condolences almost immediately after the four service members were killed but he never issued the statement and chose to make no comments forth 125 days. what is the white house saying about that. >> one of the perplexing is the president's silence. we were talking to white house officials about this, they said, look, they got the information from the nsc. they were trying to decide the best way to deliver it and sarah sanders decided instead of putting out a written statement she felt like it would mean more if she delivered that statement from the podium and she did do so on october 5th. they were still tying to notify the next of kin. but it still doesn't answer the question, anderson, of why we didn't hear anything directly from the president. why it took so long for the commander in chief to address this himself. >> is sarah sanders saying she thought it would have more impact if she spoke about it from the podium rather than a written statement from her or