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50,000 amazon jobs, salaries of 100 grand. and how far will your city go? good evening. and its great to have you with us here on a thursday night. and we begin with that deeply personal moment at the white house today. chief of staff general john kelly coming into the briefing room, defending president trumps phone call to the family of sergeant la david johnson. and in doing so, general kelly talking about the loss of his own son, right there, in afghanistan. general kelly revealing the pres...

Complete chaos. lots of noise. lots of blood. lots of injuries taking place and so, those men in that fight were fighting for each other and fighting to try to get out of the kill zone as we say. and i can only presume that sergeant johnson, who was the designated driver of one of the vehicles if were not mistaken, might have been trying to evade what was taking place and to get out of that kill zone and maybe folks that were in the vehicle were knocked out, fell out, we dont know. it wouldnt be...

With the visiting u.n. secretary-general if he authorized the mission in niger. he ignored the question. he said thank you and that was that. sara murray over at the white house. the entire controversy over gold-star families and the president began more than two weeks ago with the deaths of the soldiers in niger. we have breaking news about the ambush. lets bring in our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. barbara, what are your sources telling you? >> wolf, we are getting some very interest...

Call to the family and say you know what, im sore that you mi misinterpreted. im sorry whatever i said didnt feel right to you. im new at this. its never easy. that would go a long way. >> look, intentions aside, clearly there was a profound misinterpretation. it is partly a problem of his own making. we are so used to the president being callous, attacking and dismissive. it is easy to read that into an apparent level of disrespect the family felt about not acknowledging it. he has diminished t...

Until they recovered sergeant johnsons body, the pentagon, i can tell you, sources were locked up tight, nobody was talking about this because of the possibility he might still be out there. once they got him back, they started to put the pieces together. what they have been doing is going around, talking to everyone involved. they had to talk to the green berets that came back to ft. bragg after being out there. they had to talk to intelligence officials. they have to talk to all the communicat...

Wilson, a democrat secretly on a very personal call and gave a total lie on content. in one tweet the president stirred up the fight all over again, misstating fact itself, politicizing the issue and doing exactly what general kelly knocked the congresswoman for doing, misusing something as sacred as the death of a fallen soldier. meanwhile, that florida congress woman frederica wilson is pushing back against trump and kelly, who both knocked her for listening in on that conversation with the fa...

Could have tipped off the militants to attack. this video was given to fox news from a nonprofit in africa to show what the area near the attack looked like. the military sent a general officer to niger to investigate the attack and now the fbi is headed there, too, bringing law enforcement techniques to help piece together the timeline and what led to the attack. top pentagon officials are pushing back strongly on the notion that this was an intelligence failure. they say the u.s. team that wer...

On the graves of every single american who has died defending this country and their rights to be stupid like they are everyday. then theres democratic congresswoman frederica wilson. she is the number-one trump hater in the country. what she is engaging in and orchestrating here is the epitome of gutter, bottom of the barrel politics. shes a disgrace to the u.s. congress and doesnt have an ounce of shame and her body. frederica wilson saw the death of sergeant johnson as a way to manufacture co...

>> -- at some point during the before the called the parents and the families. 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...

Forthcoming up to this point about what happened there? >> of course not. >> in plain english thats a former p.o.w. in the middle of chemo and it doesnt seem like he has a lot of time for delays. senator john mccain is not satisfied with the white house explanation about what led to the deaths of four u.s. service members in niger on october 4th. sergeant la david johnsons body was not recovered until two days later, and now two weeks later its still unclear how the events unfolded. exactly who ...