. >>> let's bring in julian zeleny and siraj hasmi. thank you both for joining us.st, i'm going to start with siraj. let's remind our viewers what the president tweeted. so president trump is essentially admitting to not knowing the guy leading the fight against isis after declaring they were defeated. stop me if i'm wrong here, but shouldn't they have been having these conversations? should not there be briefings that would have him know who mcgrk um mcgurk was? >> quite possibly. it should give americans pause when russian president vladimir putin and iranian ayatollah. it cannot be understated. it's possible he might be inflating his own significance but he did get turkey on board with basically trying to stave off defeating the kurds and the kurds were absolutely integral and critical in defeating isis. they lost upwards of 10,000 troops in fighting isis. the fact that president trump doesn't know who mcgurk is not a good sign but he is the commander in chief and i don't have him to know who everybody is in the federal government. >> we are talking about isis he

julian zeleny is a historian and professor at the princeton university is also with us.tlemen. we are glad to have both of you here. doug, i did want to start with you. i want to bring up, if we could, please, an instagram post from jenna bush who says -- she talked to her grandfather about dying. he said, yes, i think about it. i used to be scared and afraid of buying but now in some ways i look forward to it. when i die will i reunited with people i lost. i hope to see robin and i mop to see my mom. then he said, i hope she is the 3-year-old. how much did that affect who he was, losing his daughter? did he ever talk about robin to you? >> yes, he did. it was profound impact on him and provoked great curiosity about life after death, the possibility of it. when i first met him and first started writing for him was 1985 and '86, '87, he was not yet a candidate for president. he was in that stage of why do you want to run for president, so you had all of these theological questions and it started out with me writing pages of memorandum explaining the different languages t

siraj hasmi and julian zeleny, we appreciate you both taking time to be with us.nk you, gentlemen. >> thank you. >>> republican senator susan collins and democratic congressman elijah cummings, both on cnn later this morning. don't miss "state of the union" with jake tapper at 9:00 a.m. and noon today. >>> before he won the presidential election, donald trump to relationship up the paris climate agreement. but this morning, that deal is still alive. in poland, they jumped on tables and hugged and danced all in celebration as delegates reached a deal to put it in action and each country has to measure emissions and track climate policies. the countries in agreement includes, yes, the united states. despite the president's vow to abandon it since the united states can't leave that agreement until 2020. >>> so i know it's only 2018. almost 2019. >> almost. >> almost. 2020 democratic presidential hopefuls are getting their first look at what voters think of them. coming up, who votes in iowa, specifically, are backing at this stage of the game in the race to face pres