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>> reporter: kelly blasted the congresswoman for exploiting the conversation, he sought to explain them, not retract them. >> i was stunned when i came to work yesterday morning and broken-hearted at what i saw a member of congress doing. member of congress who listened in on a phone call from the president of the united states to a young wife. and in in his way tried to express that opinion that he's a brave man, fallen hero, he knew what he was getting himself into because he enlisted. there's no reason to enlist, he enlisted. and he was where he wanted to be, exactly where he wanted to be w...

Briefing room. defend the president and criticized the congresswoman. >> i was stunned when i came to work yesterday morning and broken hearted at what i saw a member of congress doing. it stuns me that a member of congress would listen in on that conversation. absolutely stuns me. and i thought at least that was sacred. >> kelly may have given the president some cover politically for now, bought folks if you're left with a really bad taste in your mouth from this whole thing you're not alone. in this cycle of chaos and mistrust seems to permeate every issue the president touches including the...

Let me tell you what my best friend joe dunce ford told me because he was my casualty officer, he said kel, he was doing exactly what he wanted to do when he was killed. he knew what he was getting into by joining that 1%. he knew what the possibilities were because we're at war. and when he died in the four cases we're talking about, niger, my son's case in afghanistan, when he died he was surrounded by the best men on this earth, his friends. that's what the president tried to say to four families the other day. i was stunned when i came to work yesterday morning and brokenhearted at what i ...

They write letters. i do a combination of both. sometimes it's a very difficult thing to do, but i do a combination of both. president obama, i think, probably did sometimes and maybe sometimes he didn't. i don't know. that's what i was told. >> you can ask general kelly. did he get a call from obama? >> i had a very nice conversation with the woman, with the wife who sounded like a lovely woman. did not say what the congresswoman said, and most people aren't too surprised to hear that. >> [ inaudible ], mr. president? >> let her make her statement again. >> i was stunned when i came to work y...

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