the white sea is the natural habitat. far from the civilized world in the north of russia on the coast of the white sea sea canaries are communicating with people with great pleasure in the open waters. but not a cure they are behaving strangely today. sure you know why you had a canary so why did you feel like giving us a song or something wrong with your fur. before you start singing. water your best. is sure well. let's give our throat some fish oil. now let's try to get off the. sailors have dubbed baluga whales canaries because of the peculiar sounds they make . my three want to bring us to ring was that. skin color distinguishes these marine mammals from their relatives. baluga cobs are of a dark blue color thank you when they're one year old they turn gray like these two female whales. later their skin acquires a milky shade. yes this is exactly how they should be kept but the people in society should know that the bloke a whale is not a stupid fish as many believe that the king. will need to tell them that these i

certainly there was not even in the white house a place to hang it. and she had quietly asked the ambassador at a later occasion, well, i'd love to leave this to the national museum, to the smithsonian, and perhaps they c can display it. the ambassador protested and said, no, madam, the french government gives plenty of things to the national museum. this was a wedding gift, this was a personal gift. so when edith set out to find a suitable home for her husband to move to after leaving office, she had the dimensions of this tapestry written down on a little card. she did okay. she was able to fit the width of

even in winter time life goes on under the white sea ice. on the seabed near the bolshoi christofi island there are underwater gardens of kelp scattered about. cold water is the best environment for the seaweed. fish move slowly through the cold war to the sea bass they used to the divers and often let them come up very close. they look so menacing and they're not even afraid of bright light. the thread like tentacles of the sea anemones give the seabed a fluffy comet. c.n.n. money's feed on plankton and other organic particles the given a green here to the water of the white sea. just. her being here for sure had a mortar. it was true ari didn't want to come where. we only need ice cream that's going to be heaven. where you. go. for quite a few people the underwater world is not the only attraction of the white sea it's smooth ice is an excellent environment for kite sledging fans. only while a failed often visits this remote place in the past he would only dive under the ice with scuba gear now he prefers to ride over the top with a special

and i was 28 working in the bush white house. c-span: in these freeze-frames that you have in the book, where did you get that idea? >> guest: it sort of developed over the course of writing the book. "hell of a ride" is an effort to write a different kind of washington book, a book that describes a presidency from the inside but is a work of journalism and is, moreover, funny and takes a narrative approach so that people who do not live in washington, who do not know how it works, can understand what it feels like to work in the white house, what it's like for the people who live there and work there, what it is like to be in the center of power in this way. having interviewed 80 or 90 people over the course of 11 months when i was working on the book, over the course of time i developed this technique, which also obscures the identities of the people that i was writing about because a lot of them were extremely shy and ticklish about talking to me. almost no one wanted to talk on the record specifically for quotation for the pur

the white house which is -- way, shape or form. he is obviously willing to miss dinner in importance situations and two nights a week. i found in my reporting that the obamas are constantly seeking ways to limit and protect themselves from political life. >> why do you think he ran. >> it was a hard decision. his aides say the summer of 2006, dismissive of it. began to test the waters. the decisionmaking process, in 2006 through the fall. the time is now. if you miss this window of opportunity may never get it again and ponte vedra is obama as opposed in part because of the family issues. he worries about a tax and what standing it has and in a couple years may benefit him and the chief of staff said to me that the decision weighed on her. i find her situation at that time so dramatic because the way people describe it is she really did feel her husband would be an exceptional president and yet she really wasn't sure if it was the best thing for her family. how do you choose between what you think might be good for the country and m

and wendell has the news at the white house. y is the president continue telling press for tax hikes that republicans have made clear they will not accept? >>guest: well, if they say that is a fundamental part of restoring fairness to the middle class one of four pillars of "america built to last." the other three pillars are rebuilding manufacturing sector, expanding domestic energy production, and improving education and job training. here is a shot of the president working with the speech writer yesterday, the critics say this will be a campaign speech but the president's aide say the ideas do not come from the campaign helpers. >> he has spent a lot of time over the last few years traveling around the country receiving letter from the american people and his agenda was developed by listening to the american people and focusing on what he thinks it will take to move the country forward in a positive direction. >>reporter: and cbs-new york times poll indicates a majority of the public support the president on the buffett rule.

not long afterwards my mother wrote to the white house chief, mr. west the president tells me that jack mcnally who was against selling guidebooks in the beginning now says lots more can be sold on the way out. [laughter] this is your province and does not want to mention it wishes rather sweet of him. i agree we can use the money, every penny is needed. not long after her commitment to history led her pressured by father to support unesco effort to save egyptian temples, which were going to be flooded by the construction of the athlon. she wrote a long memo to jfk which you can see downstairs laying out the importance of the temples and suggested that this would he a nice gesture to nasser as he promised aramco to not interview it -- might interfere the berkshire demonstrates an understanding of cold war diplomacy writing. the psychological and clinical argument carries more weight than the economic one. the russians are building the dam and strictly economic enterprise. i saving the temple the u.s. could show they care about the spiritual side and

he said, did you know that even before slavery the white man sought to exterminate the indian? racism is very deep. they destroyed indigenous people. and notice that in a racial language, usually he hedges. he usually says not all white people, but it's the white man. do you know that in america the white man sought the exterminate the indian, now a nation that got started like that got a lot of repenting to do. got a lot of repenting to do. now, what i wanted to do tonight is mainly give just an evocative sense of this backstage, kind of really variety of voices of king. and i'd rather sortover get to -- sort of get to see if you have questions. we can get into anything else you want to. because this is 40th anniversary, i want to return to this theme of king's premonition of his death. because king's death talk was eclectic. and it's kind of interesting, i think to commemorate him by sort of thinking about the many moods and modes that he could mull on his death. sometimes it took the form of eerie unsettlement as a rattled king collapsed at the podium of his church and starts

the white house cooperated. i've been working with these folks for years. lots of people in the obama circle gave me under views. they knew exactly what they were getting into. they never misrepresent what i was doing and also a fact check in the book was insistent for the publication we published an excerpt in the times on saturday and ran i guess to interesting things happened. the first thing is people started discussing the book without having read the book and that's never really happened to me before because as a newspaper reporter everybody reads your work in the newspaper and the other thing is that the white house did start pushing back on some really interesting ways. they haven't really challenged the reporting in the book. like i haven't gotten a phone call from david axelrod saying you've got it wrong and a lot of his quotes are in the book. but something that really surprised me happened yesterday which is that michelle obama went on tv and she said, i'm paraphrasing, she said i'm really tired of depictions of myself as an angry black woman and

on to the white house lawn. people inside were prevented from exiting onto pennsylvania avenue. the obamas were not home. they were out to dinner to celebrate michelle obama's 48th birthday. hundreds of protestors marched and chanted and sang their way through capitol hill. the event was billed as the largest gathering of the occupy movement. it was meant to draw attention to their complaints about issues in the current congress. now, protesters did enter house office buildings and at one point, they clashed with police. we are told four people in total were arrested. one for assaulting a police officer. three for crossing a police line. the occupiers were expecting numbers in the thousands. we are told it may be more like the hundreds. but a big event nonetheless. back to you guys. >>> the man excused of trying to kill president obama by firing up to a dozen shots at the white house is facing even more charges. a federal grand jury invited oscar ortega hernandez of trying to asass knit the president along with 1

this book was not a surprise to the white house. you know, when you fact check a ok they in essence have all of the material in advance. >> rose: okay, but tre is this, so what do you mean they had all the material in advance. >> what i mean is whenre you fact checking a book you're saying this is my reporting. if you see a problem, you know, come back tome. >> so they had every opportunity to contradict anything that you said that was the least bit controversial. >> sure. >> rose: and didn't. >> no. and remember, when you are fact checking you are going to individual sources. you're not sending them the book for vetting, for vetting beforehand. and no, and some of the-- you kn, some of the most controversial stuff they talked about on the record. i meathere is a scene in this book where rahm emanuel walks into the oval office and they there have been stories aired in the washington press in which rahm has, has become clear that rahm hasn't agreed with the president's position to do health-care refm. >> rose: they want to page a deal

so the white house really cooperated with the book. >> jon: who talks to you about their relationship? >> well, 33 current and former white house aides. a lot of their best friends. also i've interviewed the obamas a bunch of times. >> jon: names. tell me their names. >> they're in there. such figures at valerie garrett and robert gibbs and david axelrod. also i fact-checked the book. >> jon: what? what kind of writer are you? >> well, and so the white house pretty much knew what was in it before it came out. so anyway, i have been really surprised because.... >> jon: who is mad at you? because the lady on cnn was angry that you had not spoken to the couple since 2009. >> well by her logic, we wouldn't write obituaries because we can't talk to the dead people. so i don't know. but the thing.... >> jon: what? sorry. that was an odd place to take it. go ahead. who is pushing back? is the obama administration upset with you? >> you know, i think one thing that is a little bit delicate is that there is some behind-the -scenes in the book. that shows us a little bit how the sausage is made

. >> and look at the people he appeals to potentially. white working class. non-college people vulnerable to every accordion industry that hires and fires in the business cycle. there is a wonderful story about this older woman who voted against barry goldwater. she said i'm going against barry goldwater who ran for the republicans in '64 because he's going to take away my tv. and the commentator explained to her, no, he's going to privatize tva. >> she said well i'm not taking any chances. if the word gets out that this guy is a job killer, he then has to defend it in every conversation half of which he'll lose. you know that's -- >> i have had obama campaign people tell me, i sit there and say romney expands the map. going to do well in the midwest and the president very much has a tunnel weakness in the industrial midwest in particular. they ok'ing so me, you don't understand. wait until we get to run against romney. it's harder to run against somebody else other than mitt romney in the midwest in their minds. >> do you have any doubt that mitt romney is th

he went to the white house nearly every day. at one point he even walked into the presidents office while the president was in it. he even attended a reception and interviewed -- introduced himself to garfield's wife. he shook her hand. he gave her his card and slowly pronounced his name so she would not forget him. it was like a hitchcock movie. it's incredibly creepy and absolutely terrifying. finally giteau had what he believed was a defined inspiration. god wanted him to kill the president. it was nothing personal he would later say. it was simply god's will. as fascinating and nearly as dangerous as giteau was senator conkling. that is chester arthur. conkling was a vain, preening bird of fully powerful machine politician who appointed himself as garfield's enemy. he wore canary yellow waistcoats. he used lavender inc.. he had a straight spectral in the middle of his forehead and he prokhorov at the slightest touch. in fact, his vanity was so outside he was famously ridiculed buy it by another congressman on the floor of the

it's a much more candid portrait of them in the white house. >> let me read you what the white house white house press secretary. the book, an overdramatization of old news. it is a relationship about two people whom haven't spoken to in two years and not interviewed them for this book. the emotions and private moments described in the book, though, often seemingly describe the president, first lady are little more than the author's own thought. they're saying, look, a lot of this stuff is in your head and is speculative about how michelle obama in particular was thinking at various times. how would you know that? >> well, because her -- i was -- her aides gave me access. i spent months interviewing her aides in the east wing. >> not her. >> piers, i'll give you an example. do you remember when michelle obama went to london very early in the presidency? and she spoke to school kids and she cheered up a little bit on stage. one of the things her aides were very intent to describe was the importance of that moment in the formulation of her first lady hood. and they talked about how when

if you think about the last book that came out about the white house and the transition of the whitemilar narrative. this idea of a white house and a first lady that was in some ways uneasy with this new and huge role she was taking and then over the last years evolving into a place of comfort and stability and real effectiveness. i think we'll see her a lot out on the stomp for the president because she still remains very much an asset so this white house. >> as you point out, recent polls talk about being an asset. the first lady even more popular than her husband. she launched the fitness campaign for kids. how does the first lady hit her stride just in time for the general election or do you think that this book is going to chip away at that to paint her in a somewhat unappreciative light? >> i think she very much has hit her stride. she'll be very much an asset to this president. a little reluctance on her part to really get involved in 2010 and hit for candidates who were not her husband but she said she's very much all in for her husband. for this re-election. we've already se

in chicago and the white house. there's no distinction between the two things. where you send the president, what the president says, how it's conducted. karl rove never went on the reelection campaign. karl rove was in the white house. don't tell me that karl rove wasn't involved in strategic decisions about how we were going to operate and what was going to happen. i'm not saying you can't run a partisan race. what'm saying is the power structures at the white house and i think nora knows is this is that the people that won out in the the power structures wa not the bill daley let's figure out a way for everybody to get along and build links to people, the power structure that won out are the more partisan, the more polarizing power structures. and if i were billaley watching that, i'm not saying the president removed him because he said "i want to run a partisan campaign." but as those power structures were settled and it was settled on a much more partisan and polazing campaign, bill daley did not have room until

similarly, the white vote is clustered towards the middle and richard white's obviously but quite a bit more republican than the poor whites. we see the same trend with latino voters. again there is a bit of a shift downward from the white vote patterns but it's roughly the same. again, the reason that the latino vote has been so heavily democratic as of late is that there aren't as many wealthy latino voters as there are wealthy white voters. this is going to change dramatically in the next ten to 20 years as latinos become more a simile did in american society as latino children go to college here in the graduate school and become doctors and lawyers just like my italian and irish ancestors did they will eventually join the ranks of the metal class. indeed statistics said just as they do that they will become much more republican and that is why we have seen when they were voting about 85% democrat today when mexican-americans what about 60% democrat we see this large shift because of the increase of the assimilation into american society. i don't see any reason that trend doesn't con

he threw open the white house gates and cast a wide net. the president reagan's former opl folks were horrified. their philosophy, at the end of the reagan presidency, was you are either for us or against us. president bush felt differently. he wanted to see everyone. i remember one clearly in room 450 of the old executive office building in 1989. my mouth dropped off. i w sitting there was ralph nader. i went into the little off stage holding room. he said you look pale. i said yes. he was tickled pink to see the reaction of all of us. his philosophy, i think, was extraordinarily important and set a new tone. the theory was simple. if you included folks in the policy discussions on the way in, they will be more inclined on the way out to sell the american people to support you or if they disagreed with you, to disagree with civility rather than rankor. given his personality and style, that was important for him. the president came in with very strong feelings that he wanted to listen to what everybody had to say. if you cared enough to orga

we begin this hour with breaking news from the white house. bill daley, the president's chief of staff, is stepping down with budget director jack lew to take over. we're expecting the president to speak in a moment. i'm joined by kristen from the white house. there was an interview that bill gave in october when he said he would remain in position as chief of staff at the white house until election. what happened? >> reporter: that's right. in november the white house announced they were going to divide bill daley's responsibilities between bill daley and pete roos. there was some indication that things weren't moving along so smoothly although no one knew it would come to this. according to a senior administration official, bill left for his break. he came back last tuesday and gave the president his letter of resignation. the president was apparently surprised and said look, think it over for 24 hours, and then come back if you're absolutely sure. apparently, he went home, thought about it, gave the president his letter of resignation and sa

and someone threw a smoke bomb in the direction of the white house. n 1000 protesters converged on capitol hill. this time targeting congress. they marched to the supreme court and the white house, condemning what they call corporate greed. if the crowd was loud and rowdy. and even unsuccessfully attempted to enter the capitol building to speak one-on-one with legislators. they fell short of their goal of 10,000 supporters. this protest comes amid a number of polls that show that 84% of americans disapprove of the job congress is currently doing. last night four or rest. one of those legislate a protester assaulting a police officer. this morning, there are no reports of injuries. >> thanks of for the latest on capitol hill. a hearing is set for a man involved in a corruption action that led to the resignation of harry thomas. james garmon agreed to plead guilty. he is charged with helping to conceal thomas's action. >> d.c. police shot and killed a dog that attack three people in northwest. the german shepherd attacked people at the 6400 block of 14th

>> the white house went out of the way to cover this up, to keep this quiet. >> they covered it all upse of the perception that it looked like they were having a good old time at taxpayers' expense. >> here we are with what's a minicofferup, if you will, so to speak. >> yes, an old-fashioned hush job, if you were, so to spk and as you were. and this malice in blunderland continues to deafen. oh, oh. [cheering and applause] thank you. thank you. trademark. oh. and did white house spokesman eric schultz crank up the spin machine, saying, "if we wanted this event to be secret, we probably wouldn't have invited the press corpses to cover it, release photos on flickr and release video on the white house web site. well, that's just hiding in plain sight. that's the oldest trick in the book. of course, all of this begs the obvious question. >> if we didn't know about this, what else is going on in there that we don't know about? >> that's a legitimate question. >> stephen: yes, it is. and, folks, i have heard disturbing rumors that every year they hold a pagan druidic tree-lighting ceremony,