. >> also of note today, more staff shake-ups in the west wing. the president removed the inspector general who would have led the committee overseeing the $2 trillion coronavirus package. the acting navy secretary resigned today days after relieving a respected navy aircraft carrier captain of his duties. yesterday thomas modly suggested captain brett crozier had been stupid and naive when he voiced concern over the spread of the virus on the "teddy roosevelt" and for his crew. and trump has yet another new press secretary, though you'd be forgiven if you didn't know the departing press secretary. most americans could not identify her from a photo. stephanie grisham served as press secretary for nine months without ever giving a press briefing. as for her replacement, what we know so far is she is on message when it comes to trump's handling of the coronavirus. the woman on the right in this video is a now-fired fox news anchor. the woman on the left, who you'll hear defending trump, she would be the new press secretary. >> this president will al

these are the words of people in the west wing who we spoke to. and this was sort of written off just as another one of peter navarro's, you know, concerns or some people would describe thema as conspiracy theories. and he wasn't really a voice that was being listened to in the west wing. well, this is the one time he was, you know, kind of right on target. but i will say he wasn't the only one in the administration who was sounding the alarms on this when they saw an entire city of millions of people in china locked down. you didn't necessarily have to be, you know, a public health expert to understand that maybe there was something going on there. i mean there have been reports by my colleagues and others about, you know, reports coming out of the army, reports coming out of the intelligence community, that all predicted that this is something really serious that could be coming to the u.s. and we've asked the president about those before, and he's, you know, continued to say that either he wasn't aware of them or, as we heard today, that he was

right by the entrance to the basement of the west wing hubbard had parked his car. i noticed he'd left his keys in it. i got in it and moved it up west executive drive. now, remember, to park on west executive drive, you have to be a senior aide to the president. you go through three checkpoints manned by people with automatic weapons. your car is swept for bombs and you pass over some kind of devees embedded in the -- device embedded in the concrete that i don't know what it does. maybe it x-rays you, i don't know. this is very secure. i took the car and drove it up west executive drive about 75 yards. after the 9/11, they had four trucks, looked like ice cream trucks that were parked at the four corners of the complex and sampled the air for chemical and biological agents. it was just large enough that when i parked the car behind it in a vacant space, you couldn't see it in the west executive entrance. so i wasn't there, but i have eyewitnesses who said at the end of the day, hubbard came out, took a look around, couldn't see his car, took out his flip phone, hit

right by the entrance to the basement of the west wing, he parked his car and he knows he left his keys in it. so i got it and moved it up west executive drive. remember, to park i was executive drive you have to be a senior aide to the president, you go through three checkpoint manned by people with automatic weapons. your carcass went for months and you pass over some kind of a device embedded in the concrete that i don't know what it does but maybe it x-rays you, i don't know. this is very secure. i took the car and drove it up w. executive dr. about 755 yards and after 9/11 they had the sniffer trucks, they look like ice cream trucks that were part at the corners of the complex and a sample the ever chemical and biological agents. it was just large enough when i parked the car behind it in the vacant space you can see from the west executive entrance. i wasn't there but i eyewitnesses who said at the end of the day hubbard came up, took a look around and couldn't see his car took out his flip phone commit the speed dial to his assistant and said my car to my car is gone. they have s

and it's just constantly an evolving relationship between east and west wing. and sometimes, in some cases it's better than others. but i think that -- i tones think it's any secret that mrs. nixon was frustrated at times. maybe whether her position would be heated or not. but it didn't stop her from doing what came natural to her and what she felt she can do to make a contribution. so, i would say my experience with this, too -- and mrs. bush was the same way -- i remember when i interviewed with her to be her chief of staff, and first thing she said to me was "i'm not here for myself. i'm here for george and because of george." and with that, that message -- that helped me as a chief of staff get access to the assets and the things that i needed to help her help him. and people knew that. and for that reason, too, we had a successful run i think for her first lady. >> you and maybe susan rose and maybe others became, actually took the title assistant to the president, which was the highest ranking position within the white house. >> right. >> top staff level.

thnavarro, we don't know if donald trump read these two memos after they circulated inside west wing. this is what he said. >> we think we have it very well under control. very little problem in this country. five. we pretty much shut it down coming in from china. >> the virus -- lot of people think it goes away in april with the heat. >> you have a very small number of people in the country right now with it, around 12, many of them are getting better, some of them are fully recovered. we're finding very little problem. now you treat this like a flu. when you have 15 people and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down close to zero. it's going to be disappear. one day it's like a miracle it will be disappear. now the democrats are politicizing the coronavirus and this is their new hoax. jonathan, it speaks for itself. but the idea that donald trump didn't know what he was possibly dealing with, what this country was about to face coming from the intelligence community, coming from anthony fauci, i'm sure it was coming from secretary azar now we know it was coming from trump

west. east wing and west wing. and anita, does it come with the territory? >> it's just sort of -- it's just natural. i mean, it's constantly evolving. my experience with working in the white house and working both west wing and east wing is that a lot of the way this is handled, it comes from the leadership at the top. and i think the way for mrs. nixon, the way she comported herself as she was there to support the president of the united states. she was going to take her personal interests and her own character and her integrity and do what she could to be a representative of the president and a representative of the american people. and i think people respected that in the white house. and it's just constantly an evolving relationship between east and west wing. and sometimes in some cases, it's better than others. but i think -- i don't think it's any secret that mrs. nixon was frustrated at times. maybe whether her position would be heeded or not, but it didn't stop her from doing what came natural to her and what she felt she could do to make a contrib

he's seen as someone on the inside of the west wing as a possible fall person because of the way he approached president trump in february and march. his allies, to be clear, think he has done everything in his power to respond to this pandemic and the white house says he has not, at least at the moment, on his way toward the exit door. shows you how much debate there is inside the cabinet but who is responsible and when the public does start to roar even more about how this was handled, who will put out there as a target

when theodore roosevelt becomes president in 1901, one of the things he's going to do is build the west wing. he'll demolish the conserve toer and greenhouses off to the west and they'll build the first iteration of the west wing. and in that west wing he won't have an oval office, will yarm howard taft introduces that later. but the cabinet room will be moved over there and really then the white house becomes more -- at least the second floor is more of a home as opposed to being a shared space for most of 19th century. >> that's the subject of your next book, i've heard. the renovation of the white house. what aspects are you looking at? >> i really want to tell the story of the renovation through the roosevelt family because i think there's a misconception that theodore roosevelt did everything himself. but actually edith roosevelt contributed to a lot of his ideas and policies. in fact, when they moved into the white house they drew a diagram of where the children were sleeping on the second floor and then she put her office, which was the second floor oval room and it's right next door

mcfarland, former national security advisor who was there in the west wing during all of this.s all also the author of the great new book, trump and washington, we the people. i'd like to begin by playing the jim comey sound bite that congressman jordan just referred to because it happened as i said while you were part of this team. let's watch this. >> you look at this white house now and it's hard to imagine two fbi agents ending up in the same room. how did that happen? >> i sent them. it's something i wouldn't have done or gotten away with in a more organized investigation were organized administration. the fbi wanted to send agents into the white house itself and you would work through the white house counsel and i thought early enough, let's just send a couple of guys over. >> martha: let's just send a couple guys over. and then everyone in the audience there, or everyone, but enough people you could hear all laughed and chuckled. it's a very smug moment katie and he is obviously very tickled with himself and, the trump administration which you are are part of work disorg

within the west wing. we don't know whether the president saw it.indicates at the upper level the government some officials were aware in late january that something bad could be coming to the u.s. at a time when president is down playing it. >> he's saying no one could have predicted this. but his trade advisor predicted it. >> his own trade advisor predicted it and warned that there could be serious ramifications for the u.s. if more was not done. compared the coronavirus to previous pandemic viruss around the globe. he talked about why it was a potential threat. and again he went over in terms of the loss of life estimate and the potential cost. and put the cost in the trillions. as we know we are now in the trillions of dollars. of economic burden caused by the attempts to deal with the coronavirus. it raises questions about who saw the memo, what they made of it. whether the president was aware of it. again i think it's important to note that a number of people who were familiar with what was taking place at the time argue that in hindsight it

clinton: now, the bloomberg party is also a cast party for the stars for the west wing.ho are celebrating the end of their first season. you will have to forgive me if i'm not as excited as everyone else is at the thought of a west wing finale party. but i have to give them credit. their first season got a lot of better ratings than minded. not to mention the reviews. the critics hated my travel episode. gergen cameo fell completely flat. i'mking of real life drama, so glad that senator mccain is back. i welcome him especially. [applause] fmr. pres. clinton: as you all , he just made a difficult journey back to a place where he endured unspeakable abuse at the hands of his oppressors, the senate republican caucus. [laughter] fmr. pres. clinton: i am glad to see that senator mccain and governor bush are talking about -- thinking about, talking about healing. i would really like to help them. i've got a lot of experience. i've worked with catholics and protestants in northern island. i've worked with israelis and palestinians with joe lockhart and david westin. [laughter]

succession, i‘m old enough to have enjoyed west wing for example, when it came out and there was suchut, stephen, it is not all about. it is about reflecting the time and we are in a very confused time. people like logan roy, he is a self—made man, and this is the thing him and i have in common, he is self—made. he has power and avarice and he is a nihilist, very much a nihilist. and he cannot express, he loves his children and i asked jesse armstrong that question and i asked him, "does he love his children?" and he said ‘yes‘, he certainly loves his children but he has a funny way of expressing it. and i don‘t want to play the psychiatrist with you but it strikes me, you are a self—made man and logan roy is the same. you have had four kids and those kids have been brought up in a very different environment from yourself. are you saying to me that you, like logan roy, fear that your kids have been brought up in an environment where they have been made spoilt and soft? is that the experience of the modern child of a successful parent? i think that is a, there is the possibility of tha

what they will build is the first iteration of the west wing. he will not have an oval office and the william howard taft introduces that later. that is where the president's office will be. the cabinet room will be moved over. the white house becomes more, at least the second floor, more of a home as opposed to being a shared space for much of the 19th century. >> that is a subject of your next book i have heard. what aspects of it will you be looking at? >> i want to tell the story of that renovation through the roosevelt family. because i think there is a misconception that theodore roosevelt did everything himself. actually, edith roosevelt contributes to a lot of his different ideas and policies. when they moved into the white house, she drew this diagram of where the children were sleeping on the second floor. she put her office, which was the second floor oval room, and it is next door to the president's office. they shared a door. when he goes down to see the digging of the panama canal, who does he bring with him? edith roosevelt. in te

it is constantly an evolving relationship between the east and west wing and in some cases it is better than others. i don't think there's any secret that mrs. nixon was frustrated it did not stop her from doing what came next to her and what she felt she could do to make a contribution, so i would say my experience was the same way and i remember when i interviewed with her, the first thing she said is not here for myself, i'm here for george and because of george and with that, it helped me get access to the things i needed to help and people knew that and for that and for that reason we had a successful run. >> at some point you and others got the title assistant to the president. there was some recognition in the east wing had a voice and had a role to play. >> during the early days, k anderson writes that no first lady had a more fraught relationship with west wing than pat because bob wanted to run everything. you came to the white house after they were gone, i think. >> i miss them. >> there were those in the administration who clearly saw how important she was. she actually wrot

the foregrounds dominated about think crane used in the construction of the treasury building's west wing. wait this is expansion of t treasury building that necessitated the removal of the original white house flower garden. and for the rest the 19th century, there really were no ornamental gardens on the white house grounds. no real flower gardens in the way we think of them today. and why would that be? well, frankly, because the president and their families didn't have any outdoor space to plant such a garden. that is no private outdoor space to plant such a garden. the north grounds were open to the public as jefferson intended but the south grounds were also used as public park land which as you will recall was not part of the original plan. so instead with, the construction of the white house conservatory, the flower garden simply moved indoors at the white house. it became a private space for the first family to enjoy out of public view. this is very early photograph of the white house conservatory which is obviously this large glass building here. it was steamy and exotic. absolu

joining us live from his office in the west wing vice president mike pence. mr. vice president, welcome back to fox news sunday. >> good morning, chris. chris: i want to start with those growing protests across the country against the stay at home orders. some of the protestors ignoring social distancing. what do you think specifically of their protests and how they are carrying them out? >> well, first, let me say from the moment president trump asked me to lead the white house coronavirus task force two months ago, he made it clear that we had one objective and that was to save lives, and in the intervening 2 months the american people have stepped forward, have embraced the social distancing, have done the mitigation efforts and as we sit here this morning, we continue to see encouraging results, declining cases, declining hospitalizations because of what the american people have done and because of the president's leadership and what governors have done around the country, we are slowing the spread, we are hastening the day when we can put the coronavirus in

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that was sent by one of the president's sort of most ideological partners as it were inside the west wingwere it to come from the intelligence community or from public health experts, people that the president routinely dismisses, you might somehow understand why it was being ignored. but this came from the president's trade adviser, the guy who has been his right-hand man who views the world very similarly, certainly as it relates to china. it was written and shared on the 29th of january. just the next day the president would say that things were totally under control. his exact language was "we will have it under control," he said. so the bottom line is this was the first and the highest level alert where the alarms were sounded inside the west wing about the potential of a pandemic and the potential for a half million lives to be lost. there was even a second memo that followed to talked about the potential -- the risk if there wasn't an effort to create enough supplies, personal protective equipment and other things that were necessary, and funding as well. >> how much is it possible

they're in the west wing working every day. the joint chiefs of staff are in pentagon working every day. every cabinet member is working day. i just say that to note other people are able to get their with appropriate changes and appropriate precaution. i rule nothing in or out. i look forward to listening to our colleagues. think we're capable of working the house of representatives, and i will be cautious about giving up procedures and that are 230-plus years old. madam speaker, we're here today creates er a rule that speaker pelosi's proposed select ommittee on the coronavirus pandemic. earlier this month, speaker pelosi announced she would reate this select committee conveniently ignoring that any such select committee must be established through the rules and ultimately through a vote on the house floor. yesterday, the rules committee on extremely short notice to essentially rubber stamp the action.s this was particularly egregious considering that up until right we had absolutely no details on the proposal. n the last mon

so right now, the thinking is perhaps both of them could be coming back to the west wing.anie grisham actually wore many hats. director of communications, press secretary. so perhaps those two could come in, one serving as press secretary, one serving as a communications advisor. we were an official announcement will be made soon. >> sandra: as we await that, there were reports about white house trade advisor peter navarro, warning the trump administration of the impact of the pandemic coming. what are we learning on that and what are we learning actually took place from what was said or written? >> so this is actually first reported by "the new york times," the white house trade advisor peter navarro circulated to memos within the west wing, one in january and one in february. they have confirmed the one in february in which peter navarro warned that he believes the coronavirus could kill as many as 2 million americans who sent another memo, that january memo predicting that the virus could cause close to $6 trillion. larry kudlow was asked about it and said he never saw

>> kim, the navarro memo lands in the west wing. it's the next day that these limited flight restrictions are put into effect on china. i believe "the new york times" has reported there were 11 categories of exceptions. i believe "the times" has reported an additional 40,000 people came after the restrictions still from china. the way they have pushed back on the president's use of the phrase he closed the borders, which is not true. do we think there is the possibility the president was verbally briefed, that he truly did not read this document until the last 24-hour period? >> well, there's been reporting since before the president assumed office that he is not a big reader, even of his daily briefing materials that he's often given them if he considers them at all, it is orally. and so having not been in the room i don't know. but it seems clear from everything that the president has said and done since january with respect to the coronavirus, first dismissing it, saying it would just be a handful of people, would go from 15 to 0

being created to deal with this pandemic economic fallout, but there were no details on that in the west wing today. the president is eager to get americans back to work, yet there's still not the necessary capacity to test, track, and trace everyone exposed to this virus despite what the president says from the podium. >> we passed 2 million tests completed in the united states, first time. most anywhere in the country. it's a milestone for our country. it's a milestone anywhere. our tests are highly sophisticated and highly accurate. >> again, this bears repeating. as of tonight, less than 1% of the u.s. population has been tested. that means we still have no real idea how many americans are walking around with this virus. there's also concern tonight about the nation's next metropolitan hot spots -- chicago and boston as well as the nation's capital and surrounding areas. the virus continues to take hold in rural america too just as more small hospitals across our countryside are closing. it is clear the nation has a way to go before declaring this battle won, and dr. tony fauci warns it's

there is always tension between the east and west wings. even just during those jobs it's hard to imagine. and then not being able to speak publicly. after that first performance, he came back on monday and held a press conference and this time he had a suit that fit a little better and made him look a little bit taller. a few things. and he came out and when he called on me, i asked him if question which by the way i asked almost the same question when he became press secretary but there was the need to ask the question in light of what happened can you clarify this if youityour intention to always tl the truth from the podium or the truth as far as you know it and he said yes. but for some reason he took offense to that and thought i was questioning his integrity. it sets off set off a whole sef events and there is a whole series of things that are quite a time. there were some pretty dramatic scenes to describe in the book about that relationship. >> i had the same encounter once with the venerable white house correspondent for years and

>> well, we've seen such a sea change in the west wing. there's a turbulent sense of negotiations and discussions inside of the white house because it was only a week ago today that the president was thinking about reopening the economy by easter. then he came around after data was shown to him last weekend, and so now he's in this mind-set that he has to follow the advice of the health officials in his administration. but he's watching that economy and those stock market numbers as closely as anyone. and when i'm talking to white house officials, they say he of course like every american is uneasy about the tragedy on the health front that's only mounting, but also the economic front because he sees that so closely tied to his own re-election chances. >> anne, is it too early to say that the lockdown in california, in the los angeles metro area, has reduced the effect of the approaching coronavirus and/or where do you see the peak arriving in our major metropolitan centers? >> quite frankly, it's impossible to say where we are on this cur

we worked with the first lady's office and with some of the policy makers from the west wing on what they wanted that to be. the national park service put in this pollinator garden. the focus of it is mid atlantic natives to support our native pollinator's as well as honeybees. that was planted in spring planting in 2014. here is bo to give us a hand. the first lady planted this with school children as well. it has turned out to be a beautiful garden ever since. it is a nice showpiece on the north side of the kitchen garden. as i said the garden has grown over the years. in 2016 when mrs. obama realized she was leaving, she really wanted to make the garden more permanent. like i said, it was always meant to be something the american public can relate to. now she was thinking this garden could be here long time. we did not know who the next administration was. they could tear it out or keep it, but she wanted to make sure it had an important -- importance. so some of the elements that were there, a small picnic table and the paths were taken, and a patio was designed by architect stud

that comes after the very heated debate inside the west wing what to do about this. you had officials telling the president to put out this guidance, that it will help stop the spread of the coronavirus, and you had other people telling the president that it the going to lull americans americans into a false sense of security. they are actually going to go out and further threaten the supply of these medical-grade masks. obviously the larger question coming out of this, the president saying he's not going to follow it, does his own action undercut the guidance from the cdc? a lot of times people take cues from the president. >> so, listen, about this national stay-at-home order after dr. fauci called for one. why is the president ignoring experts' opinions here? that's for you, kaitlan. >> that's a really good question. that's a -- that's a great question because you saw fauci on cnn just last night saying he doesn't understand why there are states that have been reluctant to do this. belatedly doing this. my home state of alabama finally did it today after a lot of

i took pictures, it was surreal. >> bill: how is it walking into the west wing today?agical, totally magical spending the day with the president of the vice president has been an amazing experience for us. >> i have no words other than much gratitude and appreciation for the work they are doing for our country. i hope people see it. >> well done. nice to see you back together. from the diamond princess cruise ship to the white house. thank you both. the other side of corona sure looks better than the other stuff. >> bill: thank you for coming back and sharing your story. the president is meeting with health care executives in a moment. we will see what he has to say about that. in the meantime, here monday through friday at 3:00 eastern. set your dvr and never miss a report. in the meantime, the stock market is looking ahead. and that's good. here's neil. see you tomorrow. >> neil: the president is gathering with health care executives at the white house. he met earlier today with half a dozen covid-19 survivors, many of whom say that they like the direction this is go

and a couple of enterprising park service engineers ran a chilled copper water line through the west wing offices and injur jerigged a system to tent. an afternoon rainstorm knocked out some of the television cameras so the live coverage was not the greatest. but they did broadcast the queen dancing with the president to the tune of "the lady is a tramp." certainly an unfortunate choice by the band but something we can laugh about today. for two centuries, the white house garden and grounds, as you learned from all the speakers today, have served as family space, hosted official and public ceremonies and world events and they still serve in those roles. over the last 30 plus years a new dimension has emerged. that of a high security compound after the bombing of the marine barracks in lebanon in 1983 a series of walls and planters were constructed as measures to prevent the penetration by bomb laden trucks. this bought time before they could design a more permanent solution that fit within the historic landscape design. the goal was to achieve a balance between physical security measures,

. >> it's the memos that warned the west wing.ues, jonathan swan and margaret, about who memos shared with the west wing in late january and february, warning about the damage of the coronavirus pandemic and what it could cause the united states. these memos were sent by the trade adviser, peter navarro. the first one, he warned the virus could kill up to 1 million people in the united states and do $6 trillion in damage to the u.s. economy. he followed that up with another memo in late february, increasing the death toll and laying out all the equipment shortages likely to be faced in a broad, long-lasting pandemic, protective gear, ventilators, masks. why this matters, the internal mem ros are in sharp differenceo what the president was saying at the time. he said the pandemic would be likely short lived, wouldn't draggen on, and the stock marke would be open. a white house official was warning about the pandemic growing. the president did crack down on flights from china, one of his first moves. the memo shows far greater damag