that woman, mayesha johnson, laying over the flag draped casket of her husband with her little daughter there who is in sort of a daze, right? she probably doesn t essentially fully understand what is going on, that she ll never see her father again and you just mourn and grieve for that poor family that is dealing with this and now is in the glare of the national media and having this back and forth with the president. the president when he was in that meeting when he s going back and forth there with the congresswoman should have used that opportunity to quash this and essentially say, again, the nation mourns with you, johnson family, we are sorry for your loss. we ll be there to support you. again, he wants to go back and forth with this congresswoman, representative wilson, so, again, we hope i think today in this presser, the press secretary sarah huckabee sanders will have the opportunity to move beyond this and we hope that they do this for the good
addressing the league s position on protests during the national anthem. we re going to bring you the commissioner s response. first, this is the video of mayesha johnson mourning over her husband s casket. as she was traveling to greet her husband s remains. she received a call from president trump. fredricka wilson has known the slain soldier said she was in the car listening to the call on speaker phone when it came through. i didn t hear the whole phone call, but i did hear him say, i m sure he knew what he was signing up for, but it still hurts. and i asked them to let me speak with him and the master sargeant said, no, you can t speak with him. i said, but i want to speak with him, because i was livid. to speak out to the widow, how did she hear it? what was her response? she was crying. she broke down and she said, he
did not say what the congresswoman said and most people aren t too surprised to hear that. let her make her statement again and then you ll find out. you re saying that let her make her statement again and then you ll find out. joining me now is cnn white house correspondent sarah murray. has the congresswoman responded to the president s latest zment. reporter: briana, the congresswoman did respond on twitter. she s standing by her account i still stand by my account of the call between donald trump and mayesha johnson, that is her name, mr. trump, not the woman or the wife. now a local television affiliate also caught up with the congresswoman. she said the president was crazy. she said the president was insensitive. it s also worth noting that sargeant johnson s mother also confirmed to cnn roughly the congresswoman s account of this call and said it was very accurate. obviously this is all coming in the prodder cbroader context of