do you think it s appropriate? actually, anderson, that speech he mentioned was in through us where i m in front. few of the marines i know were there. he didn t mention his son to be mentioned. it was factually true what the president said. i can t imagine the weight of a president to call all these families. what he said in the rose garden was not factually correct. what he said on the radio show about president obama not calling president kelly was. he dragged in obama. the fact is obama i don t blame him. whatever the time line would be for decisions about calling families of people whose children are killed or spouses, ought to be sort of something we don t understand. we haven t had that respondent. it was true. why does he just make stuff
what this president did. he had the obligation to tell the country about these men. i think he called them today. whatever the time line you guys decided they should have on calling someone who died, he called them today. i think he showed honor. we re making a mountain out of a mole hill. tell that to the families who lost them. president obama never called kelly. that has nothing to do with that. stop politicizing general kelly s son. you re making death about the president. you re using this as a talking point the way the president did disgracefully this morning. you need to take a page out of dana peer reno s book where president bush went to walter reed where he shed tears. anyone who agrees with you is
general kelly himself only rarely mentioned the loss of his son publicly and never settle ed the beef with the press. joining us is josh greene, author of devil s bar barng bargain. general kelly went out of his way to publicly not talk about his son, even giving a speech in front of a semper fi organization in st. louis when he asked the marine not to mention his son. there s a striking piece in the washington post that sort of ticks through his history of really making an effort not to personalize it by bringing his son s death into the public debate, but i think it s so jarring to see trump go to a radio talk show and using it assist a rationale to criticize president obama.
was not factually correct. what he said on the radio show about president obama not calling president kelly was. that s what i mean. the story is now about how he dragged in everyone is saying he dragged in obama. the fact is obama i don t blame him. whatever the time line would be for decisions about calling families of people whose children are killed or spouses, ought to be sort of something we don t understand. we haven t had that respondent. but it was true. trump is saying i m trying to figure it out. why does he just make stuff up? he made something up. and then when he was called on it he back tracked. and his backtrack was well, i don t know, it s what i was told. maybe they didn t did. maybe they didn t. that s what i heard. at the heart of it was obama didn t call every one of them at the same schedule anyone else did. and he was going to get to it too. i don t know. i think that seems pretty reasonable. i don t really know what the problem is. he s lying about t
let s stop this. this is an asinine argument right now. you re arguing about whether the president of the united states, who clearly lied, we all heard it, back tracked and in a way that was completely inappropriate, still blaming another president instead of taking the high road and being a statesman and simply just saying that i will be contacting the families. we ve already sent out letters and how difficult this is and we send our condolences. that s what a statesman should have done. instead he has this desire to constantly blame everybody else. when he s confronted with a lie, he s like maybe i m right. the question is whether we honor the people that died. you can t ever say approximate president was wrong, can you? i think the president was trying to answer hard question. you can t say what he said was true. i think what he said was trying to answer the question. it s a hard question. it is true obama didn t call