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Personal term he is speaking in and the personal emotional sentiment he is feeling. the anniversary of his son's death was yesterday. you heard biden in the remarks addressing that directly. his son, of course, was a veteran of the iraq war, died of a brain tumor shortly after coming back from iraq. he said that he understands not only the pride that military families see but the fear and the anxiety and the worry that comes with being a military family and tried to relate to that in this role we have seen from him as consoler in chief and being able to connect with people on that deep level o...

At this hour president biden is honoring those who gave their lives for this country on his first memorial day as commander in chief. the president just spoke at arlington national cemetery taking part in a wreath laying ceremony at the tomb of the unknown soldier a short time ago. cnn's jeremy diamond joining us now live from the white house with more. jeremy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. this was president biden using his role once again as consoler in chief, a role that he is familiar with not only because of his long years of service to this country but also because of c...

Anniversary of the passing of beau biden, who died of brain cancer. it's something the president acknowledged right away in his remarks. of course, hon herring service members ahead of memorial day tomorrow and speaking to the sacrifice at large that so many have suffered. this is a president who, of course, is all too fa many with grief and loss. he tried to extend that to the gold star families in attendance saying one day he hopes the memories of those who have been lost either in the line of duty or since as veterans would bring a smile to their lips before a tear to their eye. something w...

Service in the military overseas. how hard will this anniversary be for him? talk to us about that moment. >> this is a president who speaks so openly about all his experience with grief and loss and that's why we've seen him really as a consoler in chief often in just these 4 1/2 short months he be been president, but this something has been been open about. he's discussed the possibility of this linkage before in interviews. and he said this was something he was wondering about and wasn't quite sure. but we believe this is the first time he's raised this as president, so perhaps an indicatio...

He's able to sign it once it gets to his desk, it has everything in it that is important to the members of the floyd family. i thought it was quite notable that this meeting took place behind closed doors. that was a decision, we're today, came directly from the president. he wanted to have apersonal conversation. you see that reflected from the family when she say he spoke from the heart, that he was genuine, that he was able to do what he's done so many times just in the last couple of months, but of course for decades which is sometimes being the consoler in chief after suffered so much los...