the horses at the white house. jesse: oh, yes. there is a great book and this, maybe somebody has already written it. but andrew jackson, american war hero, also, a big gambling man. he loved the horses. he brought -- i've feel pretty safe in saying that he brought the only franchise to the white house. he imported some of his thoroughbreds from tennessee and brought them up to washington, d.c., and kept them at the white house. he was also a politician. he made sure that the horses were always run under someone else's name. but, they belonged to him. and andrew jackson ran horses at racetracks around the d.c. area while still president. he was a stable owner, he was almost like dan snyder where he was the major sporting franchise owner in washington, d.c. if you wanted to run a horse, more than likely andrew jackson's horse was in the race. he had some incredible thoroughbreds. of the most as one powerful racing owners at that time will stop he basically ran reising in tennessee, and when he became president, he actually whitea ne

exactly what we see now as the white house. brian: you talk about some kind of structure being built where i think slaves lived, right in the spot where andrew jackson's statue is across from the white house. jesse: when they were constructing the white house, the slaves had to live somewhere. over aroundhanties lafayette park. this was where the workman lived. there were quite a few other buildings around the white house that are not there now. i would love to see a map where all of these were. there was an ice house. stables. shanties for slaves to live in while they were working on the white house. there were houses for freed men while they worked on the white house. they were all on the white house campus but they are all gone today. what the white house looks like today and what it looked like back then, that area is completely different. it would be great to see a map. brian: presidents hid the fact that they bought slaves. james polk bought 19 slaves in the white house. boughthe came in and slaves while he was in the whit

the white house got his first telephone. number of the first white house telephone was one. that was the number. but not everyone could call because there were only other -- orause there were only two three other phones at the time in washington. it may have been only three phones in all of washington at the time. if you were one of the other two guys, the president actually answered the phone. i am pretty sure that does not happen today. [laughter] let me come back to lincoln for a second. i want to tell you about the greatest misunderstandings about him and it concerns the so-called "lincoln bedroom." you see the air road there. arrows -- you see that there. that is what is called the lincoln bedroom. not so. in lincoln's time, that was his office. he called it the shop. this is what his office looked like. this room of the nerve center of the lincoln presidency. speeches here. he issued the emancipation proclamation. everything happened in this room. hehad maps on the wall where could track the civil war. you see the window on the left, there is the unfinished washington m

i have not been to the white house in 40 years. would you consider giving a behind the scenes tour to a few of us? >> i think that i just did. there,t way to get in with security so strict now, is to go through your congressperson. that process is laborious. weeksve to start 6- in advance. to be on thepeople gate and i do not encourage jumping the fence. if you can take the tour, you should. it is wonderful. you see the east room and the state dining room. you can see the adams benediction. if you are lucky on the day you is there, when the president coming or going, they may take you out back and you can watch the chopper, which is really a thrill. i hope you get to do that. >> let's give him a big round of applause. thank you all for coming out tonight. a couple administrative notes. these books are for sale outside the door. in them to the desk. if you run out of the stock of books, you can purchase them from us at a discounted rate and we will ship them to you. you can have them personalized for you or anyone. it is a nice gift

there are stories like this all throughout the white house saves. a lot of them were just victims of circumstance. they were born into slavery. a lot of them didn't like it. and made the best of the circumstances as they could. that's not to say everyone, every slave who worked in the white house wasn't happy. midwest of them were. there were exceptions though. out of all of the slaves' lives that i've looked at in the white house, there was at least one person i found who actually wouldn't escape even when given a chance. he decided that it was better to be a slave in the white house than to be free. and i want to read you a little bit about him. this is someone named elias polk. because of its popularity after jane polk's death, we know a little more about elias polk's life outside the white house. he was born in member mecklenbu, north carolina, and moved to tennessee when he was just a baby. polk would brag for the rest of his life that he encountered every president from john quincy adams through grover cleveland including tennessee celebrity an

>> an architectural element from the white house. but we had no idea what. >> it's not until 2007 that brother-in-law larry forrest convinces the meister family they need to get some answers. and he takes on the role of lead investigator. his first line of inquiry -- the white house itself. >> i spoke to a gentleman, and i told him about what the family had. and after the laughter and telling me that that wasn't possible, i said, "we're pretty sure, it's written on the back," and so forth. and he goes, "it's probably from some other old building or whatever." >> but larry persists. his letters, his calls turn up nothing. then after two solid years, his search leads him to historian and author bill seale. >> i said, "can i just send you pictures?" so when he received them, he called me back and he goes, "i swear i've seen it." >> was it a eureka moment? that's next. >> but first, our "strange inheritance" quiz question. the current oval office was not built until 1934, when f.d.r. was president. the answer when we return. >> the answer

his leadership in the white house. and i have a couple of caveats to share with you before i begin the meat of the talk. first of all, i am a political historian, not a military historian. most of you in this room know more about grant's military career, particularly after taking this course, than i do. my specialty is late 19th century american politics. the second caveat is the fact that i'm writing a book on the presidency of ulysses s. grant for the university press of kansas. it is still very much a work in progress. i haven't figured out everything about this man in the white house. perhaps that's an impossibility. so some of things i will be saying today are tentative in nature, shall we say. we don't have time today to go through an entire chronology of the events in grant's very busy two terms in the white house. instead, what i would like to do today is to raise a few points about how to look at the grant presidency. first to say something about history, how has he been treated in the past. i will be brief abo

the rape of white women was seen as an assault on white honor. we sat through all of birth of a nation. that includes the classic trope. we looked at the mythology of reconstruction. there is the scene where the white daughter of the southern family is stocked by gus, the former union soldier and black criminal. she throws herself off the cliffs rather than be raped. the the klan comes to rescue. that movie we were looking at an example of that trope. today what i would like to talk about is the way in which women themselves participated in that dialogue. some people want to know what did southern white women have, particularly in the 1890's when it was at its height. how did black women begin to critique the systematic violence perpetrated against their brothers, fathers and friends. in this lecture, i'm going to spend time comparing a woman name rebecca latin america felton with ida b wells. largely the lecture will be on ida b wells. let me just give you a little bit of reminder about what we examined when it came to lynching. 1890, two or thre

the white house, for young country, has quite an old history. of course, there is one gentleman who never lived there, george washington. but he picked the winning design tragically,ion, and mr. washington would die about a year before john adams first moved in. construction of the white house took eight years. this is what it looked like. this is a wonderful painting by peter waddell for the white house historical association and you can see the basic contours of the building taking shape. this was the south lawn and roosevelt island is off in the distance. what a wonderful painting that is. anyways, the construction took eight years and cost $72 million -- $232,000, about $72 million today. by the way, the real estate ow today says that it would be $393 million, prime location, 18 acres. i hear the amenities are pretty good too. there's going to be a new tenant in about a year or so, i'm not sure who that going to be. there will be a four-year lease. if we like them, it will be extended for another four years or so. was adams moved in, it novem

the white house has quite an old history. one gentleman who never lived there, george washington, of course. but he picked the winning design for the mansion. it was submitted by the irish architect, james hoban. tragically mr. washington died about a year before john adams first moved in. construction of the white house took eight years. this is what it looked like. this is a wonderful painting, by the way, for the white house historical association. you can see the basic contours of the building taking shape. this back here is the -- what is now the south lawn looking out the south side. over there would be today's lafayette square. roosevelt island off in the distance and so forth. what a wonderful painting that is. the construction took eight years. it cost $232,000. that's about $72 million today. i did the math on that. $72 million. by the way, the real estate website zillow today now says that it would be -- not that it's on the market -- $393 million. that's sort of what the ad would look like in the paper. prime locat

the tradition of white house slaves. and believe me, john adams complained bitterly about the fact that the white house, which frankly is a southern mansion, by the way, was a huge place but at that point congress didn't provide funding for a white house staff, so unlike george washington, who was able to just bring in slaves from mt. vernon to philadelphia and to new york, john adams had to go out and hire people to work in the white house as domestic staff so he was spending money out of his own pocket for waiters, for maids, for cooks for the white house. so, when thomas jefferson moved in, he basically fires all of those workers that john adams had brought in to work in the white house, and brings in his own slaves because for him it's cheaper. it's cheaper to bring someone you don't have to pay than to go out and hire someone. that is a thread that i found throughout the book, looking at almost all of the presidents. many of them, frankly, most of them, at some point in their life, said, this is wrong. they knew it w

>> an architectural element from the white house. but we had no idea what. >> it's not until 2007 that brother-in-law larry forrest convinces the meister family they need to get some answers. and he takes on the role of lead his first line of inquiry -- the white house itself. >> i spoke to a gentleman, and i told him about what the family had. and after the laughter and telling me that that wasn't possible, i said, "we're pretty sure, it's written on the back," and so forth. and he goes, "it's probably from some other old building or whatever." >> but larry persists. his letters, his calls turn up nothing. then after two solid years, his search leads him to historian and author bill seale. >> i said, "can i just send you pictures?" so when he received them, he called me back and he goes, "i swear i've seen it." >> was it a eureka moment? that's next. >> but first, our "strange inheritance" quiz question. the current oval office was not built until 1934, when f.d.r. was president. the answer when we return. hey! this is lloyd. to prov

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so, the existence of white women at lynching was not unusual. it would not be unusual to see children, particularly if these were big spectacle lynchings that were advertised early on. and the other way white women might participate is not even necessarily be at the crowd but if the accusation of the crime the alleged rape of a white woman by a black man sometimes the crowd or the authorities would go to the white woman and have her verbally make the identification and the accusation herself. sometimes she might serve as the only witness. so, studies of lynching in general haven't focused very much on white southern women and their responses to rape, particularly early on in the 1880's, 1890's, and 1910s. when we get into the 19 teens, 1920's we see a more vigorous , and vibrant anti-lynching movement that does involve white women. a woman from texas became a crusader in her own right. we don't have time to talk about her. we are going to look at her on wednesday when we focus more on texas and what was going on in waco and elsewhere. but this is

so that's what it all boiled down to, that you had to -- the white women and the black women, the white women were sub serviantservian t serviant to their husbands and they couldn't choose how much to pay the woman who worked as a cook. we always called her a cook in our family. but what she could do was give us the black family hand me got shoes for the kids, we got a sofa, you know, got furniture, a whole lot was given to them. and the best gift of all, that was in iowa. some of them worked in the south and then they came to the north. >> we'll talk about that. we'll take a real quick break here and come back. the reminder of the show will be online at kwwl.com. >> welcome back to this week he is's edition of the steele report. we have a special guest who joined us, this is annie stevenson. annie is a retired john deere community credit union worker. whether it was veridian credit union. i just learned you knew my late father-in-law and late mother-in-law. they were customers there of the john deere credit union and she happens to be charletta's mother. this is a unique situation. we'

the whites do not want the blacks to vote unless they vote as the whites tell them. and they do not want them to hold meetings to instruct their color in regard to registration and voting. in my own county of dinwiddie, southern part of the state, november 1867, the bureau agent reported that five whites had dismissed five black laborers for voting for the republican ticket. he also said that numerous others rumored to be discharged but have not as yet learned their names. so here you see this struggle, and this case, not really represented much as a struggle. voting,ly black man something he never thought he would probably do. you have the next generation in the new south, a union black soldier who is voting. course, the harpers weekly did not illustrate all the back agentsth of those bureau discussing in their reports. the bureau also involved itself as a family -- with the family affairs of the recently freed. one of its greatest achievements was documenting marriages of former slaves. every 27, 1866, virginia assembly enacted a law which made it such that former s

so now i go to the white house. it's saturday morning. i'm in line at the white house. the tour line. i'm in the liberal line. [ laughter ] and, umm-- which is the line that has to pay to get into the white house. >> true. >> it-it-it was the shortest line. so i got right in. so i'm now taking a tour of the white house. and it's great. there's a secret service man showing us, uh-- i was with my girlfriend. i have a girlfriend now, which, uh-- yeah. there's usually-- [ applause ] >> come on. >> well, there's usually a smattering of applause, much like when they caught the nightstalker. you know, people are going, "thank goodness he's off the streets so-- for a while." [ laughter ] so-so-so we're in line. so now-- so now we're looking at the, umm-- and we're looking around 'cause the president isn't there. and then the secret service man says, "you know, the president is on his way down, and if you stand against the wall in the hallway, you may get a glimpse of him as he's walking in." so i said, "well, this'll be great." so we stand against the wall and we're watching, y

in the 1980's there were a few white athletes who are thought of in the same way. these were white athletes that white americans hoped would score symbolic victories in sports and the attitudes towards these athletes suggested that perhaps the nation had not come as far as many people like to thank. think. states may have entered what commentators were calling a post-civil rights era. the 1970's and the 1980's. clearly race was still meaningful. racial anxiety still existed. to illustrate these anxieties we are going to explore these anxieties in a few minutes. he will explain where they can come from. you all know how much i liked boxing and prize fighting. it is the last one all semester. savor the experience. i'm going to tell you about the 1982 fight between larry holmes and jerry cody. gerry cooney. the heavyweight champion ship of the world. this was boxing's last great fight between a white fighter and a black fighter. it left the murderous racial hysterics of the johnson jefferies fight behind. but like that fight, it was both a sporting event and it was a r

the one refrain we hear on capitol hill and the white house is no silver bullet. they took a step and 2013 backers of the major sub is a bill which was ultimately called the act of 2015 which you probably know as the cybersecurity information sharing apps but that was signed into law just before the new year, late december. it was passed there is the omnibus budget will. the 1.15 chilean dollar budget bill and the idea behind that is it's a first step in terms of allowing people to understand more about the hacking threats that the country faces. backers of the bill which the white house was on board had wrought by partisans of war. many industry groups were on board. they said we want to be able to share more information with the government and have the government share more information with us and we want legal liability protections when we are doing that. if they are able to be able to quickly see the hacking threats that are out there perhaps one company say home depot we could mitigate the fallout from that because we could more quickly tap the government for

tuesday morning from the roosevelt room, the white house the topic would be guantanamo bay but giving no further details. obama's address comes as the plan to shut down the controversial facility and transfer the remaining detainees to a holding center in the united states will be delivered to congress. the administration will attempt to convince lawmakers to allow the pentagon to move nearly 60 detainees to the u.s. to a facility that will cost up to $475 million to construct, but could save as much as $180 million a year in operating costs, the administration says. the plan provides few specifics and risks, and is likely to face tough opposition from members of congress who have repeatedly passed legislation banning any effort to move detainees to the u.s. rep. mac thornberry, r- texas, chairman of house armed services committee, has said that his panel would hold a hearing on a closure plan. but he sent a letter to obama warning that congress has made clear what details must be included in any plan and that anything less than that would be unacceptable. the u.s. officials say the p

why the color white? why would you go after the color white? g about china and espionage and stealing trade secrets -- we have read the litany of chinese hackers targeting u.s. companies, even trade unions to steal secrets. it sounds like it is a deluge, right? but what are they going after? they are not going after the microprocessor that goes in the iphone. by the time they produce that, a new one is on the market that is even better. right? they want to go after stuff that is really hard to make and is profitable, short-circuiting the r&d process. dupont spent $150 million a year working to refine this process even if it just improved efficiency by 1%. they spent six decades designing this chlorination process to make the color white, which is far superior to the way china makes the color white, which is a messier and less environmentally friendly method. they short-circuited this process. now, if they steal the secrets and can somehow put it in a plant and make it without it exploding and killing everyone, because frankly you are dealing wit

for the second straight year, all of the major nominees were white. the newspaper genre spotlight was for best picture. chris martinez has our report. >> reporter: the film that shined a spotlight on the catholic priest sex abuse scandal won for best picture at the academy awards. the revenant won for best directing and leonardo decap ree naronardo dicaprio granted. >> action film mad maximum fury road walked away with six production awards. chris rock hosted the night. his opening monologue all of the the white nominees. >> otherwise known as the white people choice awards. >> reporter: he beat the drum every chance he got and the president of the academy echoed his sentiment. >> every facet of our industry should be as well. >> even here on the red carpet where oscar fashion is usually the biggest topic of discussion, diversity was front and center. >> i'm here to disappear and truly make it oscar so white is stupid to me. >> reporter: the night included visits from r 2 b 2 and lady gaga with a special presentation aimed at sexual violence. >>> now t

the white house this evening saying that president obama was informed and that the president and first lady extend their deepest condolences to justice scalia's family. the president will indeed nominate someone to succeed scalia on the high court, that coming directly from our jake tapper. again, the president will nominate someone to take the place of antonin scalia if confirmed by the senate. cnn chief washington correspondent joe johns has more on the life and legacy of justice scalia. >> i antonin scalia do solemnly swear. >> the first italian-american to sit on the nation's highest court, justice antonin scalia was a conservative in thought, but not in personality. >> justice scalia has an ir repressably pugnacious personality. even in his early years at the court that came out both at oral argument where he was the most aggressive questioner and behind the scenes where the memos that he wrote had a real galvanizing effect among the jurists. >> he was able to light up or ignite a room with his often barack demeanor and we could sense of humor. grounded in american law and its con

we take you back to the white house where president obama is expecting welcome our warriors and you can see steph curry and dry monday laugh -- >> but a few years ago he pointed to the banner and said it is a lonely flag we need another. last year they got it, 67 win, 16 straight at one point, and that used to seem like a lot until this year where they started off 24-0. ended last season with the first title in 40 years. obviously, a big part of that was league mvp steph curry it is a pretty good shoe. for those who watched the game against the wizards last night, he was, to use a slang, he was "clowning." jump young -- jumpin' up and down. by the way, for the record, i heard during this summer after our golf case that steph curry was using the secret service being intimidating for why he lost the match. that is not the case. but he will have another opportunity. obviously watchin' steph curry play is incredible and for anyone who enjoys basketball it is just a lost fun. but it is not just steph curry. there are the other splash brother, klay who dropped 37 points in a quarter, and whos

while more evangelicals were scattered throughout the lower ranks of the white house assertion, and it was no presence of no. decidedly temperate evangelical explanations. one frustrated evangelical attracted controversy when she told a reporter of reagan's advisers should either get saved or get out. the next disappointment came when reagan nominated sandra day o'connor to the supreme court in his first year in office. running for the presidency, reagan courted the religious right operatives by bowing to nominate only committed pro-rich heiress to the nation's highest court. his winning of the national right to life committee's endorsement in fact had been secured into private meetings with the group's president where he had promised her just that. o'connor was a startling choice. pro-lifers back out the records from her time as in arizona's dave legislature and if i'm the worst in history of those. reagan's shocking intention in the words of a christian action of fund-raising letter to nominate o'connor's seeing dennis actually insulting move to mac it is. the newspapers and magazine

he will not meet with fidel castro, according to the white house. will of course be that bilateral meeting between presidents, castro and obama. bigtrip to cuba is the symbolic one, possibly the most important trip of his presidency when it comes to foreign policy and once we will decide how his presidency went when he leaves the white house in january of next year. anchor: thanks so much. back here in europe, he says he's battling for britain. the you k's prime minister promising he's only interested in getting a good deal as he arrived in brussels earlier to renegotiate the terms of his country's membership in the eu. agreed arriving earlier on one thing, this deal is a big deal for europe. european leaders gathered in brussels for a possible brexit at the heart of the discussion. >> we have important work to do today and tomorrow. i will be battling for britain. if we can get a good deal, i will take that deal. important's much more to get this right than to do anything in a rush. work,oodwill, with hard we can get a better deal for britain. outli

that's what was being issued to doctor rachel wellner the owner of this white volvo. she got double parking at the corner of 55 th and 8th avenue. when officers wrote her a cursing. she took off and hit one of the officers in the shin, injuring him. authorities eventually chased her down a few blocks away and they arrested her, a cancer specialist. she was arrested on a number of charges including resisting arrest and reckless endangerment. >> that officer did go to hospital but he is expected to be okay. >>> and we have new information a jersey city mother and father to make a very difficult split second decision, to drop a two-year-old girl and her five-year-old brother out of a window to safety. tonight that little girl is in the hospital with burns to her arms. the little boy is okay. officials believe this inferno started in a utility room. a neighbor describe what had she said was a terrifying scene. >> i was up anyway and went to the kitchen. i saw the smoke and a big light, looked like a bomb. i was alarmed about that screaming. that was terrible. >> three fami

the warriors at the white house. they're meeting the president and getting honored for their n-b-a championship. kris/2shot good morning, and thanks for obama. scott/re being honored for their nba championship. 16-h morning and thanks for nue.ing us. i'm kris sanchez. nt i'm scott mcgrew. we'll take you live to the white house. the golden state warriors are at 1600 pennsylvania avenue and on jident obama will congratulate them in just seconds from now. for their first nba title and workers. to win the title back in june, here they come all of them lining up one by one. everyone seems to have a picture opportunity. saw nancy pelosi there in the front a short time ago as well. the number 44 because he's of course, the 44th president. the joke going around the newsroom is that they allowed an assassin into the white house because of the baby face killer. president obama should be walking out to congratulate the warriors. they're getting congratulated for last year's championship and being -- let's see what they're doing.

. >> danielle: and now jeb bush has bowed out of the race for the white house and the candidates are in for a a push port votes. >> good afternoon every one. we want to begin with that wrok way wreck that left one man dead. >> lynn: but this apparently was no extent accint. bran dob buyer live in davie withthore for us. brandon. >> reporter: and lynn, the man florida highway patrol says was driving the wrong way here in davie. florida highway patrol says 26-year-oldv fair on was driving north in the southbound laifntz turnpike just south of griffen road. let me show thu man's picture. again, this is 26-year-oldz fair on and we are whrerning from the ra bief his synagogue in miami beach that he may have been a very troubled person indeed and deliberately driven the wrong way in order to take his own live thvment was sunday night his hon hon day accent collided with a semi tractor trailer. minor injuries to the o#cupants of that semi truck. fair ons was pronounced dead att the scene. we talked with the ra die bief the synagogue he attended in miami beach. said there were some issue. as

the white house had 10 names. ey ran them by joe biden's people and senator biden said we could go along with these names but not this name. one of the names they said don't go with was robert bork. one of the names they would go along with was anthony kennedy. and reagan nominated kennedy and 97-0 in a democratic senate. so advise and consent means a process like that where the president and the senators have some consultation and discussion about who would be a good choice. host: the current chairman is chuck grassley and he has said he is open to hearings. guest: i think that's what he said. originally come he seemed to say, shortly after justice scalia's death, that this should be reserved to the next president. and then he had an interview with radio reporters in iowa where he seemed to say, we will take it one step at a time. he seemed to say he was open to holding a hearing. and i don't have inside knowledge on this but my belief ofn this is that because public pressure and whatnot, the senate will at least

mark albert is at the white house with more. president obama announced his latest proposal to close the detention facility at guantanamo bay in cuba. president obama: "it's counterproductive to our fight against terrorists because they use it as propaganda in their efforts to recruit moreover, keeping this facility open is contrary to our values." there are 91 detainees left at guantanamo. with a third cleared for transfers to other countries, 56 would be moved to the continental us... including accused 9-11 mastermind khalid sheikh mohammed. cost as much as $475 million to move them and renovate or build a new facility - but it will save $85 million a year in operating costs. president obama: "we can ensure our security, uphold our highest values around the world and save american taxpayers a lot of money in the process." mark albert/cbs news/the white house: the administration has identified 13 locations in the us, including facilities in south carolina, kansas and colorado. but lawmakers from those states have opposed the move

the ladies in white continue to be beat up after mass on sundays sundays. politicalness does not exist. there's very little capitalism. small businesses don't flourish there and you have to deal with the castro government if you want to do business there. the thing about cuba is you would like to think that they would kind of do something good like free political prisoners, opening up freedom of expression and all of those kinds of things. and so i'm disappointed in that but if the president wants to go to cuba, then god bless him. >> i have a message for the cuban government. we are keeping guantanamo. you are not getting it back. [applause] >> in response to what senators marco rubio and ted cruz said last night opposing the trip the white house said today what they believed in has not worked the white house it's time to try something new. >> a new cbs news poll shows donald trump maintaining a sizeable lead over the rest of the republican field. in the nationwide poll trump has nearly twice the support of ted cruz, 35 to 18%. john kasich has risen to tie

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the white hell muts say they're helping everyone. hey say they've risked sniper fire to retrieve the bodies of soldiers. this time they're responding to another attack by the russian air force. before the war these volunteers were students, engineers, carpenters, but here normal lives are no longer possible. today what's normal is crawling through rubble hoping to find survivors of another bombing. bernard smith >>> you can see the full film syria under russia's fist on people in power at 22.30 g.m. t on wednesday right here on al jazeera. authorities in fiji are struggling to reach isolated communities after the nation was hit by a record breaking cyclone. the death toll stands at 42 and is expected to rise. some villagers have hardly any buildings left standing. an true thomas reports >> reporter: the damage here is repeated in the villages right along the coastline of this island. at least here you can still see the basic structure of some of the houses, even if the walls and the roofs are missing in some places everything has been

the tables. crest 3d white toothpaste... ...removes 5 times more stains... ...than the red box. a smile like that, crest 3d white... is the way to whiten. >>> welcome back. justice scalia's death has caused debate last night. >> a moment of silence for justice scalia. >> reporter: it did not take long to get political in the republican primary presidential debate. >> i think it's up to mitch mcconnell and everybody else to stop it. it's called delay, delay, delay. >> reporter: one by one, the gop candidates paid homage to the conservative lion and said that to replace him would be unsuccessful. >> there's no doubt in my mind that barack obama will not have a consensus pick when he submits that person to the senate. >> reporter: but president obama is pushing forward, promising to nominate someone quickly and warning senate republicans not to play politics with the court. >> there will be plenty of time for me to do so and for the senate to fulfill its responsibility to give that person a fair hearing and a timely vote. these are responsibilities that i take seriously, as should e

>> an architectural element from the white house. ea what. >> it's not until 2007 that brother-in-law larry forrest convinces the meister family they need to get some answers. and he takes on the role of lead investigator. his first line of inquiry -- the white house itself. >> i spoke to a gentleman, and i told him about what the family had. and after the laughter and telling me that that wasn't possible, i said, "we're pretty sure, it's written on the back," and so forth. and he goes, "it's probably from some other old building or whatever." >> but larry persists. his letters, his calls turn up nothing. then after two solid years, his search leads him to historian and author bill seale. >> i said, "can i just send you pictures?" so when he received them, he called me back and he goes, "i swear i've seen it." >> was it a eureka moment? that's next. >> but first, our "strange inheritance" quiz question. the current oval office was not built until 1934, when f.d.r. was president. the answer when we return. moms know their family's mout

well, at the there or two officessers yes, that's a fact. two white house police officers outside the building. yeah. don't check who comes into the building? no. what are they there to? to keep people off the guardrails. this is the reality. keep them off the lawn. isn't that crazy? only after william mckinley is killed in 1901, three presidents and 36 years, 1865, 1881, 1901, finally, i guess we need to protect the president. and the secret service takes over. so mckinley is in his second term. he is won he spanish-american war. we gained puerto rico, philippines, guam, and the sphere of influence over cuba, also acquired hawai'i separately. talking about expansion and creating an empire, mckinley had done so, and mckinley is looking better in recent times. he is getting a better rap, guess you say, seen better as time goes on. he was not seen as that great all along but improving in his image, and presidents all improve -- ore maybe decline in their illinois. so, in any case, leon jar goes and -- is his assassin, an an an arist. a terrorist, agains

the black film, straight out of compton, but it's the white filmmaker up for the award. 28% of big roles went to non-white actors, and if you think that doesn't sound like many at all, it's even worse behind the scenes. in terms of the directors, only 12% of directors from other ethnic groups got the jobs. are we talking about oscars so white or from the industries. >> he's an industry veteran, and he says he knows what the root cause of this problem is. >> race is a fact. in this country. and it permeates this country. look around. >> is the academy racist some. >> i think that they think it's a problem because will smith and spike lee saying that it's a problem. >> academy award winner, steven, has been making phipps for decades. he's white like 74% of the other members. >> they don't hire, they honor people. you do good work, bingo, you get nominated. if you don't do good work, you don't. but they don't hire or make those movies, so to take it out on the membership, it's wrong. >> the academy said that it's going to double the number of female and eth mick members by

otherwise known as the white people's choice awards. the academy awards. the year's best films share the limelight, but it was a lack of diversity under the spotlight. >>> killed on her first day on the job. a virginia community mourns the death of an officer who was sworn in the day before she was nned down, and an army sergeant is behind bars charged in her killing. >>> and campaign 2016. new questions about donald trump and the kkk, and marco rubio rips trump below the belt. men with small hands?$% >>> good morning&from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with yoyo i'm anne-marie green. >>> we begin with the oscars, where an underdog won for best picture and the potically charged atmosphere just about t overshadowed the winners. host chris rock took no prisoners as he took on the uproar of the lack of diversity. for the second straight ye, all of the major nominees were white. meanwhile, the newspaper was on the spotlight was on the surprise winner for best picture. chris martinez has our report. >> reporter: the