HARLOW: Welcome back. Well, several defense officials tell CNN the relationship between the president and Pentagon leaders is increasingly strained for days. The president has denied reports that he made a series of disparaging remarks about the military, about service members and veterans. And then, he said this.</s>DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I'm not saying the military is in love with me. The soldiers are. The top people and the Pentagon probably aren't, because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy. But we're getting out of the endless wars.</s>SCIUTTO: Joining us now, CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr and CNN White House correspondent John Harwood.
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