way john kelly parsed his words today. i don t want to put anything in his mouth. i don t want to judge him, but i think, i hope he was sending as much of a message about presidential leadership to his boss as he was about the divisiveness in the country. because i think john kelly to be a true patriot, and he s a true marine and does the right thing for the country. so hopefully what i think he was saying in those words were, hey, boss, take a look at what you re doing too. it s a technique of leading up that i think president trump can certainly pay attention to. appreciate you being on. there are a lot of questions about the niger attack that left these four u.s. service members dead. the defense secretary is dmantding answers. senator john mccain says subpoenas might be needed. we ll get into all of that next. who knew that phones would start doing everything?
the way john kelly parsed his words today. i don t want to put anything in his mouth, judge him, but i think and hope he was sending as much of a message about presidential leadership to his boss as he was about divisiveness in the country because i know john kelly to be a true patriot and marine, he does the right thing for the country. hopefully, what i think he was saying in those words were, hey boss, take a look at what you re doing too. it s a technique of leading up which i think president trump could pay attention to. appreciate you both being on. lot of questions about the niger attack that left the four service members dead. defense secretary is demanding answers. john mccain is saying subpoenas might be needed. all of that next. you ever call your broker for help? once, when volatility spiked.
fighters going across the world in terrorist acts. probably going to see insurgency acts like we just saw. this is an insurgency group likely formed because of the battlefield losses in iraq and syria. we will have to be prepared for that. do we have the information we need, do we have a strategy in place to fully meet this challenge. well, there are clearly so many answers still being sought there. what do you make of how this has devolved this week from a question about the president s thoughts on the niger attack at a press conference monday to now name calling between the president and his chief of staff and a democratic member of congress? yeah. it is a second tragedy for those families who have lost their members. it should never have happened this way. the fact of the matter is, when something like this happens, immediately, the house and senate need to be informed. the american public needs to know exactly what took place to the extent we can tell them, and
mccain seemed like somebody asked about those subpoenas from yesterday. seemed like they are still some sort of a possibility, although he mentioned that he wanted to subpoena the person that did not show up for yesterday s hearing about cyber security. right now, mattis you can see we have the whole walking press corps with us. he s in with senator lindsey graham who has not been nearly as harsh a critic about the niger attack, ambush and the follow up and the administration s response. but mattis is in here. he should be out in the next five or ten minutes. mattis, i m not sure if you heard, but he said he does not have any frustration with the way the story has been covered. obviously the focus of this story has not for the last two full weeks been on exactly what happened on the ground. it s on the condolence call. he said the president is getting briefed as necessary.
of congress, a democratic member of congress and the president, of course, over the fallen soldier here. but the president insisting he did not say that. he did not repeat what he tweeted earlier this morning that he had a copy of that phone conversation but he says he did not say that. so look, this is just another sort of you know distraction i think from the real matter at hand here. there is a grieving family in florida and indeed four others across america here. you know, in the wake of the niger attack with those soldiers there. so this is something that the president also as you heard, did not expound on that or offer a condolences there but he said he did not say what the congresswoman said. moving on to a different subject, we also asked him about health care. there s been a bit of a whiplash here. yesterday he said he supported the bipartisan plan that lamar alexander republican, and patty murray a democrat were working on to shore up the insurance markets. he tweeted out thi