at that point knowing we had a missing soldier we made a decision to make sure all the resources to include national assets were available. sergeant johnson s body was discovered two days later by niger forces. questions remain about how he got separated from his unit. dunford troops said troops in niger are not supposed to go with u.s. forces. a drone was sent overhead within minutes after the attack began but if a drone had been watching the troops from the beginning it would have spotted the terrorists closing in. jon: republicans are preparing to have a policy lunch with president trump on capitol hill as he makes his big push for tax reform saying he would like to sign a bill by
and had it not been for french air intervention, they probably would have lost all of them. so tough, tough day for these american troops. to say the least. and general dunnford said yesterday the patrol did not expect resistant when they planned the mission. and yet the mayor tongo tongo where the patrol attending a meeting said this, the attacker, the bandit, the terrorists, have never lacked accomplices among local populations. so i guess are you surprised at all that there would be any part of that region where u.s. forces would go out without assuming at least the possibility of resistance and be prepared for it and be prepared for backup? well, i think they were prepared for it. they re armed with automatic weapon, machine guns. they with were nigerian, niger forces. they were mounted. and they ran into an overwhelming force and had a rough day of it. you know, again, all these i
they also have to have the support. right. of course, big part of this investigation is going to be who was complicit. who gave up this information. whether that was someone in the village or very damningly for the conversation whether that had any possibility of coming from the niger forces, themselves. thank you, all, so very much. i appreciate it. next, trump semessentially calling the widow of the fallen soldier, sergeant johnson s widow, a liar today. plus john mccain mocks trump over his bone spur draft deferment. will trump keep his threat and fire back? and it s hard to believe, but a package this small, this small, this amount of powder, could be used to make a million pills of fentanyl and bring in tens of millions of dollars so what s being done to stop it? dr. sanjay gupta joins us for our special investigation tonight on the heroin crisis.