perspective. then we have the other perspectives coming to us from south florida. one from a congresswoman who has been an intense critic of the president in the past. as you said also, the mother of the fallen soldier as well who says that she corroborates what the congresswoman says. the one person we haven t heard from in all of this, shep is myesha johnson, the wife of sergeant david t. johnson killed in niger. she s the one that could tell us exactly what was said and how she took what was said by the president. what general kelly said earlier about the fact that people that sign up for service in the united states know what they re getting into. people that sign up for the special forces for green berets for the navy seals, delta force, whatever, special operators know they re getting involved in the most dangerous aspect of national security.
border area along the mali border in niger. 12 u.s. troops, mostly green berets were accompanying 30 troops from niger. it was a routine mission. once the first shots were fired, the vehicles scrambled to get off the x, which means they undertook evasive driving techniques to leave the site. i m told during the search for sergeant johnson that was found 48 hours later, there were either french, nigerian or troops on the ground looking for him. the notion that they left someone behind is wrong i m told by senior officials. secretary mattis just said the same. the u.s. military does not leave its troops behind. i would just ask that you not question the action of the troops that were caught in the fire fight and question whether or not they did everything they could in order to bring every one out at once. also, the pentagon alerted
was when yesterday, in just a round of radio row, where maybe he d go check his e-mail or caught up on work he learned that the president of the united states invoked his son s death as a way to attack president obama. there 24 things that might come out of this. the first is a prooft conversation with the president of the united states telling him just don t ever do that kind of stuff again. you think a threat to resign. i think it s hanging in the air even as we speak. but second, his dedication to the job. if you were to ask john kelly, why is he doing this job, he d say because in the old, as hill l. would say, who s going to do it if not me. i think those who are around the president, i think general mattis feels the same way. i think and i don t know tillerson. maybe he feels the same way. the president of the united states beat tillerson up and he came back totally unscathed.
decision was then made to make the condolence calls. the president said monday that he had been writing letters over the weekend of condolence to the family. she also said, sarah huckabee sanders, the call and the tenor of the call were absolutely appropriate for the president to make that call to the widow, 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
history in the military. staff sergeant wright followed his dad, his mom, and his brother will all in the military and will says dustin didn t want accolades or praise or awards. he did his job fighting for this country because it s what he loved, and it s what he was born to do. and finally, a man who is getting a lot of attention and certainly needs some. 25-year-old army sergeant david t. johnson of miami gardens, florida. he was a special forces engineer from georgia. sergeant johnson s body arrived in miami yesterday. the sergeant s american flag-draped casket was wheeled out of the plane by six other american soldiers at miami international airport. his wife, myesha, was escorted to the casket along with her six-year-old daughter to greet the casket of her husband. this heart-wrenching image of a