Good morning everyone I am Dianne Gallagher in for Christy Paul
And I'm Martin Savidge in for Victor Blackwell
We want to start with honoring service and sacrifice today a soldier who died fighting in the war on Isis
We take it to his final resting place 25 year-old sergeant Lee David Johnson be laid to rest in his, Florida hometown
Flags in the state will fly at half-staff in his memory
CNN has learned that Johnson's body was found nearly a mile from the site of the ambush in the air
It's important to note that this of course is based on early reports
But there is still no word on how he was separated from the 12 member team or why his body was recovered two days
after those of the other three
soldiers who were also killed in that attack
And this comes as the president stands by chief of staff John Kelly's attack on a Florida congresswoman
Representative fredericka Wilson is a close friend at the Johnson family, and she was with them when Johnson's Widow Myesha
Took Trump's condolence call on speakerphone
Wilson said that he was insensitive now in a new interview with Fox News the president says that Kelley was outraged that
Wilson was even listening in
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 Sarah this is
not acceptable
Meanwhile Steve Bennett has delivered a blistering attack on former president george w bush
Questioning his intelligence and whether or not he fully grasped the nature of the speech that he gave on rejecting trump era
nationalism earlier this week
We're gonna begin though with the investigation into that and you share ambush the FBI has now joined that investigation as the pentagon
Tries to pin down the exact timeline of what happened as Barbara Starr reports US officials are now clarifying key points
Sergeant Lee David Johnson was found nearly a mile away from the central scene of the ambush
according to four administration officials
familiar with the early
Assessment they all caution. This is the early picture and the investigation continues
The Pentagon is still looking at the exact
circumstances of how he became separated from his unit
The entire team led by Green Berets has been interviewed officials say about when they last saw Johnson
The US team had stopped in a town on the niger Mali border so the Nigerians they were working with could pick up supplies
Including food and water and then they met with village elders
Investigators believe the ambush may have begun when the US soldiers were back in their vehicles possibly even driving
as
Those killed are laid to rest
defense secretary James Madison Capitol Hill briefed Senator
John McCain one day after McCain chairman of the Armed Services Committee
threatened subpoenas if the Pentagon doesn't start telling Congress
What it knows? I felt it and that we are not getting sufficient amount of information and we are
Clearing a lot of that up now matt is refusing to publicly comment
why the FBI is now involved in gathering intelligence on the
Suspected Isis militants that ambushed the US forces the FBI would have jurisdiction to investigate
And bring back the perpetrators to the u.s.
If it can be done. The pressure is mounting for a public explanation
What did happen to sergeant Johnson? He was abandoned for two days for 48 hours?
Why why didn't they pick him up and put him on their shoulders and like they did the other?
Fallen comrades and put him on a helicopter and take him to safety
He could have still been alive, but Metis is fiercely adamant the troops on the ground did everything
They could have you seen some of the news reports
the US military does not leave its troops behind
I with death - you're not quick in the action - the troops who were caught in the firefight and
question whether or not they did everything they could
in order to bring everyone out at once and
Taking pains to point out all troops face risk top brass pushing back hard, but I'll tell you categorically that from the moment of contact
No one's left behind either us our partner for partner Nigerian forces or French forces were on the ground actively
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