amid the controversy over president trump s condo lessons call to a widow of the u.s. soldier killed in niger, there are serious questions about the attack itself. an investigation is under way. chief of staff john kelly was asked about that this afternoon. the people that will answer those questions will be the people at the other end of the military pyramid. i m sure the special forces group is conducting it. i know they re conducting an investigation. that investigation, of course, under the auspices of afterry comm ultimately will go to the pentagon. i ve read the same stories you have. actually know a lot more than i m letting on, but i m not going to tell you. there is an investigation being done. well, kelly wouldn t say too much, understandably. but senator john mccain talked to cnn and other reporters today. he was more blunt about the growing question. on the niger, what does the
congresswoman s comments. take a look. it stuns me that a member of congress would have listened in on a conversation. absolutely stuns me. and i thought at least that was sacred. when i say a kid groelg up a lot of things were sacred in our country. women were sacred. that s obviously not the case anymore as we see from recent cases. life, the dignity of life is sacred. that s gone. religion, that seems to be gone as well. gold star families, i think that left in the convention over the summer. but i just thought the selfless devotion that brings a man or woman to die on the battlefield, i just thought that that might be sacred. joining me now two of our military analysts. general, i understand general kelly, his criticism of the
but this isn t about john kelly or his past experiences or his combat tours or his rank of four star general. this is about presidential leadership. i was also disgusted, truthfully, with congresswoman wilson s remarks and listening in to a phone conversation that was private. but that s not the point. the point is that we have continued to be divisive in all of this, that john kelly s actions today were separated from his time as a general and as a commander. and he s now in the political realm. and unfortunately, i think his comments today were untoward. he should not have been the one out there. i didn t appreciate what he did to the professional members of the press, the journalists. and i m sure there are many people who consider journalists the enemy. but truthfully, they are part of a free society, and he attacked them today. and he separated and continued the divisiveness that continues
in the case mentioned they confirmed district attorney in district of columbia, i happen to know person of great integrity and notion these people would be influenced by the president completely speculative and totally false in the case. do you want to respond john? yes, i do. lu is a person who is on his transition team who was lifted out of the cabinet, was interviewed and is in a district where there are issues and conflict perhaps between the special counsel and that office because perhaps he decides to indict rather than infer for the impeachment if that s the conclusion of the investigation she d be in that position to dual with him, if you will, and she should withdrawal from some
way john kelly parsed his words today. i don t want to put anything in his mouth. i don t want to judge him, but i think, i hope he was sending as much of a message about presidential leadership to his boss as he was about the divisiveness in the country. because i think john kelly to be a true patriot, and he s a true marine and does the right thing for the country. so hopefully what i think he was saying in those words were, hey, boss, take a look at what you re doing too. it s a technique of leading up that i think president trump can certainly pay attention to. appreciate you being on. there are a lot of questions about the niger attack that left these four u.s. service members dead. the defense secretary is dmantding answers. senator john mccain says subpoenas might be needed. we ll get into all of that next. who knew that phones would start doing everything?