important questions about the status of the investigation right now. questions coming from myesha johnson. what does it say to you, general, she doesnt have more answers, that she hasnt been allowed to see her husbands body? >> yeah. i think what theyre doing, and i experienced this as well, you have to conduct the investigation before you give fact because you dont want to go back to the family saying we made a m...

Administration on how her husband died, why his body was left for 48 hours, why she hasnt been able to see or identify her husband yet. do you have questions for the administration on this as well? >> well, first, we need to honor the fallen soldier, sergeant johnson, and his family, and tell them how much we appreciate his sacrifice and sacrifice of the family and for all our men and women in uniform and their family. how much we appreciate them and honor them. i understand theres some question...

Letter or an aide saying were sorry you feel that this wasnt the conversation that you wanted to have at that time. do you think that someone ought to just touch base with her and say hey were sorry you feel this way. forget the politics of this but a human level, you shouldnt be hurt by a conversation like this. >> i believe the president was trying to reach out to her, to myesha and the family. i think there will be -- we have an ongoing effort through our military and others through the milit...

Candidate trump said john mccain was not a war hero? the p.o.w. war hero turned senator seems to remember how the president avoided the draft. >> we drafted the lowest income level of america and the highest income level found a doctor that would say they had a bone spur. that is wrong. that is wrong. and as the president preps for a big visit to capitol hill, the senates top republican, mindful of the obamacare debacle, asked for clear and consistent white house guidance on tax cuts. >> im no...

The fact that this widow, this gold-star widow apparently misunderstood what he was trying to convey. >> yeah, its not that he couldnt do it, its that he doesnt want to do it. we heard out of the white house today, you know, dont expect -- there is not going to be another call to myesha johnson. david axelrods point, i think is the most important one, which calling a widow of an american soldier killed in action is extremely difficult. its emotionally difficult. you know there is not a good way ...

Disagreement with the president, the president did not recall her husband by name. listen to what she said as she expounded on that. >> i heard him stumbling on trying to remember my husbands name. that hurt me the most. whatever mrs. wilson said was not fabricated. what she said was 100% correct. it was master sergeant, me, my aunt, my uncle and the driver and mrs. wilson in the car. the phone was on speaker phone. why would we fabricate something like that? >> master sergeant neil would be the...