. >>> and the navy s.e.a.l. who drowned during training. tonight, his family here, after learning the instructor will not face charges. >>> and we have important news on men and prostate cancer. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us on a tuesday night. we begin with that fire storm after comments made at the white house while being pressed on syria and the strategy moving guard the white house press secretary in talking about bashar al assad. more than a million died in hitler's gas chambers. spicer apologizing just moments ago. you're about to hear it. we begin with senior white house correspondent cecilia vega. >> reporter: secretary of state rex tillerson landing in russia today as the u.s. put moscow on notice. accusing the kremlin of engaging in a full-scale coverup of that deadly syrian chemical weapons attack. but just as the white house was talking tough, press secretary sean spicer ignited a firestorm during his daily briefing by suggesting not only that bashar al assad is worse than adolf hitler, but that hitler did

. >> sure enough, police found a navy s.e.a.l.on his bedroom floor and heard story after story about chris sr.'s obsession with security. he even kept an ar-15 type assault lively. >> he would actually do training exercises in front of other employees. with junior how they're holding rifles, how they would clear a building and stuff along that line. >> so was this secret to his death buried in a top secret military past? or maybe chris sr. was murdered over money. >> the quick books said the business had $545,000 in the accounts. and they actually had less than $40,000. >> which could only mean that somebody covered up the sudden disappearance of more than half a million dollars. what was going on at skim x? we did some sleuthing and discovered that whatever chris sr. had in confidence he lacked in competence. he lost his house to foreclosure. he had to declare personal bankruptcy. he owed money all over. 80,000 in means and mortgages. the day he was murdered, he was worth absolutely nothing. he rented the little house he lived in

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the family of a navy s.e.a.l. pool exercise is taking on the navy's decision not tot an instructor in the death. amy here with the story in the family of 21-year-old lovelace telling abc news they plan to take legal action of the navy decided his tragic death was not the result of a crime. his sister says she is appalled by the decision. sick to our stomach. >> reporter: navy s.e.a.l. trainee james derek lovelace was in his first week of elite s.e.a.l. training last may when he drowned during combat swimmer orientation, an exercise requiring trainees to tread water in full fatigues and boots while wearing a mask filled with water. similar to the drill seen in this video. >> the navy s.e.a.l. training is among the most dangerous and the most dif services. the washout rate is around 80%. >> reporter: at the time of lovelace's death, the medical examiner ruled it drowning. saying while some could consider his death an accident, the actions and inactions of the instructors and other individuals involved were excessive

>> you're playing a navy s.e.a.l. set in iraq? >> it's modern day. it's very scary. >> a horror film. >> what the hell? >> 2,000 years ago, a princess is buried alive. tom unearths the mummy. it's put on his plane. all hell brakes loose. >> 099. you can do this. >> there's some scenes and sequences in here that are epic. >> sew foo ya place the mummy with anger issues. >> she will not stop. >> what was it like working with tom cruise. how much fun was that? >> he's so on top of the it. he loves making movies. >> that's russell crowe tom mixes it up with. the story is loosely based on the 1932 classic. >> it was the first blockbuster for universal pictures. so it's more in the classic vein of the original. it's a real monster movie. it will have humor. romance. and very scary. >> universal is planning for the mummy to launch the return of a bunch of classic monsters including the wolfman, the invisible man, the bride of frankenstein. the plan is to have them all intersect in the future the same way the avengers are doing. >> some epic franchises are c

navy s.e.a.l. and injuries to four other navy s.e.a.l.s. that raid also represented a significant circulation in military intervention by the u.s. administration. without a process to deliberate over that really at all. the new president apparently approved that raid and that major escalation in yemen at a dinner meeting that included jared, his son-in-law. this new presidency is where we got what appears to have been a truly disastrous u.s. air raid in mosul, in iraq. an air raid that may have killed nearly 200 civilians after u.s. and allied forces specifically told the civilians in those neighborhoods that they should not leave and they should stay in their homes right before u.s. planes then bombed those homes. and now, the new administration has launched 59 tomahawk missiles at the other side in the syrian war that we weren't yet fighting, at the syrian military. why were steve mnuchin and jared kushner and the chief of the economic council and wilbur ross, why were they all in the room while that decision was being made? what military

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the navy s.e.a.l. rate on yemen the president approved first week in office, that was apparently approved after no deliberate process within the administration at all. that raid was a disaster, resulted in many civilian deaths and in the death of a u.s. navy s.e.a.l. and injuries to four other navy s.e.a.l.s. we think about that raid as a disaster, which it was, but it also represented a significant escalation in u.s. military involvement in yemen by the new administration. without a process to deliberate over that really at all, the new president apparently approved that raid and that major escalation in yemen at a dinner meeting that included jared, his son-in-law. this new presidency is also where we got what appears to have been a truly disastrous air raid in mosul, iraq. an air raid that may have killed 200 civilians after u.s. and allied forces specifically told civilians in those neighborhoods they should not leave, stay in their homes, right before u.s. planes then bombed those homes. and now t

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so if your son is a navy s.e.a.l. or in an armor battalion, would you want your son to be on an aircraft doing high altitude low entry thing, knowing that 30% of those parachutes are not going to work? why do we elevate risks like this? again, it really makes no sense. and i think we've got two more questions before we have to wrap up. >> i just want to interject and say, i don't -- i want us to be very careful and not do a disservice to young women, many of whom are extremely ideal i say particulidealistic, i've spt of time in villages all over africa, where hygiene may not be exactly what it is that we're used to. so i think we need to be extremely careful in terms of the kinds of arguments that actually get made in the 21st century about what it is that young women can or cannot do. and what we need to focus on, again, is what is it that is going to make combat units more lethal and more effective. and somebody actually be able to make a very cogent, very persuasive argument that there will be a need for all female

. >>> the family of a man who died just as he started training to become a navy s.e.a.l. ice. that promise came a day after the navy said no criminal charges will be filed in connection with the incident. abc's linzie janis has the details. >> reporter: the family of navy s.e.a.l. trainee james derek lovelace, fighting back, vowing to sue the u.s. military and the instructor it believes is responsible for the 21-year-old's death. >> it just makes us sick to our stomach. >> reporter: lovelace in his first week of elite s.e.a.l. training last may when he drowned during an exercise like this one. requiring trainees to tread water in full fatigues and boots. a navy investigation obtained exclusively by abc news, says eyewitnesses saw his face turn purple. as he attempted to stay afloat while an instructor dunked him. >> the certain instructor, bullied derek that day and took it too far. a lot of dunking. seemed like everything was focused on derek in the pool that day. >> medical examiner ruling his death a homicide by drowning saying actions and inactions of the instructors a

. >> former navy s.e.a.l. you speak many languages. >> yes. >> do you having in in common with him?speak a few languages. but in general, this guy is more of a hero than i am. >> what are you talking about? >> somebody broke in and you kicked, butt, please? >> i didn't do anything charlie wouldn't do. >> but i do love that you also use the show since sam hannah is a former navy s.e.a.l. to address veterans issues and the challenges that veterans have had in seeking care. >> you know, i haven't persondy done that, but, i guess, when you think about it, my father was in the navy, my grandfather was in the army. you do things. they should be put in harm's way for the reason, not at the wrong decision. >> david grohl said every song was an epiphany where music is more than just sound. what has become your epiphany? >> that's an interesting thing. i think for me, i was in junior high school and i was walking down the hallway and it was kind of like a dimly lit hallway because of where it because at in the building. i saw this kid from behind saying ♪ this deejay getting down mixing recor

because you play sam hannah, former navy s.e.a.l., he speaks so many languages. >> yeah.> oh, i can speak a few languages but this guy is much more heroic than i'd ever be. >> i don't know. we have seen your heroism. >> i have had my moments. >> yes, you have. >> what are you talking about? >> in between passing -- >> when somebody broke into his house. >> yeah. yeah. >> you kicked butt, please. >> well, didn't do anything charlie wouldn't do. [ laughter ] >> but i do love that you have also used this show, the sam hannah as a former navy s.e.a.l., to address the veteran issues and the challenges that they have had in seeking care. >> you know, i haven't personally done that. but i guess, you know, when you think about it my father was in the navy my grandfather in the army. i think they should be put in harm's way for the right reasons, not the wrong reasons. >> dave grohl was here yesterday and he said every musician has a musical epiphany where it's more than just sound to them. what is your musical epiphany, that everybody has it. >> an interesting thing. i think for

about two minutes of unity and i would tell you it's when he introduced the widow of the deceased navy s.e.a.lpresident trump going to pennsylvania and feeding red meat to his base. you had the press standing up for journalism and you had the resistance marching in the swelterring heat protesting climate change. that's what the last 100 days have been. >> a bit of controversy broke out this week on the democratic side. we learned that president obama has agreed to accept $400,000 to speak at a conference on wall street. >> it just does not look good, it's not a good idea, and i'm sorry that president obama made that choice, he's a private citizen, but i just think it's distasteful. >> is it distasteful to you? >> it's not distasteful, i think he started off talking to those kids in chicago. we need a bobby kennedy in this country, i hope he will co-a tour, go to appalachia go to south central, go to the arizona boarder. if he were to do a poverty four first, he's not the first president that had to be broke. from a moral point of view, it would be great for him to do- >> he's signed a $60 mill

and i will tell you when he introduced the widow of the navy s.e.a.l.. he's got to do more of that.ymbolic of the last 100 days and tells me of the next 100 days. you had trump, president trump in pennsylvania, speaking to his base. feeding red meat to the base and being divisive. you had the press celebrating the press standing up for journalismism and you had the resistance marching in sweltering heat in washington for climate change and against trump. folks, that's what the last 100 days has been. that's what the next 1360 days are going to be. >> if not longer. >> oh, god don't. >> who can beat him? a bit of controversy broke out on the democratic side. we learned president obama has agreed to accept $400,000 to speak in september at a wall street conference. senator elizabeth warren said she was troubled by it and bernie sanders also did. take a listen. >> i think it just does not look good. it's not a good idea. and sorry that president obama made that choice. he's a private citizen. i just think it's distasteful. >> is it distasteful to you >> it's not distasteful. he started

trump gets positive reviews and a $two-minute standing ohation when he recognizes the widow of navy s.e.a.l first combat death of his administration. >> ryan's legacy is etched into eternity. thank you. number nine, alternative facts. >> you're saying it is a falsehood and they're giving sean spicer our press secretary gave alternative facts to them. >> senior adviser kellyanne conway defines the white house' definition of the truthful. >> eternal i have the facts are not -- alternative facts are not facts. they're false hoods. >> jerel an chancellor angela merkel comes to washington and gets a cold shoulder. >> they weren't asking them to kiss. >> at seven, mar-a-lago again and again and again. >> everybody always wants to go to the southern white house. >> today trump has the spent nearly 30% of his presidency at his resort inviting foreign leaders to the club. mingling with the members and playing plenty of golf. >> this is part of being president. >> number six, the strike on syria. >> tonight i ordered a targeted military strike on the air field in syria from where the kept attack was

>> you're playing a navy s.e.a.l. it's set in iraq. >> it's modern day. it's very scary. >> awesome. >> 2,000 years ago, a princess is buried alive. when tom unearths the mummy and puts it on his plane, all hell breaks loose. zero ni >> zero niner niner. >> there's some scenes and sequences in here that are really epic. >> it's a mummy with anger issues. >> what was it like working with tom cruise? how much fun was that. >> he's so on top of it. he knows what he's talking about and he loves making movies. >> that's russell crowe tom mixes it up with. the story is loosely based on the 1932 classic starring boris karloff. >> it was the first blockbuster for universal pictures, so it's more in the classic vein of the original. >> it's a real monster movie. it's also going to have humor, romance, and very scary. >> now, universal is launching the return of a bunch of monsters including the wolmfman the invisible man and the bride of frankenstein. >>> while we wait for those movies to start rolling in, some epic franchises are coming back for more fun this sum

the first raid was in yemen in january leading to the death of a navy s.e.a.l. and an 8-year-old american girl. one official described the operation this way, saying, quote, almost everything went wrong. trump, for his part, blamed the generals. >> they came to see me. they explained what they wanted to do -- the generals, who are very respected. my generals are the most respected that we've had in many decades, i believe. and they lost ryan. >> despite what trump cast as the generals' failure, he continued to empower them. last month, the trump administration moved ahead with plans to make it easier for the cia and the military to target suspected terrorists with drone strikes, even if it means tolerating more civilian casualties. there has, in fact, been a surge in reported civilian casualties in the u.s. air campaign against the so-called islamic state. and under trump, a massive increase in u.s. drone strikes, more broadly, almost one every two days according to the council on u.s. foreign relations. today, tragically, marked the third time this month a u.s.

family of slain navy s.e.a.l. ryan owens threw out the ceremonial first pitch.n was a huge giants fan and he and his family were friends with former giants pitcher javier lopez. you may remember ryan's widow, karen, she was honored for her husband's sacrifice by president trump at his joint address to congress. karen said her children will never forget being able to throw out that first pitch for their dad. >>> usa teaming up with mexico and canada for an unprecedented bid to land a 2026 world cup. if successful, it would be the first world cup to ever be hosted by more than two countries. 60 of the 80 games would be played right here in the united states. president trump has taken a strong stance on immigration enforcement and wants to build a wall on the u.s.-mexico border, but u.s. soccer president said that trump encouraged them to have a joint bid and tweeted, quote, potus fully supportive of our unified bid and especially pleased that mexico is part of it, unquote. >>> tony romo trading in the star on his helmet for the broadcast booth, but first he will m

name a few, i was able to spend time with a combat wounded coalition, which is run by retired navy s.e.a.le with 14th hour foundation chris pronto, met a world war ii veteran, 102 years old in texas. >> wow. >> i've been blessed to have so many people that have supported me along the way, and i think that's the greater message. no matter what differences we have, i think the common message for me is that there are very good people here in our country that are willing to help veterans. and sometimes it's just education that's needed. >> well, that has to feel good, to see some of that response to this issue that you feel like is so important to address and to raise awareness for. what were some of the conversations you had with people? and do you feel like you maybe changed people's minds or turned the light bulb on for some? >> i think some of them didn't even know that statistic existed. they knew there was a high veteran suicide rate, about you they didn't understand the number or some of the reasons that it happened. another great thing that happened, i was able to network and connect w

countries like yemen, below that level and that coming after him saying about ryan owens, the navy s.e.a.lkilled that the generals lost him rather than saying we lost him. we as a country lost him. that is a big difference and from a military leadership point of view, that concerns me a lot. >> one of the things that's interesting is we've seen a lot of president trump talking about how difficult issues are and he didn't realize it, he said that about health care a few weeks ago. this week he said about north korea, to "the wall street journal" you're talking about thousands of years and many wars and korea actually used to be a part of china, and after listening for ten minutes to chinese president xi i realized that it's not so easy. >> i think we understood that we elected a president of the united states who had this knowledge deficit when he went into the office. we all understand that. we all agree, democrats and republicans alike, but i think one of the biggest problems many people including myself have, when you address north korea or syria or afghanistan, the white house seems to

just blamed the generals for the problem of isis or said that the generals lost ryan owens, the navy s.e.a.lreminds me of because you have jeff sessions essentially blaming police departments that are saying, hey, we're doing everything we can to comply with federal law and at the same time, actually police our city and so the trump administration has a tendency to criticize people who are on the ground trying to do the actual work. >> so, go ahead, jack. >> actually, i think that they want to get behind the people who are on the ground doing the work. i believe that most law enforcement is supportive of this. i think it's the city halls and the county commissions, the political decision makers, who are telling them otherwise. they know that if they have somebody who is an illegal alien released into their city three or four times who in many cases is already been found guilty of violent owe fences or drug abuses or drug peddling or something like that they don't want them on the streets. it's the mayor worried about the vote that's making the -- calling the shots. hooi i think that's where

here with me to discuss, karl higbee, former navy s.e.a.l., trump supporters, keith boykins, politicalwhite house aid and david drucker, political analyst and senior correspondent with "the washington examiner." so, david, these tweets mirror what president trump always says -- i won the election without releasing my taxes, so no one cares. but is this about the election? >> people were very concerned because we've had a foreign policy crisis or two, and the president has been very quiet on twitter. >> that's true. >> so, i think he's reassuring us all that he hasn't gone anywhere. the president politically finds this very useful. it keeps his supporters energized and it worked for him during the campaign, so he assumes it will work for him going forward. i don't know that that's the case, but this is nothing outside of the ordinary for him. i would say, though that i feel like he lost an opportunity while he's dealing with north korea and syria and jaw-boning russia, which is actually a very welcome development politically for him, he could have compared american democracy to these re

erik prince is a former navy s.e.a.l. who personally profited hugely from the iraq war through his company blackwater, which he has since left and has now been renamed academy. "the washington post" is reporting that the united arab emirates arranged a secret meeting in january between erik prince and a russian close to president vladimir putin as part of an apparent effort to establish a back channel line of communication between moscow and president-elect donald trump. nbc news has confirmed that erik prince represented donald trump at a secret overseas meeting. erik prince, who is a major contributor to donald trump's campaign is the brother of the secretary education betsy devos. and tonight buzzfeed news is reporting that another trump associate, former campaign adviser carter page met with and passed documents to a russian intelligence operative in new york city in 2013. and an aide to the senate intelligence committee tells nbc news that staff level interviews have started regarding that coittee'investigation into

a navy s.e.a.l. was killed. four others injured. multiple civilian deaths. even the destruction of a $75 million helicopter. after that disastrous raid, you might remember that centcom came out a few days later and publicly released a video that they said proved how important and valuable that mission was because it gathered this incredibly important intelligence. they released this video they said was gathered during that raid. it quickly emerged that video they released had been around actually for almost a decade. it wasn't picked up in the yemen raid. it wasn't new. centcom's explanation for why they released it, this was crucial new information obtained in the yemen raid. quote, we thought it was new but now we know that it is not new. that was weird. right at the beginning of the administration. after that, there was also strange situation in which the defense secretary james mattis bragged that the tomahawk missile strike on the syrian air base had destroyed one-fifth of the syrian air force. when he was questioned to back up that information, he conc

the president honoring the widow of a navy s.e.a.l. killed during the raid on yemen. >> ryan's legacy is etched into eternity. thank you. thank you. >> reporter: but just four days later, day 44, the president setting off a firestorm with tweets accusing former president obama of tapping his phone during the election. saying, quote, he's a bad or sick guy. no evidence of a wiretapve more trouble for the trump administration two weeks later, day 60. fbi director james comey confirms publicly for the first time his agency is looking into russian interference in the election. >> i'm investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign and the russian government. >> reporter: day 64, another blow. the president's bid to repeal obamacare fails in the house. the president bashing the democrats for defeating it. >> i think the losers are nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. because now they own obamacare. they up it. 100% own it. >> reporter: then foreign affairs took center stage. a horrific chemical attack

. >> former navy s.e.a.l. you speak so many languages. a few languages, but in general, this guy is more of a hero than i am. >> what are you talking about? >> somebody broke in and you kicked, butt, please? >> i didn't do anything charlie wouldn't do. >> i do also love that you use this show to address veteran positions and the challenges that veterans have had in seeking care. >> you know, i haven't personally done it but when you think about it, my father was in the navy, my grandfather was in the army. you do things. they shouldn't be p they should be put in harm's way for the right decisions, not at wrong decisions. >> david grohl said every song was an epiphany where music is more than just sound. what has become your epiphany? >> for me i was in junior high school and i was walking down a highway, you know, and it was kind of like a dimly lit hallway because of where it was at in the building. say this kid from behind saying this deejay gets down mixing records while they go round and i was looking a him from th him. it was like, i

come next with steve ganyard who flew missions over iraq and retired admiral robert harward a navy s.e.a.l. and deputy commander of forces under james mattis and, steve, let me begin with you. a targeted strike as martha was pointing out. 59 tomahawk missiles. more about sending a message than seriously harming the syrian military. >> i thinks that sis exactly right. it's where the launches of the chemical attacks against civilians were made and so this was the statement the president wanted to make. he certainly didn't do anything to degrade the military capability of the syrian army by picking this target. this was something that was very contained and jigs within the airfield. >> admiral harward, you know there's so many complications on the ground right now, the russians are on the ground. the united states had to make sure not to hit any russians, have to worry about possible retaliation and heard from the russians they're suspending that agreement they had with the americans to avoid incidents in the air between russian and u.s. aircraft. >> well, george, this is a calibration and, a

. >>> to former defense official then, former navy s.e.a.l. and former cia analyst tara, what do you make of the bannon thing and that he was there essentially to play eyes on a council that veered off-course under susan rice, you can use the same definition when it came to general flynn, and now it better served with the master. what do you think of that? >> there are a few things to see here. basically when bannon was named to the national security council, the trump administration got a lot of criticism on the move because he put a political adviser in the nsc, in addition to that, you see mcmaster come in, he's taking on a bigger role, he's brought on people and maybe the trump administration realized bannon was not the best person to be in the position on the nsc, you've also seen a shake-up in terms of the administration trying to sort out what foreign policy positions are on issues like syria, on issues like north korea and middle east peace. there is a lot of pushback on bannon's role particularly because of his lack of expertise in th

either acknowledging the widow of the navy s.e.a.l. killed in his operation, that he called for.- well, actually just deal with that. and we'll see -- >> look, this requires some self examination among male journalists and why they think that these, you know -- let's not even get into the symbolism of firing missiles and all of that -- makes a male president president, okay? i'll tell you what makes somebody president. it's to use the powers of office in a way that actually advances our interests, both in national security and other ways. and that does not mean turning around. first of all, encouraging assad to do this with the announcement that we're no longer have a policy interest in removing him in a negotiation. but then, turning around in 48 hours, and just launching missiles as if that's going to solve a problem, which it won't. no. being president means you have a plan. you have a strategy. you decide how to do things in advance. you do what -- for instance, clinton did in kosovo, or the first president bush did in the first gulf war. which is to organize around congressi

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