as a retired marine general who is also a gold star father, he s the perfect person to speak on this. he did err in his evaluation of wilson. i think if the white house took a step back. if they admitted that in their attack on representative, that they erred in this area, that would lend decent credibility. but they see that general kelly has gotten them out of a tight spot. i think the tendency here from the white house is not to want to give an inch at all. but doesn t that just keep the furor going? absolutely. this morning with the tweet you were talking about just a second ago, this is just this is too much on the day that that family is grieving. we are going back and forth with this petty debating on both sides. a few days ago, representative wilson was bragging to local press that this controversy had made her a rock star. those are her words. and they have no place in this
bad because of this? it is important to not let the inflation that we saw of release of hucklebsanders stand. everyone was moved by that. people are pushing back on the story that he told about representative wilson that had absolutely nothing to do with niger that ended up being inaccurate. we saw a couple weeks ago that general kelly came out to say it was not his job to control the chaos and the white house. to some people this week, looks like he s apart of the chaos. that s perhaps of why he cannot control it. kelly and eugene scott, thank you both for joining us this morning. epa says chemicals coming
there s no recording of this conversation for him to actually say or the theory that he said that he knew he was getting into just doesn t seem to add up compared what all the other grieving families who have come forward have said after having spoken to the president. well, if you take a look at what general kelly said, he said that he had helped counsel the president. he had helped the president reach a message. it sounds like a lot of this comes down to tone and a question of how the president s sort of tone was perceived. no doubt that congresswoman wilson is saying it and of course some tied to the family are also saying they did not appreciate the tone and the commentary from the president, but then if you listen to general kelly and of course president trump, they suggest that, you know, certainly came from a good place and he was very much sympathized and empathized but there have been other moments when president trump has come under criticism in the eyes of some of his crit
$400,000 of his own money to pay for some of his staff s and former campaign acquaintances pay for some of their legal bills. these are mounting legal bills as part of this ongoing russia probe. there s a lot of questions. you know, who decides which staffers get the money? could it possibly include paul manafort and michael flynn? the president meanwhile he s continuing to dismiss these investigations as a hoax and a witch hunt, but make no mistake, the legal bills are very real and wracking up at a rapid rate, so by offering $430,000 of his own money, he s hoping to offset some of those legal expenses for his staff. julie? julie: all right, with more on this and we thank you, kristen fisher, this feud between the white house and representative wilson, it just doesn t seem to want to go away. we go now to a senior political correspondent. thank you so much for coming in. first of all, the mere fact that
motions run high here emotions run high here as developments continue on both sides. julie: there s a lot of facts and there s a lot of fake news as the president likes to call it. let s talk about the facts first of all. general kelly came out very forcefully but he also mentioned something that turned out in a video, didn t necessarily add up. that s the fbi building and representative wilson and her involvement in all of that. that turned out not to be true. can you clear up fact versus fiction for us? well, as general kelly spoke in the white house briefing room and continued to come out there and defend the president, he was also very critical of congresswoman wilson. he talked about a moment where the way that he characterized, suggested that she was taking undue credit for something that related to funding, but then of course the video did surface that showed that that was not the language that she used, and, you know, of course she and her allies swiped back suggesting