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Just makes better mps put politics and reelection ahead of other key military decisions and true safety. ed henry is live at the white house with the latest for us now. >> good to see you, jenna. the president, vice president behind closed doors have a weekly lunch, that is standard, going on for five years, but today they are opening the lunch up for photographers to go in and get a picture of that. this just one day after the details leaked out about not just the president, but the vice president leadership credentials in question by the former defense secretary robert gates. jay carney is s...

A civil war is possible. there are fighters going back and forth between syria and iraq. but i think they both have to be dealt with in a different sort of manner. they're not exactly the same. there is no cookie cutter approach dealing with syria and iraq even though they border one another. jenna: speaking of some models, we're talking about the new book of former secretary of defense robert gates, he had an interesting quote, we're only seeing excerpts of book, some of us have seen the whole thing but most are only seeing exerts. i want to share this thought. he said in relation to afghanis...

Congress saying of their hearings, quote, rude, insulting, belittling, and bullying and all too often highly personal attacks on witnesses by members of congress violated nearly every norm of civil behavior. members postured and acted as judge, jury and executioner. gates said television cameras in a congressional hearing at the effect of a full moon on a werewolf. jenna? jenna: paints an image, doesn't it? wendell. thank you. >> for a look at the political fallout of the gates book and how it will affect the president's second term agenda. let's bring in the politics editor for "roll call" an...

Down with five people on board. we're told from our colleagues at fox news who spoke to someone at the navy, four crewmembers were rescued, one is missing. the hunt is on. at last report a coast guard vessel was three miles away from the crash site. we're told some of wounded or some rescued people have been taken to a hospital. their condition is unknown at this point. again a navy helicopter, a ch-53e stallion goes down in the water, 18 miles off the coast of virginia. one person is reportedly missing. we'll get you information as soon as we can. it happened 90 minutes ago. if you have not...

Jenna: bombshell new book by former secretary of defense robert gates comes out next week. it is called, "duty, memoirs of a secretary of war." gates is critical of both the bush and obama administrations as far as we can tell from the exerts, one of the big headlines is his opinion of president obama's handling the war in afghanistan. he writes about a meeting in 2011 saying this, quote, as i sat there i thought the president doesn't trust his commander, can't stand karzai, don't believe in his own strategy and doesn't consider the war to be his. for him it is all about getting out. right now...