quote, of course everyone can be questioned, but after witnessing general kelly s heartfelt and somber account, we should all be able to agree that impugning his credibility on how best to honor fallen heroes is not appropriate. today, the white house also criticized the media for continuing to talk about this story. you guys are the ones talking a lot about that story and he felt it was important to address you and all of america directly. this story has been given an enormous amount of coverage over the last 4 ho8 hours, and he thought it was important that people got a full and accurate picture of what took place. it should have ended yesterday after general kelly s comments, but it didn t. it continued. and it is still continuing today. it continues in large part because just a few hours after kelly finished in the briefing room, the president wrote this on twitter. just before 11:00 at night. the fake news is going crazy with wacky congresswoman wilson, a democrat, who was sec
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 servant, as chief of staff in the trump white house, shouldn t be questioned, that that would somehow be inappropriate, or, as eli stokeles of the wall street journal 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. u.s. army ranger hall of fame. numerous purple hearts, silver stars and four gold ones on his lapel when he retired from the army. he is also an msnbc military analyst. also with us, political analyst steve schmidt, a veteran of the bush white house and the mccain campaign. general, you are always a good sport about this, i don t mean to put you on the spot, i know
talking about getting security of $20 million, she was talking about naming the building of the fbi agents who 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 grand standing. he was stunned that she took that opportunity to take it about herself. can he come out here and talk to us? i think he s addressed that pretty thoroughly. he was wrong yesterday in talking about getting the money. the money was if you want to go after general kelly, that s up to you, but i think that that, if you want to get into a debate with a four-star marine general, i think that that s it would be great if he came out here. highly inappropriate. remember that commen
actually, he said to me, sir, this is not acceptable. this is really not and he knew i was so nice look, i ve called many people and i would think that every one of them appreciated it. in his briefing room remarks this week, general kelly also criticized florida democratic congresswoman frederica wilson. kelly said he had seen her speak two years ago at the dedication of a new fbi field office named for two law enforcement officers killed in a fire fight. he accused her of self-aggrandizing in the speech, saying she talked about how she called president obama to get funding for the building. kelly said he was stunned by it, called her an empty barrel making noise. but a local newspaper today shared the video of the entire speech. you can find it, watch it all on the internet. she speaks effusively about law enforcement. at one point, asking all law enforcement officers present to stand and be saluted. she praises democrats and
republicans, she asks the audience to repeat after her the motto of the fbi, fidelity, bravery and integrity. and she receives a standing ovation. in light of the fact that we can now see the whole speech, today, reporters asked white house press secretary sarah huckabee sta sanders stood by his statement. he said he was stunned over the comments, about her own actions in congress, including lobbying former president obama on legislation. as general kelly pointed out, if you are able to make a sacred act like honoring american heroes all about yourself, you re an empty barrel if you don t understand that reference, i ll put it a little more simply. as we say in the house, all hat, no cattle. 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