Boy. Jeanie moss. Cnn. New york. And dont forget you can watch anywhere. Anderson starts next. We begin tonight with the president yet begin saying something that turns out not to be true and the white house covering for him. The white house official confirmed to cnn the west wing tried to after the president said this in the rose garden last week when asked why he hadnt said anything about the four u. S. Soldiers killed. Ive written them personal letters. Theyve been sent or theyre going out today but we were doing the weekend. That was monday. On tuesday, the president said this on a radio interview. I have called i believe everybody but certainly ill use the word virtually everybody where during the last month something happened. Keeping hip honest he hadnt called virtually everybody and in an email changed by role the president tweeted in response. Explain what he said. Thats right, anderson. And point out we tried to ask the question this all day long in response to the widow of
to come one a story of some kind of bone spurs in order to dodge this draft and frankly for those families who lost loved ones, who were drafted or those who volunteered, i would find i want insulting. my own father served two tours in vietnam. you said, you mentioned his bone spurs, a medical deferment, student deferments and then a medical deferment for bone spurs. you say on twitter he should have received a medical deferment, not for the burn spurs, they should have been for that yellow streak you say down his back. are you calling the from the a coward? yes, he is a coward. he was a coward when it came time to serve in vietnam. he used his privilege in every way he could to avoid serving five different times and five other young men went to war in his place. how many of them lost their lives. obviously, when we talk about vietnam. you know that is an issue that is fraught for a generation of americans. would you say the same ting to others who declined or found ways to get d
it s particularly galling that he would take the vows once again km up and be featured in a news story tonight. on the 75th anniversary of d-day. this ought to be a day we solemnly remember and instead we have donald trump parading this fraudulent story sflo general, you know when you think about this you ve got what david refers to, right the podiatrist s daughter. their landlord was fred trump, right, donald trump s father, right, when they wrote this. i want to play for you on this issue, right, president trump today said that he would have been honored to serve if he don t have bone spurs. that s what he said today. but obviously during the campaign he did for the remember which foot had bone spurs. here he is. why did you not serve in the vietnam war? because i was going to college, had student deferments it s a rung time and ultimately had a medical deferment because of my feet i had a bone spur. way which foot did you have the bone spur in.
trump told the new york times in 2016 that a doctor provided a very strong letter about the bone spurs in his heels but he could not remember the doctor s name, nor could he recall which foot it was in. why did you not serve in the vietnam war? because i was going to college. i had student deferments. it s a long time ago. i had a medical deferment because of my feet. i had a bone spur. which foot did you have the bone spur in? it s in the records. two years before being diagnosed with bone spurs, selective service shows trump had undergone a physical exam and had been declared available for service. the person investigating donald trump s special counsel robert mueller who like trump was a wealthy ivy league student
described by the events of the two daughters who are democrats and who dislike donald trump. and he also suggested there was involved by a second pediatrist that moved into the donald trump apartment the same year the future president was diagnosed with his bone spurs. why did you not serve in the vietnam war? because i was going to college, i had student deferments and ultimately had a medical deferment because of my feet. i had a bone spur. which foot did you have auto bone spur in? you ll look it up in the records. i don t know. it s in the records. two years before being diagnosed with those bone spurs,