In a severe wrap, like, i wont be able to see him. I need to see him, so i will know that that is my husband. I dont know nothing. They wont show me a finger, a hand. I know my husbands body from head to toe. And they wont let me see anything. I dont know whats in that box. It could be anything for all i know. But i need to see my husband. And Myesha Johnson is now demanding answers about the circumstances around the ambush that killed her husband and three of his fellow soldiers and shes also this morning confirming the sadly much discussed and disputed and debated call which the president of the united states. Listen here. And he goes on to say in his statement as, what he said was the president . Yes, the president said that he knew what he signed up for but it hurts anyways. And i was it made me cry because i was very angry at the tone of his voice and how he said it. He couldnt remember my husbands name. The only way he remembered my husbands name, because he told me, he had my husbands report in front of him. And thats when he actually said, la david. I heard minimum stumbling on trying to remember my husbands name. And that et what hurts me the most. Because if my husband is out here fighting for our country and he risked his life for our country, why cant you remember his name . And that is what made me upset and cried even more, because my husband was an awesome soldier. What did you say to the president . I didnt i didnt say anything. I just listened. But you were upset when you got off the phone . Oh, very. Very upset and hurt. Very. It made me cry even worse. Miss johnson also stands by congresswoman Frederica Wilson who was in the car with her at the time who got caught up in a very public namecalling spat with the president and his chief of staff over all of this. The president not letting miss johnson have the last word, though. Right after that interview aired he tweeted this. I had a very respectful conversation with the widow of Sergeant La David Johnson and spoke his name from beginning without hesitation. All right. Brian brown is following the investigative side of this, Kaitlan Collins at the white house. Kaitlan, first to you, i honestly cant believe this enters another week. What is the white house saying today. Were on day eight of this and the president is completely disputing what the widow said during that interview this morning where she described the phone call between the two of them as hurtful and said that president struggled to remember her husbands name. So now thats the second person where the president is disputing their account of the call. The other, of course, being that democratic congresswoman Frederica Wilson, from florida, who is a close family friend of the johnsons. The president said she fabricated when she described the contents of the call and that he did not say what she said he said. But this morning, Myesha Johnson stood by congresswoman wilsons account of the call. Listen to what she had to say, kate. Whatever miss wilson said was not fabricated. What she said was 100 correct. It was Master Sergeant neil, me, my aunt, my uncle, and the driver, and miss wilson in a car. The phone was on speaker phone. Why would we fabricate Something Like that . Is there anything you would like to say to the president now . No. I dont no. I dont have nothing to say to him. Kate, the white house says there is no recording and no transcript of the call, so its essentially the widows word versus the president. Myesha johnson said she doesnt have anything left to say to the president and were told right now, be kate, there are no plans for the administration to reach out to the Johnson Family again at this time. All right. Kaitlan, thank you so much. Lets turn to the investigation, though. And what exactly happened in the ambush and what exactly the pentagon still does not know. Ryan browne is at the pentagon with much more. You heard Myesha Johnson. She wants answers. What are you hearing right now . The pentagon is trying to find out exactly what happened in niger during this ambush and the u. S. Africa command is overseeing an investigation to try to determine how these u. S. Soldiers came under attack, how Sergeant Johnson was separated from the rest of his unit and how his body was unable to be recovered for nearly 48 hours. Now these are all things that theyre looking at. Of course they already said that there was a bit of an intelligence failure which they didnt expect this attack to happen, and, of course, theres even broader questions coming from congress with senior senators, including senator Lindsey Graham and minority leader senator Chuck Schumer saying they were not aware of the size and scale of the u. S. Military presence in that west african country. Lets listen. I can say this to the families, they were there to defend america, they were there to help allies. I didnt know there was 1,000 troops in niger. John mccain is right to tell the military, because this is an endless war without boundaries, no limitation on the time of geography, you have to tell us more. You heard senator graham he didnt know we had 1,000 troops in niger, did you . No, i did not. The pentagon maintains they conduct regular briefings on u. S. Operations in the region to congress and that President Trump in june sent letter to leaders in congress saying there were about 1,000 u. S. Troops in niger and neighboring cameroon performing training and advising missions and constructing a drone base there. Members of Congress Want to know more and asked for additional briefings and hearings on the u. S. Military presence there and specifically on what went wrong during this mission which left four u. S. Soldiers dead. Kate . Yeah. All right. Lets see what the next hours and days bring. Ryan, thank you so much. Bring in two members of congress, both members of key house committees on this issue and both iraq war veterans, republican congressman lee zellen sits on the foreaffairs democratic congressman ruben guyygo. Thank you so much for being here. I appreciate it. Thank you for having me. Lot to discuss. Congressman, first to you, miss johnson, the sergeants widow, she said she still doesnt know anything about how her husband died. Are you satisfied with what you have heard from the pentagon so far in terms of actually what happened . Absolutely not. We dont know exactly what happened, both to Sergeant Johnson. We have no clue what the conditions were. I would also like to know the usual things that usually go into these types of missions, where was the close air combat support, who were the allied forces, what was the mission, were they truly on an assist and Train Mission or part of the 100 killer teams. Theres a lot of things we have a right to know about and the fact that it is what happened to the sergeant. How did they lose his body and lost it for 48 hours. That violates all protocol. When we went into combat no matter where i was in iraq we had a head count when we got off the helicopter and when we got on the helicopter, whatever vehicle we got on or off and the fact that a u. S. American soldier went missing tells us that a lot of things went wrong and we need to fix it. Other American Military personnel will never feel safe if they dont think that were ready to back them up. Thats a very dangerous thing to our National Security apparatus if soldiers feel like theyre not going to be found or going to be left behind. Congressman zeldin, you heard Lindsey Graham and Chuck Schumer saying the same. John mccain, very frustrated last week not getting enough information. Lindsey graham, very frustrated. Did you know there were 1,000 u. S. Military person until niger . I knew we had about several hundred. Were off pratsing in countries all over africa. I dont know the exact troop level. The fact that theyre frustrated, though, says what . Are you frustrated as well . When i was i want answers. Most importantly for the families. Its very difficult, if not impossible, to have closure without nothing exactly how your loved one was killed. In the i was on active duty still in the Army Reserves while i was on active duty i was in the ar156 investigations. Every time we have a Service Member who is seriously injured or killed in combat, theres an investigation that takes place. At the end of the investigation youre able to present that information to the families. Its hopeful to the helpful to the families. Sometimes that information has redacted information so its important were providing as much Accurate Information as quickly as possible. I dont want to i wouldnt want to see them cut corners to provide inaccurate info, without cutting corners and redact as little as possible for the familys purposes. Do you think things have been slow so far, congressman . I would like to know exactly where the pentagon is in that investigation. Okay. The best source for congress to get information as to what happened is directly from the pentagon. Thats right. So getting that update is going to be a status update. I wouldnt expect investigation to be complete but they have to provide some information. Its important for Lessons Learned absolutely. And i will say, and Lessons Learned i dont know if lessons have been learned on this aspect of this conversation i want to ask you both about it, congressman zeldin the sergeants widow, Myesha Johnson, you heard what she said to abc news, she was very hurt by what the president said to her on that phone call and then this morning the president responded on twitter disputing what she said. Disputing her account essentially. I mean, do you see him continuing this as helping in any way . I wish i was able to listen to and im sure you would as well, listen to the converation itself. We are debating what happened on this call. Myesha also mentioned that heres the thing. I am not debating. Go ahead congressman. Go ahead. There should be no debate. This widow got a phone call, whether the phone call went well or to the, is irrelevant. These phone calls are tough. Ive made these phone calls. Theyre not the First Casualty calls like general kelly has had to make but ive had to make these phone calls talking to a loved one and if something went wrong all the president had to say im sorry, the chief of staff kelly say, im sorry. These things happen. There was no ill intent. The president made it about himself. Instead the president turned around and started attacking a congresswoman who was doing her job, being with her constituent and turned this into a whole side show because the president cannot help himself, he did not have any empathy for this widow. All he had to do was shut up and actually be a leader. And should apologize. There is no good way to make these phone calls. Weve had to make these phone calls and understand that. The president is not acting president ial. All he cares about is himself and his small ego. Instead of actually accepting the fact that this happened and that he spoke spoke in a manner that maybe was not befitting of the situation, he decided just to double down and make this situation even worse. Thats not how a president acts. There is no right way to talk to a widow once they die, its how you act afterwards and the president and chief of staff kelly have acted wholly inappropriate in this situation. Do you agree . Were they inappropriate in the situation . So with all due respect to my colleague who i do have a lot of respect for, you know, he wasnt on the call as well. You know, and miss wilson. Thats irrelevant whether shes getting criticized. Listen okay. Its irrelevant, have empathy for a widow. Its the action afterwards. Congressman, go ahead congressman. So you know, miss wilson is, you know shes not necessarily someone who has high roaded anything about her relationship with the president. You have two personalities here who have attacked each other and that is a side show. What 100 . Look, i agree that a lot of this has become a side show. Talk about just today, should the widow have the last word . Yes. But the last word, though, also included myesha saying that the president said his name, but it was her perception that the president needed to look at a report that was in front of him in order to know his name. I wasnt on the call. But it hurt her feelings. So what . Thats most important. If it hurt her feelings so what if its right or wrong or slightly off or not. Shouldnt she have the last word . Sure. Im fine with that. Okay. And whats most important you a gold star family who you want to console, you know the president gets criticized if he doesnt make the call, the president gets criticized if he does make the call. Does make the call you happen to have someone in the car who goes to press. This person is someone this member of congress is someone who has said that the president has a brain disorder, hes crazy, that hes cold hearted, they you know hes a racist, calling for the president s impeachment, the list goes on before this started. I would say i dont think there are a lot of clean hands in where this has gone, extent the one person with clean hands is the widow. Thats where i want to stay today. Yeah. The widow Sergeant Johnsons widow decided who to be on the phone call and whos not. Thats her prerogative. To make a weird assumption kelly made she violated a sacred trust being on the phone call that was a distraction. The way to end this is just end it. The president can stop arguing back with the widow. It occurred, its over. These phone calls are difficult. If they had said the phone calls were difficult. I dont know how to argue to say it was a respectful phone call. He tweets out its a respectful phone call. No lee. The fact that kelly goes on in the press conference. I had a very respectful phone call. The tweeted out. Do you think this is helpful congressman . I have spoken to the president about twitter. He is not you can say i hear you, you can say yes or no. I want your assessment, he tweets right after her interview and say now hes disputing the account of the widow . Its in the news today no matter whether or not he posts that tweet. Youre still going to the media is still going to be attacking the president for saying whatever it is hes acting not president ial. He said the president wants to have his end of the story. No listen, i dont want anything to get distracted from whats most important. Be a president. The family has let the widow have her day. I dont want to keep talking over each other. Its a delay. Go ahead, congressman zeldin. I dont want this back and forth with regard to the president tweeting that it was a respectful conversation that he mentioned la David Johnsons name from the beginning, that is that a distraction . Yes. Would we still be talking about this anyway . Yes. The widow spoke today. There is not this is whats okay. This what is i feel like is lost. The widow is speaking out today. She wants answers in an investigation. Yes. She says she was hurt by the president. Yes. On some level, as a representative. Most important. Full stop. Couldnt cant it stop there . Sure. If i absolutely can. Would you prefer congressman zeldin if it did stop there . I wish we werent going back and forth at all did he say his name, not say his name, when did he say his name. Now weve reached the point everyone agrees the president knew and said his name but were not talking about, which we started off in this conversation, talking about an investigation were talking about all of it. Im talking to you about all of it. And believe me, were staying with the investigation. But the president seems to want to continue the conversation about what happened on the call himself. That conversation has happened regardless of whether or not the tweet goes out. I would like to point out, did you ever can we recall the days when president bush or president obama were arguing back and forth over twitter with a widow during the Afghanistan War or during the iraq war, during the heydays of those days when we had bodies coming back every day . No. Those president s had dignity and acted like leaders. This president does not. The people around him like former general kelly, now chief of staff kelly, need to teach the president how to be a leader. A leader would not involve himself in this dris disgraceful action. A leader thinks about first his country and the men and women that sacrifice for this country. Part would be to be quiet, take the lump, apologize and move on. Instead of engaging in a back and forth. All you have to do the reason hes doing it he needs to have this ego filled somehow he is correcting something thats been wronged. There is no winning or losing when it comes to this. Just drop it, let the widow mourn, figure out what happens so it doesnt happen again and act like a president , especially in these hard times. These are the hardest moments you can have a as leader. Ive made these phone calls. Awful phone calls. No right way to do it. But the wrong way to do it is to go on the attack afterwards. Sometimes leading is silence but im glad there has not been silence in this conversation. Gentlemen, thank you so much for always coming on. Thank you. You bring a very unique perspective. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Coming up, we could hear more from the president this morning when he sits down with the Prime Minister of singapore. Who is going to be visiting him at the white house. 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