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My ci can worry about it,ine. or do something about it. garlique® helps maintain healthy cholesterol naturally. and it's odor free. and pharmacist recommended. garlique.® the pentagon today released its report on the deadly isis ambush last october in niger. the report blamed multiple failures, including a lack of adequate training in the deaths of four soldiers, dustin wright, jeremiah johnson, brian black and la david johnson. joining me is frederica wilson. thank you so much for joining us. before we get into the report, good evening, by the way, on the pentagon, i have to ask you, have...

And we have new reporting tonight, new images here in the investigation into a deadly ambush in niger and the deaths of four american soldiers. national geographic tonight with never before seen images prior to that fatal mission. here's abc's chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz tonight. >> reporter: this is 25-year-old ladavid johnson, just weeks before he and three other americans would be ambushed and killed. the tattoo across his chest, myeshia, his wife. and here he is with nigerian soldiers his unit was tasked to train. johnson was the mechanic and the self-appointed unit b...

>> anybody can shoot a gun, you know? demo is something else. it's a lot more fun. >> reporter: the special forces unit had never come under fire, but it is clear from this nat geo video, this was hostile territory. >> in this area is isis, and then in this area, we have boko haram. >> reporter: on october 3rd, wright, johnson and nine others from the unit, as well as nigerian soldiers, headed out to meet local leaders, but on their way back, without air cover, heavy weapons or heavy armor, were sent to a far more dangerous mission. to try to capture or kill a local terrorist. 24 hours later, ...

Staff sergeant bryan black, staff sergeant jeremiah johnson, staff sergeant dustin wright. in the 12 days between the time those soldiers were killed in action and the president was first asked about emthem, the president found plenty of time to tweet his moral outrage at football players. and he found time to tweet his outrage at republican senators, especially bob corker, who publicly defend secretary of state rex tillerson after tillerson was publicly quoted as calling his boss the president of the united states a moron. it was only when the news media publicly challenged the president in t...

Nigerian forces were dealing with this and how much of a partnership there was between the forces involved. >> well, and to that point, jason, one of the concerns might be that the village that the servicemen were meeting in, that the villagers somehow stalled the soldiers to give the insurgents more of a chance to stage their attack. that would be a cause for serious concern if the people that u.s. soldiers are working amongst can't be trusted. >> right. this is a very difficult area. again it's an austere environment on the border of mali. boko haram in the south, islamic state elements in t...