>> you mentioned something about renovating the white house.e renovated -- rather his wife renovated the white house, and they too moved out. >> but part of it later, i thought the west wing was created. >> the west wing was created. i think somebody else mentioned it was called the executive mansion. he changed it to the white house. >> linda, what is the fondest memory of your father being president? when you think back on those years, what do you enjoy the most, or what is the best memory you have about it? >> i think when he went to the congress and asked them, and it was bipartisan, he went and asked them to pass massive civil rights legislation. and i'm -- [applause] >> that wasn't easy for somebody whose best friends in the senate were not in favor of it, and had come from texas. why did he decide he wanted to do that? >> he knew it was the right thing. before he represented texas, he represented his constituency. the time had changed. and he personally knew of discrimination. he'd seen it, not just with people who were african-american.

anita mcbride's career relating to the white house and the presidency spans more than 30 years as a white house adviser, chief of staff, and diplomatic adviser. currently, she is executive in residence at the center for congressional and presidential studies in the school of public affairs at american university in washington where she directs programming on the legacies of america's first ladies and their historical influence on politics, policy, and global diplomacy. anita served as an assistant to president george w. bush as well as chief of staff to first lady laura bush. she directed the first lady's travel to 67 countries in 4 years to support foreign policy objectives and human rights, women's empowerment, global health, and education. she's a member of the u.s.-afghan women's council, the international republican institute's women's diplomacy network, the national italian-american foundation, and most importantly, a board member of the white house historical association and chair of the committee that organized the presidential sites summit. mark is an author, presidential histori

and the white house. a discussion was recorded at the john f. kennedy center for the performing arts in washington, d.c. >>> good evening. i hope you've been enjoying tonight's program. it's been fascinating and there's more to come. a your ago i was honored when fred ryan, chair of our board, asked me to chair the white house historical association's board committee for this important four-day senate. i want to thank the members of our committee for their year-lock commitment and contributions to the planning of the summit. with the terrific staff of the white house historical association and the vision and leadership, we've convened more than 100 presidential sites, as well as leading experts in the wide array of fields and interests at the presidential cite that the representative told us they wanted to hear from. that is what it is like to be in the white house. our next panel, we'll shift gears to hollywood. as dd myers said in her message, we'll examine you the big and small screens portray the fict

>> yeah, so, when we talk about white supremacy -- white supremacy is an ideology that says white isormative, and there's a value judgment there. so white is normative and better than everything else. >> isn't white supremacy more of a call-out for violent racism? >> no, so, that's interesting, is that the way people think about white supremacy is normally rooted in things like lynching and enslavement. that is, like, how people think about it, but white supremacy shows up in a host of other insidious ways. so you think about -- funding for school systems is a great example. like, some kids aren't worth an investment, and some kids are certainly worth an investment, and that is about saying that, like, there's a set of people who just are worth more than other people. >> do you think that most people define it the way you define it? >> no, i don't know if, like, it is one thing. you are talking about the way that it manifests, which is different than the way we define it. so we live in a world where there are a host of things -- like band-aids are "skin tone" and don't look like my -

you know, to get into the white house, you know everybody wants to work at the white house until they get the job. then they don't know what to do with it. i really mean it. that's the truth. you have to understand this job is very scary because of the people you are serving. you are no longer serving just anybody like in a hotel or whatever. you're serving people that have achieved great things in life, that have had great jobs, so you better be on the same level with your food. i also served numerous emperors, kings, heads of state. when i started at the white house, i was already in that line of work for 20 years, learning under the best chefs available in paris, france, germany, and specially the hotel that i always mention because that used to be known as the number one hotel in the world. it still exists today but i think i lost its luster to the years because now it's part of a chain. in those days the savoy was owned by family. big difference. big difference. and the customers, the guests that we were feeding at the savoy in those days, just to give you a short list, we had a

through the white house. and so mrs. bush had made sure that any of the resident's staff that were still working in the white house that had been there in the johnson time were there to greet mrs. johnson at the diplomatic reception room door when she stepped in. and in addition, one of the butlers that had worked for the johnsons, mr. german, was now a part-time elevator operator, operated the president's elevator in the white house, just a few days a week, mrs. bush made sure that he was there and that he was the one that greeted mrs. johnson when the door was opened of the car for her to get out. and the way that mrs. johnson reached up in recognition to embrace mr. german and how he embraced her, is really would just make you weep. but would also, the two last things that i'll just say about mrs. johnson's visit, her last visit to the white house, is, mrs. bush wheeled her into the vermeil room on the ground floor, which had just been repainted under one of the restoration projects that mrs. bush did, tha

i need young white men to not only get their messages about what it means to be white from white nationalists supremacists, i need them to get it from you. i need you a you can to to them about what it means to be white beyond a white supremacist frame. it's not easier for me as a black woman to have conversations with my son about what it means to be black. that didn't come with the black birth, we just do it because we have to. y'all have to do it, too. because your children are at risk. sometimes people think oh, they understand, black and brown kids are at risk for gang violence. your kids are at risk for joining a white supremacist moveme movement. i need you to start talking to them. and well should i end on a happy note? >> yes. >> well, i don't know. join forces. i think i'll echo what you said. this is hard work and this work, we're in it for the rest of our lives so i need you to join forces with other people so we can hold up one another when we get tired because we will. so look to your left, look to your right, see who is new who you can bring in your circle and do this hard work

-- into the white house. then there was one elevator to go up but those were very tiny. it was better than nothing. it worked for me very well. i was given an additional room, that was the chocolate room of the white house. so you see, everything is possible to give it time. and the white house, i always said, was a place made for me. i love to work there because they let me produce whatever i wanted to. but all my desserts had a significance in some way. >> sometimes, we had desserts from italy. i find something special around the town and that will be duplicated in the pastry of course. i did that all the time, all the time, all the time. one of the first ladies, she was great. i loved to work for her because she knew what she wanted. personally, you better do what she asks you to do and do it the right way. there is nothing wrong there. again, i love to work with people like this. i would rather do that then people who say i do not know. the last one with mrs. reagan, we were doing sunday noon at the white

this aggression served the white men's courage, but it also compelled white men to desert. without this spine, the official thought black men would not run from battle. others thought they would desert and do it constantly. writing home, evan said i thought it would be hard to keep new growth from running. in the end black men left the u.s. army at the same rate. the government calculated approximately 200,000 white and black soldiers deserted. of that 2000, 12,000 black men deserted. statistically than 67 black men for 1000 which was not far off from white men who deserted at 63 per 1000. but they saw this as a serious threat. project taken up by historians. during the war the government said white and black men deserted in high numbers because of a lack of discipline, excessive bounties and ineffective methods of capture, making them believe the army could not catch them. historians looking into the diaries, letters and lives of these men have discovered many reasons detailing the impulses that led white men to desert including a lack of commitment to the war and some wal

nbc white house correspondent kristen welker is at the white hous house. any indication as to what's going on at 1600 pennsylvania? >> well, it's our sense that the deputy attorney general will be arriving here, so we have our cameras positioned to try to get a shot of him. what happens next? that remains to be seen. of course, there is this report swirling that the deputy attorney general, his job could be in jeopardy. not a surprise in the wake of the bomb shell report by "the new york times" at the end of last week that rod rosenstein discussed replacing potentially president trump even wiretapping him. of course, some sources telling msnbc news look, he was having those conversations sarcastically, the conversations taking place after the president fired former fbi director james comey. rod rosenstein came out with a statement denying "the new york times" report. but there's no doubt that all of that created a lot of consternation here within the white house, within the trump administration, and for the president. he referenced it when he was in missou

as first the show was just about me going white-to-white places and i was like i already have white in laws but in the bay area it was a very diverse place, always living in urban environments. chicago, i naturally lived that kind of life-style so this is just the tv version. >> because of this tv show, i think because of, you went away from your in laws and into a much more radical white supremacist environment to explore that bigotry, that ideology and here is you talking to richard spencer in i think it was your first season? >> second season. >> so i think white people need to talk about their whiteness more. >> is we're here to talk about white privilege. we want to bring it back. mike white privilege great again. >> so you're a fan of white privilege. >> oh, yeah. >> is what do you love about it? >> it looks great. the people are good looking and nice suits, great literature. i just want to bathe in white privilege, the greatest most awesome thing. >> all you had to do was put out that fishing rod and you reeled in a lot of obnoxious hate. >> and i caught heat from people on the

kennedy had been to the white house. he reportedly believed himself that he had been picked for the court. but then at the very last minute, conservative staffers in the reagan white house intervened and said no, no. we have a different guy we would prefer for the seat. better choice. somebody we like more. and so this man, who you see here with reagan, douglas ginsburg, he jumped to the head of the line and he got the nomination. and then it all fell apart. reagan didn't get him on to the court. and immediately everybody started to try -- everybody started trying to figure out who they were going to blame in the reagan white house for this political disaster. >> president reagan today suffered his second defeat in trying to fill a seat on the u.s. supreme court when the man he nominated only nine days ago, douglas ginsburg, asked that his name be withdrawn. it was an embarrassing admission of marijuana use that doomed ginsburg. white house officials knew he could never win confirmation. the front-runner to become the ne

that turned into white supremacists that turned into white power and then white pride now white nationalist, you know, they've gone from calling themselves racist so racialist, and so it's trying to bring their language closer and closer to something that -- mostly white americans who don't identify as racist can suddenly think ideas maybe are closer to some things that i could potentially believe. which is a really scary thing. even scarier, they've been very effective in those talking points. i think -- you know, be tempting to think of white nationalism or this kind of race nism our country is something that is propagated and furthered by small number of extremist. truth is in our country right now, polls king thely slow that about 30 to 40% of white people believe they experience more discrimination and greater victims than people of color and jews and that is wildly off-base by every statistical measure that we have. but fact that so many people have this false sense of grievance is something that white nationalist and other people in these positions try to play toward to bring them mo

. >>> white lives matter. white lives matter. >> hate is on the rise in america. >> bans on white. >> it's emboldened. >> the war on whites is real. >> normalized. >> the government is nothing compared to the jewish menace. >> and destroying lives. >> this is why -- >> there are people who will say once a nazi always a nazi, and that you can't change who you are. >> but i know change is possible. from the age of 14 to 22, i helped build america's first neo nazi skinhead organization. i believed diversity was a code word for white genocide, that jews controlled the media, immigrants were raping our women and i was going to save the world. recruiting vulnerable kids and transforming them into violent extremists like me. but now instead of pulling people into hate, i'm guiding them out. >> that's a pretty scary thing. i know how easy it is to get sucked into this movement. >> i hated people messing with me. before i was just gabe. now i'm gabe the skinhead and everybody respects me and fears me. >> it happened to

in a new report by motherboard, leaked documents show facebook bans white supremacy but allows whitenationalism and white separa separatism. it suspect always associated with racism. jason kebler is the site's editor in chief. thank you for being here. most people in my audience didn't know there was a distinction between white supremacy, white nationalism and the way facebook looks at it. why do they look at it like they do. >> facebook makes these distinctions because they're trying to figure out a way to decide what's allowed on facebook and what is not. they don't want to alienate some customers which might be white nationalists, white supremacists, decided to draw the line, and facebook makes this distinction even though black history and experts don't, civil rights groups don't, and white nationalism is actually just a veil. >> they use real people to determine what does and doesn't go on with computer systems, most are here in the united states. how is someone able. can you explain to my audience or was someone able to explain what an example of white nationalism is that doesn

and white house aides believe they are close to naming the unnamed white house official.ho is it? >> if i knew that i think i would not be standing in front of the white house this morning, but a controversy over this op-ed continues to consume the white house. these denials are getting so extreme that we have had vice president mike pence agreeing to take a lie detector test to prove it was not him. the white house making an aggressive push to discredit the unnamed senior official that wrote the scathing "new york times" op-ed last week. >> if this person thinks they are being patriotic and not p pathetic, they should come forward. >> mike pence insisting he's 100% confident nobody in his office is the author. >> should all top officials take a lie detector test and would you agree to take one? >> i would agree to take one in a heartbeat and would submit to any review of the administration. >> one of the claims of the op-ed, there's discussion of removing the president from office. you have ever been a conversation about that? >> never. why would we be? >> more than 200

today white house press secretary sarah sanders was asked directly if the white house is trying to determinehe identity of that op-ed writer in "the new york times." she said this. we're certainly focused on things that actually matter. trying to down play all of it. one thing is clear, it matters to the president. he's been venting about it all weekend long. the white house tonight trying to move beyond a war within its own walls. >> it is, frankly, i think sad and pathetic that a gutless, anonymous source could receive so much attention. >> it's been 19 days since white house press secretary sarah sanders appeared at the podium. aides were seen cleaning it before she took questions in the briefing room for the first time since august 22nd. she wasted little time blasting bob woodward in his new book, fear that chronicles deep dysfunction inside the west wing. >> to not even take the time to get a $10 fact checker to fall around and verify the quotes, when no effort was made it seems a careless way to write the book. >> reporter: even if she tries to down play the book, it is the one-two pu

house and then i was also in the white house. i just felt like as a reporter, i needed to find out everything i could find out and pass it on to the american people. that is the rule i follow. >> can is a print reporter with different deadlines than we are accustomed to thinking of today. in a world where social media and cable television and talk radio are on all the time. do you see if this coverage has changed dramatically as the velocity of information has increased? >> i think you started off with the lapdog, watchdog, attack dog division. that is a very good way to think of it. i think we have moved from watchdog to attack dog, mostly that. part of that frankly is because president trump has put us in a position of being enemy of the american public which is what he calls it's. thick media as he says. i know we do not want to draw on -- fake media he says. i know we do not want to draw on trump. i wrote a book about this called feeding the beast, we -- where is the beast in the media? if you look at our history going back t

house and the white house's credibility from the white house. both are under siege today. there's very little trust in the press and there's very little trust among some, anyway, in the information that's coming from the white house. i certainly remember when i was at the white house and when i was bureau chief at cnn, if the president said something or a press secretary would say something that was mistaken or a misstatement there was an effort to quickly correct the record. i remember marlin fitzwater would walk around with his big cigar that he wouldn't light and he would actually walk through the press office and say, what i said or what the president said, let me just tweak that. there was a very good relationship there and he got a lot of credit for that. but we are not at that place now. i mean -- and now there is a very particular and personal and some would say grandstanding environment around this. where do you see this question of credibility now in terms of, again, plugging this into all the technology that we've got and the cameras

>> commissioner hayes-white: no. so in comparison to about 383 last year. >> commissioner covington: well, it's wonderful that all of these cranes are out and about in the city so that we can get the money that we need for fleet and new hires and all of that. i believe that chief gonzales, two weeks ago, said that the person who was being interviewed for the grant writer position, that that person had been tendered an offer. is that correct or no? >> commissioner hayes-white: chief nicholson will respond. >> deputy chief nicholson. so i misspoke last time. we have two 18-23 positions that are open. one had been open from someone who retired, and one is the new one that was funded. so the retired person is the -- that's the person that we have interviewed for and tendered an offered to. >> commissioner covington: so it's not the grant writing position. >> no, but that person certainly does have some grant writing skills, as well, but it will also be under director corso, mark corso, but it was not the position that wa

we have a different white house now. larry kudlow is in the white house. john bolton. people that are on the president's not only his team, but they get his zeitgeist, i think, and get his policies. >> but isn't the op-ed now? that's the one differential from march. it's syncing up with the tenor of everything we heard before. so is this true? is this what's going on inside the white house? >> i think it goes to who wrote in op-ed. we were talking off camera. i don't want to necessarily name people, but i would say i defend "the new york times" here. i don't think "the new york times" would print it unless it was somebody in the white house -- >> can you imagine? can you imagine? that would add more fuel to the flames that donald trump constantly throw as it being a fake news entity. they have got to have backed themselves up on this? >> right. i think that. that op-ed i don't think it was timed to the woodward book. i think it was timed to continue this whole idea that they had with this mccain funeral. i saw steve bannon. he is in venice. and he said it looks like a

you know, in the white house i was in, and previous white houses.ople who had a longstanding association with a president there. there were bonds of trust that he simply hasn't had. other than with his own children, his daughter, and son-in-law, perhaps that's one of the reasons why he wanted him there. but it's very hard to run the united states government like your family business. and you need to rely on others and this is just a very toxic environment. >> you know, one of my favorite shows it on the weekend now, don't tell fareed, it's "the axe files." >> thank you, sir. i appreciate that. >> thank you. mr. david axelrod. enjoy l.a., whatever you're doing there. thank you. >> i will. >>> as the president rails against the writer tonight, is that writer courageous or is that writer a coward? ♪ introducing e*trade personalized investments professionally managed portfolios customized to help meet your financial goals. you'll know what you're invested in and how it's performing. so you can spend more time floating about on your inflatable swan. [din

what they withheld in the investigation under the direction of the white house, reagan's white house, it appeared they withheld the fact that there was a tape from my old office, a wiretap, showing he was mobbed up. en that was withheld from the committee and therefore compromised the ability of the senators on the committee to advise and consent to the nomination. similarly here. no background investigation that was serious as it was regulated by white house counsel mcgann before the hearing and then we sat on a railroad as we tried to exclude any pause that would allow members of the committee, the judiciary committee, to look at the thousands and thousands of documents. and then they beef about the fact that a senator on the committee respected an individual's confidentiality and then when it came out they attacked her for not revealing it sooner. so from the background investigation is at the direction of the white house which is a serious flaw. and the investigation should be whether or not this nominee assaulted women sexually including but perhaps not limited to dr. ford. and t

bush white house. to garrett graff, cnn contributor, who knows a lot about these folks running in these circles. washington, d.c., is a big city, but it's also a small town. you tell me more about francisco and who he knows if he steps into this role? >> noel francisco, the solicitor general, which is the person that argues on behalf of the u.s. government in front of the u.s. supreme court. it's one of the most storied roles in washington. it's right down to the traditional long-tailed garb, the formal morning jackets that the solicitors general wear at the supreme court. but this is someone who is well known in washington. someone who is one of the government's and sort of the most renowned conservative legal appellate yourists in the city. and someone who worked for george w. bush, both in the white house and in the office of legal counsel, which is one of those little known entities outside of washington that is effectively the in-house law firm for the justice department from 2003 to 2005, where h

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. >> he said, "it's from the white house." and i go, "talking about d.c. white house?" >> the white house neither confirms nor denies... >> what do you see? >> gold! [ laughs ] >> let's investigate! >> i scrape the paint layers down to the wood. >> and when you heard what it was worth? >> and sold! [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] >> i'm jamie colby, and today i'm in boston to meet an heir who has an inheritance so strange, it takes years just to figure out what it is. >> my name is mike meister. my siblings and i inherited something that goes back to our great-uncle more than a hundred years ago. we'd always been told that it came from the white house, but it was just a family story. hi, jamie. welcome to boston. >> thanks, mike. nice to meet you. >> yeah, nice to meet you, too. >> mike leads me inside, saying he has something amazing to show me. he keeps it in its own molded, air-tight protective case. can i take a look? >> sure can. >> you brought me all the way here, mike. this is... what is it? mike's strange inheritance is this piec

back to the white house. the white house gave it back to the committee and most senators did not know that had happened. most senators were not moved by the edition of the body of information if they knew about it at all. >> thomas' confirmation hearing were done. two day afrs the fs after the f over. the committee voted on clarence thomas' nomination. they voted 7-7. what actually broke the story open, the whole reason any of us know about these allegations and the controversy that ensued is because nothing to do with the fbi. it has to do with nin nina totenburg. he's she's been the one that broke the news that douglas ginsburg had smoked pot and she's the one that glue up the ginsburg's nomination. four years later who reported that professor anita hill has made this serious and detailed allegations against judge clarence thomas and whether or not most senators knew about it. when any that totenberg broke the story, that's when the story truly broke. before the week was up, the committee decided okay, i gu

which is that today with his white house in crisis over people within the white house expressing their dissatisfaction with the trump administration that when they have a meeting about that and when they have a discussion about that and when they reduce their suspect list to 12, that it is immediately leaked to "the new york times" that their suspect list has been reduced to 12. >> yeah. you know, of course it's also in their interest, perhaps, to make clear that anybody that might think about doing the same thing as this author that they are doing to respond, right? a white house wants to have discipline. they don't have any discipline, as we see in this white house at the moment. so they're trying to basically send a signal this will not be tolerated. there will be repercussions for anybody that might think about it. you can play it out a couple different ways. it is not clear whether this list or the idea of it will go any where. it is an indication of just how, you know, anxious in exercise this white house is, particularly because you have a president raging in volcanic terms abou

okay, let's start the egg white. whip the egg white. we were whipping the egg white at the time. and you know what? it never came up. i said, man. or different word. so, at the dinner, the white house takes a little bit less than an hour. we wash the bowl. start all over. it don't come up again. it's sticking. you know at the white house, when they come for dessert, you cannot say, i need another 10 minutes. you cannot do that. the only word the butler wants to hear is, speak up, now. so, we were cutting eggs again. washed the bowl. when i heard -- this is when i was still working in the main kitchen with the chefs. i heard executive chef about the mayonnaise they made on the machine that morning. do you know how many drops of oil it takes to mess up on those egg drops? one drop, two drops, that's it, forget it. they do the mayonnaise, but i didn't see it. i wasn't there when they did it appear so the oil splash on the machine. so, when you came with your merringue, you don't know what it is. when i heard them talking, i said, oh, my god, should i kick their ass now or later? i w

white house. we're going to keep our eye on. he's en route to the white house. we do not know the status, though, of his employment at this moment. there's a lot of confusion over rod rosenstein after that bombshell report coming out friday night in "the new york times" that rosenstein is offering up his resignation or if he's expecting to be fired or some combination of both. we're waiting for more detail on this. let's go, as we do that, let's get over to cnn's senior congressional correspondent manu raju on capitol hill. manu, you can be sure a lot of folks are not reacting yet because they don't know what they're going to be reacting to. but this potential has been a topic of conversation for months on capitol hill. >> yeah, no question about it. republicans have actually been urging the president not to take this step of firing rod rosenstein even after that "new york times" report from friday, saying that doing so right now would cause a major distraction for the party heading into the midte

>> white houses do not, in the white house, they are probably not.do not protect their security punitively. they protect their security by inspiration. people believe in the president, and people who believe in each other. presidents are politicians, they rise to the ability. and what has been true about this white house is because of the president's utter lack love leadership. recording devices are now pretty small, but the reason that no one checks is because they trust them. they don't check if they have a pen recording device. there is a sign to remind you if you regret. remember the story about a white house staffer saying hurtful things about each other, that was leaked by another staffer, they were just trying to setting a vendetta. >> and the author of this op-ed will soon be outed, is it dangerous? >> i don't imagine, it is hark to crack they are dealing with a number of false clues. we may assume they are going to stay currently employed. they may not be employed now, it may be more than one person. so there is indirection here. it is hard

isn't there a universe the white house staffers working for the white house have a point or no?> you have to look at what is because of the president and what is happening in spite of the president. so, i think there's an argument to be made, if this white house truly were a finely tuned machine as president trump said, we could be seeing more across the economic fronlt, the national security front, the domestic agenda. because this white house is embroiled in turbulence, this is what we see. >> x is happening over at this side of pennsylvania avenue. what is going to happen on the other side of pennsylvania avenue with other republicans. ben sasse has been out a ton. he was out with chuck on "meet the press." here is what he said. >> i don't have any desire to beat the president up, but it's clear that this white house is a reality show soap opera presidency. the drama of omarosa, the drama of cohen, manafort and the woodward quotes and the op-eds. what you would like is the president not to worry about the short term of staffing, but the long term vision casting. pull us toget

resistance at the white house. the fear, bob woodward's explosive new book describes a near mutiny in the white house against president trumwa >> this wo book is a total -- it's a total fraud. these people, libel laws, libel laws. >>> the resistance, an anonymous ite house official writing that colleagues are working diligently from within to frustration parts of his agenda inclinations, the president calling on the justice department to investigate. >> i think it's a national security matter, they should look at it, they should look at it very strongly and we sho od fi who it is. >> is president trump in charge of his own white house? >>> plus the supreme court, brett kavanaugh says very little, while protesters and senators. >> there is clearly rule that applies. >> then applynd the rule bring the charges, bring it. >> take the spotlight. >>> my guests this morning, counselor to president trump, kellyanne conway, republica b senatoren sasse of nebraska and democratic senator dick durbin of illinoi >>> also, guess

and by the way, white supremacists, be original, right, this is not the white power sign, this is okays what the sign means. you can't just take a sign everybody knows and say it means something new. this means okay. just like this means i approve, not white people are number one, okay. like stop trying to make people accidental racist, if white supremacists want a hands sign, just make one up for yourself like every other gang member does in the country, and it has to be new and elaborate. like there is no doubt. here is one to try, cross your middle finger and ring finger on your left hand and stick your right thumb up your butt and then when we see that he, we can all agee oh, that'ses that as the master race, i like that. now yesterday was devoted just to opening statements. today the senators asked brett kavanaugh questions about his positions on various legal issues. and brett kavanaugh avoided answering them. >> the president has the ability to pardon somebody in exchange for a promise to that person, they wouldn't testify against him. >> sir, i'm not going to answer a hypotheti

the white house simply is not saying. all of our sources in president white house in washington as well as here say they simply are not sure of the status. rod rosenstein is not going to be around for long. in a weekend interview with geraldo rivera made clear that rod rosenstein is a jeff sessions man, hired by jeff sessions. we know what the president thinks of jeff sessions, obviously. i'm sorry i can't clear up any more confusion hereali at the u. the president will get a read from him in a couple of hours. he may have to be the 1 one to y if he is on the job. by the end of the day, we think he probably will not be. >> a request to laura. if you have anything within the hour, the associated press, cnn's manu raju and kate lynn col collins. he has gone to the white house to say i resign or say fire me? >> it's pretty safe to say he is not going to walk out of that meeting and have the job he has now. they are there hash things out and what they say going forward. they had a conversation last week where rod rosenstein o

certainly there is an effort in the white house to do that. but no else -- there is no suggestion they are going to do anything at the department of justice. the department of justice is not going to comment publicly one way or the other, but people we've talked to around the white house does not suggest that the department of justice is going to step in. there's nothing illegal here, there's no classified information being disclosed. therefore, they're going to try to slow walk this and not take the steps the president wants. so many times we've seen that and we've seen that with russia where trump speaks very positively about putin and the need to have these great relations. at the same time his administration is levying tough sanctions on moscow and threatening more going forward. we see it with north korea where sarah sanders talked about this letter kim jong-un received that was sent to him. a very nice letter, a very kind letter. let's talk about having another summit. and yet the administration has been warning that north korea has not

>> commissioner hayes-white: i sure can. i'd like to ask our fire marshal to give an overview of the mayor's executive directive and ma what it means to our department. >> essentially, the executive directive, it puts a timeline on processing affordable housing units, a.d.u.s, etc., and it puts timelines on four and six months, and that's on every department. so from the time it enters planning through d.b.i. through fire. we put a team dedicated in place at this point handling a.d.u.s. that team consists of a captain, a fire protection engineer and a plan inspector for the plan review. they're committed in their duties, and we've cut our backlog in half. at the time of this report, it was about 30. we are committed to that four-month deadline to process. again, there's so many things within our control because there's other departments where it has to make its way through, but we are dedicated, and we will be able to meet those requirements put forth by the mayor, and we're on board with it. >> commissioner covington: thank

white house struggling to focus on the strong economy. the president mucking up the message with the false information forcing his top economists to come out and contradict the boss. trump wrote the gdp is higher than the unemployment rate in years. that is not true. it happened a lot of times. at the briefing, his top economist cleaned it up. >> what is true is that it's the highest in ten years and at some point somebody probably conveyed it to him adding a zero. they shouldn't have done that. at least numbers here at the white house and we are grateful. when the press finds mistakes, we are grateful. >> from the white house, they are grateful when the press finds mistakes from the president. you heard it here. it is not ten years. it is about 12 years. anyway, 56 days until the midterms. the economy should be a strong selling point. his tendency to exaggerate and embellish. he goes for superlatives. the best economy in history. you see the poll numbers. it is not translating outside of that specific point. >> i'll bathe in that for a w

house is operated and how the press responds to what the white house is doing in this white house, it always seems to thrive in chaos. >> christopher: he can change the new cycle with a snap of his fingers or with a single tweet. >> harris: is accomplishes something else to because it is also helpful if you were trying to test the waters for the timing of doing something. i don't know many people who think inside the beltway or out that i've talked with at least that jeff sessions isn't going to exit at some point. and probably after the midterms and what i was just saying is you could also look to do that with rod rosenstein if, in fact, you have on books of interest which catherine herridge copiously laid out in anyhow this "new york times" article which "the new york times" is not backing down and is kind of a he said they said type of situation in terms of whether or not rosenstein was willing to wear wire to give information to people who want to kick the president out of the white house. so if you're looking at a timing to do something, this is also accomplishing what? the trial