The attack that killed her husband and defending a congresswomans account of a controversial call from President Trump. What she said was 100 correct. He couldnt remember my husband name. Call them tax cuts. The president pens an oped this morning promising a new morning in america. A day after giving House Republicans a pep talk, warning the midterms will be, quote, really bad if they cant pass taxes. After repeatedly failing to repeal obamacare, can republicans get taxes done . Its so difficult. Think makes the taxes easier. And the weinstein effect. More powerful figures accused of Sexual Misconduct and theyre not just from hollywood. And some female senators come forward to say me too. Looked at me and he paused and he said, well, did you bring your knee pads . We begin today with heartbreaking words from the widow of Sergeant La David Johnson, one of the four soldiers killed in an ambush in africa. For the first type, shes talking about the emotional phone call with the president and accusing the military of telling her almost nothing about how her husband died. I want to know why it took them 48 hours to find my husband. Why couldnt i see my husband. Every time i asked to see my husband, they wouldnt let me. What did they tell you . They tell me that hes in a severe a severe wreck, like i wont be able to see him. I need to see him so i will know that that is my husband. I dont know nothing. They wont show me a finger, a hand. I know my husband body from head to toe. And they wont let me see anything. I dont know whats in that box. It could be empty for all i know. Well, we have a lot to talk about. I want to start with nbcs peter a lexen der w een alexander whot the white house. This was to say the least, peter, heartbreaking to watch. A widow who has some questions and so few answers. Its just going to add i think to the questions surrounding this attack as well as the phone call that the president made to her. All the responses that theyre still waiting for from this administration, right . I think youre exactly right. The desire was to refocus attention on him, his sacrifice, this familys loss. She described him as an awesome soldier. Of course this follows what has been a bitter back and forth over, now, exactly a week when this began, when the president made comments about how he, unlike past president s, he said, made calls to the family of fallen soldiers. Details being revealed by a congresswoman, a friend of the family who has known the johnsons since well, since, frankly, the sarngant was just a boy, his widow described today. Here is part of that emotional interview with johnsons widow this morning. Take a listen. He said he knew what he signed up for. But it hurts anyways. And i was it made me cry because i was very angry at the tone in his voice and how he said it. He couldnt remember my husband name. The only way he remembered my husband name, because he told me he had my husband report in front of him. If my husband is out here fighting for our country and he risked his life for our country, why cant you remember his name . The president said that the congresswoman was lying about the phone call. Whatever miss wilson said was not fabricated. What she said was 100 correct. That was myeshia johnson, a short time ago this morning. The president tweeted, responding to her interview. He said, i had a very respectful conversation with the widow of Sergeant La David Johnson and spoke his name from beginning without hesitation. Punctuated it with an exclamation point. Chris, whats striking about this, it would seemingly be very easy for this white house to put this to rest. For the president to come forward and to have tweeted something to the effect of, if he desired, i meant nothing but respect to the family of a fallen soldier, our family thanks you and him for service, for sacrifice. Instead, like so many occasions dating back to the campaign when he disparaged a war hero, john mccain, once again, he gets into it this time with the widow, a grieving widow. Who he essentially accuses of lying. President trump meantime in the middle of all this trying to launch a push to get tax cuts done before the end of the year. The question, can republicans make it happen . Msnbcs Garrett Haake is live on capitol hill. What are you hearing from republicans about the chances this gets done before the end of the year . Chris, look, theyve got a window, some time with the budget being passed with the senate last week, the house may vote as early as this week. There is time and there is certainly motivation. Republicans know they have got to get a legislative win of some kind on the board this year. If at all possible. And in contrast with the health care fight, were starting to see President Trump get very involved in this process, both in private and in public. Last night, he join add conference call, with House Republican leaders, really pushing them to get this done. Working on some of the marketing sides of it, if you will, talking about calling it tax cuts, not tax reform. He said thats too complicated, people dont really understand that. Tomorrow, he meets with Senate Republicans during their weekly lunch. Now, in public, hes also making the case. He has an oped in usa today today this morning, making the argument for tax reform, saying why this needs to be getting done. He involved himself in some of the nittygritty of the negotiations. There was a report over the weekend the republicans might want to tax 401k savings account. The president tweeted saying, there will be no change to your 401k. This has been a great and popular middle class tax break that works and it stays. So of course thats the president s preference. Now it is the work of the tax writing committee, particularly in the house, and also the finance committee in the senate, to get through this process. And Mitch Mcconnell, the senate leader, talked a little bit about that over the weekend. Were going to score a big legislative accomplishment in the very near future. The goal is to get middle class taxes down and produce more jobs and opportunity for the american people. Thats the goal. The details will be hashed out in these two committees in the coming weeks. Chris, hashing out the details sounds like a simple task but its anything but of course. This is going to be a brutal fight here over every tax break as these republicanled committees try to figure out what they can get across the finish line, again, before the end of the year, if they can. Chris. Garrett, thank you. Let me bring in my panel. Evan, a republican strategist. Edd eddie luv, princeton university. He writes an oped in usa today. Making the case for it in a way a lot of republicans said he should have done, frankly, when he was trying to do health care. And then he tweets to the widow of a fallen u. S. Soldier saying youre lying, thats not what i said. I dont even know what the question is. But whats whats going on here . I want to ask Trump Supporters a simple question. Are you proud . Are you proud that a president like this shows that he is devoid of character and says its okay to basically attack very subtly the widow of la David Johnson who gave his life for this country under circumstances which were trying to find out. I dont even know its subtle. He says, i spoke his name from the beginning without hesitation. He is directly contradicting what the widow just said this morning. Yes, he is. And hes never shown himself to be the bigger man. He had never demonstrated in the campaign he had the character, he had the judgment and the temperament to be president of the utd Aunited States and hes demonstrating it now. I understand there are a lot of supporters of his that are angry at the media. What the widow said is a moral issue. The president has failed this moral test. Its very distressing that we have somebody in the oval office that nobody can even tell their kids to end up being like and should be even a role model. I dont care what your politics are, you listen to the widow, shes pregnant, they have children, shes talking about what shes going to tell her daughter who has yet to be born, about her heroic father. And its part of a larger story here which is she wants answers. Every american who has lost someone in the line of duty. War is hell. War is confusing. I dont want to draw any conclusions about what the military has done or not done. But what needs to happen now, eddie . Two things i want to emphasize. One, the kind of lack of knowledge around what happened in niger. Shes emphasizing, i want to know what happened to my husband. That take us to the question of this open ended war on terror. Wheres congressional oversight . Shes entered that fray. We need to know what is going on. If Lindsey Graham doesnt know if Chuck Schumer doesnt know, myiesha johnson doesnt know. Lindsey graham said it was a mystery. He didnt know 1,000 troops were there. The second issue is trump lies. He is the president of the United States. The most powerful man in the world is a liar. Theres no reason for us to believe him. And in this instance, i think, hes lying and it reveals, i believe, that hes a moral monster in this. I want to say this is monstrous in his response. I want to say this, too in relation to the tax cut. That the fact that he lies here in relation to a mother, a gold star family, hes also lying with regard to whether or not this tax cut stuff will actually impact and effect working people in this country. Lets turn to tax cuts. Quote from Lamar Alexander, he says, if the president of the United States focuses on one thing with everything hes got for as long as it takes, he can actually get what he wants. Evan, is that true . And clearly already weve seen since Lamar Alexander said that that the president cant focus on one thing. Well, the president cant multitask, obviously. But i think that the president if he were a bell to be have this laserlike focus, he would absolutely be able to help tax reform or tax relief is the phrase de jure going around. There are americans who want to see taxes simplified. We saw over the weekend of lowering the tax on 401ks and what is taxable. Thats almost a 90 cut if youre over 50. I dont think that helps any american. Were seeing other things being pushed back against. Like this deduction being eliminated. I think its unfair because it essentially allows the government to triple tax you on the same amount of money. At the state level and at the federal level. At the same time, youre seeing a lot of republicans who are fiscal hawks or deficit hawks saying, wait a second, were not seeing any spending cuts to offset the tax cuts. There are people who are very concerned the government has a spending addiction on one of them and i only hear about new taxes being floated. No, we have to man up and have to cut yes, in the related cuts. Heres what senator joe manchin told kacie hunt on her new show just yesterday. The conversations ive had with President Trump is completely different what im seeing coming out from, whether its Mitch Mcconnell, whoever side its coming from. He said, joe, its not going to be a tax cut for the relationship, its for the middle class. The president says this is going to be a middle class tax cut, but thats not the bill im seeing. We know the talk of cutting the corporate rate from 35 doris to 20 . Beave seen even. Weve seen Larry Summers have come out and said in an oped in the Washington Post that whatever the congressional budget office, whatever the director of Economic Policy is suggesti suggesting, the numbers just simply dont bear out. Were not going to see any kind of correlation between these cuts and working waging of real people. Im happy, hes known to be a brilliant economist exactly, what we know, when this sort of tax policy has been implemented in a place like kansas, what did we see, what have we seen . Weve seen everyday working people who are busting their behinds to make ends meet, right, not benefit. Actually lose ground. And so if trumps election was about changing, emptying the swamp, changing the path, the course what were seeing here is business as usual. And drop into the middle of this steve bannon. In the past couple of days whos gone after a number of republicans that the president will need if hes going to get tax reform through. Let me just play a little bit of steve bannon. The United States senate in particular has done i think a terrible job as appointing President Trump. John mccain deserves our respect. However, as a politician, john mccains just another senator from arizona. And he also went after people like the former president , george w. Bush. Evan, donald trump says he thinks taking a hard line with fellow republicans actually is a good idea, it helps get things done. Do you a degree . No. In a word. Its like dating. If i want to ask a girl out, im not going to go out and attack her constantly and say, all right, lets go out and get a drink. Thats the president s a proech. Hes attacking bob corker. Bob corker is one of those deficit hawks. Whos got some real reservations about this tax bill. I think theres a lot of people looking for the president to have that sort of washington schmoozing relationship. Were seeing we saw a Washington Post piece out this morning, talking about how the president cant really make any deals. Hes actually not a good deal maker. We even saw that when he made that deal with Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi because he said we made this big deal but if Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi got exactly what they asked for at first and republicans didnt even get any concession or compromise. Why . The president wanted to spite Mitch Mcconnell and paul ryan. We dont know as republicans where he is on this issue. Remember, when hes tweeting and talking, its not i and we, its the and they. The republicans. Hes never identifying as one of us. Theres this hesitation and gulf growing between both ends of pennsylvania avenue. Up next, speaking out. 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A growing campaign encouraging people to share their own experiences with Sexual Harassment and Assault Using metoo. The movement took off after allegations of rain, Sexual Assault and misconduct were leveled against Harvey Weinstein. He unequivocally denies allegation of nonconsensual sex. There morning there are more claims of assault. The l. A. Times reporting 38 women have now come forward accusing screenwriter and director james tobac of Sexual Harassment. Hes denied the allegation, telling the l. A. Times he never met any of the women or if he did it was, quote, for five minutes and he has no wreck lesion. The New York Times reports former fox Host Bill Oreilly<