The president now . No. I dont, no i dont have nothing to say to him. Lets remember, general john kelly deployed his considerable stature to back trump and frame this as fight between a serious president and loud, lying member of congress. Then the tape surfaced showing it was kelly who had his facts wrong and today miss johnsons remarks it show you you can take congresswoman out of the picture and still have word of grieving mother contradicting the word of president. A president who has broken records for his misleading and false statements in office. General kelly, it is not too late for you. You can correct this record so we can all move on. But asking people to move on without correcting the record isnt moving on at all. In fact it is contrary to the
accountability required. No person is above checks and balances. Joining me, joint call from cbc urging General Kelly to apologize for blatant lies about congresswoman johnson. First niger. Former terror Intelligence Officer and longt
be doing deep dive after action reports to get to the bottom of how this ambush formed, how the personnel on the ground managed the fight on the ground. and there s one thing missing from the story, sergeant johnson got separated at some point but managed to move a mile away from the contact point. that shows he was fighting on the move, fighting and evading as single man unit. and defense department is going to investigate that and going to want to know how he got separated, what kind of combat support was brought in and whether it could be done faster. but there are two stories here, political story and story of the four heroes on the ground and special forces oda and how they managed to overcome overwhelming odds. all these stories will come out. here s what he said about the
commander at special officers recruiting by talon in ft. bragg north carolina we recruit for all of those coming into inservice recruiting for all of those there. i was a, on special forces oda. was injuried in 2006. and i have a great command that supports me. and is willing to employ me to my capability. and what i do is i outsee i do not deploy, i stay back at ft. bragg. more office work than anything else. i have the experience. i ve been in the military for 22 years, so i know what it takes
of the country where we launch drones and actually carry out air support operations in support of the french operations and the local niger forces. that was relatively close-by. but, you know, the region is a hot bed of future terrorism. and as you see us stomp down on the islamic state s cal i fat in libya using other forces, they ve dispersed down into the sa hara and the region. and the french have been fighting them almost nobody stop for the last three years. so what do we do about it? well w what we do is what we re doing now, which is providing military assistance, training forces. and this special forces oda, this special forces unit was out doing tribal engagement operations in which they try to bring all these remote tribes out there between the mali niger