she knew how caring humayun was, she told him, humayun, please be careful. i want you to come back home safely, i was standing next to the telephone and i could hear him say mother, don't worry about me. i have responsibility, i am responsible for the men and women under my jurisdiction, i will protect them first. i will be safe. they will be safe. we will come home. in that short -- >> go ahead. >> these words that trump calls those who have sacrificed their lives for others, for their country, for the nation, losers, we understand trump's soul. by his accounting self-sacrifice does not make sense, love of country of nation, of principles, of institutions does not make sense. according to trump, as he says, winners are those who put themselves before all, and those who put their country, their nation before themselves are losers. his life is a testament to selfishness. he calls our war dead losers and celebrates out carat autocrats, to imitate dictators of korea and russia, his benefactors. words count because they tell us who we are. donald trump told us b

army captain killed in iraq, the family of humayun khan, and also he never really paid a price for saying this about senator john mccain, who whatever you think of his politics, inarguably is an american war hero for having been held for five years as a prisoner of war in vietnam. >> he's not a war hero. >> he's a war hero. >> he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren't captured, okay? i hate to tell you. >> jeffrey goldberg in "the atlantic" tonight says that he's been fascinated with the president's take on this matter because he didn't ever pay a political price for those strange comments and those strange attacks to make on american war hero and the family of an american war hero. goldberg says tonight, quote, there was no precedent in american politics for the expression of this sort of contempt. but the performatively patriotic trump did no damage to his candidacy by attacking mccain in this matter, nor did he set his campaign back by attacking the parents of humayun khan, an army captain who was killed in iraq in 2004. but trump remain fixated on mccain. whe

mccain are well remembered as are his attacks on the gold star family who lost their son, captain humayun khan in iraq. but there's also the other ones that we noticed at the time and let pass, right? his attacks not just on lieutenant colonel alexander vindman from the national security council for his testimony in the impeachment inquiry, but specifically the president's attack on concern vindman for his military service. the president mocking his army uniform. the president putting that wounded combat veteran's army rank in quotes. there was also the time the president derided admiral bill mcraven, deriding him specifically for the attack that he led that killed osama bin laden. but there has also just been the rank callousness to the family members of service members who the president had no political reason to attack, no beef with, no reason to criticize. he just couldn't muster the decency to even interact with them in a kind or basically human way. >> i asked master sergeant neal to put his phone on speaker so my aunt and uncle could hear as well. and he goes on to saying his state

and in 2016 as the republican nominee for president, donald trump attacked the family of captain humayun kahn who was killed in iraq trying to stop a suicide bomber for his brave and sacrificing actions, he received a bronze star and purple heart. now, accompanied by his wife, mr. kahn spoke about his son's sacrifice at the democratic national convention and in response after seeing mr. kahn and his wife, donald trump said, well, look, if you look at his wife, she was standing there. she had nothing to say. she probably maybe -- maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say at all. can you imagine criticizing a mother for not being able to articulate the pain of losing her son. a president who mocks a military family's pain doesn't understand what selflessness is. and just this monday as we've heard, donald trump said, and again i quote, that the top people in the pentagon want to do nothing but fight war so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs stay happy. a president who attacks america's generals as valuing profits over the men and women they command don't under

in venezuela nicolas maduro's illegal regime has produced one of the worst humayun crises by plundering the country's resources for personal gain and using the distribution of food as a tool for social control. maduro has completely ignored the venezuelan people's call to a return to democracy and is using the current global pandemic as an opportunity to consolidate his own power. in addition to addressing quasi dictatorships in the western hemisphere, we must maintain pressure on the so-called last dictator of europe, bell usian president lou schenck co-. while lou schenck co-has been full of corrupt power grabs and crackdowns on dissent, the recent election demonstrates a new level of lawlessness. he has refused to certify opposing candidates and then imprisoned them. he claimed victory through clearly fraudulent election results. he restricted the free flow of information by shutting down the internet and oversaw the brutal repression of protesters, including many instances of bell laotian security forces repeatedly torturing detained citizens. he knows that the belarus an people are

remember how president trump ridiculed the gold star parents of army captain humayun khan who died in june 2004 from an i.e.d. in iraq. mr. khan a resident of virginia. or remember his comments questioning whether senator john mccain should be called a hero and his recent comments, even after the reports of this -- his comments in the "atlantic" article came out, his recent comments that our top official at d.o.d. want to continue fighting wars to make defense contractors happy. whether it's pardoning those who commit crimes or not standing up to president putin in defense our troops when reports emerge this bounties have been offered for killing members of our armed forces, whether it's deploying our military in response to peaceful protests, threatening to politicize and divide our military from civilian society, the president on each of these occasions is on the wrong side of honoring our service members. these actions and statements are an affront to everyone who serves or has served. they are unacceptable and unpresidential. instead, let's stay focused on what matters in this cou