generation understands the sacrifices that were made, i they understand what our military men and women represent to this country. griff: what they are placing is this flag, you can see the travis manion flag here. you actually gave high honor to place one. general kelly s son died in 2010, all intended to inspire the next generation to service. absolutely. you re seeing now it s quite remarkable to step foot just in the first place in arlington national cemetery but to go to general kelly s son grave site and after we heard general kelly talking about the lost of his son and he says, you know, we all lose people but really when you lose someone like a son in combat, it s a whole different level. it is. i think you re mixed with the
that the president was completely appropriate in the way he handled it. that he was respectful and did the best job he could in that circumstance. i also asked huckabee sanders weth the president s chief of staff john kelly was aware that he would invoke kelly s own son who died in afghanistan in 2010 before the president invoked his name, general kelly s son s name in what that become a political fight. he said the president and chief of staff kelly have spoken multiple times in the course of the last 48 hours. it wasn t entirely clear whether in fact general kelly had signed off on that. he s been very private about his son s death in the past, but she did seem to make it clear that the two men had had conversations and have been on the same page. we ve reached out to general john kelly i m going to interrupt you.