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Airplanes flew overhead to try and help. but u.s. officials are telling us in niger, that government did not give permission for offensive air operations. in other words, there was no authority for the aircraft to even drop bombs. so those u.s. troops were on the ground with essentially no kinetic help. no bombs were able to drop to help them. where does it all go from here? we're still learning new details. a private aircraft flew into the battle field after the fighting stopped and helped evacuate the dead and the wounded. this raising the essential question, what happened when they lifted o...

Families, perhaps the essential question, why was a man left behind? chris, alisyn. >> barbara starr, thank you very much for continue to go dig on this. let's discuss with our panel phillip mudd and diplomatic analyst john kirby. john, let me start with you. we have been on this ever since we found out about it. the point of interest is never how is he dealing with the families. that is part of the moral agency with the president. it has to be done the right way, respectfully and truthfully. this started where we should be focused right now. what happened there? why didn't he talk about it fo...

I'm thinking lindsey graham and rand paul need to play golf together. rand paul responding to some of the back and forth. he said the following. >> the budget vote to me is a symbol and a guide post as to what we are as a party and what we stand for. and the people like mccain and graham who parade as conservatives that are not really conservative, they need to be called out because they are bankrupting our country. >> bill: where is this going, daniel? >> republicans have the presidency, they have the house of representatives and they have the senate and yet they can't get anything done. they...

Investigation now? >> well, it will always be part of this particular investigation but we certainly don't have real evidence that there were those kinds of influences or those kind of outside groups. we won't stop this investigation until we have an answer to that. again, we don't have the answer. it has only been 72 hours. i think in the days and weeks to come we'll have a clearer understanding. >> bill: all right. when you get back to washington you know the debate raging about gun control and the bump stocks. representative lewis, a democrat from georgia said the following about all this d...

Flag, our national anthem. to me the nfl situation is a very important situation. >> bill: it was the first question in the rose garden yesterday and the president defending that criticism. brad blakeman and richard fowler. gentlemen, good day to both of you. i think this thing has been talked to death over the past four or five days. i don't know what more we can add. i think the essential question now is this. how does the league find its way out of this, brad? certainly it does not want this to linger for the rest of the year and possibly not even this weekend. what is your thinking? >> it ...