the white house. but that's me. maybe i'm in a minority in that role. >> yes, sir. >> but it's been reported that the service had multiple contacts with gonzalez prior to september 19th incident. will any review of that event include a review of how information regarding the suspect prior to that date was handled, including information gathered by the secret service investigators following gonzalez's arrest on july 19th, 2014? >> yes, sir. that's correct, sir. do you want me to explain a little bit what happened? >> if you would do that. >> yes, sir. during that time, sir, when mr. gonzalez was arrested down in virginia, our roanoke office was advised of the arrest. there was consultation between the local authorities, and our agents, and at that time our agents did not interview mr. gonzalez. subsequent to that, when mr. gonzalez posted bond, our agents did interview mr. gonzalez, and we were aware of the weapons that he had in his vehicle. we were also aware of the map that he had in his possession.

historic nature of the white house and the american people should have access to the white house, so we are now in the process of working at the partners. that's the first step to see if we can do something that would be appeasing to the eye and keep the historical nature of the white house, but maybe the high fence. >> he got further in the white house than some of my republican colleagues have gotten. >> yes sir. it would certainly help us and we are looking for ways and options and in fact we hope within the next few months to have some drawings of options for people to look at. >> into the incident there's hardly anything we can do about a great. >> what we have done is we've pushed out the perimeter after the constitution ave. again to monitor that area as well. >> i yield back the balance of my time. >> i have a great admiration for the secret service when i was a judge in texas i had agents bring cases that were well prepared and well received by the juries and that is the case today. the secret service does a lot of things. is your number one priority protecting the president

the white house. this is an extremely difficult, high-profile mission where which there is no margin for error. recent incidents give me great concern that the policies, procedures, and training at the secret service are not entirely up to the task. just after 7:15 p.m. on september 19th, 2014, omar gonzalez was able to scale the white house fence, evade numerous secret service officers outside the white house, and force his way through the unlocked front door, armed with a knife. although it was initially reported to the public, and congress, that gonzalez was apprehended just inside the north portico doors, we have since learned that he actually made it all the way to the east room of the white house before being tackled by secret service officers. the department of homeland security's review of this event uncovered a laundry list of errors that evening. including, communication systems that didn't work, and that officers were not trained to use properly. a construction project along the white house

the white house. but that's me. maybe i'm in a minority in that role. >> yes, sir. >> but it's been reported that the service had multiple contacts with gonzalez prior to september 19th incident. will any review of that event include a review of how information regarding the suspect prior to that date was handled, including information gathered by the secret service investigators following gonzalez's arrest on july 19th, 2014? >> yes, sir. that's correct, sir. do you want me to explain a little bit what happened? >> if you would do that. >> yes, sir. during that time, sir, when mr. gonzalez was arrested down in virginia, our roanoke office was advised of the arrest. there was consultation between the local authorities, and our agents, and at that time our agents did not interview mr. gonzalez. subsequent to that, when mr. gonzalez posted bond, our agents did interview mr. gonzalez, and we were aware of the weapons that he had in his vehicle. we were also aware of the map that he had in his possession.

thatere was no way in hell i would have go gotten it out of the white house. this year big stories has been isis. initially we had isis taking over mosul. there was that big move, is the president going to order military action at that point? like he was getting damn close to doing so. ended up not happening. then we -- we get further on towards the summer. he'sbviously we have -- initiated air strikes. he's announced a prime-time address, though that's not always an indication that he's anything.o but again, you've got no information coming out of the house on what's going on. but i was table able to get soe information, in addition to air strikes. he would be announcing these goups of advisors that would over, which would be essentially, they would have boots, be working on the ground, they would not be boots on the ground. but the way i've learned on this beat, you've got to go around pentagon, covered the having covered congress, having covered the state department, having covered the intelligence each one of those geteplaces is a lot easier to information

that's the white house spin. but is that fair or is the real problem the white house wanted to make all the decisions, they hired him -- maybe our policy needs to change and he's representing the generals who didn't like the foreign policy. >> how much support at the pentagon, he was really not going to go down as one of the stronger secretaries of defense. but yet, he was in immaterial to the failures of the foreign policy because the foreign policy is so centralized and in fact, i think the reason why they pushed him out is because he was not the yes man the thought they were putting back. he was frustrated, but had no influence. probably not. >> he said how he spoke up and said with martin dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs that isis was a bigger threat. he pushed back and policy lax lacks clarity, going to succeed against isis and certainly didn't like that. >> that's absolutely true and i guess you can give them points or two for finally sort of seeing the light, but let's face it. this was an competen

luke russert at the white house. thanks for the update. >> drilling down on the possible successors. one long time military leader saying that the top two candidates are in order. michelle flornoy and ashton carter. the president needs a nonpolitical choice after uh ousting one of the republican advisers. the buzz for flournoy goes back to the confirmation. listing the reasons the president should ditch chuck for michelle. he was under secretary of defense for policy and founded the office for rule of law and international humanitarian policy and joins me now. thank you so much, rosa. >> good to be here. >> you called her a skilled translator, saying she understands the military and the culture, but understands the different assumptions and pressures that motivate white house officials. the civilian military gap is often at the widest in washington and flour noy has the ability to bridge it. >> it depends what they were looking for. they were looking for someone who would be a policy nonentity who is easy for them to

she covered the white house and has her own show now. and brook craft is a photographer who was on the beat for ten years for time magazine but has shot photographs for all of your favorite magazines. we are excited to have all four of these folks. i had the chance to talk to all of the panelist in advance and talk about their favorite stories and things that they wanted to discuss. everyone talked about covering the beat meaningfully and how to break out of the pack and not get boxed in by the day to day at the whitehouse. so i want to give them a chance talk about that. we will start with susan. we talked about what a challenge it was for you to do the story that not 50 others were doing but that was something you did on a regular bases. can you talk about that? >> thank you. i am honored to be here and i am not sure you how tell the panelist and audience because there are so many people in the audience with equal and better experience so thank you for being here. you know, when christy asked me stories,orable reversing the agenda mine

that was a regular friday feature of the white house. the reagan years, every friday, he would go to camp david. he would leave about 1:00, 2:00 in the afternoon and fly away. we would see him and try to provoke him into answering a question. and reagan had -- you know, i don't have the statistics to back this up, but i have the impression that reagan was more available to the press in the oval office than his successors have been, that reagan had more photo ops. when foreign dignitaries were there, there was always a photo op and always an opportunity to ask a question. now, whether or not he answered it remained to be seen but he was there. there was the opportunity. and that's one of the important things. i think that's something that we miss now, that there is not that. but i mean, visiting dignitaries, people who -- i remember reagan being very anti-abortion. he had anti-abortion groups in a lot. and just different constituent groups would come to the oval office. and there would be a photo op. you could ask a question. and i think t

when you have the white house, the most important member of your party is the person in the white house. we'll see whether we can work with the president. i hope so. that's what he says. we'll find out. david? >> thank you, senator. except for a few days you worked out mainly with vice president biden, the president and congressional republicans don't have a good track record of working things out. you talk about how you think a united republican congress would possibly have the ability to send the president new bills and force him to veto or sign might alter the dynamic. >> i'm not sure he's going to sign everything. we're going to function. we are. we're going to pass legislation. some of it he may not like. we're going to function. this gridlock and dysfunction can be ended. it can be ended by having a senate that actually works. >> do you think it might be fruitful opposed to the way it has been so far. >> the veto pen is a big thing. the president of the united states can direct the members of his party to vote for legislation or veto it. that's the way it works. >> senator paul sa

and entered the white house in 1929. lou was very much in the washington social circle to the extent that she wasn't in california or working with her girl scouts. but lou was considered to be a tremendous style icon emulated and believed to be one of the best dressed women in washington. she is also, when she became first lady, one of the first -- excuse me, the first lady to be photographed for "vogue" magazine. and "vogue" does a photo shoot on every first lady now. so this is one of her dresses. this is a day dress. again, we can see that that soft dressing style that began to show with grace coolidge is still dominating when she is first lady. these are some photographs, and i want to give a special appreciation to marcus eckhart here on the staff of the hoover who went up into storage and pulled two dresses for me so that i could show you some of the detail of the things that lou wore. lou had an exquisite eye for style and for color. these are things that sometimes are not remembered. this particular dress is actua

the best sources are not in the white house. i had the great good fortune of working very briefly with ann devereaux as people in this room know is one of the best around. she had that place wired. she must have known every janitor and secretary in the place. she knew things before white house officials knew them. they'd call her to find out what was happening. i asked her once. what's your trick? she said, there are three levels of sources of the white house. he agencies, congress, and "k" street. none of them work in 1600 pennsylvania avenue, exactly what john and margaret were just talking about. >> steven, what about you? >> i agree with you. sometimes you have to be -- come in as an outsider to do that story about how the rest of the world sees what the president is doing. one occasion i remember was the first trip to china, which was in 2009. and the president -- it was a bit of a disaster. the president did a town hall meeting in shanghai, which half of china couldn't even see because it was blocked off and the chinese wou

i'm andrea mccarren at the white house. ave a report coming up. >> also breaking tonight marion barry in the hospital again. >> we'll finish the week on an arctic note, temperatures 20 degrees below average, but good news for e thweekend, warmer air on the way, what that means for your saturday and sunday forecast. >>> we begin with breaking news from the white house. a woman with a gun in custody after an incident near the white house. i'm jan jeffcoat. >> i'm derek mcginty. she was arrested shortly after president obama addressed the nation. mola lenghi is life outside the white house. what do we know about this woman? >> reporter: it was around 8:30 tonight when the secret service spotted a woman walking along the north fence line here of the white house. a secret service spokesman tells distribution news the special agent spotted a 9- millimeter gun in a holster around the woman's waist. that's when she was arrested. president obama was home here at the white house at the time of that arrest just finishing up his address

the best sources are not in the white house. i had the great good fortune of working very briefly with ann devereaux as people in this room know is one of the best around. she had that place wired. she must have known every janitor and secretary in the place. she knew things before white house officials knew them. they'd call her to find out what was happening. i asked her once. what's your trick? she said, there are three levels of sources of the white house. the agencies, congress, and "k" street. none of them work in 1600 pennsylvania avenue, exactly what john and margaret were just talking about. >> steven, what about you? >> i agree with you. sometimes you have to be -- come in as an outsider to do that story about how the rest of the world sees what the president is doing. one occasion i remember was the first trip to china, which was in 2009. and the president -- it was a bit of a disaster. the president did a town hall meeting in shanghai, which half of china couldn't even see because it was blocked off and the chinese wo

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that's the white house spin. t is that fair or was the real problem the fact that the white house wanted to make all of the decisions, hired him as a so-called implementer of the policy and as the world changed, he decided, maybe our policy needs to change and started representing the generals who didn't really like the obama foreign policy? >> i'm not sure how much support he had in the house at the pentagon. he was not going to go down as one of the stronger secretaries of defense. again, he was immaterial to the failures because the foreign policy is so centralized and the reason they pushed him out because he was not the yes man they thought they were putting in -- >> exactly. >> and was pushing back at the end and was frustrated but had no ip influence. >> he said -- spoke up and said with chairman dempsey that isis was a bigger threat than the white house was admitting and pushed back on syria, said we need to get clarity if we succeed against isis and the white house didn't like that. >> that's absolutely t

is the white house really called the white house because it was painted white because of the scorch marks when the british burned it in 1814? the third one is, did the great storm that came through this region, not just washington, but the following afternoon, put out the fires and save the city? now, because we are talking about myths, i guess you have already figured out the answer to all of these. but, i would be curious with a show of hands, how many of you have heard of the myth of the great storm? whether you believe it or not? okay. i was correct in taking the observation that many people have heard about that. the title is slightly different from what you have in your program but myths from the war of 1812, i think sounds better than myths during the war of 1812. some of these actually came about after the war, not necessarily during the war. let's go ahead and jump in and tackle this thing. i wanted to acknowledge there's already been a book that's been done by don hickey. you heard from don this morning. he was the first speaker. he did an excellent job. he's done a whole book o

>> the white house said he's going veto it. if this is the one issue that will get louisiana voters on the fence, should i vote for mary landrieu or not, that's not what's holding people back. mary landrieu is a democrat supporting democratic policies in the senate. obamacare is a big issue in louisiana. i don't think the keystone pipeline is a good issue to turn the tide for her. i think she is going down in a couple weeks. martha: we'll see. she has been in tight races before and she pulled it out in the last part of the process. michael warren, thank you very much. eric: isn't it amazing what one election can do. martha: now there is a big rush to get this through the senate after 8 bills on this have been sitting on harry reid's decks for a couple of years. -- desk for a couple of years. eric: there are new reports the president wants a new plan to deal with syria and that terrorist group isis. we'll show you top brass in the pentagon, they will be sitting down appearing before congress. we'll have their testimony and what t

the motivation on the part of the white house is to not split up families. as i mentioned at this conference earlier today, the president said because republicans have not acted on immigration reform in the congress, he will act on his own. he says that will happen by the end of the year. here is what the president had to say. >> i indicated to speaker boehner several months ago that if in fact congress failed to act, i would use all the lawful authority that i possess to try to make the system work better and that's going to happen before the end of the year. >> reporter: now, a senior white house official told us earlier today the president has not received the final recommendations from the administration on what will be in the executive action. the president still has to review this and make a decision. he has not made a decision yet according to the senior white house official. christine, the details of the plan are well known inside the white house in words of the one official i was talking to earlier today. it is not like this is an academy awards and

that's a point of tension between the pentagon and white house. empsey who kept making this argument, it really wasn't hagel. it was very interesting when you go to the hill if it were dempsey and hagel it was dempsey speaking out general eighth the news, upsetting the white house no, the hagel. when hagel would go to the hill with kerry, it was john kerry the secretary of state that would generally do a lot of talking. so hagel really was in the background and maybe that's what the president wanted but the pentagon doesn't work well when you have a weak civilian leader like that. >> i have heard both theories of the case, that the president wanted someone who was going to be quiet and less all public figure on their own. that the white house wanted to o have a much bigger hasn't and in effect shrunk the job. or shank the job whatever it's supposed to be. >> both of these can be true at once, this is washington after all. i think maybe there was a misunderstanding of how small the job could be from the white house perspective while still being big

the white house has hinted. the president may veto the bill if it is passed before the regular store review of the pipeline. >>> yesterday, the dow added 40. that means it was the 25th record high of the year. stocks encouraged by solid earnings from walmart. exxon and chevron lost 1% yesterday. crude oil is $74 a barrel. the lowest in four years. down 30% from the peak in summer. trouble for the energy companies, but good news for you. gas prices are falling with oil. the current average for a gallon of regular, $2.92. prices are expected to keep falling in the next several weeks. >>> breaking overnight, another ebola patient may soon be on the way to the united states and nebraska hospital. opening up about the infected patient and treatment they are ready to offer. ore he driver. m. for lotus f1 team, the competitive edge is the cloud. powered by microsoft dynamics, azure, and office 365, the team can gain real time insights and instantly share information around the globe. when every millisecond counts, stayi

the white house and their legal counsel has looked this over. they say this is within the confines of the law. that they are able to do this. what they are doing is not so much giving anyone legal status. they're just prioritizing some deportations over others. so we'll see what people think when the president comes out with his announcement tomorrow. >> this has ramifications. there are immigration agents who sued the administration over the saying they're being forced to violate their oath to upheld to constitution and defend the laws of this country. if the president is saying you come across someone, they're an illegal immigrant, you have to let them go. you can't report them, turn them in or detain them at all. when you discuss that with the average american on the street, they have a problem with that. when you talk about this issue of deporting 11, 12 million, 20 million people, they think that sounds like nonsense. where do republicans find a sweet spot, can they? >> this is age old question. what to do about immigration. there's no easy

the real problem was the carter white house screwed it up as well. when the italian prime minister came to town, they invited the norm than that a to the white house. and the japanese prime minister came to town, they invited me. finally, norm and finally, norm and i put a baseball team together and said we played under the sign of the racing pizza. bob back one thing that we see in this book, mr. secretary, is appealing and dealing with congress. is he hoping one passage where the clintons crime bill. we saw it in speaker wrote me a a very effective speaker. what is it that he did in the u.k. band that is now missing? >> they rolled up their sleeves and wanted to get it done. i believe the best way to say it. tip o'neill who was political, the democrat from boston, all politics is local, but typepad a heart that was unmatched in terms of wanting to do the right thing for the country. and so, whether it was ronald reagan or carter or whoever was president, tip was really devoted to trying to help not only the president, but the country. and so even th

we built a mockup of the white house grounds. we have the proper distance from the north fence line to the north portico. but it's a mockup at our facility. ideally in the future, we would love to have a true replica of the white house. so that our dogs can feel comfortable working in the true environment of what the north grounds are like. so that would be a long-term goal to get a mock-up of the white house at our training facility. >> glad to hear you say that. i ask unanimous consent that my opening statement be in the record. >> without objection. i thank the gentleman from michigan. the chair will now recognize the je nan from north carolina, the the former united states attorney. >> thank you, mr. chairman. director clancy, thank you for being here. i think it's very good that someone with a long history in the secret service is there to address these problems. like my friend, miss marina. i spent a long time working with the secret service and have nothing but respect. the secret service is always willing to jump into a ta

the white house will receive $5.6 million for the iraqi advising mission.chuck hagel was invited to the white house by the president today for lunch to brief a bipartisan congressional group. the chairman of the joint hinted at the need for more troops last week. >> that's why we need to expand the train, advise and assist mission into the anbar province. but the precondition of that is that the government of iraq is willing to arm the tribes. >> administration sources say the white house began making plans to roll out this announcement on wednesday, a day after the midterm elections. pentagon press secretary rear admiral john kirby says there was nothing political to the timing of today's announcement. bret? >> jennifer griffin live at the white house. >>> we want to get to ed henry on reaction to this move of troops back to iraq, but now the chief white house correspondent has some breaking news tonight, hello, ed. >> reporter: the -- a federal polluter to be nominated to be his next attorney general, she's highly regarded as a prosecutor. her name has be

jim acosta is joining us from the white house. our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto is joining us. he's in vienna, austria, right now covering the u.s./iranian nuclear talks. we're standing by for our chief international correspondent christiane amanpour. jim, you're working your sources over there. a lot of sensitivity, the president will presumably down play this notion that hagel is being forced out, pushed out. what are you hearing? >> i'm hearing from defense officials that this was mutual. that's a consistent line. i know that others are hearing he was pushed out and, to be frank, there had been talk of dissatisfaction from the white house with secretary hagel for some number of weeks. now, to be fair, that criticism does not only go in one direction. fact is, in the halls of the pentagon you will hear frustration with the white house, with lack of strategic planning, with micromanagement and that's, frankly, a criticism that i've heard, wolf, outside of the pentagon as well in other departments. the state de

directory's former resigned last month shortly after a man jumped the white house fence and entered the building before being detained. this hearing is an hour and 45 minutes. >>> good morning. the judiciary committee will come to order and without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. we welcome everyone to this morning's hearing on oversight of the united states secret service. before we begin, i want to make members aware that the first portion of our hearing is open to the public. there may be items which we cannot discuss in an open setting because they fall into the category of being law enforcement sensitive information. thereafter, after the director has testified and we have concluded one round of questions we will recess briefly to clear the hearing room. after that, members and staff will be permitted to re-enter the room and we will convene the law enforcement sensitive portion of the hearing. today we welcome acting director clancy to a hearing to conduct oversight of the united states secret service. we very much appreciate you b

he ended up at the white house. no one else was there. they finally had -- jodi powell had to tell him what happened but they wanted him to wait until after johnny carson went off the air. he turned to the cameraman and turned on the lights in the lawn and said i'm going on the air whether you share this with me or not because this is going on the air. so it is a great story. >> when he talked about sort of this idea where you're sort of this idea of you're the "news catcher," what was the part of the job he hated? having to do that? >> i would have to say when television changed in 24-hour news came in, having to say the same thing over and over when there wasn't any news. i really think not a breaking point but a difficult point was right after 9/11 was anthrax. i don't know if you remember it was a news cycle that was -- i remember him finally saying one day, i have always loved doing this and this is almost -- in every hour with nothing new to say, which just went against what he had been doing for a long time, became difficult. but of

their names are on the white house visitors logs. this was the weekly standard conservative magazine reacting to this shocking news. what a friday afternoon news dump. i tried to warn you, america. reverend wright and bill ayers. more from the weekly standard. visitors logs have two visit by bill ayers, one by jeremiah wright. this was from that conservative blog hot air doing some very damning math with this information. jeremiah wright has visited the white house more often than general mcchrystal and general petraeus combined. turns out more than one person in america has the name jeremiah wright. the person on the white house visitors log was not that jeremiah wright. also bill ayers, william ayers, there's more than one person in america with that name. bertha lewis, the lady from acorn is bertha m. lewis. bertha e. lewis visited the white house, probably for a tour. i hope she had a nice time. if you get 100,000 people visiting the white house in a month, mostly as a tourist destination and then release seven months of visitor l

removed from the white house. .. is a speculate and when people like you and i speculate the people in washington say you know i haven't seen anyone inside the beltway talk about what a literary genius obama is in a couple of years now. sometimes word does get out but in the meantime i want to thank you all for coming and thank you for keeping the faith and go royals, okay? [applause] up next investigative journalist ronald kessler author of the first family detail discusses what secret service agents have revealed about our presidents over the years and talks about the recent scandals involving the agency. he spoke spoke at barnes & noble booksellers in washington d.c.. this is about 50 minutes. >> thank you very much. it's a pleasure to be here. as you can tell him the title of my book i like to write about secret subjects preferably very challenging subjects that have consequences for society. it might be perverse perverse because it's a subject so easy i don't want to do it. this sometimes gets me into trouble. wh

. >>> then, is the white house doing business with a tax chief? al sharpton accused of not paying millions in taxes and the administration turning to him for advice on the country's next attorney general. how ironic is that? "cashin' in," exposing h hypocrisy, starts, right now. >>> hi, everyone. i'm eric bolling. welcome to "cashin' in." our crew this week, wayne rogers, john thin hoenig, michelle williams, welcome, everybody. president obama promising his plan will fix a broken system. really? sure you're not just rolling out a red carpet for millions more illegals to come to america for good old-fashioned american amnesty? listen to this illegal who just crossed the border. >> translator: there's a possibility of immigration reform inspire you to come now? yes. that's right. that inspired us. now? yes. now. >> and michelle, thursday night as the president unveiled his plan. millions more illegals are probably going to head their way here for amnesty. right? >> yeah. because what he's telling everyone is, come here. break the law. come here illeg

lewis who visited the white house. if you get a hundred thousand people visiting the wliet house in a month, mostly as a tourist destination, and then you relesioned seven months of visit xx logs at a time, you're getting a half million names. there are some people who sound like they are public figures, when really, they are not. >>> given this large amount of data, the records we're publishing today include a few false positives. names you may think of a well-known person, but are actually of someone else. when that happened, the normal media at the time, mostly, reported it that way. white house posts visitor's list. is that the bill heirs? no. here's the new york daily managing. white house jeremiah wright. michael moore. names don't match, controversial figures. so that's perfect, right? they get -- the boldface names up there, they've got the scandal right up there in the headline and they tell you, actually, this is not a scandal. that's how to report what did or did not happen. in the conservative media, michael

the white house promoted the m.i.t. economist as an independent analyst to back up the white house claims on the health care law, when in fact gruber had been paid $400,000 to make the glowing claims about obamacare. glowing claims reports the huffington post that were disseminated by the white house and the national liberal media with headlines like these. from a white house blog m.i.t. economist confirms senate house bill reduces costs and improves coverage. from the "washington post," massachusetts provides evidence that health care reform lowers insurance premiums. from politico, m.i.t. analysis backs obama. all of those published before obamacare was passed. gruber may be m.i.t.'s idea of an honest man, such honesty is how the democratic party deceived the nation, and with the help of unscrupulous president on this issue at least who declared we can keep our doctors, health care insurance, the premiums would go down, not up at health care costs would fall. none of which, of course, was true. we may have lived up to

the president will step up today and talk. our white house correspondent is in the east room where the president will come out in just a moment. phil, quickly, in brief, what is the white house suggesting the president is going to do in this press conference to try to position himself after last night's big loss for his party? >> i think there's a hope there will be a setting of the tone. bipartisanship. you heard what mitch mcconnell had to say. also continued reinforcement that executive actions are on the able. i think while they are going to try to strike some balance with what you heard from mitch mcconnell earlier, there is no backing down from the white house on some of their agenda items they have laid out. first among them is immigration. something they said they will to by the end of the year. there is no sense that they are going to back off that in any way shape or form. >> john and i will talk to our -- phil our our colleagues. john, do you think the president has a big challenge today or is this a relatively easy exercise?

. >>> and the arrest outside the white house. the rifle, the ammo, amid a major apology from the secret service. >>> and what the president is about to do on immigration. >>> breaking news involving bill cosby, his new shows cancelled. and why. >>> and the made in america invention that just made this family $14 million richer. you won't believe this one. >>> good evening on this wednesday night. we do begin with the deadly storm being called historic tonight. a state of emergency, and now, at least seven dead. and the urgent call to action. and the national guard moving in. drivers trapped for hours being rescued. images overnight. and this pregnant woman carried to safety. and a harrowing drive home. a highway in wisconsin, that car sliding into that other car. parked on the shoulder of the road. and this scene in buffalo, new york. and you can see the view through this garage door. the snow piled several feet high. and then from outside, neighborhoods buried in several feet of snow, and more on the way. ginger zee is standing b

you talked about how 96 point 1% of the 1% is white, and among the 5%, 80% of that is white. a fifth of us are not even visible in this conversation of the blacklight binary, which includes huge numbers of different kinds of asian-americans, who are running many of the tech companies that does -- determine the futures of black and brown people and the role of white supremacy on their community which goes back into chicano history. all that was mexico -- so how do we -- how are we affected by this conversation, with race itself and the story of race. thinking about solutions and moving forward. that is what my generation cares about. we are tired of being beaten down, and told we cannot do anything about it and there is something wrong with us. >> there is an interesting moment. >> thank you. there are two things going on here. there is an incredibly complex multiracial reality, and race and white super miss it affects all of these groups and the discussion needs to be had but when affirmative-action first started, to discuss the ills of slavery and jim crow, that was seen as p

the so-called resignation with the white house pressuring him out. the chief pentagon correspondent. the drama here and also msnbc analyst jack jacobs joining us. a fellow of vietnam veteran. mick, first to you. obviously difficulties with the white house and working with the nsc and a lot of conflict. the resignation. why now? >> as you suggested, some officials here at the pentagon. they had the meetings over several weeks and hagel's idea. i'm told that in fact as you mentioned that hagel was forced out of a job. one of the problems with being there currently is the white house is micromanaging everything that happens at the pentagon. it was difficult for them to do under robert gates. almost impossible to do as we have seen in his book with leon panetta. they saw hagel as an easy target and easily manipulated. even people here in the building thought it was an uneasy fit from the beginning. there were questions being raised here. is he set up as a sacrificial lamb for what some think is a challenged foreign policy out of the white house. >> only l

tuesday night, the white house announced that the president invited congressional leaders to the white house for a chat on friday. we shall see. candy crowley, cnn, washington. >> joining me now with more on the gop juggernaut and what it means for the next two years is david chalian and john avlon and margaret hoover. david, first to you, you're the guy in the know. this is what you cut your teeth on every single day. let me just start with the next two hours. what does the president have to say when he goes on tv at 2:50 this afternoon? >> that's a great question. i think what you're going to see the president say is a two-pronged message. we got a preview of this when vice president biden sat down with our gloria borger a few days ago. they are going to try to express that they're ready to compromise. but i think you're going to hear the president challenge the republicans. from his point of view, they've been a real opposition party, an obstruction party, a party of no. i think he's going to challenge them to say, okay, guys, now you're in the big driver's seat and you're governing

it's the latest alarming incident at the white house. the secret service is still reeling from the series of failures that allowed omar gonzalez to jump a fence and get deep inside the white house. today the agency's acting director apologizing on capitol hill, acknowledging the secret service has been severely damaged by its own failures. >> devastating. what hits so hard is the range of shortcomings that ultimately allowed omar gonazlez to enter the white house practically unencumbered. >> reporter: it was a comedy of errors. the officer in charge of the attack dog was on his cell phone, and was without his backup radio. the secret service saying they're considering making the white house fence taller. and working to improve the response to intruders. and the acting director saying he's worried about low morale. >>> and word that president obama will unveil new policies on immigration tomorrow. >> everyone agrees that the immigration system is broken. >> and the president is expected to announce a plan that would give up to 5 million un

this is something that the white house wanted. has sort of gotten lost in the shuffle, fwraifrnling all of the other noise an the politicalests happening around it from the mid-term elections to some of the other issues that we are going to be talking about but the white house is disappointed. there is no question about it. it's pretty much finished for this congress, perhaps anotherbrity apple next year. >> libby, what happened? there are many people on capitol hill on both sides of the aisle expressing a did distaste once the snowden revelations were made by just how much the government was able to find out about our communications. >> as they say, politics makes strange bed fellows. there were some interesting coalitions being built because of this. an add vocat, one the authors, patrick leahy, a liberal had, also had the support of ted cruz who, of course, is one of the most outspoken conservative libertarians in the senate. it had a handful much of others on board but only a few. the mainstream republicans, mitch mcconnell we

reports from major garrett at the white house and david martin at the pentagon. a super typhoon taking aim at alaska is about to trigger a dramatic change in the weather in the lower 48. meteorologist eric fisher on the return of the polar vortex. awaiting the grand jury's decision in ferguson, missouri. michelle miller is with the the man who's trying to keep the peace. >> there's a lot of fear, a lot of people are afraid of what could happen. >> pelley: and steve hartman "on the road" with a college-level course in sportsmanship. >> we laugh together, we cried together. we all hugged. it was really a big family of huggers there. it was awesome. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the president, who was all about getting the united states out of iraq, is sending more troops in. late today, the white house announced that president obama has given the go-ahead for 1500 more troops to deal with the threat posed by the terrorist group known as isis. with this expansion, the number authorized has grow

it's been the greatest privilege of my life. >> reporter: the white house and pentagon claim after a series of three recent meetings with the president, it was hagel who offered to step aside. but senior defense officials tell nbc news hagel was forced to resign. as the war with isis exploded in iraq and syria, the white house appeared to lose confidence in hagel as he questioned the administration's strategy. after president obama called isis the junior varsity of terrorists, hagel warned the militant force was a potential serious threat to the u.s. >> they're beyond just a terrorist group. this is beyond anything that we've seen. so we must prepare for everything. >> reporter: if the white house is frustrated with hagel, the feeling is apparently mutual. republican senator john mccain said today hagel was shut out of the white house inner circle and critical foreign policy decisions. >> i can tell you he was in my office last week and very frustrated. >> reporter: critics claim hagel is being made a scapegoat for the administration's foreign policy shortfalls and blamed the white ho

obama have been talking about it for weeks but there was tension between the two. >> sources say the white house hasn't been happy hagle wasn't a more vocal supporter of the presidents policies and pentagon sources tell cbs news haglex was fed up with micro managing from the white house. he was the only republican in president obama's cabinet. the former nebraska senator also fought in the vietnam war and received two purple hearts. president obama did not announce a replacement today. hagle plans to serve until one is confirmed. cbs news, the white house. >> republicans issued statements praising secretary hagle for his service and criticizing president obama's leadership when it comes to foreign policy. >>> we are still waiting to hear how d.c. plans to say goodbye to marion berry, the 78 year old died sunday morning of natural causes due to a heart condition and kidney disease. we have more on his life and his legacy. >> reporter: flags fly at half staff outside the wilson building today in honor of the man many call d.c.'s mayor for life. >> the man was an example of a selfless service

the years. there's often a big white chocolate version of the white house, like a miniature version of the white house made out of chocolate and i think there's -- at some point in one of these recent years bo the dog made out of marzipan i think it was. so you get to see a few fun flourishes to go with the normal decorations, giant trees and sometimes photos of military families and people in the military. so i expect we'll see that. >> i forone want to know if the president's daughters sasha and malia will be here, if they've recovered from the turkey thing the other day, the pardoning of the turkeys where they were there near those giant, giant turkeys. they just looked shocked the whole time. >> it is shocking and it's not their first time with the turkeys. athena, thank you so much. this is a really nice part of the holiday season and nice time there at the white house, a bit of a change from what the other stories that you have to report. maybe when you see it arrive we can pop back and look at that with you if time allows. >> great, thanks. >> athena, thanks. >>> ahead, raj tragedy, that'

because all the media reports were white officer shoots unarmed black teen. the eyewitnesses have corroborated the officer's story here. if that does turn out to be true, those leaks are right, what does that say about the president sending three white house representatives to the funeral of a guy that may -- i don't know this -- may turn out, if the leaks are right, to have been a guy that may have attempted to kill a police officer? >> sean, we don't know. >> what's the point? >> i think there's no rush to judgment here. i think what the important point is, that the federal government has historically tried to be involved in these civil rights issues so as to prevent things from blowing up. >> well, it's not working. >> go ahead. >> the fact is we don't know. the people who have seen more evidence on this than those ourself -- >> you read the leaks. >> i've seen leaks but i'm not in the grand jury room where the grand jurors are listening to testimony and evidence from the prosecut prosecutors, i assume from the police, and they know more about this than we

jim acosta is joining us from the white house. correspondent jim sciutto is joining us. he's in vienna, austria, right now covering the u.s./iranian nuclear talks. we're standing by for our chief international correspondent christiane amanpour. jim, you're working your sources over there. a lot of