now, we are the hour here that has been concentrated on congresswoman wilson at the beginning of this show. she hasn t been part of any other coverage tonight. he s clearly talking about that. he s, of course, on his end of the phone call, he was not alone. there were people listening in on his end of the phone call, including white house chief of staff general kelly. he s now saying that what she said was a lie. that general kelly did not say that today. general kelly did not contest a single word that she said. and what s more, as you pointed out earlier, lawrence, sergeant johnson s mother says that donald trump did disrespect her son and her daughter. so this isn t about congresswoman wilson and the president. it s about the president and a gold star mother.
my son s case in afghanistan, when he died he was surrounded by the best men on this earth, his friends. that s what the president tried to say to four families the other day. then why not make another call and explain that? the president got it wrong with that family, and he s not the kind of guy to try again. and so there was no apology phone call. donald trump s flawless lifetime record of never apologizing remains perfectly intact. and in the 12 minutes that general kelly spoke today, he did not dispute a single word that congressman wilson quoted the president as saying, and general occasnally did not dispute sergeant johnson s mother s statement. the president did disrespect my son and my daughter and also me and my husband. john kelly disnot dispute one word of that. and nowhere in his 12 minutes of
johnson s widow again and apologized for any misunderstanding about his intentions in the first phone call. donald trump could have picked up the phone between tweets about football players and explained to sergeant johnson s widow that he had actually heard those same words from general kelly himself when general kelly told the president about the most painful phone call that general kelly ever received. let me tell you what my best friend joe dunford told me. because he was my casualty officer. he said kell, he was doing exactly what he wanted to do when he was killed. he knew what he was getting into by joining that 1%. he knew what the possibilities were because we re at war. and when he died, and the four cases we re talking about niger,
speaking today did he apologize to sergeant johnson s family for any misunderstanding that might have occurred in that phone call. but he took time, a lot of extra time to call a black woman who he doesn t know and he doesn t like an empty barrel. and kelly said this about the most dishonorable and cowardly president in history. i think he very bravely does make those calls. we ll be right back.
for getting into trouble for something that no president before him has gotten in to trouble before. donald trump made the mess of a condolence phone call to the widow of la david johnson. today john kelly made just as much of a mess. in his attempt to clean up donald trump s mess. all indications are that the president made that condolence call after feeling the public pressure of a press conference where he was asked why he was silent almost two weeks about the death of sergeants johnson and three other army staffs in niger, bryan black, jeremiah johnson, dustin wright. in the 12 days between the time those soldiers were killed in action and the president was first asked about them, the president found plenty of time to tweet his moral outrage at football players and he found time to tweet his outrage at republican senators, especially bob corker, who publicly