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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Trump denies calling service members "losers" & "suckers"

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In a heated exchange with the White House media, Trump denies calling wounded and dead service members "losers" & "suckers". Key Coronavirus model projects 410,000 U.S. deaths by January 1, 2021. Fauci: "Dire projection could be nudge for Americans to wear masks".  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Okay that was the president there angrily denying this report in the Atlantic

0:04.0

that he once referred to wounded and dead US service members as losers and suckers

0:09.2

at one point he seemed to be speculating that his former chief of staff, the retired general John

0:14.0

Kelly was one of the sources in that article.

0:17.1

He referred to General Kelly as somebody who was exhausted by the time he was finished

0:21.8

in his role as chief of staff at the White House and that he

0:26.0

didn't do a good job according to the President.

0:28.2

So we'll see if General Kelly comes out and surfaces and speaks about all of this.

0:33.4

We'll see about that.

0:34.2

But first let me go to Caitlin Collins River

0:35.8

at the White House.

0:37.3

Caitlin, the president was pretty fired up

0:39.5

about that Atlantic article.

0:41.7

Yes, he was. And what he was saying there about

0:43.8

John Kelly is really notable the way he talked about him as he was leaving his

0:47.8

chief of staff job. Remember John Kelly is a retired four-star Marine General, went to combat, led Southern Command, and the President

0:55.8

was saying basically he couldn't handle the Chief of Staff position and he was exhausted

1:00.4

by the time he left the job.

1:02.0

And the President going off on John Kelly and saying he

1:04.6

doesn't know if he was a source of this story but he says he could have been it could have

1:08.2

been a John Kelly type figure and of course that was because as you saw there he was asked by Bloomberg why not why had

1:16.1

John Kelly been one of the officials who had not come out and said anything about

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