it all happened in the white house. she worked with jeffrey been -- geoffery beene on the dress. >> bush got married in texas and she wanted something away from the limelight of the white house. shortly after the invitations went in the mail, she called me and said, i think we have a problem. she said, crawford is so small. even very few relatives are being invited. the bush family is enormous. she said, we will need to have a separate reception. it was a private event at the white house a month after jenna was married. we had a reception where she was with the more extended family and school teachers she had taught with. they re-created the wedding cake and the flowers. we all agreed that she should not wear her wedding down because it was a reception. we re-created the event at the white house for the reception. it was a lovely event. many numbers. >> we did a wedding in the white house. it was secretary clinton's brother. tony got married to nicole boxer, the daughter of barbara boxer. the only -- the biggest challeng

what is the white house afraid of? why wouldn't you be afraid of changes made to be compliant with the goals of the hatch act? i expect the committee will reject president obama's 0 cert agses that the -- assertions at the white house did not extend this to democrats when they were in the majority. the president's decision to ignore a lawful subpoena is a clear attempt to impede what we believe to be our clear responsibility. my colleagues in the minority can express the pn that they do not think oversight of this administration is legitimate. but if they express the again that they believe oversight is legitimate, can there be anything more basic than the committee charged with overseeing the hatch act asking the questions, how do we revent violations of the hatch act under this administration not only at the level of the president and first lady, but at the level of cabinet officers. no chairman of either party would do different or less than i am doing here today or he or she would be slinging from their responsibili

johnson moved into the white house at a difficult time. the clintons moved into the white house after a triumphant campaign and a huge inaugural and parades and so forth. the johnsons moved into the white house after tragedy in dallas that killed president kennedy. that was something that both the president and mrs. johnson were very sensitive to. i remember mrs. johnson saying if linden could pull down all the stars in the sky and make a necklace for jackie, he would make it happen. she was constantly asked, when would she be moving into the white house? and she said, there are not a lot of things i can do for mrs. kennedy, but at least i can serve her convenience. they were a couple weeks before they moved into the white house. mrs. kennedy asked the johnsons if she could continue running the nursery school. anyway, the kennedys were running a nursery school. for the little ones. and the johnsons said, lease continue that, as long as it is convenient for you. that was the -- so they moved into a house that was covered in black crepe. so i

what is the white house afraid of? why would you not be proud of changes made to be compliant with the goals of the hatch act? i expect the committee will ject president obama's assertion that they should be afforded special treatment. democrats and republicans alike have expressed the importance of congressional oversight, and the president's decision to ignore law. nina is a clear attempt to impede what we believe to be our responsibility. my colleagues in the minority can express their opinion that they do not think oversight of this administration is a -- is legitimate. opinionhey express the that they believe oversight is legitimate, then there cannot be anything more basic than the committee charged with overseeing the hatch act asking the questions how do we prevent violations of the hatch act under this administration, not only at the level of president and the first lady, but the level of cabinet officers? no chairman of either party would do different or less than i'm doing here today, or he or she would be sh

the statement put out by the white house last night was pretty strong. nd of verbiage that the white house is using over and over again, that they are calling for a full, credible, unimpeded, transparent, prompt, international investigation. they have used all of those words, sometimes all of them at the same time over and over again. they want to make sure that u.s. investigators, international investigators, can get there, that they have safe and unimpeded access as they have put it and they are able to participate in the investigation before anybody can move anything. now, of course, there are already some indications based on what the ukrainians have said that stuff has been moved away from that crash site, that a possible surface-to-air missile launcher has been moved away. this is all coming from the ukrainians, unconfirm by u.s. intelligence. but those are the real concerns there that anybody i will ever get to the bottom of it at this point. and i think what's really interesting is that when you look at the way things have been going over the last

>> michelle kosinski at the white house, thank you so hutch. bring in our political panel, the editor of the weekly standard, bill crystal and senior writer for politico, maggie hagerman and democratic strategist paul begala. let's start with you. if you use the same disputed metric, the 77 cents on the dollar the white house is not practicing what it preaches, right? >> okay. next. but here's the thing, right, it's a smaller gap. it's a 10% gap at the white house and 23% fashlly and still not good enough. i thought it was impressive that the new guy, josh earnest, the new guy. >> right. >> he wasn't defensive he . he said we have work to do. what i like is at the higher levels there are. the communications director, jennifer palmieri, a woman. when there are national security issues he turns to susan rice, a woman. i think he has a solid record on this. fair is fair, if you will use that kind of gross statistic, people will use it on you. >> bill? >> idiotic, false statistic and now let's bite the white house a little bit and that's a mugz, but

there was this rally outside the white house today. people who want immigration reform holding, in effect, a big cheerful rally telling the president to go big on immigration. telling the president to act unilaterally to reform the immigration system. as that was happening outside the white house today, republican senator jefferson sessions iii insisted inside congress if congress is going to do anything at all on immigration, on the spike at kids at the border, caring for those kids, money for border control, yet alone immigration policy, he insisted if congress is going to do anything at all, anything congress passes, he says, must also include language prohibiting president obama from issuing more executive actions on immigration laws. ", no member, house or senate, democrat or republican, should support any bill with respect to the border crisis that does not include language explicitly prohibiting the administration from taking such action. congress must disclose authority of these unlawful actions before congressional funding is g

>> in the bathroom. >> you did, in the white house? >> in the bathroom. >> wow. >> not in the white house, but in the bathroom. when i do a number two, i usually, you know, have a cigarette or i light something to get the aroma right. you know what? you can light a piece of napkin. i said, i'll do that. and the napkin was this. >> all right, bob. anything else? >> i can't criticize this guy because i have done dope in the white house myself. >> are you breaking news? >> no, i'm just saying. >> a lot of dope in that white house. >> that's in my book. i did. >> dope in the white house. >> mm-hmm. >> okay, dana, when you were in the white house, was anyone going to the bathroom and lighting up joinlts? >> you know what i did in the bathroom at the white house? went to the bathroom. >> no, you don't go to the bathroom. please take that back. >> i think it's amazing to me that they think this helps them. i guess maybe it does. with the young kids, they love it. they think it's great, so cool. i think it's unattractive and unappealing. >> i b

i went into the white house with him. i wasn't in their meeting. >> was this matter discussed at all? >> i wasn't in the meeting. i just accompanied him to the building. >> we would find that record. no other contact in the white house during that period? >> no. >> would you be aware that your activities were being reported to mr. werfel? and usually they have the counsel or someone it might have been treasury reporting to the white house as to what of going on with say this report. you're not aware of what took place there? >> so in terms of the ig report, i have no idea what, if anything, was reported to the white house. the visit that i had with mr. wuerffel was to give his 30-day report to the president. >> again, what your activity was reported to wuerffel where you were in the investigation and compiling for congress, you weren't aware of it being transmitted beyond him? >> no. >> okay. thank you. >> we now go to the gentlelady from new york. miss maloney. >> thank you. i regret i was not able to join you last night

it's something the white house has been touting for weeks. it's money at least, one republican senator, appears open to granting. >> we've got take care of the children. we can't leave them in a circumstance where they're not fed or taken care of or in a safe condition. we'll have to find some money, i guess, to do that. >> the money will not be addressed to use any sort of policy plans to deport the minors who have entered the country illegally from central america. that's despite tough talk from the white house to do so over the past couple of days. all comes, of course, the day before president obama heads to texas on a fundraising trip that has some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle saying it should be more than a fundraising trip that he should stop at the border. we learned a short time ago that short of a border trip, as of now, president obama will be meeting with faith leaders and local officials when he arrives in texas tomorrow. senior editor of msnbc.com and white house correspondent from the washington post is here. let me star

there is more at hypocrisy at the white house. there is a war on women at the white house. rd comment tonight. back to our political panel. aftery. nina easton and national review jim garety. 13% pay gap at the white house. >> this shows complexity of this issue and all the people who jump on the bandwagon of women make 23% less than men. the reason there is a pay gap at the white house is because there are more men in senior positions. >> that's the problem. why are the men -- i mean getting all the great jobs? >> well women choose to have children and stay home that effects the pay gap. >> i mean, i'm rolling my eyes at you obviously. go ahead. >> if you think -- the other thick is if you take into account choice, what people choose to major, in for example, petroleum engineering, high paying jobs, 87% male. early childhood education. really low paying profession. very high percentage women. >> i bet you 10 bucks that i can find women, those high paying jobs that are equally qualified. >> how many women do you know have survived a white house job with small children that t

we announced them the same day, the same hour, in the segmented as the white house. that's what we would like to do. with ozone depleting materials a few years ago and that's still the best and preferred way for canada to work with united states. knots.e have about five -- about five minutes left. having interest in china and russia sending in surveillance teams and flyovers, how confident are you that canada is capable of defending its claims to that territory? guest: canada and the united states are part of norad together and we have a perimeter defense security agreement and have had for 55 years. we have joint exercises in the arctic. we are both on the arctic council. canada is chairing it now and the united states takes over in april 2015. have a very positive and constructive working relationship with the arcticstates in terms of sovereignty. there is a disagreement about sea but there is a technical group assigned to map out the sea as part of the arctic. we strongly maintain our sovereignty on the northwest passage in the arctic but we sierra cells is partner

we have to tell the african american perspective as low as the white perspective. it has to be honest and truthful story of mississippi's civil rights movement. it will not be a pretty story. we have had a lot of negative things happen in the state. our last gallery in the museum will talk about where we are now and where we need to go. that will help people see mississippi is growing and improving and things are getting better in mississippi. >> all weekend long american featuring jackson, mississippi. the state legislature placed the in 1821 rat the sight of a pearl river trading post. partnersst cable worked with c-span's local when we recently traveled there to explore the rich history. about jackson all weekend here on american history tv. >> we hope to send into mississippi this summer upwards of 1000 teachers, ministers come a lawyers, and students from all around the country who will engage in what we are calling freedom schools, community center programs, voter registration activity, research work, work in the white communities, and in general, a program de

how, then, does the white house prioritize what's important? >> they haven't looked like they know the answer to that themselves. i guess that's the best way i can put it. they seem to be tackling each issue trying to juggle all at once. i think there's some indication when you watch where their attention is going what they put aside for the moment. the president is talking and talking, which is his natural inclination, to keep the dialogue open to our u.s. allies and friends. but the analysis doesn't seem to be any clearer, i would argue, to president obama or even secretary of state kerry in the situation in israel. gwen: john, the white house -- the president said earlier today that this has been a head-snapping moment. i wonder if it is for the white house as well as for the rest of us who are citizens of the world watching planes fall from the sky, watching tanks and little boys being killed on beaches and all oaf these horrible things we've seen this week. is it a head-snapping moment for the white house? >> there's no question about it. w

i want transparency, accountability. >> the white house said we'll do things differently, change washington. they didn't change washington. >> the more transparency we can bring, the less likely it is washington will be run by lobbyists and special interest ares. >> transparency and the rule of law will be the touch stones president. >> he's broken a promise. >> this is the most transparent administration in history. >> joining us, jill abramson. >> great to be here, greta. >> fired because that's the term you want. i read that you like "fired." >> that's what happened to me. i have devoted my career to truth-telling. so why hide that. . >> fired it is then. i want to talk about the whole issue of president obama and transparen transparency. i have been covering politics back to the carter administration. so a long time. >> you said this administration is the most is he retif. >> i love the name of your show "on the record." i have never dealt with an administration where more officials -- some of whom are actually paid to be the spokesman for various federal agencies demand that be off the

is the white house under siege? our own chris, good morning. approach to this information, that information, it appears to be no, sorry. >> it is whatever, who cares, the kesha presidency. disregard anybody who asks for it. questioning anything you demonstrate your not a supporter of the administration and the president, therefore your inquiry is invalid. it is a loop in which you say because you want to know, you must be bad, therefore we ball not tell you. bill: is it possible the g.o.p. has gone too far? there doesn't seem to be too much there at least for this inquiry into political activity. most presidents have that. >> something the bush white house had that going on, but we don't know what he is asking for because we don't know, but we do know whether it is this or at henry mentioned the irs and recycled hard drives or if it is a listenin litany or issues, are the overplaying their hand? sure. i would argue different than most presidencies including richard nixon, with the president is on, his presidencyr says we are worried about what c

the time. how did white reconcile his views? in fact, he struggled in his last years his beliefs on one hand and the ark texture in one hand and the social economic model that he had no use for it. he could never reconcile the two. what influence did the sympathies have at bretton woods? very little. they were enormously obstructive. there was no monetary thinking. you might wonder why to this date, it is a european who runs the i.m.s. and not an american. where as the i.m.f. was more important to the united states. president truman had intended to nominate white to be the first managing director in 1946. right before he did so, he received a long memorandum saying don't think about it. piv information and witnesses that will collaborate this mass a soviet spy. he did not trust hoover but he knew he had a big political problem on his hands. they said they decided that we want the world bank to "secure the confidence of the american investment community and it would be rude of us to take both institutions." both institutions mind

that is what the white house says about "washington post" journalist who write the piece. we'll speak live with the lead s him what he thinks about white house reaction. >> we are 16 minutes away from the top of the hour. let's check out what is coming up on "outnumbered." kimberly, ainsley what do you have? >> twice, president obama set to set off on three-day fund-raising tour as crises explode around the world. is this a good move? what sort of message does it send? >> breaking details in the benghazi investigation. wait until you hear moved into exactly next door to the u.s. u.s. consulate one year before the attack and why nothing was done about it. >> how many times you've been driving, you want to tell your kid, knock it off? one car company wants to help you. >> plus our #oneluckyguy on "outnumbered" at top of the hour. jon: i remember those road trips in the minivan. uh-huh. looking forward to it. thanks. jenna: well the white house on the defensive today over a story that ran in the "washington post" claiming the obama administration received plenty of warning ab

they say the focus, obviously, should be on problem solving. i was reaching out to whiteld be no surprise last-minute visit today even as governor perry as we speak right now is on the rio grande getting a boat tour to really try to draw yet more attention to this in the final hours of the president's visit here. but as the president himself said, it's not about theater. it is about problem solving. and they reiterate that people who need to be there, people like jeh johnson, secretary of homeland security, will be there later this very week for the sixth time since december. but that certainly doesn't satisfy critics like rick perry who only last night said to me it sends a clear message when presidents and governor goes to places like this more than just making a statement. that's why you go to hurricane disaster zones like sandy, he noted, like bush was criticized for katrina. that's the same reason perry said the president should be going to the border. >> toy plant part of rick perry conversation with peter last night to that very point. >> you can pick up the phone

president bush, i do believe, was that the cost of change -- cusp of change of philosophy in the whitehouse at the same time that he was on the cusp of change with the world powers, if you will. and it does not look very dramatic going from reagan to bush. i am not sure it was really dramatic, but it was a change. his views were very different than his predecessor's views, george schultz. the views of the foreign-policy community when president reagan was dealing with the opportunity for change that had already started to emerge from gorbachev and that comes through in just -- in jeff's book, too. the seeds of change were actually planted overseas by others and he wondered how well-fertilized they would be or when they would be watered or when they would produce beautiful flowers or whether it would produce weeds. the seeds themselves were not our seeds. i think they were invited by our government and how our government functions of, by, and for the people and how our economy thrives through entrepreneurship and creativity and the courage to take risks. those were things that were lack

today at the white house they held a viewing party for the world cup. for whatever reason soccer is one of the sports where everybody feels better if we all watch together in a large group. not every sport is like that. today at soldier field in chicago and kansas city, missouri and piedmont park in atlanta and city hall plaza in boston and san francisco there were really big public groups of fans gathered together in the literal public square to cheer for the american team in their big historic match today versus belgium at the world cup. the big gatherings of people watching together included this rather buttoned up watch party at the white house. specifically, this was at the eisenhower executive office building. president obama himself walked over from the white house to the building where they were holding the watch party at one point today and dropped in unexpectedly on the federal workers there watching the game. before sitting down in the room there to watch some of the game himself president obama led the crowd in a round of i believe that we c

overnight the white house laid on another event. e president will now hold a round table in dallas, texas tomorrow on wednesday with cler givemen and elected representatives to talk about the crisis. >> mike, thank you very much. >>> a powerful typhoon striking okinawa, japan. 600,000 people have been told to evacuate. most of them, though, stayed put. some aircraft are being used to the united states air force base nearby. roughly 50,000 troops are stationed in japan. they have been asked to stay in doors as recovery efforts get underway. dave how strong is the typhoon right now? >> yeah, we're watching this closely, because it will continue to turn to the north. not nearly as strong as it was, but still affecting the area around okinawa and moving up to the north. this is the latest advisory, wind 125 miles an hour. there is some dry area, but it's still a noticeable eye holding together and continuing to push to the north. you see it really intensify as it passes by okinawa, but now as it turns to the north, not quite as favorable

then the smoke plume filling the horizon, those white streaks, debris from the plane littering the sky. as cameras reached the scene in the ukrainian country side, utter devastation. flames in one part of the wreckage, the massive boeing 777 with its 298 souls on board shattered on the earth. as far as the eye can see, an apocalyptic theme. but the debris was spread across ten miles, and in other spots, there is no fire. the malaysian airline colors visible, clothing, passports, a vacationer's travel guide, a sign that these are the parts of the plane blown up in the sky. flight 17 took off from amsterdam just after noon local time. just over four hours into the flight to kuala lumpur, malaysia, cruising at 33,000 feet, it crosses ukraine nearing russia's border. that's when something goes terribly wrong. tonight the u.s. says it believes the plane was shot down by a single surface-to-air missile. >> shot down, not an accident. blown out of the sky. >> reporter: but it's unclear who fired or whether it was a mistake. the government of ukraine has been locked in a battle with pro-russia

the stakes were high politically for whites to keep themselves in charge. it was a mississippi-based organization. jackson was the nerve center. cofo had offices around the state. the way freedom summer work is sentbrought them here and them around the state. he was a community organizing model. you had civil rights volunteers and workers stand out around the state. all of that process was headquartered in jackson. some estimates, over half of the white civil rights workers from the north were jews. they often said if everyone is not free in this country, no one is free. herelthough was happening did not affect them in a personal, direct way, they felt they needed to do what they could to cur this injusticee. it is sad to admit it was the whiteness of the two that helped attract national attention. there were other black activists murdered that did not attract the same amount of national attention. when those three workers went missing, it was a huge national issue. all the media came down here to search for them. when their bodies were finally sign oft was

. >> later today hundred of people ral lid outside the white house. asking him to stop tearing parents away from their young children. those protesters are only a few of the voices trying to be heard in an emotional debate. kristen wright at the white house now. >> reporter: besides the children we've been talking about, we know there are many undocumented parents who are afraid of their families being torn apart. outside of the white house today, immigrants, many in the country illegally, demanding president obama stop the deportation of undocumented mothers and fathers.vtd >> translator: mr. president, i plead for you to open your heart and think of the parents. i have six kids. >> reporter: because of her immigration status sandra must wear an electronic monitoring device on her ankle. she's a single mother in the country 20 years. in the crowd a father of a special needs child. he's on a one year stay of deportati deportation. >> translator: these families aren't just formed by immigrants. they are also formed by americans. like their children are

the paper's white house correspondent. i am pleased to have the both of them.come. >> thank you for having us. >> tell me where did the idea come from. did you simply see a lot of dots that were connected and you said, wait a minute, what is going on? after looking at the dots, tell us what you mean about an arc of instability. >> i think, for me, i was traveling a lot with secretary kerry over the past few months. and it was just kind of every week, there was another crisis. you know, it was ukraine, iraq, syria, and now it in the middle east. it is a continued crises and trying to figure out what is the pulling them together, what is the unifying theme. and it was difficult. i think what struck me was the sense we do have a time where the u.s. is kind of pulling back. a lot of, you know voters wanted , that, they wanted to be left -- less engaged, but at the same time, there are all these challengers coming whether it is the russians, the chinese, the iranians. or these nonstate actors, so for me, it was looking at why is all of this happening at the same tim

the white house doesn't want to get out ahead of this. there are a lot of moving pieces to this, a lot of potential actors involved in the situation, a lot of technical data that has to be sifted through and analyzed in order to understand exactly what happened in this case. the white house doesn't want to prejudice any of that and give a statement that leans in one direction or the other until they know exactly what it is they're dealing with. obviously if we're dealing with a situation in which a passenger jet was deliberately shot down, you're looking at a major international crisis and the white house will be dealing with it in the weeks and months to come. as of right now, they don't want to say anything that's going to impact the way they handle that in the weeks and months to come as they follow up on this. if it's something else, then obviously that unfolds a whole other series of responses from the white house. so very cautious now from the white house. wouldn't expect necessarily you'll hear anything in the next coming hours now

gwen: the fight between the white house and congress grows bitter. the hostilities between israel and gaza grow deadlier. and a top u.s. spy is kicked out of germany. we explore the chasms and the possibilities for compromise on all three fronts. tonight on "washington week." >> not in murietta. not in murietta. >> no papers, no fear. our children stay here. gwen: the immigration debate. takes a fierce new turn. as house republicans prepare to sue the president. >> this is a problem of the president's own making. he's been president for 5 1/2 years. when is he going to take responsibility for something? >> you hear them, sue him. impeach him. really? for what? you're going to sue me to -- for doing my job? gwen: tough talk from all sides. but is there any room left for compromise? the same question looms along israel's border with gaza. as rockets and bombs fly. >> no country on earth would remain passive in the face of hundreds of rockets fired on its cities. and israel is no exception. >> we call on the security council to act now to stop the bleedi

del. >> mike viqueira at the white house. stand by as we await the president to speak. >>> the united nations security council is considering a resolution today nademanding mo access to the site in ukraine. we're live in london with more on the pressure they're putting on russia. the british and australian prime ministers are quite vocal today. >> yeah, del, the australian and british prime ministers taking basically the lead in expressing the indignation felt certainly here in europe. we see it here in the united kingdom. we had an extraordinary session in the house of commons when the prime minister david cameron sto stood up and said russia has to make sure the investigation proceeds quickly and it has to change and stop smenting the separatists in the east of ukraine. we have to start thinking, and we have to here in the eu fundamentally change our relationship with russia. he said that we would also be looking for harsher sanctions if vladimir putin doesn't back off from his support no matter the consequences to our own e

now, are we seeing a pattern here with the administration? a white house that was late to the game on the fixes for obamacare, didn't see the computer problems, the website problems coming. late to the game on the v.a. problem. you know, it was a continuous problem that people were warning about, but it didn't get to the president. is the white house to insuler, is cabinet government not working? what is going on here? >> apparently, it's a pattern i'm seeing here. we saw that with the v.a. with this humanitarian crisis, it didn't happen overnight. if you look at one of the cbb reports, it came out a year ago, and if you look at the numbers, these numbers have been going up. in fact, lax year, there were 25, 26,000 kids without parents coming over. now it's a larger number. it didn't happen overnight. those numbers have been increasing and they have far advanced notice there was a humanitarian crisis and homeland security issues happening at the border. >> congressman, what would you say to the president if you could talk to him today? >> well, the f

the white house declared israel the loser in this conflict. the palestinians have shot 2,000 rockets into israel. all israel is doing is saying, we told you to stop, and now they're feeling the pain because of that. the faa doesn't make a move without the department of homeland security. dhs is appointed for the most part by the obama administration. the obama administration knew exactly what they were doing when the faa put the flight restrictions into israel. by the way, why aren't their flight restrictions into pakistan, yemen, and other countries where rockets are flying and they are dangerous places. there aren't flight restrictions there. they have singled out israel as their point. look, this is a punitive measure by the faa, by the white house to punish israel, and they always blame israel when all israel is doing, contrary to the white house, i stand with israel on this. >> dana, if you're sitting in the white house and you need to advise the president, when you see this kind of action by c.a.r.e., which i think really is going in the

the army is roming over for the white house. the evidence against bergdahl appears to be overwhelming. to get a murder conviction in civilian court you don't rely entirely on the testimony of the alleged murderer. what bergdahl says matters. it's about intent. if bergdahl says i didn't mean to dessert. i wanted to take a nice evening stroll. then they say he didn't mean to dessert. it's just awol. the bottom line for me is the precedent that was set. it's so deliterious. bill: at what point do you cross the line. i have a lot of veterans who hope the guy is okay. but it's not like you are calling for his head. you just want to know the truth and if the truth is what you suspect or believe, then it should be handled accordingly. at the moment i don't get the sense that's the way it's going to go. >> it am not. i want the military justice system to work the way it's supposed work. never in the history of the military has an alleged deserter been given a cushy involves job. military veterans aren't vengeful. what they hate is the wh

from 2011 to 2013, he served as senior advisor to the president. former whiteouse chief of staff bill daley has said the president probably took david's opinion with more certitude than anyone else. if david said "x" i think the president would more often believe "x" than challenge it. i am pleased to have them here here for the first time. it is great to have the year because i am interested in what you do. we can talk about many things. i intend to talk about foreign policy, but in this limited time, what interests me is america. you have done something remarkable and part of two great experiences -- winning presidential campaigns. going to the public at different times. on the one hand, you had the magic of a narrative that was overwhelming. the first african-american, a man who brought great pride. the second time, it was a different kind of campaign. >> more of a grind. >> in the end, you're going to the people and saying -- support us. you have to understand america, i think, to be elected by americans. tell me how you see the country and the influence. >

the white house said they are on top of this. we heard from one of the top president advisers saying there are cabinet level heads. the $3.7 billion request is part of the solution to the situation. but as you have noted right now the entire situation is fraught with political implicatiomplica. harry reid, the democrat from nevada saying that this emergency spending money would not need to be offset. it's just that. emergency spending money. some republicans, key republicans from the states along the border cornyn, the senator from this state, john cornyn saying basically too many of the kids don't show up in court. that remains a significant problem. and jeff flake, the senator from arizona saying among other things that too much of the money, in fact the bulk of the money, $1.8 would be spent on caring for the unaccompanied children. they largely insist the problem that need to be fixed is sealing the boarder before they deal with all these other impacts. >> and to the, again the white house response to this request for the pres

my issue is not that he smoked in the white house. the pot is treated as something you do and it is not that edgy. >> not anymore. but whatever. this story is going to be tossed around, but i think that the only part of the story i find truly unrealistic is that the cia asked if he was going number one or number two. >> and it could have been number three which is a combination. >> i hate when that happens. >> we will talk about that later on the show. i didn't mean to make you sick to your stomach. >> of course this happened. i totally believe this story is 100% true. >> sam, we all get it. snoop gets high. >> it is also the confidence it gives you. he is in the white house smoking weed. i don't know. i feel like there is a white house aid going we haven't reached a cease-fire with hamas and snoop is high as [bleep] in the bathroom. you may want to tend to that. >> you know who was the first person to do drugs in the white house that we know of? >> jfk. >> that's true. jfk did drugs. but those were pills. our own "red eye" larry g o -

the stakes were high politically for whites to keep themselves in charge. it was a mississippi-based organization. jackson was the nerve center. cofo had offices around the state. the way freedom summer worked is they brought them here and sent them around the state. it was a community organizing model. you had civil rights volunteers and workers stand out around the state. all of that process was headquartered in jackson. some estimates, over half of the white civil rights workers from the north were jews. they often said if everyone is not free in this country, no one is free. and although was happening here did not affect them in a personal, direct way, they felt they needed to do what they could to cure this injustice. it is sad to admit it was the whiteness of the two that helped attract national attention. there were other black activists murdered that did not attract the same amount of national attention. when those three workers went missing, it was a huge national issue. all the media came down here to search for them. when their bodies were finally

the u.s. dollar. in fact, harry dexter white, the u.s. treasury representative, briefed the american delegation before they went into battle against the british and others at bretton woods and told them, i quote, the fund, the new international monetary fund he was determined to set up, is designed for a special purpose, and that purpose is to prevent competitive depreciation of currencies. depreciation against the u.s. dollar. and in order to do that, they were going to create a system of fixed exchange rates, which would be sustained by this new international monetary fund. it may seem rather strange in the current context when the united states is constantly badgering other countries, in particular china, to adopt flexible exchange rates, but the motivation was the same, to get a more competitive dollar. in the 1940s all the pressure on the u.s. dollar was upward this the market so countries linking to the u.s. dollar kept the dollar at a high level, where as today most of the pressure from important emerging market countries in partic

east ukraine to the middle east to the south china sea, serious foreign policy challenges beset the white house. the front page of today's "wall street journal" described the situation as an arc of instability unseen since the 1970s. joining me from washington, two authors of that piece, jay solomon covers foreign affairs and national security for the journal and carol lee is the paper's white house correspondent. i am pleased to have both of them. welcome. >> thanks for having us. you. >> charlie: let me begin with the question. tell me, where did the idea come from? did you simply see a lot of dots that were connected and said, wait a minute, what's going on here? after looking at the dots, tell us what you mean by an arc of instability. >> i think, for me, i was traveling a lot with secretary kerry over the past few months and it was just kind of every week there was another crisis. ukraine, iraq, syria, now the middle east, it's just this kind of continued crises and trying to figure out what pulls them together, what is the unifying theme, and it was difficult, and i think what kind

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president obama having that discussion. >> departing the white house for delaware today. obviously, this is an on going issue. a point of contention, now, directly retted to what is evidently an unfolding tragedy over the skies. but one of the actually the company that manufactures the buk weapon system was sanctioned by the united states yesterday. so all kinds of cross currents interretted it is all intertwined here. the incident today, and the on going conflict, very obviously. >> mike at the white house, mike as always, please stand by, we want to turn now to our transportation expert. todd curtis, the basic question that is coming to mind, right off the bat is why would a civilian aircraft fly over what is considered to be by many a war zone. that is up to the airline and the jurisdiction of that air space. >> up to the airline and the pilots onboard, to approve with the plane flies through. >> this is the anniversary of tw 8500. this were with concerns that civilian airline were subject to shorter launch missiles. are there counter measures in place on civilian airli

the white house said it would be more than $2 billion. this is significantly more than the $2 billion we were anticipating. in terms of the break down $1.6 billion go to dhs and doj. it's used for additional border agencies. $1.6 billion goes to addition board agents. $300 million goes to outreach to central america to work with the government discourage people from crossing the border to educating the people who might be considering doing so. about how dangerous that journey actually is. so that is what the administration is asking for. a number of republicans saying they're not going to give president obama a blank check. but it's an optics problem for republicans as well. how can they not do something to deal with what they have deemed as a crisis? there is going to be pressure on congress to do something. will the white house get the full $3.7 billion? that's dubious, craig. i anticipate you'll see a comprise. something in the realm of $2.7 billion. >> would there have to be offsets or going to be -- >> it's a great question. it will v

that the union, white union troops saw the confederates killing the blacks and the white union troops then started killing the blacks also? >> you are correct. white union troops start killing black union troops in an effort as they write very specifically in an effort to preserve white men's lives. >> thank you. >> yep. >> it's my understanding that originally black troops were going to lead the attack and they were trained for it. and then -- and then either grant said no, no, no, we can't use blacks. and then troops -- and then ledlie's troops were used and they weren't trained. was it because -- so soon that they didn't have time, or i guess what i'm asking is there any way that the troops that did lead the attack came through the crater could have been better trained? >> yeah, the question is, could the white troops that were leading the attack eventually have been better prepared? the answer is no because we make these last-minute changes on july 29th and battle is the next morning right at dawn. so there's no prep time. what's my time? okay. >> david rosen from alexandria, virg

they deny this at the white house here. more executive action in the days ahead. >> ed henry live at the white house. new evidence now the obama administration is possibly the most secretive in history. throwing its weight around to silence reporters. former "the new york times" editor jill abramson revealing details of a phone call she got from james clapper warning her not to publish a story. she recently told an audience i have had obama administration officials say more than once "you will have blood on your hands if you publish this story." joining me now is chris plante and leslie marshall. blood on your hands. this is different than just saying in the interest of national security we would appreciate if you didn't come out with this just now? >> i honestly don't. i think this is more of a pleading, not a threat to her. she had a choice and she made that choice not only during this administration but after 9/11 as most press did in the best interest of national security to comply with requests from the white house the