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>> reporter: sergeant florida david johnson was found nearly a mile away from the central scene of the ambush, according to four administration officials familiar with the early assessment. they all cautioned, this is the early picture. and the investigation continues. the pentagon is still looking at the exact circumstances of how he became separated from his unit. the entire team led by green berets has been interviewed officials say, about when they last saw johnson. the u.s. team had stopped...

Information gathering, reconnaissance and because of the size of it, because of the it, you cant effectively have u.s. boots on the ground striking the militants as that legislator suggests but what we can do and what the u.s. has been doing is bolster the governments in the attempts to stand offer the terror threat. >> this is an operation thats going to go for some time. >> major general james spider marks described what probably happened. >> i can tell you immediately an environment had been ...

Really hard to watch two gold star families disagree. even indirect ly. i think its just terribly sad. and i think that this was not a good week for our country. and i just feel badly about it. i feel badly for both families. the johnson family and the kelly family. and i just, i wish that our politics was not such that this kind of thing happens, i also have to say that it saddens me that general kelly, who deserves our understanding and gratitude and condolences, took this strange turn into ta...

Unarmored vehicles when this attack by around 50 isis fighters began, although thats not 100%. there was some conflicting reporting that maybe they werent even in their vehicles yet, you know, contributing to the risk of casualties. at any rate, thats something that the investigation is obviously working on. theres also a question over when la david johnson was somehow separated from his fellow troops and find about 48 hours later about a mile away, was there a sort of tracking signal coming fro...

With the widow of sergeant la david johnson. the president for the first time talking about his chief of staff and his reaction to that phone call. >> he was so offended because he was in the room when i made the call, so were other people. and the call was a very nice call. he was so offended that somebody would be listening to that call. he was -- he actually couldnt believe it. actually, he said to me, sir, this is not acceptable. this is really not -- any more, i was so nice -- look, ive cal...

Way. the problem is it wont go away if the president his administration and the press secretary keep saying that are not true. yesterday the white house brought out chief of staff john kelly to talk about it. today sarah sanders says that should have been the end of it, but it was the president who had to try to get the last word late last night he tweeted, quote, the fake news is going crazy with whacky congresswoman wilson, who was secretly on a very personal call and gave a total lie on conte...

U.s. forces. >> the fbi would have jurisdiction to investigate and bring back the perpetrators to the u.s. if it can be done. >> the b pressure is mounting for a public explanation. what did happen to sergeant johnson? >> he was abandon for two days, for 48 hours. why? why didnt they pick him up and put him on their shoulders like they did the other fallenen comrades? and put him on a helicopter and take him to safety.? he could have still been alive. center but that is. >> but mattis is fiercel...

Investigation. what can you tell us about that? >> they are doing that. they are looking at the intelligence, trying to figure out exactly who the unsurgery ents were, what part of isis they belong to and if they can begin to identify the insurgents and go after them. i want to also add in that the pentagon today is very adamant they did not stop looking for la david johnson. they made a point of making sure we knew that nigerian, french and u.s. forces were on the ground around the clock lookin...

After mccain, chairman. armed services committee, threatened subpoenas if the pentagon doesnt startling congress what it knows. >> i felt that we were not given sufficient amount of information. and we are clearing a lot of that up now. >> reporter: mattis refusing to publicly comment why the fbi is now involved in gathering intelligence on the suspected isis militants that ambushed the u.s. forces. >> fbi would have jurisdiction to investigate and bring back perpetrators to the u.s., if it can ...

Troops of niger. theyre going to work on the country hosting our troops as well as the intelligence organizations to see if we could pick up our determined if theres a planned or hasty a tack. whats going to come out this there you the men and women on the ground is kind of razor point timeline on exactly what happened, where and why it happened. >> and working in tandem as we speak. im curious what the significant is. weve had michelle kosinski said that sergeant johnson may have been a trackin...