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They left the location. on their way back to the operating base, they stopped in a separate village in order to enable the nigerian troops to replenish supplies. while there u.s. troops met with local leaders as a courtesy. the official said it's quite probable someone in that village tipped off the isis-affiliated terrorists that u.s. was in the village and set up the ambush. the village elders themselves are not suspected. that's a lot of new detail. that's interesting to see how that unfolded. what do you think? >> it is interesting information that's coming in. the additional detail. in es...

>> it was the delay in the village, near the area of tongo tongo. because they were delayed there, this has been consistent in a lot of inconsistent information from the pentagon has come out, but what is consistent is the idea of a delay in the village, potentially allowing the ambush to be a little more sophisticated. now, here's what we don't know. and we did get a fair amount of information last night from chairman dunford. we don't know what the troops were doing all day on october 3rd, where they spent the night, where they fought away from the outpost, and if the mission changed. becaus...

Trying to combat this attack from these forces in niger, but what the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff also made clear, wolf, a lot of questions remain unanswered. tonight, the pentagon revealing new details about the ambush in niger that killed four u.s. soldiers. >> there is a perception that the department of defense has not been forthcoming. >> reporter: the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff revealing that u.s. forces were on a reconnaissance mission and on their bway back to their operating base in niger when the fire fight began, but they waited one hour to call for support. >> ...

So i wouldn't want to talk about numbers and meters from the village, but the initial report was that the contact made with the enemy was outside the village, south of the village as they were heading back to their operating base. >> i just want to be clear here, that you said that they did not call for support until an hour after first contact. that's kind of putting a lot of pressure on those team members. so can you say without a shadow of a doubt that within that hour they did not try to call out for support? >> look, what i can tell you is the timeline that we have is the first indicator ...

Involved in what they called multiple casualties incidences. this official said the white house directed that the condolence letters then be september out, wolf. that's the explanation for the white house tonight as for why the letters were rushed out last week. >> interesting. thanks very much, jim acosta at the white house. let's get more on the breaking news about the ambush of troops in niger. jim sciutto was joining us, at the news conference at the pentagon with the joint chiefs chairman that ended a while ago. jim, new details, still, though, many questions unanswered. >> reporter: ge...