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Jenna a lot going on here at home and certainly a lot happening overseas. The president and president Putin Meeting with a smile and a handshake earlier today as their heated battle over syria plays out on the worlds stage. Were glad youre with us, everybody, im jenna lee. Welcome to happening now. Jon everybody was watching the body language when they greeted one another. Jenna nice handshake, solid and smiles. Kept it moving, wouldnt know there are any tension between them. Im jon scott. Presi...

Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with breaking news. President trump expected to change course in less than an hour. The president expected to announce a different way to ask for citizenship information without inserting a question about it into the u. S. Census. Sources telling cnn that the president plans to direct the Commerce Department to get citizenship information through other means. The president has been pushing to add a Citizenship Que...

Because when you look at the polling, 70.of the americans feel they were heading down wrong direction and i wonder how much that will play in this race in georgia and what you guys think about the president of the united states in how hes zoning joshua ill start with you. how is joe biden doing in serving you and your family? >> he doesnt have a vision -- xepght for his pocket and my opinion. hen really doesnt care about what im doing where im doing it and if anything is going to happen. its all...

Because when you look at the polling, 70.of the americans feel they were heading down wrong direction and i wonder how much that will play in this race in georgia and what you guys think about the president of the united states in how hes zoning joshua ill start with you. how is joe biden doing in serving you and your family? >> he doesnt have a vision -- xepght for his pocket and my opinion. hen really doesnt care about what im doing where im doing it and if anything is going to happen. its all...

Polling, 70.of the americans feel they were heading down wrong direction and i wonder how much that will play in this race in georgia and what you guys think about the president of the united states in how hes zoning joshua ill start with you. how is joe biden doing in serving you and your family? >> he doesnt have a vision -- xepght for his pocket and my opinion. hen really doesnt care about what im doing where im doing it and if anything is going to happen. its all about him, his family, and a...

Annual basis to develop hypersonic missiles and our program, it looks like russia and china have the same thing. this is a brand new -- this is a brand new defense race. this is brand new challenge. ainsley: remember when robert gaetz, who was the defense -- former defense secretary under president obama. remember when he said that joe biden was wrong on nearly every foreign policy issue? he doubled down on that. i watched yesterday, he was on anderson cooper "60 minutes." listen to what he said...

Getting them out. the bad news is that we left them in the first place. the big question mark is how many were left behind, nobody knows. not one or two. chances are it could be as much as 1,000 if you listen to the pentagon report. brian: move on and talk about afghanistan from robert gaetz perspective served seven presidents. he straddled went from bush to president obama why dont you stay here. he has held every significant job he could in washington. he commented on jond. joe biden. joe bide...

Or not. he said they always manipulated them going up to the white house to make it look like things were going well. he said it was to, one, make the people in charge look good and, two, to make sure that popular support for the war didnt diminish. so, yes, they were lying and they were manipulating public opinion. >> robert gaetz who was the secretary of defense under bush said this in 2013. quote, the reality is that on 9/11, we didnt know jack -- about al qaeda. apologies for the language bu...

In fact has been sitting across the table from then secretary of defense robert gaetz during the obama administration, whether it was rational, whether it was safe, whether it was winnable, and that was a bitter fight. and ive spoken to president biden about his -- about the criticism from secretary of defense gaetz at the time, and he said, you know, secretary gaetz has had his wrong calls too, and he listed off a series of them going back in his mind to vietnam. i eventually asked somebody sor...

Senator biden talking about the vietnamese who had worked for the u.s. in vietnam and whether or not, you know, huge efforts are being made to get them out. and he seemed to not -- that was not a priority for him. is this just a -- i mean, is that a -- is it a blind spot or what do you make of gaetzs comments and the way president biden viewed this in vietnam? >> well, this reservation which i think you rightly identified that goes within president bidens conception of americas obligations abroa...