warriors throughout his presidency through calls, letters, visits to section 60 at arlington, visits to walter reed, visits to dover, regular meetings with gold-star families at the white house and across the country. other responses were less measured. former obama deputy chief of staff alyssa mattromonico wrote on twitter, that s a bleeping lie to say president obama or past presidents didn t call the family members of soldiers killed in action, he s a deranged animal. former deputy national security adviser ben rhodes also posted on twitter, this is an outrageous and disrespectful lie even by trump standards. also obama never attacked a gold-star family. the white house responded with a statement of its own saying, the president wasn t criticizing predecessors but stating a fact. when american heroes make the ultimate sacrifice, presidents pay their respects. sometimes they call, sometimes they send a letter, other times they have the opportunity to meet family members in pers
arlington, visits to walter reed, visits to dover, regular meetings with gold-star families at the white house and across the country. other responses were less measured. former obama deputy chief of staff alyssa mattromonico wrote on twitter, that s a bleeping lie to say president obama or past presidents didn t call the family members of soldiers killed in action, he s a deranged animal. former deputy national security adviser ben rhodes also posted on twitter, this is an outrageous and disrespectful lie even by trump standards. also obama never attacked a gold-star family. the white house responded with a statement of its own saying, the president wasn t criticizing predecessors but stating a fact. when american heroes make the ultimate sacrifice, presidents pay their respects. sometimes they call, sometimes they send a letter, other times they have the opportunity to meet family members in person. this president, like his predecessors, has done each of these. individuals clai
lie, even by trump standards. also, obama never attacked a gold star family. the white house responded with a staple of its own saying the president wasn t criticizing predecessors by stating a fact. presidents pay their respects. sometimes they call. sometimes they send a letter. other times they have the opportunity to meet family members in person. this president, like his predecessors, has done each of these. individuals claiming former presidents such as their bosses called each family of the fallen are mistaken. that s where this debate stands. and with us tonight paul rye cough founder and ceo of iava. he happens to be an army first lut napt and platoon leader in iraq formerly. jeremy bash is also with us. paul, i look up these figures. pentagon tonight total dead
who in a moment that was stunning, even by trump standards, went off script at trump tower to defend the white nationalists in charlottesville. to equate their actions with those of the anti-racism activists who oppose them. not all of those people were neo-nazis. believe me. not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch. you had very bad people in the group, but you also had people that were very fine people. on both sides. trump s words prompted mitt romney to demand that trump, quote, acknowledge that he was wrong. apologize, state forcefully that racists are 100% to blame for the murder and violence in charlottesville. testify there was no conceivable comparison or moral equivalency between the nazis and the counterprotesters who were outraged to see fools parading in nazi flag, nazi arm ban and
i think it does hurt him. one of the things he s attacked all of congress and he desperately needs to get either health care or tax policy passed. he s not going to do that without some democratic support. so look, senator schumer has done a very good job keeping the democrats in line, which is not easy. and things like this are only going to put the democrats more in lock step, which is going to make it very hard for him to do anything. and that s critical to the re-election and this is a level two on the trumpometer. by trump standards, pretty good. it s not yet, though. it s monday. and we haven t even gotten to tuesday, wednesday, thursday. so we don t know what he s going to do tomorrow. and i don t think we know based on what his tweets were today that he s holding back in any way. just the subject matter today happened to be something slightly different. one thing about the democrats, one thing that you talk to trump