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General himself talking about the four u.s. service members killed this month in niger. were live at the white house. how is congresswoman wilson responding to the generals remarks? >> she is not backing down at all and standing by her criticisms of the presidents demeanor on the phone call even after john kelly provided that bit of context why it is the president said to the widow of sergeant la david johnson he knew what he signed up for when he joined the army. she said she wouldnt be making ...

Local leaders and pay their respects and visit with them and they were ambushed. it was very unexpected. so there is always whenever theres a death of a service member like this, theres whats called a line of duty investigation, its a standard investigation and then now theres this more informal one thats also ongoing, which includes looking at the very basic facts of what happened here, everything from who was actually there when the gunfire and the rpgs started coming in. why were they at the ...

Theyre going to talk about who was in the car and what was overheard? whatever was heard, the widow and the family wanted it heard. are they accusing this woman and the parents that raised this young man on their way to the coffin of just fabricating a lie to embarrass or be partisan against donald trump? these people are and were grieving. they had no motive at all to make up a lie on president trump. so lets take fredricka wilson, the congresswoman -- >> lets ask our journalists. the family sa...

Take out the issue of the congresswoman and what she might have said or what general kelly might have advised the president. if the presidents attempt to reach out and offer the nations condolences and gratitude for the service of sergeant johnson, that it somehow didnt quite -- it was not received in a way that had that comforting tone. and thats just not something that sara sanders wants to take on. you have an opportunity for the white house to have put this to bed with john kelly who, in his...

Her in a time of grief and she was there to be supportive. as was the woman who had raised la david johnson, sergeant johnson as his mother raised him like a son. they were there. the phone call as i understand was on speaker, which sounded -- the president of the united states called, its an occasion, its a moment. and they were appalled at what they heard. rightly or wrongly, they were, and it wasnt intended to deepen mrs. johnsons grief, the widow, but clearly it did. and he didnt -- general ...

Pale. the media is literally spitting 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 trouble 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 ser...

Said she was secretly listening in. the only person that accused of doing anything secret was him and wiretapping, but well leave that for another segment. on these facts we know now about the congresswomans longstanding relationship with the soldier who lost his life, his young pregnant wife. i think she was pregnant. she had two other children. >> two other children. >> had they known yesterday, do any of these facts give them pause as somehow describing her as eefsdropping and doing something...

At the same time, war is war. >> later in the white house press room, chief of staff john kelly, whose only son was killed in afghanistan, gave an emotionally wrought and at times aggressive defense of the presidents conduct this week, including what the president said to the family of sergeant la david johnson. >> you know what the possibilities were, because were at war. and when he died, in the four cases were talking about, niger, my sons case, and afghanistan, when he died, he was surrounde...

Gone public with. that we pushed her with that. in fact, when she was on this show days ago. it should be pointed out, a family friend and not an opportunist. she was in the car, has known that family for a generation or. so so she is a family friend. i noted that gem kelly gave the president cover when he said, when he received the phone call about his son from general dunford, that general dunford said, they are the 1%. they knew what they signed up for. he made a point of using that line, bec...

Issues theyd like to talk about. theyve spent days talking about this, not because the media has kept it going but because theyve helped keep it going. >> lets put the humanity of causing more stress for a widow aside and ask you about this description of congresswoman wilson as an empty barrel. what does that -- she said today that had a racial undertone. >> i spoke less than an hour ago with congresswoman wilson. and one thing people need to remember is that this young man, sergeant johnson, p...