right now, president obama's been meeting eye to eye with the russian president vladimir putin for the first time since the crisis in ukraine broke out. president obama made clear exactly what it wants russia to do to reduce tensions. the white house comes out swinging again, defending its decision to trade prisoners for bow bergdahl and reiterating bergdahl is innocent until proven guilty. the interview with susan rice coming up. more new revelations from hillary clinton's memoir, including details of a 2000 meeting with president obama that she compares to a, quote,

awkward first date. hello, i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. in france today, where it's the 70th anniversary of d-day, we're learning more about a brief and informal chat between president obama and russian president putin. both men attending a luncheon to mark the anniversary of the normandy invasion. relations between the two have been frosty because of the annexation of crimea. cnn's michelle kosinski is traveling with the president and join us now. we're told the two presidents spoke, what, about 15 minutes in this informal conversation? what do we know happened? >> didn't even look like this was going to happen. seems like just hours ago, we were saying, well, this brief leaders lunch at a commemorative ceremony isn't the best time or

place for a meaningful conversation to happen. earlier in the day, it looks like they were actively ignoring each other as they were doing the meet and greet. yesterday, they even took time out to meet with other world leaders, but not with each other. now the white house says yes this meeting actually did take place on the sidelines between president obama and putin. it was about 10 to 15 minutes long. and at this point, we only know the white house's take on it. their summary or readout of the conversation. but the message conveyed is what president obama said yesterday he would convey and the message he has been sending through the months of this crisis, that russia basically needs to do something, to deescalate the situation, to recognize the new government in ukraine, to start working with them, to stop supporting the armed militias, to stop arming those militias. and if russia did take those steps, then president obama said

there would be an opportunity to move forward. now, to many, it might seem like russia has long since exhausted all of its opportunities for a diplomatic solution, since the violence day to day on the ground in ukraine continues, but world leaders are saying that that opportunity to work and move forward still exists. i think what might be more interesting is this meeting that also happened today, again, brief, between putin and ukraine's president elect core shanco, that the two of them were talking about a cease-fire in the near future. we're still very much waiting to see what comes out of meetings, especially since they were less than 15 minutes long. >> we'll see what happens with the russian readout of what occurred at the meeting. we'll see if either the official russian media or the white house releases any photographs of that little chat the president had

with putin. we'll see what's going on. michelle kosinski will have much more coming up throughout the day. she's traveling with the president. michelle, thanks very much. the ceremonies were somber and celebratory.dignitaries, qu elizabeth. also had a job during the war, working as a military truck driver. in his address this morning, president obama recalled the he ro heroic efforts as they took heavy losses but ultimately turned the tide of the war. >> paratroopers fought through the countryside to find one another. rangers pulled themselves over those cliffs to silence nazi guns. to the west, americans took utah beach with relative ease. to the east, the british went

over the coast. and a solemn vow to fight them on the beaches. the canadians whose shores have not been touched by war drove far into france. and here at omaha, troops who finally made it to the seawall used it as shelter, where general bart, if you're rangers, lead the way. >> most of the survivoring veterans of d-day, they're now in their late 80s or 90s. this is probably going to be one of the last times we'll see so many of them together. meantime, the white house is standing by comments that sergeant bowe bergdahl served the country with, quote, honor and distinction. in an exclusive interview with our senior white house correspondent jim acosta, the national senior adviser to the president susan rice defended her remarks about bergdahl and the deal for freedom.

she said taking the time to notify congress could have put bergdahl's life in jeopardy. >> we were very concerned about the well being of bowe better doll who had been in captive for five years. we had indications his health may be fragile. and so there was a real sense of urgency to obtaining his freedom. the president had the opportunity to do so. and it was an opportunity that could well have been nefleeting and he choose to take it. he feels very strongly that was the right decision. all of us on the national security team were unanimous in supporting and recommending we take this opportunity. >> was that the reason you didn't notify congress, because there was this threat on his life if word leaked out? >> we had reason to be concerned about his life. we also had reason to be concerned about the 30-day period that would normally be honored was too long. that had he waited that long, we may have well missed what general dempsey called the last best opportunity to bring him back. we don't leave anybody on the

battlefield, regardless of the conditions of their capture, and as a prisoner of war, bowe bergdahl deserved, and we had the obligation and the commander in chief had the obligation to do what was necessary to bring him home. >> let's bring in our chief national correspondent jim sciutto and our chief political correspondent candy crowley. jim, what do you make of her explanation? >> i think she might admit in private she went a little far on sunday to use that phrase honor and distinction. to be fair, there's been hyperbole on both sides. some wild accusations about what bergdahl was, what kind of soldier he was. what kind of behavior he was up to on the negative side. what i hear constantly is we're going to do a full investigation. give us the time to do that. right now, the focus is on his health. before you can answer these things define livety, you have to get through. >> you interviewed her the sunday morn the president was in the rose garning with the parents making this dramatic

announcement. do you think the white house has been caught off guard or by surprise by result, all the comotion that developed? >> what surprised them is not the pushback on dealing with terrorists. they expected that to happen. three years ago, hillary clinton, when she was secretary of state, said the president's not going to take that kindly talking to people we've been at war with. so that was expected. somehow what they didn't see coming was the amount of vitriol toward bergdahl himself. they did not expect that part. they clearly were not ready for it. there's a simple answer. exactly what she said the second time around. everything is the same. we were afraid his life was in danger. but yet he walked out. yeah, we thought his life was in danger. whatever. that keeps changing as to why they didn't tell congress. the other half of this is, does it matter, should it matter, what bergdahl did or did not do.

the fact of the matter is, we don't know. maybe somebody somewhere knows. but no one's talking about this know, at this point. she clearly should have said that to begin with. >> one thing you'll hear, military officials, even, you know, former ones speaking like general stanley and crystal, they agree with the administration, that you don't leave guys on the battlefield. investigate later but bring them back regardless. >> this is jim acosta's interview today with susan rice. here's another excerpt. >> let me ask you about some comments you made last sunday on one of the sunday talk shows. you said bowe bergdahl served with honor and distinction. it's come out since then that some of his fellow soldiers say he was a deserter, he may have wandered off the post there in afghanistan. did you misspeak, did you get that wrong? i realize there's been controversy around this. i was speaking to the fact this was a young man who volunteered

to serve his country in uniform at a time of war. that is itself a very honorable thing. >> but honor and distinction? >> jim, really, this is a young man who circumstances we are still going to learn about. he is, as all americans, innocent until proven guilty. >> all right, so what do you think? >> i think that's a point the president was making as well. one, innocent until proven guilty. as he was explaining his decision a couple days ago, he said, listen, i'm responsible for these guys. used the expression "i send them off to war." it's my responsibility to bring them back. volunteering to serve in foreign lands, we as a country have an obligation to them. >> made the point, he volunteered to serve in the united states army as a young man from idaho, that was a very honorable thing to do. >> that act certainly is. now, so what was the totality of

his service? they're going to have to find out. i agree with jim. i think probably she would take that back could she take it back at this point. and one wonders what she knew about, you know, the facts about his disappearance. but, in truth, nobody knows, because the only one who actually knows what he did after he disappeared from the base to now is him and whoever had him. >> we already have conflicting, you know, accounts, right. because some of his fellow soldiers said, oh, he went out there, he was somehow seeking out the taliban. cnn has now talked to an afghan official who was part of the response team and he says, no, the taliban came, forcibly got him, beat him up, that kind of thing. that's already a conflict there. one of the many things they'll be looking into in their investigation. >> sunday on "state of the union, you have a lot more coming up on what's going on. >> we'll talk with some former top military brass, get their feel for this whole discussion about what's going on this week about his service and about dealing with terrorists. >> candy, thanks very much.

candy, sunday morning, 9:00 a.m. eastern. jim, don't go too far away. we've got more to discuss. signs of life for the economy. the labor department says the jobs picture is better than expected. we're going to break it down for you. plus, hillary clinton opens up in a brand-new memoir detailing some fascinating behind the scenes moments in her 2008 presidential campaign. some disagreements she had with president obama when she was secretary of state.

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217,000 jobs were added in may. the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 6.3%. let's bring in our analyst joining us from new york. the markets, it looks like the dow jones right now going up a bit. maybe we'll show our viewer what's happening right now. it's up, what, about 73. another 200,000-plus new jobs created last month. >> absolutely, i mean, this is now four months of really strong jobs reports. what's good about this one is the job gains were really broad-based. they were across all sectors. manufacturing, retail, trade, tourism, health care, everything. you know, the two areas of concern, though, it must be said, are that the major growth is still in lower wage jobs, and wage growth overall is only about 2%. that's about half of what it was in the precrisis era. that still has economists concerned. >> the fact that another 200,000-plus jobs created, but

the unemployment rate stayed study at 6.3%. how many jobs do you have to create in a month in order to see that 6.3% number go down? >> you need job growth of over 200,000 definitely from here on ought to start seeing a real dip. but that workforce participation number we sometimes talk about is really crucial here. the workforce participation rate is the amount of americans that are actually participating in the labor market. that's now below 63%, which is as low as it's been since 1979, which is when women started coming into the workforce en masse. so that number affects the overall employment number. we need to get participation up. sometimes when it rises, uemployment can rise too, but it doesn't mean it's a bad rise. it's something statisticians talk about. the bottom line is we need more people in the labor market. we also need wages to tick up to have a real robust activity. >> we have a new poll that finds

a lot of people are getting more confidence about the economy but many still think a full economic recovery is years away. the opinion on the economy, only 3% believe it's completely recovered, 40% say the recovery has started, 31% say conditions have stabilized, 27% believe the economy is still in a downturn. a lot of people aren't yet convinced that things are so much better than they were a few years ago. >> well, there's two things going on there. for starters, this has been the longest recovery in postwar history. it's taken 40 months for us to get back to those precrisis levels of employment. that's a long time. the other thing, it depends where you are on the economic food chain. people who have college grease never really suffered as those without them. somebody who has just a high school degree is not feeling recovery. overall, wages as a whole, as i said, have been flat since the crisis and recovery began.

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hillary clinton's new book "hard choices" isn't out until tuesday but excerpts reveal some fascinating details about her tenure as america's top diplomat, her relationship with president obama, and a critical vote she cast as a u.s. senator that she now calls a mistake. our senior political correspondent brianna keilar has more. >> in her much anticipated memoir, first obtained by cbs news, hillary clinton details her role in negotiations to secure army sergeant bowe bergdahl from taliban forces in afghanistan. >> that's not how war works. >> reporter: the controversy surrounding his release and exchange for five top taliban leaders likely does not surprise her. she writes, i acknowledged, as i had many times before, that opening the door to negotiations with the taliban would be hard to swallow for many americans after so many years of war.

clinton's starkest difference of opinion with president obama is on syria's civil war. she says she pushed him to arm moderate rebels bus he disagreed. no one likes to lose a debate, including me, she says, but this was the president's call and i respected his deliberations and decision. clinton offers her strongest mea culpa yet for voting in 2002 to authorize of use of force in iraq. a vote that cost her liberal support in 2008. i wasn't alone in getting it wrong, but i still got it wrong, plain and simple, she writes. she speaks warmly of her relationship with obama, which grew out of a bitter primary battle. >> you're likable enough, hillary. >> thank you. >> reporter: she describes their first meeting after she dropped out of the race. we stared at each other like two teenagers on an awkward first date, she say taking a few sips of chardonnay. both barack and i and our staffs had a long list of grievances.

but she didn't go to bat for obama right away. >> governor sarah palin -- >> reporter: describing a request from his campaign to knock sarah palin when republican candidate john mccain picked her as his running mate. i was not going to attack pail just for being a woman, appealing for support from other women. i didn't think it made political sense and it didn't feel right, so i said no. perhaps an appeal to women voters who will be extremely important to clinton, should she run for president. >> brianna joining us now, along with our chief political analyst gloria borger. it was clear in some of these excerpts that ap, associated press, now has an excerpt as well, on cuba, where there was another disagreement apparently on easing u.s. relations with cuba. the expert obtained by a.p., hillary writes, the embargo, that's been in place for decade, quote, wasn't achieving its goals and it was holding back our broader agenda across latin america. i thought we should shift the

onus on to the castros to explain why they remained undemocratic and abusive. there's another example here of slight difference between the president and the then secretary of state. >> sure. on syria, these are stark differences, right, she's appearing more hawkish and i think generally she is and that's really the role she served in the president's candidate. but he's not particularly popular, right, and if she's trying to appeal to voters somewhere in the middle, this is one way she can kind of do it but i also think it's sort of difficult. the difficulty is she doesn't want to look like she's slamming someone who brought her on and also sort of mending fences with president obama, that's also something that benefits her. >> this just seems to me, again, from all the experts we read, because i've not read the entire book, is that this seems to be safe. it's a safe place for her to be. it also reads, yes, i disagreed

with him on syria, yes, i disagreed with him on cuba, but all about policy, nothing personal. yes, we had these huge grievances. yes, we cleared the air. well what happened? when you read bob gates' memoir -- >> the former secretary of defense. >> the former secretary of defense, he kind of got into it. he got into the personalities. he got into the real fights. help g he got into the kind of -- how he felt about joe biden and what he felt about joe biden's policies and the white house staff. you know, the hillary clinton staff and barack obama staff, you know, were going at each other. but she pushes that aside because i think it's, you know, she clearly has miles to go here. to me, it reads like somebody who's not yet done with her political career. >> she's obviously not done with her political career. she's seriously thinking of expanding that political career, making an effort for the white house once again. there's always a dilemma in writing these kinds of books,

especially if you're looking ahead to a political career it on the one hand, she spent four years as the secretary of state. this is a memoir of her experiences. she wants to tell all of us what happened, whether she agreed with the president, disagreed, stuff like that. if she does too much like that, it seems to be she's distancing herself from this president who, as you point out, is going through a rough patch. >> the truth is, she's going to need to do that if she runs. she's going to need some of that distance. at the same time, she served in his cabinet. what i think is kind of fascinating is look at president obama. he wrote, "dreams for my father," long before, i would say, his presidential aspirations were in the forefront. in a way that was very unique. we got a sense of him as a person. certainly when he wrote "the audacity of hope" leading up to his run, he was much more careful. we just sort of see that with these books. >> there's another first lady that's been in the news -- >> would would that be? >> that would be the current

first lady of the united states. now there's a little, you know, buzz out there, maybe she would follow in hillary clinton's example, after leaving the white house, run for a senate seat. maybe from illinois. what do you think about -- >> michelle obama is stepping out a little bit. she's getting more into the political arena. she disagreeing with congress who want to push back on her food guidelines. she's getting a little bit involved in foreign policy. she's kind of moving out there. i personally believe it has more to do with being second term than it does to do with michelle obama saying, you know, maybe i could have a political career because by all accounts she doesn't like politics. she likes policy. i don't think the president likes politics either very much, by the way. i certainly can't see her sort of actively seeking out a senator job unless it were kind of handed to her. i don't think she likes that very much. >> go ahead. >> i think that's exactly right. i don't see her following in the

foot steps of that model that hillary set up as first lady. >> yeah, she met -- michelle obama met her husband at harvard law school, right? and where did hillary clinton meet her husband? >> yale. >> at yale law school. so they've got -- maybe, who knows. >> some things in common. >> that's right. thanks very much. >> was that a quiz? that was a good quiz because we passed, right? >> we did all right. >> what law school, harvard or yale? >> don't know. >> all right, thanks very much. up next, free after five years of captivity, but still far from home. we'll have the latest on bowe bergdahl's condition and when he might return to the united states. later, our own jake tapper sits down with the comedian stephen colbert but when the talk turns to d-day, stephen colbert becomes very serious. [ female announcer ] there's a gap out there.

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delivered. in the meantime, let's remember, this is a young man who volen tissued to serve his country. he was taken as a prisoner of war. he suffered in captivity. he's now trying to begin the process of recovery. let's let that happen and know the facts and then we can make a judgment. >> we're also learning more about bergdahl's time in captivity. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr is following that part of the story. what do we know about bergdahl's attempts to escape during those five years? >> u.s. officials are being very closed mouth about it because they do, as susan rice points out, want to talk to bergdahl, they say, and get the facts. there's been a lot of reporting out there. sources are telling me at the moment what they have is some information, some intelligence indicating that bergdahl did try and escape his captors at least once, perhaps multiple times. the information is very sketchy right now in terms of any public release of it. they want to talk to him.

they want to find out exactly what happened. clearly, if he did escape, the taliban recaptured him. >> we're also learning a bit more about his treatment since he was freed last week. our own christiane amanpour asked one of the top nato commands in europe about this. listen to this. >> how is he? can you tell us, he's being debriefed, what is his state mind, what is he saying to you? >> i wouldn't say he's being debriefed yet. what we're concentrating on right now is his health. he's been in a tough place for a long time. landstuhl medical center is the perfect place for this. it is the best place in the world to do that. >> can you tell me about his health? >> i don't think that's really appropriate. that's something between he and his doctors and his family right now. >> what else are we learning, barbara, especially about when he might be returning to the united states? i know they're getting ready, facilities at san antonio, a

military hospital there. >> right. let me say what general breedlove just said squares with everything we're hearing. no formal questions, no interrogation, no debriefing yet. all of the work being done with bergdahl now is to restore his physical health and help him deal with the psychological trauma of being held by the taliban for five years. as soon as he has that psychological bet, a bit more settled, we're told, they're still working on that, that is why he is at landstuhl, then they will clear hi and transfer him to san antonio, brook army medical center down there. that is a place where the military, especially the army specialized in what they call phase three, repatriation of captives back to the united states. it's expected, you know, nothing is set in stone but expected at that point he will likely be reunited with his parents. at this point, everything we're being told is he has not spoken

to them yet. nobody's stopping him from speaking to them, but it's going to have to be on bowe bergdahl's timetable, as he feels comfortable and as part of his reintegration back into the united states. >> all right, barbara, thanks for the update. barbara starr's at the pentagon. meanwhile, another american detained in north korea. a tourist. we're going to tell you what he's accused of doing. coming up next, stephen colbert turning very serious. his uncle survived d-day but not the war. our own jake tapper has an emotional interview with stephen colbert, that's coming up next. y to combine solar and natural gas at the same location. during the day, we generate as much electricity as we can using solar. at night and when it's cloudy, we use more natural gas. this ensures we can produce clean electricity whenever our customers need it.

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beaches of normandy on what's known as d-day. the invasion in france paved the way for full european liberation from nazi germany less than one year later. some 2,500 young american soldiers lost their lives that day. the normandy invasion was known by the code name operation overlord. the huge undertaking was months in the planning and the training with no assurance at all of success. thousands of men died as they waded ashore into withering nazi gunfire. today, president obama remembered their enormous sacrifice by laying a wreath for the dead. the success of the invasion was the beginning of the end for nazi germany. president stopped to shake hands, say thank you to some of the 1,000 surviving veterans of d-day who attended today's ceremony. tv talk show host and comedian stephen colbert's best known as a very funny comedian with a soft tongue and a biting bit of satire but ask him about d-day and you won't hear him cracking too many jokes.

with us is our chief washington correspondent jake tapper, the host of "the lead." you spoke about d-day and his special connection. >> you were showing some of those old photographs, some of the ones viewers might remember the most are the paratroopers from the 104st airborne parachuting in to normandy right before d-day. one of those was stephen colbert's uncle, uncle andrew edward tuck iii, that he would hear about from his mother, and he heard about and read about in this volume of dozens of letters that uncle eddie wrote home. >> a lot of these letters start when he's 19. and he's dead by 23. and you see his maturation process in the letters. you see the experience. he starts off as someone who's very proud to be serving his country, wants to get the job

done. and by the end of it, he is someone who has seen terrible things. but is actually steel in his conviction that it was the right thing to have done and wants to keep going. because he lives all the way through the war in europe and then wants to go over to japan, but unfortunately dies before he gets there. >> uncle eddie was such a vivid presence in his family growing up. because of the stories that his mother, who was uncle eddie's sister, would tell stephen colbert and his siblings, that he feels, he says he feels almost like he knows him and he misses him because of that. and the letters are amazing. they are to the father. they're talking about war and secret operations. to the mother and the sister, they're funny, poetic, beautiful. they track very closely, if you're familiar at all with "band of brothers," track very

closely because he was in the 101st airborne. he was with fox company and they went everywhere together. >> looking forward at 4:00 p.m. eastern to see the interview, different side of steve phestep we don't often see. later tonight, you have a special on bowe bergdahl. >> this is the story of the week, bowe bergdahl and the mystery surrounding bowe bergdahl. we'll be exploring that with some people who served with him in his squad. some of the people who knew him from back in idaho and from other parts of his life, trying to get to who this man was, beyond the political nonsense and the accusations and counteraccusations, free from anything having to do with washington and president obama, republicans. just bow bee bergdahl, the sold. we will watch that. that's 7:00 p.m. pacific. >> 8:00 p.m. -- >> 8:00 p.m. central and 9:00 p.m. mountain. >> all right, thanks.

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are believed to be held in the secretive communist country right now. what are you learning about this latest american being detained? >> they have had him for almost a month and a half now which is astounding that we are just finding out about it. he arrived there according to him as a tourist. it was detained in mid may after somebody left a bible in a hotel room where they were staying. the north koreans are said to be very sensitive. they have several state run churches but they forbid independent religious activity. it could be one reason why he was detained. the state department just got saying to reporters that they are aware of these reports and

they have no greater priority on getting americans out of places like north korea. they are doing things hopefully behind the scenes to win his release. this is now three americans that the north koreans are holding. there is a gentleman named miller matthew todd. he was detained on april 10 where the north koreans said he apparentlier to up his visa. we do know a lot about a third american, a missionary who has been held in a hard labor camp, threatening to spread religious messages. the north koreans are very sensitive. and cuba and iran. tell us a little bit about some of the other americans who have been detained for a long time. >> there are quite a few of them, and this is clearly a very sensitive topic now. he is canadian and she is

american. they have been held somewhere in afghanistan or possibly pakistan since 2012. they were abducted. they were trying to maybe win some attention in the wake of the bergdahl release. you have got a gentleman named siad who remains in prison in iran. there is a former u.s. marine. of course, with the release of bowe bergdahl, it begs the question, are these governments that the u.s. is not friendly with and are there other entities who will take advantage of the situation and think they can get something for that american, be willing to take more risk. this is something that

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those cases solvable. >> newsroom starts that right now. >> hi there. i'm brianna keeler. after weeks of deadly exchanges between ukraine and russian troops, could a cease fire be in the works? the president seems to think so reporting that president vladimir putin and ukraine's president just agreed to discuss a cease fire. the turn around doesn't end there. also came face to face today. a quick and