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He was actually on a short list for a position in the trump administration. why would president trump pick this fight? and why does the gop back him up? >> trump has gotten into fights and insulted the military since day one. he liked people who aren't fractured. he attacked the father of a -- or a gold star father. with david johnson, when he was killed last year in the niger operation, his phone call to comfort the widow make things worse. he didn't go last monday to arlington because he was making phone calls. >> why? ways the strategy? >> well, i think you can't really always use the word ...

>> and the questions continued, including whether the niger operation is looking anything like benghazi. >> she says that is the president's benghazi. what say you about that? >> i'm not going to get into the details of that action at this time. >> this comes as cnn is learning a private contractor called barry aviation was used to evacuate the troops after the ambush. we start with barbara at the pentagon. at this point with the deadliest combat loss in the trump administration so far, what do we know? >> good evening. tonight we don't know a lot more than we knew two weeks ago when it all un...