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Surrounded the s.e.a.l.s had to call in air strikes. they ip cyst the u.s. only fired at legitimate targets, civilians were caught in the middle. >> we had u.s. service members who were pinned down and needed help to get out. had that not happened, we likely would have had greater tragedies on the american side. >> reporter: villagers spoke of withering fire from the air. >> there were more than a dozen buildings that i walked into that had been hit or destroyed by those helicopters and air strikes. >> reporter: votell offering new details on an after-action review he says satisfied him. snif ...

Barbara, a u.s. commander is now saying this mission is on him, but the military still is telling a very different story. isn't that right? >> reporter: well, they are, jim. and i don't really think it's very surprising. we've seen this very often in the past when there are fire fights when there are confrontations in front line war zones, if you will. often the military has a view of what happened, and civilians on the ground have very credible eyewitness reports of what they say happened to them. in this case, this seal raid in yemen in late january has continued to be controversial. the top...

>> they're graceful. >> bad people. bad people. >> his supporters joined that fight. [ chanting: cnn sucks ] >> reporter: now, new questions about how donald trump will treat the media as president. questions fueled by trump's team's ditching of the traditional pool of reporters assigned to cover him when he came to washington to meet with president obama. the head of the white house correspondents' association complained. >> to be there in case news happened, to be there in case something happens to him, it is important for us to be able to fulfill our responsibilities as journalists and to t...

Of where the president was. there could have been worrisome information gaps on the day president reagan was shot. during the campaign, trump blocked the media from traveling with him. he blacklisted journalists who had been critical of him. he threatened to sue "the new york times" for reporting on his taxes, threatened to sue nbc for the "access hollywood" tape release but didn't follow through. still, the media is not blameless. >> i think there were a lot of mistakes along the way by the media. i think the media failed to treat donald trump seriously even as they covered him intensely and ...

>> reporter: after months of openly sparring with the media during the campaign -- >> bunch of phony, low-lives. they're disgraceful. bad people. bad people. >> reporter: his supporters joined that fight. [ chanting cnn sucks ] >> reporter: new questions about how donald trump will treat the media as president. questions fuelled by trump's teams ditching the pool of reporters deciding to cover him when he came to washington to meet with president obama. head of the white house complained. >> to be there in case news happens, or something happens to him. it is important for us to be able to ful...