but the question is where are the inconsistencies with the "washington post." you said they were mischaracterizing it. so far you are ju just -- corroborating the failures to protect the white house are in fact correct. so please tell us where they are not correct, please. >> throughout the course -- there was a command post established down at constitution avenue and 23rd street. the police and secret service were there attempting to resolve what had happened. back at the white house, individuals had heard what they believed to be shots. the secret service according to the records that i have been able to locate on this three year old investigation did respond properly. the response teams and other officers did a protective sweep of the area to make sure we did not have intruders and obvious signs of anything that had been damaged. further investigation with the park police, they were unable to resolve at that time whether these were shots being fired at other vehicles or shots at the white house. that took some time to understand. it wasn't until the usher's

you're corroborating the real time to protect the white house are in fact correct according to the washington post. please tell wrus they're not correct, please. >> throughout the course -- there was a command post established down at constitution avenue and 23rd street. metropolitan police department, the park police, and secret service were there attempting to resolve or understand what happened along constitution avenue. at the white house, individuals had heard what they believed to be shots. the secret service, according to the record i have been able to locate on the 3-year-old investigation did respond properly. the emergency response teams and other officers did a protective sweep of the area to make sure that we did not have any intruders. to make sure there no injuries and obvious signs of anything that had been damaged. further investigation with the park police they were unable to resolve at that time as to whether or not these were shots being fired at other vehicles or the white house. that took some time to understand. it wasn't until the ushers office was preparing for the return o

there to the "washington post."he reality is that snowden could have done what was done in the case of wikileaks. he could have actually turned this offense to wikileaks. all of this information, without any intermediary being involved, the intermediary being us and "the guardian" and some other publications over time, he could have just posted it all, put it all out there for anyone to look at. any terrorist organization, any other country to take a look at and pore through and look at it to their heart's desire. for reasons that he is articulated, he gave it to us to exercise our judgment and in exercising our judgment we spent, as i think you know, an enormous amount of time with the government going over this information, and actually withholding information that the government felt was forar too sensitive. we spent months on some of these stories. we have spent enormous amount of time, an enormous amount of money. we've also taken enormous precautions with the security of the documents that we have. so i don't

who is the washington post? we had a good moment there but ultimately ease they shared the class of publication on september 19th, the washington post published a special insert, the unabomber manifesto. we implemented our plan and again max and i were going home, had it already, all kinds of people coming in to set up these newsstands and we figured we needed so many agents to watch four or five locations because we didn't figure we would have 150 people show up. at 3:00 in the morning we got a call before we ever started and they told us we have already gone lines around the block at these places. we have hundreds of people waiting to buy the post. we needed more agents so that is what we had to do. >> as far as the information that was there, the help of the media by publishing it and i did numerous press conferences talking about remember what we know about the unabomber, we know the geographical areas he has worked in, urging the public to come forward and there was a million-dollar reward that existed for

according to the "washington post." but as of the end of august, the cameras have only generatesed about $26 million in revenue. while city leaders say they're thrilled that fewer people are getting tickets, they say all that red ink could lead to major budget cuts. >>> if you live in fairfax county, there are just a few days left to pay your car tax. officials there trying to take some of the pain out of the process. they're e it tending the hours to pay the tax bill at the government center. tonight, tomorrow and friday, the center will be open until 6:00. thursday until 6:30. and saturday from 8:00 until noon. you can pay by cash, check or credit card. and, of course, you can still pay online. >>> it was old home week at the d.c. council today. the council welcomed back former council members and former mayors as they all took photographs to celebrate 40 years of home rule for the district government. the only living mayor who did not attend was adrian fenty. the council is planning other celebrations of the 1973 vot

and also his proximity to the "washington post" and and friendship with the grahams. >> what do you thinkbout the post of being sold? >> i think don had no choice but to sell because it was losing money and he sold it to save it. it was a courageous thing to do. >> what does it do for the town that is owned by jeff bezos? >> it was very hard for people at the paper when don sold it. everybody was in shock. we saw it coming because we knew the numbers and it was better to sell it as an fold it which is the direction it was going. jeff bezos bought the paper and catherine, don's niece, was publisher until a month ago and she is now stepping down. there are no more grahams. a new publisher was hired who was a former reaganite. he is not a wide-eyed ideologue. i do not think he is going to impose himself on the newsgathering operation at all. i do not think he will. i think he was a good choice because people were nervous about bezos living in seattle and not being here and once the grahams left, we need is someone who had been in washington. ryan has been here for 20 years and has a real res

thanks all for the washington post report. the best i can tell, as well as the article in " the washington in 2011 wereent eight shots were fired at the white house, no less than five secret service agents reported they thought they heard shots rate -- shots fired. you had someone on twitter report they saw someone shot -- at the white house. blocks away moments later someone crashes a vehicle and an assault rifle is in there in the secret service is on the scene and no one ties them together. i don't understand that. later, the arlington county police detain this person. he had been positively identified based on the vehicle but no one put it into the system to put him on the watch list. carly -- consequently when arlington county police pulled him over they took his picture and let him go. it was only the pennsylvania police five days later that find the person. now he is serving 25 years in jail but could have done a lot more damage. if the director is going to take full responsibility, i think the opening statement should a

and so i use that line in a piece i wrote for "thepost" washington post."t on. so it sort of caught on. li? c-span: what was the purpose of the line? >> guest: the line was talkinged about the span itself. it talked about the time and thetrife,an d social strife and some of the to same issues that we are dealing with today. crime and depression, the struggle of black people and g that was the theme of the song. so in singing the song he was kind of expressing his to frustration saying that it allhere makes me want to holler. c-span: where were you born?d a haf >> guest: portsmouth virginia, which is about 3.5 hours southere? of here. c-span: how long have you lived there?h e >> guest: welcome i lived there for a couple of years. in th and my stepfather was in the navy. and we were there for a couple ey of years and then we lived instep-fat toronto and key westhe florida. when my stepfather got ready to retire from the navy we moved old en. back and i guess i was aboute nine years old. and so we lived there from thee t time i was nine years old and my parents sti

"the washington post" reports the president and first lady was furious at the response. the shooter managed to hit the white house from this distance. oscar hernandez was charmed with attempted assassination and is now serving a 25-year sentence. joining me now, john tomlinson, retired from the secret service. john, there is a lot to sort there here. but here is my first question to you. what we've seen is that a secret service in disarray, or are we seeing -- are we learning about the kinds of close calls that have heretofore been kept secret? >> the secret service doesn't succeed by keeping after action reports to themselves. you have to balance sharing information and with whom it gets shared. as an example, sharing it with the congressman and his committee is one thing. making it public is yet another piece. because what the public learns, adversaries also learn. so that's one piece of the equation. the secret service has a proud history, and those that serve in it, as mr. cummings remarked, i'm satisfied, continue to deserve the respect of -- they protect as well as

the "washington post" explores that question.aryland congresswoman could soon be a leader in the dccc, and some in the democratic party view her as an eventual replacement. and that's your morning dish of "scrambled politics." >>> i'm joined now by "newsday" columnist and political analyst ellis heneghan. good morning, ellis. great to see you. >> good morning. there's a lot of nancy portenders out there. i'm the next nancy, they keep saying, right? >> nancy and donna -- i live in washington -- they're always together trying to get the women vote out, trying to get them to take their chances on politics, so, who knows? but we want to start with this congressional hearing on white house security happening today. we know that julia pierson, who spearheads the agency, is going to be in the hot seat. what is the first question she needs to answer? >> well, she's got to convince people that she deserves to keep this job. i mean, it has been a -- >> is it really on the line? >> well, yes! >> yeah? >> i would say it's really on the line,

joining me is analyst jim kavanaugh and washington post political analyst peter walston. you have worked on these pieces that have revealed to us things that we did not think were possible at the white house. so many things, like, for example, that people are not simply staring at that front fence all day long, waiting for someone to go over. that someone was able to go over that fence and not be seen by anyone to the point where he was actually able to get all the way into the building. >> well, what we found and what my colleague has found in her great reporting on this, her ground-breaking reporting is that multiple levels, there were multiple levels of failure there, there were counter surveillance officers outside the fence who were supposed to be looking for suspicious people, they didn't see him. there was an alarm that probably did go off when he crossed the fence, but there is now in dispute -- it's not clear what happened after that. there might have been a dog that could have been released. the attack dog was not released. it's mott clear why he was able to go

and also his proximity to the "washington post" and and friendship with the grahams. >> what do you think about the post of being sold? >> i think don had no choice but to sell because it was losing money and he sold it to save it. it was a courageous thing to do. >> what does it do for the town that is owned by jeff bezos? >> it was very hard for people at the paper when don sold it. everybody was in shock. we saw it coming because we knew the numbers and it was better to sell it as an fold it which is the direction it was going. jeff bezos bought the paper and catherine, don's niece, was publisher until a month ago and she is now stepping down. there are no more grahams. a new publisher was hired who was a former reaganite. he is not a wide-eyed ideologue. i do not think he is going to impose himself on the newsgathering operation at all. i do not think he will. i think he was a good choice because people were nervous about bezos living in seattle and not being here and once the grahams left, we need is someone who had been in washington. ryan has been here for 20 years and has a real r

i got to know carl when we were young reporters at the washington post. his hair was dark as night, so was mine. it was an interesting pleasure to watch him go from a bright, young writer with a flamboyant writing style to an historic figure in american journalism and political lure. and, later, the author of well-reviewed books on pope john paul, ii and hillary clinton, he is now writing a book on his early years, his teen years, at the washington star for long time washingtonians. he is now the presidential professor at stonybrook university, in long island. carl was always the more colorful of the duo. bob woodward tells this story on carl back in the mid '70s when he found out president ford had pardoned former president nixon before any water gate trial. he called and said the son of a bitch just pardoned the son of a bitch. that reflected much of public opinion at the time. but the wheels of time are turned by the gods of irony. the kennedy family, nixon's old nemesis, gave president ford a courage award for his action. history is often argument wit

and adele has written some 30 pieces of humor for "the washington post." when she is not working, she is also a a long-distance swimmer. she has swim across the chesapeake asics times. but today she will be talking and here she is to talk about her book, "run, don't walk." [applause] >> am so grateful for that very nice introduction and grateful for you for having me here today. i'm going to talk about how it happened that i wrote a book because i am sure that many of my friends are still in disbelief that this happened. in 2003 i own the car that my friends nicknamed the "rustang." but i love the car and despite of the fact that i had to use a screwdriver to a mock i think they'll come i never going to stop driving my car. except that one day i was driving home and i was going down georgia avenue and i was about a half-mile from my apartment and my car all of a sudden caught on fire. and i didn't know what to do. so i quickly rolled my window down and unlock my seatbelt. and i kept driving my car. and i managed to get it home and i wasted into the parking

. >> here's a look at some of the best selling nonfiction books according to "the washington post": >> that's this week's list of nonfiction bestsellers according to the washington post. >> host: and as booktv continues its tour of the new york public library, we are now joined by the curator of the library. how did you get to that position? >> guest: well, i worked in the library, the new york public library, in the past. i've been in the rare book division, was later a curator at southern methodist university and downtown at the general theological seminary, st. marks library. and got a doctorate in renaissance history at columbia and all that led to my being here. >> host: and how long have you been with the new york public library? >> guest: as a curator, i've been here since september 2000. >> host: well, you've brought some things out to show us that you have in the collection. >> guest: i have. well, the berg is an enormous collection, about 2,000 linear feet of archives and manuscripts, 400 authors. but this is what i like to call the tip of the berg, so to peek. here -- so to

the washington post reported that the intruder, omar gonzalez was able to make it deep into the white house. a fact now previously disclosed from any official or unofficial channels until today. and at one point, the intruder was only steps away from the first family's actual living quarters. this news comes on the same day the washington post is reporting just how badly the secret service handled a 2011 incident in which a gunman fired 11 shots at the white house. >> 42-year-old omar gonzalez sprinted across the grounds to the north door of the portico. 800 rounds of ammunition, two hatchets and a machete were found in his vehicle. gonzalez was physically apprehended after entering the white house north portico doors. gonzalez made it much farther than previously known. he contacted chairman of the house oversight committee. according to the washington post, after barrelling past immediately inside the door, gonzalez dashed passed the stairway leading half way up to the family's living quarters. gonzalez was tackled by a counter assault agent and far southern entities room. by then,

you did it for "washington post." let's watch it. >> one of the strangest tales of the washington bureaucracy in downtown washington. a longtime federal employee puts in her paperwork to retire. before she gets her full pension check, her paperwork must go on to a long journey. they must come here. a small town in western virginia. they operate an operating center. 200 feet underground in the caverns of an old mine. it is one of the most epic glitches. everyone retirement application from every federal employee is filed and processed on paper. here is how it works. when someone retires, it is printed and shipped across the country. old records from the same employee already on file must be retrieved. some are taken from more than 28,000 file cabinets and others are printed out. if any document is missing, it must be hunted down. and added to the file. this process can take days or weeks. it's then put back into a computer. it is digital again. right now, the average case takes 60 days. that is faster than what it was

. >> this week on "q&a," our guest is washington post national reporter david fahrenthold. he talked about his front page article involving medicare and other investigative pieces. >> david fahrenthold, on august 17, front page, sunday the headline "medicare scheme that just kept rolling along." what is the story? >> it is about something that lasted a long time. the power wheelchairs scam. it was a scheme where people will submit false claims for a power wheelchair. it is a very expensive device. they will get a patient who could walk and did not need a wheelchair and send it to medicare and medicare would pay them back. each one of these chairs cost $5,000. pay $5,000.ld they made $3000 or $4000 profit. mid-90'srted in the and did not end until last year. >> your article is data line los angeles, why? >> i wanted to see where you can see the government explain to prosecute a power wheelchair case. i went to see the case of a woman from nigeria who lived in l.a. who have run a scam for six or seven years and ended up getting over $4 million from at the government. it was f

"the washington post" is also reporting that no canine teams were released to chase down the intruder, as would be standard procedure. >> i've been there for hundreds of fence jumpers, and they never make it even close. there's just multiple layers of security. there was a failure here. >> reporter: and on saturday a second security incident at the white house. the secret service says a new jersey man failed to stop at an entrance to the white house complex while driving his car. the man identified as kevin carr was arrested and charged with unlawful entry. that incident happened at the entrance at 15th and e streets. the secret service says carr did not stop when he was ordered to do, so then got out of his vehicle and refused to leave. the "new york times" quotes secret service spokesman ed donovan as saying that car tried to gain access to a separate white house location on foot a short time earlier. in the immediate aftermath of the breach on friday night, the secret service stepped up its patrols and surveillance in front of the white house. they have also ordered a review of tha

to the "washington post." the reality is that snowden could have done what was done in the case of wikileaks. it could have turned this over to wikileaks and all of this information without any mediator you be involved, the intermediary being us and the guardian and some other publications over time, he could've just posted it all, put it all out there for anyone to look at. any terrorist organization, any other country to take a look at and pour through and look at it to their hearts desire. for reasons that he has articulated, he gave it to us to exercise our judgment, and in exercising our judgment we spent an enormous amount of time with the government going over this information. and actually withholding information that the government felt was far too sensitive. you know, we spend months on some of these stories. we have spent enormous amount of time an enormous amount of money. we've also taken enormous precautions with the security of the documents that we have. i don't think that's an act of irrespons

up, some changes at the top for the "washington post." >> what ericknow cantor's next move will be. he is heading to new york. an investment bank. he lost his bid for reelection in virginia's seventh congressional district last june and step down last month. dollar general is not giving o his bid to buy its rival family dollar. is raising its bid to buy its rival family dollar. family dollar rejected the earlier bid in favor of one from dollar tree, but now they are dealing with antitrust issues. >> "the washington post" is getting a new publisher and ceo. katharine weymouth announced that frederick ryan jr. will be publisher. he helped a quote on politico. he worked in the reagan administration and was chief of staff to president reagan after he left the white house. >> now that we are past labor day, it is starting to feel like summer. >> for all of those kids at recess right now, i hope they get a water break. >> it is really hot. 92 at reagan national. things are quiet right now. nothing in the immediate area. however, storms will be firing up and filling in on greater over the

in january, the "washington post" reported this. "mcdonnell rejected plea deal to face one felony, spare wife any charges and avoid trial." in the course of the federal investigation into bob mcdonnell's corruption in the governor's mansion, prosecutors at one point offered him a chance to spare his wife. and mostly to spare himself. they proposed that the governor plead guilty to just one fraud charge and it was a fraud charge that had nothing to do with corruption in office. if he did that, his wife would avoid all charges altogether. "the governor rejected the offer." and instead, he and his wife were put up on 14 felony charges and today they were convicted on almost everything. he was not convicted of lying to banks about some of the loans. she was not convicted in conjunction with some of the golf junk that he took and with one of the loans. but other than that, they got nailed on everything. sentencing is january 6th. they could each do something like 30 years in prison. after the verdict was read, there's no indication that

lou: "the washington post" are warning that statement and that was the worst lowest rating that they get. it couldn't be clear that the president was, in fact, as we said in january, the islamic state was jb. coming up next, my commentary on why vladimir putin and barack obama have more in common than you might think. not comforting but in common. that's coming up next. who work with regional experts who work with portfolio management experts that's when expertise happens. mfs. because there is no expertise without collaboration. (agent) i'll walk you guys through every step. there are a lot of buyers for a house like yours. (husband) that's good to know. lou: coming up tonight, the white house refuses to say whether an executive fiat is on the way on immigration. director anthony fauci joins us at first, one of the most confounding president tooled office. the obama administration has managed to access we don't all the largest numbers of scandals whoever embroil any white house since world war ii. wiretapping, journalists, including james rosen and journalists simply in the associat

>> we met at "the washington post." sally came looking for a job. she went first as a -- to be a secretary to phil, who was editor of the editorial page. i told him that he would get in trouble if he hired her, and later on i hired her. >> so he didn't. >> i hired her sally to write for the style section. we became friends after she left "the post." she called me mr. bradlee the day she left to go to cbs. we hooked up that year, 1973. >> 20 years ago this june. >> and about how many years? >> 41 years we have been together. we will celebrate our 36th wedding anniversary. >> what were the best moments of your professional careers? >> for ben, watergate, nothing can compare. it was a very stressful time. we got together in the middle of watergate. i left the paper because i was in love with ben. i knew there was no way i could get involved with him when he was going through this. he was being watched and the nixon people had people following him around. it would destroy his credibility. and so, i quit. i took the job at cbs which i did not want to do.

one spoke with the "washington post". she told the paper it was a tough decision, but it was not a hard decision. she then said it was tough to see his family go through that but when it came down to the brass tacks, we knew the decision we had to make. there is so much more to the verdict and we are breaking it down for you. coming up, we'll take a look at what is next in the sentencing phase. and a complete recap of every day of the trial is online, nbcwashington.com. >>> prince formgeorge's county police are making a big reward even bigger in hope of catching the man who killed a 3-year-old girl. police have been searching for devaughn wallace for about a month now. wallace shot her in a home in landover while aiming for somebody else. she would have turned four this month. before now, the reward was at $25,000. >>> we're working to liearn mor about a parental abduction that made the fbi order a plane back to dulles. the mother is accused of trying to take her child out of the country without the father's consent on a

thankful for the washington post. as best i can tell from the spot report, as well as the article in the washington post, the event in 2011 where eight shots were fired at the white house you had no less than 5 secret service agents report they thought they heard shots fired. you had somebody on twitter report they saw somebody shoot at the white house. there were two people in two different shuttle vans who reported they saw somebody firing a weapon at the white house. blocks away, moments later, somebody crashes a vehicle and assault rifle is in there. and the secret service is on the scene and nobody ties those two together. i don't understand it. later the articleton county police detained this person. he had been positively identified based on what that vehicle there. but nobody put it in the system to put him on the watch list. when the arlington county police pull him over, they take his picture, and let him go. it was only the pennsylvania police, five days later, that finds this person. now he's serving some

and op ed in the washington post focussing on what it call its the president's unnerving happy talk. advised three u.s. presidents,

the "washington post" this morning has a piece. the persian gulf nations put aside differences. they don't always agree on who the enemy is but yet they found an enemy, these five countries at least that participated in monday air strikes so the "washington post" going into details about the differences up until monday that qatar has with saudi arabia and the unite arab emirates as well. from the front page. "washington post" this morning. more reaction from capitol hill. senator barbara boxer tweets this. i support the president taking the fight to these terrorists with the unprecedented coalition of arab partners and john cover anyone, republican from texas with leadership on the republican side says these cruise missiles, $1.4 million each. representative barbara lee, democrat from california says we continue to become more and more involved in another middle east war with no military solution. congress must debate and vote on all the options. darrell issa, major thanks to the men and women of our armed forces who are taking the fight to our enemies. some reaction for you fro

this comes after another "washington post" report that when a man fired shots into the white house in 2011, it took the secret service four days to realize the residence had been hit seven times with bullets, and another day to arrest the man. sasha was home at the time. the president and first lady were traveling and didn't learn about the incident for several days. >> they have been described, the president and she, of both fuming, because of think parents who think that their family is protected, but also by the way that the first lady learned this information. >> reporter: even before these latest revelations, a congressional committee was preparing to grill the director of the secret service, julia pierson. she'll be in the hot seat tomorrow. >> i'm extremely concerned. most organizations have acceptable losses. in other words, they're right 97% of the time. in the case of the secret service, they have to succeed 100% of the time. >> it's clear that something needs to be done. and something needs to be done drastically. it's also clear they need to have a come to jesus moment. >>

but now we're hearing -- the "washington post" first reporting, and indicating that he got much furthernto the white house. so people are wondering is there another shoe to drop? what don't we know yet? i think it doesn't look good that this information is coming out peace meal like that. and that it is worse the more we hear about it. >> this is julia pierson being sworn in to testify. that is the committee chairman and the ranking member greeting her. but now we go back to 2011, and we're finding out that that other breach at the white house was far worse than once thought. >> right. the "washington post" said it took four days to realize someone fired a high powered rifle at the white at the time that sasha and her grandmother were home. and it was when someone finally noticed there was a bullet whole. so that is another blemish. >> for our audience, we should point out there are two sides to the secret service. the uniformed division, the people we see usually in the picture, the ones with the white shirts, but there is also the other side of the secret service and both sides will b

and op ed in the washington post focussing on what it call its the president's unnerving happy talk. advised three u.s. presidents, nixon, fortd, reagan, what does he make of this one? patrick, what do you think? >> how are you neil? i think what we just heard was pretty important. look, this is a barbaric atrocity pitted against americans, but at the same time,

now as "the washington post" reported and nbc news confirmed we're learning gonzalez made it far inside the executive mansion. in fact, he ran past a staircase that leads to the first family's living quarters. ten days after this fence jumper got on to the white house grounds, new details about security lapses that allowed him to get deep into the white house itself. omar gonzalez jumped the fence around 7:20 p.m. september 19th, ran across the north lawn and burst into the front door which was unlocked. secret service agents did not release dogs to chase him, nor fire weapons to stop him. according to a u.s. official, gonzalez overpowered a female uniformed secret service officer, unaware he had broken the first line of security because an alarm box had been mute ed at the request of the white house usher office. he barrelled past the guard, turned left and ran into the east room. he ran the entire length of the white house to the other end of the east room before he was tackled by a heavily armed counterassault agent near the doorway to the green room. this comes after another "the wa

lou: "the washington post" are warning that statement and that was the worst lowest rating that they get. it couldn't be clear that the president was, in fact, as we said in january, the islamic state was jb. coming up next, my commentary on why vladimir putin and barack obama have more in common than you might think. not comforting but in common. that's cing up musical chairs. fun, right? welllllllll, not when your travel rewards card makes it so hard to get a seat using your miles. that's their game. the flights you want are blacked out. or they ask for some ridiculous number of miles. honestly, it's time to switch to the venture card from capital one. with venture, use your miles on any airline, any flight, any time. no blackout dates. and with every purchase, you'll earn unlimited double miles. from now on, no one's taking your seat away. what's in your wallet? lou: coming up tonight, the white house refuses to say whether an executive fiat is on the way on immigration. director anthony fauci joins us at first, one of the most confounding president tooled office. the obama admini

the "washington post" reported today that the recent fence jumper made it farther into the white housen was previously disclosed, and even overpowered one secret service agent. this, on top of a new report that showed a botched handling of a previous attack. >> the president does retain confidence in the leadership of the secret service and in the men and women of the secret service. >> woodruff: the white house found itself defending its defenders again today. press secretary josh earnest addressed reports of an incident three years ago, that could have put the first family in danger. >> what's required in an environment like this, is a security organization that is adept, that is nimble and that can be constantly both reviewing and upgrading their posture as necessary. that's difficult work, but the president and first lady have confidence in the ability of the secret service to do it. >> woodruff: the "washington post" reported saturday that it took four days in november 2011 before the secret service realized a gunman had shot at and hit the white house seven times. the president a

what "the washington post" reported is that the man who jumped the fence, crossed the line and went into the unlocked door got all the way to the east room before the secret service stopped him. that's certain to be a question for juliet peterson who shows up at a cop depressional hearing in a few hours at 10:00 a.m. lawmakers want to know how he was able to get so far into the white house. the president wasn't there as you know at the time, but certainly a concern. there were back-to-back security breaches that weekend. and also they will likely question her about the 2011 report also in "the post" when shots were fired and ended up hitting the white house red den residence. one of the daughters and the grandmother were home at the time, the president was not, but the issue there is it took four days for the secret service to figure out what happened. initially they thought a truck backfired and called off agents. then said it was a gang shoot-out nearby. four days later they confirmed that shots had actually hit the residence of the white house. it was a day after that there was an arr

steve hayes, nina eastton, and charles lane, opinion writer for "the washington post." okay, chuck, what about the president's statement and the reaction today? >> you know, this was not an intelligence failure. to me an intelligence failure is an event that, like, pearl harbor, you didn't anticipate and you should have. these events in iraq and syria were fully anticipated and indeed in real time, there were lots of warnings from within the administration itself got how serious the situation was getting. what happened herein stead was that the realities on the ground in iraq did not square with the president's preexisting plan which was to get out of iraq and stay out. and i think he resisted over many months information that was sort of contrary to that preexisting plan. and for him now to go back and say the things he said to steve across i think just digs the hole he's in a little bit deeper. i think what he needs to do is own the miscalculation, own up to it, et cetera, et cetera and move on and lead the country through this next crisis. admittedly that's hard to d

all-ie pace of the associated press, maeve reston of the los angeles times, robert costa of "the washington post" and maggie hab eman of politico. the president surrounded himself with troops this past week to make a point >> whether in iraq oare in syria these terrorist also learn the same thing that the leaders of al qaeda already know, we mean what we say. >> we should take from that he means it when he says he will degroid and destroy isis and he means it when he says this. >> the american forces that have been deployed to iraq do not and will not have a combat mission. >> reporter: that unequivocal ruling out of a ground xwal rule came the day after the chairman of the joint chiefs told congress he'd consider recommend ing ground troops if they failed. how do they explain at the white house public disagreement with the generals? >> you have to look very closely at the specific words that both general dempsey and president obama are using. when the president says i will not send troops in with a combat mission, he means he's not going to send them in looking like it looked in 2003 in iraq. t

now it turns out, "the washington post" is first to report the man was not tackled as soon as he entered the north portico doors of the white house. he made it quite a bit farther than that. now if you aren't an architect or used to looking at plans or if you aren't visually minded like me it can be a little hard to visualize the interior of somebody's house when it's a big oversized historic fancy house. this san architectural cutaway of the first floor of the white house. this from the white house historical association. if you want to look at it an this map, these cut-off pillars represent the north portico where the guy entered. in the initial version of the story, when omar gonzalez was tackled just inside the doors of the north portico that would have meant he ran inside that door there and was tackled just inside that door just inside the white house. roughly right around where that circle is. today we learn that is not at all where omar gonzalez was tackled. instead, he overpowered a secret service agent who was standing there when he got there. the secret service agent was not a

"the washington post" has a article that suggests, titled, obama losing walmart moms. his support among, the women who were described as walmart moms the last time around has plummeted significantly and it is said that security and concerns about it are, is a big part of the reason why. >> well at this point in the game that is not the kind of poll necessarily keep up white house aides at night, not nearly as much as it keeps up senate democratic campaign aides across the country. if you follow the campaigns the republicans are working very hard to tie their democratic opponents to president obama, particularly in red states where they're trying to necessarily run away from president obama. so by doing this, anything that looks bad for president obama could possibly reflect on these red state democrats. so if i were a campaign aide right now in, say, arkansas, or kentucky, i would be looking at that poll and being very nervous, not nearly as much possibly as the white house is, especially this part in president obama's tenure. jon: daniel, that article in the "washingt

i'm thankful for the "washington post" reporting. the best i can tell, as well as the article in "the washington post" the event in 2011 were eight shots were fired at the white house, no less than five secret service agents reported they thought they heard shots fired. you had someone on twitter report they saw somebody who shot at the white house. blocks away moments later someone crashes a vehicle and an assault rifle is in there in the secret service is on the scene and no one ties them together. i don't understand that. later, the arlington county police detain this person. he had been positively identified based on the vehicle but no one put it into the system to put him on the watch list. consequently when arlington county police pulled him over they took his picture and let him go. it was only the pennsylvania police five days later that find the person. now he is serving 25 years in jail but could have done a lot more damage. if the director is going to take full responsibility, i think the opening statement should also talk