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Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. >> mr. president, it was just a year ago you ordered stepped up aid to vietnam. there seems to be a good deal of discouragement about the progress. can you give us your assessment? >> we are putting in a major effort in vietnam. as you know we have 10 or 11 times as many advisers in there as we had a year ago. so we don't see the end of the tunnel, but i must say i don't think it's darker than a year ago, in someways lighter. >> early on, kennedy made a command decision, we will not allow south vietnam to fall to the communists. >> in s...

Times as many advisors in there as we had a year ago. so we don't see the end of the tunnel, but i must say i don't think it's darker than a year ago, in someways lighter. >> early on, kennedy made a command decision, we will not allow south vietnam to fall to the communists. >> in southeast asia, communists inspired submersion was unrelenting. south vietnam looked to others for stemming vietnamese aggression. >> going back to the eisenhower administration in the '50s, the country split into south and north vietnam. you have communists in the north so the united states is very eager to preserv...

The press conference today in real world in belgium and brussels, president obama was emphatic he did the right thing in securing sergeant bergdahl's release. here's the president doubling down. >> we do not believe anybody wearing the american uniform behind. we had a prisoner of war whose health had deteriorated. and we were deeply concerned about it. we saw an opportunity and we seized it. i make no apologiies on that. >> is this a command decision that only one person can make when it really comes down to it. you can have susan rice and everybody floating around and all kinds of politician...

Syria he's sharing his command decision with these guys and this guy, and the playbook seems to change by the day as he works through his decision making process live on tv. >> this is not convenient. this is not something that i think a lot of folks around the wor world, you know, find an appetizing set of choices. but the question is do these norms mean something. >> doesn't he seem agonized? when i talked to administration officials, they insist that we all have politicized this issue and that the president is treating this with the appropriate amount of gravitas. you could argue that poten...

Agencies somehow to get together and one person that turns around and makes a command decision because we asked for just even these fences, the storm fences, we asked for the storm fences to be put put along the entire beach to stop the sand from coming in and some restriction on the environment coming back into the house. they say we can't do it. we don't have a contract for that. we only have a contract to put in front of the street. we're looking for the sea wall. i understand that the army corps of engineers says it has to be done one way. parks department wants it done another way and the...