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Of an american president, pay respect to the war dead, 100th anniversary of the first world war. the president says i'm not going to go, because i'm not going to motorcade. his chiefs of staff and general joint chief say get us a motorcade. >> there are a couple of things we should note. yes, the president probably couldn't have taken the helicopter because of weather reasons. that's happened with other presidents. that's not unique. as other officials have noted yesterday there's always a backup plan for a president. i've been on numerous presidential trips and there's almost a way for the pr...

He has an umbrella to cover his hair. he's doing that at this point right now. i want to go to you and get from you. there were other world leaders who visited a different cemetery. there were a lot of split screens i saw on social media showing other world leaders paying their respects to their country's war dead. this was something that was not just for the american president but really all western world leaders kind of coming together to commemorate this great and tragic war. >> look, joy, i think one of the -- this is a moment where you can kind of reflect, if you like, amid all the bluste...

Making a positive identification of remains where the shooting ended 65 years ago is a giant puzzle. the agency involved does have some important clues and we got to see some of them yesterday. the defense pow/mia accounting agency showed us the artifacts in the transport cases from north korea along with a lot of human bones. there is one dog tag, which will be given to the two sons of the fallen soldier next week. they' they'll need further testing to determine if the man's bones are in the boxes. there's helmets and clothes and part of a weapon, a bayonet. north korea showed where the remai...

Has called some of the gold star families and at the same time he exaggerated and if not, didn't tell the truth, he called every single family and he walked that back on the radio and said virtually every family. what matters most? >> it's clearly not true he called every family and it's not true that his predecessors did not call when their family members were lost at war. it had nothing to do with if he had dealt with the grief of the families of america's war dead. this is a conversation he initiated. i think to molly's point, and she aleluded to the president talks about himself as a count...

Empathetic to understand where you're coming from and where we're coming from. some of these monuments in virginia, for example -- millions of virginiainform s don't support this because some of these are their families, sacred monuments to war dead. those are big issues. history is very layered. let me paraphrase the black mayor of richmond, a great man who said a couple of months ago -- this has since changed because of politics but a couple of months ago he said keep the statues, but teach the context. create more statues to teach the history and context. that is extremely important. our hi...