>> THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE HAS A PROBLEM WITH THE TRUTH.
GENERAL JOHN KELLY SAID HE WAS GOING TO FIX IT.
HE WOULD IMPROVE THE INFORMATION FLOW.
BUT TONIGHT, WE KNOW IT'S INFORMATION, CURRENT EVENTS,
RECENT HISTORY AND LIES THAT ARE HAUNTING THE WHITE HOUSE.
WHAT BEGAN WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP MISREPRESENTING OTHER PRESIDENTS
INTERACTIONS WITH GOLD STAR FAMILIES AND ESCALATED IN A
FIGHT OVER WHAT TRUMP SAID IN A, QUOTE, CONDOLENCE CALL TO THE
WIDOW OF SERGEANT LA DAVID JOHNSON KILLED WITH THREE OTHER
STAFF SERGEANTS IS NOW TURNED INTO SOMETHING MUCH, MUCH MORE
PROBLEMATIC. DONALD TRUMP ALLEGEDLY TOLD
JOHNSON HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS SIGNING UP FOR BUT I GUESS IT
HURTS ANYWAY. THAT ACCORDING TO CONGRESSWOMAN
FREDERICA WILSON AND THE PRESIDENT DENIED HE SAID.
>> MR. PRESIDENT, WHAT DID YOU SAY TO SERGEANT JOHNSON'S WIDOW?
>> DIDN'T SAY IT AT ALL. SHE KNOWS IT.
SHE IS NOW NOT SAYING IT. >> DIDN'T SAY IT AT ALL.
OKAY. THAT'S A DENIAL DEFENSE.
BUT THEN GENERAL JOHN KELLY STIRRED UP MORE CONTROVERSY WITH
SOMETHING ELSE. A JUSTIFICATION DEFENSE
SUGGESTING DONALD TRUMP DID SAY IT AND IT'S OKAY.
>> HE WAS DOING EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTED TO DO WHEN HE WAS KILLED.
HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS GETTING IN TO BY JOINING THAT 1%.
THAT'S WHAT THE PRESIDENT TRIED TO SAY TO A -- FOUR FAMILIES THE
OTHER DAY. >> AND THE POINT ISN'T REALLY
THE EXACT WORD CHOICE, ALTHOUGH IT DOESN'T HELP THAT TRUMP
DENIED THE WORDS THAT KELLY THEN SEEMED TO CONFIRM.
THE POINT IS KELLY CONTRADICTED TRUMP AND ATTACKED THE
CONGRESSWOMAN WHO SHARED THIS STORY.
THIS IS NOT THE PRESIDENT'S POLITICAL SPOKESMAN OR A
CAMPAIGN STRATEGIST. THIS IS THE TAXPAYER FUNDED
CHIEF OF STAFF LAUNCHING THIS ALLEGATION AGAINST A SITTING
CONGRESSWOMAN. >> 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 TOO TOOK CARE OF HE CONSTITUENTS BECAUSE SHE GOT THE
MONEY AND JUST CALLED UP PRESIDENT OBAMA AND ON THAT
PHONE CALL SHE GAVE THE MONEY, THE $20 MILLION TO BUILD THE
BUILDING AND SHE SAT DOWN. AND WE WERE STUNNED.
>> SHE GOT THE MONEY. SHE STOOD UP.
SHE TALKED ABOUT THE MONEY. HERSELF.
OBAMA. AND THEN SHE SAT DOWN.
AND HE WAS STUNNED. WELL, THAT ALLEGATION TODAY WAS
DEMOLISHED. A FACT CHECK REVIEWED
REPRESENTATIVE WILSON'S ENTIRE SPEECH AND DETERMINED KELLY GOT
IT WRONG. TONIGHT, MSNBC'S JOY REID AIRED
THE ENTIRE SPEECH SO EVERYONE COULD SEE ALL THE FACTS AND THE
ENTIRE ADDRESS THEMSELVES. WE HAVE REVIEWED IT HERE, AS
WELL. THE VIDEO SHOWS WILSON SPENDING
MOST OF HER TIME PRAISING FBI AGENTS WHO WERE KILLED ON DUTY
AND CREDITING REPUBLICAN SPEAKER BOEHNER BY NAME FOR THEIR TEAM
WORK IN A VOTE ON LEGISLATION, NOT MONEY, FOR NAMING A FBI
BUILDING AFTER TWO AGENTS. >> 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 IN TWO DAYS PULLED IT OUT OF COMMITTEE, BROUGHT IT TO THE
FLOOR FOR A VOTE. >> NOW, LET ME BE AS FAIR AND
PRECISE AS POSSIBLE. IT COULD BE THAT JOHN KELLY
INNOCENTLY MISREMEMBERED THIS. AND TODAY'S TENSION COULD HAVE
BEEN TAMPED DOWN WITH ANY KIND OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF WHAT THE
VIDEO SHOWS. IF YOU HAD A COURT CASE BUILT ON
THIS ALLEGATION AGAINST REPRESENTATIVE WILSON AND THIS
VIDEO EMERGED, THAT CASE WOULD GET TOSSED OUT OF COURT.
BUT INSTEAD, TODAY, SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS REPORTING TO
GENERAL KELLY SAYS HER BOSS STOOD BY IT.
>> DOES GENERAL KELLY STILL STAND BY THE STATEMENT HE MADE
YESTERDAY THAT HE FELT THAT SHE WAS GRANDSTANDING AND THAT SHE
WAS TAKING CREDIT? >> ABSOLUTELY.
GENERAL KELLY SAID HE WAS STUNNED THAT REPRESENTATIVE
WILSON MADE COMMENTS AT A BUILDING DEDICATION HONORING
SLAIN FBIBI AGENTS ABOUT HER OW ACTIONS IN CONGRESS.
>> FACED WITH THE FACT CHECK AND THE VIDEO, KELLY HAS AN EMPLOYEE
CLAIMING HE WAS STUNNED BY REPRESENTATIVE WILSON WORKING
WITH REPUBLICANS ON LEGISLATION. AND I CAN TELL YOU TRUMP AIDES
SAY MAYBE SHE MADE COMMENTS AT OTHER TIME AT THE EVENT THAT
ISN'T ON VIDEO. AND THEN SANDERS TODAY WENT
FURTHER. >> IF YOU WANT TO GO AFTER
GENERAL KELLY, THAT'S UP TO YOU, BUT I I THINK IF YOU WANT TO GET
IN A DEBATE WITH A FOUR STAR MARINE GENERAL I THINK THAT'S
SOMETHING HIGHLY INAPPROPRIATE. >> THIS IS NOT ANOTHER SQUABBLE
BORN OF DONALD TRUMP'S NEEDINESS.
AND NOW INCLUDES A GENERAL DISPATCHING A FEDERAL EMPLOYEE
TO TELL THE NATION HE'S NOT SUBJECT TO DEBATE.
THIS CANNOT BE SAID ENOUGH. GENERAL KELLY, YOU WILL BE
DEBATED. YOU WILL BE QUESTIONED.
THE OATH YOU TAKE TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION, THAT DOCUMENT
PLACES THE MILITARY, WHICH WE RESPECT, UNDER CIVILIAN CONTROL.
NOT ABOVE IT. AND THAT'S RELEVANT NOT ONLY TO
THIS BITTER FACT CHALLENGED DISPUTE.
IT'S RELEVANT TONIGHT TO THE INCIDENT THAT GOT REPORTERS
PRESSING THE WHITE HOUSE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
THE DEATH OF FOUR U.S. SOLDIERS IN NIGER.
WE HAVE NO IDEA IF FINDINGS IN THE FUTURE WILL SHOW THINGS
SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE DIFFERENTLY OR NOT.
IT'S OBVIOUSLY TOO EARLY TO SAY. AND THERE ARE ALSO NEW REPORT
THAT IS AFTER THIS BRUISING WEEK TRUMP SHOWS TONIGHT, QUOTE, ZERO
REMORSE EVEN FOR DRAGGING CHIEF OF STAFF KELLY INTO THE MESS
WHILE KELLY WAS LOOKING FOR AND MORE, QUOTE, DISPIRITED AS THE
WEEK WENT ON. AND THEN AFTER BUSINESS CLOSED
AT THE WHITE HOUSE TONIGHT, I CAN TELL YOU SANDERS PUT OUT AN
ADDITIONAL STATEMENT SAYING, QUOTE, OF COURSE EVERYONE CAN BE
QUESTIONED BUT AFTER WITNESSING GENERAL KELLY'S HEARTFELT AND
SOMBER ACCOUNT WE SHOULD ALL BE ABLE TO AGREE THAT IMPUGNING HIS
CREDIBILITY ON HOW BEST TO HONOR FALLEN HEROES IS NOT
APPROPRIATE. THERE YOU HAVE IT.
ANOTHER EFFORT TO MOVE THE GOAL POST.
JOURNALIST FIND A VIDEO CONTRADICTING THE ATTACK ON A
MEMBER OF CONGRESS AND THEN THEY RESPOND WITH THIS.
OF COURSE, THE FACTUAL DISPUTE'S NOT ABOUT THE FALLEN HEROES IN
THIS PARTICULAR MOMENT AND BY THE WAY THIS IS A FREE COUNTRY.
SO IF PEOPLE DID WANT TO DEBATE THAT, AS SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS
REFERS TO, THEY COULD DEBATE THAT IN OR OUT OF UNIFORM.
MANY IN WASHINGTON HOPED WHEN JOHN KELLY CAME TO THE WHITE