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Good general, but who knows. >> well, who knows. the world will never know, general trump, in part, because the president never set foot in a combat theater until last week with his trip to iraq. the closest he came in his teen years was the military academy which is a prep school. his parents sent them there to straighten out his behavior apparently. the president's hot and cold relationship with the air force, they look at the questions of what kept him out of vietnam. >> the vietnam war was a disaster for our country. >> reporter: when donald trump was 22, all that stood between the future ...

This 5th one for a medical reason, the bone spur came in the fall of 1968, only after trump had finished college and classified as 1 a or unrestricted military service. meanwhile, the president couldn't remember which heel had the alleged painful spur. >> which foot did you have the bone spur in? >> you'll look it up in the records. it's in the records. >> reporter: his campaign tried to clear things up, releasing a statement claiming it was not one heel, but both heels that had bone spurs. trump's explanations about why he didn't serve had long been a topic of inquiry. in 2015, he was asked a...

Trump told the "new york times" in 2016 that a doctor provided a very strong letter about the bone spurs in his heels but he could not remember the doctor's name, nor could he recall which foot it was in. >> why did you not serve in the vietnam war? >> because i was going to college. i had student deferments. it's a long time ago. i had a medical deferment because of my feet. i had a bone spur. >> which foot did you have the bone spur in? >> it's in the records. >> two years before being diagnosed with bone spurs, selective service shows trump had undergone a physical exam and had been decl...

In the 1960s had a different experience. in mid 1966 mueller you arenlel injured knee, but the military declared that it would need to heal before he be allowed to deploy. once it healed, mueller went back to the military doctors. in 1967 mueller started officer candidate school at quantico, virginia. >> one aspect of the conflict, by the way, that i will never ever continuntenance is that we drafted the lowest income level of america and the highest income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur. that is wrong.

Economy with the stock market is the president. he has taken a great deal of credit when it was going well. now he's trying to pass the blame off to others. one thing that the markets don't like is volatility. that is what he's creating. you can't lay all the blame at him just like you can't lay it all at jay powell but it isn't helping. >> kimberly and charles, stick around. other stories making headlines today, that bone spur keeping president trump out of the military in vietnam, now news that that diagnosis was made as a favor to his dad. made as a favor to his dad i switched to liberty ...