news regarding general kelly s speech. he was so offended because he was in the room when i made the call. so were other people. and the call was a very nice call. he was so offended that a woman would be that somebody would be listening to that call. he was he actually couldn t believe it. actually, he said to me, sir, this is not acceptable. this is really not. look, i ve called many people. and i would think that every one of them appreciated it. i was very surprised to see this to be honest with you. meantime, the white house is standing by a false claim that general kelly made about the congresswoman despite video coming out that 100% disproves it. general kelly on the attack with a false claim that two years ago congresswoman wilson took credit for getting funding for an fbi building. watch this. the congresswoman stood up
say things that are not true. the latest example is john kelly s attack on the congresswoman yesterday. he told a story about going to the dedication of a new fbi field office in miami in 2015 dedicated to two agents that were killed in a fire fight against drug traffickers. he falsely claimed that at that dedication representative wilson took credit forgetting funding for that building. here is how he characterized her speech at that event. and the congresswoman stood up and in the long tradition of empty barrels making the most noise, stood up there in all of that and talked about how she was instrumental in getting the funding for that building and how she took care of her constituents because she got the money and she just called up president obama and on that phone call he gave the money, the $20 million to build the building and she sat down. and we were stunned. stunned that she had done it.
even for someone that is that empty a barrel, we were stunned. so keeping them honest, there is video of that speech and kelly s claim just isn t true. in fact, the sun sent nel posted the speech. representative wilson speaks about the fbi approaching her office wanting the building dedication to happen in four weeks. everyone said that s impossible. it takes at least eight months to a year to complete the process through the house, the senate and to the president s office. i said i m a school principal, and i said excuse my french, awe, hell, no. we re going to get this done. immediately i went into attack mode. i went to the speaker, sbeerk
that rule has gone by the boards as well. so michael, to david s point, was this a violation of club rules? david summed it up perfectly. it s been a situation where the current president hasn t reached out to his predecessors, and i think to just go one step further, i think that certainly in the case of obama, but really more notably today, yesterday, in the case of george w. bush who was very careful about criticizing his predecessors said nothing critical in eight years about barack obama. i can think of one thing, and that was light at best. for george w. bush to give this speech at this moment is not an accident. it was both a plea for democracy and the kinds of human frailties we need to keep it alive. it was also a defense of the office of the presidency. don t forget, when you ve been the president, you know how frail and tricky that office is,
was speaking glowingly about the courage of the two fbi agents and law enforcement and first responders in general. she was wants talking about getting money at all as general kelly said. today white house press secretary sarah sanders was pressed about that inaccuracy. she was talking about naming the building she was also talking about who she then went on to efuse civil praise. she also mentioned that and she also had quite a few comments that day that weren t part of that speech and weren t part of that video that were also witnessed by many people that were there. what general kelly referenced yesterday. tell us specifically, because exactly what he said. there was a lot of grandstanding. he was stunned that she had taken that opportunity to make it about herself. le come out here and talk to us about this i think he addressed that thoroughly. he was wrong yesterday in talking about getting the money. if you want to go after general kelly, that s up to