mr. johnson. the gentle woman from california is recommended. >> i move to strike the last word. >> i just want to thank mr. conyers for offering this amendment and note that a requirement without any enforcement is unlikely to be utilized. in 2009, west stat actually did some research on this. on persons who received tentative noncompliant notices, current law prohibits taking adverse actions until you have a final notice. what they found was that more than one-third of the employers admitted that they took an action to reduce pay, restrict work assignments, delay trainings, even though they weren't supposed to do that, because there's no penalty. now, that doesn't sound like a lot, but if we've got 465,000 americans who are subject to this, a third of that is 153,000 americans who could lose their jobs or have adverse implications to their job because there's no requirement really for notification that's enforceab enforceable. so we've got penalties spread throughout this bill. i know that most e

mr. johnson. mr. johnson: thank you, mr. speaker. i would just respond to my learned colleague by quoting a renowned liberal legal scholar, e late abner migva who explained in a law review article back in 1986, that even if it were less efficient to go through congress that would be no reason to cede the point of principle. this is what he wrote, to ensure congress would act sstheas first branch of government, the founders gave them the ability to control the purse strings. they knew this was the most far-reaching and effectule of all government powers. they understood that a diverse group of individuals would less efficiently and less coherently device fiscal policy than would a single treasurer or fiscal czar yet they chose for good reason to suffer this cost and bear its risks. that's from a liberal legal scholar and of course conservatives agree. the system that the founders set up, the reason and if you were for article 1 is to allow these major decisions to be made by the elected representatives of congress. for that reason, we

mr. johnson. senator johnson: no. the clerk: mr. corker. senator corker: no. the clerk: mr. perdue. senator perdue: no. the clerk: mr. gardner. mr. kend. -- mr. kennedy. mr. boozman. senator boozman: no. the clerk: mr. strange. senator strange: no. the clerk: mr. sanders. senator sanders: yes. the clerk: ms. murray. mr. wyden. senator wyden: aye. the clerk: ms. stabenow. senator stabenow: aye. the clerk: mr. whitehouse. senator whitehouse: yes. the clerk: mr. warner. senator warner: aye. the clerk: mr. merkley. senator merkley: aye. the clerk: mr. kaine. mr. king. mr. van hollen. ms. harris. senator harris: aye. the clerk: mr. chairman. enator enzi: no. the clerk: mr. chairman, there are 12 nays, 11 yeas. senator enzi: the noes have it. the amendment is defeated. next amendment is sanders number 11. does anyone seek recognition in opposition? senator gardner. senator gardner: thank you, mr. chairman. in opposition, again, this amendment simply makes a fiction out of what's actually happening in the budget. again, there's an increase in fund

mr. johnson for his amendment. i think that it's an important one and i would be very disappointed if we did not approve it and with that, mr. chairman, i would yield -- well, i would yield to the gentleman from maryland, mr. raskin. >> thank you very much for yielding and i want to associate myself very much with the remarks of the gentle lady from california and to endorse this amendment which establishes something that should be basic, intuitive, obvious and supported by everyone which is that people who have come to the united states and are working here for the benefit of our economy should have the right to legal representation, especially these people because under the system of 21st century indentured servitude that's been devised under this law these people are coming here at a subminimum wage, without any guarantee of housing, without family, spouses or children and they are exposed to the most extreme kind of control by their employers. you know, when america started the great tom payne said that here in

mr. johnson for his amendment.i think i would be disappointed it.e do not approve i would yield to the gentleman from maryland. >> thank you very much for yielding. i would like to endorse this amendment which establishes something they should be basic, intuitive, obvious and supported by everyone. people who come to the united states and are working here for the benefit of our economy have the right to legal representation. under the system of 21st century indentured servitude that has been devised under this law, these people are coming here at a sub minimum wage without any guarantee of housing. -- rep. raskin: without family, spouses or children. they are exposed to the most extreme kind of control by their employers. started, the great tom paine said that here, in democracy, the law is king and in the authoritarian society the king is law. we're setting up a system where the boss is law. as the gentlelady from california describes, workers being cheated by the meager laws being set up by this will have to pay

mrs. johnson said she didn't say anything, she just listened? >> reporter: mrs. johnson said that the call made her even more upset than she already was and, david, asked today if she has anything that she would like to say to the president now, she said no, she has nothing to say to him. david? >> jon karl tonight. thanks, jon. >>> meantime, senator john mccain, in an interview marking 50 years since he was shot down over vietnam, taking what many believed was a swipe at president trump about deferments, one of them for a bone spur in the president's foot. here's abc's cecilia vega. >> reporter: coming from war hero senator john mccain, it sure sounded like a swipe at president trump, who got five deferments from serving in vietnam. >> we drafted the lowest income level of america, and the highest income level found a doctor that would say they had a bone spur. that is wrong. >> reporter: so, was mccain talking about the president? he was asked today on "the view." >> people thought you were talking about mr. trump. because he had a doctor's note that said he had

mr. johnson: i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 3 printed in part a of house report 115-363 offered by mr. ohnson of georgia. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 577, the gentleman from georgia, mr. johnson, and a member opposed, will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia. mr. johnson: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise to support my amendment advocate for d to rural georgians and americans across the country who don't have dependable access to broadband internet services. we are here today debating h.r. 469, a bill that would require burdensome and unnecessary processes that would delay the enforcement of federal regulations. h.r. 469 undermines the ability of government agencies to protect public health and safety by prohibiting them from using consent decrees and settlements to enforce the law that we pass by allowing private industry to intervene in opposition to regulations that they deem unfavorable to them and it requires the publishing of the personal data of t

mrs. johnson, as you should. mrs. johnson, since the president seems incapable of finding the right words, let me speak for the entire country. we are all sorry for what you are going through. all grief is different, and we cannot imagine how deep and profound yours is. we agree with you that la david, your hoe rehusband, was an awesome soldier, a great man, a great american. we know from what has been written about him that he wanted to be someone great, do great things with his life and he was great, and he did great things. he is a role model to me. when his photos come on the tv screen or i see them in the newspaper, i am so incredibly proud of him and what he accomplished. and to be extremely candid with you and with the world, as a black man i'm always looking for role models who look like me and the latest one i found was your husband, la david. may he rest in peace. and may you find peace when you can finally get a good night's sleep knowing that this is america. we got your back. believe that. signed me, don l

mrs. johnson's interview aired, quote, i had a very respectful conversation with the widow of sergeant la david johnson and spoke his name from beginning

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mrs. johnson's account. quote, i had a very respectful conversation with the widow mrs. johnson and spoke his name from beginning, without hesitation. i have my panel here. i watched this interview this morning. maybe the president and mrs. johnson have very different recollections of the conversation. that is entirely possible. i'm sure the president was nervous making this call, and here is a grieving widow who is on the way to the return of her husband's body at the time she takes the call. perhaps they have different recollections of the call. why would the president respond immediately on twitter? why not let it go? >> he can't help himself. it is pretty remarkable, because across the political spectrum you're hearing even republicans saying that we need to -- this is just an unseemly debate we're having about this phone call. the white house has its own version of events that not only does the congresswoman who was in the car disputes but now the widow also is disputing the white house's version of events. she said that she was hurt by the call. she said she was hur

mrs. johnson. there's no gain in it at all. >> colonel, the white house is saying that they're not going reach out to the johnson family again, which i can see that that may not be productive, right? they've certainly had a major disagreement over how effective it was the last time, but with that in mind, if it's not the white house, how should the government, the military be reaching out to myeshia johnson and presumably, i would imagine they are reaching out to try to provide some comfort. >> the army does a fantastic job of providing support to grieving families. in fact, there is a casualty officer who is assigned to mrs. johnson and to that family and he will be there with that family until she no longer needs that casualty officer there, and then he will remain even after that. there is a lot of everything from the grieving process to the simple and maybe mundane red tape process of benefits and the like. this casualty officer will be with her every step of the way. our casualty officers are w

mrs. johnson, certainly. with all four of the fallen in this particular case and anyone in the department that gives their lives on behalf of our country, we're going to do everything we can to answer those families' questions. reporter: sir, just a follow-up, who found sergeant johnson's body? which force? gen. dunford: initial reports -- and again, my understanding is the body was reported by nigerian forces to u.s. forces. i'm going out a little bit on that one because i feel pretty comfortable that that's what the reporting was, but again, from the investigation we'll get the final details, but that's the initial report. right there in the back. reporter: so as isis decentralizes and u.s. military looks to partner with a number of partner nations to attack it across the global network you described, should the american people expect to start hearing about incidents like this in countries outside of iraq and syria in places they're maybe not familiar with? gen. dunford: again, in this particular case we've

mrs. johnson but we'll certainly find that out. i did hear her say that today. certainly from a policy perspective we would defer to the family's desire, but i don't know exactly what happened in the exchange with mrs. johnson and what would have normally been the casualty assistance officer that would have been supporting her. >> as a follow-up if it does , turn out she was not given the option to view the husband's body is that something you'll be , looking further into? gen. dunford: i don't want to speculate whether, that causes me to speculate what exactly happened. but i can assure you that if mrs. johnson or any of the families of the fallen are unsatisfied with the support they've had to date or have additional questions, we're going to go to every last length to satisfy their concerns an d answer their questions. that's what we do in each and every one of these cases. with mrs. johnson, with all four of the fallen in this particular case and anyone in the department that gives their lives on behalf of our country, we're going to do everything we can to

mrs. johnson, but we'll certainly find that out. i did hear her say that today, and certainly, again, from a policy perspective, we would typically defer to the family's desires and we do that, but i don't know exactly what happened in the exchange with mrs. johnson and what would have normally been the casualty assistance officer that would have been supporting her. >> there is a follow-up. if it does turn out she was not given the option to view her husband's body, is this something you'd be looking further into. >> i don't want to speculate. that causes me to speculate whether -- what exactly happened, but i can assure you if mrs. johnson or any of the families of the fallen are unsatisfied with the support they've had to date or have additional questions, we're going to go to every last length to try to satisfy their concerns or answer their questions. i mean, that's what we do in each and every one of these cases. with mrs. johnson certainly, with all four of the fallen in this case, and, frankly, anyone in the department that

mrs. johnson. he tweeted, i had a very respectful conversation with the widow of sergeant la david johnson, and spoke his name from the beginning, without hesitation. explanation mark to extenuate that remark. people are baffled by this. saying the easiest way to end this would be to say, i meant no disrespect to the family of a fallen soldier. we grieve with you and thank your husband for his sacrifice. i asked the white house if they had expectation the president would reach out to mrs. johnson once again. perhaps to apologize, to clarify. i haven't heard back. no indication that's the case. >> i want to talk to hans in a minute about the mission in niger and the questions around that. i have to ask you, peter, is there any sense that you get about why the white house has involved itself in these unforced errors for longer than the last week? why go down this road of picking fights with people like this fallen soldier's wife? >> john mccain, the johnson family. president trump is behind it. he is

mrs. johnson, certainly. with all four of the fallen in this case, frankly, anyone in the department that gives their lives on behalf of our country, we'll do everything we can to answer their questions. >> who found sergeant johnson's body? which force? >> initial reports -- again, you know, my understanding is the body was reported by nigerian forces to u.s. forces. i'm going out on a limb there because i feel comfortable that that is what the reporting was. again, from the investigation, we'll get the final details. that's the initial report. in the back. >> so isis decentralizes and the u.s. military looks to partner with the number of partner nations to attack across the global network you did scribe. should the american people expect to hear about incidents like this in countries outside of iraq and syria and places that maybe they're not familiar with? >> again, in this particular case, we've been operating there many years. this is a tragic incident but it's not been a matter of routine. so if you're

mrs. johnson. >> i am sure that call was appreciated. you are, as you said, a veteran.ou are also the senior senator from the state of florida and now a member of your delegation, representative wilson, is talking about the phone call the president had with the widow. there's this controversy. she says the president was insensitive, and he says she's lying. what do you make of the back and forth this morning? >> well, i will not get into the controversy. i can tell you this about the congresswoman. she was particularly close to this individual because she does this mentoring program in miami called 5,000 young men. it's to bring up the young african-american young men to be the best they can be and to have other role models of which they can achieve. you can imagine the pride with which fredricka wilson has of seeing so many of these young men make something of themselves, and in particular, in this case, of sergeant johnson having served his country as he was in a very elite unit. so that's the comment i would make about the congresswoman, fredricka wilson. >> you know

mrs. johnson spoke out on "gma," a tweet from the president contradicting the gold star widow. ersation with the widow of sergeant la david johnson and spoke his name from the beginning without hesitation. the president has also said that congresswoman frederica wilson, a friend of the johnson family who heard the call totally fabricated her account of what the president said. >> the president said that the congresswoman was lying about the phone call. >> whatever ms. wilson said was not fabricated. what she said was 100% correct. >> reporter: mrs. johnson, who said she was not allowed to see her husband's body is demanding answers about what happened. >> i don't know how he got killed, where he got killed or anything. >> are you confident you're going to get the answers you need? >> if i keep pushing for them, i will. >> reporter: in the rose garden, president trump didn't answer questions. >> do you have any response to myeshia johnson, mr. president? >> reporter: still no answer in the 19 days since the attack. the president hasn't said anything about what happened or whether

mrs. johnson says the president's call made her cry even more and validated congresswoman wilson's account. >> i heard him say, well, i guess you know he knew what he was signing up for, but it still hurts. and i couldn't believe that he said that. >> what she said pwas 100% correct. >> reporter: the special forces soldier was one of four killed in niger earlier this month after an ambush by isis-pledged militants. now his widow says she still has questions about her husband's death. >> why took them 48 hours to find my husband. why couldn't i see my husband? i don't know what's in that box. it could be empty for all i know. >> reporter: mrs. johnson says she'll continue to press for answers and that their third child, due in january, will know that her father died as a hero. l lana zack, abc news, washington. >>> new this morning from marin county, a construction worker had too be air lifted after falling 200 feet down an embankment. sky 7 was over fairfax at 9:00 this morning as the helicopter rescue crew was lifting the construction workers to safety. the highway patrol tells abc 7 news

mr. corker: senator johnson. mr. johnson: let me thank both secretaries for their service to the country. let me pick up on the point of ground troops. secretary mattis in your testimony you talked about a 16-year global conflict. totally different than anything we've witnessed in the past. i remember when we had this discussion a couple years ago. with the advent of isis. trying to rewrite a new authorization of use for military force. there's a discussion about limiting ground troops. no ground troops. secretary tillerson, i think you said in your testimony, you talked about the caliphate is basically ended, is it not? or really darn close? mr. tillerson: we've liberated a large amount of area in iraq and syria but that fight is not over yet. mr. johnson: secretary mattis, is there any way we could have done what we've done so far at the caliphate without ground troops? mr. mattis: i don't believe so, senator. mr. johnson: yet two years ago we were debating in this committee replacing the authorization for use of mi

mrs. johnson was asked if she had anything to say to the president. n' no. i don't have nothing to say to orm. >> reporter: arizona senator john mccain, a former prisoner of war in vietnam, joined other republicans in urging the president to end the dispute ldth the johnson family. >> we should not be fighting about a brave american who lost his life serving his country. that should not be the topic of discussion in america today. >> reporter: in a different interview, mccain indirectly criticized the five vietnam war stferments mr. trump received, the last in 1968 for bone spurs. afcain said during vietnam the poor were drafted in droves while the rich could buy their way out of combat with concocted diagnoses. anthony? >> mason: major garrett at the r.ite house. boanks, major. army sergeant bowe bergdahl's sentencing trial got under way t fort bragg, north carolina. bergdahl was held by the taliban ior five years. last week he pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, which could put him behind bars for life. corgdahl's lawyer claim the

mrs. johnson, but we'll certainly find that out. but i did hear her say that today. certainly, again, from a policy perspective, we'd defer to the family's desire when we do that, but i don't know what happened in the exchange with mrs. johnson and what would have normally been the casualty assistance officer that would have been supporting her. >> if it does turn out that she was not given the option to view her husband's body, is this something you'll be looking further into? >> i don't want to speculate. that causes me to speculate whether -- what exactly happened, but i can assure you if mrs. johnson or any of the families of the fallen are unsatisfied with the support they've had to date or have additional questions, we're going to go to every last length to try to satisfy their concerns or answer their suez questioque. that's what we do. with mrs. johnson, with all four of the fallen and any one of the department that gives their lives on behalf of our country, we're going to do everything we can to answer those family's questions. >> who found sergeant johnson

mr. johnson said. we spent much of the day bill,ng an aspect of this bidh in our opinion would down wages of workers, and use foreign workers to the great -- to degrade the wages of americans. the status of the people brought bid down wages of workers, andhere s or fourth class without a permanent opportunity to be citizens, having to go back, and always be in a position of economic servitude. it is a terrible thing to do human eye's people from another country, mexico in this case most of the time, as well as to use them to pit one class of exploited people, to make them agents of exploitation of another class, mainly american workers. >> i want to advise members of planning for the rest of the day, at about 10 minutes of 4:00, we will have a bill on the floor of the house. therefore, the committee will stand in resource until after that bill is considered and voted upon. then we will return to the billommittee to complete this the e-veryfiy bill. we will go as late tonight as necessary to complete bo

mrs. johnson at the terrible loss of sergeant johnson as well as all of the family members who lost theirwant to make sure that general kelly apologizes to congresswoman frederica wilson. she is a woman of integrity, she's a woman of represent, she's brilliant, she has a long history of service to children and their families, and she has mentored so many young african american boys and males and young men. and i just have to say, what he said and what he -- how he -- general kelly conducted himself against this woman in terms of trying to malign her character, is reprehensible and he needs to apologize and needs to do it right away. >> i will say she gave about a nine-minute speech at the dedication of that building in florida, almost four minutes of that speech were spent, you know, giving praise to the two fallen fbi agents that the building was eventually named after. something else we want to get you on and that is the sort of extraordinary sentiment we heard this morning from myesha johnson, the widow of fallen sergeant la david johnson, here's what she said. >> i heard him stumbling

mrs. johnson when she took that call. this turned into a political feud.rybody says they care about the families of the fallen and yet this continues. joining us now is democratic congresswoman maxine waters. thank you for joining us. always a pleasure. >> you are welcome. delighted to be here. what do you make of the state of the feud? >> it all could be settled if the president of the united states of america would act responsibly and simply apologize. just call mrs. johnson and say that i certainly did not intended to make you uncomfortable in the way i spoke about your son. of course i respect your son. i respect all of our military personnel and for all of those young people who were killed in niger, i am profoundly sorry. he has to do that and kelly has to do that and they could put an end to this. but for the president of the united states to attack this woman, this mother, this wife, this pregnant woman who has lost her husband, who already has three children, and don't know what the future is going to hold for herself, and for him to attack her an

mrs. johnson said president trump -- niger, but mrs. johnson said president trump couldn't remember his name. >> i heard him stumbling trying to remember his name and that's what hurt me the most because if my husband is out here fighting for our country and he risked his life for our country, why can't you remember his name? >> reporter: the 25-year-old widow confirmed the account, that president trump said her husband, la david johnson, knew what he signed up for and that she was upset by his tone of voice. she also complained she has not been allowed to see her husband's body and has been told nothing about his death. >> i don't know how he got killed, where he got killed or anything. >> reporter: in an early morning tweet president trump said the conversation was respectful and that he spoke johnson's name from the beginning. it's not the president's first dust-up with a gold star family. as a candidate, espialed with khizr -- he sparred with khizr khan who lost his son in iraq. khan said he was shocked at the call to the grieving wi

mr. johnson, new president of the naacp, thank you very much for being our guest on "newsmakers." as your tenure continues, i hope you will come back. derrick: thank you. susan: gentlemen, i want to start with inside baseball with the naacp. its strength may also be some of its challenges. it is 108 years old 2200 chapters, which means bureaucracy. when you look at polling numbers of african americans and you ask who identifies for their issues, more often you are seeing groups like black lives matter above the naacp. what are the challenges that derrick johnson has in taking on this job? eugene: visibility is one of them. to his points about black lives matter, one of the challenges that the naacp does have is that black lives matter has been incredibly effective in getting their message out because of social media and because there are so many young voices in black lives matter that have their own followings and reach and are just influential in different spaces. so figuring out who can have the same impact within this organization or reach will be a bit of a challenge. jesse: o

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mrs. johnson. that's her name, mr. trump, not the woman or the wife. if the president has proof of the contrary, he didn't offer it today. and the woman who raised la david johnson was also in the car and heard the call. well, today she said it's all true, telling the "washington post," quote, president trump did disrespect my son and my daughter and also me and my husband. with that let's bring in our lead-off panel tonight making rare visits to our new york studio, starting with philip rucker, kimberly atkins, out in wisconsin, where he is best put to work is our friend charlie sykes, long-time conservative radio host. these days an author. good evening and welcome to you all. and mr. rucker, your headline story that you coauthored for the "washington post" really says it all today. 12 days of silence. and that's the first puzzle. after these four souls, four of our very best were killed, why nothing from the white house? the pentagon did react, but back to the headline, 12 days of silence, then a swipe at obama. how trump handled four dead soldiers.

before it's pretty mr johnson to consolidate. and has moved away from the tendency of the last two generations of leaderships in china to share even among the top leaders so he's a very very powerful leader but comparing him to other leaders globally is a. christian shepherd in beijing thank you very much thank you. look at some other stories making news around the world a top kenyan election official has quit and fled the country just days before a rerun of the presidential vote there rather than a calm busy said that next week's election would not be free and fair last week opposition leader pulled out of the presidential runoff citing illegalities. portugal's interior minister has resigned from her post after wildfires killed more than one hundred people in the last few months constanza ordered by law d'souza whose department has been widely criticized said she didn't have the political conditions to continue their job. american or her george saunders has won the prestigious man booker prize for his novel lincoln in the bardo

mrs. johnson, all those who are grieving, trust me, none of us want to be in the position and the worst thing ever have been called is a gold star mom. >> yeah. >> i know, mrs. murphy, you wrote a letter to the white house, i think -- >> i did. >> what did you want the president to know about your son? >> i just wanted him to not forget my son. i actually thanked president trump for ordering the air strike in syria, but it was not enough to save my child. i have no hard feelings toward anybody, because it's not about me, it's about my child and all the other countless fallen heroes and those still over there now and the families that are here grieving, like i am and my husband is. that's what it's all about. i don't want it to be about me or about a letter, i want it to be about my child and what he stood for and what they are fighting over there right now as i speak. >> mrs. murphy, i read that you said that you hate the sunrise -- >> i do. >> you pray for the sunset. >> that's correct. >> and you hate every day when the sun rises because you are in so much pain. how can we help you? >> just

president denies mrs johnson's account and says he was respectful. it's a six and a verse three of the death of libya's former leader moammar gadhafi but chaos and conflict still plagued the country despite the un's efforts to end the crisis many libyans help current politicians responsible for derailing the revolution that would argue why it has more from tripoli. this is how some libyans greeted the end do get death his four decades in power in oktober two eleven. mohammed was an opponent of get their feet and was imprisoned by the regime over the last six years he's watched as hope of a bright future has two new to disappear is called if you had a who according to saddam the fact that gadhafi himself was gone is a victory to every oppressed person repaid dearly to recapture our freedom it took too much blood and too many souls that unfortunately excessive freedom took us to far in the opposite direction. the country has slipped in to kill us all so shaking the stability of neighboring countries many libyan people celebrated the fall of gadhafi reg

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mrs. johnson's comments about not seeing her husband's body. that sometimes they recommend that they shouldn't see the body of the deceased, the victim, because sometimes obviously they go through a lot of trauma and they're just disfigured. and so he really zpland that in a way that really tried to lay out the pentagon's case in this in a very sort of distant way from what's going on in the white house and president trump's comments in the last couple of days especially. >> we should emphasize he did so with empathy, which has been missing from so much of the conversation of late. robert costa, your colleagues at the "washington post" have reported, and you know this well, the behavior by the president, the reignition of this as a debate now entering its second week is part of a pattern. quite quote from this piece before i get your reaction. trump's actions since then followed a careful formula he long ago devised for winning a skimmerish which has been devised by senior white house officials, make it a fight, use policy and never apologize.

mrs. johnson and say how can we make this right and move forward.e 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 and women who serve following soldiers and this is not good for the country. >> and kirby, there was a statement drafted for the 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 pre

mrs. johnson met at the airport. they are concerned because all she received is dog tags and she has not been able to see anything and she wants to find out and we're supposed to find out tomorrow from according to people close or person close to the family that they're going to find out tomorrow if there's any remains in the casket. >> and he's calling her a liar on twitter. mark, myesha johnson said that she still has questions about how her husband was killed and she said she's, as we've heard, she said she znt didn't even know if there was a body in the casket. we know -- we know that his body was recovered 48 hours after the attack, the chairman of the joint chief joseph dunston spoke to reporters today. did we get any answers from him? >> let's go through what we do know. first of all this happened on october 4th so it's been 19 days before we heard from the joint chiefs. as you said, general dunford coming out today. i personally cannot fault him for not having any answers because clearly the fog of war right

mrs. johnson today, for instance, all of this really goes back to -- this might be part of the discussion if the president had not avoid answering questions about niger by praising himself and going after former presidents. >> there's been so many opportunities for him to dial this back. i think he has chosen to keep -- he obviously wants to be in an argument with this woman which is really shameful considering this is the worst moment in her life. she's very young, 24 years old. this is someone who's already suffering a lot and she has the president of the united states calling her a liar on top of everything else. look, i've said this before. i'm sure he did the best he could in the call and she experienced it differently. even if she wasn't telling the truth, i think she is, but even if she wasn't, in this situation you rise above it and you be the person who comfort her and not attack her in a public way. >> does it make sense to continue this? >> i was on cnn the night this story broke. when this congresswoman made this allegation against trump. and the headline on cnn was, you know,

mrs. johnson those reflected where the president has steered the conversation too rather than talking about what happened in niger. he's not just refusing to discuss the ambush and the four soldiers that were lost. he's chosen instead to volunteer false information how he and other presidents have contacted families of fallen soldiers. today the widow of sergeant johnson appeared on the news and gave remarkable testimony of what she and her family has been through. but not incidentally she also this morning became the third person to corroborate, consistently, the nature of the condolence phone call that president trump made to her and her family last week after he faced almost two weeks of questions about why he hasn't said anything about those military deaths. she confirmed that what had previously been described by congresswoman wilson, who has now become a major target for her roll in this matter. sergeant johnson's widow confirmed today that what the congresswoman said is true. the president did make remarks in his condolence call that were perceived to be hurtful by sergeant johnson's

mrs. johnson, the widow of sergeant johnson. moreover, this account has been confirmed by family members who also witnessed mr. trump's incredible lack of compassion and sensitivity. also listening to the phone call was chief of staff kelly. his son robert kelly was killed in action in afghanistan in 2010. kelly has been reluctant to talk about the loss he and his family suffered publicly. but today he didn't hold out. he said given what's happened this week he decided it was time for him to speak up. here is some of the key moments. >> so he called four people the other day and expressed his 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'd tell them. let me tell you what my best friend dunce ford told me, who was my casualty officer. he 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 possibiliti

mrs. johnson's grief, the widow, but clearly it did. and he didn't -- general kelly didn't seem to quite understand that entire story. >> by the way, mrs. johnson, we should repotty, 24 years old, now the mother of two little children. three months away from having their third child. robert costa, i want to put something up on the screen. the president has been back on twitter in just the last few minutes. the fake news is going crazy with whaek congresswoman wilson, who was secretly on a very personal call and gave a total lie on content. robert, it was speculated today that part of general kelly's message was aimed through the door back around the hall, turn left to the oval office, but clearly from this it was not the end of the topic. >> that's right, brian. i think gene said it well in the sense that general kelly did not contest the actual exchange between the president and the family that was heard by the congresswoman. he railed against in a broadway the plit iization of these kind of experiences and interactions, and that was t

mrs. johnson said the president couldn't remember his name. >> i heard him stumbling on trying to remember my husband's name. that hurt me the most. if my husband is out here fighting for our country, and risking his life for our country, why can't you remember his name? >> reporter: the 25-year-old widow confirmed the accounts that president donald trump said her husband, la david johnson, knew what he signed up for and that she was upset by his tone of voice. she complained she has not been allowed to see her husband's body and has been told nothing about his death. >> i don't know how he got killed or where he got killed, or anything. >> reporter: in an early morning to eat, president donald trump said the conversation was respectful and that he knew johnson's name from the beginning. it's not his first dustup with the gold star family. he sparred with khizr khan, who lost his son in iraq. he said he was shocked by recounts of the trump call to the grieving widow. >> i wish somebody would have him provide dignity for these families. >> reporter: the widow has a baby due in january and s

mrs. johnson of sergeant david t. johnson. here's how she put it in terms of who was on the call, the tone of the call and what was being monitored. >> no. there was several people in the room from the administration that were on the call, including chief of staff, general john kelly. >> she said it was disgraceful what the congress woman from florida is doing and as well she singled out the media for trying to make this into something that it's not. shep, the one thing she wouldn't talk about is the actual text of the call. i don't know if they have that, if there's a transcript somewhere. with the number of the people on the call, you think there would be corroborating evidence to back up the president. >> john, the white house says president trump does not support the bipartisan healthcare deal but he thinks it's on the right track. now, this comes after president trump changed his mind on this agreement. you may remember yesterday the president at first called the plan "a very good solution." today he said he can never sup

mrs. johnson this morning on the news and it brought back a lot of memories for me. this is a young woman who is going through the toughest time she'll ever go through in her life and to have this kind of crap thrown on top of it where she's at the center of the storm because of someone saying different things that just aren't true isn't fair to her. she's going through the stages of brief and she's a young woman. it really brought me back to a time where i've been to so many memorial services and seen young spouses who are mourning their southerly and it's just not fair to do these things. >> whatever shelves, the only important thing is that she feels this way. it's not whether the president feels he was inaccurately pour tried. all any of us should care about is she felt slighted in some way shape or form and was made to cry. for the life of me i can't see why the president can't say i'm sorry you feel this way, i'm sorry we had a miss ukz kmoo. your husband is a hero and i'm so sorry for your loss. i just don't get it. >> has he every said i'm sorry? >> that's th