one of the most tyrranical things i ever heard uttered from the white house. she pulled it back but what is disturbing is this is their instinct. how dare you question us. their go-to. there s no question no pun intended, there s no question that they don t believe their actions should be questioned. and they have this sort of autocratic pushback blanket at all costs kind of mentality. i think it is fair game to question what general kelly did or didn t say. that said, i would say as apparent as someone who can t even begin to imagine what it s like to have that casualty of r office to have general kelly show up on your doorstep. we ve taken the death of an american soldier. it s become politicized. and the pain of his family. it s become politicized and perhaps the bulk of the blame
a soldier killed in action. the white house position culminated on this exchange on friday. have you seen the speech? i have. and then you know that most of it was her effusively praising these fbi agents and when she was talking about what she did in congress, she was not talking about getting the security of $20 million. she was talking about naming the building of the fbi agency. she then went on to effusively praise and that was the bulk of the speech. she also mentioned that and had quite a few comments that day that weren t part of that speech and weren t part of that video that were also witnessed by many people that were there. what general kelly referenced yesterday. tell us specifically because exactly what he said. there was a lot of grandstanding. he was stunned she had taken that opportunity to make it about herself. can he come out to talk about this at some point? i think he addressed that thoroughly yesterday. he was wrong yesterday.
not been castrated and making clear that we would continue negotiating right up until the first bomb dropped, which was an amazing thing. one point on sanders. i want to hear richard. president trump, then candidate trump, if you recall, he trashed generals throughout the campaign. he questioned them over and over again. matter of fact, said in several instances that he was smarter than all the generals. that he knew more about it than then. she needs to go back and understand that. i m glad chip reid questioned with the aggressiveness that he did but north korea is far more important i think. i would like to hear you respond about north korea, but who is running who is the lead player on what happens next with north korea, from our perspective? is it the president? in all these cases, the president and his senior lieutenants. we were focused on what the two former presidents said and what general kelly was saying. history would look back on what h.r. mcmaster was saying thur
if you want to go after general kelly, that s up to you f you want to get into debate with a four-star marine general, i think that s something highly inappropriate. later, huckabee sarah huckabee sanders issued a statement trying to clarify her marks. of course, everybody can be questioned but after witnessing general kelly s heartfelt recount, we should all agree that impugning his credibility on how to best honor fallen heroes is not appropriate. we can take it to basics. what the president did, we can impugn him. it s a terrible act. it s sick. go ahead. let s go ahead and play here is general david petraeus. he found himself criticized, remember, in uniform when there
total lie on content. and tonight, as we mentioned the washington post editorial board is out with this, quote, john kelly owes the congresswoman an apology. let s get to that with our leadoff panel tonight. phillip rucker from the washington post . you gene scott, political reporter, also with the washington post. we might add, he s been writing nonstop on this story this week. and shannon petty peace, white house correspondent for bloomberg is here with us in our new york studios. mr. rucker, i ll read from your editorial board tonight, and as we said, this is dramatic. it is unfortunate that the sacrifice of brave people such as the four soldiers killed in niger can get overpowered by the petty name-calling of politics. that is a point mr. kelly was trying to make thursday, and that he underkwut his misr misrepresentation of miss wilson. he needs to set the record straight. phillip, how did this go so