to help, fine. but he followed that up with a widely debunked story -- a military myth really. tweeting this, "study what general pershing of the united states did to terrorists when caught. there was no more radical islamic terror for 35 years." sometimes he's told that story on the campaign trail and said 25 years -- different versions of the story floating around. the military historians say it didn't happen. let's bring in sarah westwood, white house correspondent for "the washington examiner." good morning. i retroactively ask why -- i rhetorically ask why the president would throw out something that's not real in response to the terror attack. i guess the answer is because the president has a very loose, loose reliance on facts or relationship with facts. >> it's not clear what president trump thought he would project, but it's projected -- serving to