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>> -- a point we have to work through. >> it's been a really intense few weeks as i don't need to tell you. i want to ask about a moment in the oval office with president biden. your staff has been talking about this. >> yes. >> i'm not talking out of school about a moment that was very personal to you. you apparently broke into tears when you were pushing for immigration reform. tell us about that moment, why it was important to you. >> well, yeah, actually i was batting cleanup. i was the last speaker. i was sitting closest to the president, so it was like this, literally this far apart, and...

Kinds of false statements about america, what aboutism and all of the rest that he tried to get away with and couldn't with our keir simmons. and joe biden, instead of stating what he wants to be the american positions and his takeaways and he's spent a considerable amount of time rebutting secondarily rebutting what vladimir putin has said and that ought to be at the top of his agenda, so yes, he's batting cleanup and at the same time he doesn't get the first word in. >> andrea there was a line that biden offered very often during the campaign which is that donald trump didn't want him to be ...

Gave. >> let's get reaction. jeff zeleny is with us. dana bash as well. jeff, he did the right thing, publically going to the back of the plane on the tarmac, going to reporters and apologized. >> it's a presidential equivalent of batting cleanup. he could have not answered her question. but there was something about it that made him want to engage. that's why it's important we ask the questions and politicians can answer them or not. it was certainly -- he thought his tone was off. talking to advisors, he did not want that to be his final word here in geneva. he does think he had a really suc...

Week. >> the demand for an investigation into the democrats was part of the reason that he found to withhold funding for ukraine. >> the look back in 2016, was part of what he was worried about. >> what you just described is a quid pro quo. funding will not flow unless the investigation into the democratic server happened, as well. >> we do that all the time with foreign policy. >> mulvaney and the white house are trying to convince the nation that heard that, that they didn't hear that. more from the white house. >> reporter: good morning, dave and christine. white house chief of staff, mick ...

>> we do that all the time with foreign policy. >> mulvaney and the white house are trying to convince the nation that heard that, that they didn't hear that. cnn's jeremy diamond has more from the white house. >> reporter: good morning, dave and christine. white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney batting cleanup this weekend, continuing to try to backtrack on his words last week, when he made the stunning admission, that security aid to ukraine was withheld because of president trump's interest in the conspiracy theory to the 2016 election and national committee. mulvaney was confronted with...