bring the people of the country together. >> reporter: several top military chiefs won't attend the celebration thursday and are sending their deputies instead though they say that's because they had prior plans. all this as the president is facing other setbacks at home. >> you go through all this detail and you're not allowed to ask whether or not somebody is a citizen? >> reporter: trump insisting he's not dropping his effort to add a citizenship question to the census despite his commerce secretary saying he was. the president tweeting the new reports about the commerce department dropping its request is incorrect or to state it differently, fake. this after wilbur rossa nounsed yesterday that the census bureau has started the process of printing the questionnaires without the question. meanwhile, iran's president is now warning that his country will boost its uranium levels beyond what was in the 2015 iran nuclear deal, a move that could further ramp up tensions with the united states. now as we are approaching the