U.S. President Donald Trump told the widow of a soldier killed in an ambush in Niger that her husband "knew what he signed up for," according to a Florida member of Congress who says she heard part of the conversation on speakerphone. When asked by Miami station WPLG if she indeed heard Trump say that, she answered: "Yeah, he said that. To me, that is something that you can say in a conversation, but you shouldn't say that to a grieving widow." Wilson, a Democrat, said she did not hear the entire conversation and Myeshia Johnson told her she couldn't remember everything that was said when asked it about it later. When reporters asked the president about his earlier tweet, Trump said: "Let her (Wilson) make her statement again and you'll find out."

Source: CBC News October 18, 2017 12:02 UTC