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Valuable. i mean, there is something that has come out of this. >> yeah. i think thats right. i think the elevation that has come from the media korng in that regard has been healthy. look, i think three lessons should come out of this entire sad week. one is that these gold star families all grieve in their own way. none of them suffer this kind of sorrow in sort of a cookie cutter approach and you need to respect that. number two, messages transmitted dont always mean messages received. yes, y...

Weeks since this deadly ambush, and we really just know only the basics about what happened. heres what we know. a team of 12 soldiers went to visit village elders in a village close to the border. as they were leaving that meeting they came under attack by some 50 isis affiliated fighters that were better armed, machine guns and rocket propelled grenades. the soldiers only had the rifle the and were traveling in vehicles not armored. there was a 30-minute fire fight. 30 minutes in, a french air...

Unlikely there would be opposition in the area. now the u.s. believes it was 50 isis fighters with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades that attacked. the americans had their rifles. 30 minutes later, french jets flew over the battle field trying to scare off the isis fighters. they had no authority to fire. it was close to an hour before french military helicopters and u.s. contractor aircraft came in to evacuate the dead and the wounded amid the battle cop fusion. >> did they know what w...

Actions of the troops that were caught in the fire fight and question whether or not they did everything they could in order to bring everyone out at once. >> what more do we know about what happened? >> well, right now the pentagon is just not answering a lot of these hard questions. theyre even disputing the characterization of sergeant johnson being left behind, preferring the terminology separated from his unit. the fact is for some 48 hours he was missing. and the question is when that fren...

Defense secretary james mattis, officials say, is discouraged by the lack of information hes received from his own people on the isis attack in niger that killed four u.s. soldiers and injured two more. the 12-member u.s. army team was meeting villagers in a town on the mali border. they were walking back to their vehicles which were not armored when up to 50 isis affiliated fighters attacked them with machine guns and rocket propelled grenades. the americans fought back, but were not only armed...

French aircraft flew by to disperse attackers from the air and later to evacuate the wounded. u.s. had to rely on private contractor to airlift out the dead. in the chaos sergeant la david johnson was separated and left behind. joint search and rescue and hours later recovered his body. today secretary mattis attempted to answer hard questions about what went wrong. for one why military intelligence assessed it was unlikely the team would run into enemy forces. >> contact was considered unlikely...

Airplanes flew overhead to try and help. but u.s. officials are telling us in niger, that government did not give permission for offensive air operations. in other words, there was no authority for the aircraft to even drop bombs. so those u.s. troops were on the ground with essentially no kinetic help. no bombs were able to drop to help them. where does it all go from here? were still learning new details. a private aircraft flew into the battle field after the fighting stopped and helped evacu...

The air and later to evacuate the wounded. the u.s. had to rely on a private contractor to air lift out the dead. in the chaos, sergeant la david johnson was separated from the team and left behind. commanders launched a large joint u.s. niger and french operation. 48 hours later, nigerian troops recovered his body. today, secretary mattis answered hard questions about what went wrong. for one, why the militarys own intelligence assessed it was unlikely the team would run into enemy forces. >> t...

His, about 50 eyes us fighters. how did they not know isis was there? the intelligence not accurate. they had been told, according to all the sources we talked to, that it was unlikely they would run into any kind of on opposition force and of course they did. once they did, a firefight breaks out. they are in a country, niger, in west africa. that country, u.s. officials say, does not allow air strikes. when french aircraft rolled to to try and help, all they could do is fly low to try to scare...

And so we do not have the accurate information yet. we will release it as rapidly as we get it. >> reporter: two weeks after the ambush, defense secretary james mattis is discounselored by the lack of information hes received from his own people on the isis attack in niger that killed four u.s. soldiers and injured two more. the 12-member u.s. army team was meeting villagers in a town on the mali border. they were walking back to their vehicles when were not armored when up to 50 isis affiliated...