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Correct him, would be behaving in a manner that is highly inappropriate. she said that would be going after general kelly. that would be getting into a debate with a four-star marine general, and that would be highly inappropriate. general kelly is a four-star marine general. but what he said about congresswoman frederica wilson is absolutely untrue. and that's the sort of thing that would usually cause resignations from the white house. particularly if the white house refused to give an apology for the remarks. but this is a different time. what started this week of fighting and drama and lyi...

Accounted by multiple people in the room, believed that the president was completely respectful, very sympathetic, and expressed the condolences of himself and the rest of the country around thanked the family for their service, commended them for having an american hero in their family, and i don't know how you can take that any other way. >> reporter: the incident adding to the scrutiny of trump's response to the attack that left four u.s. soldiers dead. it was the deadliest combat incident involving u.s. troops since he took office. when asked earlier this week why he didn't address it publ...

President yet and i think that's what could inject a certain amount of healing into this situation that has really sn snowballed and these families can only imagine what they're going through. right now it's a political football. >> they're watching it play out onto news. they really do want answers. speaking of that this has been the deadliest combat incident since president trump took office. what go we know about the affiliated attack on october 4th. more to the point john mccain senator of the armed service committee what's he want to know. >> he said in so many words today that the admini...

>> they do want answers. this has been the deadliest combat incident since the president took office. what do we know about the october 4th isis attack? this is for you, jim. and more to the point, john mccain, who is the chairman of the senate armed services committee, what does he want to know? >> he said in so many words that the administration hasn't been upfront in addition to being a republican senator and a veteran himself and a form r p.o.w. is on the senate armed services committee, they have a responsibility to this and he said they have not been given the information they need. that...

President trump first said he makes phone calls, but president obama didn't, that that didn't start the ball rolling on this whole unfortunate situation? >> well jake, i can tell you they've been extremely defensive about this. they're defensive about questions like the one i asked the president on monday, just why haven't we heard from you on this? this is the deadliest combat incident involving u.s. soldiers since this president has been in office. it's very uncharacteristic to not hear from the president on anything that's in the news, much less something as heart breaking, devastating as l...