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Gold star widow was on abc this morning, speaking emotionally, very passionately, the president went on twitter and contradicted her account tweeting, "i had a very respectful conversation with the widow of sergeant la david johnson and spoke his name from beginning without hesitation." since then, several times during the course of today, he was shouted questions by reporters, never said anything else. is there a new strategy the president, perhaps, is -- >> hopefully. >> -- pursuing? >> hopefu...

Whatever you need down the road, i will be here for you. a gold star widow, she deserves that respect. i want you to listen to president trumps latest comments about north korea. >> we are so prepared like you wouldnt believe. you would be shocked to see how totally prepared we are if we need to be. would it be nice not to do that? the answer is yes. will that happen? who knows. >> so what do you think the president means, and youve been to north korea on serl occasions. is this more heim. >> ag...

Niger is a serious topic. people dont know what happened. a lot of people are thinking, where we there? last week you asked jennifer griffin. a lot of people dont know why we are there. whats going on? how long have we been there? questions about what happened to la david johnsons body. all these questions. its an ongoing issue. its a real news story. >> jesse: i want to find those answers too. >> juan: fine, the second thing to say. frederica wilson, kelly was wrong on two scores. first of all,...

In this country. to get the country going again. that and regulatory changes that the president is implementing we think give us a chance to achieve at least 3% growth. there wasnt a single year of 3% growth during the obama years. >> the president pushed back about capping contributions to 401k plans. the president said there will be no change to your 401k. it has been a popular middle class tax break that works and it stays. sandra. >> sandra: that was no capital letters he used there. there i...

The evening of 4 october and at that time sergeant la david johnson was still missing. 6 october sergeant johnsons body was found and subsequently evacuated. >> we begin tonight with pentagon corners hans nichols. what do we know as a result of the briefing we did not know before? >> just how long the firefight lasted. 1e6 several hours, 11:00 a.m. in the evening. it wasnt until two hours after the firefight began you had french air support show up on the scene. we know it wasnt until later in t...

>> it is because -- what he does as commander-in-chief is important. we should be honoring. thats what the president is trying to say. we should be honoring sergeant johnson and those other three brave men who sacrificed themselves for our greater good. and there are fallen soldiers across the world, right, in afghanistan, iraq. were bringing home unfortunately our americas best under that flag and i think thats what general kelly was trying to say, that these men sign up, theyre volunteers and ...

And i was -- it made me cry, because -- i was very angry at, the tone of his voice and how he said -- he couldnt remember my husbands name. i heard him stumbling on trying to remember my husbands name. >> now, up until this point, the president has gone after the widows congresswoman, frederica wilson of florida, but not the widow herself. however, shortly after that interview aired this morning, he disputed the widows account as well insisting, "i had a very respectful conversation with the wid...

Shocking how both the president and general kelly have come across the white house who have not been honest. general kelly making up the story about the congresswoman, the president saying other friends havent called, and now we see the reporting white house was scrambling to try to get letters out to all the families that the president hadnt called, although he said and the widow of sergeant johnson have come out much more -- seemingly more honest in terms of explaining exactly what happened. i...

Infringement on the presidents power. these are usually granted. i was on the house intelligence committee for many years. but look, we have a situation in niger where so many people dont know, was this a military mission, was there any covert action involved? i suspect there might have been. this is why there wasnt full disclosure to the armed services committee, at least. but at least the gang of eight, the highest congressional leaders, should have known. this is war in africa. this is a nati...

To their operating base. during the fire fight, two u.s. soldiers were wounded and evacuated by french air to miami. and that was consistent with the quality evacuation plan that was in place for this particular operation. three u.s. soldiers who were killed in action were evacuated on the evening of 4 october and at that time sergeant la david johnson was still missing. on the evening of 6 october, sergeant johnsons body was found and subsequently evacuated. from the time the fire fight was ini...