the white house correspondents association. that person is c hristi parsons from the tribune company. christi: everybody gives you their opinions but that is one responsibility that. to the white house correspondents association president i have been thinking about it for a long time. the last dose copresidents let me watch their process a little bit, so i was pretty sure what i wanted to do. i want it to be a chicago when. i just like midwestern humor. she is a funny nice girl who says very cutting things in such a heartland kind of way. after you are cracking up and you realize, wait a minute, she just kind of sliced me up. i think that will be a cool thing to see from the podium. announcer: that was christi parsons, talking about why she chose sisley strong to be this year passed comedian. -- this year passed comedian -- this year's comedian. you can make a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/c-span. there is the president having a conversation at the head table having a little bit of a nosh. they usually do not eat v

lawn and into the white house itself. >> that instinct, quickly working to sources to find the female white house official who could confirm what really happened, set his reporting apartheid -- reporting apart. >> josh got on top of it. you feel very comfortable knowing that josh is on the story, because he knows the story will be covered well. ♪ >> jim breaking the story from miami. good morning. >> this it is a historic day between united states and cuban. >> there's no better feeling when you turn on the tv at 8:45 a.m. and jim is breaking the story. >> jim not only broke the news, he followed the story throughout the day while traveling from havana. it was amazing reporting. >> jim, who broke the story from computer -- cuba tonight. >> a rare sense of optimism. for the first time, there seems to be hope that a country so close and distant will become a country close. >> because of his decision to move to where the news was, he had video that nobody else had a picture is worth a thousand words, and he had the pictures nobody else had. >> this was after years of work. cultiva

i started working the white house, my white house sources. nd trying to find out what stage they were in. at first, i remember a very high up source in the national security council telling me that something was percolating. and that was about two months before the release. it is interesting where this happened. i will say that one of the things that we are getting away from -- the networks, some magazines and newspapers -- we are getting away from traveling with the president all of the time. we keep pushing back to our bosses about, at least at the network level, that there may not be a huge story that we are breaking when we are with the president, but we have unusual access to the people who normally do not return your calls when you're in washington. when you are in china, or in burma, or in hawaii for two weeks with the president, there is a lot of time to talk informally with people who are your sources. it was on one of these trips that a very high up person told me -- before the end of the year. we focused on that. all of this time, w

the white house is evacuated. as they came back in, he got the official word that no big deal a fence jumper. he said, no, this is not normal. >> he had a secret service contact who told him that the fence jumper had made it across the white house lawn and into the white house itself. >> that instinct, quickly working to sources to find the senior white house officials who could confirm what really happened said his reporting apart. >> josh got on top of it. rode the wave. you feel very comfortable knowing that josh is on the story, because he knows the story will be covered well. ♪ >> jim breaking the story from miami. good morning. >> this it is a historic day between united states and cuban. >> there's no better feeling when you turn on the tv at 8:45 and there jim is breaking the story. >> jim not only broke the news about allen gross being released , he followed the story throughout the day while traveling from havana. it was amazing reporting. >> jim, who broke the story from cuba tonight. >> on the streets o

i have been the white house chef. ow i am the chef of the white house that does everything for the family and the guests day and in a and day out? agree? the day where i can shie i ane, told -- the day i can shine, i am told somebody else comes in. it is like me asking to be the president for one day. why not? it is another job. let's put it this way. i do not believe in that and i never will because this is my job. and i would like to shine once in a while and this is my chance. because we know that the guest chefs come only for one thing and one thing only -- you know what. to promote their establishment. that's the only reason they come. if you would tell those guys that they cannot publicize, then be in the white house, how many do you think would show up? [laughter] i needed to say that because this is my feeling. dr. kumar: susan, do you have a question for someone? susan: i would like to ask anita, what do you think is the most difficult aspect of the role of the first lady? anita: couple of things, and i will l

columnist with "bloomberg view," she spoke to c-span about how she feels about hollywood and the white houseondents dinner. margaret carlson: bringing in >> "dynasty," they are cabled the tv show. i don't think it teaches anybody what white house correspondents are. host: if you would like to make a comment about the dinner facebook.com/c-span. follow us there were on twitter @cspan.

it's not the white house way. in the white house, and you need to adapt to the new family. that takes a while. i think the residence staff does it better because they've been through it before than the families do. these are people who worked for the previous president. now you're working for me. how are you going to respond? how do i respond to you? and we know in the residence staff when that's taken place because usually when you walk into the room when there's a conversation going on amongst family members or staff members with the president in the residence or the first lady, conversation stops. they don't know whether you're going to hold the information that you overhear or not because we're behind the screen that the secret service puts up for security. we go past that. we're with the family all the time. so the family initially is very reluctant to speak out openly. at some point, two weeks, six months a year, conversation continues when you walk into the room. there's a collective ah we've made it, that g

the white house correspondents association. of the tribune company. she talked about what she looked for. >> everybody gives you your opinion, but that is one responsibility traditionally that falls to the white house correspondent association president. i have been thinking about it for a long time. last two presidents were kind enough to let me watch their process and see how that played out. i am sure that i wanted to do. the chicago tribune is where i have worked for 25 years. i still work for tribune publishing. i just like midwestern humor. she is a funny, nice girl who says very cutting things in such a heartland kind of way. wait a minute, she kind of sliced me up there. i think that is going to be a cool thing to see from the podium. >> that was christi parsons talking about why she chose cecily strong to be this year's entertainment. any comments you would like to make what you would like to follow the tweets sent out by c-span or using #whcd and you can make a comment on our facebook page. there is the president and

and back starting to advocate with the white house. and he told me the soundtrack to this huge conflagration in kingston was "one love" by bob marley. what mix are you looking for at the white house? you do a lot of explanatory journalism. are you looking for a particular mix in your beat reporting? >> i think we obviously try to report the news of the day. we want to be -- there was a time when npr saw itself as a supplementary news source. we figured all of our readers were getting the breaking news in their local paper and we were going to be something different the next day analysis or old joke in our company was do the news and call it analysis. but for better or worse, for many people, we're not a secondary news source anymore. we're a primary news source. so we feel compelled to actually just keep up with the same day news. but oftentimes the -- what differentiates us is our sort of explanatory journalism or context and you mention josh's experience, after two and a half years, you can say, okay this is something that is unusual.

let's head back to the south lawn of the white house. isn't this adorable? e easter egg roll today. kids from all over the country all 50 states gather on the white house lawn to roll these easter eggs. the president and first lady will come out. the first daughters will be there. and if they follow tradition, and we expect they will the president and the first lady will walk into the crowd of these children and their parents and greet them and talk only about happy things. 35,000 expected on the south lawn today. i'll be back with much more in the "newsroom." scott: appears buster's been busy. man: yeah, scott. i was just about to use the uh... scott: that's a bunch of ground-up paper, lad! scotts ez seed uses the finest seed, fertilizer, and natural mulch that holds water so you can grow grass anywhere! seed your lawn. seed it! making a fist something we do to show resolve. to defend ourselves. to declare victory. so cvs health provides expert support and vital medicines. make a fist for me. at our infusion centers or in patients homes. we help them fight t

and then i will talk about grant's achievements in the white house and a little bit about the impact of grant as president. first to historiography. grant has had fairly bad press as president ever since he took the white house and really it started before he took office. the truth of the matter is, there were some people who were ready to criticize him even before he came president. i can name names. one is charles sumner who was very disappointed he was not appointed secretary of state. he became a very severe critic of grant until he died in 1874. he was always criticizing grants for things that he thought were not being handled properly. another critic was henry adams. he was turned off by the johnson administration and even before grants became president -- he was ready for bear even before ulysses s. grant put his hand on the bible to become president. throughout his term, henry adams wrote quite critical articles about him. if you know about henry adams grant comes off badly there as well. these men thought that he was a liar, a rogue, he was stupid, he was conniving. very nast

let's start with that 1st year when bill clinton 2nd term and you arrive at the white house to cover sitting in the room everyday. >> guest: it was odd all because our place to gentleman who was iconic there. actually the 1st african-american to become part of the white house press corps his shoes were so hard to fill. when i came to the white house many people resented the fact command i can understand that. also i think coming in and really pressing an urban an african issues african issues it really wasn't on that much as much as i have, erode people around way. on a daily basis. many people are wondering. i get a lot of pushback. a lot of pushback from within the press corps. people were -- part of this washington press corps coming straight at the baltimore really. there was a lot of pushback. people wondering how she was getting interviews with president clinton and she is not in the pool. i got a lot of pushback. >> let's break it down into three categories. you write about not only your interactions with other reporters, your interactions with presidents, but, of course, press

>> no not in any way that the white house we have seen the white house do it. one of the possible explanations for this is that the white house is feeling intense pressure on this. you are seeing the. >> intense pressure that they have to be so cheap and cheesy and be like, you know children instead of being leaders, representing the americans and making us proud and realizing we may have differences but at least we are not going to be. >> frankly that ship has sailed a long time ago. i'm not expecting that from this white house. the reason they are attacking netanyahu in this way is he has proven to be a very effective critic of what the white house is trying to do. as you look at just today at the news today from the supreme leader, it's like the white house has been punked on this iran deal. you look at the iranians walking away from what the deal the white house presented on sanctions walking away from what the white house presented on inspections saying that was false, that it never happened that way? the white house has to be feeling pressure. you are seei

that has the white house working overtime to convince skeptics. let's go to the white house. what is going on. what are you hearing, michelle? >> reporter: there is more work to do here. the white house has congress and even some democrats, israel some arab countries, all of these criticisms and questions to contend with so they have been trying to show in their view this deal is the best option available. though there are things that the president has been saying that are causing some to just jump all over it again. >> reporter: congress now appears to be extremely close to a veto-proof majority to make sure it would have the final say on an iran deal. legislation they will start working on next week. the white house now on a full-court press to try to win over more democrats, even some republicans talking to worried arab nations, to an adamantly opposed israel. >> this discussion has just begun. >> reporter: but some top democrats are siding with republicans. senator chuck schumer telling politico i strongly believe congress should have the right to disapprove any agreement.

it just made me wonder what goes on in the white house that makes the nation run every day? i started thinking about it made some phone calls and it's been an adventure getting to know these people. >> what's fascinating is there are living former white house personal staff that worked for presidents going all the way back -- you went at least back to kennedy. >> right, i started with kennedy. i had a great story with president nixon that really shed light on watergate. in fact a lot of these staffers said it was harder to watch president nixon decay day by day than it even was after president kennedy was killed. they really have such a protective feeling towards the first family and a lot of them don't crave the spotlight at all. in fact it was very hard photo get some of them to open up. if there's a camera they duck over and around it. >> i assume you ran into people that said no. i've got plenty of stories but i'm not telling. i knew this was part of the deal. >> absolutely. and it's a shame. there are some people i couldn't get to but most of the people eventually i earn

the white house staff. history will be rich but the white house staff is one of the most powerful waive had. president obama takes a lot of credits for things. when i first started doing this we've had some terrible economic problems. president reagan would take credit for anything that happened positive in the economy. he would go to a little mom-and-pop employment operation in rural maryland just to celebrate a hire enough people to show the economy getting better. this is always something common. they're white house is responsible for the policy hi thomas. >> caller: hi, how are you doing quite >> host: please go ahead. >> caller: i have two comments. you are going comment a few minutes ago on bush and hand being his first term. he had every reason to be fairly unique. he didn't win his first term. i challenge anybody to go to wikipedia on your computer anybody that owns a computer and he lost the first election. there was more people voted for al gore than they did george bush. he did not win. the second

the freshman senator says he'll ride a wave of liberty lovers everywhere into the white house. but a key to our republican establishment thinks president paul is a bad idea. >>> the national lead. the state department and the white house left in the dark today. what caused the power outage in washington, d.c.? and what does it say about how vulnerable our grid is to cyber terrorism? >>> and the pop culture lead. he's been a mass genius a glab yaiter, a biblical hero. now he's playing director for the first time. russell crow joins me here on "the lead" to talk about his new film and its message. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we'll begin today with our politics lead. just hours ago a major anoungsment kentucky senator rand paul declaring washington, d.c. broken. he wants to be mr. fix it. the chance of president paul, the senator announced he's running for the oval office and coming to take our country back and crush the washington machine. both democrats and republicans, it's a message that echos the tea party tune that first helped paul get h

that was traceable directly back to the white house. krogh had told me that indeed, ehrlichman had signed off on that but at the time -- this is when i'm telling bud that i have had it and somebody has got to stand up and stop this activity and sundays got to go in -- this was before i went in to tell the president how serious this matter was -- all of these matters were collectively. bud said i agree totally. i said i don't want to cause a lot of grief for everybody but the president is not being well advised and these activities -- he said i believe my instruction came directly out of the oval office. bud later did not support that memory that i so vividly remember when he gave it at the moment. whether he was doing that to bolster my drive to get in there and get the president to get his feet on the ground or whether it was an actual fact, i don't know. maybe he doesn't remember to this day. as you piece together after the fact, the trials that occurred when ehrlichman was convicted for that, ehrlichman would later claim that he had a

they were classified up until now, but the white house explains the president thought it was right and necessary to declassify this information. first of all, the american public knows and also they can try to assess what happened and for the white house to make sure that this does not happen again. ening it's interesting when you read the details, a limited amount of detail that's in this statement, there was clearly the intel there to conduct these operations to at least have a reasonable certainty that the targets of the operations were there but the intel was not there to indicate that two hostages were present, one of them american. as it says in this statement, we had no reason to believe either hostage was present. poppy. >> let me bring in jim sciutto. jim, the bigger context of this is the drone program. critics have cried out saying too many civilians died as a result. now you have an american hostage dying as a result. a, how you think this affects the debate offer the u.s. drone program in the region. also b, is this the first time an american citizen has been killed by a d

he also worked in the nixon white house and then he ran the situation room in the white house under reagan's second term. the atlantic council. he brings a very interesting back around and insult though not only writes about what happens in the white house him about what happens on the golf course then he writes about sports in the 1920s. i introduce the author, michael bohn. [applause] >> thank you. thank you for coming. it is an interesting beginning of the book. part of it because i was at the white house and i got to see how president reagan handled crises. and then i started writing about other crises that have happened and it occurred to me people on the sideline and there are plenty of them don't have a clue how hard it is to manage an international crisis that comes after 3:00 a.m. phone call and unanticipated crisis. everyone on the sideline, mostly opposing the policies and they get to say anything they want to without any consequence of their idea. both sides of the aisle. they don't have any skin in the game, so they don't have to worry if their idea doesn't go well because nothi

what really goes on in the private at the white house? the domestic staff who have seen the presidents move in and out are breaking their silence. >> we are the permanent residents of the white house. >> stories of pride, politics and even paranoia never heard before. it's monday, april 20th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good morning, everyone. i'm reena ninan joined by the wonderful ryan smith. >> thank you so much. in for t.j. holmes. i love this behind the scenes of the white house. makes me feel like i'm watching "downton abbey." >> i didn't think of that. right. it's our version of "downton abbey". >> i like that. >> i want to go behind the scenes at your house. >> at my house? a lot of chaos. like normal. >> chaos. >> you don't want to go behind the scenes of my home. >> we'll stay away from that. let's begin with powerful storms on the move right now. millions bracing for a super soaking this morning. >> over the weekend giant hail storms pummeled arkansas along with rain and strong winds. numerous repor

but if iran takes the steps more quickly the suspension could come more quickly. >> reporter: the white house must balance its commitments with iran with the politics of congress. where there's talk of more sanctions not less. the white house is threatening a veto. >> if we were to put in place additional sanctions against iran it would cause our international faction so fracture. >> to sell the deal as an historic break through at least one key ally, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is not buying it. >> some say that the only alternative to this bad deal is war. that's not true. there's a third alternative: standing firm, increasing the pressure on iran, until a good deal is achieved. >> reporter: in announcing the accord president obama said this could be the moment iran turns the page. >> it demonstrates that if iran complies with its international obligations then it can fully rejoin the community of nations. thereby fulfilling the extraordinary talent and aspirations of the iranian people. >> but talk about an assent to iran makes the arab nations nervous. secretary of state joh

this is not new. >> i think the white house, trying to figure out what the white house is doing on communications challenge. i think in this case you could hear plainly on the audio that they were given this choice. for the white house to say look this didn't have anything to do with it or avoid even the mention of the fact that these were christians being targeted because they were christians i think it would set themselves up for a day or more of mockery. >> rick are they going to change their strategy in dealing with this problem? >> not clear to me that it will, no. i think the semantic piece. we have seen the debate islamic extremism and islamic terrorism. see it play out in how you label this. no i don't get the sense this is a new strategy here. sharply worded as far as statements go. i think a lot of it is worded in a way it will translate well. when it's read back in the region. i don't get the sense that it portends a new strategy. >> they don't use islam extremism who do they think have done this? they won't say islamic extremism who killed these people. >> the entire game of the white

lights out near the white house, the capitol. even where oprah winfrey was speaking. >>> the severe storms hitting at this hour, after tornado warnings late today. millions in the path. ginger zee is right here. >>> and no laughing matter. the famous scene from "i love lucy." and the community up in arms tonight. does this look like lucy to you? >>> good evening. and it's great to have you with us here on a tuesday night. and we begin tonight with chilling video obtained by abc news early today. it shows a south carolina police officer opening fire on a man running away. it started with a routine traffic stop and it's difficult to watch. you can see the officer right there, he draws his gun and begins firing. the man running, struck several times. he does not survive. our team taking that video to the police department today, where they learned authorities were interviewing the officer. and tonight, just a short time ago, the police chief and the mayor revealing that officer will be charged with murder. abc's steve osunsami is in

house, the human story. >> you were a white house correspondent and thishow you came up with the idea. tell us about that. >> i was a white house correspondent for bloomberg news for several years. i came up with the idea when i was at a lunch with michelle obama, and it was all very, you know, it was in the old family dining room on the state floor of the white house, a room that you rarely get to see as a white house correspondent. a butler was coming in and out serving her, and she clearly had a rapport with her. it made me wonder who are these people? and it is the supporting cast of the white house. >> how far back did you go? >> i started with the kennedy administration. some of these people started during eisenhower's administration. a few of these butlers have passed away in the past few years, when i started my research, but they are really the only people left who remember what the eisenhowers and the kennedys were really like. i think that's very important to talk to them. >> not to get too in the weeds on the hollywood aspect of your book, but

so big revelations from the white house today. eparate drone strikes in mid-january, an utalan hostage was killed -- an italian hostage was killed an american hostage was killed and two other americans, both of them working for al qaeda. susan? >> our chief foreign correspondent, richard engle, thank you very much. >>> let's stay overseas with friend of the show chief of contemporary middle east studies at the london school of economics. thanks for joining us today. >> it's a pleasure. >> we just heard richard talking to us about some of the reaction on the ground in italy. we know, unfortunately, this terrible tragedy involved an italian citizen. what is the reaction coming from our western allies? most of them are not using drones. how are they feel being this news today obviously and then the program more in general? >> well first of all, we have to wait and see. we have not seen any major public pronouncements on the part of america's european allies. but for our american audience, the drone wars so-called the unmanned drone at

and she's coming to the white house with the loss of a child again. so there's this woman in the white house who is suffering from depression, because she is mourning the loss of a child. she is having to deal with all of the dues of being a political wife and being the first lady and a husband who doesn't understand why she is so reluctant, so she was a very unhappy first lady. ms. swain: we saw the picture, this is the summer she lost her 11-year-old and lost their other two sons. this is the third just before they came to washington and died in front of their eyes in a train accident. the president -- the child wasally jected from a train accident. such a tragic story. how does a parent recover from that. you can sympathesize with the situation. ms. medford: being first lady to a president, the country is in turmoil. her husband is experiencing all of these tensions between the north and the south. she is a witness to that and doesn't want to be. ms. swain: we have many other interesting first ladies and katherine adams and elizabeth monroe and mrs.

he had a dream that the white house was on fire. and lincoln may have had reason to be concerned about that. the white house stable had caught on fire in february, 1864. so mary got very involved in terms of making sure that everything was okay. sending a telegram back to someone at the white house to make sure that everything was okay and then she went back to the white house and telegraphed lincoln to make sure everything is okay here. so i can't speak to her dreams, but i do know that she was involved in listening to lincoln's sdreems and participate in someway. >> thank you. >> i can tell you the other first lady had a number of dreams about jefferson davis. about her husband. and, in the 1840s, she dreamt that she kissed davis as he was leaving. but then, in 1862, she had a very similar dream. you could see where there might be something going on there where she's more self conscious about her role as first lady. she also saw jefferson's arm was lopped off when captured by union soldiers. >> i'm the digital projects theater here

there was a fight within the white house. he was the president who did give the black farmer payout after 17 or 18 years of waiting for that money. he was the president who did that and at the same time was not necessarily i'm going to do it. it took tactics. >> host: are you surprised barack obama did not make a stronger case in his 1st term? >> guest: know. looking back, he had to be who he was. >> host: because the economy was in trouble. >> guest: you had the tea party and other factions. i remember hearing from people within the administration. we also a race and politics will follow this pres., but many of them felt that they had to really walk a fine line. anything that they did that specifically targeted african-americans favorite hero from certain parties or groups any effort that they tried. >> host: you have been at the white house through a very, very exciting time. thank you thank you for sharing your thoughts and book you with us today. >> guest: thank you. >> you're watching book tv in prime time. every weekend

if the white house blows the deadline congress gives the white house more time to look over the bill. this bill gives congress 30 days to review it. and 12 more if congress moved forward and passed legislation disapproving. it removes language in the earlier version that democrats didn't like it would have required president obama to certify periodically that iran has not engaged in terrorism. democrats said it was a distrabz from the content of -- distraction from the content of a nuclear deal. ultimately disagree of a deal it would take 60 votes, not the higher threshold of 67 that negotiations of a treaty would take. that's something republicans wanted. a little bit of something for everything in this bill. >> what has been the white house response and where does the bill go from here? >> white house spokesman josh ernst says the white house is not trilled with the legislation. the white house didn't want any legislation at all. but because some compromises were worked out, ernst says a threatened veto looks to be off the table for now. >> i described a number of times as a comprom

we were whisked to the white house into the white house press area where colleagues are working on an my computer. i saw my first e-mail. i have two sons at vanderbilt university. the e-mail said mom, our fraternity brother was on the 93rd floor of the first tower and at that moment the day of crashing steel and doomsday scenarios have a human face and this young man who had just gotten his first job. i sat down and i cried. c-span: what did president bush say to you behind the scenes that was not for the record? just go one thing he said. he came back to big press cabinet just before we landed in washington on our way back to washington and there were five of us sitting there. he waved away our notebooks made it very clear this was not on the record. i think at that point any president his words had to be chosen carefully and we knew he was preparing to address the american people that night. he had reached his wife, yet reached his family, yet talked to the white house several times and then he said something along the lines of we are going to get those thugs. and that line was not

>> the white house is saying the operation targeted an al qaeda-associated compound where the white housey had no reason to believe either hostage was present located in the region of pakistan which is where we know that al qaeda and leaders have been holed up and that is where bin laden was killed in that s.e.a.l. team 6 targeted. often there is partial intelligence, and this is a risk, but really an outlier of a risk poppy, the idea that these hostages would be held there would be no way for them to know and let's look at it in context as well we know last year americans that were held in syria by isis james foley among them there were attempted rescues of those hostages that failed and we know foley and other americans were killed, beheaded in videos by isis so it shows the difficulty it's hard to rescue americans and foreigners hostages held by terror groups, and this is the sad result of one of these strikes here. >> our heart goes out to the families as well as they have learned the news and now we are all learning it publicly. jim will join us again at the top of the hour 10:00 eas

she was tired of politics before the white house even before she came to the white house. she had been a vice president why. she thought they were done with it. there's all kinds of personal reasons some women don't want this role. bess truman, we showed that the letters clip of her breaking that bottle. that must've been a hard bottle to break because she was a better athlete than harry truman was. when she was in grade school she was a very good third baseman she used to tell people. she could swing a bat but she had a secret she was keeping. her father had committed suicide at a time when it was a statement. she took apart. her mother, her mother's mental health never really recovered from that. she didn't even want to be when harry truman was president. she would bring her mother to the white house and to go back to independence, and she decided she had a more important role in life than being with the president, which is keeping her family together. i think we forget sometimes these are people and they have these burdens on them. >> and yet a very, very important -- a

you have five positions which at the white house is unheard of. bob joined the office and curt mann and a number of others and we started to role. i think we did a pretty good job considering we're starting from a system that didn't really have a place for health and security at that white house. we did hspd 10 and nspd 17. that is still the kind of guiding document for homeland security. i think it hasn't been superseded. hspd 9, agriculture bioterrorism. then i left in 2005, bob came on and took over the job. then at the end of the administration, they abolished the office again. the obama administration came in and thought, we don't do this. i was astounded. this was -- i didn't know what to say. they volcanized the issues and divided them up between directors. to this day i cannot figure out on biosecurity and bioresponse recovery plan preparedness counter-measures, development, who at the white house is really in charge of what issue. i can figure it out but it takes a while. this is interesting because in the latest national security strategy

cnn's jim acosta at the white house with the latest. the white house is giving up its fight on a bipartisan bill that would give lawmakers the ability to vote on a bill after the foreign relations committee crafted a compromise bill. aides said it's a measure president obama could support. and at issue whether or not to force iran to renounce terrorism. a decision the white house deemed a poison people aimed at killing nuclear talks. the deal was also shortened, meaning another white house demand, after repeated questions from reporters, white house press secretary josh earnest acknowledged that the changes brokered by the chairman bob corker and ben cartman were enough to draw. here's what he had to say. >> what i am able to say, despite things about it that we don't like, enough substantial changes have been made, that the president would be willing to sign it because it would reflect the kind of compromise that he'd be willing to sign. >> reporter: but chairman corker said there was another reason why the white house dropped its veto

and this kind of real life downton abbey that plays out at the white house. >> you say the white housest actually heard this and the white house maid went in and what did the white house maid tell you? >> well the one story about the blood on the bed is from someone who's an anonymous person. but they're actually very close to the clinton -- they like working for the clintons. they enjoyed their experience with the clintons. so they don't really have an axe to grind. i think it's important to note that it was a very tumultuous time. another florist told me on the record that the second and third floors of the white house were like a morgue. it was just so quiet. eerily quiet. another maid told me on the record it was very sad because they all loved the first family. each family they serve they are fiercely loyal to. >> what you're describing, kate, a bed covered in blood after a violent confrontation where she bloodied up the president of the united states and he slept three or four months on a sofa in another room. >> yeah, and i think a lot of the staffers told me that especially the

but it's umc is in the basement of the white house in the east wing who ran the white house and of the hotline. they had rudimentary russian which they needed to court made with the moscow end. they got their dictionary out and work on eight translating the handwritten letter. ever since then it has been mostly text messages. here is a picture that i took at the pentagon terminal. the pentagon of the hotline in the white house is just a consumer. i forget about florida sun, but but they gave me two or i may have to read telephone that wasn't connected to anything. anybody that comes and says where is the red zone? they hold it out. must've been as a joke. they use a chat protocol to coordinate with moscow and the text messages or e-mails back and forth. it is still there and actually we have some opportunities to use it here recently. putin and obama have a separate line that is secure, that piggybacks on the hotline's trunk. it goes over by satellite and fiber optic and on and on. and so, those three stories led me to the book. what i did was i picked unanticipated crises starting in

not just the white house in the governor's mansion. >> when they got to the white house -- >> first she was a southerner against those in the states but she had relatives fighting on the side of the confederacy so she could never be trusted. she spends too much money. she and there is her husband in public which is something that ladies are not supposed to do but you have to understand what is going on. there was a husband that wasn't always easy to get along with and i think that we sometimes forget this is a woman that understands and loved politics but was born a woman so she doesn't have the ability to do what her husband can do by virtue of the fact that she was born the wrong gender and so she is living vicariously through him. she wants him to be president but she didn't anticipate the kind of delegation she would get once she got to the white house. >> we have to step forward because our hour is going to go back late. eleanor roosevelt and a lot of the categories tonight to be at how would you assess in terms of her partnership? >> they were driven by the same principle. that sh

another person has jumped the fence this time on the south side of the white house. it happened around 10:30 last night. the jumper was immediately taken into custody by secret service officers and charges are pending. changes to the white house fence are in the works. in the coming weeks sharp steel spikes will be bolted to the top of the fence making it more difficult to scale it. it has not happened yet. now, in terms of this -- of this most recent incident that happened last night, who this person is, what their motivation was for scaling the fence, all of that still under investigation. back to you in the studio. >> megan mcgrath live outside of the white house, thank you. >>> a developing story, we actually just told you about this. this story in alexandria, so let's tell you now about a search that is underway for two missing toddlers in montgomery county. jacob and sarah hoggle went missing from germantown more than six weeks ago. there was a search over the weekend and dog search teams went looking as well. this was in germantown. officers believe the childre

clinton has dismissed the book and the white house has been quick to defend her. >> the white house continues to be extremely proud of the work that secretary clinton as the secretary of state. for the specific accusationizations that are presented without any evidence, i would refer you to the political types that are more well versed in those kinds of things. >> karl rove joins us. karl, i could have seen a stronger defense than that. i'm glad he is not my defense attorney if i god picked up for something. it's not just the "the washington post." the "new york times." , "new york times" and "the washington post," too. >> look, the author of this book, peter sweitzer is a very meticulous, detail or yented person. he has a good reputation as a ton shut researcher and a careful writer and my suspicion is that when this book is fully revealed on may at&t. this going to cause a the love indid indigestion. >> i'm a little cautious because i haven't seen the book. the people put out the books always put out the most salacious things ever and take it like red meat base. everybody ceases upon it. ev

the guests are arriving now at the white house. it's the book sellers area at the white house. you'll see guests arriving, some members of congress and other celebrities as well. the president and fled will welcome the abes to the north port co-of the white house that's scheduled for 7:00 eastern. you'll see it live here on c-span3, although it may be running a little bit late. [ inaudible ] >> hi, how are you? >> hey. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good, good. i will once it's over. right now, it's just all the work but i will feel nostalgic probably around 11:00 tonight. thank you. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ inaudible ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ indiscernible ] >> well i'm pleased to say i'm a friend of president obama's. been a long-time friend and supporter. and pleased to work with him on a number of important issues. >> is this your first state dinner? >> it is. it is. >> what's your impression so far? >> well, first of all, i'm honored to be here in the white house. grateful to have been invited by the president here a number of times. i'm really looking forward to it. thank you. [ introduction inaudible ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪