Good evening to you, Jim Sudo here sitting in for Anderson.

And tonight, the president of the United States, as he insists, he would never attack an honored

member of our military, a taxing honored member of our military, a decorated former Marine

general who is also a gold star father.

That is, he lost his son in combat.

Let's begin with what Trump is reported by several outlets now to have said about the young

men and women who serve this country and sometimes die defending it.

He is reported to have called them suckers and losers.

Suckers for serving, losers for dying.

This evening, Mr. Trump answered questions about the reporting on this first reported by

Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic and later by other outlets including notably Fox News.

This is from Goldberg's account of the president's canceled 2018 visit to a French cemetery

where hundreds of Marines killed in the First World War are now buried, a revered place

for U.S. Marines.

He writes, quote, Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would

become disheveled in the rain.

And because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead according to four

people, Goldberg says, with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day.

Goldberg for the Atlantic continues, quote, in a conversation with senior staff members

on the morning of the schedule visit, Trump said, why should I go to that cemetery?

It's filled with losers.

In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1800 Marines

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