share in common and not to what divide to us say what really happened and there could be many different perspectives on what really happened. >> right. >> and then find a way to have a courageous conversation and not just yell at each other about it, and just perpetuate the same divisions. vietnam offers us an opportunity to escape the specific gravity of that metasthesis and that's what we do today when we remember our veterans and service members whose names are on the wall, when we participate in the commemoration, we remind ourselves that the partisanship that seemingly occupies every moment of our time is meaningless in the face of the kind of sacrifices that secretary hagel and his brother were able to make, and the more than 58,000 people on the wall. >> such great points. ken burns, chuck hagel, thank you so much for being part of our conversation on this memorial day. >> thank you. >> thank you. we're following a lot of news so let's get right to it. german chancellor angela merkel says europe must be prepared to

take its fate into its own hands. >> here in europe there are a lot of folks looking to hear things from him. >> reporter: trump again targeting journalists acuesing the fake news media of fabricating lies. >> if you tweet every day and complain about the media you're not going oget your deals down. >> jared kushner sought to develop a line of communications with the russians that could not be monitored. >> it's a good thing. >> there ought to be a review of his security clearance. >> i don't trust this story as far as i can throw it. >> what manner of ignorance, chaos would you have to have think of doing this with the russian ambassador was a good idea? >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> chris cuomo is off and david gregcy joins me this morning. in just hours president trump will lay a wreath at national

arlington cemetery to honor our nation's fallen heroes. looks as though the weather is cooperating at this moment for these event. >> one of his first acts i think as president during his inaugural weekend was to visit the tomb of the unknown so certainly appropriate, this is not just the beginning of summer, this is a da i to honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. german chancellor angela merkel says european nations can no longer completely rely on the u.s. and must take their fate into their own hands her words as president trump returns home from his european trip. >> back in washington the president is facing growing questions about his son-in-law jared kushner. the fbi is investigating kushner's contacts with russia as president trump lashes out at the media and condemns leaks in a barrage of tweets. we have it all covered. we begin with athena jones live at the white house this morning. athena? >> reporter: good morning, david. the president is kicking off the week facing more negative headlines, not just domestically but also abroad w german

chancellor angela merkel questioning the strength of europe's alliance with the u.s. tensions from the president's first g7 summit following him home. trump's tepid support for nato, harsh words on trade, and his lack of commitment to the paris climate agreement putting him at odds with eu allies. german chancellor angela merkel questioning america's strong alliance with europe. the times when we could completely rely on others are over. europeans must really take our fate into our own hands." president trump rating the trip a great success and tweeting a tease, he'll decide on a landmark par ace agreement this week. trump again targeting journalists and leakers inside his own white house accusing the fake news media of fabricating lies about leaks come out of the white house. latest bombshell leaks concerning trump's most trusted

advis adviser, his son-in-law jared kushner. during a december meeting kushner reportingly asking sergei kislyak for help setting up a back-channel for secret communications concerning syria and other matters between russia and the trump team. back-channel that would bypass u.s. surveillance. >> this is off the map, michael. i know of no other experience like this in our history, certainly within my life experience. >> my dashboard warning light was clearly on and i think that was the case with all of us in the intelligence community very concerned about the nature of these approaches to the russians. >> reporter: kislyak himself reportedly surprised by the request, according to intercepted communications between russian officials, first published by "the washington post." ousted national security adviser michael flynn also purportedly present. the meeting initially left off kushner's security clearance form before being amended a day

later. kushner cutting his foreign trip short amid the crisis. source telling cnn he did not want to be beside the president when the story broke, contradicting white house accounts that his early departure was planned. democrats now calling for kushner to have his security clearance revoked. >> if these allegations true and he had discussions with the russians about establishing a back-channel and didn't reveal that, that's a real problem but i do think there ought to be a review of his security clearance. >> reporter: president trump affirming support for kushner, telling the "new york times" "jared is doing a great job for the country. i have total confidence in him." homeland security secretary john kelly playing defense on the sunday talk shows. >> i don't see any big issue here. any line of communication to a country like russia is a good thing. >> reporter: officials telling cnn the white house is considering creating a war room to manage fallout. kushner's wife ivanka spotted with president trump's attorney

at the white house sunday. jared kushner says he is willing to testify before congress. the president met with senior advisers on sunday to discuss a way forward and the looming question this week is when fired fbi director james comey will testify before congress, this as the special counsel ramps up the russian probe. >> thank you very much. let's bring in our panel to discuss all of this, cnn politics reporter and editor at large chris cillizza, and former undersecretary for political affairs ambassador nicholas burns. ambassador burns let's start with what angela merkel said about european nations may have to go it alone, this is based on her interactions with president trump, what she heard president trump say in front of nato. how significant is this? >> it's a very significant statement by the senior leader in europe, the most experienced

global leader today. she's reflecting the fact that there are profound differences right now between the trump administration and europe on trade, on certainly on russia, definitely on climate change, and over nato and nato has been the glue that has bonded us to the europeans for 70 years. it took us all that time to build this great alliance. we have so much in common with the europeans. they are fighting with us in afghanistan. they're making sacrifices, fighting with us against the islamic state and i think it reflects the feeling that the trump administration is not prioritizing nato. for some reason the president did not reaffirm the article five security pledge to the europeans when he was at nato headquarters and there is i think profound decline in american influence and that's a sad day for the republicans and democrats who worked so hard since harry truman to build up this alliance. i think it's a significant statement. it should be troubling to us because nato is vital for the united states. we really need these allies.

>> and chris cillizza, it was jon meacham who commented over the weekend not since preworld war i have we seen a resurgent russia, germany talk about going it alone and more passivist and isolationist united states and we know how that turned out. you're arguing in fact the national security area foreign affairs is where donald trump may have his biggest influence yet. negative influence, positive influence or do we know? >> we don't know. like many things with trump, i think we know he's willing to do and say things other politicians and presidents have not previously been willing to say and do, david. he represents unrt dorthodoxy, uncertainty. when we look at his slogan make america great again there's a tendency to focus on the dmoek policy. the truth of the matter and the ambassador can speak to this, you can always change more in

terms of foreign policy than you can in terms of domestic policy as president. you're very circumscribed as a president in terms of domestic policy largely but congress, president trump struggles with the health care bill, funding for his border wall, things we've seen already. he pulled out of the transpacific partnership. we see him waffling on the parition climate change accord. you can impact large scale change, now you can't do everything, obviously treaties congress has a role in but you can do many things. keystone pipeline we don't tend to think of as a foreign policier ubut certainly has that impact. his influence i think whether it's four years or eight years will be felt more powerfully, and i think angela merkel's comments speak to this, more powerfully in the way in which the u.s. views it self in the world and the way in which the world views the united states than anything he will do domestically. i think that is a realit driven

home by the last nine days he's been abroad. >> you have a president who admires strong men around the world for what they can achieve through those tactics rather than in concert with allies. >> right, he's running a different country than most of those strong men are. most other countries you have those strong men leaders you have a weak judiciary and legislative branch that exists to largely rubber stamp what the president wants to do. that's not the case here and you have resistance to executive actions from his own party and desire to assert themselves in their constitutional role but certainly that, you know, trump is not somebody who is a -- not a diplomat who holds his words back, let's say. there is a style of diplomacy to what he's doing but he's certainly very out there himself and he hasn't changed that simply because he entered the oval office.

>> so nick, there obviously is an intersection between what happens on the foreign trip and now domestic policy and at the nexus of that is jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and top adviser. cnn has reported as well as other outlets that jared kushner was trying to do something many say was unprecedented, and that is establish a back-channel with moscow, with russia, to communicate outside of the bounds, the communication lines of the government. how do you see this? >>le with, i think there's so much we don't know about this and certainly jared kushner deserves the chance to defend himself in the court of public opinion but eight a strange story if it's true because in a transition, you want to be careful. you want to obviously first build bridges to your allies in europe and in asia. with the russians you've got to be careful and the most i think damning part of the story if it's true is that there was a

proposal we use russian embassy communications, not u.s. government communications, that would be i think quite worrisome and gets to the larger point, russia is the dark cloud hanging over this administration. the president has run the weakst policy towards russia of any president since before world war ii. the europeans want us to contain russia, help them contain russia, another reason for their frustration with us is that president trump has not investigated the interference in our election and not standing up to putin in eastern europe. >> right, those are important points, and chris cillizza, part of what's interesting about this is not just the judgment of doing that in any circumstance. we heard like jeffrey lorde on our air say rfr, jfk's brother had his 100th birthday day, had a back-chnnel to the russians, that was during the cuban missile crisis to avoid nuclear armageddon. this is not after the russians

ma nip plapted your election and you want a way to communicate with the russians. but the tweet storm reflects something else. the president wants to put this together, no, this is a conspiracy against me as a way to deflect from it. >> that's exactly right. which by the way, david, is his default position and the blaming of the media, if if you want a through line from june 2015 when donald trump announces for president and today the through line is the media criticism. the media stands for elites and people who they think they know better. they're all together. they're all conspire so long that all fits a piece for him. i think generally though with what donald trump is saying and doing what's strange about it with kushner is it's context. this is your point, david. this doesn't happen in a vacuum. this is more smoke on top of mike flynn not disclosing the nature of his conversations with

sergei kislyak, jeff sessions not disclosing the fact that he had conversations with sergei kislyak. what was is going on with carter paige which is always dicey. paul manafort, jared kushner, multiple meetings, aside from this reporting on a back-channel, multiple meetings with russian officials not disclosed so it's not a one-off which is what the trump allies are saying. why is it bad to have a back-channel with someone we need to have a better relationship with? okay, but in the broader context, there's so much smoke here, right? there's so many things you're like hmm, that's change, it can't be dismissed as a one-off. that's not how the world works. widen the aperture slightly, why are there so many communications. if donald trump says it's fake news, a witch hunt why is he not the first guy saying bob mueller i am thrilled this is happening. this is exactly what we need. instead he runs down the

investigation, which you think would be the opposite of what he would want to do. >> karoun we've seen fortunes rise and fall the last few months. what does that mean for jared kushner who is the top adviser and the president's son-in-law? how could he ever be out? >> well that's a very good question and it doesn't seem like the president is turning on his son-in-law right now, because his son-in-law is the latest character to emerge at the center of the latest allegations surrounding the campaign's russia ties. it seems also if there's talk of a staff shakeup at the white house and rethinking the communication strategy and if that happens kushner's approach may end up prevailing. he as we reported has wanted to go on the attack, to step out more forcefully against in various episodes of these allegations coming out and the white house is actually maybe

not gone as far as kushner wanted but if they decided to change strategy you might find kushner ends up becoming closer to the president and his thought process and his philosophy for how to do this prevails. >> it's going to be interesting to see particularly this week if the president hires true outside counsel, not his counsel he's had mark kasowitz for a long time but a washington hand who forces him to shut down and allow the investigation to proceed without his interference. that will be the thing to watch for. >> david, can i make a prediction? >> chris? >> he won't he a, thank you. >> there's no evidence he will. >> past his prolog, he won't. >> he had a great lawyer representing him in the trump university case, clearly blew him off, didn't listen to him. it's a tall hill to climb. thank you, panel, very much. the trump white house in damage control mode as we've been talking about. how is the administration handling the latest russia revelations? we'll continue that conversation after this.

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>> same to you. >> the president honoring men and women who honor the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to america, home of the free, because of the brave. nice sentiment on twitter. at the same time there's talk again of a staff shakeup. we heard this before. we don't know it's going to happen. clearly the white house is in renewed crisis mode. how would this shakeup work and what impact do you think it would have positively for him? >> there's two things i find pretty curious. one, there have been reports coming out of this white house in theory since pretty much about a week after the president was inaugurated that were saying a staff shakeup was coming. how many times have we been told kellyanne conway or steve bannon was gone or sean spicer? i don't put any weight into these games. at some point you have to be exhausted and realize there's an awful lot of people trying to leak information and cause problems to this white house and

the reality is, until there is a change, and remember there's a lot of changes in white house staff, whether it's bill clinton or barack obama or george bush 43 or 41, yes, there will be changes that come but everyone keeps saying there has to be a shakeup. until it happens i don't speculate because i think what the president has said pretty clearly and what we've seen is even when empbs is expecting a shakeup he's doing his job in the white house and until there's a change, to me it's a nonissue. >> so the issue, wherever you are, governor granholm, on the substance of the russia investigation or things the president has said and done, you've been a chief executive, and for a chief executive, the key is, are you going to rely on the advisers you put around you? are you going to listen or do you, as appears to be the case with president trump think the only way forward is a mode that he perfected during the campaign, which is to lead himself to be the ultimate spokesman? that is not working for him in the same way that it did during the campaign. it's hurting him particularly

when there's legal jeopardy. >> the irony is, david, normally when you set up a war room to deal with the crisis which is allegedly part of the shakeup. >> the clinton white house had great experience with. >> right. governors have war rooms. i set up war rooms because we had a national blackout or the auto industry was going into bankruptcy. you have a war room for a specific crisis. in this case the war room is because the president created the crisis. he's not listening in the war to his generals. he is creating the problem, he's created essentially a circular firing squad although he's the one pulling the trigger. that is not a great way to do a staff shakeup. i'd rather him see a war room, let's have a war room on the opioid crisis, let's have a war room on creating jobs in america in a global economy. such a waste of human resources to have a war room focuses on yourself. >> with all due respect, let me say this. >> go ahead.

>> it's just not accurate that there say war room. full disclosure. i talked to this white house pretty regularly and several others regularly. the idea there's been some war room that's been set up to deal with his communications or his staff or to figure this out, that is just not accurate. the people that are saying there's a war room are not connected to this white house. they do not know what's going on in the inside. this white house has been running pretty smoothly the last couple of weeks. >> because he's been out of the country. >> that's not true. i have' been talking to them before then. one thing you recognize, it's okay to bring in new voices. it's okay to bring in older voices i used to have around me and it's okay to now have maybe a different perspective come in and have their say at the table. that's what i think this white house has done, but to imply that it's a war room is just not accurate of how this white house is running. >> jennifer, let me ask you

this, whether there's a war room or not we'll find out. clearly they are retooling how they'll talk about the investigation. he's talking to counsel. if he hires outside counsel worth anything and i know some of the people he's talking to, they are going to tell him you need to isolate this investigation and let your legal team handle it. if you want to call that a with a are room that's different than the setup. there's something larger and i'm curious about the strategic thinking here. the president i think all of this stuff about fake media is ridiculous and without substance so i'll say that but as a strategic point it's similar to what nixon did in that there was a way to say look, there is the left, the organized left, there's the left in the media kind of conspiring against me and there's a big audience for that. jennifer, do you think there's a danger among democrats in congress, and in the grassroots feeding that cycle yet again, and allowing donald trump to use that argument more effectively? >> well, that's an interesting point, david. i do think you know, the historical comparisons with

nixon, i know set off alarm bells for everybody. the joke that hillary clinton told at wellesley, but you got to admit there are comparisons here. they both hated the media. they both caused the intelligence community -- >> that was before watergate, i'm not bringing that up the watergate comparison for your point. >> what i'm saying is they both caused the intelligence community to be so alarmed that there were leaks, and it was deep throat who was from the intelligence community, director of the fbi. here we don't know the identities but there are patriots inside of the government who feel alarmed by what they are seeing. >> david -- >> we don't know it's going to end in the same way. all i'm saying is that it is not wild to draw some comparisons, especially since they both fired the investigator. >> let me say this. >> go ahead, ben. >> first off you're not a patriot if you're leaking to undermine the president of the

you state of america because you don't like him. >> that's not why. >> many are leaking because they don't like the president. second thing is, i think it's exhausting and irresponsible to keep bringing up the word nixon with donald trump. when donald trump comes out and says he doesn't like the media, let's just look at the last couple weeks. shakeup is going to happen, that's been for the last two months, hasn't happened. the white house counsel is looking into defending this issue of impeachment. also fabricated and not true and never happened. this president has a war room. there is not. if you're the president and by the way let's throw nixon on top of that every time we want to talk about the president, i would hate the media, too, because the stories that this white house is spending time dealing with right now are nothing but stories of one person who doesn't like the president. it's fabricated. >> i'm invoking history and not talking about watergate. i'm talking about nixon and his rise to power, he hated the

media. there's similarly. i am not being imresponsible i'm pointing to historical precedent and patterns this president is using. ben and jennifer thanks very much. i'll take the last word on that. >> way to show them how it works, david. hillary clinton back on the national stage, and taking aim at president trump. coming up, the new york magazine journalist who visited clinton in other chappequa home and says hillary clinton is furious.

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when people in power invent their own facts and attack those who question them, it can mark the beginning of the end of a free society. that is not hyperbole. it is what authoritarian regimes throughout history have done. >> that was hillary clinton blasting president trump at a commencement address at her alma mater, wellesley college, though she did not say his name. our guest spent time with clinton for "new york" magazine.

rebecca, great to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> the article says hillary clinton is furious and resigned and funny and worried. you just spent time with her at her chappequa home. describe her demeanor. >> well, she was very frank and she was candid in a way that i think she sometimes found it hard to be in the past when she's been running for office and had so much public opinion, so much riding on public opinion of her, and she spoke very freely and very candidly about politics, about her role, about what she'd just been through, about her experiences of having been this historic figure in this historic campaign against the man who is now our president and spoke about what it was like to be in the second debate. >> is she furious?

>> she's mad what's happening in the country. she talks how it's difficult to be fewer ys urious because it's be a woman who expresses fury on her own behalf on the united states you can hear it in the wellesley speech what the administration of donald trump is doing. now she's no longer a candidate she is she calls herself an activist citizen she's angry from an activist perspective what the trump administration is doing. i think she is furious. >> i'm curious about her role and how she sees her role, because she is an activist citizen. she's got a huge forum and certainly until the time when she writes her memoir about the election she'll be listened to, does she have awareness about the fact that the clinton years are over and that there's got to be a need for democrats to find new leadership in a new way to oppose trump and get back into

power? >> oh i think she's very aware of that. she said several times in the interview i'm not a candidate anymore. i'm not running for anything. one of the things she's doing is starting this c4 called onward together which is directing some of the fund-raising money that came her way and some of the lists shoo he has toward new organizations and those new organizations including something called run for something, which brings young people into politics, emerge which brings women into politics and trains them. lot of those organizations are about bringing a new generation of people into politics so it's not only where she's turning her energies but where she's sort of trying to help turn attention and money, creating a new generation of politicians so i do not think what she's talking about right now, i didn't get the impression it's about building anything for herself or the clintons. i think she's aware of the fact she is no longer a candidate and no longer directing the democratic party in any direction. >> is there any more self-awareness why she lost beyond where she feels agrieved,

comey, russia, et cetera, but other, any other self-awareness about that? >> yes. she certainly understands that there were messaging failures, that there was difficulty breaking through with some of the things that her campaign wanted to do. she's very careful not to point too many fingers at her campaign which is where the media gets distressed because she's not taking apart what her campaign did badly. the reason she says that to me in the interview she feels a tremendous amount of affection for them and doesn't want to speak ill of them. as far as blaming herself she had spoken a few weeks ago in an interview with consisti ichrist amanpower she said i take personal responsibility. people wanted more specifics and she said she's writing about it in her book which is what she told me as well. i don't think she wants to spend

a lot of time sitting around talking about everything that was wrong with her which i think is frustrating for some people who would like nothing more than to hear that so that's creating some frustration but she's willing to point out other shortcomings in passing and believes there was this unprecedented interference and she's anxious to talk about that, too. >> your article is insightful, comprehensive and long and you look at things we don't normally get a glimpse at with her, even the appearance of how different she looks, how different you found her, encountered her when you went to chappequa, those of us who interviewed her one on one you're struck how much less garred, how much more real and natural she always seems than she does through a tv screen and i thought fascinating rebecca you asked her in terms of self-reflection and awareness have you ever considered therapy. you just went there, and you said have you ever considered therapy, have you ever done it

and what did she say to you? >> she said that's not how i roll. she said and i should say she said it's great for anybody who wants to do it and she and her husband had been in marriage counseling in the late '90s, but she said therapy for herself was just not how i roll. >> that was a good quote. it can work for people but not how i get through stuff. >> she said during the commencement she's gotten through some stuff with chardonnay, her preferred vehicle. >> true. >> rebecca great article. we recommend it to everybody. the coming up after the break, one state taking action to help kids who are single the out in a school cafeteria. we'll explain lunch shaming and how new mexico is taking the lead making sure kid don't feel left out.

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time for the five things to know for your new day. angela merkel says after meeting with the president last week it's clear the u.s. is not the reliable partner european nations have depended on in the

past. >> white house officials are pushing back saying jared kushner is not taking a leave of absence, it comes in the wake of reports he tried to establish a back-channel to russia during the transition. south korea and japan strongly condemning north korea's latest ballistic missile test. ja opinion's prime minister promising to respond. a killing rampage began after the suspect got into an argument saturday night with his estranged wife. a member of the navy sky diving team was killed sunday when his parachute malfunctioned. the leap frogs were jumping into liberty state park for fleet week in new york harbor. >> go to newdaycnn.com for the latest. just to show you what it takes to anchor, co-host with david gregory i am really not 6'5". >> i protest creating artificial

height. i'm glad we're exposing it for what it is. >> that is that journalistic investigative report. this important story new mexico becoming the first state in the u.s. to ban stools from singling out students who don't have enough money to eat. this troubling trend is called lunch shaming, and it is on the rise apparently across the country and leaves children feeling humiliated and ashamed. martin savidge has more. >> reporter: 13-year-old addison doesn't talk about that day at school but her dad does. >> what a kick in the face for a kid. >> reporter: what a cafeteria worker realized addison owed money on the meal account. >> she took her tray of food from her and set it aside and offered her a cold cheese sandwich and a white milk. >> reporter: don re says his daughter was humiliated by her school in front of everyone. >> it's borderline bullying. >> reporter: it's called lunch

shaming and it happens in more schools than parents realize. according to the school nutrition association 76% of school districts across america have students in school lunch debt. even though the average costs about $2.50, schools don't have the funds to absorb the debt. so in many districts when a student can't afford their lunch they get an alternate meal, which can be very different. critics say it only turns school lunch into a lesson in ridicule. >> it's very clear you know, what your home life is like to the other kids. >> reporter: right. you know who the poor kids are. >> that's right. >> reporter: and it gets worse. online you can find posted photo of children bearing what look like school ink stamps on their arms and hands demanding payment. they are late reallily branded. how does this happen in america today in a school? >> it is. it's shocking that this is even a thing that is still going on.

>> reporter: for michael padilla it's personal. growing up he knew poverty and hunger. now a state senator, he spear-headed legislation making new mexico the first state in the country to ban any kind of lunch shaming. how did you feel when it passed? >> once in a a while in the legislative process we get something right. this is something we got right. >> reporter: padilla says 21 other states reached out to him to see what they can do and an identical bill has been introduced into congress which could bring a federal law so that no student should ever again have to face a choice between hunger or shame. martin savidge, cnn, albuquerque, new mexico. >> good for new mexico. thank you, martin savsavidge. in a few hours president trump will honor fallen soldiers in his first memorial day wreath ceremony. we're joined live with a personal take on this national holiday, coming up next. ugh, no bars.

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you're looking live at pictures of arlington national cemetery. this morning president trump will lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns honoring fallen service members. he just tweeted about it, he looks forward to paying his respects and writing on twitter today "we remember the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in serving. thank you, god bless your families and god bless the usa." joining us now cnn military

analyst lieutenant general mark hurtling. 'good to see you particularly today to reflect on what memorial day really means and you do so in such a special way honoring those who have fallen who are in your command. >> this is a tough day, david, for a lot of those who have lost friends on the battlefield but also those who lost their loft ones who paid the ultimate price and sacrificed for the ideas which are behind our country, and truthfully this is a day for celebration for most americans, because they get to go to the beach, it's the beginning of summer, it's very beautiful but i tell you truthfully i know a lot of my friends who have a tough time on this day as i do, thinking about those who sacrificed and gave their all. >> general, we know you've done this before with us in the past and it's such a powerful ritual, that you do, you have a box in which you keep keepsakes and photographs so share that with us of what you look at today.

>> actually three of us have this box, general retired marty dempsey, former chairman of the joint chiefs, general mike skaparotti, supreme allied commander and europe and myself. we were in baghdad 2000 had when the tradition of making these cards started and later on after that tour i bought the box for the three of us and had it engraved with our motto of make it matter, a reminder we do the things we do so the world can be a better place. in my particular box there are 253 cards with pictures of soldiers who gave that sacrifice under my command. >> we're looking at those right now, obviously everybody has their own personal life story that was cut short in service to our country. can you share anything personal with us as they look at these in. >> i can, alisyn. every day this box is to my desk

at work, i open it up and take one card out and pray for the families that are carrying on without their soldiers and think about them, and this week in particular, one struck me as very strange, it's coming up on your screen this young man, lieutenant tim brown. when i picked up his card, i saw his photo and he's got this just big old grin on his face and got the desert floppy hat and the one hand thumbs up, this kid was a 2004 graduate of george mason university from connecticut. graduated from college and joined the army and went through officer candidate school and became a lieutenant. he was with us in northern iraq in 2007 and '08 and he was killed in combat as part of the 1st armorred division that year. just a great kid. soldiers loved him. he always had that irreverse able smile on his face and he left a mother behind. those are the kinds of stories, another one i'll give you, the only other one i'll give you

staff sergeant colitta davis, a medic who volunteered to go out on patrol with infantry men and she was killed leaving behind three children in alaska. she was from nome, and everyone in that unit just adored this young woman and they named the medical iraq. she was in northern iraq with the 10th mountain division. young person whose light was extinguished way too early. >> general one of the things important about memorial day because we have such a professional armed forces now, we do not have a draft, it is the danger that we lose an emotional connection with those who serve and fight and there's always been the disparities even with the draft, but do you worry about the loss of that emotional connection? >> i do, david. it's tough. less than 1% of our nation who are eligible to serve do. so we have 99% of our country

who don't understand this kind of service, even though they may be doing other things, and there is becoming an increasing disconnect between the civilians in the military and our country and it unfortunate and why these kinds of stories are extremely important. one of the things that comes uhm every year, people thank veterans to are their service. alisyn and i had a conversation, don't thank me for my service. instead honor those we're honoring today and try and find a way to instill their memories in your daily life and make your country better by the things do you. >> i remember and i carry that with me. general as we do always the poignant stories and powerful ones that you share of these young people, so thank you very much for being on and reminding us all of what memorial day is. >> thank you, alisyn and david. >> we'll be right back with the good stuff.

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world war ii but his time in the service cost him his high school diploma. he was promised he could graduate when he returned home, but it never happened. so at 89 years old he contacted his high school in michigan, and they agreed to help him and the veteran proudly walked across the stage, receiving his hard earned diploma. >> i don't know you'd put it in words, but it does mean a lot to me. >> so beautiful. >> no summer school for that guy. >> there you go. >> he earns the right to walk across the stage. this was fun. time for "cnn newsroom" with poppy harlow. >> good morning you guys. have a great memorial day. let's get started. good monday morning everyone. i'm poppy harlow. john berman has the day off. this morning president trump visit the arlington national cemetery to deliver remarks and lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldie