rare step of calling on the white house chief of staff to apologize to a member of congress. and now, for five days in a row, the president s handling of the families of fallen american soldiers has been at the center of the news. a continuing story of the president s own making. the president has now spoken, for the first time, about his comments the chief of staff made in the white house briefing room yesterday. four-star retired marine general john kelly was moved to discuss publicly something that is intensely personal for him, his son s death in afghanistan, just to stress how sacred that topic should be. now, in a new interview, the president is talking about it again. he was so offended, because he was in the room when i made the call. and so were other people, and the call was a very nice call. he was so offended that a woman would be that somebody would be listening to that call, he was he actually couldn t believe it.
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journalists have added to our discussion and the coverage at 11:00 eastern time on a friday night. philip rucker, eugene scott, shannon pettypiece, i appreciate it. as we approach our first break tonight, still ahead. was the ambush that killed these four u.s. soldiers in africa due at least in part to this quote we re hearing about a massive intelligence failure? plus, the white house says it s highly inappropriate, as we have been reporting, to question a retired four-star general. up next, we ll ask a retired four-star general what he thinks about that when the 11th hour continues on a friday night. where s gary? saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico. goin up the country. later, gary i have a motorcycle! wonderful. i m goin up the country, baby don t you wanna go? i m goin up the country, baby don t you wanna go?
if you want to go after general kelly, that s up to you, but i think if you want to get into a debate with a four-star marine general, i think that that s something highly inappropriate. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders introducing this notion that generals, retired generals, even retired generals working in a political capacity, as a civil servient, as chief of staff in the white house, shouldn t be questioned. that that would somehow be inappropriate, or as eli stokals put it, white house just implied that kelly s rank and military service should deter the media from questioning the chief of staff. let s ask a retired four-star general, shall we? barry mccaffrey, you want credentials. two distinguished service crosses, the decoration on his lapel. u.s. army ranger, numerous purple stars and four gold ones
job as secretary of homeland security. incredible. one of our real stars. truly one of our stars. john kelly is one of our great stars. that was before it was announced priebus was out. he s a four-star retired marine general. you reported on the pentagon for years, have a lot of experience with general kelly. explain his background and experience. four star marine, anderson. very close to defense secretary james mattis. and the current chairman of the joint chief of staffs, also currently serving four-star marine. so he knows national security, even before he went to homeland security. this is a guy who knows how to run a large organization. he served in iraq in combat in western iraq in umbar, in fallujah. so he s seen very tough times. donald trump likes his generals.