there was no real mainstream biography about walter white. walter francis white. and i never mentioned his name, the only thing people thought about was breaking bad. and i thought that's not going to work for me. the first thing i did was i want to yale university, i look at the archives, that's where walters papers are. i want to the public library at the schomburg center in harlem. i went through most importantly the naacp papers which is a treasure trove of materials regarding walter white. and when i found was more than i hope to and i really learned that the story of walter's life and why we should know about it is really much greater than i even anticipated. so who was walter white? one way to say this, explain in a very short sentence. you might say walter francis white was the powerful civil rights figure, in the first half of the 20th century. and already, you're saying to yourself, how can that be? he's making this up, it can be true. because of that was true, we would all know who was. another way to define walter sesay walter white was sort of the mos

walter carl white because of clarence, dear. so for walter all roads and at the white house, he realizes. he has to get in the white house by this time, by the way, he is chief executive of the naacp. so he starts in 1918 naacp is this tiny organization and because of the efforts of all of the staff james weldon johnson w e b du bois people like mary white ovington who they called the you know, the fighting saints this this old white woman who was so dedicated to civil rights activism that she was a board member of then double acp, but walter became chief executive in 1930 and by that time it's the most powerful militant civil rights organization that it ever exist, but he can't get in the door of the white house. because fdr. realizes that if he makes any you know meets any demands of of walter white or you know support civil rights in any way. he's going to extremely anger a vast and very powerful part of the democratic party, which is the solid south. is this a lot of information a short period of time but in the book, it's al

none, he actually with his and his few he was he felt he felt friendly toward walter white. that's for sure and he felt extremely angry about adam clayton powell. because adequate and powell had called had referred to his best germanist the last lady not the first lady because because of something she had done. yeah, tell us about his character. he certainly was a direct person and usually honest i know that with abraham lincoln wore lamin one of his colleagues and private protector said that he could lincoln could stretch the truth when necessary. what about truman? what was his character like truman? certainly? no truman could stretch the truth, too. he would remember things that never happened. i i was fascinated to find in one of his late books. he would just he carefully described a conversation he had with roosevelt discussing just discussing history. he never roosevelt had never actually never had would have a conversation like that. they had one meeting together a lunch in august of in august of 1944 before the election. he would he would show up with the white house

he felt friendly toward walter white. he felt extremely angry about adam clayton powell. he had referred to -- >> tell us about his character. he certainly was a direct person, and usually honest. i know that with abraham lincoln, he could stretch the truth when necessary. what about truman? what was his character like? >> truman could stretch the truth to. he would remember things that never happened. i was fascinated to find one of his books, he carefully described a conversation he had with roosevelt, discussing history. roosevelt would never have a conversation like that. they had one meeting together, a lunch in august of 1944 before the election. he would show up at the white house. but truman wanted this to happen. he wrote about it as if it had happened. hate would say that it was many years later that he wrote about it. he would definitely stretch the truth, he would also inflate himself. there was an early meeting with molotov, it was the foreign minister for the soviet union. this was pretty soon after roosevelt's death. he referred to a conversation. it was no

first time that the american people have been taking on a televised tour of the white house harry truman had done. so with walter cronkite in 1952 after the complete getting of the inside of the white house and the refurbishing of its infrastructure because it was literally falling apart and collapsing. and needed updating and ensuring up but this was mrs. kennedy in 1962 taking the american people and it turns out taking more than just the american people on a tour. we think about three out of four americans. watch this tour on valentine's day, february 1962, but it was also sent abroad by the us information service. and so now we get into my thoughts about the cold war messaging and it was even sent behind the iron curtain. so even more to the point about sending our messages out as we've talked about in our most recent panel about communications. here's mrs. kennedy sending out a message about the white house in its history not just to americans but all over the world and then i point to jfk's cameo appearance. he comes in at the end of the tour and he sits down with mrs. kennedy and cbs is charles collingwoo

walter mondale's words. right after they lost in 1980, he was able to look back at the four years in the white house with clear reflection. he said we told the truth. we obey the law and kept the peace. [applause] i wrote those words down on a piece of paper and kept them there to get through the last years. we told the truth, obeyed the law and kept the peace. that is our mondale. that's the standard and more. he helped himself to each and every day of his life. it is what guided him as a young state attorney general. when he led attorneys generals to embrace the right to counsel in a landmark supreme court case, tell the truth, obey the law, keep the peace. it's what mattered to him as a u.s. senator when he fought for civil rights and fair housing. it's what motivated him as the country's vice president when he insisted on being a true partner to president carter deserving of a place in the room where it happens. setting the high standard, how about when he picked geraldine ferraro and his running mate. [applause] i still remember him standing next to her in her red dress and string of white pearls and it w

. >> reporter: president biden is in the air back to the white house, he spent the afternoon in minneapolis at a service for walterle. we talked about immigration, in just a few weeks title 42 is scheduled to expire meaning tens of thousands of illegal migrants will likely cross the southern border. the president under increasing pressure to publicly reconsider his decision to end the program. the administration, jon, is also under fire for a few disinformation governance board aimed at stopping disinformation or misinformation, whatever you want to call it. some critics have called it orwellian, some even have called it a ministry of truth. the executive director of the board, nina jankowicz, is being criticized for downplaying back in 2020 the hunter biden laptop story. this is before she was working on the board. the prime minister's son is not -- president's son is not facing charges right now, however, he is under federal investigation, and that laptop is in fbi custody. here is secretary mayorkas with the department of homeland security this morning. >> i don't question her objectivity. there are people in t

washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: federal reserve chairman jerome powell is part of a white house push and at addressing the high inflation rate. sitke we house national counci. what can you tell us about the conversation between the president and chairman powell? >> well, they had a productive meeting. what the president communicated to the chairman was that he not only respects the independence of the federal reserve that he intends to honor it and give the federal reserve the space it needs to tackle inflation. the fed fed has a primary role in fighting inflation, and it is well on its way to do that, and the president wanted to be clear that unlike some of his predecessors, he was going to respect their independence. >> is that part of a strategy for the president to in effect shift responsibility to the fed for inflation? >> no, it is not about responsibility. it is about fighting inflation in a responsible way. the president laid out a plan. the first element of that is to give the fed the space it needs. importantly, that has not always been the case. that was not tru

walter jackson, jr. lost his grandmother, suzy, and several others after a gunman opened fire at this church in south carolina. >> when you lose a loved one in a fashion such as that, by a white supremacist, by someone who is geared with, with, with hate just because of the color of their skin, it's going to be something you're going to be dealing with for a long time. >> reporter: jackson says these moments of tragedy are a call for action for leaders to speak out against hate and the idealoloies fueling these attacks. >> continue to love. this was a situation done out of hate. it's easy for us to want to retaliate and do the same thing. but continue to keep your peace, continue to make your loved ones proud. >> aaron is with me now. there are calls for congress to take action. >> reporter: kate, that's right. right now there is a domestic terrorism prevention bill moving through the house. civil rights and human rights groups are calling on congress to pass it to prevent more hate attacks. >> aaron gilchrist for us. >>> still ahead, the latest on the war in ukraine. and also a hero speaking out. savannah guthrie's interview with a passenger who landed a pl passenger who lan

conversation we have the host of "way too early" and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire and publisher, editor-in-chief of the cook with amy walternee for senate in that state. vance who was a big critic of donald trump back in 2016 won a tight race in the primary, after trump publicly backed him about three weeks ago. he will face democratic ohio congressman tim ryan. this fall, for the seat that's being vacated by retiring senator rob portman. congressman ryan will be our guest in just a few minutes. meanwhile, in ohio's gubernatorial race republican mike dewine secured the nomination in his bid for re-election. former dayton may your nan wehle won nomination for governor. and a race between an establishment democrat and progressive left candidate. and the mainstream congressman shontel brown defeated nina turner. writer for the conservative website the bulwark, tim miller, had this take on the two takes after the ohio primaries. quote, for the second time in a year, shontel brown has demolished nina turner, extending the streak over the progressive left. meanwhile, congressman j.d. vance, an insurrectionist who recently argued