standing in one of the oval rooms of what was the newcomen bank? i was reminded of the oval rooms designed by hoban for the president's house and surveying the exterior of linster house. i was inspired by the very architecture that inspired james open. as the white house historical association celebrates its 60th anniversary. it is fitting that we celebrate the work of the elusive designer and builder who created the white house together the irish british and american scholarly perspectives presented in this volume provide a proper introduction. to the man whose life's work is known so well. and now let's welcome our three guests today. we have with us from the extraordinary crosby hall in london, dr. christopher moran joining us from dublin is merlot kelly who is a good friend of mine, and i had the opportunity to see with her many of the things in dublin that will be speaking of today and andrew mccarthy who's a scholar of james hoban and does wonderful contributor. this book is joining us today from the great state of florida. so let's dive in w

and so what is curious is you've got the oval room, but it's in a sense. it's it's the oval isn't driving the plan in the sense that it might in say lucan house where i would imagine is a very direct kind of you know, that that plan forum with the oval room on axis with the entrance and the transverse corridor. where is in the new command bank, it's it's arranged in in you could say quite a curious way. so it's i mean, it's pretty sophisticated because it was this awkward little site and embedded other buildings and the interesting also just to carry on a thread from what andrew was saying about this neoclassical the influence of the atoms that this building when you come and bank has been described as the only building that in dublin that looks like it might have been designed by the adams. and so the fact that hope and works on that and we do obviously we have the oval plan. that is very reminiscent in kind of proportion and scale. but but also the treatment it's a very clever kind of treatment of of the walls with these kind of concealed niches and the

in the oval office. another point i point to a portrait of abraham lincoln over the president shoulder and say that man mr. president had an insurrection, we have a protest for. >> let's hear from colleen, independent line. go ahead. >> real quick, first this is coming from a person who voted for ross perot. that is where my stances. and i still go back to my vote for ross perot. everything he said has come true. the two-part question is for michael bender. who gave the order. i want to know who the person is who gave the order to the entire media complex to ignore the will of the people bike can legally halting and stopping the election results of our president by refusing to report who won the election. now it did not come down to one state like it did with bush and gore with florida. because fox news reported arizona way ahead of the biden winning arizona. they obviously knew he won arizona when it was showing w trump was way ahead at the time for it cannot be about the ballots. fox already had arizon

manchester originals by 5 wickets at the oval in london and watching wasjo currie.al said there was no appetite for a tournament but dance did make their way to the oval for this historic game to see what the 100 was all about. the women's match to kick things off with manchester as originals winning the toss. after all the hype all eyes were on the first ball. a wide. perhaps the nerves were showing early. the first wicket quickly followed but the invincible sound harder to remove south african batter, one of the big—name signings of the league she showed how you turn up to a big match. notching up from two. indians wasn't messing around either. this her third boundary in a row. when you've only got 100 balls to win again this is how you do it. the originals innings as they set a target of 136 for victory. when you are the tournaments and display it you may be forgiven for a little trepidation. not16—year—old, this herfirst ball. as trepidation. not16—year—old, this her first ball. as time ticked all doing that on the invisibles were under pressure to hit runs. her

the first time i was in the oval office, i forgot the complete thing. i don't even remember walking out. you were just there. i am in the room. it is so bright. what am i doing with my hands question mark [laughter] it is hard, but you get used to it. thanks. >> in the impeachment of andrew johnson, one of the articles of impeachment involved speechwriting. the president had done a tour of the country defending his version of reconstruction and had apparently been so crude, so offensive, so i'm presidential in his criticism of the radical republicans that they wrote that as a reason for his removal from office. is it possible for president to say something, write something or tweet something that would justify removal from office? [laughter] kyle: it would justify the removal of the writer. [laughter] john: that's what you live in fear of. of course, johnson didn't have writers, so bango -- impeachment. sarada: legally, i can't answer that question. i think if he says something that is -- that, where he perjured himself, then yes. kyle: it seems like it

she said that standing on the oval office she kind of whispered to a couple advisors in earshot. at the same time president trump was at the desk on the telephone with vice president pentz. this was after he went out to give his speech before mike pence made his way to the capital to begin peas siding over the joint session of congress and trump was pressuring him on the phone to do what trump thought to be the right thing to use his power to overturn the results and ivanka felt that was wrong and not the right thing. after the phone call ended according to the reporting she went to the private dining room of her father and spoke with him one-on-one to try to persuade him she was obviously not effective there because he proceeded to go out and make the feelings known to the world then in the afternoon he got back to the white house once the rioters broke into the capital and began their siege, ivanka had to be called into the oval office multiple times by the chief of staff meadows to try to get her father into a place where the president would be able to call off his supporters.

he said i had an argument one day in the oval office with carter. i left, went back to my office in a few minutes later susan clow the president's secretary comes in and hands me very formally a green envelope. in the green envelope is stationary signifying a hand written instruction from the president. and so he knew something from jimmy carter. he opens the envelope and there carter says big you ever know when to stop? now he was proud of this note. he thought it was like signified the nature of his access to the president. but you know, this relationship work carter down. by the third year of the presidency during the hostage crisis, big was beginning to win the argument. he was the one who is constantly urging cards respond to the crisis he was the one who persuaded carter in the end reluctantly to give a green light to the helicopter rescue mission. which turned out to be a disaster. i think the preordained to be a disaster could never have succeeded. he was in favor of force and it is ironic it is over this you, he finally resigned leaving him

i go into the oval and i do not see him. his secretary says he is having lunch in his private dining room go back there. i had never been back there. i am both terrified and trying to take in everything that's on the walls. as a 22nd walk to the private dining room. he is in there, eating a plate of carrot or something. he has made his edit some student read them and makes writer so he is doing. nics kinda blown out that section a little more and added a peace about refugees. later on i learned he'd actually been in a meeting related to refugees. you see the evolution of his thinking part he was going to go to something else right after that preeti said go make these edits and send me back a draft. i will take a look at it tonight. so i sent it back at the end of the night around 8:00 p.m. i went to get his edits, what was so interesting about that day was to watch the evolution of his thinking. even others so much else going on, he was able in those two minutes he had to really focus in on the speech and give it the thinkin

they're in oval office talking. i want to see if i can find. picture of them wearing like all western senators, you can see paul laxalt's cowboy boots are very prominent in this image right here. to feature of being a western senator, i guess. here's another one of them in the oval office with an inscription from ronald reagan and it's just signed ron dear paul. and they say we were just sitting around or were we seriously getting some work done. i think it's it's that thanks ron. but it says discussing the summit. so this is a this is great. and there's like i want to say there's like almost 200 scrapbooks not all of them are as good as this one. this one obviously has all the meat knit. this is my go-to scrapbook for showing people because it's just got so many great photos and so many great notes in it. you can really see the relationship between the guys. and some of these photos this is an inside joke, but it looks like they're having a blast this secret service guy shows up in a lot of the photos. i don't know his name, but he never looks

he invited me in to the oval office for an interview. setting up with his press team that the only thing i said was lee's don't call me and tell me i have five minutes to do this. it's the pandemic. -- it's in the middle of the pandemic. up got kids all over the house. we enclosed off the floor. in the middle of june, i get a call and says can you be here in five minutes. this is moments before the juneteenth rally. i was left in the oval office alone for almost half an hour. there was no real message. they wanted to know what i wanted to talk about. and what was on my mind. president a few moments away from the election. it was stunning to me that there was no particular plan about getting a message out or appoint through me. host: was that before or after had been demoted? guest: this was a few days before the juneteenth rally in tulsa. this is his first and only rally that has empty seats in it. brad the initial campaign manager was demoted. host: how big it was the effect of the loss? how much of that hurt him? guest: i think it hurt

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five wickets as england were set 2112 to win against sri lanka against the oval —— at the oval.ed the decision by tokyo olympic organisers to allow athletes to bring their children to breast—feed. the decision came too late for her to change her plans with her five—month—old late for her to change her plans with herfive—month—old daughter with her five—month—old daughter taking with herfive—month—old daughter taking in the uk as she competes. and scotland captain stuart hogg will lead out a new look british and irish lions side, for their tour opener againstjohannesburg side, emirates lions on saturday. the match is the first of eight in south africa, finishing with three tests against the world champions. what a story at the tour de france today. mark cavendish continues to defy expectations. the manxman was only called up to race the tour five days before it started. on tuesday, he achieved his first win there in five years, and today, he did it again — in chateauroux, the same place where he won his first tour stage back in 2008. drew savage reports. whatever happened today,

and went back to the oval office. my desk was piled high with documents.we had economic crisis, we had uncertainty with our allies and our adversaries. we had a lack of public trust and the government. i finally came to the conclusion that i had to get rid of mr. nixon's past problems. and spend 100 percent of my time on the problems facing the american people as a whole. and the only way to do that was to pardon mr. nixon, get all his problems out of the white house so that my concentration could be on the economy, diplomatic problems, military problems, including how we can end the conflict in vietnam. there were some in the congress who said that i have made a deal with mr. nixon in order to become president and return, i would grant him a pardon. that was a total, inaccurate fabrication. the only way that i could put it on the record, under oath, was to respond to a request by the house committee and the judiciary to go up to capitol hill and lay out the facts. so, at the request of the chairman of that committee and the chairman of the subcommittee, i

they addressed the press before a private meeting in the oval office. following the meeting, they held a joint news conference. a joint. pres. biden: it is a great pleasure to welcome chancellor merkel to the white house, she has been in the oval office many times, she's a great rent, a personal friend and a great friend to the united states. we cite heather at the g7 and

. >> gerald ford brought to the oval office, the values first learned in a very different place. grand rapids, michigan. born in 1913, he had lived a typical, small-town, american life. his community was his classroom. >> grand rapids, when i was growing up, was a community that engendered family values. my parents. my mother and my stepfather indoctrinated me the importance of the family. but the whole community had the same viewpoint. >> the world, first, noticed jerry ford as a football player. strong for his age and enthusiastic competitor and a team player. attending the university of michigan in ann arbor, he would eventually become the wolverines' most valuable player and entertain offers from the pros. but he had, already, decided that his future lay in the courtroom, not the gridiron. he left ann arbor for yale in the fall of 1935. hired to coach boxing and football, it wasn't long before the faculty offered coach ford an opening in their law program. he was ready for the challenge and in 1941, gerry ford graduated in the top third of his class. returning home to grand r

oval invincibles have beaten manchester originals by nine runs in london to win the first match of the had worked out after losing the toss and being sent in as he helped himself to 49 runs in a total of 145 for eight and in response it was another sam but of the curran variety who took two wickets including the key figure of carlos brathwaite late on which took the wind out of the visiting teams sails and saw the invincibles take victory at the oval. sunil narine, i mean, mystery spin plays a huge part in the short form after the game. to have him as kind of a secret weapon to use is a huge bonus. but again, you look at the four international guys, they played a lot of cricket for england, a lot of different skills. kind of covers or basis, really. there's a lot of options. it was a mixed day for the british players in the fourth women's golf major of the year, the evian championship in france. the leaders are on six under with england's georgia hall four strokes further back as lydia campbell reports. after a two—year break due to the pandemic the appian championship has returned to

trump called milley out on it in a meeting in the oval office. donald trump just wasn't going to understand and milley just said that's the way it is, we're apolitical in the military, and i was in a uniform. >> susan, great reporting as usual. i don't see you often enough, so keep writing so we can keep bringing you back to discuss what you're talking about. thank you, susan glasser, i appreciate it. >>> i want to turn to former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, a cnn senior law enforcement analyst. andrew, thank you for joining us, i don't get to see you enough as well. but now we have you this evening. as we learn all these disturbing details about trump's final days in office, does this show the threat to our democracy described in all these books, that it's still a clear and present danger? >> i think it does, i think it shows clearly the continued significance, the continued influence that trump holds over the xwiert of the republican party, right? here is a guy who you know, the first time you step into the room with him, i experienced th

manchester originals by 5 wickets at the oval in london and watching wasjo currie.h manchester as originals winning the toss. after all the hype all eyes were on the first ball. a wide. perhaps the nerves were showing early. the first wicket quickly followed but the invincibles found harder to remove south african batter, one of the big—name signings of the league she showed how you turn up to a big match. notching up from two. ——42 indians wasn't messing around either. this her third boundary in a row. when you've only got 100 balls to win a game, this is how you do it. the originals innings as they set a target of 136 for victory. when you are the tournaments youngest player you may be forgiven for a little trepidation. not 16—year—old, this her first ball. as time ticked all doing that on the invisibles were under pressure to hit runs. her half—century set up the finish. with host needing one run from three balls, did it room to spare. there it is, the oval invisibles making history by recording the first of a win and the question is now can they and the other te

i received a phone call that said the president wants to see you in the oval. i'd never even been in the oval office before, so i was taken down to the white house and shown into the office. i walked in, and within 30 seconds, he said to me, i hear you are part of the resistance. and i said i didn't really understand what he was talking about. he explained that -- he said that he heard i didn't like jim comey and didn't approve of the things he had done and i disagreed with all the decisions he made. i very quickly told him that was false. i was not -- you know, i was a part of that leadership team at the fbi and worked very closely with jim. and i realized later, like that was the moment that he was throwing that false narrative out to see if i would embrace it and to communicate to him that, you know, i was on his team, not anybody else's. of course, that's not something i would do. >> there you go. so trump is now lashing out at general milley after reports that he feared trump might attempt a coup in his final days in office. the former president releasing

nomos chief economic advisor, you write in the book later in a private meeting inside the oval officeded on the present told him his lack of clear tape and harmful to the country put an incredible amount of people working in the white house. he told trump he might have to quit. no one backed him up. others in the room including the vice president mike pence or been quiet. but you're right he did return to his office after the meeting broke up following a few minutes behind, pence climb the flight of stairs appeared at the threshold of cohen's door, i am proud of you pence told him safely out of earshot of the president. with that atypical sort of behavior of the vice president? >> it was. the vice president is very loyal to president trump. in my reporting find one instance where he really pushed back on donald trump read thousand when the president accused him of trying to hire one of his own aides when it turned out they had discussed that and the president's son-in-law had asked mike pence to make thathe hire. it's important to forget to january 6 when trump repeatedly asked pence

their one day series against sri lanka, after comfortably beating sri lanka by eight wickets at the ovalr best five—wicket haul. sri lanka recovered to post 2a1 for nine, but eoin morgan then built on the good foundation laid by england's earlier batsmen to take the game away from sri lanka. it was captain morgan who hit the winning runs guiding england to victory with seven overs to spare. we played a lot of cricket in front of anti—stadiums for a lot of reasons. but today come in front of my home crowd, in terms of being the oval, my first time seeing the new stand and stuff like that was really special you get the extra bit of buzz. it's one of my favourite grounds in the world, and today was really special. i thought it was a great week and a great game a great batch of fans. norway's karsten warholm set a new world record in the a00m hurdles at the diamond league meeting in oslo tonight. in front of a partizan home crowd, 25—year—old warholm clocked a6.70 seconds to beat the previous best of a6.78 seconds, set by american kevin young back in 1992. the crowd of 5,000 in the bislett s

the man in the oval office who isn't as he seems.rotection from the praetorian press. but not here. i will see you next time on "life, liberty & levin." [♪♪♪] jesse: welcome to "watters' world." i'm jesse watters. "how i saved the world" is the subject of tonight's watters words. if you haven't heard i wrote a book, where have you been? i have been on tv more than fauci. i know i have been plugging it hard because i know you will love it. if you haven't bought a copy yet, i'm very disappointed. but for those of you who bought it. thank you. everyone is saying it lives up to the

and he talked about an oval office meeting with offensive terms for germans here.t bitch merkel, i know the f'ing krauts, i was raised by the biggest of them all. his father was a german. >> he was german except he spent years claiming he was swedish, so that was part of what i was sort of intrigued by, in that anecdote. they had a famously bad relationship, him and angela merkel, that he is using that language is not surprising, if anybody spent any amount of time around him privately that rings completely true of everything we have learned so far, this is the least surprising of it. but it does speak to his difficult relationship with some foreign leaders, particularly women. theresa may and angela merkel were among the toughest relationships he had while he was in office and this just underscores it. >> maggie haberman -- >> i was going to say, he didn't do well with strong, female foreign leaders. we saw that dynamic play out where he seemed to feel that they got the best of him. he really especially when it came to women didn't like how that looked. >> i don't

i assume you go to the oval office more than with president trump.my: i do not get to go at all with president trump, and i have never been in the oval office until president biden became president. i visited last month in april. i was there, he asked me to join him for a discussion on many factoring in the united states. i work a lot on the renaissance of manufacturing, i'm from the midwest, illinois is a major manufacturing state, we have more manufacturers than many parts of the country, we are number one or number two depend on who is counting and i was also there for a meeting on aapi representation and issues of hate crimes. i've had multiple trips. david: the life of a senator is one where you are in the senate during the week, but weekends or every other weekend you have to go back to illinois and you have to go meet with constituents and so forth, and you got two young children, you have your husband, how do you have time for almost anything? tammy: i don't. i'm either at work or exhibit them with my kids. you make it work. in the book i tal

sure enough a few days later in the oval office he asks what's the status of the gitmo move?hat's when the a's got to give in to we cannot let this happen. this would be a public relations nightmare. we can't send 80-year-olds who are sick to this island with a cannot get the best medical care. obviously it was a crazy anecdote and a a crazy story t for yasmeen and i think it was a wake-up call that anything that we hear we should run down. anything about how unbelievable it seemed could have been under consideration and could be something that they might have done. it was that anecdote that helped propel a lot of the reporting. we need to look into everything. we need to believe anything is possible with this group because the president comes up with all kinds of things, , when he heard it on fox news or from a friend in new york, like use having all kinds of ideas whispered in his years and a lot of them made it 30 far down the track. >> stepping back a little bit, i know when reporters write books in general it often comes out of your beat or an article you have written. t

trump dwelled exclusively shutting all else on the steel, his hard 6 pm oval office quit schedule now often running late into the night with time for almost anybody who would feel his steel obsession. with us for more the aforementioned journalist and author, michael wolf. he happens to be the author of landslide, the final days of the trump white house, michael it's great to have you. coming off fire in fury, it is an interesting choice of a title and an interesting choice of a time period to report on. who was running our country which we enjoy calling the greatest on earth during this period? >> well, certainly donald trump was not running this country. all donald trump was concerned about was that this election had been stolen from him. he was singularly obsessed about this. this is an obsession that went -- this was the grand obsession. we forget about the big lie, which i mean, i think i would prefer to call it the big lunacy. he is the lunatic-in-chief. >> if you attach the polygraph to him, would indicate that he really, deep inside his soul and brain, think he won, that he co

matter-of-fact, she knows the oval office as well as i do. but all kidding aside, through this administration, she has been there for four presidents. i want to take a moment to acknowledge the historic nature of her chancellorship. first woman chancellor in german history. the first chancellor from the former east germany. and now, the second longest-serving chancellor. here's an exemplary life of groundbreaking service to germany, and i might add, and i mean it from the bottom of my heart, to the world. on behalf of the united states, thank you for your career of strong, principled leadership, and thank you for speaking out for what is right and for never failing to defend human dignity. i want to thank you for your continued support, for the long-standing goal of a europe whole, free, and at peace. you have been a stalwart champion of the transatlantic alliance. under your chancellorship, the friendship and cooperation between germany and the united states has grown stronger and stronger. and i am looking forward to celebrating more at our

, in that private dining room just off the oval where the president sat for several hours watching the riot unfold on television. his chief of staff mark meadows was there, his daughter ivanka trump was there, in and out of that room for several hours, as we report in our book, trying to persuade her father to tell the insurrectionists to stand down and to go home. other officials were around as well, including keith kellogg, national security advisor to vice president pence. you should keep in mind that in addition to those high ranking white house officials, there are other witnesses who could potentially provide information. some of the clerical staff that worked around the oval office, the butlers who would bring the president his launch or his diet coke. secret service agents are around. there's no telling who congress could seek information from and who would cooperate to some degree with this investigation, but there are a lot of people who saw and experienced what the president did that day who have not yet spoken publicly, including the house minority leader kevin mccarthy, wh

i'm geoff bennett and as we come on the air, president biden is about to welcome to the oval office angela merkel who is long described as the de facto leader and in the trump administration, she is the defunct leader, and merkel is planning to step down after 16 year, and aides say that they will discuss everything from covid to china to climate change. and this meeting is to project stability between europe and the u.s. after trump berated the allies including merkel and threatened to pull out of nato. with that and the backdrop of nato, there are shocking comments attributed to the chief of staff mark milley in a book by "washington post" reporters. in the excerpts from "i, alone can fix it." obtained from nbc news, milley said that listening to trump was like reading orwell's 1884 that evil is good, and good is evil. but it was january 6th, he said, see you in d.c., he wrote to the followers, be there and it will be wild. but milley said that trump was stoking the unrest hoping to evoke the insurrectionist act, and then milley had a head's up from a former defense secretary that all te

as a matter of fact, she knows oval office as well as i.llor, i know that the partnership between germany and the united states will continue to grow stronger on the foundation that you have helped to build. on a personal note, i must tell you, i'll miss seeing you at our summits, i truly will. >> the relationship between biden and merkel is a stark contrast from the german chancellor's relationship with the former president donald trump. merkel was famously photographed standing over trump who had his arms crossed at the g7 summit in 2018. ah, that picture. there was this moment in 2017 when the former president appeared to snub her after reporters asked about a handshake between the two leaders. when asked yesterday to compare her relationships between the two presidents. and through a translator, she said, quote, today was a very friendly exchange. >>> now to south africa, a country that's reeling from violent protests following the former arrest of jacob zuma. zuma was president for the country for nearly a decade and during his electio

now he is in the oval office. you have to picture this. he is surrounded mainly by nixon's people, nixon's loyalists as his own advisors. that presents some real problems. within days of his taking office on august 9th of 1974, journalists start swamping ford with questions about what are his intentions, is he thinking of pardoning richard nixon? not exactly what he was looking forward to in the first days on the job as president. on one hand, ford knew it was crazy to even consider pardoning nixon. the country had been ripped apart by watergate. by this point, nixon was perceived as a first rate villain, even by many republican leaders. one of ford's top advisors told me that he advised ford categorically not to do it. he said, you will be eaten alive in the press. your political future if you decide to run for president on your own in 1976 will be shot to hell if you pardon nixon. on the other hand, this is hopefully what you can see from this chapter is that ford had a strong sense of what he thought he should do. he is a man who grew u

do you go to the oval office? i assume you go more than under president trump? sen. duckworth: yes.et to go at all under president trump and in fact, i had never been to the oval office until president biden became president. i have actually had two visits in two weeks just last month in april. so i was there. he asked me to join him for a discussion on manufacturing in the united states -- i have worked a lot on the renaissance of manufacturing from the midwest. illinois is a major manufacturing state. we have more tool and dye -- tool and die manufacturers than many other parts of the country. we are number one and number two depending on who has the biggest order that week. i also was there for a meeting on aapi representation and issues of hate crimes against aapi. so yes, i had multiple trips there already. david: the life of a senator is one where you are in the senate during the week, but typically weekends or every other weekend you have to go back to illinois and you have to go meet with constituents and so forth. and then you have got two young children, your husband. i me

oval office by mrs. kennedy. it had been in the private quarters until that time. this is the desk of the president would say that. it was given by queen victoria in 1880. it comes with two interesting photographs from the kennedy library. the famous one of young john junior, coming out through the needle under the desk. as the president is working at it. a more recent photo of caroline in the office, as president obama tries to figure out how to get to the door. and she saying please miss mister president you can see you're saying please mister president please to stop. >> [laughs] . so the only time mrs. kennedy came back to the white house, was when she came to see her portrait. and she the children came back. it was done low-key, and she had made her mark and she felt it was time now to leave the white house to her successors. so that is what we do today. our office tries to assist, the white house historical so say shin, and to provide the resources and the expertise necessary for each family to lea

and i think i met with the african government here in the white house in the oval. i think they have the capacity to be able to sustain the government. they're going to have to be down the road more negotiations, i suspect. but i am, i am concerned that they deal with the internal issues that they have to be able to generate the kind of support they need nationwide to maintain government allen. the departure comes at such a difficult, perilous time for us. gone is done with that with a more detail about to what extent us will retain the ability to conduct as strikes, which is the, the crucial bit of support afghan army needs. well, joe biden made the point in that event when he was asked about the possibility of leaving the afghan government defend itself. he said look, they've got an air force which the u. s. helps to maintain. so he thinks that giving the afghan government that fire power might just help them against the taliban. but as we've seen, there is a large power surge of the taliban across many districts. in afghanistan, america's top general there has sa