and the ground beneath the white house withstand, which was another problem. so back to the blame game. i want passionate i don't want to kick much unto me people. isn't the real culprit james open who designed the white house in 1792? know. actually it isn't. the study of soil mechanics did exist in his only building the building that george washington had asked them to come which was a country gentleman's house but it was perfectly suitable for the time. it was not suitable for 1950 as one of truth assist labor, the white house was quote designed as a comfortable late 18th century home but it has become the nerve center of the world. so let's continue on with the damage. your culprit list i'm adding edith roosevelt on the left who decided in 1900 do that she needed a bigger dining room. she had 50 feet she wanted 107. the only way to give that to her was to take this wall and the staircase, and rip it out. that is what poor charles, who also built penn station force in new york, had to do. so what do they do to replace the wall? he built a hanging trust in th

white houses. flickr accounts, twitter, instagram. every white house after us will do that. the next white house and the one after that will have tools available to it, as well as most of you, that we cannot even imagine when it comes to distributing information. it would be malpractice not to take advantage of those tools. starting with photographs. when we release a picture taken by the white house photographer, one of the white house photographers, online, we are doing nothing different than what our current chief white house photographer did when he was president reagan's white house photographer. he would make prints and hand them out in the briefing room. the difference is those prints would be delivered to news organizations who would then decide whether to publish them, but now because of the internet we can put them online and you all get to see them. it is not up to the ap or cbs or others to decide. i understand that creates tension. i'm hugely sympathetic to the financial pressures that are on the organizations, but i think -- there was an interesting exchange over p

to access the white house? >> that's a great question. if you want to tour the white house these days, you can pay a lot of money to go on a tour or write to your congressperson, and i wrote to my congressperson, but i couldn't arrange a time that was actually convenient and reasonable because i have a job. then i realized that in some ways, it really was not all that important for me to go. i say that for two reasons, actually, three. one, my folks took me when i was little. i remember it. two, they only take you to the old ground floor, and then they take you to the state floor, and naturally, as i say to everybody, the two most interesting spaces in any house in the basement and attic, two places where they were not going to take me, and so i thought, well, i'm not going to see the thing i'm curious, and i will not get to see the shelter, i thought, well, you know, maybe i don't need to, and, finally, it's important to remember that with every first family in there, even though they tend to leave the state fl

to access the white house? >> that's a great question. if you want to tour the white house these days, you can pay a lot of money to go on a tour or write to your congressperson, and i wrote to my congressperson, but i couldn't arrange a time that was actually convenient and reasonable because i have a job. then i realized that in some ways, it really was not all that important for me to go. i say that for two reasons, actually, three. one, my folks took me when i was little. i remember it. two, they only take you to the old ground floor, and then they take you to the state floor, and naturally, as i say to everybody, the two most interesting spaces in any house in the basement and attic, two places where they were not going to take me, and so i thought, well, i'm not going to see the thing i'm curious, and i will not get to see the shelter, i thought, well, you know, maybe i don't need to, and, finally, it's important to remember that with every first family in there, even though they tend to leave the state fl

white houses. flickr accounts, twitter, instagram. every white house after us will do that. the next white house and the one after that will have tools available to it, as well as most of you, that we cannot even imagine when it comes to distributing information. it would be malpractice not to take advantage of those tools. starting with photographs. when we release a picture taken by the white house photographer, one of the white house photographers, online, we are doing nothing different than what our current chief white house photographer did when he was president reagan's white house photographer. he would make prints and hand them out in the briefing room. the difference is those prints would be delivered to news organizations who would then decide whether to publish them, but now because of the internet we can put them online and you all get to see them. it is not up to the ap or cbs or others to decide. i understand that creates tension. i'm hugely sympathetic to the financial pressures that are on the organizations, but i think -- there was an interesting exchange over p

they have nothing back at the white house. the implication of course is goes back to the white house. it's also b.s. they can't prove that. the number of flooding of tea party applications of enormous that year and there weren't that many progressive groups being put in there. >> so bob, that is the new talking point, you get to say all the liberal groups are targeted too but now presented with sworn testimony from irs employees, you can say i didn't really mean that? >> this isn't too outlandish, bob. lois learner when she worked for the scc, has a history of this. they found a memo from lois learner to her staff talking about very detailed increased scrutiny for conservative groups. you know the truth? >> why didn't he come up with something after all this time? because he doesn't know what he's doing. >> what about all the senate panels, the committee, they do the same thing, and nothing comes out of that either? they won't investigate the irs. they won't investigate benghazi. >> you tell me how many things -- can you tell m

then we got stories that the white house officials were going outside the white house to the coffee shops across the street from the white houses where they were meeting the lobbyists so they wouldn't have to be cleared in. they've found a way around the transparency and are telling you, you're getting all the information -- >> the interesting thing, though, is when you hear from the head of the a.p. photography, from jill abrahamson at "the new york times" and from bob schieffer who said this, whenever i'm asked, what is the most manipulative and secretive administration i've covered, i always say it's the one in office now. when you have people like that in the mainstream media saying this, it's much more than just who's coming and going to the white house, right? >> that's absolutely true. part of that is that this white house has been very good at stemming leaks, keeping control. the bush administration was decent at that. the clinton administration was very bad at that. in some ways, it's just a comparison of -- in our profession, we want to find out information. we like people who a

is the white house delegate all about benghazi or is the white house hiding something?he o'reilly factor but go to gretawire and vote in our poll. see you tomorrow night. 7 p.m. >>> the o'reilly factor is on. tonight. >> this is a classic coverup of a coverup. and that is a serious offense. >> why isn't the national media covering the explosive benghazi memo release yesterday? we'll tell you what the memo says and why the press fears it. >> the creepy part is that, yeah, when you get taped in your own house, and then that goes out to the world. >> the creepy part is when you demean the entire black race. but some people still don't get that tonight, we'll talk it over with kareem abdul jabbar. >> also coming up, miller on basketball racism and watters goes to harlem to find out what the fo

ed henry live at the white house for us. ed, critics jumped on the president's push for equal pay today saying the white house doesn't pay women the same as men. what did you find out? >> reporter: it's interesting. it's the second day in a row the white house faced tough questions about this study suggesting that women make about 88 cents on the dollar against male salaries here at the white house. jay carney has pushed back by saying, you're looking at the median, that includes people on the lower end of the scale. but people at the medium and higher levels make the same amount of money for the same amount of work that a man would do. but it was turned around on jay carney today on the notion that, look, the president seeps citing this statistic, he did it again today, that there are studies showing that women by and large only make 77 cents on the dollar that a man makes.

at the white house. white house, saturday,before msy show. they were resolved in the favor of the white house. what's odd here is that the false narrative that was given on sunday morning, on the sunday morning shows, somehow it strangely added up with the view of the white house six weeks before the presidential election that al qaeda was nearly defeated and the global war on terror was over. everyone knows that wasn't true. that al qaeda wasn't defeated. everybody on this committee, both sides knows that the global war on terror was not or. that was the narrative of the white house and the run-up to the presidential election. how weird that that ultimately was reflected in the talking points against all knowledge from people on the ground and knowledge that this committee had. that's why we're upset. because the american people from my perspective, were intentionally mislead by this administration as to what happened in benghazi. >> chairman, can i respond? i would make two point, ma'am. number one, the narrative that the attack evolved spon

the white house would say so. they bristled at some of the coverage from the media about the fact that it was not because of the trade deal. that said, there were expectations they would be able to advance this trade deal, particularly in japan even up till the last minute when they're waiting for the press conference between the president and prime minister abe. they were hoping to have language to show specific progress, but they have struggled to make progress on that in asia. it is something that is very important to this white house. they think it would be good for the economy in the united states and in these countries he is visiting, and for the world economy. another thing, shane might be able to talk about this more. they arehe push that using internationally, it also faces some significant resistance in the united states, and not where you might think. coming from democrats in the congress. guest: it was one of the interesting things this year, after the state of the union, the president talked about movi

if you guys are so innocent of heart to think that ben rhodes and the white house don't care about the president's image, you've never been in a white house. they all care. this was in the email that you have a steady and steadfast presence. that you maintain the president's presence. you talk about boehner should step up there. you forget there have been house investigations. hillary clinton testified. senate intel came out in january and said yes the violent video did spark protest in egypt and tunisia. >> what difference does it make? >> he can go ahead and call for a vote for a joint select committee with the power of subpoena -- >> we've had investigation. >> the difference here so you are saying ben rhodes purposefully changed the facts -- >> he didn't change any facts. >> so the president could look good. >> no, no. what he said was let's make sure that we don't get into a policy discussion. we want to have it so the president comes across as steady and strong. >> i'm so surprised, juan, that you've covered white houses. you've got amazing investigative journalism. maybe this st

at 20 tons per linier foot, and the ground beneath the white house was sand. that's another problem. so back to the blame game not to kick mud on people. isn't the real culprit the one who design the white house in 17922? no, it's not. the study of mechanics did not exist yet, and he was only building the building that george washington asked him to, which was a country gentleman's house. it was perfectly suitable for the time. it was not suitable for 1950 as one of truman's assistants put it, the white house was, quote, designed as a comfortable late 18th century home, but it's become the nerve center of the world. okay. let's continue on with the damage. the culprit list, i add roosevelt on the left, who decided in 1902 #, she needed a bigger dining room. she had 50 feet, she wanted 107. the only way to give that to her was to take this wall and this staircase and rip it out. that is what poor charles mckim here, who also built outpatient here in new york, had to do, and so what did they do to replace the wall? well, mckim built a hanging truss in the floor a

growing pressure for the white house on two fronts. i am sandra smith. and i am ed henry. and we just obtained a letter from republican darril issa. the letter said the documents they have already received show senior white house officials and the president a pore to be far more personally involved in a decision than the healthcare.gov. and this comes amid outrage and showing exirs official lois lerner coordinated with the department of justice on prosecuting nonprofit groups. >> welcome, congressman, what i want to know specifically. you serve on the committee with darril issa. what do you think the documents will show? >> we requested from the department of health and human services and we found out that the white house had institutional interest in them and stuff was redacked. and that was uh-huh. this makes us look bad. and you think that the president and the senior services. and committee concerns that you raised. and we have suggested information that showed early on that the white house was actively involved and we want to know who knew what when and why we didn't w

at the white house, the deputy chief of staff's job has had many permutations. i run the operations -- the campus of the white house. that includes air force one, camp david, marine one. the personnel, 1700 full-time employees. we run the searches for cabinet secretaries. the president's schedule, how he uses time and who he sees. those things, because they are so hard to define. there is a group of people. >> you decide where he goes and how he goes. who is going to be in his cabinet. you are more powerful than they say. [laughter] >> that is generous. >> someone called you scary powerful. >> that was probably a friend. >> what does the president say about this? he says, as soon as they see you coming your power will go away. >> because so much of my job -- there are a lot of external folks. i am internal, i don't do public speaking. this is the first iinterview i have done in eight years. when i am on the phone, i think i sound like the booming voice of oz. when people see me in person, i think someone once said i look like sally field in the flying nun. i shou

the white house change three things. the first thing the white house changed was to add cairo in front of the word emcee for the sake of clarity. the second thing the white house changed was to rearrange a couple of sentences purely stylistic. the thing the white -- the third thing the white house change was to change the were consulate from diplomatic posts for accuracy. the changes the state department made, just too they wanted to change the were consulate to diplomatic post for exactly the same reason. the second change the state department made was to remove the entire bullet on unfair of sharia. the state department said it was premature to single out a specific group in the cia agreed because the only unclassified evidence we had at the time was on sir al sharia's public statement which they then retracted. so the state department and the white house makes five changes only, all of them in my view fairly significant. >> mr. morell they didn't have to change because you made the changes for them. that's the point. t

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going back to the white house specifically, a positive announcement in terms of new executive actions, what do you say to the idea there's inequality with what the white house pays its male and female staffers? >> i don't know the math on that one, i would have to check, but i've not heard that. i would think that -- >> it's 88 cents to a dollar according to the latest study. >> okay, well they are working on probably trying to get it moved into order because they have a whole program that they are coming out in june with about women's benefits, they are rights and every area. so i'm sure that will be addressed. i was in a meeting earlier where the round table discussion was simply about equality in every asset for women and their families. when you talk about women, economy and their pay, this is a family affair. this is critical. it's important. and i'm sure that the white house is looking at their facts and figures and they will get it up. >> that is what jay carnkarn ald to, it's something that all of us have to work on. republicans are saying that the white house is playing polit

could the white house envisioned .10 level.nd could the white house envisioned a compromise? >> it is clear he is going forward with $10.10. see is the number you states like connecticut passed, that you see some employers to organize their efforts around. .hat is our focus here is >> minimum wage has been such a heavy focus. why isn't this something he pushed in the first term when he had the majority that could have passed it? >> the minimum wage was raised 2009, 2010.er 2008, i may be off by a year. it was going up. focused on turning the economy around. the economy was hemorrhaging jobs in the beginning of 2009 and getting that recovery back on track. now the recovery is proceeding well. we are not all the way there. we're getting closer. his focus has been even more on wages and income. he talked about minimum wage. he pushed the issue forward last year. he has intensified it this year. it is an effort to persuade congress, state, localities, employers and the country's largest employer is doing that with the contractors. iteven in those years when was going up, the medi

specifically does it get to the ho white house? if the select committee on watergate had not the power to compel testimony and the energy and resources to investigate, they never would have gotten to a man named alexander butterfield, who was asked, is there a white house oval office taping system, oh, yes, there it is. richard nixon would have finished his second term. it matters that this scandal is not being comparably investigated. >> what do you make of moir's assertion this is nothing but a witch-hunt? >> it's faded into an issue that's gripped a somewhat larger public. i do think they can be held in contempt. the house certainly will vote for it but i don't think that matters that much. nothing is going to happen to her. she's not going to jail. whether they can actually compel her finally to talk. some of the argument is it is rather technical, whether she actually gave up her fifth amendment rights because she did make a statement, which it was highly unusual. usually don't come and say anything. >> that's something that el

the white house would say so. they bristled at some of the coverage from the media about the fact that it was not because of the trade deal. that said, there were expectations they would be able to advance this trade deal, particularly in japan even up till the last minute when they're waiting for the press conference between the president and prime minister abe. they were hoping to have language to show specific progress, but they have struggled to make progress on that in asia. it is something that is very important to this white house. they think it would be good for the economy in the united states and in these countries he is visiting, and for the world economy. another thing, shane might be able to talk about this more. they arehe push that using internationally, it also faces some significant resistance in the united states, and not where you might think. coming from democrats in the congress. guest: it was one of the interesting things this year, after the state of the union, the president talked about movi

to the white house. let's listen. >> we're very proud of everything that joe has done. this is the fifth time that i have the honor of welcoming a soldier to the white house, and this is one of my favorite events of the year. first of all, you know it's spring, or it's at least supposed to be spring when the soldier ride comes around. but mainly, it's because those who participate are such an incredible inspiration to me and to our country. all the riders, you look outstanding, especially after biking 17 miles yesterday. and you're doing another 17 miles tomorrow and another 17 miles after that. all told, 16 miles, and today we want to the cheer you on. i think that we have folks from the army here. is that right in [ cheers ] >> and the navy [ cheers ] >> airforce [ cheers ] >> marines [ cheers ] >> that was good. >> coral gables [ cheers ] >> and we have extraordinary families here today. yeah, families. by now, everybody knows the story of how this got started. you have a bartender on long island, chri

you see, they got a pay gap there at the white house, it now appears, and the white house and ed henry are tweeting back at each other. look it up if you want. i'll talk to ed about it in a minute. > >>> two people are confirmed dead after severe thunderstorms hit the southeast. crews found the body of a 9-year-old in mississippi after flood waters swept her away. a man died after he drove his car into a creek. >>> iran could be two months away from being able to produce a nuclear bomb. that's what secretary of state john kerry told the senate panel. he said if iran moves forward with a nuclear weapon, the united states will, quote, respond immediately. >>> cops are still trying to figure out who did this, flipping over at least four smart cars around san francisco. witnesses say they're not sure if it's just a prank or some kind of statement about how neighborhoods are getting wealthier. anyway, one of those cars' owners admits he thought it was kind of funny. all right. starting at just $12.99. enjoy dinner tonight and take home a second entrÉe for later. choose from a variety of ama

the white house changed three things -- the first thing the white house changed was to add cairo in frontof the word embassy for the sake of clarity. the second thing was to rearrange a couple sentences, purely stylistic. the third thing the white house changed was to change the word consulate to diplomatic post for accuracy. those were the only changes the white house made. the changes the state department made, just two. they also wanted to change the word consulate to diplomatic post for the same reason. the second change was to remove the entire bullet on ansar al-sharia. because state said it was premature to single out a specific group. the cia agreed because the only unclassified evidence we had at 'se time was ansar al-sharia public statement, which they then retracted. the state department and the white house made five changes only. all of them, in my view, insignificant. >> mr. morell, they do not have to change because you made the changes for them. >> the changes i -- >> that is the point, that is why you are in front of this committee. you made substantive changes for the whi

that's up and down throughout the white house. the most junior people earn the same exact salary. we also have 16 departments in the white house. the majority of which are run by women. we have opportunities for promotion in the white house and one of the reasons why our number is at 88 cents is because we have aggressively recruited women to come in at entry level positions because the president has committed to making sure that women have opportunities for upward mobility within the white house. just yesterday, wolf, i was sitting around one of the senior staff meetings. one of assistants to the president, which is the most senior position in the white house, i looked around and 9 of the 10 assistants to the president i realized had been promoted to those positions while in the white house. so the president believes in providing that ladder of opportunity up and he also believes that when women are first coming out of school or at most junior levels, let's get them on to the payroll. that's why our number is skewed to 88 cents.

in 2011 at the holiday party at the white house post for the administration for the members of the media. and he took his son to the white house and he is on the rope and he's going to greet the president and barack obama turns to roger and makes a joke and he said i see the most powerful man in the world is here. he said don't believe those rumors i made it up myself. you see so much revealed about these men. you see the president who in the year 2011 who is facing a tough reelection while he was making a joke there is truth to it. in his answer making up these rumors you see the humor and the way that he was to self-deprecation. it is a charm that has been a part of his career and i thought it was such a way to open public to bring them together to show how at the highest levels of the politics roger ailes and barack obama would be adversaries and it shows you the way to get into the book and i think that you learn a lot about fox and the president. >> host: certainly going back to saying on the air they had a deep-seated hatred of white people. what do you say that changed?

you have to remember that from the white house perspective, the thing that is most important to them hether there has been any white house link to what the irs did? so far that has not been proven to be true. so from their perspective they say that that is the core of the issue. there are problems over at the irs. we've had changes in leadership there. we are investigating this, but the issue that was at the center of this at the very beginning, whether there was white house involvement has not been proven true, and they think that is the most important point. >> doesn't it make it a little bit hard if you are going to have this open, thorough, ongoing investigation by the justice department when you have the president saying basically case closed? >> i don't know that he said the case is closed. >> not a smidgeon of corruption? >> i think that's a tricky thing for a president to say when you do have an ongoing investigation, that you use as the thing that you point to to say that the administration is taking this seriously. >> i was struck on our sister broadcast, special report, whe

but at the white house, the deputy chief of staff's job over the years has had many different permutations. i run the campus of the white house -- that includes air force one, camp david, marine one, the personnel, their 1700 full-time employees in the executive office of the president. we run the searches for cabinet secretaries, we run the president's schedule, how he uses his time, who he sees. all those things because they're so hard to define. >> charlie: you decide who the president of the united states sees. >> there's a group of people. i can't take credit for it all. >> charlie: you decide where and how he goes. >> yes. >> charlie: you decide who's going to be in his cabinet. >> yes. >> charlie: you're more powerful than they even say. >> that's generous. >> charlie: somebody calls you scary powerful. >> that was probably a friend. >> charlie: now, what did the president say about this? he said, at one point, as soon as they see you, all your power will go -- >> that is so -- this is true. i've had it said to me by quite a few people that because so much of my job -- there are a l

how they were feeling today at the white house. check this out. >> six months ago today, a big part of the affordable care act kicked in, as healthcare.gov and state insurance marketplaces went live. last night, the first open enrollment period under this law came to an end. and despite several lost weeks out of the gate because of problems with the website, 7.1 million americans have now signed up for private insurance plans through these marketplaces. 7.1 million. [ cheers and applause ] >> if you want to know why that number, 7.1 million, if you want to know why that number is driving them so wild in the rose garden, at the white house today, it's because that number, 7.1 million, that projected enrollment figure, that benchmark number that the cbo set when they said essentially that the health reform law is working, this is what it's going to look like. that 7.1 million, that 7 million number, that is not just something that critics of health reform and critics of the president said would never be met. it wasn't just republicans

the white house changed three things -- the first thing the white house changed was to add cairo in frontof the word embassy for the sake of clarity. the second thing was to rearrange a couple sentences, purely stylistic. the third thing the white house changed was to change the word consulate to diplomatic post for accuracy. those were the only changes the white house made. the changes the state department made, just two. they also wanted to change the word consulate to diplomatic post for the same reason. the second change was to remove the entire bullet on ansar al-sharia. because state said it was premature to single out a specific group. the cia agreed because the only unclassified evidence we had at the time was ansar al-sharia's public statement, which they then retracted. the state department and the white house made five changes only. all of them, in my view, insignificant. >> mr. morell, they do not have to change because you made the changes for them. >> the changes i -- >> that is the point, that is why you are in front of this committee. you made substantive changes for the w

that could shed light on the involvement of senior official. white house spokesman said there's nothing extraordinary about what he calls the small number of redactions in the thousands of pages it has already produced. one of the most controversial aspects of obamacare is the contraception mandate. tonight a victory for now for the other side. had prominent christian leader james doneson -- dobson, that have won in the courts, temporary protection from the obamacare contraception mandate. a federal judge in colorado ruled late last night that for now, family talk does not have to pay the obamacare penalty. $100 per day per employee for refusing to provide the plan b morning after pill and abortion causing drugs in its health insurance plans because of religious objections. >> courts overwhelmingly are telling families, charities, christian ministries should not have to help destroy human life or provide other objectionable items just because bureaucrats behind by the same token want to force you to do it. >> the supreme court will decide by the end of jun

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so the white house had no substantive input into the talking points. here have been allegations, charlie, that the white house wrote the talking points. there have been allegations that the white house -- >> charlie: what's that i mean by cooking the books. >> cooking the books. >> charlie: the expression you used. >> there have been allegations that the white house made significant changes to the talking points, allegations that the white house told me to make changes to the talking points, none of that's true. none of it. >> charlie: there's also mccain. >> yes. >> charlie: and graham. yes. >> charlie: suggest you lied. yes. >.so here's what happened and im really sorry they came away with this impression, but, you know, i have many faults, but one of them is not lying. here's what happened. the white house asked me to join susan in a meeting with john mccain, senator graham and -- >> charlie: at what point? this is in november, so this was sometime later when she is being criticized by them and others for the way she handled herself on the sunday sho

>> john, the white house says they are simply trying to ratchet up the existing sanctions. u described it, john, you have reported 7 individuals, 7 more individuals, the white house describes them as cronies or oligarchs, and 17 companies, those close to vladimir putin. but this is morin kri mental sanctions. there's no question the white house is trying to pull the europeans along on broader sectors of the russian economy. the defense industry for example. in the meantime the white house comment on this is these are have a multiplying effect. a 12% decline in the russian stock market. a $60 billion in capital flight leaving russia, all trying to create the impression, is the white house that russia is really suffering from this. but they are having a difficult time bringing the europeans along on those broader sectoral sanctions. they had an agreement with the g-7 and they are still talking they are going to trigger those sanctions if the russians come across the border. but they'll hoping this approach will gradually change his mind. >> mike what sort of measures are the w

>> jenna veef, this study shows that women at the white house make less than men at the white house.on this issue? >> well, the problem for the president on this is, look, because if you take everybody together and average all men and women salary, you have a problem at the white house. but if you compare women to men in the same job with similar background, similar experiences that they brief to the table, the wage gap all but disappears. women have made great strides. instead of celebrating that, this is a political year, the white house wants to portray this war on women. not only are the numbers wrong -- -- young women today in metropolitan areas, for example, are actually outperforming males in that same category all over the country but the problem with that is, they hear this kind of rhetoric. that discourages young women, makes them have a lack of confidence and prevents them from doing the one thing that would get them to where they need to be, which is to have the confidence to ask for a salary. we ought to be celebrating where women are. >> i'm going to jump in a little on

things happen. >>> repeatedly said by some of the credit ikeds on this issue on the hill that the white house provided talking points. that has been categorically refuted by us and the intelligence community and yet it's still said on the air and it's just wrong. the white house involvement in any changes that were the so-called talking points was extremely minimal and nonsubstantive. >> the whole issue of talking points frankly throughout this process has been a side show. >> the notion that somehow i or anybody else in the administration misled the american people is false and i think that that's been amply demonstrated. >> all right. a newly released email is raising questions now of what some of just heard. charles lane, dana perino, and jasper's mom, and syndicated couplist, charles krauthammer. >> what do you make of this new email that we see? it's from ben rhodes, deputy national security adviseer and with the line saying to under score that these protests are rooted in an internet video and not a broader failure of policy. >> the communication strategy gets together, figures somethin

>> the white house. >> who at the white house? >> dennis. i asked to go to explain one thing only, the consistency between the talking points about the attack evolving from a protest. i was asked to talk about the consistencies of the talking points and classified analysis. that's why i was asked to go. that's what i did. >> reporter: the question you asked, you got it wrong. you volunteered, you got it wrong. >> yes, sir, i got it wrong. >> two months after the talking appointments, went with susan rice to brief senators on what happened, and you were wrong. >> i was asked the question, who took al-qaeda out of the talking points? i got is wrong. i said, the fbi, when, in fact, the cia was the one to take it out of the talking points. what i was thinking at the time was about another change the fbi asked for. the fbi made another change because it did not want to be too definitive about who conducted the attack. i got it mixed up. i corrected the record as soon as i found out, within several -- >> they called the fbi, and the fbi protested

now we know it came from the white house. as we suspected from the beginning look at the talking points, number one, the talking points that were issued never mentioned a video. >> the e-mail was not part of the 100 pages of e-mails released by the administration last may. one national security council spokesperson down laid the communication saying it reflect the what the administration was saying at the time. ainsley, back to you. >> an extreme weather alert to tell you about mother nature adding insult in injury from the midwest to the south with consecutive days of deadly tornadoes. a new fleet of flooding from alabama to up state new york. maria molina has been tracking the storms for us since they began. how bad are the conditions? >> well, here we have some significant damage that we have seen this morning. we are here in athens, alabama where the national weather service confirmed an ef 3 tornado ripped through the area with winds up to 140 miles per hour. behind me used to be a home missing ago roof no walls and the i

the midterms. so let's bring in our senior white house correspondent jim acosta. exactly is therd presiden doing today and what will it entail? >> reporter: we'll see the president sign a couple executive orders, basically targeting the problem that the white house has identified as an issue that they would like for tackle. and that being equal pay for equal work, equal pay for women. they're saying women earn 77 cents on every dollar a man makes. so what the president wants to do is sign an executive order that basically instructs federal contractors that they cannot tell their employees that they cannot discuss what they make. and so this is an issue of pay secrecy that goes on in the workplace, employers basically tell employees you can't talk about what you're making. the president will sign an executive order at least addressing the federal contractors side of the issue, not every employer around the country, just federal contractors. and then eashe's he's also goino instruct the labor department that they need to study the issue so the federal government has

and you feel it when you are in the white house. coming or going, you feel it very, very keenly, just by the physical presence. the white house had a couple of days before been bustling and was now almost completely empty. the painters were in. the carpenters were in, redoing it the way the obama folks wanted it. they were going to be showing up in a matter of hours. i wandered down to the oval office to visit with the president for the first time. i said to him, as i said most appreciation of the privilege of serving, to remind myself. he said, it has been the greatest privilege and human being can have. the last exchange i had with president bush in the oval office -- it is something i think all of us ought to keep in mind as we approach public service. >> the constitution is a wonderful document, but it really is an invitation. obligations. it is an invitation to be part of government. the most powerful word in the constitution is the first word, we, and it is all inclusive. to accept the invitation or be given the invitation, whi