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Promising donations the president promised and didn't deliver on, some he never delivered on. what do you make of this pattern? >> i agree with phil that this is a staff problem. but it's also a problem for the president. in two ways. number one, the president likes to be this sort of who's your daddy figure, promising to give out these charitable contributions, promising according to the reporting of my "washington post" colleagues, $25,000 from his personal account, going over the fact he is the president of the united states for the next three to seven years. if he feels like there's a prob...

Heartbreaking situation. none of us were on that phone call. we weren't privy to what was discussed. let's give the president the benefit of the doubt. let's say this was heartfelt, that in his own words, what he was trying to express, that sergeant la david johnson knew that he was putting his life at risk, but to defend this country, he went off to fight and enlist. it's not so much the president's initial actions but it's his reactions. that always cause these kind of problems. i mean, from watching cnn and your reporting earlier on this week, barbara starr talked about this man and talked ...

Anything and what the hold-up was. >> let's turn to the other breaking news, the president's phone calls with gold-star families. do you believe the president was going to follow through on his promise of that $25,000 check before "the washington post" actually contacted the white house and told them about that report which appeared today, and only after the report appeared did the president send the check? >> it's very suspicious. it sounds like the president got called out on something and so he had to follow through on sending $25,000. what i don't get is why he would make that promise and ...

She's got details. the white house is confirming that president trump sent a personal check to the family just today. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, wolf. amid all this rising scrutiny over the president's claim that he's mow more attentive to the families of fallen soldiers than his predecessors have been, "the washington post" published a story today that said when the president called one grieving family, he offered them $25,000, but never followed through. "the washington post" reported that the president had called chris baldridge after his son who was just 22 years old, was killed in a...