brand new reporting from The New York Times tonight the family of a Green Beret who's buried at Arlington National Cemetery is not happy about Donald Trump's photo op near his grave site Maggie habberman joins us in just a moment the Trump campaign is defending its decision to film in a restricted section of the cemetery where soldiers who were recently killed are buried NPR reports an official at Arlington tried to stop Trump's team from doing so on Monday but was then verbally abused and pushed by Trump campaign staff according to reports VP candidate JD Vance though is blaming the media it is amazing to me that you have apparently somebody at Arlington Cemetery some staff member had a little disagreement with somebody and they have turned the media has turned this into a national news story Trump spokesman is blaming the AR official claiming that they tried to physically block campaign staff we should note that federal law prohibits any campaign or election related activities within Army National military cemeteries which is notable because the Trump campaign posted this video on Tik Tok promoting his visit to the cemetery we didn't lose one person in a few months and then they took over that disaster the leaving of Afghanistan my source tonight is New York time senior political correspondent Maggie habberman so Maggie you're reporting this hour a new reaction to that Tik Tok we just show tell us more about what you're learning right so my colleagues and I have reporting from another family that has a soldier buried in that section 60 which is a very Restricted Section it is it is for people for soldiers who were who died after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan for the most part this is a family who the soldier in question he was a master sergeant Andrew Marcus Otto he died by suicide in in 2020 and he had served multiple tours combat tours including in Afghanistan but not only and his grave site was caught in pictures As Trump was posing with the grave sight of another sergeant at the same section now that other sergeants family had indeed said they would like Trump there as you noted these these gold star families welcomed him as you also noted the rules of the cemetery are that campaign photography campaign filming is not permitted you know photographs that are going to be used for election purposes and the Marcus Auto family certainly was not contacted or asked for this but his gravestone is now in that Tik Tok video from behind the Trump posted on Tik Tok he's also the front of the grave site with his name is in pictures that were posted online with Trump posing with a thumbs up and you know they were very clear the family in a statement to us that they they really support this other family in other families that lost people in the abc8 bombing during in cabal Afghanistan but that this is a restricted area and that they would hope that everyone would be respectful of that it was a restrained statement but it was very clearly displeased yeah