Boy. Jeanie moss. Cnn. New york. And dont forget you can watch anywhere. Anderson starts next. We begin tonight with the president yet begin saying something that turns out not to be true and the white house covering for him. The white house official confirmed to cnn the west wing tried to after the president said this in the rose garden last week when asked why he hadnt said anything about the four u. S. Soldiers killed. Ive written them personal letters. Theyve been sent or theyre going out today but we were doing the weekend. That was monday. On tuesday, the president said this on a radio interview. I have called i believe everybody but certainly ill use the word virtually everybody where during the last month something happened. Keeping hip honest he hadnt called virtually everybody and in an email changed by role the president tweeted in response. Explain what he said. Thats right, anderson. And point out we tried to ask the question this all day long in response to the widow of
requested air support with approximately 50 isis affiliated fighters. my judgment would be that unit thought they could handle the situation without additional support. what we found out in the investigation exactly why it took the call. reporter: a u.s. drone already in the air nearby reached their position in minutes. jets responded next, arriving two hours after initial contact. though none conducted air strikes. in response to criticism that the military has not been forthcoming, did you know ford promised honest answers to the family and public. i think we owe the families and american people transparency in situations like this and we plan to life just that. as she said good-bye to her husband this week, the widow of la davis johnson hold nbc that she is waiting for answers as well. i don t know how or where he
i m not sure would lend any credence to what they d say. gloria the monitoring of donald trump jr. seems unavoid bl to testify before a different senate right now. the son of the united states could be given sworn testimony on television to a senate committee. thad be pretty interesting, i d tune into that, wouldn t you? the questions, i think, they re going to ask him is whether or not it revolve around whether or not he told his father about that. he has said that he didn t, obviously they ll look at e-mail and get other team from other people and the question is going to be not only what he told his father about this, but about that statement that came out of air force one that day wen they were coming back from the g-20 and all of these staffers were in with the president of the united states trying to come up with a statement about blah this
i think hostile captures the mood. david, how unusual is it? you have vast person when it comes to both presidents and former presidents how unusual is it to see something like this? michael duffy wrote an excellent book about this. it s extremely unusual, so early in the term former presidents to break ranks. there is a club, a fraternity, and it has certain rules, and one of the first rules is former presidents try to keep their mouths shut, they clearly violated that rule because they ve done it because they think other rules have been violated by this president. a president should be a uniter, not a divider. you are elected as head of your party, but you speak for all americans. secondly you are supposed to bring out the besting of america as lincoln said, to speak to the better angels of our nature.
meeting was about that had to be revised a number of times because it turned out not to be true. they ll want to know what didn t junior s involvement was with that. what the president s involvement was with that, and of course this goes in the end with the question of with anyone trying to obstruct in any way shape or form any investigation into russian ininvolvement into election and was that statement part of this. so there are a lot of questions that they want to ask donald trump jr. that are a great deal of interest to the more than people. it seems like a good question to ask a lawyer. jonathan turnly, we know reince priebus has been called in to testify, sean spicer. so really only the issue of obstruction could be of interest right there. how hard of a case is that to prove? i think it s a much more difficult case than people make out to be.