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white house was a spoken word event. because that is rap if you don't know. cool poetry and had never been done in the white house in the east room with george and martha standing there we did that is a first event finding the hottest young voices and this young kid lynn manwell and said well you perform young man? he said i will do a rap about alexander hamilton. and we said. [laughter] that is when you remember your the president and first lady you cannot laugh in the face of your guess. what? are you kidding? and then he went on to perform the first number that he had prepared. and obviously it was amazing. afterwords we said that is really good. he said yes i'm going to do a whole broadway show. and we. [laughter] good luck with that kid. and then it blew up. and we invited the whole cast back and they first did a full day of workshops for kids all over the country so lyric writing and you name it they were in the red room and wrapping in the blue room and dancing in the yellow oval. you name it. and then they did the performance and then all the least room they all knew the words but they never so the performance. are they a

and, lou, i remember so well back in january being in the east room of the white house when presidentce in the middle east. and when he had finished, those of us in the room -- christian, jewish, muslim leaders -- everyone rose in one accord and gave hum a thunderous ovation. and i said to myself, only donald j. trump could have pulled this off. i mean, obama couldn't have done it. he hated israel, he hated netanyahu. the israelis didn't trust him. but they trusted president trump. and i believe president trump ought to be awarded the nobel peace prize for this stupendous, historic achievement. lou: and an ace chee. for the first time, an agreement between israel and an arab gulf state. it is, it is a remarkable achievement. and the israelis forgoing further development on the west bank, it is, it's significant, it's substantive, and it invites an, a more expansive agreement perhaps with the, all of the arab states. >> it does. and, lou, it's important for your viewers to know israel is not surrendering their sovereignty over this area at all. what they are doing is suspending the ann

president, the first lady, their family and friends walked the casket out of the white house after a private ceremony in the east roomrah. >> o'donnell: ben tracy, thank you. tonight, a search-and-rescue operation is under way for four missing people after a pipeline explosion in texas. flames and smoke filled the sky in corpus christi after a dredging vessel hit a submerged gas pipeline, sparking the blast. the fire ignited a barge, then to a grain elevator. hospitals. tonight, an alarming c.d.c. prediction that deaths in the ditionaleaths in less than a00 month. and tonight, there is growing concern that high school and college students may be spreading the virus. here's cbs' mola lenghi. >> reporter: in alabama, high school football is back, and in the age of covid, this was not supposed to happen. it may not be obvious from the video, but masks were mandatory. >> we're telling the people if there's an outbreak, there won't be high school football. >> reporter: potential trouble in college football as well. today, word of positive cases on the vanderbilt football team, this as universities across the syracuse anno

he gave ellsworth a funeral on the east room of the white house. his family attended. he wrote a very famous letter of condolence to ellsworth's parents. it was a great tragedy for the family. you can see in the next image that there were prints and paintings of ellsworth, song sheet covers, maybe not the most accurate deipictions in the world, but they elevated this poor young guy into a martyr, as you noted, overnight. >> we noticed that one of the the soldiers is wearing the costume like he isn't himself which issing interest. >> i don't think he did. i think he always wore the regular uniform. but his soldiers wore the za uniforms. >> so, our own uniform at the collection of new york historical, it was owned by david p. davis. let's see the uniform again. we know he mustered into service in fort skylar in the bronx and served three years. where did he see action? we have a sense of that, do we not? >> yeah, he was in a unit, by the way, that was called the red legged devils. so, ukyou could see that again, they took pride of the uniform and combined the flamboyance

he gave ellsworth a funeral in the east room of the white house. his family attended. he wrote a very famous letter of condolence to ellsworth's parents and it was a great tragedy for the family and as you can see, i think we can see in this next image, that the prince of paintings of ellsworth, song sheet covers. they elevated this poor, young guy into a martyr as you noted, overnight. >> we notice that one of the soldiers is wearing a costume. but he isn't himself. so that's kind of interesting. >> i don't think he did. i think he always wore the regular uniform, but his soldiers wore the zarob uniforms. >> so are all the uniform in collection of new york historical, it was owned by one david p. davis. let's just see the uniform again. we know he must have been to service in the bronx and served for two years. where did we see action? do we have a sense of that or not? >> yeah. he was in a unit by the way, that was called the red legged devils. so you could see that again, they took pride in this uniform and combined the flamboyance of the uniform with their toughnes

white house for the washington post. to are closest in proximity what goes on in the white house. can you talk about what the president's strategy is? i'm thinking of those interviews he did in the east roomith everyday non-politicians and citizens. what was he trying to do? anne: he was trying to do a couple of things. i would add one note about last night, which was another part of the strategy is the pandemic. what pandemic? the fact we have not talked about it is an indication of how they are trying to move past it and make this not a referendum on trump's handling of the virus. one thing he will do in service of that and generally changing ,he subject from the recovery the economic outlook of the country, is to have these little surprise reveals. in addition to a number of regular people telling their stories, standing up at a podium and speaking to empty rooms, we saw the president sitting in the white house with people he calls hostages who were returned to the united states during his presidency. focus of his real foreign-policy, to deal directly with leaders of other countries, including the somewhat autocratic leader of turkey to get americans released from jail or other kinds o

president we're watching the last hour ahead an event in the east room of the white house if he might have something to say he he really stayed on topic about talking about of this signing that he's doing about the outdoors but what is really dominating the television sets and broadcasts and online right now is an interview that the president gave about a week ago where he is doing exactly that downplaying the seriousness of the number of infections that seem to be increasing with each day here in the united states the u.s. president really pushed back on the fact that there are dramatic surges in infections and deaths saying essentially it is what it is in his view but that doesn't mean that the united states isn't doing all that he can it's under control as much as you can control it the president said now the president seems to continually point to what he calls the plague instead of his administration's response as the reason that things are as bad as they are in the united states so the u.s. president really trying to portray the positives but the reality is with 65000 infections

secretary, steve mnuchin, but today president trump stayed over here at the white house, hosted a big bill signing ceremony in the east room for the great american outdoors act, while the top republican and democrat in the senate traded barbs and you know, given the amount of money involved and the amount of americans impacted, i asked the white house press secretary during the briefing why president trump is not more personally involved or at least more visible in these negotiations and here's what she said. >> well, he is through his chief of staff and through the secretary of the treasury, he is regularly updated. the democrats are being fundamentally unserious, they've offered no concessions, they've offered no plans, if anything they are moving the opposite way. the president has had a very narrow, specific focus right now, extending unemployment insurance, making sure americans don't get evicted. >> if congress, republicans and democrats cannot cut a deal, president trump is now threatening you not unilateral action, attempting to take executive action to stop two things, payroll tax collection and evictions took fir

white house. robert trump died saturday in new york city at the age of 71. 200 people have been invited to attend services in the east room house since 1936. >>> frontline workers in the pandemic are becoming american girl dolls. >> mattel's doll line has come up with five tributes based on real people, both male and female, who have been risking their safety during the covid crisis. the winners came from kids who sent in nominations from around the country. they are grocery store workers, a teacher, a nursing assistant, an ems worker, and a pilot. that is amazing because those men and women have been on the front lines of this pandemic and have been keeping this country going. that is nice to see them as american dolls. >> very cool. it will inspire those young people who get the dolls as kids to believe frontline workers are the heroes we know they are. >> exactly. >>> coming up, the 13-year-old who spoke at the democratic convention about his bond with joe biden. >>> plus the flare-up in the debate over masks on planes. a u.s. navy s.e.a.l. banned by delta. a mother and her six children thrown off a plane after her 2-y

white house briefing room. >> earlier, the president quipped that dealing with countries in the middle east looking to make peace deals was easier than dealing with democrats on capitol hill -- that may be tongue-in-cheek, certainly it was tongue-in-cheek but it still makes a very important point and that is making history is never something to look past. >> not since the israel-jordan peace treaty was signed more than 25 years ago has so much progress been made toward peace in the middle east. >> in announcing new diplomatic ties between the uae and israel, president trump today said the accord it should serve as a blueprint for other nations in the region. >> a lot of progress is being made that nobody thought could possibly be made. things are happening that i can't talk about, but they are extremely positive. >> the three countries held the historic diplomatic breakthrough saying it will advance peace in the middle east region, calling it a testament to bold diplomacy. >> this a good chance we will soon see more arab countries joining this expanding circle of peace. >> under the accord, israel has agreed to

. >> of course, there's the portrait in the east room but other images and references to washington in the white house today. dr. costello: yeah, and there's a number of busts that are in the white house. we have the famous gilbert stuart rep production in the lansdowne. one of the ones i recently noticed is washington always seems to have a presence in the oval office. so it does not matter if we are talking about republicans or democrats, because they do usually pick sides. as you can imagine. republicans like republican presidents and democrats like democratic presidents. but it seems like george washington is always above the fireplace in one form or another. i think, again that also speaks , to the importance of his legacy in terms of presidential leadership. in that it doesn't really matter who is sitting behind the desk in that office. they're still looking up. washington is still watching them on the job, so to speak. >> presidents and first ladies can walk out on this balcony, -- this truman balcony, look south, and see the washington monument. to me the washington monument is , different tha

white house right now. the president is going to be holding a naturalization ceremony in the east room. one more sign of how he's using the power and the trappings of the office in this convention. earlier this evening, he gave a pardon to a former bank robber who is an advocate for prison reform. let's tune back into the virtual convention floor. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. ♪ acting secretary wolf, i present to you five candidates for naturalization, representing five countries. >> on behalf of everyone here today i'd like to express my gratitude to you, mr. president, for hosting this naturalization ceremony here at the white house. to our candidates, it is my honor to administer the oath of allegiance and welcome you as our fellow citizens. candidates for naturalization, please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i hereby declare. >> i hereby declare. >> an oath. >> an oath. >> that i absolutely an entirely -- >> that i absolutely an entirely -- >> renounce and on injure. >> renounce and on injure. >> all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign

will be holding a small private memorial service for his younger brother robert in the east room of the white house later this afternoon. robert trump passed away last weekend, an undisclosedded illness. he was 71. here's what the president says about robert trump. he says, quote: he was not just my brother, he was my best friend. >>> joe biden promising to rescue the economy. watch this. >> together we can and will rebuild our economy, and when we do, we'll not only build back, we'll build back better. stuart: all right. how does he do that? by taxing the rich. we'll discuss that in our next hour. >>> cbs parent viacom setting a hefty price tag for super bowl ads -- assuming we have a super bowl. we'll tell you how much thaw want for a 30-second commercial right after this. ♪ ♪ come on in, we're open. ♪ all we do is hand you the bag. simple. done. we adapt and we change. you know, you just figure it out. we've just been finding a way to keep on pushing. ♪ ♪ stuart: all right. still lots of green this friday morning. the dow's up 63, nasdaq up 33. now this: the parents of bug ten football players -

past that used the white house to announce their decision to run for re-election -- ronald reagan announced from the oval office in 1984 and jimmy carter announced from the east roomcedence. this is a little different because conventions are inherently a political event despite being part of the democratic process for nomination. so it is out of character but, andrea, what has not been out of character with this administration since the campaign and since they got there? >> let's talk also about her role. she has been less high profile than a lot of her predecessors. i'm thinking of lausha bush going to afghanistan, starting the first cooed university there or helping launch that, the american university in kabul. and doing so much for the women, women's rights in afghanistan. her literacy projects, other first ladies obviously hillary clinton and health care very controversially, but she has had her be best program but this was really a coming out if you will in terms of her being very clear about where she stood in contrast to her husband. >> well, i think also very clear about what she addictionur iue that is raging you know, you would say these are things that

other locations that the white house has used last night the rose garden of course but then also in all of this prerecorded video where we've seen the president in the east room diplomatic room. last night during the naturalization ceremony really what they did here was enact a strategy knowing they were going to be confronted with ethical questions because they recorded those videos using their own white house protocols and then they put them online basically so the campaign could grab them and say, hey. this was already publicly available. we'll put it in our republican national convention programming. that is a little bit of the behind the scenes of how that all came together. yes, tonight the vice president will be speaking here from port mchenry an historic national monument and shrine and one of the most interesting things here is that the coronavirus pandemic hangs over all of this. this fort exactly has been closed to the public for more than five months because of the pandemic. the only two events they've had here were when the president came on memorial day and when the vice president will be here later this evening. there will also be an audience w

east and biden doesn't even know the name of the countries i'm talking about. thank you very much, everybody. thank you. >> all right. president trump there in the briefing room at the white houseking questions after his coronavirus briefing, which covered a number of other topics as well. i want to bring in our chief political analyst to talk about this. the first thing, gloria,f note here, really has to do with mail-in ballots, because he was asked about $25 billion for the postal service, which is, clearly, look, snail mail is going to be essential when you talk about voting ien pandemic. and he said sure, if they give us what they want, meaning the other things he wants in stimulus negotiations with democrats. but funding the postal service, it does not seem to be a priority, which is mind boggling with an election coming that will rely on the postal service. >> so, it's no surprise the postal workers union has just endorsed joe biden and kamala harris. this president has been saying it out loud. remember, during the russia investigation, lawyers used to wonder can you obstruct justice in public? i think the question and answer was yes, after they listen to trump threatenin

delivering middle east peace, no small task there as part of his expansive portfolio in the white house. but this is something he worked on and they put him out there in the briefing room sold it as a good news story. for the most part it received applause, and deservedly so. we should note the national security advisor, robert o'brien, also took to the podium in the briefing room yesterday and said he thought this would win president trump the nobel peace prize, which is an amazing moment of politicking from that room but i guess it's another nor in convention that's tossed aside by the administration. but it goes to show also at times how much this white house struggles at the politics of all of this. this could have been a story that framed the day, won the day for them, instead when the president had his own briefing hours later, it was 25 minutes in before he mentioned it. when he was asked about it, he deferred to others in in the room, aids for question. this is not what he wanted to talk about yesterday. his focus remained on joe biden, masks, which the president seemed to back away from the usage slightly after joe biden suggested a mask mandate for the countr