white house staff in history. the levels of the white house, such as i, who's been with joe biden for 36 years, but have mike donald, the start of the same time as i did. and anita dunn, who's been at it 24 years. general -- , he just ran the most successful presidential campaign in history. and steve ricchetti, who's been with him for more than two decades. and bruce read, who also has been with him for moment two decades. so, you've got a very, very experienced, very diverse team. and i think that team brings a lot of strength in, a specially what it brings is the patience and perseverance to not get roiled when things go poorly, but to keep at it and keep at it. look, i'm proud of what we did in these two years. but it's clear, we've also some rough moments in these two years. and we got to the finish line on all these accomplishments because we stuck with it, even when things were going poorly, even when people were counting us out, even when people were saying you'll never get it done. and i think the diversity,

we're going to go to the white house, where the white house counsel is speaking outside the white house on the fbi search. let's listen. [ inaudible question ] >> sure, thanks for the question. i don't think we'll get ahead of potential speculation and steps that could happen in the investigation. the president has been fully cooperative and directed his team to be fully cooperative. and that's because he believes in the independence of the justice department. he believes in giving them the space to conduct a author rereview and to conduct that review efficiently. that's why he's moving quickly to give them access to his home in wilmington, to give them access to his home in rehoboth, so they can go a full search swob they're able to get access to the information and move ahead in their view. we're not going to speculate about potential things that may happen in the future in this investigation. but we've been fully cooperative. his lawyers are in direct discussions with the justice department and that's going to cont continue. >> why did it take so long for a search of the rehoboth bea

lincoln in the white house library. this is the beautiful oval room that on the the side of the white house facing the washington monument. this a private space for the first family. this is where lincoln would take nap if he needed one during the day or early in the morning. might wake up and go to the library and read the bible. or he would play with his children and their friends in this room. this was the private, living space of the president, and i think this is the first time that an african-american was welcomed into the private living space of the first family. other as a servant or as a slave. and on april 2nd, 1864, which was a saturday, mrs. johnson and her minister show up at the white house, they present this gift, lincoln. the minister says a few remarks and then he turns to caroline johnson and he perhaps mrs. johnson like to say a few words. now, caroline johnson was understandably very nervous. she looked down at her feet, not knowing to say, but eventually she felt like a burning sensation came over he

the people's house that they had never seen before. her cameras for the first ones to go into the lighthouse kitchen and observe -- white house kitchen andbserve the incredible effort it takes to prepare for a state dinner and pull it off. and then in 2016, i was giving a little talk at the white house for mid-level staffers at the obama administration about freshwater and why i think it will be a defining resource in this century, based on my book, the ripple effect. and a friend of mine worked at the obama administration, and he offered to take me loved -- to lunch in the navy mass, a cafeteria on the ground floor. he took me on a quick private tour of the white house, which i had never seen up close and personal before. and, to my surprise, i was emotionally impacted by that tour. i mean, the white house looms large in our minds as a symbol, but it is also an actual functioning home, the nerve center of the united states, a decorative arts museum, and probably the most influential home in the world. so all of these ideas were swirling around in the back of my mind. and without really realizing it, i -- the idea coalesced, my interest

one is we had a videographer in the white house on white house staff. he was somebody who had been the videographer on the campaign. he was a videographer at, the white house. and he was following the president around with a camera. and we were trying to figure out what are we going to do with this footage? how are we going to use it? and so we started putting out a weekly product called the west wing week. that would just be a recap. 3 to 4 minute recap of the things that had happened the week before. we were just playing with this medium, and it was all based on footage that we had. i had more reporters in my office saying we were single handedly undermining the principle of the first amendment by, putting out a weekly video 3 minutes long. they they were they're definitely threatened by. these changes, there's another power. this is later in the administration. in 2014, we announced a an education policy proposal and we didn't announce it by having the president give a speech or put out a news release or leak some of the details to a reporter we put i

lee standing by at the white house. let's begin with cnn's jessica schneider. >> john, this is the third search we've been anticipating. that's why reporters and photographers have been staking out the rehoboth beach home. before 8:30, two black suvs, two sedans arrived at the beach home. it was confirmed this is an ongoing fbi search. we're going on now about four hours. notably this is all happening on the same day that robert hur is starting in his special counsel role. hur, of course, will be overseeing the investigation of president biden's handling of classified documents. backing up here, our team has learned that so far up to this point, dozens of classified documents have, in fact, been found as a result of these several searches over the past few months. it incorporates what biden's attorneys previously found in november and december from the penn biden center in wilmington, and also what was taken from biden's wilmington home during what was a 13-hour fbi search. the documents found in that search have only be

the trump white house. but i'm here. i'm here to say to argue with that, because i think that this is a political thriller. i mean, in three acts and the first act is this unbelievable bubble, unbelievably fraught, trans mission that turned out to be the bloodiest since the civil war and and there are some untold stories about that that i have to tell in the book. the second act is the first year of the biden administration, which was overshadowed by the afghanistan fiasco. that started a long decline. and joe biden's approval rating. and the third act i believe, began on a on february 24, 2022, when vladimir putin invaded ukraine. that was the turning point of the biden presidency, in my view, because joe biden rose to meet that moment in a way that i'm not sure anybody else could have. and there followed a string of legislative successes. and then ultimately defying all of the predictions for the midterm elections. so i think it's a political thriller with no ending yet. how did you get the access and and what was the n

so, that was the update from the white house. we are about to get another update, by the way, back there when karine jean-pierre takes questions. >> john: and gives no answers. >> sandra: and gives no answers, for a white house that's promising transparency on the issue. back to david spunt, john, at the justice department. david, did you learn anything new there? >> i'm at the famous justice department, ian sams mentioned several times about referring people to the justice department and i'm at the justice department. we asked these questions every day to doj officials, we ask these questions every day to special counsel robert hur's team and don't get answers. seems to be a black hole of information when the white house says i encourage you to ask the justice department and we ask the justice department and the justice department by nature does not speak about active investigations. an important point to bring up, yesterday we reported that the fbi searched the penn biden center, the first location where documents were found in

first time we'll hear from the white house since the shootdown of the chinese spacecraft. karine jean-pierre's guest briefer suggests the white house is hoping to skirt the issue all together, it could be a recipe for an interesting exchange of reporters who want to ask about the story everybody is talking about. >> john: the national guard being called to assist in the aftermath of the ohio train derailment, one of the rail cars is on the brink of exploding and could send shrapnel a mile in all directions. evacuation efforts coming up next. >> gillian: and newt gingrinch is here ahead of president biden's big address tomorrow, the state of the union. stick with us. many of you have served our country honorably. one of the benefits that we as a country give you as a veteran is the eligibility for a va loan, for up to 100% of your home's value. if you need cash for you family, call newday usa. with automatic authority from the va, we can say yes when banks say no... give us a call. diabetes can serve up a lot of questions, like, "what is your glucose?" and "can you have more

the soul of this nation. [applause] being white house chief of staff is the honor of a lifetime. but being joe biden's white house chief of staff has given me a unique opportunity to serve a wise, compassionate, determined and fearless president. and as i did in 1988 and 2008 and 2020, i look forward to being on your side when you run for president in 2024. [cheers and applause] all right. i will close, i will finally close with some words to the staff here. i'm often asked what is the best souvenir i got in two years as white house chief of staff. and my answer's very simple. it's this rock. this plain and simple rock. of it was given to me a year ago on one of our darker days by -- [inaudible] it's always symbolized to me the fact that this team has been rock solid in their support of our agenda and the president. we've never wavered, we've been as solid as a rock. so i ask you today to continue to play that role. i ask each and every one of you to continue your jobs as the rock of this white house, this administration and this presidency. that's our mission. and with that, i wi

the lead house advocates for the george floyd bill. they are both no longer in the house. so who does the white house see as your best partners in the house on that legislation? and also, are there republicans who the white house has reached out to or otherwise see as potential partners in the house to make the numbers work? karine: as you know, there were some republicans in the senate that were incredibly helpful or tried to be helpful in the last session as it relates to george floyd justice in policing act. i'd refer you to them and see where they are this time around. as far as it relates to the republicans, i can tell you for this meeting, i can give you the list of attendees who will be here. and so they are certainly involved in this process. this next state of legislation process. representative horsford. obviously, the chair will be here. representative clyburn. representative neguse. representative jackson lee. we have senator booker who played a very big role. and as you know -- i think you guys heard the vice president yesterday in the early stages of the bill, she was involved and

so you're talking about the white house, really the white house, including the national security council staff, omb and all of the white house entities. so bush actually, steve hadley started a in place, a process where officials would receive briefing memos from the outgoing. but the law is that the outgoing president's papers are the outgoing presidents. they go to the archives. and i remember i went into the ministration white house on 20th and there was nothing we didn't even have computers work. they had taken all the hard drives out. i think for some litigation and you in and the white is empty. so it is a good suggestion that there should be policies procedures in place so that incoming officials actually know what they're doing. i think parts of the national security counsel, like the executive secretary and others, they have career officials that are their military officials, that know the policies and procedures but it's a flaw in the system. maybe you have a book in you that's coming. do we have any other questions? well, i just to say thank you thank you for writing this. int

what does the white house make of that response? >> say that one more time. >> public meeting the representatives did not appear having previously said they would. what does the white house make of that? >> i can't speak to the appearance or nonappearance of them. what i can say is what we are focused on. as i mentioned, there is a, you know, a multi-agency response to what is occurring in east palestine, and we take this very seriously. we are going to be committed to making sure that the safety and the health of the community is addressed and as you just heard me say, the epa administrators on the ground currently and the president has been in regular touch with the governor. >> just to follow up with one thing, there was a bipartisan letter one republican and three democrats calling for the epa to use authority to ensure norfolk southern pays for the clean-up. >> there is an active investigation underway, so the ntsb is on-site and looking at the cause of the derailment. but an active situation. >> congressional budget report, so

and the ongoing classified documents scandal. real clear politics white houseorter is here to weigh in. the president generally got good marks on the speech. but was it enough to overcome those others that i just mention? works with the white house was fresh from the chinese spy balloon the one we know actually came from china had overshadowed some good news in the january job support for the president took an opportunity at the state of the union he made a passing reference but he did not focus on it much. he did say that ice age is not going to suffer any incursions into our airspace birth these last two unidentified flying objects it seems like that is the standard he is sticking with it. the one thing we can say for certain is the f-22 is three and zero against the balloons and floating objects by. >> and mystery craft that is for sure. you said he did not focus on it much in his speech. his remarks during the week seemed a little unfocused as well. take a listen to this montage. >> said to a balloon could break american airspace -- mike anyway it is not a

. >> as senior advisor spokesperson for the white house counsel's office. he spoke to reporters about a new fbi search at president biden's delaware home. he says no additional classified documents were found and reiterated the president's cooperation with the ongoing investigation. >> i think you received the statement from the president's personal attorney which laid out today in a planned consensual search they went to rachel beth beach house and no classified documents were found. this is consistent with the president from the very beginning of having total cooperation with the justice department and the ongoing investigation that will continue and i'm ready to take questions. [inaudible] i think we've been transparent from the very beginning in providing information that is occurs throughout the process. probably thousands of statements from the president's personal attorney in the white house counsel's office about the process that has been undertaken here. that process that has been fully corrugated with the justice department as they conduct an ongoi

>> reporter: the white house calling that hour-long meeting straightforward and frank, but these are tough conversations, and right now, both sides are playing hardball. house speaker kevin mccarthy says he will not commit to raising the debt ceiling until the president commits to spending cuts. in a statement, the white house says the president welcomes a separate discussion with congressional leaders about how to reduce the deficit and control the national debt. but they made it clear that raising the debt ceiling should be done without any negotiations or conditions. republicans and democrats have largely worked together over the last 80 years to raise the debt limit, and tonight, the white house is insisting that congress has an obligation to do it once again. david? >> all right, rachel, thank you. >>> next tonight, the terrifying morning commute there in washington turning deadly. a suspect allegedly pulling out a gun on a bus and then at the station, then on the train. to sto t gunman.hot, including here's our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas from washington tonight. >

let's get right to the white house. our correspondent phil mattingly is there. big step for the president to move forward. >> reporter: yeah, key components that white house officials point to as underscoring that progress. whether it comes to the legislative side of the agenda which hasn't been matched in the last seven or eight decades in terms of accomplishments. and to some degree, the public he is crisis is at least in the waning moments at this point in time, even though the country is still grappling with it. it's the essence of the president to bring all of that together, to capture not only what's happened in next two years but potentially the next six ahead as he weighs that announcement in the weeks ahead. when you talk about who the president's audience, yes, 535 of them, republican and democrat, the real audience is prime time at home for the address. the millions maybe not paying attention every single day what the president has done. the legislative items or the agenda that he's in the process of implementing. when you look at the key elements who

the house oversight committee in recent weeks. we actually gave them letters early in the week or excuse me last week, white house house counsel. there are engage in good faith with them and reached out to the committee staff to ensure we are being responsive to these requests. obviously when you're in an ongoing investigation like this with this justice department that you are fully cooperate with you want to protect the integrity of that investigation and safeguard information from the investigation to protect the law enforcement decision-making and things like that. we are operating in good faith with the oversight requests. [inaudible] >> the president's personal lawyers have addressed the process of identifying locations where materials from their could then start in a been working an open consultation with the department justice. i'm going to -- i'm not going to talk about the decisions that they will make. that would be more appropriate asked of them rather than us. we are offering up access to the president's personal homes and we've been cooperative with the justice department ensuring they have access and handing in ma

so the following day, when lincoln died, he was transferred from the peterson house to the white houseunder the direction of this man, frank sands. frank was the government undertaker, so he had the contract to conduct all funerals. government officials. all right. and lincoln was transferred from the peterson house to the white house in a very plain wooden coffin. it was supplied by harvey and ma and i think this is just because of proximity. harvey m.r. they backed they essentially shared the same alley is ford's theater. so i think that's why they were used supply the coffin and lincoln of course was transferred to the prince of wales room and the white house. all right. now, there was nine doctors in attendance for his cranial autopsy. so it was just a cranial autopsy. just his head. they didn't do the why. that would be a full autopsy. one of those being robert king stone, the lincoln family physician, the other being the surgeon general, joseph k barnes. now, this was so hurried, they didn't even have a proper, proper projection kit. one of the surgeons offered up his personal am

we're covering what is happening at the white house. we'll take you there live as soon as karine jean-pierre gets questions on that. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. breaking right now on "the story," we're learning new details about what was in this chinese spy flight vehicle that was sent crashing to the ocean by -- after the -- its run-in with an f-22. so now here's what we know. the balloon is about 200 feet high, the pay load, which you saw suspended beneath it to gather intelligence was about the size of a jetliner. that debris, which is expected to include glass solar panels was spread out over the size of 15 football fields. may have included battery material, explosives that would detonate that vehicle. the pieces now on their way, some of them, to the fbi lab at quantico for analysis. so there's a lot of discussion about how this thing was brought down and whether or not it maximized our ability to understand what it was and what was in it. as i mentioned, we're watching the white house. the press briefing is john going. w

we are going to watch for that white house press briefing for reaction from the white house, as well as john kirby, actually, the spokesperson. china is pushing back, accusing the u.s. of a smear campaign, so how will the white house respond? we are going to first start with this fox news alert. >> john: america's crime crisis continues to plague residents in democratic-led cities from coast to coast, including here in the nation's capital, innocent civilians fight off violent felons and brazen teens who face no consequences for terrorizing america's streets. >> sandra: the latest incident, 82-year-old grandmother trying to make her way to receive chemotherapy, forced to fight off a vicious juvenile trying to carjack her. >> john: what a brave individual that guy was. but not stopping the d.c. far left city council overhauling the criminal code, critics say will put more criminals on the dangerous streets and supposed to be the crown jewel of american exceptionallism. >> sandra: jeff flock on a new bill in illinois could force local shops to hire armed guards instead of relying on the

>> the white house put out the national security spokesman yesterday in the white house briefing room to do an entire briefing with reporters about this. a lot of members of congress in the building behind us are asking questions about this. >> this is the second day. >> are more questions being asked. >> as the bridgewater guy said, this is a topic that doesn't have to be talked about every single day when we really don't have all the information yet. >> we will see what other information comes today after the briefing with the united states senate at 10:00 a.m.. that is happening in about two hours 45 minutes. we will see what comes of it. the story you mentioned from last not, this is the detroit news three killed five wounded at the shooting. the story from the detroit news that three people were killed and several others wounded. it found that late on a night from -- the suspect died of a gunshot wound. this truly has been a nightmare that we are living through. said the deputy chief of the police department. we have no idea why he came to campus to do this tonight. as the police

house, the biden white house about this problem they didn'tparently was only after the inspector general the archives all this problem that the justice department was contacted. why this contrasted the way that the treating similar situations they have it answer that question and that is something the committee needs to find out. >> what were seeing the spokesperson for rubenstein says he played no role in this matter buddies giving a lot of money to the national archives, the archives is being accused of inconsistent treatment between president biden and former president trump in the recent political biased at the national archives. recently retired chief archive referred the president, the former president to the d.o.j. for a criminal investigation but silent what was going on with president biden. >> i think the first thing that needs to happen any and all communication, there is really nothing going on than they should have any problem turning over any and all e-mails and other communications between mrl archives in the former director in

who was keeping this secret in the biden white house? is exploding right in their face, christian. >> right. well, and, you know, successive administrations have talked about a pivot to asia and getting serious in the military, and when biden failed in afghanistan, some of the rumors out of the white house said at least we can focus op on asia now, and that just hasn't happened. we have fewer ships and aircraft in the pacific every success i year. that 100 billion we've sent to the ukraine, it sure would be nice if the europeans had paid more of that, because we could use that to plus up deterrence so maybe we don't have to fight china. elizabeth: congressman, why weren't voters told? why weren't trump officials told? who is keeping america in the dark about chinese spy balloons? this is probably the most incompetent thing, one of the most incompetent rebuttals and narratives coming out of this biden white house to date. it's one of the most idiotic things we've ever seen, congressman. >> well, i just can't believe that, you know, a nati

government is denying it with any specificity and said the white house is just dismissing this utterly false. >> and no reporters are following up on this amazing aaron. marty is following up on it. >> he's with the gray zone.he he joins us tonight. i don't remember last time i saw a story this welll reportedreport wasn't in the ne, times, hersh's former employer. they wouldn't have run ict that but the fact that nobody at eve the white house briefing today even asked about this stord aboy makes me think we are becoming north korea. >> talking. this is a case where you have m long been trying t the motive. >> the u.s. has long beenecause trying to stop the north stream to because as sy hersh has story points out, the u.s. has recognized that if nord stream two goes online, that would make it a lot more difficultwait for the u.s. to wage a proxy war against russia because germany will not want to be on board with cutting off itsit source of cheap energy. so the u.s. found an answer to that problem. they blew it up.g for and it's interesting, hersh reports that the planning for this oper

with the utmost secrecy, the head of the white house did an old trick a lot used by his predecessors raq in afghanistan and other hot spots of the world map, which for some reason america constantly confuses with the map of the united states itself this is not the first time that the us president acts like this, remember so long ago zelensky himself visited the white house and then the white house decided to tanks. it was a big event because as a result other countries also announced their intention to send tanks to ukraine . well, tanks have not yet turned into fighters. although zelensky’s entourage has been trying to act through congressmen for the past few days, begging for f-16s in the united states continue to feed the idea that some particular type of weapon can change the whole alignment of the conflict, of course, there is a possibility that ukraine could withdraw winner. but, of course, you have to ask the question, what exactly is it. president zelensky wants to drive the russians out of crimea from the east of the donbass, and of course, he wants to make sure that russia n

the white house blocked press access. meeting the president has with members of congress open to press. ahead of the meeting, both sides said they're dug in and that would indicate not a lot of progress. kevin mccarthy insisting the definite situation reduction and cutting wasteful spending has to be part of this equation here. the treasury secretary has already taken what she described as extraordinary measures to ensure the u.s. does not default on its financial obligations and those actions have pushed the deadline for this to be settled to late spring or early summer. we may hear quite a few more weeks of discussion about this before we get to any true news moving the needle, neil. >> neil: yeah, you need to push against the deadline to get people off the fence. we'll see what happens. thanks, jacqui heinrich at the white house. we're monitoring that. ro khanna kind enough to join us. a lot to talk about, sir. let's talk about what's going on behind the closed doors and the president and the speaker meeting. you think

and we thank the white house, the president talked to the family but sent a delegation led by the formertions in the congress, sheila jackson lee is here. and my friend and brother the congressman right here from tennessee, congressman steve cornyn is here. many years ago there was a controversy in california, and there was one that stood up for justice and i watched them grow as they fought and took a balanced and principled stand supporting what was right, even when it wasn't popular. and they grew from one office to another, every office they ran for predicted you couldn't win. the political polling told them they couldn't win, and they kept beating the polls, and they told her she shouldn't be here today. but the snow backed up and she's here, the vice president of the united states, kamala harris. [ applause ] [ applause ] i was going to be polite about it but since you all stood up and clapped so long, wouldn't it be nice for her to share a few words with us? [ applause ] come on. come on up here so they can see you. [ applause ]. >> good afternoon, church. reverend sharpton, i wan

he's at the white house, lucas. n't know if you've been able to talk with any administration official the president if he's released a statement, but you do have a statement from norad. that's right, lawrence and just going back to what you said about the white house. president biden is here behind me. hosting the nation's governors said right now is the entertainment portion of the evening. country music star brad paisley is playing the press were actually just ushered in to do what's called the business of pool spray, where they filmed part of the evening, members of the press tried to ask, tried to shout some questions about these mysterious objects that have been shot down and the president not sure if you can hear over the music, but did not answer any of the questions . yes 10 minutes ago just to get everybody update. did. the faa lifted that restriction and norad put out a statement. this is the restriction over northern montana as you see there in the map near the border with canada, depending on saying norad