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Did not know and they didnt share? thats another area. third area might be how do you evacuate if you have potential casualties? >> reporter: tough questions now face the pentagon and the president. what happened during the fire fight? how did sergeant la david johnson get left behind? was he killed instantly? what does the white house know? all important questions do of to understand what went wrong. especially how did sergeant johnson get separated from his fellow soldiers when the evacuation ...

All of that is taking place right now to look at the things jim just mention. was there the right medevac, did they have a good feel for intelligence, the kind of investigation that goes on is unbelievably intense and occurs when theres a death of an american. p so that is taking place right now. >> thank you all, i didnt mean to rush you along but we want to pay tribute to these four men. of course, it all began this whole narrative began with the congresswoman and the president really but then...

Nowors are speaking about. >> mattis is demanding answers about the ambush in niger that killed johnson and three other soldiers. cnn has new reporting so we will share what we have learned about this tragedy. joe johns is live at the white house with us. hi, joe. >> reporter: hi, alisyn. president trump and the family of the fallen soldier intensifying their war of words over the language the president used during the condonelce fall raising the question if the white house had been better off i...

Like a lovely woman. did not say what the congresswoman said. >> reporter: the president disputing the account that he told the widow that her husband knew what he signed up for, but i guess it still hurts. sergeant la david johnson was killed in an isis attack in niger in early october. the account of the conversation came from congresswoman fredricka wilson, a florida democrat who was present for trumps call. shed a mon fi ed a mod a mon --e president wednesday. >> this is a young woman, shes ...

So shes very concerned on various levels. but she says what she does know is that there was a transmitter that was on sergeant johnson that was emitting a signal when he was found. >> and so here is the thing. and she said this on cnn on "new day" and then repeated it with passion on the view. and i want to play that and i want to get the rest of the panels response to that. she is saying specifically she believes that this is this presidents benghazi. here she is earlier today. >> id like to kn...

Involving u.s. french and nigerian troops was launched after they realized one service member was unaccounted for. the u.s. military says it does not believe sergeant johnson fell over into enemy hand, but they did have reason to believe he might be alive. one indication is that the military picked up electronic cig l nas from a tracking system he may have had on. his body would be recovered in an area of the northwestern african country by troops nearly 48 hours after he was discovered missing ...

Was he killed instantly? important questions to understand what went wrong, especially how did sergeant johnson get separated from his fellow soldiers when the evacuation aircraft took off, they were one minnesota short. no one can say why johnson wasnt picked up. >> the u.s. military does not leave troops behind. i ask you not question the actions of the troops who were caught in the fire fight and question whether or not they did everything they could in order to bring everyone out at once. >>...

President does. this should be a private moment. for her to politicize it, she brought in a political twist between something that should be between the president and the family. thats repulsive. we need to let the families mourn. we need to support them, prop them up, love them, encourage them, do all these things. the last thing to do is politicize them. >> i agree. i agree, we should not politicize it. why was the chief of staff on the call? its not just a communication between one person and...

Press secretary to give it instead of the president of the united states. >> that was a mistake. there is no why for that. the president giving that statement is going to be more powerful plain and simple. to have it come from a spokesman or press secretary, is less powerful. so this was a miscalculation and a mistake. >> general, i would to get your response. whats going on here? >> i dont know, don. were talking a lot about form versus substance. and truthfully, when the president has h his in...

Thats disgusting. sergeant johnson is a member of the family when youre talking about the military. he has a family thats mourning and that is grieving his death. to have politicians on both sides, both the democratic side and the republican sides making this into a volleyball, in terms of what the president is doing or what the president is not doing, and then truthfully, i have to say this don, to have the media chase after this story and use sergeant johnson and his widow in the middle of it,...