developments following the deaths of four u.s. soldiers in niger. details on the pentagon's new investigation into the attack in a moment. first, chief of staff john kelly issuing an emotional defense at the white house following backlash over the president's outreach to gold star families. as some of you may know, general kelly's own son was killed in afghanistan while serving in the marines. he rarely speaks about losing a child to war. but today, he issued a sobering message to those politicizing the deaths of the brave servicemen who died fighting for their country. >> he called four people the other day and expressed

condolences in the best way that he could. and he said to me, what do i say? i said to him, sir, there's nothing you can do to lighten the burden on these families. but let me tell you what i tell them. let me tell you what my best friend told me, he was my casualty officer. she said, kel, he was doing exactly what he wanted to do when he was killed. he knew what he was getting into by joining that 1%. he knew what the possibilities were because we're at war. and when he died, in the four cases we're talking about niger, my son in afghanistan, he was surrounded by the best men on this earth, his friends. that's what the president tried to say to four families the

other day. i was stunned when i came to work yesterday morning, broken-hearted, at what i saw a member of congress doing. a member of congress who listened in on the phone call from the president of the united states to a young wife, and in his way tried to express that opinion. that he was a brave man, a fallen hero. he knew what he was getting himself into. he enlisted, there's no reason to enlist, he enlisted. he was where he wanted to be, exactly where he wanted to be with exactly the people he wanted to be with when his life was taken. that was the message. that was the message that was transmitted. it stuns me that a member of congress would have listened in on that conversation. absolutely stuns me. and i thought at least that was sacred. life, the dignity of life, was

sacred. that's gone. religion, that seems to be gone as well. gold star families, i think that left, in the convention over the summer. i just thought the selfless devotion that brings a man or woman to die on the battlefield, i just thought that that might be sacred. i still hope, as you write your stories, and i appeal to america, that let's knotted let this naif -- let's not let this navy loss, that is sacred in our society. young man, young woman going out and giving his or her life for our country. try to somehow keep that sacred. but it eroded a great deal yesterday by the selfish behavior of a member of congress. >> powerful statement, and indeed a powerful moment that we witnessed there. something personal to general kelly, not only sacrifice he's made for this country but paying the ultimate price in losing his

son. really remarkable, and very credible defense, dana, of the. united states -- president of the united states and a conversation the president believed he had private with a grieving family member to express his sympathies for the service given. >> earlier this week, i talked about how commanders in chief, they're asked to do things that would crush most of us. because they make decisions that put people in harm's way, people who had signed up voluntarily, we don't have a draft here. people join the military because they think it would be a great way to serve their country. good way to learn and become leaders like general john kelly has proven to be. and grief is uniquely personal. so is the consoling part of grief. so if you are in that position and you have to figure out a way that you have the responsibility to reach out in some way as we've said all week, could be a letter, a phone call, whatever it is, that is very private moment. and i wish that none of this had

ever happened all week. i think we all know why we are here at this moment. federica wilson at the subject of this issue, the congresswoman, she has told polico is trying to keep his job. he will say anything. other people heard what i heard. general kelly doesn't need this job. he is a public servant, he deserves a lot of respect from all of us. what i love about what he did today is to help us remember that this isn't about commanders in chief and who did what to who. this is about the gold star families, their xwreef, and the focus should be on them. >> greg, it was a powerful moment, you feel good he's in the position he's in. >> i hope his amazing words would end this horrible news cycle. anybody who gets near this story, doesn't look good except for him. when you take politics and you add to it humans, they become vultures. now we're trudging out poor

families as if they haven't suffered enough. i mean, he was clearly directing this at frederica wilson no, colorful hat is going to hide her shame after that. but this is snowballed, through this ghoulish political theater, in part because of the media. we have no interest in stopping this snowball. we just keep adding on. we love picking at the scabs. this is a scab. and we keep picking at it. and so, that helps, that encourages people to call up these families and make this a story. there's no longer a no-go zone in the media. we will go anywhere. wherever the story takes us. the controversy is disgusting. no one walks away from this feeling good. and i just wish that maybe the best thing that general kelly did, which was beautiful what he did, he put a period at the end of this sentence. but it sounds like she wants to keep talking. >> i think that he probably won't respond. it was cladless.

and what he did was right. >> jesse, what do you make of this, this new development she's doubled down and going after making a personal attack against general kelly. i mean, she's the one that really, her behavior is shameful. >> it is. i think america is in good hands with john kelly as the white house chief of staff. people say kimmel was the conscience of the nation. when i heard kelly talk, he reminded me of. he looked like an adult lecturing children out there. he's a huge asset. trump should deploy him much more. reince priebus couldn't have pulled this off. my hat is off to general kelly. totally unnecessary for the president the other day to come out and say i make calls, some other presidents don't call. those calls are so hard to make. we've seen the president say how hard they are to make. he told me personally how hard they are to make. it goes back to, i believe, john kelly told the president, that

president obama never called him when his son died in combat in afghanistan. but i don't want to pick that wound any more. that's over. i think the president knows that president clinton, president bush, president obama, all have a special bond with the men that serve our country and their families as well. and that it doesn't need to be questioned. i think president trump has a need to contrast himself with presidents of both parties, republicannd democrat, almost all of the time it serves him well n this case it didn't. this congresswoman, totally disrespected the sanctity of this call. a solid moment, a solemn moment, private moment. it's an extremely personal moment. and to snoop in that call, where the president was saying how brave sergeant johnson was, knowing that he would put his life at risk to serve the country. yet still did that.

he did it in trump's blunt way, i'm sure, she completely mischaracterized it, totally disrespectful. i doubt her sincerity about defending military families. because her voting record, she's voted against giving widows money for burial rights. she voted against funding the v.a. veterans benefits. she does not have her money where her mouth is. >> yes. >> and this whole story, like greg said, needs to stop. >> okay. your thoughts and reflections on kelly's comments then the latest development? >> it seems to me the news was that general kelly confirmed what she had said. which is that donald trump said to this grieving widow this is what your man signed up for. he knew what he was getting into. that is not the most sympathetic, paem thetic, caring thing to say to a woman -- let me finish, everybody else had a chance. >> go ahead. >> he today confirmed what she overheard, it wasn't snooping, she was in a car, the car the

entourage going ahead with the family in it to the funeral. she overhears the conversation of the president of the united states. you can imagine everyone in the car gets quiet, the president of the united states is on the phone with the widow. initially, they said he never said that. oh, okay, well then, frederica wilson, maybe it is political. then he suggested, oh, she better watch herself and maybe the thought was there's a tape. he taped the phone call. no, it turns out he didn't. i don't know. but given what was said today by general kelly, general kelly said, he used that kind of langage in advising the president about what to say. >> but she reframed it as callous when it wasn't callous. >> i don't know if it was callous or not. >> the commander in chief, ins sentive call to a grieving family? he got what he deserves? come on, that's crazy. >> i didn't say that. >> it's being politically opportunist. >> what he said was something

that i think to the ears of a grieving family, is not what you want -- it doesn't work for some one who has just lost their loved one. it was stead that this young man had his wife, his children's name tattooed on his chest, upstanding young guy, a real addition to the community. we can be proud as americans. that's just not fair. >> you can only say you corrupt the meaning of it f you corrupt the meaning of what he's saying then that's true. but you're corrupting it. >> i was going to say i've been there for not all of them but i was there for significant number of meetings that president bush had with families of the fallen. often the family members become the consolers to the commander in chief. and interest is true, and i've heard it myself, you sometimes will have a mom or dad say, he was doing exactly what he wanted to do. he knew that he was serving his country and there was danger involved but he would do it again. walter reed, you have the wound, first thing they say to the president, i want to get back there with my guys, i want to fight again.

that's the kind of leaders that we have trained in our military. i think that what the president was trying to convey, is that he was a hero and you should be proud of him. i'm sorry that it happened. >> i appreciate that. but i don't think -- it's impossible to believe -- >> here's the context. >> he distorted it. >> take it the wrong way. >> here is the real context. the context is the president had not called any of the families of the four men who died in niger. >> true. >> the press corps says to him, mr. president, how come you haven't put out a statement or called these folks. then we learn there was a statement prepared but wasn't released. people are curious, why didn't you call. then he said that obama, he doesn't call everybody. people are like, what? where did that come from. what we know, obama was extremely careful on this front in terms of relating to the military to people who had died. a bunch of back and forth, who

called, who didn't call, did general kelly get a call. was he seated at a table, his wife seated with other gold star families with the president. we learn this. then the question, what was true, frederica wilson, president trump. did he say it, didn't he say it. today we learned he did say it. >> if i can get in, since i want to give my opinion on this real quick, thanks, he said, tried to comfort a grieving family that had an unbearable loss. i think it's pretty disgusting that anyone would try to manufacture some kind of political opportunity out of this, and assume that the president would speak disrespectfully to some one who has lost a loved one, most important person in their life. i don't believe. that i don't think people actually really believe that. i think you want to see it in the way that is beneficial to the left that can't give the president credit for anything, will take a situation like this

and try and besmirch it and cheapen it. i admire what general kelly said. he stood up to these people and said shame on you. she went ahead and insulted general kelly, who is a gold star parent. how about that. more on "the five" next. ♪ ♪ you nervous? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

>> the investigation into the niger attack. defense secretary mattis addressing the controversy surrounding the time line of events earlier today. >> we honor our troops, every one of them. every life is critical. these young people look past the hot political rhetoric and sign up, volunteer for the armed forces. part 169% willing to do so. one point i would make, having seen some of the news reports, the u.s. military does not leave its troops behind. i would just ask that you not question the action to the troops who were caught in the firefight and question whether or not they did everything they could. would i also ask you don't confuse your need for accurate information with our ability to provide it immediately. >> jennifer griffin, live at the pentagon, what have we learned today some i talked at 2:00, do we know anything more? >> i think the most important

thing, is that not only defense secretary mattis, but also lt. general frank mckenzie, just dime the briefing room. they're pushing back hard on the narrative that evolved in the last few days that somehow the u.s. troops there on the ground left a fallen comrade behind. the question mark that remains is why did it take 48 hours to find the body of sergeant la david johnson. that is a mystery. at this point they're trying to sort through the facts, they have sent a team to niger to interview with its. what we learned today in the last few hours from general mckenzie, there were french troops, niger troops, as well as u.s. troops on the ground during that entire 48-hour period. they had a beacon, we understand, that was pinging in the first hours after the gunfight occurred. once sergeant johnson got separated from his teammates.

and some the chaos, somehow, he got separated, and that pinging beacon that special operators have on them sometimes, they weren't sure whether he was a hostage, whether he was involved in some sort of evasion operation. and so they didn't want to put out any statements in those initial hours. even in the first two days, because they didn't want to jeopardize his life. they eventually found him. they recovered the body. and that's where we are at this point. the investigation is ongoing. there's frustration on capitol hill. we have heard from senator mccain today, bipartisan frustration they haven't been briefed enough. from what i can tell you, talking to pentagon officials, the problem with operating africa, the distances are great, communications are difficult, and they don't always have surveillance and drones up above when these troops go out to engage in the remote areas. >> something that secretary

mattis said today, jennifer, was that local tribal officials did help recover lt. johnson's body and help get it back to the united states. that's remarkable and shows cooperation. we'll take it around the table, jesse? >> hey, jennifer. a lot of americans are wondering why are we in ni dwchlt er, i didn't know we had troops there. president obama authorized the soldiers going there, several years ago. explain what the mission is, is it primarily training, counter terror, who are our allies and who are the bad guys? >> well, it's a great question. this mission was authorized about three years ago. remember, the french troops went in to mali when isis and these al qaeda linked groups, isis and al qaeda are really overlapping groups in this sub saharan africa. on one day they change themselves and call themselves isis. on another day they're al qaeda.

the french troops three years ago, went in when isis took over northern part of mali, they had traditional ties to that area. after that, there was a realization as isis was being pushed out of the middle east, out of syria and iraq they were popping up in these african countries. we have green berets, special forces on the ground in niger working with local forces as they do in many african countries to stop the isis affiliates, al qaeda affiliates, jihadists from popping up and taking over ungoverned spaces. there are about 100 green berets, about 800 u.s. troops. they've said up drone bases, two in niger. it's a very important mission. >> jennifer, i want to ask an obvious question but i'm not, which pronunciation. we're talking about the confusion in the fog of this thing.

look at vegas, that's in our country, in a casino surrounded by thousands of people. >> and cameras. >> we don't know what the hell went on in vegas. and we're in niger and we don't know what is going on. give it time. i think we're seeing a narrative constructed now, that it's the trump administration, is stonewalling, and i get the sense that it's ben ghazi payback, albatross around trump's neck like benghazi was. why aren't drones sent ahead. i'm assuming that was happening, why there isn't a drone set in front. they can see everything. >> they don't allow it. >> really? >> that's not totally true. they don't allow necessarily armed drones. the problem with drones, and

this is, you ask any commander in the field, there just aren't enough of them. there aren't enough, every time a soldier stems out of the wire. we would become a very, very cautious military, if we had to have a drone up above every time a soldier went on a mission. some places it's more feasible, they're setting up drone bases in niger for that reason. this was seen as a routine operation. they had done 19 missions in the last six months to no avail. secretary mattis said it wasn't an intelligence failure, they had deemed they did not believe there was going to be any hostile contact. why did they not know about this group operating up there. >> jennifer, seems a lot of discussion, dana had a conversation that said they really believed this is going to promote discussion and talk about a broader strategy. perhaps change and how we operate in northern africa.

>> well, i don't believe that we should take from this one incident we need to change the strategy in africa. u. ee seen raaqa fall, mosul fall, isis controls only about 3% of iraq. they're going to ungorned spaces. why the u.s. military is going to be lying in wait when they move south into those areas. >> all right, so we have a situation here where senator mccain is saying the administration is not being forth coming with information. he's head of the armed services, very powerful man. he's complaining loudly. not only the absence of drones, but the absence of air coverage. we are not employed to deploy offensive air cover.

we had to call on the french. is this the heart and souflt issue at this moment? >> if listening to secretary mattis, he said that those french fighter jets were armed. you can't fly anything armed once an incident like this takes place, i'm not sure it is true. the question about armed drones, that's another question. that is something that they will go back and look at. but i don't really think this is about the air cover there. i really think this is about logistics and just the difficulty of time and space. this is a very remote area where they were operating. >> reminder that isis, or radical islamic terrorism is a global threat that we have to address everywhere and kill it out. jennifer griffin, thank you. we will have more on "the five" after this. and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too late. or make me feel like i'm not really "there."

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>> 2008 paul krugman won prize in economics. isn't it time he got another? remember on election day? quote, it really does look like president donald j. trump. and markets are plunging. when might we expect them to recover? first pass answer is never. pretty awesome for a garden nome. but he -- g nome. but he's a bearded buthead. every time he gets it wrong he gets a raise. the stock market broke 23,000 and filing for unemployment benefits plunged to the lowest level since 1983. will he admit how wrong he was? i doubt it. look at him. simply, so many would rather see the economy crash than admit trump made it great. just like those who rather ignore the defeat of isis than admit trump's direct approach worked.

or straight talk on north korea has gotten china to act. the krugmans of the earth see problems behind every rainy day. he blamed trump for a nonexistent cholera outbreak in puerto rico. deserves a prize for that. or pink slip. somebody in the media -- so many have made a mint at picking at wounds. depression, phone calls. turn off the noise for a minute and ask yourself, has america changed much since the election? as the economy grows and isis dies? yes, it got better. >> i was thinking, he is so wrong krugman is so wrong, he deserves another nobel prize. we created an application video for krugman featuring his greatest comments. roll it! >> if we discover that space aliens were planning to attack

and needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat, and really inflation and budget deficit took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months. my 2005 or so it will be clear the internet's impact on the economy is no greater than a fax machine. cholera in a u.s. territory in the 21st century. heck of a job, trumpy. okay, cholera not confirmed. con junk tiff it's, yes. i have been right about everything. >> dana -- >> love that, thank you. >> and sean o'roarke. >> with the video. >> i have one thing to say. you know what he said last week about tax reform? all lies. [laughing] so, take this segment, krugman, you decide. he will get promoted over this. and get another prize. you know the dow has reached a

now 1,000 point milestone five times since trump was elected. it's hit a new high 51 times. you have to, you must be, looking at your 401-k and saying thank god for trump. >> why not. i don't know, thank god for america and capitalism. [laughing] i plan to sail away any day. absolutely. you guys, wanted have a show. you're just like slapping each other on the back. but the thing that i didn't like about your otherwise brilliant talking point was you said trump gets all the credit. i think to myself, greg is such a smart guy, i would say you know what, krugman is wrong about, they said trump gets elected, it destabilizes the economy, markets don't like instability, the markets will go down. to the contrary, trump gets elected, people say wait a minute, guess what, says my stockbroker, this guy is going to go after regulations, cut taxes, you better get in now. okay, the market goes up.

krugman wrong. >> but. end there. >> why then do you say trump gets credit when in fact the credit would be trump has not destabilized the market, he hasn't done anything. he hasn't cut taxes, hasn't done tax reform. so people are saying, like, well smooth sailing, we can keep the obama policies? fantastic. >> you know what, he hasn't built a wall, yet we're watching immigration go down. it's all about, he is the wall. [ laughing ] >> halloween is coming. >> every day he comes out on television, the weatherman, he says, you know what it's going to be clear skies and sunny. every day it's pouring rain. yet he still has a job and everybody still listens to him. why the media hires people like krugman. once you're right in the mainstream media no one cares about your track record. they would rather you be left and wrong than right and right. they've been wrong about trump from the jump. they said wasn't going to win the primary. they said he was only in it to

sell hats and boost his rating. they said he wasn't going to win the general. after he won the general they said he was going to leave office and give it to pence. i don't know why we listen to these people any more. they said he'd cause world war 3. they said we'd never see 3% gdp growth. they said he'd never defeat isis. they said everything and it was wrong. >> killer aboutly -- >> they said it's impossible for him to win the electoral college. >> they accuse trump of causing cholera, then goes, oh, well, conjunctivit. shouldn't the "new york times" got a cardboard box and put him on the street? >> this is no surprise, again, they can't admit the truth and cover the facts and give credit where credit is due. this is one thing after the next as it relates to president trump, they're not going to give him any credit y would they do that? they're already baked in, in terms of their mindset, opinion of him. and just be fair. be fair, be honest.

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chairman chuck grass lee asked a former fbi informant with knowledge of this testify. but his attorney said he was blocked by obama's justice department from speaking out about it. listen. >> when he started working for the fbi in 2009, they had him sign an nda, nondisclosure agreement. they never gave him a copy of it. and when he went public in 2016, way after all this case stuff was done, the justice department under loretta lynch called him and threatened him with his freedom if he violated the nda. i've never heard of an nda with a criminal penalty for violation. but they won't show him a copy of it. >> president trump blasted the media for ignoring these new details. he tweeted, quote, uranium deal to russia with clinton help and obama administration knowledge is the biggest story the fake media doesn't want to follow, end quote.

kimberly? >> this is disturbing. there was so much emphasis put on this and so much, you know, horrible press, made it look like president trump might as well have been a plant from russia to come over and be president of this country. and yet there was other real stories with actual evidence and facts that were covered up, that weren't properly investigated, that lies why told about. now we find this actually there is a complete factual thread to show that there was serious injustice going on, and it was just like doing business as usual. and yet now, nothing has come out. nothing has come out in these investigations against president trump or to prove collusion on behalf of his team. >> it's interesting, right now the clinton foundation got $145 million from individuals who were apparently pushing this air rainium deal. you think something is fishy here. >> more than fishy, juan. imagine if the trump campaign,

$145 million from the russians? god, i mean, msnbc would be going crazy. the media only cares if there's a russian story when it involves trump. this lands right in clinton's lap. they're giving a lot of money to the clintons. and bribing american energy officials on the eve of this uranium deal. hillary signs off on the deal. his own fbi run by comey and miller, were aware of this investigation into the bribery and extortion scheme. they sat on it and did nothing. and they tried to silence some one that wanted to come out and talk about it. i also saw this, the associated press reported, more than half the people outside the government who met with hill military while she was secretary of state donated to her foundation. she's playing the access game. now it looks like she's playing the influence game. there's some charges that they could bring up here.

besides the racketeering. you have anti-corruption laws, a slew of them that you could throw at this case. i'm waiting, think they're going to do anything about it? knowing hilltry, probably not. >> -- hilltry, probably not. >> the audience thinking is this politics as sport, jousting, so the republicans are saying look, democrats, we think you got involved with the russians, too. >> i don't think so. probably because senator john boroso of wyoming, on the energy and natural resources committee, wrote a letter to the obama administration in 2010 saying i'm concerned about this. where the committee of the government looks at whether or not to approve these deals. he sends another, basically rebuffed. sends another letter in 2011, nothing. may of 2015. there is actually i think a case to be made that it's possible the obaba administration was either not paying attention, didn't know what was going on, or deliberately stalling a

member of congress. he asked the attorney general to turn over the documents, maybe they'll get information. >> gregory? >> yes. >> you have any air rainium on you? >> no, i don't. oh uranium. this is documented, no, no times did a piece in 2015. we should look back at fox and see if we covered this. i think we did. but, i mean, it's out there. the real hypocrisy is the same people saying we can't trust the russians now had no problem selling air rainium to them back then. and the other -- uranium to them back then. were we out of bubonic plague? do we have a question, that, maybe, starting at point one, is don't sell russians uranium? it's so weird. i think the trump story was a misdirection. >> this is what i'm talking about. next, this is great, will

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will farrell wants you to do. >> come on, sweetheart prampl. >> i miss daddy. >> we all miss him. >> i miss him more. >> i miss him the most. >> i miss him more. >> everyone shut up. this filter makes me look like a cat. >> it's nice to sit down together. >> who can tell me something they did today? >> i drew a horsey. >> good for you, son. anyone have a charger? i'm at, like, 2%. >> so funny. >> pretty good. and true. >> how about the filters? why would you want to look like a cat anyway? . i don't know. juan, is it a problem? >> it's a huge problem. i would like to get to know my grandkids. when we go to sunday dinner, they are, their parents, you know, my daughter and her husband, put them on the devices because they quiet down then the

adults can talk. the little guys in their own world. i think what's going on. the other part of this is, around here at fox news, if one of these young people want to talk to me, guess what. they don't call me. they send texts. >> they think it's rude to call. >> i don't know why. >> texting is easier. >> according to the survey, they don't want to talk, they prefer communicating by texting. >> do you want to talk to peep? >> i want people to turn all their sound effects off on their phone. who does that? ding, ding, ding. chao chao. >> i'm blowing up, come on. >> you don't like kids, you don't like talking to them. >> what a huge problem, rapea public service announcement from a hollywood star concerning daily behavior, doesn't hold any power for me. tell kids not to use their phones. but also tell your producers to stop molesting women. >> wow. >> okay. >> did not think the conversation was going in that direction. good point. >> why you watch "the five."

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>> all right. it's time for "one more thing." greg? >> all right, it's time for i hate these people! all right, i wear glasses. the reason is i can't see.

i'm like 24/100. if you've been at a party and some one comes up and says, i love your glasses, can i try them on? do you ever go up to some guy on crutches and say those are great crutches, let me take them from you and try them on. then the person puts them on, how do i look? i can't see, because you took my damn glasses. [chuckling] >> how are your glasses? >> i'll never ask. >> can you help out? >> loud and clear. update from the cia. this is lulu, training to be a bomb dog, she was doing a good job, in the training program, but she apparently lost interest in searching for explosives, even with food, totally unhappy. guess what. she gets an upgrade. she has to leave the cea but she got adopted by her handler and gets to play with the kids and the squirrels and other dogs, a dog named harry.

the cia is going to try again. they have a new black lab, also named harry, he will give it a shot. >> all righty. you have to choose what you want to do in life. juan? >> i love these people. check this out. forbes is out with the highest paid celebrities. the number one is going to shock you. number five, is soccer star christianne ronaldo, $93 million. number 4, the rapper drake, $94 million. number 3, the queen of hogwarts in harry potter j.c. row ling, $95 million. number 2, beyonce. and number 1, p. diddy, cool $130 million last year. . you love capitalists. >> i told that you earlier. whose glasses did you borrow? you borrowed somebody's glasses. >> p. diddy, was. 2 last year, number 1 this year. he was 22 last year. >> need a tax cut? >> i had no idea. >> such a gray question.

>> he has a lot of revenue streams, has clothing lines, multi facetted capitalist. okay. >> all right, a lot of things on the nfl players, taking a knee. eagles defensive end chris long, taking a stand, donating the rest of his salary for the year to charity. he's donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to improve education in the three cities he's hailed from. st. louis, boston, philadelphia. here's the pledge. what he had to say. >> by joining me in this pledge we can make a difference for youth and ultimately in our communities. i believe that investing in education is a plan for tomorrow, for everyone in america. >> pledge 10 for tomorrow. >> my one more thing, a testament to how amazing the servicemen and women are. 32-year-old marine lost both of his legs in afghanistan in 2010. nothing has stopped him, he's

embarked on a mission to run 31 marathons in 31 cities over 31 days. >> god bless him. >> wants to raise $1 million. set your dvr, never miss an episode of "the five." special report is next. >> bret: the president's chief of staff delivers an emotional response to the controversy over the president's comments to the widow of a fallen soldier. plus what really happened in niger? and we talk with senator lamar alexander about whether his bipartisan short term healthcare fix has a chance to pass. this is "special report." >> bret: welcome to washington, i'm brett bare. you could have heard a pin drop at the white house press briefing. chief of staff, retired marine corps general john kelly produced a riveting and stunning condemnation of a democratic congresswoman for communities about president trump's condolence call to a