today sprut disputed a gold star widow s account of his condo lessons call after her husband s death. it s been almost a week since that call, but what keeps the story in the headlines? his tweets. why won t he let this go. i want to bring in christopher ruddy, a close friend of the president. so why can t he just let this go? first of all, thank you for coming on the show. why can t he just let it go? i m not the president of the united states. and the media is not stopping. you know, everybody like the washington post headline, he s sparring with he s not saying anything negative about this widow. first of all, i have total sympathy for her. i am not going to criticizes
we have breaking news on the ambush in niger that killed four u.s. soldiers including the one who was the subject of president trump s condo lessons call. four administration official familiar with the investigation tell cnn that johnson s remains were found nearly a mile from the central location of the am buck. cnn pentagon correspondent joins me with more. you ve got new reporting on how the pentagon is beginning to narrow down what happened to sergeant johnson. what are you learning? they are putting the pieces together, john. what multiple sources are telling us us from the administration is the pentagon now calculates that he was found perhaps up to a mile away from the central part of the ambush. now they re trying to figure out how did he get there? who saw him last? where did they see him? how did he, in fact, become separated from the other members of their unit. clearly one of the key pieces of information will be what other
amid the controversy over president trump s condo lessons call to a widow of the u.s. soldier killed in niger, there are serious questions about the attack itself. an investigation is under way. chief of staff john kelly was asked about that this afternoon. the people that will answer those questions will be the people at the other end of the military pyramid. i m sure the special forces group is conducting it. i know they re conducting an investigation. that investigation, of course, under the auspices of afterry comm ultimately will go to the pentagon. i ve read the same stories you have. actually know a lot more than i m letting on, but i m not going to tell you. there is an investigation being done. well, kelly wouldn t say too much, understandably. but senator john mccain talked to cnn and other reporters today. he was more blunt about the growing question. on the niger, what does the
the call never comes. is he s going to send him $25,000. the check isn t sent today when the story gets out. these are two reports we have tonight. we begin with how the president and his white house are dealing with the criticism of another family of a fallen soldier, one of four u.s. servicemen killed by enemy fire in niger. he was 25 years old with a wife, two young children and a third on the way. today the woman who raised him said the president disrespected her son with what he said in the condo lessons call. we know about the call because of a local congresswoman who was in the car when it came. sergeant johnson grew up in her community in miami gardens. his father was a student at the school where she was plan. congresswoman wilson knows the family and as we mentioned was in the car with johnson s young widow when the president called. she said the president told johnson s wife that her husband, quote, knew what he signed up for, but i guess it still hurt. here is representativ
child. donald trump did have something to say to her today. he wrote on twitter this morning, quote, i had a very respectful conversation with the widow of sergeant la david johnson and spoke his name from beginning without hesitation. but apparently even some of the members of trump s administration are ready for him to go. the new york times stated, quote, the white house officials conceded privately they have to find a way to move boo i don t understand the episode. a reporter from the local abc affiliate in raleigh was the first to report a balanced ridge family received a at that,000 check from trump months after he gave them a condo lessons call. the check is dated october 18, the same date as this washington post article that first brought this promise to light. and there s this. further reporting from the