president trump first said he makes phone calls, but president obama didn t, that that didn t start the ball rolling on this whole unfortunate situation? well jake, i can tell you they ve been extremely defensive about this. they re defensive about questions like the one i asked the president on monday, just why haven t we heard from you on this? this is the deadliest combat incident involving u.s. soldiers since this president has been in office. it s very uncharacteristic to not hear from the president on anything that s in the news, much less something as heart breaking, devastating as losing four american soldiers in a situation like this, that s what sparked this, that s what sort of sparked the incident of political score boarding, the president suggesting that obama and other presidents didn t make calls as frequently as he did and eventually that s what got us to this controversy over the president s conversation with this widow, but the white house has basically said that th