will call for a cut to all government agencies including the military. that would undo the progress we made in the last two years. i know we spend a lot of money on our military, i know there are people that are concerned about that, but it s a smart investment and a cheap investment compared with disinvesting in our military, creating a per missive environment and finding ourselves in a conflict scenario or being dragged into war on unfavorable terms. congressman, you spent seven years in the united states marine corps, did a couple tours in iraq, you spent your veterans day welcoming home honor flights of world war ii and korean veterans. good for you for doing that. i m wondering what you think about the president not laying a wreath at arlington cemetery to honor some of the men and women that fell next to you in iraq. i m not sure of why he didn t do that. i was listening to the earlier segment and i don t follow the us weekly he could have driven over the bridge to arling
and so we do not have the accurate information yet. we will release it as rapidly as we get it. reporter: two weeks after the ambush, defense secretary james mattis is discounselored by the lack of information he s received from his own people on the isis attack in niger that killed four u.s. soldiers and injured two more. the 12-member u.s. army team was meeting villagers in a town on the mali border. they were walking back to their vehicles when were not armored when up to 50 isis affiliated fighters attacked them with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. the americans fought back, but were only armed with light weapons such as rifles. there had been nearly 30 trips along this route already. sop they had reason to believe that they were in a per missive environment. reporter: after 30 minutes, french aircraft flew by to try to disperse the attackers from the air and later to evacuate the wounded. the u.s. had to rely on a