wilson is in we the people. madison believes that the people with degenerate into demagogues and mobs and popular passions have to be checked and the president should be picked by the legislature not the people. to ensure direct democracy doesn't degenerate. they had a big debate. wilson became very distinguished u.s. supreme court justice and died a sad ending to a heroic career. we're about to see the first draft of the u.s. constitution. written by james wilson. now we're going to see the rarest draft of the u.s. constitution in american history. the very first draft. many of us know the copy of the constitution in the national archives. that was the final copy. every important document has a first draft. this is it. it was drafted on july 24th, 1787. the con vngs begins on may 25. i remember that because the address of the national constitution center is 525 arch street. may 25. and two months later was the first time that the committee created this draft of the constitution. so how did it end up here? it be

wilson just ran for 21. >> kevin: hand signal by russell wilson. first and 10. intercepted. picked off by marcus williams. big time pick. he's out of bounds at the eight. williams comes up with his first interception of the season. claimed off waivers from the jets october 10th. huge, huge defensive play for the texans. >> rich: marcus williams runs the route for russell wilson. he jumps this route the whole way. he knows it's coming, he's in front of the receiver. great anticipation by marcus williams. he knew that route was coming the whole way. >> kevin: for the veteran russell wilson his first interception in his last 103 attempts -- just his fourth pick of the year. >> rich: now if you're the houston texans you've got to be able to finish this game on offense by running the football. that's why they've got the fullback in there. jay prosch. >> kevin: seahawks two time outs. texans, two. first and 10 at the eight. lamar miller. slowed down by clark, and finished off in the middle as he leans ahead for four and they'll put him at the 12. wright finishes him off. >> rich:

wasn't fredricka wilson. it was donald trump who said ask general kelly about his son because he wanted to make the point that he did more for fallen soldiers than past presidents. let's not forget, i know three days ago feels like a millennium ago, but that's how we got to john kelly talking about the loss of his son. >> right. very well said. thank you all. >> thank you. >>> next, general kelly talking about his son's death today. his feelings always kept private. now, thanks to the president, forced into the open. >> he's the finest man i ever knew. >> why? >> just is. >> plus, john mccain threatened subpoenas on the ambush. why are there still so many questions tonight. >>> president bush speaking out, asking president trump to spell out what america means to him. >> means bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blas fi my. when you're close to the people you love, does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment? if you have moderate to severe psoriasis, you can embrace the chance of completely

wilson -- congresswoman wilson was not doing what kelly said. kelly wrongly, completely inaccurately described what she said. >> let's listen to the president talking about what kelly's experience was with this call and why he felt the way he did. >> 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 -- and he knew -- i was so nice. 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. >> look, that could all be true, a.b. it could all be true. and yes, there are counterfacts wh , why was kelly listening? and he's obviously needed on these calls given what happened in this one. but how do you analyze what kelly did in this situation, in terms of balancing his pain as a gold star parent, but he got it wrong about the fbi, he got it wrong about wilson's presence on this call. how do you balance out the ex

john kelly had absolutely no empathy for frederica wilson today. but they have more in common than john kelly realizes. they were both born in segregated cities. they both went to seg reghaithed schools. she was born in miami in 1942 when she was going to school in florida, the schools were segregated by law. when john kelly was going to school in brighton in boston irish neighborhood she grew up in, the schools were segregated by custom and practice and boston segregation in the 1950s was as flawless as the legal segregation in florida and the rest of the south. john kelly never sat beside a student like frederica wilson in his neighborhood. the people of black people in his white neighborhood was the same language about black people that was used at that time in white communities in the segregated south. i grew up a few years after john kelly in an identical neighborhood on the other side of boston and i went to high school in john kelly's neighborhood. i know the neighborhood john kelly comes from. i know the culture. it was a neighborhood in wh

wilson says she stands by her comments. the "washington post" reports the johnson family has known him for decades. >> and details of the ambush in soldiers have been slow to ican emerge after the bolds o three other americans were recovered, pentagon officials believed johnson was still alive somewhere on the battlefield. his body was found two days later, but the pentagon flatly rejected the notion that an american soldier had been left behind. >> i'll tell you categorically from the ploemt of contact, no one's left behind. either u.s., our partner nigerian forces were on the ground actively searching for the soldier. >> officials want to know if warning signs about the ambush were missed. senator john mccain says it may ta take subpoenas to get more information. >> former president bush said not to criticize. that changed yesterday when he denounced bigotry, isolationism and conspiracy on attacking president trump. >> bigotry seems emboldened and outright fabrication. >> the 43rd president made no mention of the 45th, bu

congresswoman wilson, the ribbon cutting has been scheduled in four short weeks. the dedication is on the government's calendar and cannot be changed. one problem. the fbi wants to name this gorgeous at the same time in four weeks. everyone said, that's impossible. it takes at least 8 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, oh, hell no. we're going to get this done. immediately, i went to attack mode. i went to the speaker, speaker boehner and i said, mr. speaker, i need your help. the fbi needs your help and our country needs your help and we have no time to waste. he went into attack mode and then two days, pulled it out of committee, brought it to the board for a vote. representative presented it. we all voted and i dashed it over to the senate and put the senators on notice. put it on your radar, senator nelson and rubio who i believe have representatives here today. hotlined into the senate floor in just two days and guess what? the pre

and that's why federica wilson is getting into this. trump came in, remember, from the very first day, the congress am black cause had boycotted the inauguration of president trump. they thought he was insensitive. they felt he was bringing white nationalists into the white house. that tension has certainly not gone away. it is simmering for months and months and months. we saw in charlottesville after the white supremist rallies there. we're seeing it with the nfl kneeling. more recently, the congressional black caucus said we're not even going to meet with the president anymore. this all goes much deeper than just this very sad incident. this goes back many months and the tensions aren't going to go away. it's no coincidence it's members of the congressional black caucus leading the impeachment push on capitol hill. >> that's the big picture there. meantime, phillip, the white house is backtracking after suggesting that general kelly is above reproach. releasing this statement last night. of course, everyone can be questioned. after w

. >> ninan: a spokeswoman for congresswoman frederica wilson says that wilson will return to washington monday after receiving hateful flets threts. the florida democrat stepped into the spotlight this month, criticizing the tone president trump's condolence call to a widow's fallen soldier. >> reporter: for nearly a quarter century, this mentoring program in north miami has encouraged boys and young men to walk the straight and narrow and make the most of their lives. >> congratulations. >> reporter: it's called "typh,000 role models of excellence" and as 400 boys were inducted this week, there was boisterous praise for the program's founder. >> frederica wilson, a round of applause. >> reporter: congresswoman frederica wilson. price destinobles says the program and wilson herself helped get him to college. he had an absentee dad and a mom in prison. >> i think of her as a mother. like, i remember one of the first times i spoke to her, just hearing her heart and how genuine she is. >> reporter: wilson's district is largely african american and includes some of the miami's toughest neig

federica wilson will be on the show this morning. accused her of wrongly listening in on the president's call. he also attacked what he called her empty barrel remarks that she gave at the opening of an fbi building. a story he may have gotten wrong. again, shelt be on the show. she will give her side in an exclusive interview coming up. >>> the investigation continues in the attack in niger. all of this as former presidents bush and obama speak out against the politics of division without ever mentioning president trump by name. good morning, joe. >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. president trump continuing to attack democratic congresswoman over his condolence call to the family and the widow of sergeant la david johnson. this coming after the president's chief of staff gave a highly personal defense of the conversation earlier in the day. president trump refusing to put his war of words with congresswoman frederica wilson to rest n. a late night tweet calling her wacky and insisting that she lied about his call khat to the widow

instead, tweets about congresswoman wilson, general kelly comes out and attacks congresswoman wilson. and another tweet about congresswoman wilson. this oned, that oned. now it is a -- i don't doubt that we wind losing in this. >> here's the tweet. the fake news is going crazy with wacky congresswoman wilson democrat who was secretly on a very personal call, and gave a total lie on content. >> concepts like dignity, humility, valor, those are things the presidents in the past aspired to. that was a tradition. that seems like a museum piece in the era of trump. he can't seem to hold himself to a higher standard. he's got to get in the gutter can and make outrageous claims that are frequently not rooted in fact, he's the president of the united states. if your counter punching at gold star families, that is a sign of a sickness in some place. that is not holding yourself to a presidential standard. that videotape we played of one of the widows was genuine, presidential. it was received as such. something went terribly wrong in this situation. by note being able to let this go, we adopt

wilson eventually stops the car. both of these men have guns. one held to the head of wilson. his dad tries to get out and at first they're trying to take his stuff, but, no, they're putting cuffs on his dad. his dad tries to get out. they won't let him. watch what wilson does. he doesn't run away. he's trying to help his dad. and then the fight is on. wilson is trying to punch the guy who held the gun to his father. he's fighting. he's punching. >> so the other gunman took off? >> it appears so but watch right here. the one guy with the gun being held by wilson and his dad and then you start to hear sirens. the police are coming. but first, passersby come over and stop to help and then the police show up. the police did appear to be close enough to help intercede in this event but you guys will not believe what happened. after police came and took the guy in he was eventually released. they said first of all, the guy had no record and second, it was a replica gun. >> bet some palms have been greased. >> the intent is everything. >> this is not how i saw this video ending. >>

>> donald trump wrapping up his war of words with the florida congresswoman, frederica wilson calling wacky and accusing her of killing the democratic party. welcome to america's news headquarters. >> the latest verbal attack as the white house defense chief of staff john kelly who called wilson an empty barrel making noise. the squabble started after she criticized the president's condolence call to the widow of a us soldier killed in niger. in an exclusive interview with maria bartiroma, he said kelly disapproved of those comments. >> he was so offended because he was in the room when i made the call and so were other people. the call was a very nice call. he was so offended that a woman -- somebody would be listening to that call. he couldn't believe it. he said to me, sir, this is not acceptable. this is not. i was so nice. i have called many people and i would think every one of them appreciated it. i was surprised to see this to be honest with you. >> investigation is underway about the niger ambush resulting in the death of those four american soldiers. kristen fisher live from

john kelly actually backed up congresswoman wilson's claims. he was just giving an explanation about the intentions of the president. it seems to me you have a white house press secretary saying this conversation should have ended, and ignoring the fact that the president said something's and kind of putting it on the media for reporting what the president said. i mean it just is absurd. >> i agree. she said the only reason we're still talking about this is because you guys are still asking about it. i would submit to you if the white house and the pentagon had been more forthcoming in the days after the ambush in niger, they don't have to give away operational security information or anything like that, but just be more forthcoming about the context in which this occurred, and about the deaths and was cals that resulted, i don't know that we ever would have gotten to where we are now. i was a little bit taken aback by that. i was off put yesterday by secretary mattis's comments to the press and pentagon where he chastise the the media. i also

>> she identified a guy by the name of jeffrey wilson. >> jeffrey wilson? turns out david actually met him first online. jeffrey was also in the army, based at ft. bragg, like the major. he went by the name "black stuntman." by now, deputy da billy west was monitoring the investigation. >> they were chat friends, chatting about the swinging lifestyle and that sort of thing. and david actually said, you need to meet my wife joan, and invited him to a swinging party. >> they all got together at a local hotel, just social that first time, no sex. >> there was a second swingers' party that both of the shannons and jeffrey attended. and at that party, he i think as well as others did have sex with joan. but after this happened, joan and jeffrey started seeing one another. >> that was okay, though, according to the rules the shannons had established, as long as it was just sex and nobody got romantically entangled. anyway, wilson was married with kids. there was no indication that his wife knew what he was up to on the side with joan. >> we started doing some one

and i've spoken to frederica wilson. and what that widow said today is practically verbatim of what the frederica wilson said. you're picking a fight with a mother and you're picking a fight with a widow who are all saying that that is exactly what they heard. and also respect the fact that for 25 years fredrika wilson has had a program to mentor at risk kids from that community and has graduated thousands of kids -- >> but she was wrong in this case, ana. >> -- including the fallen soldiers. >> let angela get in please. >> she is a family friend. >> she took advantage of the situation. >> no, she didn't take advantage of it. let me start here. congresswoman, frederica wilson, because that's how we pronounce her name. she's a former principle, a former schofor former edge jay educator. and ana just made mention of the program she runs in her district, 5,000 mentors. and that program is something la david johnson went through. she is not a politician politicizing this whatsoever. she was in the car because she's a dear fr

cut it out with frederica wilson. she's just not relative to this moment. >> the fact that you can form late your mouth to have such disdain for someone who is an elected official in this country who happens to be an african-american woman -- >> that's america. >> it underscores the premise of what i'm talking about. the fact you have no respect for this woman -- >> the president was elected and you don't respect him. so what. i mean, we're supposed to question people in authority. >> no, no, no. no, listen. the fact of the matter is, the president of the united states, donald trump, no, he has a lot to earn from many of us who don't look like him. but i do respect the office and i will always uplift the office of the president of the united states, never forget that. >> okay, i uplift the office of a congresswoman but when she's acting like someone who's not respectful, i call her on it. she doesn't look like me, so i don't understand how she can act so disrespectful -- >> tell me her lie, ed. >> it's much worse than

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for her part, you saw congresswoman wilson here on msnbc on "a.m. joy" earlier today, calling chief of staff john kelly, a former four-star general, a puppet of the president, trying to divert attention from what she sees as president trump's failures in nine months in office. and in response to a lot of these slings and arrows, calling her wacky, calling her an empty barrel as the chief of staff here in the west wing, john kelly, did in that controversial press conference, she says this is simply character assassination. thomas? >> mike viqueira reporting at the white house for us. thank you, mike. i appreciate it. joining us right now is "associated press" white house reporter katherine lucy, national political reporter for nbc news digital, jonathan allen, and msnbc political contributor, morgan state university professor and politics editor at theroot.com, jason johnson. great to have you all here. jonathan, let me start out of the gate with you. as you hear congresswoman wilson say that kelly needs to apologize, you also have several newspapers

he also condemned congresswoman frederica wilson. kelly did not hold back. >> i was stunned when i came to work yesterday morning, and brokenhearted at what i saw a member of congress doing. a member of congress who listened in on a phone call from the president of the united states to a young wife. and in his way, tried to express that opinion that he's a brave man, a fallen hero. he knew what he was getting himself into. >> late last night, president trump weighed in with a tweet. fake news is going crazy with whacky congressman wilson, a democrat who was secretly on a very personal call and gave a total lie on content. worth noting, digit johnson's wids dough invited wilson to listen to the call, a close personal family friend and chief of staff kelly did not dispute the facts of that call in a extraordinary press conference. let's bring in sarah murray at the white house. >> reporter: good morning. white house chief of staff and retired four star general john kelly talking about something he rarely speaks publicly about losing hi

>> i you this say that i talked with congresswoman wilson several times this week. i also messaged with johnson who is a family member to sergeant johnson. and they -- both of them, but especially congresswoman wilson told me that widow of la david johnson was actually in the fetal position, essentially crying, her body frozen with emotion when on the phone with the president. so what you have is this highly charged situation where they're sitting at miami international airport waiting to greet the body of sergeant johnson. so that is the scene within which the president calls and says, you know, he knew what he signed up for. he says you're a guy and the widow hangs up the phone and turns to congresswoman wilson and says he didn't even know his name. so this has been cast as something that's between general kelly and congresswoman wilson and the president. but really there is also the family who is backing the congresswoman saying this is a problem that this was -- we felt disrespected by the president. >> so let me get this right. >> so he's attack congresswoman w

it turns out when the funding was approved wilson was not yet in congress. but when general kelly said she was in a long tradition of empty barrels making the most noise, congresswoman said this. listen. >> that is a racist term, too. i'm thinking about that when we looked it up in the directionnary because i had never heard of an -- dictionary because i had never heard of an empty barrel. i don't like to be dragged into something like that. >> the truth is the "barrel" phrase is attributed to plato and has been used by everyone from shakespeare to lincoln with zero racial connotation. despite wilson's claim she is committing to honoring the service members with words and deeds she left out votes. when it comes to bills benefiting current military members, wilson's nays outweigh her yeas. record shows when it comes to military funding the congresswoman is likely to vote no. her voting record on military vets is similar. in the wake of the v.a. scandal that found dozens of military vets died waiting to be seen by a doctor congress pushed a bill to authorize t

wilson, a mentor and long-time family friend of johnson, this morning challenging kelly's story. >> i feel sorry for general kelly. he my sympathy for the loss of his son, but he can't just go on tv and lie on me. >> reporter: the white house tonight trying to silence the critics. >> if you want to get into a debate with a four-star marine general, i think that's something highly inappropriate. >> sara huk besanders later released a statement saying, quote, of course everyone can be questioned about their witnessing general kelly'shearted felt and somber account, and we should all be able to agree that impugning his credibility on how best to honor fall fallen heroes is not appropriate. jonathan, let's start with you. as we mentioned, the johnson family is getting ready to pay their respects this morning. is there an opportunity for president trump and the white house to correct its missteps? >> i think this story has gone on far longer than anybody at the white house would have liked and certainly far longer than i think the american public would have liked. my guess is you're going

he seems to like this fight with congresswoman wilson. and maybe he thinks that it delights not only him but delights his base. >> and on a related matter, in terms of donald trump and military matters, we have seen john mccain interestingly sort of move out on the issue of the president's failure to serve in vietnam and possibly getting some kind of helpful possibly fake help from a doctor to get out of it. let's listen to what john mccain said on c-span. >> one aspect of the conflict by the way i will never, ever continue nance is that we drafted the lowest income level of america and the highest income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur. that is wrong. that is wrong. if we're going to ask every american to serve every american should serve. >> and, david, it is hard to believe bone spur was randomly chosen since that's what was in donald trump's note from his doctor he had a bone spur that prevents him from serving. >> right, no. pretty obviously direct. john mccain said other direct things, too. you know, eu

wilson. mr. wilson: everyone, including our guests in the gallery, please join in. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain was for one-minute speeches. for what reason does the gentleman from south carolina wish to speak. mr. wilson: nuke to address the house. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. wilson: our thoughts and prayers are with the families impacted by the massacre in las vegas. we're blessed with courageous law enforcement. i am extremely grateful to the south carolina national guard nearly 150 engineer soldiers to assist puerto rico in relief efforts after hurricane maria. this was a devastating storm for the people of puerto rico and they have been in our thoughts and prayers each and every day. these dedicated soldiers are part of a multistate engineer task force with north carolina, louisiana, and the new york army national guards. they will be ass

a congresswoman wilson is a national disgrace. her conduct is beneath the position that she has u.s. congress. while all of this is going on the white house chief of staff, general kelly, retired general valve -- gold star parent, has been sitting back and watching with the media and democrats are doing and keep in mind, unlike most of the president's critics, general kelly actually knows what it means to serve the country. more importantly, general kelly actually knows the unimaginable pain of losing a family member in combat. by the way, he never got a call from president obama. earlier today, general kelly stepped into the white house briefing room and unloaded -- and rightly so -- on congresswoman wilson. in the media for their disgusting, shameless political tactics. kelly's emotional and powerful response is the single best takedown of the media i've ever seen. we're going to show you all of it. watch this. >> most americans don't know what happens when we lose one of our soldiers. marines or coast guard men in combat. let m

congresswoman wilson also hinted that this was racially charged on "the new york times." the white house itself is full of white supremacists. would you agree? >> well, look, i think the -- anna's responses sort of captures what a whole bunch of people are feeling, and i think we have to be respectful of what. but i think a whole lot of americans are looking up and they're saying when politics is played with a sacred moment, whether it's the kahn family in the summer at the convention or the congresswoman in this case, we're proud and >> all the president is saying is that general kelly and others have counseled him and witnessed what he said, his attempt to be respectful. after that it's not only unfair i wish ana would turn her rage at the congresswoman for politicizing a sacred moment. there's lots of ways -- >> let me tell you this. here's the problem with your theory. >> -- instead of holding it on national television like the congresswoman did. at the end of the day we're -- >> let me respond to you, ed. i am sick of you guys saying the same thing over and over agai

wilson said she'll be silent. a spokesperson said it shouldn't be about her and honoring sergeant johnson. he and three other servicemen were killed in niger. >> pennsylvania supreme court has disbarred former philadelphia district attorney seth williams who pleaded guilty to a federal corruption charge in june and resign as da. he is scheduled to be sentenced on tuesday and faces up to five years in prison. >> time to david david murphy,y potter" reeked, they must have put a spell on this weekend. nay sayers like me, we've got dry conditions on storm tracker 6 live double scan. as we take a look outside, clear skies and lots of sunshine coming up over city hall and elsewhere around the region and later on. traffic moving with no problems out there around city hall. the temperatures are cool, these are milder numbers we're encountering than what we have for the rest of the workweek. 5 degrees in philadelphia. the cooler suburbs around 50s. the winds are light out of the west at 5 miles per hour. they will pick up

wilson, where exactly are you and what is going on? >> wilson, can you hear me. okay, we are having some technical difficulties right now speaking with wilson. we will get him in short order to be able to let us know what he has been experiencing as he heads north, with these fires, burning in napa, sonoma, and also part of mendocino county, we are hearing right now. so multiple fires, at least five fires, and they appear to have started burning just after 10:00 p.m. we are looking at some video of some of these evacuations. and you can see just how frantic this was. because of the fact that these fires have moved so very quickly. so we had emergency personnel going door to door, to tell people to evacuate. but a lot of people just looking out their window and suddenly seeing an orange know across the street and self evacuating at this point. and some of these pictures are pretty stunning when you not only look at the flames and how quickly they're spreading, but the smoke in the air and neda and jacqueline both referred to this, that it is something that we're e

. >> whatever miss wilson said was not fabricated. what she said was 100% correct. >> is there anything you would like to say to the president now? >> no. i don't -- no, i don't have nothing to say to him. >> she doesn't have anything to say to the president. but this morning, already, the president has responded. let's go to the white house, cnn's kaitlan cole lilins is th. what's the president saying? >> immediately after this interview aired the president got on twitter to dispute what the widow had said. she said it was a very hurtful phone call, where the president struggled to remember her husband's name. and the president got on twitter and said that he had a very respectful conversation with the widow of sergeant la david johnson, and spoke his name from the beginning without hesitation. so the president is directly disputing what this widow said during that interview this morning where she also said congresswoman frederica wilson, the democratic congresswoman friends with the family and in the car during this phone call, she

video of a 2015 speech by wilson, a speech kelly cited when he called the congresswoman se selfishish and an empty barrel. the controversy is overshadowing very serious questions about what happened during and after the niger ambush. cnn has learned the body of one of the u.s. soldiers was found nearly a mile away from the central scene of the ambush. the pentagon is still looking at the exact circumstances of how he became separated. defense secretary james mattis was on capitol hill this afternoon to brief senate armed services committee chairman senator john mccain. after the meeting, mattis told reporters that the pentagon, quote, can do better at communication. >>> we're also following other ominous warnings coming from north korea right now. one of kim jong-un's top diplomats says north korea's nuclear weapons program is nonnegotiable and the u.s. needs to co-exist with a nuclear armed north korea. our correspondents, analysts and specialists, they will have full coverage of the day's stories, but let's begin with cnn's sara murray. she's over at the white house. sara, the white

. >> whatever miss wilson said was not fabricated. what she said was 100% correct. it was master sergeant neil, me, my aunt, my uncle, and the driver and miss wilson in a car. the phone was on speakerphone. why would we fabbricate somethig like that? >> reporter: the president and congresswoman wilson are still the it on twitter with mr. trump trying to capitalize politically on the exchange, tweeting, "wacky congresswoman wilson is the gift that keeps on giving for the republican party. a disaster for dems. you watch her in action and vote republican." wilson firing back, "niger is president trump's benghazi, he needs to own it." wilson also hitting back at white house chief of staff john kelly who erroneously stated she took credit during a speech for funding an fbi in florida, something she didn't do, tweeting "general kelly owes the nation an apology, when he lied about me, he lied to the american public." the near silence in the controversy stands in stark c p contrast with the scene in the loez gua rose garden. >> you look at pr

congresswoman wilson was considered a family member. she might have been speaking, maybe the family could not speak about how hurt they were about the words that president trump said. i don't think she was doing it to politicize. she was doing it to convey the pain of the family. and the mother indicated she felt disrespected by the president, she and her husband. and we will hear from the mother at some point, the wife at some point. and people share with you what they felt. i think what congresswoman wilson did was give the family voice where the family could not at that time, so broken as they were, could not speak publicly. >> any moment we will hear from sergeant johnson's wife, from his widow. she is speaking out this morning. we will play all of that for everyone momentarily. congresswoman lee, congresswoman add always, thank you for your perspective. >> good to be with you, alisyn. >> good to be with you, too. >> good to be with you. president trump spoke about her death on the campaign trail for months. we are finally at the tr

there is a: reporter: controversy over congresswoman wilson's speech in 2015. in the speech it doesn't appear , she represented funding for the fbi building. does general kelly stand by the statement he made yesterday that he felt he was grants that felt she was grandstanding? ms. sanders: absolutely. general kelly said he was stunned that representative wilson made remarks about her own actions in congress, including lobbying president congress, president obama for funding. general kelly said if you are making it about yourself you are an empty barrel. if you don't understand that, as reference, i will put a little more simply. as we say in the south, all hats and no cattle. when she was talking about what she did in congress she was not talking about , securing $21 million. she was talking about naming the building. she then went on to effusive lee ly praise, and that was the bulk of the speech. ms. sanders: she also had quite a few comments that they that were part of that video that were also witnessed by many people that were there. what general kelly refe

we stand with women back wilson and all black women. the congresswoman's going much further charging the white house itself is full of white supremacists adding that some people in the white house are racially biased by saying they are making themselves look like fools. they have no credibility. the congresswoman is also charging general kelly's use of a racist term "empty barrel" when she claimed she tried to hog the credit for an fbi building in her home state of florida. here's what general kelly said. >> the congresswoman stood up and in the long tradition of empty barrels making the most noise, stood up there and all of that and talked about how she was instrumental in getting the funding for that building. even for someone that empty barrel, we were stunned. >> after a video that 2015 speech emerged, wilson did not talk about the funding. the congresswoman made other comments that day, grandstanding about what she had accomplished. interesting how the congresswoman has spoken out and said the white house is monitoring her words so

wilson. he needs to set the record straight. philip, how did this go so wrong? >> let me just start by pointing out to the viewers that don't know the ins and outs of the newspaper business that i'm a reporter, not part of the he had editorial board. >> yes. forgive me. >> no. that's correct. >> there's a wall between the two, ideally. >> this all went wrong starting monday afternoon when the president made this an issue and began to politicize this incident in niger where four soldiers were killed. the president had been silent for 12 straight days about that. and immediately, you know, began an astack basically on president obama. it spierld out of control for this white house for five straight days. and i think yesterday chief of staff john kelly wanted to use his credibility as a battlefield commander, as somebody who had lost his own son to war to come out and try to put an end to this story, but he did not get his facts straight. he misrepresented what congresswoman wilson did in florida and that has just compounded the problems for this administration. >>

that phone call that congressman wilson heard. take a listen. >> he was so offended because he was in the room when i made the call, and 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 -- i was so nice. 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. >> i've got to ask you, i mean, honestly here, how can general kelly be offended someone would be listening to that call. we've seen people on speaker phones. we played one last night of the president on speaker phone talking to family when he was also limping to the call as well and other people in the administration. does this sound like the general kelly you know? >> well, general kelly that i know is an incredibly honorable guy and immensely talented. the fact that the phon

she had fabricated it and he had not said what congresswoman wilson accused him of saying. as chief of staff john kelly came out to this press briefing at the white house yesterday, this very gripping, emotional briefing with reporters, he essentially confirmed parts of that account, but sought to defend what the president had meant because kelly said that when joseph dunford told him about his son robert dying in afghanistan, he had said something along the same lines. but clearly it was not interpreted that way by the johnson family. and then during that briefing john kelly delivered a sooerg criticism of this congresswoman saying she was selfish and publicity seeking and recalled an event from 2015 at the dedication of an fbi building in miami when he said that she was trying to take the political credit for getting the funding for that building. congresswoman wilson put out a statement last night saying she wasn't going to comment any further on this issue, she was going to let the focus be on this grieving family here but she was on cnn this morning disputing what john

wacky congresswoman wilson is the gift that keeps on giving to the republican party. a disaster for dems. you watch her in action and vote art. jason johnson, chief strategist, senator ted cruz presidential ted canin further senior adviser for president obama and hillary clinton presidential candidate. nice to have you both here. we will start with this. extend this out a little bit. extend this out a little bit beyond the simple feud here over the call should to the gold star. tom perez from the dnc chair thing the president is an existential threat to the united states. congresswoman wilson saying that this is trumps benghazi's does this level of rhetoric and israel towards the president turned into a winning strategy for the president right that it's a loser? >> a religion that strategy. they are tremendously offended by the rhetoric of the president. but today's treat you just showed. he's the one making a political issue by pointing at someone we hope to be in demand for republican and explicitly says vote art. this should not be about politics. they should be ov

this is amazing. >> frederica wilson proud of herself. the us army veteran who understands the sacrifice and honor service men make. cracking down on dishonesty, a dozen retractions from major news outlets since donald trump took office. should readers be sued for spreading fake news? we debate it coming up next. ♪when you've got...♪ ♪...nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea!♪ ♪nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea!♪ here's pepto bismol! ah. ♪nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea!♪ >> an emotional patriotic moment from john kelly. rob: a goldstar father self producing riveting and stunning condemnation of frederica wilson's claims about donald trump's condolence call. his love of country, patriotism shining through in every word. >> i was stunned when i came to work yesterday morning and brokenhearted at what i saw. a member of congress who listened in on a phone call from the president of the united states to a young wife, and trying to express that opinion, a brave ma

the money's gone to a range of charities, chosen by harold wilson and his widow, lady wilson, including scope, stoke mandeville hospital, and a number of methodist chapels. it would've been nice, i think, if we could have been part of saying which charities the money should go to. i probably would have chosen the birmingham children's hospital. because you're a brummie. yes. i don't want to give it away to people that i don't know. but despite the controversy, flowers in the rain remains a classic. # woke up one morning half asleep # with all my blankets in a heap # and yellow roses scattered all around...# and, for me, it will always conjure up memories of that magical summer of love, half a century ago. right, we're at the end of the show. have a good one, bye—bye. hello. as is always the way of it at this time of year, the day was a mixed bag of weather across the british isles. at best, a bit like this, but there were not enough scenes like this to rescue the day which was, for the most part, really rather cloudy. some of you saw quite a bit of rain as this weather fronts slumped

fredricka wilson listened to the call. and donald trump said fake news is going crazy with the whacky congressional woman. >> my emphasis today is on my constituents, and helping them lay our hero to rest. that's where my head is today. i'm also concerned about him and his last moments. i want to know why he was separated from the rest of the soldiers? why did it take 48 hours to find him? was he still alive? was he kidnapped? >> more on the fbi's pursuit of these answers in just a moment. first, let's go to the white house. cnn's joe johns is there, and joe, this morning, the feud very much continues. >> we can't hear joe johns. this happens and we'll get him back in a moment. yes, this is news that the fbi is involved in the investigation. we will get more on that and talk about the ongoing feud. joining us is the president and founder of taps, tragedy assistance program for survivors. she worked in the white house for reagan and bush 41, and she was awarded a medal in 2014. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >>