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It's up to him now to figure out how to move us forward. the department of defense is going to be differently, the media's going to do what they do and he can set the tone here. he can reach out to mrs. johnson and say how can we make this right and move forward. we need that leadership now -- >> russia, another big story nobody's talking about, it's part of the larger story about how russia is trying to drive us apart. i think the recent story is how their trying to stir up racial animosity and have blacks and whites hating each other. the one thing we should be united about is honoring men a...

Speaking from the podium would have more of an impact than the president of the white house? >> the white house communicating i spoke to was that sarah sanders going out and tlifring a statement from the podium in front of cameras would have more might and magnitude than a written statement. they didn't clarify whether there was a written statement that was supposed to come from the press secretary or the president. it's possible anderson, that that was not a determination that had been made at that point. they got the information and decided this was better off delivered from the podium in th...

Sergeants were killed. what's the white house saying about that? >> one of the perplexing things about this anderson, has been the president's silence, why he waited two weeks and had to be asked about it before making a comment on this. when talking to white house officials about this they said look they got the information from the nfc, they tried to find the best way to tlifr it. and sarah sanders decided instead of putting out a statement she delivered it from the podium. she did do so on october 5th. it doesn't answer the question, anderson, of why we didn't hear anything directly from th...

Times since then. >> so, did general kelly know the president was going to mention his son? >> well anderson, sarah sanders hinted at the fact that he didn't. and my colleague ran this down further and found that general kelly and other staffers in the white house were caught off guard when president trump originally brought general kelly and the story of his son. he was killed in afghanistan into this mix. remember, trump said you can ask my chief of staff, you can ask kelly about how he never got a phone call from obama. as you pointed out, kelly have taken great pains at trying to keep his ...

President to release in his own names about the former sergeants. i'm wondering if it wasn't because -- who -- coming from sanders at the press come podium. i'm not clear if that statement was supposed tb a written statement from the press or the president himself. having been in the corners of power like this how are statements like that normally handled? >> well, it zpentds on the case -- depends on the case. many times where decisions were made in agencies that not only was a cabinet official going to make a statement by the president himself would and everybody would follow in his lead. to...