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Just makes better mps put politics and reelection ahead of other key military decisions and true safety. ed henry is live at the white house with the latest for us now. >> good to see you, jenna. the president, vice president behind closed doors have a weekly lunch, that is standard, going on for five years, but today they are opening the lunch up for photographers to go in and get a picture of that. this just one day after the details leaked out about not just the president, but the vice presid...

A civil war is possible. there are fighters going back and forth between syria and iraq. but i think they both have to be dealt with in a different sort of manner. theyre not exactly the same. there is no cookie cutter approach dealing with syria and iraq even though they border one another. jenna: speaking of some models, were talking about the new book of former secretary of defense robert gates, he had an interesting quote, were only seeing excerpts of book, some of us have seen the whole thi...

Congress saying of their hearings, quote, rude, insulting, belittling, and bullying and all too often highly personal attacks on witnesses by members of congress violated nearly every norm of civil behavior. members postured and acted as judge, jury and executioner. gates said television cameras in a congressional hearing at the effect of a full moon on a werewolf. jenna? jenna: paints an image, doesnt it? wendell. thank you. >> for a look at the political fallout of the gates book and how it wi...

Down with five people on board. were told from our colleagues at fox news who spoke to someone at the navy, four crewmembers were rescued, one is missing. the hunt is on. at last report a coast guard vessel was three miles away from the crash site. were told some of wounded or some rescued people have been taken to a hospital. their condition is unknown at this point. again a navy helicopter, a ch-53e stallion goes down in the water, 18 miles off the coast of virginia. one person is reportedly m...

Jenna: bombshell new book by former secretary of defense robert gates comes out next week. it is called, "duty, memoirs of a secretary of war." gates is critical of both the bush and obama administrations as far as we can tell from the exerts, one of the big headlines is his opinion of president obamas handling the war in afghanistan. he writes about a meeting in 2011 saying this, quote, as i sat there i thought the president doesnt trust his commander, cant stand karzai, dont believe in his own...

Doesnt consider this war to be his, that is what has the white house sort of firing back. >> in fairness to president obama, he inherited this war, came up with a strategy to get the united states out of the war after first disengaging in iraq. there are certain contradictions. gates says the president did a politically unpopular and therefore difficult decision in ordering a surge of troops in afghanistan in order to try to build up the situation there so the u.s. could ultimately withdraw, but...

Advisors, top officials in our country during wartime, then bring them all home. the publics potential disillusionment, maybe it is already there, ambassador, that is a big conflict. how do you expect people to serve a mission, their families, if apparently the president doesnt believe in that mission according to robert gates? >> well, as i say, i think that is what most of them probably think already. i think for people in the military as for citizens generally, the issue is always, whats in t...

Mentioned allegedly had said privately in front of secretary gates the reason she came out against the surge in iraq is the politics and the 2008 campaign made heavy charges in this book. jenna: and we will talk a lot more about it. thank you. jon: so that new book by ex-pentagon chief robert gates is setting off a firestorm and it is not even unofficially out yet. many are shocked gates would go a tell-all root since he is known as a discrete and dedicated public servant. could this new book da...

Britains eastern coast, dumping the ammo everywhere. >> it came over the house and helicopters are not usually that low, definitely not helicopters. and, it just was a loud noise getting nearer. you saw the lights. and saw it go over because i looked out the window and, we saw it go over, which, that must have crashed just after i guess. jon: british police have secured the area. they say they will work with the u.s. military to try to figure out what happened to that chopper. jenna: a new repor...

Says he detested his job as the secretary of defense. some score settling in here. there are dangerous for gates in here as well because he has the reputation of serving both sides. i have no problem with bob gates writing a book. but the inclusion of these private conversations that the president, hillary clinton, joe biden thought were conducted in confidence, that is kind of a betrayal. gates is not the first one to turn on and administration and do that coming up with a bestseller, but it ra...