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'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

house of stone. you have written so many books about the white house. why this project about the stone at the white house? >> the one thing that hasn't been addressed is what is left of the white house. it is sacred historically. what is left and how did it get there. that is why this book was written. >> before we get into the story of the stone we have to back up and talk about the location. how did the white house end up in this spot in washington d.c.? >> it was part of the city plan, that george washington approved. it calls for a palace five times the size of this. and the sellers were dog. they were making bricks out of clay. washington relocated the house to put it on the axis. there were two axes. one running from the capital down the mall and one running here. it runs right through the house. washington placed it right on their. when he reduce the size of the house by a fifth, he wanted to still be in the plan as it was supposed to be one of the two great important buildings in washington. >> we have to remind our viewers that washington in his

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

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

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.

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

this is the murphy house designed by the architect richard murphy. twenty sixteen it was named house of the year by boyle institute of british architects. there are lots of ideas behind this house how it fits into a piece of historic edinburgh how it changes between winter and summer how you get a lot of rooms into a very small space how you save energy. when architects 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 house came from that building up high on one side and low on the other and then try to get as lots of many rooms in that was possible and using those devices to make the house food bigger that it actually is. the murphy house with its unique architecture certainly stands out in that immersed popular new town. most of the houses here were built in the nineteenth century represented the world's largest example of uninterrupted late georgian architecture. the murphy house has eight levels. with one hundred forty square meters of living space it took

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 majority party rules the house and always has. ere'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 happen to solve a problem for the country. whereas, the house, while it 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, where the only way you bring a bill to the floor is to have a majority of the majority party ready to vote for it. and so, therefore, 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 an

the white house historical association is bringing together people from presidential sites across the country, tuesday we will have a live coverage on how perceptions of presidents change over time and how former white house executive pastry chef who talks about working for five presidents. wednesday former press exit -- secretary joins with previous correspondence talking about why some stories are told and not others. live coverage both days tuesday and wednesday mornings beginning at nine eastern. next on the presidency, the design history of the white house and how it was entrance -- influenced by british and irish inflections. this hour-long program is part of a daylong symposium hosted by the white house historical association. >>> thank you, for all of you sticking it out through all of this. i want you to know that this is your chance to ask the questions that the scholars and experts can answer. i have no background in history or scholarship, i am just a reporter. but, i really have had the privilege of the front row seat to history. first walking up that white house driveway

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 people just 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, everyone 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 president johnson had a great sensitivity to sound, and he would try to take a nap upstair

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 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

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

. >> the little white house in key west, florida. theake you there as we hear 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 the fact that franklin roosevelt had had a little white house. in our case, president truman was at everglades city in december of 1947. the press corps started yelling at the president, are you going to return to florida? he responded by saying, of course, i have a little white house key west. -- in key west. it was painted gray, the navy took that as an indication that the president was returning they painted it all white. it is no longer navy grey. i would like to welcome you to the little white house. it is florida's official presidential museum. it has been used by seven american presidents. it was built as the navy commanders home back in 1890. it served a number of various commanders over almost 100 years. it was slightly interrupted by andidents taft and truman eisenhower and kennedy and jimmy c

the house continues behind me here and probably goes under the 1870's house that belongs to the massey family. it continues probably 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 treasure that i am really 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 create 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 fre

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 of the reasons people go after nancy pelosi is she has been an effective leader for democrats and has been an effective speaker. 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 i do think it is important in these elections in 2018 -- what i think is incredible is how man

the white house get their news. and there's some ways in which things have not changed. as a matter of fact, it's always the result of the effort of the newspaper men themselves. there's no giving out of prepared news. there are acquaintances with prepared men all over the country, departmental officials and members of congress. enables them to get their first starter tips. the same friends develop a story for them upon inquiry. sometimes it's the question of hard digging as the minor put it to unravel a story. and that is still the case. you can see that in the white house press briefings that sarah huckabee sanders has and her predecessors have had, with the reporters acting as miners digging for information. joining us on stage is mike mcclury a board member of the historical association and one of the planners of this presidential site summit. and press secretaries for the william clinton and also was the spokesperson at the state court and before coming to the white house. ron nesson, who was the spokesperson fo

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

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

steel house remained the only one of its kind. in. this housing estate served as an example for the later housing complexes of european cities after the war these us students from san diego are impressed by the pioneering designs and. i was surprised by the attention that these designers put in the living experience of the people who are going to occupy these homes so for example the ability to expand the rooms in the steel house that we visited where the windows are respect to the air in the light the way that the windows would open depending on the climate that you are experiencing at the time every little thing seems to have a purpose this was the design of an entire city like the fact that they were thinking about where people would need to eat and drink and what they would need to eat and. just the basic necessities in creating affordable housing bauhaus is like not just artistically progressive but also socially progressive and that's a whole aspect that we didn't understand. in tel aviv to people live in bad house buildings

the white house, you could walk right into the white house. time, you could just walk in. and look around the rooms on the first level at your leisure. hoover, ihrough think, on new year's day, anyone could walk in and shake the president's and. -- hand. the book starts out where i'm sitting on a bench in lafayette ukeare where bernard bernar used to sit. he was an advisor from presidents wilson to truman. he would have this bench near the jackson statue. 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 him and the natchez and sitting there -- dean attkisson sitting there. the entourage would be incredible now. what worries me is more and more , for some reason, i don't know why security closes the entire park. ist a couple of weeks ago, was going to walk through it and there were people there with full, big, big rifles. the type we used to see when we thought terrorists were going to take over the capital building. as more crazies leap over the fence, they've had to push it back. i do w

it was in a book, history of the white house. this is the interior of the white house in 1950. he problem was the white house had been so badly abused that it was falling apart. it was dangerously falling apart. margaret truman's piano was falling through from the second floor to the first floor. they moved them across the street to the truman house. this idea of a bulldozer, front end loader in the middle of the white house just fascinated me. i am weird that way. we also have to go back to 1898, the united states in the spanish-american war acquired puerto rico. and they were never quite sure what to do with it. they didn't want to give it its independence, but they didn't want to be seen as some sort of colonial empire. so, they gave the puerto ricans american citizenship in 1917. in 1950, they were all set to create the commonwealth that we have now. there was a separatist, nationalist group that didn't want this to happen. they thought they could rise up, throw out the americans, and return puerto rico to some kind of ideal lease in the caribbean, which it probably never wa

next, white house journalists talked about their experiences covering the white house, from eisenhower to the trump administration. the association for education in journalism and mass communication posted this one hour event. thissted this -- hosted one hour event. jennifer: so one of the things the president gets to do is invite people to come give a keynote address, and as i was thinking about our locale, as we see here, our lovely logo with the capital, all i had to do was turn on the news, look at the newspaper, open my twitter feed, and realize what our topic had to be. it had to be looking at the relationship between our chief executive and the white house press corps. and so i am so honored to have instead of one guest, i decided to do a q&a panel with three outstanding white house press corps members, and i will bring them up one at a time. the format is going to be, we are going to have a conversation, and i will tell you, i think our friends at c-span, who were going to air this at 9:30 eastern tonight -- they are taping it right now, and that way it can be shared by so many

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

set foot in the house -- out of the house approaching emmett's bridge. of course history has shown us that on that morning it was a tenuous time in the life of everyone here. for those paying connection to the civil rights movement they did not know if their lives would end that day. but the prayers held in this home in the bedroom, putting on the boots then going to brown chapel as history is recorded things did work out well and after four days the march was successful. >> there is no constitutional issue here the command of the constitution is plain there is no moral issue. it is wrong to deny any of your fellow americans the right to vote in this country. [applause] >> dr. king was still living in the home the night that president johnson delivered a major address to the nation and quite simply reaffirmed he was going to or intend to sign the voting rights act which we all know in august 1965 he did. the johnson daughters consider the legacy of their father the greatest piece of legacy is the voting rights act. doctor king was still here sitting in t

of the white house is about lying. of course, we have daily lies coming from the white house, the staff must know it. and they must in some way make some allowance for their less than forthright commander in chief. >> right. maybe it bought a little credibility. it's part of the all-out-war between the white house and former staffer/apprentice contestant omarosa. she's out for blood ahead of the release of her book unhinged. as part of her publicity tour, she's releasing secret audio recordings she made at the end the tail of her white house tenure. here's one of the tapes john kelly firing her in the situation room. >> but i think it's important to understand that if we make this a friendly departure, we can all be, you know, you can look at your time here in the white house as a year of service to the nation. and then you can go on without any type of difficulty in the future relative to your reputation. >> and omarosa released another recording earlier today, this one of a phone call between herself and the president

in 2018, it's really in the house. of challengers running against republican incumbents who voted to strip health care from 23 million people. that should be a front and center issue. also the tax plan which worked out the agreements. those are health care issues candidate should campaign on. do you thinkeats democrats will win in the house and senate in november? >> i ams never one to be to at -- i'm never one to be too optimistic about a campaign again. [laughter] i definitely learned that lesson. what's interesting about the special elections so far is that democratic enthusiasm has been very high. unusually, in midterms, democrats are voting at higher levels than republicans. anywhere between eight and 15 points. if that carries through, democrats could win 30-40 seats. it is a very gerrymandered system. in 2010, republicans won 60 seats. i don't think democrats could win that many. andink the energy enthusiasm is pretty impressive. over the last 1.5 years of the trump presidency, i have never in my career seen this

bush's eight years in the white house. as my democratic colleagues keep pointing out judge kavanaugh has described how his time as staff secretary was a formative experience for him. well, justice kagan said the same thing about her time as solicitor general but in the case of justice kagan the democrats refused to request for records.le on top of the undisputed relevance of solicitor general's material judge kagan, however, backed by judicial record. in other words, unlike the more than 300 opinions that judge kavanaugh altered and the hundreds more opinions he joined in his 12 years of service on the dc circuit justice kagan had zero judicial opinions that she offered, zero judicial opinions that she joined and zero years of judicial service. her solicitor general documents for their for even more relevant democratic leaders are rewriting the kagan standard to further their stalling tactics. the minority leader also tried to draw a parallel or parallels with the request for documents from justice sotomayor's time as a boa

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

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

later addition to the house. the -- through the house's history, the kitchen kind of moved back, you know, to the very back eventually. the stove here is a nice story. this is a -- not the one, but it's 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 was a reproduction, but it was 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, through the christmas season and during the fall harvest weekends and then of course for henry's birthday, we cook in here. so, the stove is an actual stove from the time period, but it's not the one that ford picked out. the one that he picked out is preserved, and we have chosen another one from the time period, because we act

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

are just if you arejustjoining us, this is the scene live, just outside the palace of westminster, the house of commons, an incident here involving a car, which has crashed into security barriers. the driver has been detained by armed police. they swooped within seconds of this car crashing into the barrier. it is reported that several pedestrians have been injured for them it's not known how seriously. one of them, it appears, was a cyclist. his bicycle has been badly damaged and is still lying on the road. the area is in lockdown, though. emergency services on the scene. these pictures here just up the road from parliament square fulston this is the scene at whitehall. the whole area, as i say, is in lockdown there. police, as soon as the incident happened outside the palace of westminster which is in recess, so parliamentarians are on holiday at the moment, police racing not only to the scene of the crash, the incident, but also to ten downing st. this is just incident, but also to ten downing st. this isjust outside incident, but also to ten downing st. this is just outside ten incident,

there are several pieces of furniture in the house that franklin and jane took to the white house to furnish the eight rooms to be used for their personal life. one is the sofa over here, under the portrait. the table in the center of the room was known as the white house table. evidently, they were borrowing furniture from friends and relatives to furnish these rooms. against the wall is a writing desk and chair that belonged to franklin pierce. he would be up until 3:00 in the morning, sometimes, answering correspondence and writing speeches, sitting in the little chair. and this room, this is the dining room of the franklin pierce manse. in this room, we have the secretary from his law office. when he went through this, he gave it to his law partner. it was in the family when the house opened. they very generously gave it to the berg grade to demonstrate his law practice. this is how it opens. he would sit and write on the desk and have his law books case above there. the books in this case are pierce owned by jay or franklin pierce. they have instructions in front of them. it has

how is the white house responding to all of this now? joining me now with the latest is nbc news chief white house correspondent, hallie jackson. i told you this morning i would be seeing you again, hallie. >> reporter: you called it. i decided, it was such a nice day, we'd come out and have a little talk, ali. >> this is a little unusual. the president politicized jeff sessions again this morning, and jeff sessions -- nobody expected that to happen -- said that's not actually the way it's going. >> reporter: and then the two of them go in and have a face-to-face this afternoon as all of this is developing. jeff sessions walking into the white house for a previously scheduled meeting, at least, we know that much for sure. listen, this is a moment, right, again in this long and convoluted relationship between donald trump and his attorney general. i'm old enough to remember the campaign, ali, when jeff sessions was, as you guys talked about, the first senator to come out and endorse donald trump at that massive rally in alabama. that was b

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

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democrats do take control of the house? hink they are pretty much wholly unprepared to do anything. trump is a guy who just thinks in the moment. he has no plan. i actually thought the other day when he was making all those really crazy tweets he might be getting psychotic. so i don't think there's any long-term planning. i think the staff tries to engage in long-term planning but you've got these neo-nazi types like steven miller running around. he has an agenda, not the end good of america, but sucks trump in every time. there's an incredibly short sighted group of people. the ones that have a long-term vision can't get anything done because trump is unmanageable. >> think about this, look, i think one of the strongest arguments for dpms in temocrats could investigate overseas. on the other hand is the white house going to obey democratic subpoenas. let's not assume they will play by the rules the obama and bush white house plays by. we could end up with a constitutional crisis in the new year. >> i agree with ayatollah. >

this comes as the white house announced don mcgahn would be leaving the white house soon. an announcement on twitter that apparently surprised don mcgahn. >> >> also, the "new york tim f times," former trump lawyer michael cohen planned to buy up all the dirt on donald trump that the "national enquirer" obtained of him. there is a tape of donald trump talking about payoffs before the 2016 election, and it strongly hints at that bigger plan. >> it's all the stuff. all the stuff because you know you never know where that -- >> if he gets hit by a truck. >> correct. i'm all over that. >> the "times" says that plan was never finalized. >> joining us by telephone is josh dawsey on the "washington post" "game of thrones" story. i'd like to do a dramatic reading. it says winter is coming said one trump ally in close communication with the white house. assuming democrats win the house, which we believe is a strong likelihood, the white house will be under siege but it's like tumbleweeds rolling down the halls over there. nobody's prepared for war. explain. >> right, john. the probl

then a public vote on the house floor. t initial vote happens behind closed doors, she'll know if she has the support in order to become speaker. at that point, she can determine whether to move forward. i think that's what she's going to do. that's what she's betting, that ultimately members will come to her side at that time. >> and he's proven it in the rearview mirror of being a supremely good organizer. >> yep. >> so her question is, i think, can she by election time come up with -- look, i get it, you want generational change, you want leadership change. you're not ready. let's do a transition. i stay for a certain period of time. we shake up the team. over the weekend, she got this unlikely, i'm going to call it, assistance, i'm joking, from the president of the united states. democrats, please do not distance yourself from nancy pelosi. she's a wonderful person whose ideas and policies may be bad but who should definitely be given a fourth chance. she's trying very hard and has every right to take down the democrati

i want him to bring integrity back to the white house. i want him to stop doing the things that he's doing and working in conjunction with republicans in congress to suppress the vote. i want him to make sure that health care is provided to our citizens, and i want him to get his administration straight because as far as i can see, it seems like there is -- they don't seem to know what they're doing, particularly when we look at what's happening with these immigrant children. >> so i want to ask you about these allegations from omarosa, but before i get you on that, l us just after she left the white house in december. >> do you think this president is racist? >> absolutely not. i would never sit nor work for . i don't know omarosa, but i can only judge from what i've seen. you know, when people go around asking is somebody a racist, you know what happens? once i say that and if i were to say that, that would be the headline and nobody would ever get the message. what i'm saying to you and the message that i want to get through is that thi