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>> and the questions continued, including whether the niger operation is looking anything like benghazi. >> she says that is the president's benghazi. what say you about that? >> i'm not going to get into the details of that action at this time. >> this comes as cnn is learning a private contractor called barry aviation was used to evacuate the troops after the ambush. we start with barbara at the pentagon. at this point with the deadliest combat loss in the trump administration so far, what do we know? >> good evening. tonight we don't know a lot more than we knew two weeks ago when it all un...

30 minutes. was that too long? >> without adequate fire power. >> that's too long. more than that, you can't depend on the army of niger. it's undermanned, not particularly disciplined. clearly they slipped across the border. 50 guys is lot to come across that border but in that part of the world, it's very easy to do. general mark will agree it would be nice if they had backup there, a couple helicopters with galgtsing guns. >> completely. >> there are answers needed and the deadliest combat loss in the trump presidency thus far. the white house trying to control the story over the congress...

>> gloria, in this timeframe, let's say 13 days since the single biggest combat loss, right, in this time, the president has had time to tweet about a whole lot of things. okay. he wished happy birthday to the navy. he had time to tweet about little bob corker, right? the failing "new york times" sent little bob corker up by retorting his conversation was made to sound like a fool. that's what i'm dealing with. all kinds of tweets like this. was it too much to expect there would have been some kind of acknowledgment of this loss? >> well, and i think when you -- when ryan talked about context,...

In the process when my predecessor did far less than what i have done so far. that's all he's doing. not a criticism of obama. i didn't see it that way. >> again, i don't think there's any facts to support done far less than i have done so far. i'm sorry to harp on the facts, but they do matter. what do you make about brian's fundamental point, that president trump is not being treated the same way? and just to keep in mind, the context here is this is the single biggest combat loss since he took office. >> i think it was a bit surprising to folks that he didn't acknowledge in any way the sacr...

Actually still in effect up until the end of october. but this latest one, it will not take effect bought of this ruling. >> jessica, thank you very much. >> that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next, president trump playing politics with fallen soldiers while playing fast and loose with the facts. >> plus, the president takes credit for taking down the capital of isis, a major victory. does he deserve it? >> now putin's chef is at the center of the russia investigation. let's go "outfront." good evening. i'm erin burnett. "o...