and right by the entrance to the basement of the west wing, hubbard had parked his car and i noticed eft his keys in it. so i got in it and moved it up west executive drive. now remember, to park on west executive drive, you have to be a senior aide to the president. you go through three check points manned by people with automatic weapons. your car is swept for bombs and you pass through some kind of device embedded in the concrete. i don't know what it does but maybe it x-rays you. i don't know. so this is very secure. so i took car and drove it up west executive drive about 75 yards. and after 9/11, they had the sniffer trucks. four trucks. they look like ice cream trucks parked at the four corners of the complex and they sample the air for biological and chemical agents. when i parked behind the vacant space, you couldn't see it from the west executive entrance. so i wasn't there but i have eyewitnesses who said at the end of the day, hubbard came out, took look around, couldn't see his car, took out his flip phone. hit the speed dial to his assistant and said, my car! my car is g

spilling out of the west wing. and it's about 6:00 in the evening and people start applauding humbird. and the photographers of having difficulty with the camera. people are coming out in applauding. and harbored is sort of a modest guy and he's going, yes, i did this, isn't this fabulous? up walked to uniform divisions of the senior service and they put him in handcuffs. [laughs] and then the white house photographer takes a picture and it really creeps hubbard, it creeps him out that i keep it in my bedroom. so there's a picture of him being put in hand crafts, being like, am i really in trouble? or is this funny? and i was the mayor of the west wing. these were my people. so they are putting him in handcuffs and i'm like, hey buddy, you've got me but i just got you back. >> it's good to know that there is schumer amid all of this. >> yes, you have to. >> so the white house and the vice president's house, these are very formal places. there's a reason why there is a downstairs official area. and a living quarters

and i had been ordered, as had everybody in the west wing to evacuate. but was tracked down by a mail aide at the behest of the vice president to make my way back to the room. when i got and again, there were a few people there. but the vice president was squarely seated in the center. and a work activity was going on. and again, i would like to say it was emotional, but it really was work of a workable worker. norman from the department of transportation, the secretary of transportation we are trying to locate first and foremost all of the planes for identify the planes, ground all the planes, and strangely george herbert walker bush was on a plane. he had to be downed. there is a lot of priorities of what we needed to do. people were not being barked at by any means, but is a very methodical and organize work environment. and i remember distinctly remember and i think i even wrote this down somewhere, that the country would be, proudest up the right word, the country would be comforted to know that their elected officials and the elected position were

and i had been ordered, as had everybody in the west wing to evacuate. but was tracked down by a mail aide at the behest of the vice president to make my way back to the room. when i got and again, there were a few people there. but the vice president was squarely seated in the center. and a work activity was going on. and again, i would like to say it was emotional, but it really was work of a workable worker. norman from the department of transportation, the secretary of transportation we are trying to locate first and foremost all of the planes for identify the planes, ground all the planes, and strangely george herbert walker bush was on a plane. he had to be downed. there is a lot of priorities of what we needed to do. people were not being barked at by any means, but is a very methodical and organize work environment. and i remember distinctly remember and i think i even wrote this down somewhere, that the country would be, proudest up the right word, the country would be comforted to know that their elected officials and the elected position were

we have some great ictures the west wing. we have some great pictures from _ the west wing.eat pictures from the annual _ pictures from the annual congressional baseball game. apparentlyjoe biden was handing out ice creams yesterday. nancy blows he is on the blower. i don't know who she is berating there but it looks like three strikes and you are out to me. if you use baseball as a metaphor of what is going on tonight, she is on third base. in light of what has just said. is she going to scramble for the play for or is she going to stick until she knows she's got the votes? listen, she is making _ knows she's got the votes? listen, she is making some _ knows she's got the votes? listen, she is making some players - knows she's got the votes? listen, she is making some players figure | she is making some players figure out how you are going to scrape together whether it is but there are home—grown and a double. that is really the craft she has. how do you count the votes, what is it you need to do in order to get some wins the progressives in order to make sure you get enoug

this question, the west wing was more or less deserted that day, there was very few people there and from the description and peril the president seems almost mesmerized or transfixed by the television interviews and almost out of it in a sense, is that an unfair characterization or how would you characterize the reporting about trump inside the west wing on the day. >> as bob woodward has said we have discovered this national security crisis a very grave situation on the national security front during the transition especially after the insurrection on january 6 but we also found a very grave domestic political crisis that bordered on being a constitutional crisis of a few things going differently and while the events in the west wing in the afternoon of january 6, it was pretty deserted and he's watching tv in a flat mood it's not accurate to think of that as president trump on january 6. some of the most important parts that that section of the book, in the days before january 6 and while president trump may have been watching tv and seemingly idle during the riot itself we see pr

and as he wanted to say hello to the people and came down and went over to the west wing to a number of people and it was around 730 or 8:00 o'clock or 845 the former first lady came down and met with some of the staff that she had been fond of what she was at the white house and we had a hell but then departed with the secret service on the way to the airport returning to their homes in houston. host: do you remember his demeanor but he talked about with the former president or and mrs. butch on —- mrs. bush quick. >> and just was comfortable talking about anything and everything i asked him his home and how things were panning out. and really like the idea of being in his own home that he enjoyed the family life to travel. had said general conversation about their life in houston. >> . >> it's a clear summer day. >> it was crystal clear not a cloud in the sky. humidity was down that was one of the worries i did not have to worry about something that usually happens in the summer is thunderstorms. anytime between june and the end of september but today was perfectly beautiful and cr

and as he wanted to say hello to the people and came down and went over to the west wing to a numbers around 730 or 8:00 o'clock or 845 the former first lady came down and met with some of the staff that she had been fond of what she was at the white house and we had a hell but then departed with the secret service on the way to the airport returning to their homes in houston. host: do you remember his demeanor but he talked about with the former president or and mrs. butch on —- mrs. bush quick. >> and just was comfortable talking about anything and everything i asked him his home and how things were panning out. and really like the idea of being in his own home that he enjoyed the family life to travel. had said general conversation about their life in houston. >> . >> it's a clear summer day. >> it was crystal clear not a cloud in the sky. humidity was down that was one of the worries i did not have to worry about something that usually happens in the summer is thunderstorms. anytime between june and the end of september but today was perfectly beautiful and crystal-clear. host: a

west wing, east wing, residence.nic that the title of the book is "i'll take your questions now." given as we mentioned she's the only modern white house press secretary to never hold a press briefing. and i remarked about this during the time and she fired back something at me which i don't even remember. but i guess it's a double entendre because i guess she's acknowledging she never took questions before but she'll do it now because she has a book to sell. it's interesting to me that the administration or somebody -- but clearly i guess it was from the administration gave politico her tweets. or her texts. >> look, anderson, i think -- unless -- sorry. unless she's had an epiphany of conscience i don't think there's going to be anything really new in the book that we don't already know. there are certain levels of, you know, secrecy within the east wing that doesn't tell the west wing the inner workings and the dynamics of the two, you know, wings themselves. and have to do with the president and the first lady, t

they covered significant acreage, and they were located where the modern-day west wing is. in fact, they were removed in 1902 when theodore roosevelt built the original west wing. >> he ran out of family space inside the white house, so he built the west wing so he would have offices that didn't have six kids can underfoot. >> and again, i think those of us working from home can relate to to that. >> pandemic taught us all a lesson, didn't it? i would love to wind up touching on something that touches on that. i know it doesn't technically have to do with the gardens and the growth and the design, but every family i covered at the white house had pets. i was not there for the kennedy ponies or the historic, you know, goats and sheep, whatever. i was there for gerald ford's dog liberty who i think got one of the first splashes into the gerald ford pool -- >> and liberty's puppies, of course. [laughter] >> but dogs and some cats were -- and i think some of the kids had a gerbil or two. but that also shows how the white house, although it's a tribute to the glory of the united

would go ahead and set up shop in west virginia and let senator manchin know he will be bringing the west wingo west virginia until he stands up for the people and let senator sinema know he will be in arizona directly. stphrp jonathan, you have some experience here. how does that kind of heavy-handed pressure work with joe manchin? >> i think joe manchin wants to have conversations with people and get deals done. he just spent months negotiating a $1 trillion infrastructure bill that all democrats support. so i don't know why there's such a hard time deciding whether to vote for a bill that all democrats support that will bring thousands of jobs and trillions in investment that is teamly needed everywhere, that helps provide clean water, fix roads, internet access. he worked together with republicans and democratic colleagues. and he will continue. he said continue to work on reconciliation. he just wants to see it done in a responsible way. . >> nina, willing to get nothing here? >> john, he has the luxury to hold out. he's a multimillionaire. people who are not suffering have the luxury to

there's certain levels of secrecy within the east wing that doesn't tell the west. ics of the two wings themselves have to do with the president and the first lady, their inner circle, which is very tight. as long as you go along with what they want to you say and do, then you are part of the trump team. that's what stephanie did. it's too late. >> it's also -- you saw this firsthand when you came out with your book. they turn on people who have been nothing but supportive of them very, very quickly. >> up fortununfortunately, they people who are not only supportive but want the best for them. people who dedicate their lives. so many have been prosecuted by them because they told the truth. i told the truth at a time when nobody else was. by doing that, grisham herself orchestrated the narrative that i got fired. she was very aware that i had said to her, you can't do this. i went to legal counsel. it didn't matter. if you are going to support the trumps, that means you are going to say exactly what they want you to say or else you are no longer part of their team. >

>> maybe "the west wing," if something good happens. maybe "veep" if not. >> "veep" is a comedy of errors that takes place in a town without principles. >> this is a win for you on senate reform. it's also another big win for you with the president on immigration. all right? win big, win big. >> i don't know. maybe you and dan should go down and talk to the senator from arizona. >> the one who wants to random search people in ponchos? >> bill o'brien. >> yes, he has a lot of sway with the caucasian caucus. >> it's funny in the show, but you don't have to live in that reality. it's fiction. the reality is, there are a very few people holding up what the democrats want to do, and also what american society wants to do. whether the original plan to get this all done is a win/win or not, that's what we're all waiting to find out. and we have experts to get into it right now. former congressman joe crowley, a member of speaker pelosi's leadership team. and michelle goldberg, a columnist with "the new york times." i will give you the floor, m

. >> a west wing special to benefit when we all vote. >> i will be back.atients on the board are. >> >> i am pleased to present the award for outstanding variety special, pre-recorded. music, comedy and theater are all represented in this unique and diverse category. but what does the word“ category” even mean? and what are “awards?” and what does it look like to“ win”? and what “time” is it? and most importantly, why >> and the emmy for variety special, pre-recorded, goes to: "hamilton." ( cheers and applause ) ♪ alexander hamilton the america sings for you. ♪ ♪ they know your name. ♪. >> thank you disney and thank you radical media for making hamilton one of the television events that brought people back together last year. when we were separate and alone. thank you to the television academy, to us, this award represents the synergy between the medium of television and theater. what a gift we can be to each other. what a gift you gave us last year when we were dark and dispersed. television provided the platform for us to come together to put op a show,

melania trump's mo, she made a very specific case to not have the east wing communicate with the west wing or not go off their lead. it became more intensified as grisham writes after the allegations of the affair. and i think it is interesting, people have this idea she was somehow trapped in the white house or crying in her gilded bedroom, my husband cheated on me, i think what grisham says here is what people said to me as i reported, she is not necessarily sad that her husband cheated. she knows -- allegedly cheated, she knows who she married. but she was humiliated and angry and what she didn't do is what typical political spouses do, which is sit down on a news talk show program, or walk hand and hand, in fact, she did the opposite, she demanded separate motorcades, she wouldn't walk across the lawn with him, and she requested that handsome military aides be selected to walk with her for state of the union, to be photographed with her, so she was very like melania trump, very calculated in her visual messaging saying i'm not okay with this. >> knowing how important optics is to the f

they covered significant acreages and they were located where the modern-day west wing is and they were removed in 1902 when theater roosevelt built -- >> you ran out of family space inside the white house and built the west wing so he'd have offices. >> again those of us working home today can relate to that. >> i would love to look at something that touches on on that and doesn't technically have to do with the gardens and the growth in the designed but every family i covered at the white house had it. i was not there for that kennedy ponies or the historic goats and sheep or whatever. i was there for gerald ford's dog liberty who got one of the first splashes into the presidential pool. that dogs and some cats were, and i think some of the kids had gerbil or two but that also showed how the white house although it's a tribute to the glory of the united states as the centerpiece of our civic society, it's also a home. do you have any favorite pets back in the archives of presidential history? >> absolutely. putting aside the dogs and the cats for the purposes of this i should confess

she certainly is not behold on the the west wing in terms of messaging.ng on what she did or what she said. most of the texts from stephanie grisham i should remind people, it's not unusual. she could have said something. she's -- >> again, the ask was denounce violence. it wasn't say something political. >> that was the tipping point for grisham to resign and she was the first person in the trump administration in the white house of significant stature to submit her resignation that day. >> on the 6th. we were talking about this earlier, too, brianna, there were so many people in the end who did step down because of what happened on january 6th. but now, of course, we've swung entirely in the other direction and it's suddenly unacceptable for so many republicans to denounce what happened that day. it's just absolutely mind boggling. >> silence is acquiescence. this was a choice that melania trump made. it was a choice to engage or support, i suppose, the big lie. and it's also not out of place, right? this is someone who despite i think sort of being fir

national security team is in the situation room, a secure communications center in the basement of the west wing. vice president dick cheney is there along with national security adviser condoleezza rice. meanwhile, the president leaves florida. his destination at takeoff a secret. we later learned he has landed at louisiana's barksdale air force base. there he pledges the u.s. will retaliate. >> make no mistake, the united states will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts. >> a rare and welcome bipartisan gathering of the republican and democratic leadership of the united states senate and the house of representatives. ♪ land that i love, stand beside her and guide her ♪ >> this is wild. ♪ through the night with the light from above ♪ ♪ from the mountains to the prairies to the oceans white with foam ♪ ♪ god bless america, my home sweet home ♪ ♪ god bless america, my home sweet home ♪ [ applause ] >> on the steps of the u.s. capitol, men and women, black, white, and asian, conservatives and liberals and independents from all corners of this country, the spontaneous demo

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a staff meeting at the west wing. i was in the shower when my chief of staff called from the white house and told my husband and asked for me and my husband said she was in the shower. he said we need help because a plane hit the world trade center. i am a former reporter and my husband learned not to take messages like that for made. he said tell her yourself he , literally walked into the shower and handed me the phone. she told me plane hit the world trade center and like most thought -- like most people, i thought, small plane it must've , been a horrible heart attack or accident. then i turned on the television and saw that second plane hit the second tower. i remember falling to my knees and saying a prayer for the people in the building. it never occurred to me that there were passengers on the airplane. i called immediately after that my deputy who was with the president in florida and i said dan, a second plane hit the second tower and he didn't know. i remember the shock in his voice and he said what kind of

now, but i think as he arrives here at the west wing of the white house he can be pretty pleased hesort of warmth if you like in the relations that wasn�*t necessarily there up until now, given that borisjohnson had to play ball with donald trump beforehand, so, there is, i think if you are the british delegation you are feeling pretty pleased with yourself. a, pretty pleased with yourself. a string of successes, it is odd because on the way over he said the relationship with washington is better than it has been in decades and that on the back of all the fairly vitriolic things said in the house of commons about the withdrawal from afghanistan, what a difference a couple of weeks makes yes, and he has gone out of his way here to mention the sacrifice of us troops, at kabul airport, as well, so he�*s notjust sort of glossed over that, so he�*s notjust sort of glossed overthat, he so he�*s notjust sort of glossed over that, he has positively reached out on afghanistan as well, and you will have heard the things that were said in the house of commons a few weeks ago, they were vitriol

and yet frustration must be setting in in the west wing and with the timeline, time that is running out. >> my sense in talking to white house officials is that there are two things. one, they do thing that the president's large agenda, it's doable, not off the rails. some of the coverage is infuriating because they feel like this is something that the president can pull off, like with the infrastructure bill. the second part of this is that they also understand that it's never good when the president is being compared to the former predecessor donald trump, not only by republicans who make comparison saying he is not living up to the trump brand, but the french are pissed off about a new deal. when you look at it in that regard, when i talk to officials, they see it that the optics of this make it harder to go in with political power and calculation that is needed to go along. and for him to nudge senators and have a lot of power in that the senate is so tight. i should tell you when i talk to white house officials, they do say the president should not be counted out. this is the middl

officials, they are filled with anxiety he's going to take questions from the press and veer off the west wing'sfully orchestrated messaging. what is your response to that? >> my response if you want to make money, open a liquor store 3 blocks from the white house because that press is going hard, it is so bad and it has been a common thread. we were talking about this before the election, this was something we were concerned with a year and a half ago that we are watching play out in real time as the commander-in-chief of our country but one thing he has going for him is no matter how bad this gets will:s to see kamala harris be president so biden could get up there today until people he is batman and he will be fine. we are writing this out the next four years of buckle up and maybe sell some liquor. >> i didn't pay attention to the entire answer. i'm still focused on going to the cast of charles in charge and my head, you have will leans and john travolta's sister. >> i will take any of them with you keep hearing rumors about donald trump. i would take baron trump at this point. policy experi

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approach 10:03 you are going to see the plane is actually going to come up on a 90 degree angle, west wing -- the left-wing is going to rise up and as it does that it is going to hold that for a second and then it is going to rock over onto its backside and the plane is going to come down and crash at 10:03:11. just beyond the walls of the visitor center. as we leave this wall and go to the next wall, to give visitors especially if they've never flown before, never been on a 757, or the sense compressed into the space of a single wild aircraft, flight 93, flight 77 hits the pentagon, this model aircraft, the plane that crashed at the 767, and give visitors the sense of being at the back of the aircraft were a lot of phone calls took place. we give visitors the opportunity to listen to 3 of the 4 recorded phone calls. >> she felt her husband jack at 9:309 am, 11 minutes after the hijacking began leaving this message on their home answering machine. >> are you there? pickup, sweetie. i want to tell you i have a little problem on the plane. i'm totally fine, i just love you more than anything

when the vice president elect asked me to join his staff in the west wing of the white house, i realized that that was my -- the end of my career in texas. i was tortured for two tenths of a second before making my decision to go to washington. when i arrived, i had frankly the doubts of my boss and of many people in america that the reagan program would actually work. but it wasn't mere hocus potus, of sort. does your question -- >> we or voodoo economics? with >> yes, voodoo economics was used by the candidate bush against reagan in 1980. it was something that was deadly in the mouths and fingertips of the opposition, and it got to be so sensitive for vice president bush that here at one point told a national obvious that he didn't actually say. it he didn't say it as a conscious lie, i think about point, i think he had become himself a raegan-ites and was embarrassed by recent memory of a very long and bitter primary campaign in 1979 and 1980. this man was not only this wasp but his friend. the way that elder bush has a way of looking towards the future rather than the past, to, him v

officials they are filled with anxiety that he's going to take questions from the press or veer off the west wing'saging. they are filled with anxiety. imagine how americans feel. this is the reality that is joe biden. the wrecking ball of biden crashing into these cory of active vents. >> laura: [whispering" bracket the creepy way he talks. speak out you don't like the whispering effect? >> laura: i was going to say it sounded like you on thursday. i tuned in and you are there one moment and they said the biden, you veered off the podium. >> i may be the first guest house in the history of fox that needed a guest host. over at cnn, the network that savaged nick sandlin for supposedly being disrespectful to a native american protester is now idolizing a 14-year-old for being disrespectful. she flipped up the group of anti-mass processors outside her school and she is suddenly the hottest thing on the network since andrew cuomo held his last covid presser. >> i decided to give them the finger because i thought it was the best thing i could do. >> i am proud of my daughter and i find without. >> what

newshour," they watched "west wing," and documentaries in foreign languages, right?first wave of what we now have, remarkably specific niche programming. ♪ >> "freaks and geeks" really sympathized with the losers and had great empathy for its characters. ♪ because you don't see that i got something going right here ♪ >> "freaks and geeks" breaks my heart every time i think about it. >> i'm sorry. did i crush your twinkies? >> it lasted 18 episodes. and they're perfect 18 episodes but nbc hated it so much. >> roll down the windows because i got a big one a-brewing. >> they thought it was a show by losers, about losers, for losers. they hated it. they wanted no part of it. they killed it. >> at the end of the '90s, the jig is starting to be up for the networks. basically, quality migrates to cable. >> "oz" comes on in '97. and it's set in this fictional penitentiary. wow. what a strange show that was. >> in "oz," sometimes the things you can't touch are more real than the things you can. for instance, fear, hatred, loneliness, are more real to me than a shank. >> it wa

maybe the west wing. i will assess tomorrow where we stand. >> harris: i will assess right now. it is our money and our future, not a tv show. you saw speaker pelosi basically playing down the whole thing with senator manchin but then manchin became a problem for pelosi last night. he doubled down on his opposition to the massive bill by writing this. spending trillions more on new and expanded government programs when we can't even pay for the essential social programs is the definition of fiscal insanity. i cannot and will not support trillions in spending for an all or nothing approach that ignores the brutal fiscal reality our nation faces. i want to bring in now will cain and he is weekend "fox & friends" host and fox news contributor and our friend on "the faulkner focus". first of all, nancy pelosi being very bold in all of this. we know she was called to the white house yesterday to talk with the president. >> yeah, very bold for a bold as you i think accurately described, harris, a bold recharacterization and reframing of our relationship with our government. the only t

the texas house of representatives when the vice president-elect asked me to join his staff in the west wingwhite house i realized that that was the end of my active career in texas politics. i tortured over the decision for about two tenths of a second before accepting, resigning my seat, going off to washington. when i arrived there i had frankly the doubts of my boss and of many people in america that the reagan program would actually work. that it wasn't mere hocus-pocus of some sort. >> or voodoo. >> i'm sorry? >> or voodoo economics. >> yes, that phrase. voodoo economics was used by the candidate bush against reagan in the pennsylvania republican primary of 1980. it was something that was deadly in the mouths and fingertips of the opposition and it got to be so sensitive for vice president bush that at one point he actually told a national audience that he never said it. he didn't say that as a conscious lie, i think at that point he had himself become a reagan-ite and was embarrassed by the recent memory of their long and difficult and bitter primary campaign in 1979, 1980 and this ma

it is those who smile at you in the whole of the west wing but throw you under the bus when a new administrationing gets tough. >> the chairman of the joint chief should not be a political actor. he should not be leaking information and it shouldn't be trust by the president. if he's going to sell it to former president because it was in a state of mental decline, why would he not do the same thing to joe biden who is clearly not in control of all of his marbles to mark donna academic? he stilled a joint chief chair and he still has that job. they're all untrustworthy. i don't trust lloyd austin come i don't trust kirby. this is why the doj should be controlled by civilians. he was droning innocent civilians in afghanistan. >> what he said to me was, "unconnected with the biden administration it is defending him. they can't throw him under the bus because he will throw them under the bus with afghanistan and the humiliating withdrawal." coming up, after president biden scolded americans who were hesitant to get the shot, rapper nicki minaj claiming she got an invite to the white house after her

. >> the second question has to do with covid protocols that exist in the west wing in particular. the president meets regularly with counterparts like today from around the world. he meets with lawmakers and activities and citizens from time to time. when new ambassadors present their credentials they do so by zoom. is there a reason the president doesn't meet with them face-to-face like has been done in the past by other presidents? >> i know he is eager to do that in the future. i don't have any more information of when that will happen. >> is there a reason he is not doing that right now, why he is doing it by zoom? >> it's not a covid reason. but i will check if there is a plan for welcoming ambassadors in person soon. do you have a question, chris. >> [overlapping talking]. >> go ahead. >> [inaudible]. >> i want to clarify something you said. you said the president determined that [inaudible] on the january 6th documents. is that a blanket statement? are you evaluating the request from the investigation group coming in one by one? to not asserting executive privilege. >> obvi

he might be hosting more members back to the west wing. how involved is president biden going to be? i've heard that some members want him to step up his outreach here, that he feels -- they feel like he's going to slowly and perhaps not grasping the urgency of the moment. what are you hearing? what is he going to do both in terms of the correctional package, but also the debt ceiling, the government funding? >> so ultimately one of the tools that the president has is coming up to the hill in person, and that's something we might want to keep an eye out for here in the days ahead. this president has a call sheet. obviously his aides put names in front of him who people as they're talking in real time could use a presidential phone call. sometimes the president himself is keeping an eye on the television. he sees lawmakers on the air, and he might give them a call himself. this is sort of the nature he likes to operate. sometimes he goes beyond what the staff is suggesting he make this personal outreach himself. we've only seen the presiden

they are filled with anxiety he is going to take questions from the press and veer off the west wing'shestrated messaging. that's a quote from that report. the power panel. the former chair of black voices for trump. former oklahoma house speaker, former advisor to bill and hillary clinton. t.w. i will go to you first. >> i think everybody is really concerned about the cognitive ability of joe biden. just remember the president was on vacation when 13 marines were killed. when he finally showed up he didn't take one question from reporters and frankly, people have been left wondering is this a gas or is it actually the president lying to americans? he told us in afghanistan that al qaeda was gone, they weren't there. no americans would be left behind and that it was very unlikely the taliban would take over. the question is, who is really in charge and if that person is in charge that is not the president, has the transfer of power actually started from joe biden to kamala harris? i think that's the real question. >> harris: i do want to get to something quickly. richard real quick and

eugene, take a minute and tell our viewers what you wrote about the coverage this west wing is receivinght about now. >> well, you know, i do think that the biden administration has done a lot, has done big things in its first eight months, such as passing $1.9 trillion rescue package such as reshaping our foreign policy with a focus away from europe and the middle east, our traditional trying to toward the indo pacific region, and what i think will be hugely important ways in the future, and with the biden build back better plan, really, trying to lay the groundwork for a new american century with clean energy and with family leave and with the sort of physical and human infrastructure improvements that have simply been ignored and not done, really for the past 40 years with one exception, the affordable care act which took us a little bit in the direction we needed to go. so you know, the stories i read of the struggling biden administration, stand back for a minute, this administration, you can take away style points the way they got out of afghanistan, the problems at the border, but

>> reporter: we know the british prime minister has walked into the west wing.we know there are a few things on the agenda. the british prime minister was one of those european leaders calling for the united states to reopen travel. that is set to happen in november, allowing vaccinated foreigners to come into the united states. but, of course, the big elephant in the room will be this situation, this diplomatic rift between the united states and australia and france. the united kingdom, they did not get their french ambassador recalled back to paris by the french president, but nonetheless, the british are very much part of this new trilateral alliance between the united states, the united kingdom and australia in the indo pacific. president biden didn't raise this issue of france in his earlier meeting today with the australia prime minister. i expect it will be much the same here. but make no mistake that will certainly be looming large over this. we know president biden has tried so far to talk about the importance of france's role in the indo pacific. but t