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good morning to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it is memorial day, monday, may 30th. i'm brianna keilar with john avalon. john berman is off. on this day set aside to honor fallen members of the u.s. military the town of uvalde, texas, is preparing the first of many good-byes to the children and the teachers murdered last week inside of an elementary school there. this afternoon there will be visitation and rosary for 10-year-old amerie jo garza, her father told cnn that amerie died trying to call police and save her classmates. uvalde's funeral homes so overwhelm...

This scorched earth poll policy and what's the right way for the west and ukraine to respond. >> this is a good wake-up call maybe for western leaders. we still have western leaders calling putin asking him to stop. everybody wants the status quo to be restored. the status quo is gone, this is a whole new world 90 plus days after this invasion in february. are we going to actually commit to economic states craft, are we going to put in sanctions that's going to cause russia to possibly react? i don't see that the west is that mobilized on it yet. scorched earth means just that, they are destro...

Trump's tweet or blame a same that he conusulted with militar leaders with a grain of salt because there has been months and years of consultation and consideration. i think there is a purely political decision and something he's doing to satisfy his right wing. it's really disappointing because there has been a lot of thought put into that policy. the country has chamgnged and t military had put a lot of planning into making that policy decision to begin with. >> let's go to the pentagon. barbara, he says this is what his generals and military experts have advised him to do. the this would be...

President trump is preparing to take the first foreign trip of his presidency this thursday, it includes visits to saudi arabia, israel and rome. he says the trip is intended to build a coalition of friends and partners. the goal, help the u.s. fight terrorism and bring opportunity and stability to the middle east. i spoke with the man who knows the gulf states very well, particularly saudi arabia, muhammad, the fellow of the atlantic council recently returned from washington, d.c. here's how he described the mood among diplomats in the capital. >> i mean, there's great excitement especially w...

To give you that direction. but i know i'm out of time, mr. chairman. but i do want to say, what miss roby was trying to get you to say is what decisions did you make in regard to benghazi and what were you responsible to make? i think that's what all of us want to know. what did you do? what decisions did you make? and you said everybody else is responsible for everything else. what were you responsible for? >> i was responsible for sending chris stevens to benghazi as an envoy. i was responsible for supporting a temporary mission that we were constantly evaluating to determine whether it sho...