From Tommy Christopher at Mediaite:
The inexplicable feud that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has elected to escalate with the parents of the late Captain Humayun Khan, a Muslim soldier who was killed in Iraq, continued to unfold Sunday morning, as Khizr Khan responded to Trump’s overnight attempt at damage control. On CNN’s State of the Union, Khan said that while he appreciated Trump’s acknowledgement of his late son’s heroism, Mr. Khan said he stood by his criticisms of Trump’s positions and practices.
Fill-in host Jim Acosta asked Mr. Khan to respond directly to Trump’s suggestion that Mrs. Khan remained silent onstage at the DNC out of some form of religious oppression, and Khan let Trump have it, explaining that his wife was too distraught to speak, that she risked medical consequences to stand there, and that Trump needs to learn some empathy: