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After the white house defended the chief of staff john kelly for calling congresswoman wilson an empty barrel. the press secretary said quote if you are able to make a sacred act like honoring american heroes about yourself then you are an empty barrel so they are not backing down. at the same time, they also want to move on from this dispute. they want the public and the media to focus on other things, focus on more policy issues, like tax reform, but it's tough to do when the president himself is continuing to tweet about it and talk about it. fox's maria bartiromo asked him about it in an i...

Fabricated this whole story about his exchange wit widow. i think this was a concerted effort. started with the white . you saw sarah out there, attacking the congresswoman, as well. you saw sarah huckabee sanders do it the day before general kelly did. and then general kelly comes out to attack the representative's credibility. i think he's not done himself any good because most of what he says what just plain wrong. he, in his statement, it's almost like he seems to be relishing these attacks on the congresswoman. essentially said stunned about something that never happened, right? she was s...

Wilson. take a listen. >> this is going to be trump's benghazi, trump's niger and they need to concentrate on what happened and what is happening. >> so we know how much of an issue benghazi became. it became a political issue during the campaign in 2016, obviously investigation after investigation. do you agree with her assessment that this is being characterized or could potential become a benghazi-like situation for president trump? >> i think possibly so because we don't have all the answers. can we step back for a minute and remember that americans lost their lives and can we also recogni...

Place. >> he was so offended that a woman would be -- that somebody would be listening to that call. he was -- he actually couldn't believe it. actually he said to me, sir, this is not acceptable. this is really not. he knew -- i was so nice -- look, i have called many people. and i would think that every one of them appreciated it. i was very surprised to see this, to be honest with you. julie: kristen fisher reports from the white house tonight. president trump is continuing to escalate his feud with the florida congresswoman. what is the very latest between them? >> well, julie, just hours ...

Families and their friends for the heroes who fought for us overseas. >> well, do you think that kelly should have stopped short of then criticizing the congresswoman, should have stayed with the point of talking about the gold star families and his experience in losing his son but stopped short of criticizing the congresswoman? because it seems like that's what most people are obviously criticizing. >> yeah, i think that it's just unfortunate that this is where the discourse around the families of folks who have died overseas, that this is the state of the political rhetoric in washington, to...