i need young white men to not only get their messages about what it means to be white from white nationalists supremacists, i need them to get it from you. i need you a you can to to them about what it means to be white beyond a white supremacist frame. it's not easier for me as a black woman to have conversations with my son about what it means to be black. that didn't come with the black birth, we just do it because we have to. y'all have to do it, too. because your children are at risk. sometimes people think oh, they understand, black and brown kids are at risk for gang violence. your kids are at risk for joining a white supremacist moveme movement. i need you to start talking to them. and well should i end on a happy note? >> yes. >> well, i don't know. join forces. i think i'll echo what you said. this is hard work and this work, we're in it for the rest of our lives so i need you to join forces with other people so we can hold up one another when we get tired because we will. so look to your left, look to your right, see who is new who you can bring in your circle and do this hard work

>> yeah, so, when we talk about white supremacy -- white supremacy is an ideology that says white isormative, and there's a value judgment there. so white is normative and better than everything else. >> isn't white supremacy more of a call-out for violent racism? >> no, so, that's interesting, is that the way people think about white supremacy is normally rooted in things like lynching and enslavement. that is, like, how people think about it, but white supremacy shows up in a host of other insidious ways. so you think about -- funding for school systems is a great example. like, some kids aren't worth an investment, and some kids are certainly worth an investment, and that is about saying that, like, there's a set of people who just are worth more than other people. >> do you think that most people define it the way you define it? >> no, i don't know if, like, it is one thing. you are talking about the way that it manifests, which is different than the way we define it. so we live in a world where there are a host of things -- like band-aids are "skin tone" and don't look like my -

through the white house. and so mrs. bush had made sure that any of the resident's staff that were still working in the white house that had been there in the johnson time were there to greet mrs. johnson at the diplomatic reception room door when she stepped in. and in addition, one of the butlers that had worked for the johnsons, mr. german, was now a part-time elevator operator, operated the president's elevator in the white house, just a few days a week, mrs. bush made sure that he was there and that he was the one that greeted mrs. johnson when the door was opened of the car for her to get out. and the way that mrs. johnson reached up in recognition to embrace mr. german and how he embraced her, is really would just make you weep. but would also, the two last things that i'll just say about mrs. johnson's visit, her last visit to the white house, is, mrs. bush wheeled her into the vermeil room on the ground floor, which had just been repainted under one of the restoration projects that mrs. bush did, tha

-- into the white house. then there was one elevator to go up but those were very tiny. it was better than nothing. it worked for me very well. i was given an additional room, that was the chocolate room of the white house. so you see, everything is possible to give it time. and the white house, i always said, was a place made for me. i love to work there because they let me produce whatever i wanted to. but all my desserts had a significance in some way. >> sometimes, we had desserts from italy. i find something special around the town and that will be duplicated in the pastry of course. i did that all the time, all the time, all the time. one of the first ladies, she was great. i loved to work for her because she knew what she wanted. personally, you better do what she asks you to do and do it the right way. there is nothing wrong there. again, i love to work with people like this. i would rather do that then people who say i do not know. the last one with mrs. reagan, we were doing sunday noon at the white

this aggression served the white men's courage, but it also compelled white men to desert. without this spine, the official thought black men would not run from battle. others thought they would desert and do it constantly. writing home, evan said i thought it would be hard to keep new growth from running. in the end black men left the u.s. army at the same rate. the government calculated approximately 200,000 white and black soldiers deserted. of that 2000, 12,000 black men deserted. statistically than 67 black men for 1000 which was not far off from white men who deserted at 63 per 1000. but they saw this as a serious threat. project taken up by historians. during the war the government said white and black men deserted in high numbers because of a lack of discipline, excessive bounties and ineffective methods of capture, making them believe the army could not catch them. historians looking into the diaries, letters and lives of these men have discovered many reasons detailing the impulses that led white men to desert including a lack of commitment to the war and some wal

okay, let's start the egg white. whip the egg white. we were whipping the egg white at the time. and you know what? it never came up. i said, man. or different word. so, at the dinner, the white house takes a little bit less than an hour. we wash the bowl. start all over. it don't come up again. it's sticking. you know at the white house, when they come for dessert, you cannot say, i need another 10 minutes. you cannot do that. the only word the butler wants to hear is, speak up, now. so, we were cutting eggs again. washed the bowl. when i heard -- this is when i was still working in the main kitchen with the chefs. i heard executive chef about the mayonnaise they made on the machine that morning. do you know how many drops of oil it takes to mess up on those egg drops? one drop, two drops, that's it, forget it. they do the mayonnaise, but i didn't see it. i wasn't there when they did it appear so the oil splash on the machine. so, when you came with your merringue, you don't know what it is. when i heard them talking, i said, oh, my god, should i kick their ass now or later? i w

white house. we're going to keep our eye on. he's en route to the white house. we do not know the status, though, of his employment at this moment. there's a lot of confusion over rod rosenstein after that bombshell report coming out friday night in "the new york times" that rosenstein is offering up his resignation or if he's expecting to be fired or some combination of both. we're waiting for more detail on this. let's go, as we do that, let's get over to cnn's senior congressional correspondent manu raju on capitol hill. manu, you can be sure a lot of folks are not reacting yet because they don't know what they're going to be reacting to. but this potential has been a topic of conversation for months on capitol hill. >> yeah, no question about it. republicans have actually been urging the president not to take this step of firing rod rosenstein even after that "new york times" report from friday, saying that doing so right now would cause a major distraction for the party heading into the midte

kennedy had been to the white house. he reportedly believed himself that he had been picked for the court. but then at the very last minute, conservative staffers in the reagan white house intervened and said no, no. we have a different guy we would prefer for the seat. better choice. somebody we like more. and so this man, who you see here with reagan, douglas ginsburg, he jumped to the head of the line and he got the nomination. and then it all fell apart. reagan didn't get him on to the court. and immediately everybody started to try -- everybody started trying to figure out who they were going to blame in the reagan white house for this political disaster. >> president reagan today suffered his second defeat in trying to fill a seat on the u.s. supreme court when the man he nominated only nine days ago, douglas ginsburg, asked that his name be withdrawn. it was an embarrassing admission of marijuana use that doomed ginsburg. white house officials knew he could never win confirmation. the front-runner to become the ne

>> you mentioned something about renovating the white house. he renovated -- rather his wife renovated the white house, and they too moved out. >> but part of it later, i thought the west wing was created. >> it was created. i think somebody else mentioned it was called the executive mansion. he changed it to the white house. >> linda, what is the fondest memory of your father being president? when you think back on those years what do you enjoy the , most, or what is the best memory you have about it? >> i think when he went to the congress and ask them, it was bipartisan, he went and asked them to pass massive civil rights legislation. and i'm -- [applause] >> that wasn't easy for somebody whose best friends in the senate were not in favor of it, and had come from texas. why did he decide he wanted to do that? >> he knew it was the right thing. before he represented texas, he represented his constituency. time had changed. and he personally knew of discrimination. he'd seen it, not just with people who were african-american. but for instance,

that turned into white supremacists that turned into white power and then white pride now white nationalist, you know, they've gone from calling themselves racist so racialist, and so it's trying to bring their language closer and closer to something that -- mostly white americans who don't identify as racist can suddenly think ideas maybe are closer to some things that i could potentially believe. which is a really scary thing. even scarier, they've been very effective in those talking points. i think -- you know, be tempting to think of white nationalism or this kind of race nism our country is something that is propagated and furthered by small number of extremist. truth is in our country right now, polls king thely slow that about 30 to 40% of white people believe they experience more discrimination and greater victims than people of color and jews and that is wildly off-base by every statistical measure that we have. but fact that so many people have this false sense of grievance is something that white nationalist and other people in these positions try to play toward to bring them mo

. >>> white lives matter. white lives matter. >> hate is on the rise in america. >> bans on white. >> it's emboldened. >> the war on whites is real. >> normalized. >> the government is nothing compared to the jewish menace. >> and destroying lives. >> this is why -- >> there are people who will say once a nazi always a nazi, and that you can't change who you are. >> but i know change is possible. from the age of 14 to 22, i helped build america's first neo nazi skinhead organization. i believed diversity was a code word for white genocide, that jews controlled the media, immigrants were raping our women and i was going to save the world. recruiting vulnerable kids and transforming them into violent extremists like me. but now instead of pulling people into hate, i'm guiding them out. >> that's a pretty scary thing. i know how easy it is to get sucked into this movement. >> i hated people messing with me. before i was just gabe. now i'm gabe the skinhead and everybody respects me and fears me. >> it happened to

in a new report by motherboard, leaked documents show facebook bans white supremacy but allows whitenationalism and white separa separatism. it suspect always associated with racism. jason kebler is the site's editor in chief. thank you for being here. most people in my audience didn't know there was a distinction between white supremacy, white nationalism and the way facebook looks at it. why do they look at it like they do. >> facebook makes these distinctions because they're trying to figure out a way to decide what's allowed on facebook and what is not. they don't want to alienate some customers which might be white nationalists, white supremacists, decided to draw the line, and facebook makes this distinction even though black history and experts don't, civil rights groups don't, and white nationalism is actually just a veil. >> they use real people to determine what does and doesn't go on with computer systems, most are here in the united states. how is someone able. can you explain to my audience or was someone able to explain what an example of white nationalism is that doesn

house and the white house's credibility from the white house. both are under siege today. there's very little trust in the press and there's very little trust among some, anyway, in the information that's coming from the white house. i certainly remember when i was at the white house and when i was bureau chief at cnn, if the president said something or a press secretary would say something that was mistaken or a misstatement there was an effort to quickly correct the record. i remember marlin fitzwater would walk around with his big cigar that he wouldn't light and he would actually walk through the press office and say, what i said or what the president said, let me just tweak that. there was a very good relationship there and he got a lot of credit for that. but we are not at that place now. i mean -- and now there is a very particular and personal and some would say grandstanding environment around this. where do you see this question of credibility now in terms of, again, plugging this into all the technology that we've got and the cameras

first up, cnn's chief white house correspondent jim acosa, this book must be rocking the white house right now. >> reporter: there is certainly fear inside the white house over this book, wolf. the white house released a statement this afternoon slamming the book. sarah huckabee sanders saying, quote, this book is nothing more than fabricated stories many by former disgruntled employees told to make the president look bad but the book is the latest deep dive into the trump white house full of bombshells that reveal top administration officials are worried, deeply worried about the president's behavior. >> hello, bob. >> president trump, how are you? >> reporter: before the release of his new book on the trump white house, entild, fear, bob woodward managed to get the president on the phone. mr. trump's assessment of the woodward book, not good. >> sounds like this is going to be a bad one. >> reporter: there are devastating episodes throughout the book. woodward explains how the president's former lawyer john dowd attempted to do a mock interview with mr. trump to demonstrate how he

and white house officials saying that he was coming to the white house to resign. so neither of these two -- beneath neither of those statements is -- one or the other is right, they can't both be true. and they could reach some sort of compromise in which rosenstein agrees to stay on for some period of time. this is not merely the fact that this is the number two official at the justice department, that this is the official since the beginning that brought in robert mueller to be the special counsel and that he supervisors the special counsel's investigation. if rosenstein does end up leaving, we're told that the day to day supervision of the mueller investigation will fall to the tony general, who's not acting in -- and now we have noel francisco, who is now the u.s. solicitor general, who's basically the top courtroom advocate and the deputy attorney general's other work would wibe taken over by a man named ed o'callaghan, who is the so-called -- he's a long time federal bruprosecutor in new yo and also here in the main justice and national security division. so

bush white house. to garrett graff, cnn contributor, who knows a lot about these folks running in these circles. washington, d.c., is a big city, but it's also a small town. you tell me more about francisco and who he knows if he steps into this role? >> noel francisco, the solicitor general, which is the person that argues on behalf of the u.s. government in front of the u.s. supreme court. it's one of the most storied roles in washington. it's right down to the traditional long-tailed garb, the formal morning jackets that the solicitors general wear at the supreme court. but this is someone who is well known in washington. someone who is one of the government's and sort of the most renowned conservative legal appellate yourists in the city. and someone who worked for george w. bush, both in the white house and in the office of legal counsel, which is one of those little known entities outside of washington that is effectively the in-house law firm for the justice department from 2003 to 2005, where h

lincoln used to drive goats down a corridor in the white house. amy carter roller skated in the east room. alice roosevelt gambled, partied and was even seen wearing a live snake. this led her father teddy r roosevelt to say i can be president of the united states or i can control alice. i cannot possibly do both. many presidential have gone on to great things, two presidential children have later become presidents themselves. other children of presidents and their children have made contributions to american life representing a wide variety of fields including educators and enlt faentertainers, activities and artists. steve ford even became a national villian as the boyfriend who broke meg ryan's heart in "when harry met sally." we've been honored to have over 40 descendents of american presidents join us. the unique representatives are from james monroe to george w. bush. and amazingly, it's going to be here in a few minutes, but we'll be a few degrees removed from the tenth president of the united states john tyler. he served from 1841 to 1845.

you know, in the white house i was in, and previous white houses.ople who had a longstanding association with a president there. there were bonds of trust that he simply hasn't had. other than with his own children, his daughter, and son-in-law, perhaps that's one of the reasons why he wanted him there. but it's very hard to run the united states government like your family business. and you need to rely on others and this is just a very toxic environment. >> you know, one of my favorite shows it on the weekend now, don't tell fareed, it's "the axe files." >> thank you, sir. i appreciate that. >> thank you. mr. david axelrod. enjoy l.a., whatever you're doing there. thank you. >> i will. >>> as the president rails against the writer tonight, is that writer courageous or is that writer a coward? ♪ introducing e*trade personalized investments professionally managed portfolios customized to help meet your financial goals. you'll know what you're invested in and how it's performing. so you can spend more time floating about on your inflatable swan. [din

>> commissioner hayes-white: no. so in comparison to about 383 last year. >> commissioner covington: well, it's wonderful that all of these cranes are out and about in the city so that we can get the money that we need for fleet and new hires and all of that. i believe that chief gonzales, two weeks ago, said that the person who was being interviewed for the grant writer position, that that person had been tendered an offer. is that correct or no? >> commissioner hayes-white: chief nicholson will respond. >> deputy chief nicholson. so i misspoke last time. we have two 18-23 positions that are open. one had been open from someone who retired, and one is the new one that was funded. so the retired person is the -- that's the person that we have interviewed for and tendered an offered to. >> commissioner covington: so it's not the grant writing position. >> no, but that person certainly does have some grant writing skills, as well, but it will also be under director corso, mark corso, but it was not the position that wa

anita mcbride's career relating to the white house and the presidency spans more than 30 years as a white house adviser, chief of staff, and diplomatic adviser. currently, she is executive in residence at the center for congressional and presidential studies in the school of public affairs at american university in washington where she directs programming on the legacies of america's first ladies and their historical influence on politics, policy, and global diplomacy. anita served as an assistant to president george w. bush as well as chief of staff to first lady laura bush. she directed the first lady's travel to 67 countries in 4 years to support foreign policy objectives and human rights, women's empowerment, global health, and education. she's a member of the u.s.-afghan women's council, the international republican institute's women's diplomacy network, the national italian-american foundation, and most importantly, a board member of the white house historical association and chair of the committee that organized the presidential sites summit. mark is an author, presidential histori

former nixon white house counsel john dean joins us next. whenshe was pregnant,ter failed, in-laws were coming, a little bit of water, it really- it rocked our world. i had no idea the amount of damage that water could do. we called usaa. and they greeted me as they always do. sergeant baker, how are you? they were on it. it was unbelievable. having insurance is something everyone needs, but having usaa- now that's a privilege. we're the baker's and we're usaa members for life. usaa. get your insurance quote today. >>> president trump wants to know who wrote that resistance on ned the "new york times." the "new york times" reports that the white house has a list of about 12 potential suspects. so listen to what senator rand paul suggests they do to unmask the author. >> i think if you have a security clearance in the white house, i think it would be acceptable to use a lie detector test and ask people whether or not they're talking to the media against the policy of the white house. >> some say not since the nixon white house have we seen th

which is that today with his white house in crisis over people within the white house expressing their dissatisfaction with the trump administration that when they have a meeting about that and when they have a discussion about that and when they reduce their suspect list to 12, that it is immediately leaked to "the new york times" that their suspect list has been reduced to 12. >> yeah. you know, of course it's also in their interest, perhaps, to make clear that anybody that might think about doing the same thing as this author that they are doing to respond, right? a white house wants to have discipline. they don't have any discipline, as we see in this white house at the moment. so they're trying to basically send a signal this will not be tolerated. there will be repercussions for anybody that might think about it. you can play it out a couple different ways. it is not clear whether this list or the idea of it will go any where. it is an indication of just how, you know, anxious in exercise this white house is, particularly because you have a president raging in volcanic terms abou

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and by the way, white supremacists, be original, right, this is not the white power sign, this is okays what the sign means. you can't just take a sign everybody knows and say it means something new. this means okay. just like this means i approve, not white people are number one, okay. like stop trying to make people accidental racist, if white supremacists want a hands sign, just make one up for yourself like every other gang member does in the country, and it has to be new and elaborate. like there is no doubt. here is one to try, cross your middle finger and ring finger on your left hand and stick your right thumb up your butt and then when we see that he, we can all agee oh, that'ses that as the master race, i like that. now yesterday was devoted just to opening statements. today the senators asked brett kavanaugh questions about his positions on various legal issues. and brett kavanaugh avoided answering them. >> the president has the ability to pardon somebody in exchange for a promise to that person, they wouldn't testify against him. >> sir, i'm not going to answer a hypotheti

certainly there is an effort in the white house to do that. but no else -- there is no suggestion they are going to do anything at the department of justice. the department of justice is not going to comment publicly one way or the other, but people we've talked to around the white house does not suggest that the department of justice is going to step in. there's nothing illegal here, there's no classified information being disclosed. therefore, they're going to try to slow walk this and not take the steps the president wants. so many times we've seen that and we've seen that with russia where trump speaks very positively about putin and the need to have these great relations. at the same time his administration is levying tough sanctions on moscow and threatening more going forward. we see it with north korea where sarah sanders talked about this letter kim jong-un received that was sent to him. a very nice letter, a very kind letter. let's talk about having another summit. and yet the administration has been warning that north korea has not

white house struggling to focus on the strong economy. the president mucking up the message with the false information forcing his top economists to come out and contradict the boss. trump wrote the gdp is higher than the unemployment rate in years. that is not true. it happened a lot of times. at the briefing, his top economist cleaned it up. >> what is true is that it's the highest in ten years and at some point somebody probably conveyed it to him adding a zero. they shouldn't have done that. at least numbers here at the white house and we are grateful. when the press finds mistakes, we are grateful. >> from the white house, they are grateful when the press finds mistakes from the president. you heard it here. it is not ten years. it is about 12 years. anyway, 56 days until the midterms. the economy should be a strong selling point. his tendency to exaggerate and embellish. he goes for superlatives. the best economy in history. you see the poll numbers. it is not translating outside of that specific point. >> i'll bathe in that for a w

judge kavanaugh was a senior lawyer in the white house. he advised the president on judicial nominations, provided legal advice on separation of powers issues, and handled litigation matters. as a supreme court has put it -- [shouting] -- >> unless the present can give his advisers some assurance of confidentiality, president could not expect to receive the full and strength summations of fact and opinions upon what's the effective discharge of his duties depend come in a quote. the issues judge kavanaugh worked on are the sort of issues that require according to the supreme court some assurance of confidentiality. we in the senate and everyone else in america expect exactly the same sort of confidentiality. most senators would not agree to turn over their staffs communication to anyone. for example, we didn't ask that judge cajuns records for her service be turned over duringg her nomination. and because of attorney-client privilege, everybody has a right to keep communications from their lawyers out of governments hands. we therefore did

is this just the white house being sloppy?cgahn who was the one who was pulling all the names and making the suggestions for supreme court nominees to the president as he did with neil gorsuch? >> i'm not sure what specific individual might be at fault, but what i can say is that this appears to be more of the same in terms of how this white house respects the vetting process. you know, when i was directing the office of presidential personnel i took the perspective that vetting our candidates was an essential part of the process. you learn a lot about how they are going to be acting in their prospective positions, how they will be dealing with a bureaucratic process that will test their patience and whether or not these are the sorts of individuals who the president wants to put his imprimeter on. that was important to us and president obama. it does not appear that the same is the case for this white house. remember, you're coming off a period of time where there have been background investigation issues previously with whit

whites are 14% less likely.mericans age 18 to 34 are 37% more likely to buy nike footwear, a group also more likely to support the kneeling protests. in 2018 where everything seems to be political, some voters are fine with companies entering the fray. data from the research firm sprout social shows that 78% of self-described liberals say it's important for brands to take a stand on social or political issues. while not as high, a majority of conservatives 52% say the same thing. so despite the outrage, the numbers suggest, number one, nike knows its consumer base is young, diverse and liberal, maybe they did a little research first. in fact, online sales for nike spiked 31% this week. i think they did their research this is a group more likely to view kaepernick as a cultural icon than a villain. >>> when we come back the midterm elections are coming up and there's only one thing that matters. >> announcer: coming up, end game and postgame, brought to you by boeing. continuing our mission to connect, protect, e

resistance at the white house. the fear, bob woodward's explosive new book describes a near mutiny in the white house against president trump. >> this woodward book is a total -- it's a total fraud. these people, libel laws, libel laws. >>> the resistance, an anonymous white house official writing that colleagues are working diligently from within to frustration parts of his agenda andist worst inclinations, the president calling on the justice department to investigate. >> i think it's a national security matter, they should look at it, they should look at it very strongly and we should find out who it is. >> is president trump in charge of his own white house? >>> plus the supreme court, brett kavanaugh says very little, while protesters and senators. >> there is clearly rule that applies. >> then apply the rule and bring the charges, bring it. >> take the spotlight. >>> my guests this morning, counselor to president trump, kellyanne conway, republican senator ben sasse of nebraska and democratic senator dick dur

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. >> he said, "it's from the white house." and i go, "talking about d.c. white house?" >> the white house neither confirms nor denies... >> what do you see? >> gold! [ laughs ] >> let's investigate! >> i scrape the paint layers down to the wood. >> and when you heard what it was worth? >> and sold! [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] >> i'm jamie colby, and today i'm in boston to meet an heir who has an inheritance so strange, it takes years just to figure out what it is. >> my name is mike meister. my siblings and i inherited something that goes back to our great-uncle more than a hundred years ago. we'd always been told that it came from the white house, but it was just a family story. hi, jamie. welcome to boston. >> thanks, mike. nice to meet you. >> yeah, nice to meet you, too. >> mike leads me inside, saying he has something amazing to show me. he keeps it in its own molded, air-tight protective case. can i take a look? >> sure can. >> you brought me all the way here, mike. this is... what is it? mike's strange inheritance is this piec

jeff zeleny, cnn, the white house. >> all right. so the anonymous writer isn't the only administration official out with an op-ed. nikki haley published her own in "the washington post" writing i too many a senior trump administration official. if i disagree with something and think it is important enough to raise with the president, i do it. and he listens. sometimes he changes course, sometimes he doesn't. that's the way the system should work. the author and frenzy media reaction to the op-ed hurts all of us who are trying to do our jobs for the country by throwing gas on a fire of endless distraction. on twitter, you called this anonymous op-ed a cry for help and its author a coward. so what do you think about nikki haley and what she wrote in "the washington post"? >> thank you, fredricka, for your question. let me first say the senior white house official has confirmed what books and articles have shown about the trump presidency, which is that donald trump is unfit for office. but i agree with nikki haley that the way the whi

we're getting mixed messages from the white house. president trump saying they have free rein to investigate whatever they need to. the scope of that investigation will be limited. kavanaugh and the gop, will the supreme court nominee help or hurt republicans come november and what the future of the party may look like if republicans go all in. he hasn't made it to the supreme court. >> i'm here tonight to tell you it was a con job orchestrated by the democrats and hillary clinton. i'm usually an optimist. i'm a keg is half full kind of guy. for what i've seen from the monsters make me want to puke and not from beer. >> president trump saying snl is no longer funny, no talent or charm. every someone a critic. >>> white house official confirms to nbc news that investigators were told to steer clear of kavanaugh accuser julie swetnick. officials telling nbc that fbi has not received new instructions after the white house counsel limited the scope of the inquiry. also off limits, kavanaugh former classmate who is contradict him on storie

he turned away from the white nationalist movement. i read eli's story back then and now he's telling a much fuller tale. this is one, i can't review it because it's a colleague that i'm absolutely going to read i . >> - - [indiscernible] >> this is a new generation of young civil rights activists. and the black lives matter movement. he is also a popular - - and cofounder of - -. this book is an activist guidebook, part memoir, part manifesto. it's interesting to see this young generation of civil rights activists were writing books and are thinking through their story. how is activism different today than the civil rights movement. >>. [indiscernible] >> i'm sure the book itself will cost $28 or something at the bookstore. but the feel was monumental. michelle obama and the fellow she married. her husband, they did joint book deal for reportedly around - - dollars. her book is coming out in november and his will, early next year i believe. hers is not just a white house memo but a story of her life. growing up in chicago. her experie

white nationalist policies, white nationalist sympathies, the president regularly employs white nationalists and outright white supremacist rhetoric like when he tweeted the lie about a genocide of white farmers in south africa and directed the state department to then investigate this white nationalist conspiracy theory. there are, i would wager, more outright white nationalists in this administration than there are black people. >> ian smith was a political appointee. this was not someone in the civil service, obviously? >> that's my understanding, yes. >> and so you've got a -- you've got people -- people think about who is in the white house but there are all kinds of people in the agencies and sort of at the top of the agencies that are the political folks. it's easy for them not -- like the times hadn't broken this, who knows how long he would have been there, i guess is my question. >> well, right. i mean, obviously he was not somebody who is particularly well known. i imagine that if i hadn't written the story he could have just continued to labor in obscurity. >> and again, labor in

by the white house.also possible the "times" getting played by the white house. maybe this is a white house endorsed effort to make the president seem so besieged from withinton justifies extreme action by the president to clean house and fire lots and lots of people without too much scrutiny on any one of those firings. there's no reason to think either of those things is what happened and no reason to think the "times" would have done anything other than their best due diligence on this in terms of figuring out the origins on this and not getting played or getting hoaxed. there's every reason to think it is what it appears to be. if it is what it appears to be, if this is a real senior administration official that feels the need to sound this alarm about what is wrong with the serving president, why are they making this public case now and what exactly are they trying to get us the public to do about it? you can snipe these sort of comments in gossip. you can make these sort of plans and plots among yo

[laughter] >> chief hayes-white: thank you. >> commissioner covington: chief hayes-white, i wanted to ask you about the -- let's see. i guess it's page 2. the wild land committee. can you tell us who is on the wild land committee? the members of that committee? >> chief hayes-white: we have several department committees. i don't have the members in front of me. i could probably get that. >> commissioner covington: it is just within the department. it isn't a larger committee? >> chief hayes-white: it is all internal department members. did you want to talk about -- we have division chief brook baker. are you one of the chairs? you are the chair? >> commissioner covington: please come forward. >> chief hayes-white: that's what you get for raising your hand but i appreciate it. relatively newly appointed division chief brook baker. you were deployed as well. oh we didn't. >> not yet. not this year. i just wanted to help answer the question as to the committee. >> commissioner covington: congratulations. i didn't see you hiding behind the other chief. [laughter] >> commissioner covington

who's the mole in the white house? what's going on in the white house? are they a coward, are they not a coward? this is the deflector in chief at his best. this is the strategy that is employed for everything! the mueller investigation. it's a perjury trap! everything is spun around to what else is the critical issue. the critical issue and the story here is the fact that there's a president that doesn't even have the confidence of people who work for him, right? this is not an attack that's coming from democrats or these leftists. it's an attack that's coming from within, and the op ed was riveting in that regard. but instead, the president speaks to, what errol was speaking to before in response to your question, is it a national security? was there a crime committed? that's not the point. and now it gets to the issue of the president is fuming, so he wants to interrogate everyone, he wants to weed out who it is and who it's not, and people saying, don't do this, because it's going to build to the story. but yet, he persists. it's just unbelievable ho

and white house aides believe they are close to naming the unnamed white house official.ho is it? >> if i knew that i think i would not be standing in front of the white house this morning, but a controversy over this op-ed continues to consume the white house. these denials are getting so extreme that we have had vice president mike pence agreeing to take a lie detector test to prove it was not him. the white house making an aggressive push to discredit the unnamed senior official that wrote the scathing "new york times" op-ed last week. >> if this person thinks they are being patriotic and not p pathetic, they should come forward. >> mike pence insisting he's 100% confident nobody in his office is the author. >> should all top officials take a lie detector test and would you agree to take one? >> i would agree to take one in a heartbeat and would submit to any review of the administration. >> one of the claims of the op-ed, there's discussion of removing the president from office. you have ever been a conversation about that? >> never. why would we be? >> more than 200

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the white house sets the parameters. the reason why this matters is the limited scope seems to be at odds with what some members of the senate judiciary committee expect when they agree to give the fwi the week to investigate the allegations. we have seen the white house defending brett kavanaugh and the entire confirmation process. kellyanne conway brought up her own history of sexual assault and defended brett kavanaugh. >> i feel very empathetic, frankly for victims of sexual harassment and rape. i'm a victim of sexual assault. i don't expect judge kavanaugh or jeff flake or anybody to be held responsible for that. you have to be responsible for your own conduct. >> it's the first time i heard you talk about something personal like that and i'm really sorry. you work for a president who said all the women who accused him are lying. >> don't conflate that with this and what happened to me. it would be a huge mistake. >> this other issue about the kavanaugh investigation, we asked him about the role in forcing the week

two women of color who had defeated long-serving white males in districts that have become majority non-whitequickly when you look at this, when you look at how pressley's doing there in summerville i've got to say this is a lot of -- this is not just people of color voting for ayanna pressley. i think there are a lot of white voters in this district too who looked at her and said you know, what maybe it's time, let's go with her. >> absolutely. and i know a lot of those white voters. she's a very popular politician in boston. steve kornacki, thank you very much for joining us. really appreciate it. coming up next, what could have been i think the most important moment today in brett kavanaugh's confirmation hearing. it was the moment he refused to shake the hand of a man whose daughter was killed in the mass murder at her high school in parkland, florida. that man, fred guttenberg, will join us. s. after walking six miles at an amusement park, bill's back needed a vacation from his vacation. so he stepped on the dr. scholl's kiosk. it recommends our best custom fit orthotic to relieve foot,

today white house press secretary sarah sanders was asked directly if the white house is trying to determinehe identity of that op-ed writer in "the new york times." she said this. we're certainly focused on things that actually matter. trying to down play all of it. one thing is clear, it matters to the president. he's been venting about it all weekend long. the white house tonight trying to move beyond a war within its own walls. >> it is, frankly, i think sad and pathetic that a gutless, anonymous source could receive so much attention. >> it's been 19 days since white house press secretary sarah sanders appeared at the podium. aides were seen cleaning it before she took questions in the briefing room for the first time since august 22nd. she wasted little time blasting bob woodward in his new book, fear that chronicles deep dysfunction inside the west wing. >> to not even take the time to get a $10 fact checker to fall around and verify the quotes, when no effort was made it seems a careless way to write the book. >> reporter: even if she tries to down play the book, it is the one-two pu

it's white guilt that keeps feeding that. what is white guilt?e think do i wake up in the morning and feel guilty about black americans? no. white guilt doesn't have anything to do with actual feelings of guilt. white guilt is the terror of being seen as a racist. as a bigot that now pervades american life, all our social policy, our culture, everything is touched by this anxiety in most of white america. understandably given america's history, that they're vulnerable, they have this vulnerability to being disarmed of moral authority. by being called a racist. i can use it as a weapon. can i say, you know, i went on the levin show. let me tell you how i was treated. and it's going to explode. so it constitutes that is black power. white guilt is black power. they're virtually one in the same. and one of the big problems we have is that you talk about universities and political correctness and so forth. these are all ways which white americans say i'm innocent. i don't feel this way. i'm not a bigot. i'm not a racist. i'm innocent. and white guilt