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Saying "president trump is incredibly supportive of america's great service members who risk their lives every day to keep our country safe. he has asked the department of defense to explore a celebration at which all americans can show their appreciation." and don, as you pointed out, a lot of this stems back to his trip to paris last year where he joined emmanuel macron to see the bastille day parade and was very impressed. i can tell you, i was at that parade and i was watching the president's reactions, he was riveted at hours for this military parade. now it's pretty clear he wants one of...

White house is reviewing the democrats' rebuttal to the controversial nunes memo. he expects a recommendation from top officials by thursday. then the president will make a decision to release it or not. but kelly's already throwing cold water on it, saying the democratic memo is not as clean as the gop version. relative to sources and methods. so we have a lot of news to cover, a lot of ground to cover here from this white house, as always. so we begin tonight with cnn political correspondent, sara murray. sara, good evening to you. thank you so much for joining us. you have brand-new reporti...

And very, very well done. so, embrace those memories of your sister and i know you will. >> thank you, general. >> so to answer your question, don, the united states is not france. we don't need, we have a different military history from france. let's not compare ourselves with france. if the intent of the president is to try to draw together american -- those who have served and those who serve, there are a thousands different ways you can do that. you don't need to do it with a parade. i totally agree with john. this is a long run for a short slide. it's not necessary. the way you do that is...

President macron on bastille day last year and later called their celebration one of the greatest parades he had ever seen and he talked about it for quite some time. watch this. >> to a large extent, because of what i witnessed, we may do something like that on july 4th in washington down pennsylvania avenue. >> so douglas, presidents don't normally do this, which i guess shouldn't surprise us. what's your perspective? >> that donald trump is a showman. you know, he likes the kind of bling and blang, casino kind of bells ringing, thinks this parade will be a great idea. you know, the part tha...

>> so to answer your question, don, the united states is not france. we don't need, we have a different military history from france. let's not compare ourselves with france. if the intent of the president is to try to draw together american -- those who have served and those who serve, there are a thousands different ways you can do that. you don't need to do it with a parade. i totally agree with john. this is a long run for a short slide. it's not necessary. the way you do that is you do it locally. you do it through the communities where the military resides. and from where they gain their...