The US president says Fox News should fire Jennifer Griffin who claimed he didn't want to honour America's First World War veterans when in France in 2018, but the national security correspondent says her sources are 'unimpeachable'.
US President Donald Trump has demanded that Fox News fire its national security correspondent after she confirmed claims that the Republican leader had disparaged the military - a bombshell that has dogged him for two days.
"The President drives a lot. The other world leaders drove to the cemeteries. He just didn't want to go."Fox News correspondent Jennifer Griffin said two former administration officials had confirmed to her that the president"did not want to drive to honour American war dead" at the Aisne-Marne cemetery outside Paris, implying weather was not a factor.
"When the President spoke about the Vietnam War, he said, 'It was a stupid war. Anyone who went was a sucker,'" she quoted the unnamed official as saying.
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