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What happened. and i'm expecting a classified briefing when i return to washington to answer some of those mitigating questioning that i can't answer on my own. >> representative wilson, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. and please give our thoughts and condolences to the family. i want to bring in dana bash. there's a response from the white house. >> yes, don. and i'll read it to you right now. the response from the white house is basically that the president here i have in front of me now, the president's conversations with the families of american heroes who have...

Sort of he said she said she said she said going on because the president is saying, no, i didn't say essentially, well, that's what he signed up for to the widow, and -- to mayesha, and then you have the mother of the slain soldier backing up the congresswoman who heard the call on speaker phone saying just that. >> yeah. and you have trump saying, you know, the congresswoman is fabricating this whole story. this is a congresswoman who is close to that family, kind of a mentor to sargeant la david johnson, so she knows that family very well. and you also have the president saying he can prove...

That woman, mayesha johnson, laying over the flag draped casket of her husband with her little daughter there who is in sort of a daze, right? she probably doesn't essentially fully understand what is going on, that she'll never see her father again and you just mourn and grieve for that poor family that is dealing with this and now is in the glare of the national media and having this back and forth with the president. the president when he was in that meeting when he's going back and forth there with the congresswoman should have used that opportunity to quash this and essentially say, again...

Of that family. >> yeah. ed, you have supported president trump. >> you bet, yeah. yeah. >> what do you think about what the president is doing here? >> briana, i think that there's -- these are sacred moments. paul referred to this. these are moments that are unlike anything that we've ever seen, god willing maybe someone has when someone loses a spouse, a husband. if you read the president's comments at heritage foundation last night he referred to a guy who was a 22-year-old cop in vegas and he said the phrase to trump, to the president, i signed up for this, to run towards defending the go...

>> i am sure that call was appreciated. you are, as you said, a veteran. you are also the senior senator from the state of florida and now a member of your delegation, representative wilson, is talking about the phone call the president had with the widow. there's this controversy. she says the president was insensitive, and he says she's lying. what do you make of the back and forth this morning? >> well, i will not get into the controversy. i can tell you this about the congresswoman. she was particularly close to this individual because she does this mentoring program in miami called 5,000 ...