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Joining us now, gold star mom karen vaughn. i've known you for many, many years. you're the mother of aaron vaughn. he is 1 of 30 servicemen. he died, a part of extortion 17. you met president trump. when your son's body was being brought back, you have a story to tell. was president trump empathetic to you? >> he was extremely empathetic, sean. i've not only met him once, i've met him twice. he met with gold star families before the election and also invited our family to the white house, gold star families dinner and ceremony. a ceremony he plans to continue i understand, he brings in a trem...

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Worthy of a better future. >> he says he is the one who can give african-americans struggling economically a better future. but if you go back to august 2011, in new hampshire, here's what he said. according to the new hampshire union leader, talking about bill and hillary clinton. two people, hillary and bill clinton, who really devoted a lot to african-americans. they did probably as much as anybody, and he made them into racists, talking about obama. "hannity" in september 2011, he said, whether you like them or don't like them, they've done so much for african-americans. what changed? >> i...

Then on august 2011, you received an e-mail from sidney blumenthal, that's tab 11, in which he wrote this to you. this is a historic moment and you will be credited for realizing it. when gadhafi himself is finally removed, you should, of course, make a public statement before the cameras wherever you are even if the driveway of your vacation home. you must go on camera. that was blumenthal's admonishment to you. >> and i don't recall doing that, just in case you're going to ask me. >> look, the timing, you forwarded blumenthal's suggestion to jake sullivan. and you were focused on how dramati...

The president to make, congressman. it was not by any means an easy call. as i alluded this morning i was in the situation room many times, watching the president have to balance competing interests, competing opinions, trying to make a decision. when he made the decision, that the united states would support nato and support the arabs there was no guarantee about how it would turn out. and i personally believe he gee served a lot of credit, as did chris stevens, jeff feltman, the department of defense and others. we had a daily secure phone call that often included the president, included the...