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We're still learning new information. it does raise questions in retrospect about why president trump didn't weigh in on this immediately when he's so quick to weigh in on just about everything else that happened. >> we need to know what the intel was like, they were in trucks, why they didn't have heavier armorment. >> and it was a contractor plane that got them out of there. what was going on and what went wrong and why in god's name was that young man on the battle field for two days. those are really big questions. so much of the discussion has been about the substance of this phone call t...

Evacuate american and nigerien dead and wound the. these planes are engenerally not armed an only go in when the fighting is over. ifs not known what kind of communication that contractor plane had with the french and also the americans, did they actually know how many people they were looking for to evacuate. because of course the big question that remains is what happened with sergeant la david johnson, that he was left behind and his body was not discovered for 48 hours. that is a key question for the pentagon investigation, and another key question of course is the intelligence. how did th...

Nobody was able to recover his body until the nigerians found him 48 hours later. so this new information that an unarmed contractor plane went in to try and help and, in fact, evacuate some of the dead and wounded adds to the puzzle, adds to the questions being asked. what we know is that defense secretary james mattis is pressing very hard for answers about all of this. what was the intelligence? how could the 12-man team led by green berets walk into an isis ambush and perhaps most importantly how did sargeant la david johnson get left behind. briana? >> barbara, we have just gotten word th...

Private aviation under contract to the u.s. military in west africa went in after the firefight and evacuated the dead and the wounded. until now we had only been told that french helicopters, french military helicopters went in and of course they would have been armed. we still believe it is the case that they went in and also evacuated some, but what we're trying to find out, and this is a very key point, did both the contractor plane, which is not armed, and the french military helicopter evacuate dead and wounded americans? did both of those aircraft have good communication? quite bluntly,...

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