a house for the congress. a house for the president. he wanted this city to happen. this is a smaller building. he knew he could finish this one. s >> how involved is he? >> very much. he had final approval of everything. >> let's learn about another important character besides george washington. that's james hoben. who was he? >> he was an architect in those days. he would build as well as planned. he immigrated to the united states to philadelphia and then came here and washington met him in charleston on the southern tour in 1792. he remembered him. when the competition for a design for this house took place he invited hoben. he was the winner for the start. this was an english squire's house. he saw to it that it happened. >> what wads the basic design architecturally in a period style? >> late georgian. it's patterned on a house in dublin ireland. it's the capital of ireland. it was modified. i don't know by whom. none of that in the house. it's all open. the block of the house is mid georgia. it's very out of style in england and scotland, of course. it becomes

is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: the ouse will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., august 24, 2018. i hereby appoint the honorable alexander x. mooney to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend dr. dan c. cummins, peoples church, jacksonville, texas. the chaplain: come pray with me. our father, let us walk worthy of the vocation wherein we are called, with all lowliness and meekness, long suffering for bearing one another in love, keeping the peaceful unity of the spirit, for you have given grace to us all according to the gift of christ. let us speak the truth in love, putting on the new man, which is created in your righteousness and holiness and putting away lying, let us speak truth to our neighbor for we are members one of another.

the public to the house. and the association does everything possible to make people know all about the house because security, we all know, is a way of life now in this century. i would say that's the status of it now. there are private tours, but it's hard to get them. and they're very quick. but they do the best they can. you know, it's always been open. franklin pierce said, can i see your house? he said, why not, it's your house. so, he began wandering through. traditionally through the 19th century they showed the east room only, and then it became more and more -- as it became more interest of the roosevelts, had done it all over diplomatic style, french furniture. and then in the kennedy administration, and really a little in the eisenhower before, flynn wanted to see eisenhower, and it was a program tour. but when you talk about, what, a million a year or 2 million a year going through that house. and is the johnson had a great sensitivity to sound and he would try to stay a nap upstairs and the steel

by visiting what he calls the little white house in key west, florida. next we take you there as we hear the stories of how president truman spends his time at this historic retreat. ♪ ♪ >> the little white house got its name partly through an accident. partly through just the fact that franklin roosevelt had had a little white house. in our particular case, president truman was at everglades city dedicating the everglades national park in december of 1947, and the press corps started yelling at the president, are you going to return to florida? he responded by saying, of coarse i am coming back, -- of course i am coming back i have a , little white house in key west. the house at that time was painted gray. the navy took this as a clear indication the president was returning so they painted the building all white. it is no longer navy grey, it is all white for the little white house. i would like to welcome you to the harry s truman little white house. it is florida's official presidential museum and has been used by seven american presidents. it is camp

the house itself has grown over time and we are showing the changes now. it is a rather plain house. by the 1860s, some of the houses had more detail but it is fairly typical. the furnishings are very middle- class. a few homemade pieces but quite a few mass-produced pieces. they are not wealthy. this is average furnishings and decor for the house in the 19th century. this is part of a farm. a 250 acre farm or so. the buildings were really different depending on which timetable you are talking about. right across the street and located where it is right now was the family's barn. that was used to hold hay and livestock and they raised sheep and corn and wheat. it was a fairly typical midwestern farm of the time.. henry ford, growing up on a farm had mechanical things to deal with. he was not a fan of farm work and was always looking for easier ways and his father was into the latest machines and would go to exhibitions. the example of something that his father would have installed to pump water for livestock. very early on he was really known for his mechan

it's a rather plain house, by the 1860s, some of the houses had a little more detail. the furnishings inside are very middle class. some home-made pieces but quite a few mass produced pieces. a lot of people are struck by the fact that this family was wealthy. but they're not, this is average decor for a house in the middle part of the 19th century this was part of a farm. it was about 250-acre farm or so. the out buildings were really different, depending on which time period you're talking about. by the 1870s there would have been a series of out buildings in this direction. about across the street where it is right now, was the family's barn. and that was used to hold hay and livestock. they raised a few sheep. they raised a number of different crops, corn, oats, wheat, different things like that. but it was a fairly typical midwestern farm period. henry ford really growing up on a farm there's a lot of mechanical things to deal with. it was not a fan of the drudgery of farm work, was always looking for ways to make it easier and improve. his father was also of that

the original plan of the house, the middle part, is called the center hall or georgia plan house. there is a center hall on both floors and four rooms -- two on each side of the hallway. and a stairway in the center hall. behind me you would see the curved stairway that we have today that was constructed while jackson was here. the intention was when he walked through the front door you were supposed to say wow or whatever the 1838 equivalent of wow was. the moldings and chandelier and wallpaper, today when you go into somebody's house people often have things sitting out to tell you about them and their style and their taste and it was the same here. the house went through basically three phases to get to how it looks today. the first was constructing the original house, finished in 1821. jackson was elected president and rachel died and their son is grown and married and the house is not big enough so they add two wings to the left and right. one is a large dining room to accommodate the large dinners they were having on the other end up being jackson's library which is adjacent

the original plan of the house, the middle part, is called a center hall or georgian plan house. where there's center hall on both floors and four rooms. two on each side of the hallway. and a stairway in the, in the center hall. again, behind me you see the curved flying stairway that we have today. that was constructed while jackson was here. the intention was that when you walk through the front door were you supposed to go wow. or whatever the 1838 version of "wow" was. but the intention was to impress. the height of the ceiling. the house went through three phases to get to where it was today. it was constructing original house constructed in 1821. rachel dies. the son is grown and married and the house isn't big enough. in 1831 they add two wings to the house, foto the left and th right. one is the large dining room. the two wings make a balanced facade to the house. the fire took place in october of 1824. it was a chimney fire. it had not been cleaned over the summer. soot had built up. you would be using the fireplaces all the time. this happened to be in the chimney from

to the smaller, 1818 guest house that is behind the 1870's house. we have excavated a couple of dozen squares around here, both interior and exterior. we dug around here last fall -- you can see were the grass has not quite grown back yet. and eventually, our research will cover this area and also the yard, because our work on the art will be able to tell us a lot of the activities that were happening here and we will be able to get the house orientation. we do not yet know whether the main entrance was on this face or the southern face, but soon we will be able to determine that. there is a smaller wing to the that is probably more service oriented. cellar, a kitchen itselfk, and the cellar we have not excavated. we are eager to open it up. we will have great evidence there. and there is evidence the house was destroyed by burning. we have evidence the house was destroyed in the early 1870's to 1850's. we have not yet found a contemporary newspaper account of that destruction, which is surprising. i know any day, someone will come up to me and have

the murphy house designed by the architect richard murphy. twenty sixteen it was named house of the year by royal institute of british architects. there are lots of ideas behind this house how it fits into a piece of historic i don't know how it changes between winter and summer how you got a lot of rooms into a very small space how you save energy and one architect really brings to bear his own inferences interests of other architects he started. that's quite a limited volume of space so the shape of the has came from that building up high on one side and low on the other and then trying to as i say get as lot so many rooms in those possible and using those devices to make the house feel that it actually is. the murphy house with its unique architecture certainly stands out in adam or as popular new town. district most of the houses here were built in the nineteenth century represented the world's largest example of uninterrupted lake georgian architecture. the murphy house has eight levels spread over five stories with one hundred forty squa

not coverjohn did eisenhower in the white house. he was stationed in the white house under eisenhower and kennedy, doing transcriptions and speeches, so he came to know them. -- in addition to covering the white house, he covered the iranian press and many, many international stories. nbc ased for 21 years at a correspondent both in washington and overseas. he covered it can, for, carter, reagan, and the bush administration. in london and was the chief foreign correspondent. he returned to nbc's washington and became chief white house correspondent under the presidency of george h.w. bush. he joined abc news in 1994. was senior white house correspondent in the final years of the clinton administration. 2011, he was the senior washington correspondent and retired at that time. i have to give a shout out to graduate of the university of alabama and good friends of the university of alabama. welcome, john. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] >> my next guest is christy parson. she is the senior editor at the atlantic and director of the

the house continues behind me and probably goes under the 1870's house that belongs to the massey family. it continues 20 feet or so underneath the house. that was probably severely impacted by the construction in the 1870's. otherwise, the part of the house that is not covered by that is really well preserved. it is an archaeological pressure -- treasure that i'm eager to get into. james monroe is an interesting character. he is maybe the most popular president of his time, and one that is least known today. we have a great challenge and opportunity to share his story. james monroe purchased the property in 1793. when he was away, he was minister to france during the 1790's. his good friend and mentor thomas jefferson and his other friend james madison were both involved in setting up the plantation prior to his moving here in 1799. james monroe and his wife moved here late in the year in 1799 . james monroe, unlike the other local presidents, did not grow up in this area. monroe himself is from west moreland county out east. he was born in 1758 and moved here from fredericksburg where

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, than

the house had 20 years of admirals living in it. ny of the things that had been done for truman were discarded. it was our task to restore the house as it was and of course, although we had the records of what was bought, they did not necessarily tell us who it was from. that is this fabric shown in the drapes and on the couch, turned out to be a waverley print. none of us knew that. we found a scrap of this fabric on ebay. we found 200 yards of fabric and we ended up needing 187 yards to complete the task. the paintings on the wall i had been led to believe were stolen, until one day we found a notation that they had been loaned by the naval academy. the naval academy had no idea what i was talking about and so finally we found the list of collection numbers from the truman library. we approached the naval academy for the paintings and they informed me they were worth $1 million and we were definitely not the president so we were not getting them. they shot high resolution scans so all of the paintings are exactly as they are in the

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johnson come to the white house that she can take the former first lady through the white house. mrs. bush had made sure that any of the residents 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. in addition one of the butlers who had worked for the johnson's was now a part-time elevator operator. he operated the presidents elevator a few days a week. mrs. bush major he was there and he was the one that greeted mrs. johnson when the door was opened. the way that mrs. johnson embraced mr. jerman and how he embraced her would make you cry but would also -- to last things -- mrs. johnson's last visit to the white house mrs. bush wheeled her into a room on the ground floor which had just been repainted under one other restoration projects that mrs. bush did. mrs. bush had had the walls of the room painted a perfect yellow complement to the dress that mrs. johnson wears in her official trip. she moved the portrait across the fire place. jackie kennedy is i

when we look at the white house, what is it about the white house that is so distinctly american? >> the first thing is the journalist whose name was willis , he was right-- quite reputable that his pallbearers were led by longfellow. he was serious. he wrote a short description on the white house that he described as being ultimately a sufficient measure of space for the republic. too much was an assertion. essentially what washington had in mind all the time was that these states could usually fracture and later on it was effectively to say that washington converted-- it was a compact into a constitution that is a definition of a nation which applies to individuals. instead of passing back through the states the constitution affected individuals directly. >> real quickly, you know the roots in dublin. when you look at the white house what do you see that is uniquely american? >> it's an interesting question because focusing on the irish, i think what we see that was modeled on obviously it's the government that an image of in terms of how it's expressed or how it expresses an ame

government for use in the white house. as much of this collection is possible was exhibited in a newly created room. this is how the room appeared in 1960. this is the room as it appears today. there are not as many pieces on view. certainly some important examples. there are over 1500 pieces in the collection. a variety of forms data mostly to the 18th and 19th centuries. a by some of the finest english and french silversmiths. and english regency silversmith is represented by several objects including a set of six wine coolers. each decorated with classical roman scenes. on the left is an example of one of the wine coolers. today they are found on the mantels in the east room. on the right, is a soup terrain. one of a pair made in 1778 by james young from designs by the english architect robert adams. the terrains were made for the duke of north number len. who by the way, whose son left to create this estonian's institution. these are two of my favorite pieces. on the left is a water you're in a wine your. both made by r

to the smaller 1818 guest house that's behind the 1870s house. we excavated a couple dozen squares around here, both interior and exterior. we dug around here last fall. you can see where the grass hasn't quite grown back yet. eventually our research will uncover this area and also the yard. because our work on the yard will be able to tell us a lot of the hactivities that were happening here and we'll get the house orientation. we don't know yet whether the main entrance was on this face or the southern face. but we certainly will be able to determine that. there is a smaller wing to the west that probably is more service oriented. it held a kitchen cellar, we think. the cellar itself we have not excavated. we're really eager to get into that and open it up. we'll have great discoveries there. and we have really good evidence of burning. we think the house was destroyed by fire sometime between the mid-1830s and the early 1850s. and we have not yet found contemporary newspaper account of that destruction, which is somewhat surprising. so i know t

assuming democrats win the house, which we all believe is a very strong likelihood, the white house will be under siege. but it's like tumbleweeds rolling down the halls over there. no one is prepared for a war. let's bring in our leadoff panel. phil rucker, the pulitzer prize winning bureau chief for the "washington post." tamara keith, white house correspondent for npr, and richard painter was chief white house ethics adviser for george w. bush. thank you for joining me. let's start with you. why now? what's specific about the potential departure of mcgahn that's got so many people worried, or is it just one more thing that's making them worried? >> ali, it's just one more thing that's making them worry. this fear has been building for a while now as it looks increasingly likely that democrats have a real possibility of taking over the majority of the house at a minimum in november's midterm elections. and people around the president, his allies, including some of his advisers inside the white house, are very concerned that could lead to a barrage of subpoenas, of investigations, of in

darlene: i want to go back to the house for a minute. there has been talk about nancy pelosi and the leadership structure on the house democratic side. if democrats were to retake the house in november, do you think it is time for nancy pelosi, steny hoyer, and jim clyburn, for those leaders to step aside and allow for new leadership to rise through the ranks? where are you on that? neera: two things here. one, there has been a strategy around nancy pelosi. demonizing her and using her as a campaign wedge, trying to , i think, basically reinvigorate tribalism amongst republicans by attacking her in the midterms, and i think one reason people grasp on nancy pelosi is she has been an effective leader for democrats. at the same time, it is important for us to have new avenues and paths for a new generation of leaders in the house and senate. i don't think that means pushing aside nancy pelosi or leaders, but it is important in these elections in 2018 -- what i think is incredible is how many fantastic candidates are running . people who are

the white house, you could walk right into the white house. yeah. a long time, you could just walk in. in lincoln's time, you could just walk in and look around the rooms on the first level at your leisure. and right up through hoover, i think, on new year's day, anyone who wanted to could lineup and walk in and shake the president's hand. the book starts out where i'm sitting on a bench in lafayette square, where bernard bernaruke used to sit. he was a financier who was an adviser to president's from wilson to truman. he would have this bench near the jackson statue. and anybody who wanted to come talk to him could sit on this bench. he called it his bench of inspiration. the book starts with a picture of he and the secretary of state dean attkisson sitting there. can you imagine? the secretary of state sitting on a park bench in lafayette square right now. the entourage would be incredible. what worries me is more and more , for some reason, i don't know why security closes the entire park. just a couple of weeks ago, i was going to walk through i

the u.s. house of representatives' office of the historian conducted this interview which is about one hour and 20 minutes. >> my name is kathleen johnson. i'm here today with matt wasniewski, the house historian the date is march 21, 2016. we are in the house recording studio in the rayburn house office building, and we're with

if the democrats retake the house and republicans gain seats in the senate, that has never happened where one house flips majority is gained by the other party. it is partly an accident of the kind of shows that divide in this country. you have individual districts that are really right -- really ripe to flip. it is hard to see democrats taking over the senate or even holding where they are very -- where they are. the common man in the house is that 23 seats are needed for democrats to capture the majority. 47 republicans seats are open at regardless of whether the incumbents lose, they will make gains in open seats, because they are suddenly vulnerable. i submit that the bulk of those 47 seats are districts that are republican,"afe and that republicans can hold on. i predict itdo, will be the tightest division between the parties since 1957, which was a handful of seats. since then, it has been pretty substantial. have a call from fort washington, maryland, on the democrat line. caller: what the guy said, the color from new york that -- the saidr from new york who democrats are against t

the majority party rules the house and always has. e's been various ways the minority has tried to find ways to get around that, but the senate has to run by consensus. it's 100 members. they ought to be able to figure out how to make something problem forlve a the country. the house works by the numbers, it does not always mean that the majority wins. but in recent times, under the so-called hastert rule, which is not brand-new, but it has been used more extensively than it ever has in recent congress history, were the only way you bring a bill to the floor is to have a majority of the majority party ready to vote for it. so you completely ignore the minority. the minority has no role in any kind of debate, no opportunity to amend the bill. if a bill comes to the floor without any rules for amendment, so therefore, the minority party is completely obliterated and only a part of the minority party, and then they fight within themselves. you have the caucuses, the freedom caucuses and other caucuses that fight over what that republican

the national housing federation and the chartered institute of housing put the number needed as high ent houses a year. matt cole, bbc news. city regulators are urging people to be on their guard against pension fraud after new figures showed victims lost millions of pounds in scams last year. people are being tricked out of their life savings and a new campaign's being launched to raise awareness, as our personal finance reporter, kevin peachey explains. first, jennifer's trust was won, then her savings were lost — stolen by the fraudsters who offered a return that proved too good to be true. he was just perfect, and ijust didn't think for a second that anything was amiss, to be honest. it wasjust like, um, he knew everything. i asked questions, he had the answers to everything. the scam had begun with a cold call at a time when her finances were stretched. the promise of an instant cash sum followed by a regular return pushed jennifer and her husband into investing, and losing, well over £50,000. i feel angry that we haven't had any compensation, and that basically at our age in lif

the mason of house which is supposed to be a symbol of decorum -- the mace of the house, which is supposedo be a civil of decorum, finally, one of the members who had a week -- a wig, one of the members pulled his wig off during the fight, and someone yelled, "he scalped him!" and that was the levity to stop the fight. brian: that sounds like it's more uncivil than it is now. dr. baker: it sounds like it's more uncivil? brian: back in those days. how do you define a lack of civility? brian: i want you to define it. dr. baker: i would say there are a million definitions on it. the cutting remark, the refusal to support another member's piece of legislation. now, with the staffs of individual numbers of congress very large, we hear the expression silo, that the staff kind of put members -- they surround members in their own little silo so they only have to that's their staff, and not too good in terms of members talking to each other and -- in straight on ways. and house right before world war ii, were determined not to hire staff because that would mean that members would come to rely on th

on the housing issue is like to first establish the fact. the housing crisis as mr. ally begin since the mid-1990s, and, of course, mr. vaughan will know that in 1983 the federal level government canceled the national affordable housing program, and that was under the liberal government. and as a result of that this country lost more than half 1 million units of affordable housing that was otherwise would've been built across this country. so imagine what our country would look like today if we had had an additional half a million units of affordable or co-op housing, right? so hence, the housing prices were in, that was in part of a result of the liberal government action. so that said, we do have a situation and i would argue that the need for affordable housing is across the board. and i see in my commute in british columbia, in east africa but i see it across the country as well. this situation of course is challenged because of the asylum-seekers coming over. and so mr. vaughan talked about a national affordable housing the company established this fact as well.

government for use in the white house. as much of this collection as possible was newly exhibited and this is how that room appeared in 1960. this is the room as it appears today. but certainly some important examples. there are over 1500 pieces in the collection. made by some of the finest and english and french silver smiths. paul store, an english regency silversmith, is represented by several objects, including a set of six wine coolers, each decorated with classical roman scenes. on the left is an example of one of the wine coolers. today they're found on the mantles in the east room. on the right is a soup touureen, made by james young from designs by robert adams. they were actually made for a duke, who by the way whose son james smith left to create the smithsonian institution. these are two of my favorite pieces. on the left is a water yore, and on the right a wine yore. both made by richard sibley about 1817 to 1818. and they're based on a popular form made by wedgewood. in 1963 and 1964, another notable gift came

later addition to the house. the -- the house history and the kitchen moved back to the very back eventually. the stove here is a nice story. this is a -- not the one. but it is the identical model that was in the room. henry ford remembered it so specifically that there was a epic search to try to find one just like it. and the little bench by the window would have been one of the places where he would have worked on repairing things, especially watches. the china in there is a reproduction but done very specifically off of originals that ford remembered the family having when he was a kid as well. we don't cook here a lot but we do several times a year for the christmas season and during the fall. heritage weeke-- and for the ha weekend and for his birthday we cook in here. so the stove is a stove from the time period but not the one that ford picked out. the one that -- the one he picked out is preserved and we've chosen another one from the time period because we use it. and this room has lots of doors and win

you and your colleagues at the post spoke to 26 white house officials, advisers, others close to the white house. one saying winter is coming. talk to me about that. >> what i reported tonight is that john mcgahn, he had been the top -- in the white house. [ inaudible ] to help represent the president. inclusively people around the president, it's unlikely we're going to keep the house of representatives from the demographic. they're going to impeach you and going to be difficult times. obviously, 65, 70 days left to go. [ inaudible ] but there seems to be a growing consensus with the michael cohen verdict, manafort verdict, mueller continuing. his lawyers believing that there may be challenging times ahead. >> so jared kushner's attorney that he's considering according to your reporting, let me ask you this, josh. how much is the president starting to really talk about the possible impeachment as you note in your piece? he calls it the i-word. >> a good bit, don. it's not just that he's afraid of being impeached and oftentimes it's the oftpposite. we can't read the -- >> trying to im

the u.s. house of representatives office of the historian conducted this interview which is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> my name is kathleen johnson. i'm here today with the house historian. the date is march 21st, 2016. we're in the house recording studio in the rayburn house office building here with helen bentley, former representative for maryland. and we are delighted to have you join us today. >> and i'm delighted to be with you, kathy. >> thank you for coming. >> and matt. >> this interview is part of an oral histories series that we're doing with former women representatives to celebrate and to recognize the centennial of the election of the first woman in congress, jeannette rankin. >> what year was it? >> her election was in 1916 and her swearing in was 1917. >> okay. good. >> so we wanted to start off today by asking you, when you were young, did you have any female role models? >> no, i did not. when i grew up in a mining town out in nevada, it was 8,000 feet above sea level. 250 mil

in one of the local boarding houses. many of the boarding houses will advertise no sick people allowed. allowed. but thomas wolfe writes that if you had a little cough and some cash, julian would find your place to play. the border experience in the house, they had multiple beds, very, and lodging facilities and hospitals. the metal bed is affordable, easy to move, easier to keep clean and the cumbersome with beds of the dead. but when you're renting from julia wolf you're basically renting appellate and the peace of the sheet sharing mattresses still, in a country so you could lay dead in the bed to sleep one early immediate and wake up next to someone you've never seen here before. thomas wolfe described having to move from room to smaller room. he said he didn't even have a blanket here that he could call his own that he would have to give up. he resents having to do chores in the house that he knows will benefit him or the strangers that he has brought you to live with. julia is going to sacrifice her family and their

this is deja vu news live from berlin a car has crashed into security barriers outside the houses of parliament in london several people are reported to be injured and police have detained at the driver of the car we'll get more details from london also coming up more than three hundred people have been killed in a taliban attack on the key afghan city across many people fleeing saying bodies are lining the streets and some bribes events have been without food or electricity for days. and the turkish lira appears to be firming up as markets respond to new measures by the central bank and the government to contain the currency crisis. i'm sorry so much scott because i have you with us we start with some breaking news this hour from london a car has crashed into security barriers outside of the houses of parliament injuring a number of pedestrians now london metropolitan police say they have detained the car's male driver and that officers remain on the scene they say none of the pedestrians has incurred life threatening injuries the area around parliament square has been cordoned off a

the u.s. housef representatives from 1990-1997, as a republican from new york. next, she talks about her experience as the daughter of a congressman, guy molinari, as vice chair of the republican conference, as the keynote speaker of the 1996 republican national convention, and her marriage to a fellow member of congress. the u.s. house of representatives office of the historian conducted this interview, which is about an hour and 45 minutes. >>> my name is kathleen johnson and today i'm with the house historian, we're in the house recording studio and we are very pleased to be speaking with former representative, susan molinari from new york. thank you very much for coming today. >> very excited to be a part of this project. >> great. this project that we're working on is to recognize and to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the election of woman into congress. we have a bunch of questions we wantedto

she ran screaming out of the house. and she died as a result of the fire on her clothes. and so he remembered that growing up. and also as a little boy at one point there was a small fire here in this house which he and his dad put out around the dining room area. so it was something that remained with him throughout his life, this fear that there was going to be an awful fire in here. he and his mother were very close. actually, he was very close to his dad as well. but his father died when franklin was only 18 years old. so his mother became the main person in his life. eleanor and sarah roosevelt had an interesting relationship over time. when she and fdr were first married, eleanor roosevelt looked on sarah as the mother she never really had. and so they were, i would say, pretty close in the beginning. and sarah kind of helped eleanor with running of the household, because eleanor had no idea how to run a household, or even raise children. and sarah was very good at that. so she kind of took over. and then when eleanor roosevelt became more independent, she kind of wa

the u.s. house of representatives from 1990-1997, as a republican from new york. next, she talks about her experience as the daughter of a congressman. as vice chair of the republican conference, as the keynote speaker at the 1996 republican national convention, and her marriage to a fellow member of congress. the u.s. house of representatives office of the historian conducted this interview, which is about one hour and 45 minutes. >> my name is kathleen johnson and i am with the house historian today. we are in the house recording studio and we are very pleased to be speaking with susan molinari from new york. thank you for coming. >> i am excited to be part of the project. >> the project we are working on is to recognize and celebrate the 100th anniversary of the election of jeannette rankin to congress, the first woman. we have a much of questions we wanted to ask, but when you are young did you have female role models? >> no. i never thought about that question before, but i do not think so. i r

to visit the white house. now i was driving in -- a 1965 dodge dart, avenocado green, no the prettiest thing to bring down to d.c. but the nicest thing those days they let me drive on pennsylvania avenue. they asked me to park my avocado under the colonnade. is that beautiful or what? i said i'll start to like this place. if i get a job here i'll park everyday. that didn't last very long. took a tour of the white house and who should be on the tour welcoming me? mrs. rosalyn carter with open arms. she was so nice. called me by my first name, gave me a hug and she said come with me, we need to talk so she pulled me on the side and with her social secretary, the late gretchen boston, very, very nice lady and we talked and that's when mrs. carter asked me if i would like to take the job for a little bit. so you cannot say no to the president or first lady. i said madam, i will give you five years and then we'll see okay, that's good, that's good. so gretchen boston, the social secretary reminded mrs. carter that i

the democratic house leader nancy pelosi. e's been talk that she might be under threat from her own party right now. "the new york times" is writing ms. pelosi is facing unrest of older lawmakers critical of her style, younger democrats demanding generational change, and candidates across the party who sought to distance themselves from her. i guess the first question to you, if democrats take back the house in 2018, will you support nancy pelosi as speaker? >> we are in the midst of the greatest threat to democracy in the history of this country. we have a president who i feel confident will be proven to have committed unconstitutional, unlawful, impeachable acts. we need to have the strongest and best united democratic party. we don't need to be fighting within ourselves. we need to be working to take the house back and to prove that if necessary to have a check and balance on donald trump and to support democratic candidates against republicans and have people that will be that check and balance to block and balance the irr

the first time the white house floated this idea also in the white house briefing room a few weeks ago they were actually pretty explicit what you have to do to get on this list. >> not only is the president looking to take away brennan's security clearance, he's also looking into the clearances of comey, clapper, hayden, rice and mccabe, making baseless accusations of improper contact with russia or being influenced by russia against the president is extremely inappropriate and the fact that people with security clearances are making these baseless charges and illegitimacy to accusations without evidence. >> there is no accusation from the white house anybody is mishandling classified information or misusing their security clearance in some other way you're not allowed to do with a security clearance. the white house is now making clear, you criticize the president specifically with regard to russia intervening to help him in his election, they will use the power of the president to hurt you. they will strip your security clearance to try to discredit you as a critic of the president

>> richard, i think this is a problem for the white house. this is the first former top white house official to write a critical book about the president and the people around him and that is why the rnc and other white house officials are going after her. it's remarkable. just stepping back that omarosa tape, the white house chief of staff in that situation room. that is remarkable but she is media savvy. she has other tapes so that has to concern the white house and she will be attracting headlines the next couple weeks. >> bob, for those not familiar with the security protocols, how was she able to do this? how was she able to record a conversation with general kelly in the situation room? >> that's a good question and one that will be looked into because you're not supposed to bring in your personal phones into that room so how did she get in the there, what kind of recording device was it. these are questions and certainly i think that the fight between the white house and omarosa and her credibility is going to continue. >> and the secur

working in concert with the white house against a part of the executive. i want to get your response to giuliani talking about this back and forth with the mueller which again, take it with a grain of salt. i have no idea what is going on and this is his concern about why he doesn't want his client to testify about a perjury trap. >> he knows the answer to every question that he wants to ask. he is going it ask him did you tell comey to go easy on flynn. the president is going to say no i didn't. hey, bob, you know it. why do you want to get him under oath? do you think we are fools? you want to trap him into perjury. we are not going to let you do that. >> how great is this? and the other one, chris, is even better. the other question that giuliani says is a paradigm of a perjury trap is why did you fire comey. as to that, we have heard eight different answers from the president of the united states. they have shifting and inconsistent and seven of them are lies. the gotcha strategy by the prosecution to want to hear the truth on this question on which cr

that has rattled the white house this weekend. we have seen the president tweet a number of types aboimes okay . insisting he was okay with mcgahn sitting with the special counsel's team. we are hearing from a source familiar with the matter says mcgahn offered no incriminating information in relationship to the president. there's a question mark around that given that even mcgahn, regardless of what he says, cannot know how the special counsel is going to put all the puzzle pieces together once he gets his own testimony. certainly, this information reverberating around the white house. we have seen the president using this as the latest opportunity to lash out at the special counsel. >> this at the same time as his lawyer, rudy giuliani, again is making the case -- trying to make the case for the president on the networks over the weekend, when it comes to telling the truth, he had an interesting interpretation of what the truth is. lay it out for us. >> reporter: that's right. those comments from rudy giuliani from yesterday on a

the house oversight and judiciary committees are picking up where jeff sessions won't. they held closed door interviews today with current and former members of the fbi and doj to look at just how much of the phony, fabricated steele anti-trump dossier was used to spy on the trump campaign. bruce ohr reportedly bypassed his doj superiors to feed the fbi information from discredited dossier author christopher steele, trump recently said he would like to strip ohr's security clearance. the demoted justice department official is set to testify tuesday in a closed door house oversight and judiciary hearing. joining me now to talk about it, chris farrell, director of investigations and research for judicial watch. not only, chris, did bruce ohr insinuate himself into an investigation he wasn't a part of, but he violated rules and regulations by initially circumventing the fbi, going directly to steele, then trying to establish the steele fbi relationship after steele had been fired. is that the definition of corrupt acts? >> it is corruption and also realize while he's doing

the president and the white house maintain that there was no knowledge? >> i'm not aware of anything, no. >> given that five convicted felons are now linked to the president or his campaign and given his promise to hire the best people, did he fail to live up to that promise? >> the president has employed thousands in his lifetime and had incredible successes in business and in the public service. he's the president of the united states i think he's doing quite , well. >> that's my second question, i understand you don't want to answer anything incriminating they, you said the president did nothing illegal, but i didn't hear a response to whether he lied to the american people. >> the president has addressed this in number of times, no. >> he said he feels badly for cohen and manafort. the men pled guilty to crimes, or robbed the american public of tax dollars that they were owed. why does he feel bad for either of these men? >> once again, the president has expressed his views on this matter. i have nothing else to add on that area -- that. >> to follow-u

early the next morning he crawls to a nearby house. the house is not far from the site of robert e. lee's headquarters. he may have seen robert e. lee and his staff. eventually, some confederate soldiers talk to him. they stopped a wagon and he is taken back to his house. that is basically where he remains throughout the course of the rest of the battle. that is basically his journey on july 1. we have some illustrations. there is a famous painting that and it shows john burns with the officers of the 150th pennsylvania offering his services. that is two lieutenant colonels and major chamberlain. tellschamberlain's book the story about john burns and it. tipton waslliam hired by a historian to record some photographs of the known sites where john burns filed on on july 1.ought a man from the town who was a young boy when john burns was alive actually had gone out with john burns after the battle and trees fromd him the fought on july 1 and where he was wounded. over theome paintings years of the fighting of john burns in the battle. that gets aof them lot of notoriety in books. he is