myth number one, the white house is white because of the british burning. have you heard that before? you've never heard that? alex? >> if i'm not wrong, they used white wash in order to hold the fencing together which is why it was then named the white house. >> exactly. if you look at the exterior of the white house, that particular sandstone, much of it which came from virginia, particularly aquiia creek and thea, quia quarries in stafford county, a lot of the sandstone produced had a gray color so you have to imagine the white house as a gray building and what they did, because sandstone is so porous, you have to seal it and protect it from winter months because if water gets into the stone's pores, it freezes and then it cracks because water expands in those pores so what the scottish stone masons did and the workers who built the white house, enslaved and free workers who built the white house, they applied a coat of lime based white wash in 1798. white wash is different than the white paint they use today but that was really where the story began of

close as you white house myth number two. white house tunnels. we were just talking about this before class. the existence of tunnels, who used them and why did they use them. so one of the stories that there were tunnels beneath the white that allowed for a quick escape, that one could get all way to the potomac river and that dolley madison used the tunnel to escape to octagon house and abraham lincoln had an tunnel. these are not true. we know the architect of the build severald sewer systems and my guess is that dolley madison wouldn't through the sewer. and these were installed for running water but there really any full-sized tunnels anyone could have used. octagoncourse here's house where the madisons lived for about six months after the theing and it's just down street from the white house. war,during the civil general win field scott did ofgest the possibility adding a tunnel between the white house and the treasury treasuryand here's the building down at the bottom and up at the top you have the war department. point it would have been

these become symbols of white racial intransigence, but also white racial pride. ron walter grows up amidst all of this. we think about 1955, massive resistance. that's also the year emmett till is assassinated. he's a 14-year-old black boy from chicago who is assassinated by whites and lynched in mississippi on august 28. we now know he did not whistle or say anything to this woman. he was killed just for being black at 14 and going into a store. he is very important for us, because his body is recovered from the tallahatchie river. there is a 125 pound cotton gin fan belt around his neck. he is mutilated, disfigured, this grotesque symbol of white supremacy and the fact that black life does not matter in the u.s., 1955. jet magazine from chicago, they published his mutilated face, his open casket, and his mother allows his body to be seen in open casket, because she wants the world to see what they have done to her son. this is important. he becomes an icon before trayvon martin, before black lives matter, we have emmett till. 1957 is the little rock central hig

white house myth number two, white house tunnels. in fact, we were just talking about this before class the existence of tunnels who used them and why did they use them. so, one of the stories there were tunnels beneath the white house that allowed for a quick escape, that one could actually get all the way to the potomac river and that dolly madison used the tunnel to escape the octagon house and lincoln had an escape tunnel. unfortunately these are not true. the architect of the white house did build james hoeng, several sewor systems. dolly madison probably wouldn't have climbed through the sewor. she wouldn't have wanted to travel that way. and these were installed for running water but there really weren't any full-size tunnels anyone could have used. now, here of course is octagon house the madisons lived for six months after the burning. and it's just down the street from the white house. now, during the civil war, genuinefield scott did suggest the possibility of adding a tunnel between the white house and the treasury buildi

massive resistance is organized by both men and white women so it's protecting white interests and white citizenship away from black encroachment, so from this perspective when we think about massive resistance, massive resistance is certainly white nationalism and white supremacy but by another name. we call it that name massive resistance ay is genteel but mavis resistance is why we get the confederate flag and the rebirth of the confederate flag in south carolina, in mississippi, in georgia. these becomecism polls of white racial intransigence and also white racial pride, and ron walters grows up amidst all of this. so we think about 1955, massive resist as, but that's also the year emmett till is assassinated and emmett till is a 14-year-old black boy from chicago who is assassinated by whites and lynched in money, mississippi august 28th. and we now know he did not whistle or say anything to this woman carol i'm bryant. he was killed just for being black and 14 and going into a store in money, mississippi. till is very important for us because his body is recovered from the tallahat

america's always been white.the wake of el paso, the department of homeland security for the first time it was created after 9/11 added white supremacist violence to its list of priority threats. at the prince of peace church, pastor grady held a special sunday service. ♪ he organized a fund-raiser to help his daughter on her long road to recovery. then guest of honor made a surprise appearance. it was the first time michelle had left the hospital. >> having what this community teaches has seen me through countless bad days since this has happened. the support of my fellow church members has been profound. they're praying for me. it's helped me a lot to know that i have support. i felt like it was important to show that i'm still here, not only am i still here, i'm getting better. >> michelle must learn to walk again and says america must learn to love again. ♪ >> it's just so terrible that someone can walk up to you while you're grocery shopping and murder you because they don't like the color of your skin. i'm

about two thirds were white, black, or white, black and native. those who claimed native backgrounds income nation with other backgrounds, the south tied with the west at about one third of the population, twice as many as the midwest and three times as the northeast. the history we are talking about today is continuing to echo. the south's share of these self identified native populations grew in the first decade of the 21st century relative to the rest of the country, advancing at 48%. the three states with the most rapid growth for all southern, texas, north carolina and florida. the tribe with the largest self identified population where the cherokee with 819,000 people. maps from at the today's senses that reflect this self identification. this is also showing white people leaving. identified self seminole people in 2000 not surprising, both anchors in florida but also oklahoma. the creek. choctaw people. to talking to people who know a lot more about this than i do. i am covering 230 years of southern history. what is striking, it is not sur

and we are looking for a way to write about this white house. it was just a way that nobody had really done before. and i think it illuminates an aspect of how this white house functions that had not been eliminated to before. it does mean that i think that woodward or white house reporter, is like wrong in the way they're going about it. this is what everybody is doing and i would rather we would rather take the unique approach to the tell the story that is accurate and also well done. like whether president obama or bush or clinton trump, i have always well for a long time and just like that there there was dignity. according to the office of the president in the west wing that reporters seem to find fault view their reporting as if these are people and institutions to be respected. i think whoever the president of the united states is them i think dennis bad for you reporting an event respective to have as a political reporter, i think it is especially indicted when the burglar is president of the united states. respectability is gone . there

women and white women only. statements like this one, as well as many other place racist speech and racist ideas at the heart of the women's suffrage movement. this practice carried through in powerfully exclusionary ways into the 20th century. there are many stories i could tell to illustrate this but here is just one brief example of how racism in the suffrage movement operated well beyond stanton's time. in 1915, the suffrage movement was organizing a massive parade, think of the women's march and in washington, d.c. but when african-american suffragists in the alpha suffrage club in chicago, who had been working for decades for suffrage, and included anti-lynching advocate ida wells, when the club was asked to participate in the parade, they were told that they were only welcome at the end, at the back of the parade. this was the movement's equivalent of the bus. this is only one of many incidents and ideas and moments that make it abundantly clear that racism was endemic throughout the women's suffrage move

white effort cheap. it actually held white people back in the class structure because it only enriched the people who owned the slaves. now only a minority of white northerners cared enough about slavery to want to see it immediately abolished. if southerners wanted to keep slavery, i was fine with white most northerners. i don't really care much about black freedom, don't care much about black rights, don't care much about black quality, but a much larger number of northerners could agree that they don't want to live in a slave society, they don't want to work in a slave society. and these differing perspectives on slavery, they had been getting wider and further apart since the revolution. and they really start to diverge in the age of jackson. the south becomes more and more dedicated to slavery, even as the northern experience with slavery becomes part of the distance past. it disappears from people's memory. but all these arguments, everything i've talked about today, the justice of slavery, the the

house and what the white house is doing ord saying. >>. >> mercury is a man credited opening the white house briefing and has since regretted his decision due to so much posturing for the cameras on both sides. >> he has change that now he sent ae letter. and with those press briefings number one just a few weeks ago and with the tele band and coronavirus and so much and not having a pre- one - - a press briefing and is not just american people are not given the information they have no clue. and then you don't have the press asking and then to ask questions to flush issues out. this is not a grudge match. it is about humanity and giving people information that they need and back and forth right now just on coronavirus alone it is life-and-death. everything comes to the white house war and peace and everything in between. everything is spoken in that building. >>host: the next call w w from michael in new a york. >>caller:ca hello. i will say something it's not mean-spirited but the k,fortunate incident and ferguson april and many other black journalist and democrats were saying this h

data shows that there's been an increase in relationships between white and black and white and asiantheid ended, whilst blasian marriages have only increased by 0.1%. so my previous boyfriend was croatian and german. and what was... did you notice any difference in terms of how people reacted when you were dating a white guy to dating a black guy? so, his mum actually wasn't very accepting of me initially, so that was, like, kind of our biggest challenge. unlike past experiences, ithra having a black boyfriend has led to family tensions. so we have a family group, and then... a whatsapp group? a whatsapp group, yeah, and then i came home from a night shift at the hospital and i was really tired, and i saw everyone from my family left the group so i thought, something is happening. so i phoned home and my sister was, like, no, my gran found out i'm dating a black guy and apparently she... but she didn't even ever address me about it, she phoned my aunt in cape town to ask what her opinion was and she phoned my sister. where she comes from there very much about the community and the co

april ryan has been at the white house as a white house correspondent long time. the only black female with a permanent path at the white house. covering black issues. the author of three books. beginning with "the presidency in black and white" which came out in 2015, followed by "at mama's knee" and then "under fire" came out in 2017. mostly about her time in the trump administration. covering the trump administration. we will talk about all three of those. april ryan again being coming part of a story but unintentionally. let's go to october 6, 2003. show just a little bit of video. [laughter] okay. >> the president has kindly agreed to take a couple of questions and so a five. we will start with the american side an alternate back and forth >> april, you are not in his press corps. you are not in his press corps. >> this is subversion. [laughter] >> what was thatt about? >> the worst thing you could do is be on c-span. you have tape on everything. you backed up what i said and there. i talk about that. that was the most awkward moment. first of all, george w b

so what is white?and with that power structure and white supremacy is the false notion that white people are superior. we can tell you from experience they are not superior than anybody. [laughter] not to say they are not smart but to be honest somebody like richard spencer speak to has those prestigious degrees sounds dumber than i did at 14. [laughter] we shouldn't think that they are stupid. so what is white? they need to examine themselves because maybe at one point they were not a part of the power structure. >> [inaudible] >> they want to keep that power but frequently it so important about people harmed along the way. to fix the nation's potholes to help us develop the future. societies and nations can also have potholes and struggle for identity and community and purpose we have potholes we have never focused on. >> you talk about the stabilizing america and the groups that fight against each other. i can see how that breeds chaos but what is to be accomplished by playing video games with jimmy

so he's white or he's european. and then his mother is a black woman named daisy, right, and she's a cleaning lady. i want you to understand we're already talking about a mixed relationship. so his mixed identity is a part of what he's working on when he's writing. like how he is negotiating african-american existence as a part of who and what he is as he's working as an artist and writer. it's part of the mission that he's undertaking. he is the fourth of six children, so -- and they live in the hill district of pittsburgh, pennsylvania. a lot of what wilson is going to talk about deals with the great migration. i've mentioned that in this class before. the great migration is what happened after reconstruction in the south when the social status of black people moved from slavery to freed, to the reconstruction era to share cropping. so share cropping was this new kind of or new name -- i don't think it's quite accurate for me to say slavery but essentially that is what it becomes. we've talked about what share cro

at the white house. president was asked at the end of his appearance there if he had had his temperature checked. he said he was fine and that his temperature was normal. obviously we will wait for the results from the test. the vice president saying he's been told he did not need to be tested. as we continue our coverage we go to new york city, mayor de blasio after cuomo confirmed someone's death. >> elder relatives need support and we don't want to leave them alone but we have to be smart about never subjecting to anyone who might be sick and when you are visiting with someone older and/or with preexisting conditions, all those basics, washing your hands, using the alcohol-base sanitizer, covering mouth when you cough or sneeze, social distancing even when you're visiting, keeping distance, we really need that. they need it. and even down to the point of everything that is available in our stores. i want people to remember, of course, people are stocking up but there's older folks in your life, neighb

there is an entire community that are crying for help and the white house is saying, send me, send me. thank you. [ applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> wow. hello. can you guys hear me all the way in the back? yes. i love you guys too. all right. i'm going to get right into this. so i said to my husband the other day that it's become apparent to me over these last few years that the left has no idea that the world did not begin in 1776. three years of traveling the country and facing off with hysterical liberals and that is my scientific conclusion, that they haven't the slightest idea that anything exists or that anything ever existed outside the united states of america. let me give you a recent example. you will all recall when the left, which in my opinion has morphed into a doomsday cult, feverishly predicting that everything president trump says or does will end america, you will all recall they once den prophecized our doom when iranian terrorist soleimani was slain, the military operation, you remember that, right? this is the beginning of world war iii, their headlines re

april ryan as she said has been at the white house as a white house correspondent, longtime, the only black female with a permanent pass at wh the white house. >> covering black issues gotta add that. >> she is the author of three books begetting with the presidency in "black and white" which came out in 2015 followed by "at mama's knee" and "under fire" came out in 2017 mostly about her time in the trump administration covering the trump administration and we will talk about all three of those. april ryan, again becoming part of the story but unintentionally let's go to october 6, 2003. just a little bit of video. >> the president has agreed to take a couple of questions and so have i. we will start with the american side and alternate back and forth. >> you're welcome to call on sunday from your pressroom mr. president. >> april you're not in this press corps you're trying to play like that. [laughter] >> what was that about. the worst thing you can do is be on c-span. you know the receipt you back up. i said in my book and talk about that. that was the most awkward moment and first

peoples that's the white people's world. who is writing about us? and if the writing about what are they saying? that is what is driving him as a playwright. good so let's talk about briefly i'm going to go through the 1980s. a lot of this, it's tough that i was alive for. perhaps a different relationship i had to this, i was realizing lipid disappeared's morning, you're gonna look a lot of this and what about to say stuff that only ever existed in a history book, but i was in high school, from essentially here on. right so everything i'm talking about, are things that i have a memory of, haven't having happened while i was in high school. i was a little bit of a memory of this. on october 10th 1980, jimmy carter signed legislation establishing a boston african american historic site, the oldest black church in america. and that happened in the 19 eighties it was on the news. january 20 1981, inauguration of ronald reagan as the 14th president of united states. this matters, i'm not an economics professor, but reagan all max

corona virus and a year on from the massacre of muslims in christchurch how big is the threat from white nationalism. the corona virus has now hit every continent except antarctica on wednesday the world health organization officially declared it a pandemic so how do we stop it to discuss this i'm joined by eric feingold doing an epidemiologist and visiting scientist at harvard health economist and senior fellow at the federation of american scientists eric thanks for being on the show very rarely do we have a story like this that affects every corner of the world all of our viewers watching out front on almost every continent there's a tendency when we talk about story this big for some people to say you know what you guys are overplaying you're overstating your hyping it up the media is exaggerating and sensationalising what do you say to them i think there's absolutely no hype to this because we've been saying for a long time we've been telling w.h.o. you need to clear a public health emergency over a month and a half ago they drag their feet for several weeks it is just literally gon

black troops with white officers. paid less than white troops. subjected to discrimination. often used to clear brush for t u.s. colored troops as they were known still had to prove themselves to critics who asked would they really fight? placed in command of army operations for the expedition was a 29-year-old west pointer general godfrey wetzel but as the troop ships prepared to steam southward the unexpected occurred. general wetzel's superior officer, the head of the army of the james, exercised the privilege of rank and announced that he would accompany the expedition, which meant he would really be in command. the army -- the decision to involve himself in the fort fisher campaign created a high ranking stir because ben butler was almost certainly the most controversial officer in the northern army. butler was a political general, a wealthy, 46-year-old massachusetts attorney, a volunteer officer, and a prominent northern democrat in a war being waged by a republican administration. he was eccentric riding about on horseback adorned in bedroom slippers in the dark of n

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we're standing by for a white house briefing. the vice president, mike pence, and his task force, will be going into the briefing room, making statements, updating us and answering reporters' questions. let's go to our white house correspondent boris sanchez, working this part of the story for us. boris, some lawmakers, four at least, are in self-quarantine. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. four republican lawmakers now under self-quarantine. two of them actually coming into close contact with president trump in recent days. i asked the white house for comment on this but they have yet to respond. further, the white house so far has just told the public there's no reason to panic, that everything is fine, and that president trump is healthy. some of those comment have irked experts that are meant to lead the charge, the response to this virus. tonight the white house facing questions about how close president trump may have come into contact with the coronavirus, as three republican lawmakers are now under self-quarantine after a

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and that's why folks, we need him in the white house.been here for virginia time and time again. joe biden is about results. pragmatic solutions to the problems that you folks face every day. lowering prescription drug prices, dealing with infrastructures, the things you deal with. some candidates are calling for a revolution. you know what? we had a revolution 244 years ago and it ended 30 miles from here. we don't need a revolution, we need joe biden in the white house! [cheers and applause] and with joe biden at the top of the ticket, we will sweep here in virginia. we saw elaine luria, we have got great new dynamic members of congress. who has invested the ticket to make sure they win reelection? who is it? and the great thing about joe biden, you need swing voters. who is it we can send to south side and southwest virginia to take our message across the commonwealth of virginia? it is joe biden. [cheers and applause] so folks, are you fired up? [cheers and applause] we need him. he spoke last night, you saw him, the empathy. he talk

the presidency and black and white, and under fire, reporting from the front line of the trump white house. . . . >> i was doing a lot of work. sewing my seeds and the harvest came up.i was out there working and american radio networks recognized my work. they said, we may have a position open and i said okay. i thought it was for a dc bureau chief. mind you, i had done local government. i even dabbled in washington. i anchored the weekends at wtop. but never in my wildest dreams would i imagine i'd be questioning american presidents and they would call me by name. well, at least three. but i did the work. and i started out local. >> local being baltimore. >> my home, my love, being baltimore city. i came south and said let's try this. i thought i'd be there - - actually, i didn't want to stay when i first got here. i thought i'd stay for 2-3 years. i've been here for 23. i started out being a reporter and i realized coming in what power was. washington power was having a president call your name. the people who kept telling me i needed to have a president call me by name meaning the

that's not what you heard from this white house. there's also a fundamental nonunderstanding of how bureaucracy works and everything that's at your fingertips. when i remember 9/11 and the two situations are very different mind you -- >> let me say something about that. the tragedies were very different. the attack was very different, but i think when you look at the psychology that a white house has to try to make better, not worse, i think the public fears there are similarities. the trump white house should look at the public outreach and some of the ways of working with local leaders that were applied at that time. >> i was here in new york and you had mayor giuliani who i'm not a fan of but he stepped up to the plate, mike bloomberg after him. basically what they did was tell people stay at home, we're going to manage this for you and give you information regularly on what you need to do, even to the point of understanding how the markets work because if you can't get people out to buy things, demand is down, and that fuels a d

and non-white. but what's interesting about this first letter home, and really his first trip was what did he assign as the cause of essentially witnessing this anti-racist sort of space and behavior among white people and even non-white people. what did he consider to be the fundamental cause? of what he was experiencing? yes? they were all what? yeah, so they were all muslim. so what did he think was really causing it? yeah? islam. and so he didn't just sort of write about the unity and the brotherhood as he called it. and these experiences. and he also stated, you know what? what could be the cure for racism in america? he made the case that islam could be the cure for racism. many black people and multiracial muslim nation would probably have had issues with that type of statement. but he of course offered that as a solution. to the racial problem in america. and as you would imagine, if you go on ahaj and have that religious experience that's supposed to be for muslims. he just experienced. and

let's go to the white house right now, our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us. jim, you're hearing the president is losing patience with some of the restrictions now in place? >> reporter: that's right, wolf. and we should report, a source close to the coronavirus task force says dr. anthony fauci, one of the administration's top medical experts, is continuing to recommend appropriate public health measures to combat the pandemic, even as white house officials, including president trump, are toying with the idea of scaling back on these social social distancing guidelines. the source said everything is on the table including easing back on these measures. but fauci, the source said, is trying to steer officials toward the safest path. with an economy that's all but shut down and wall street teetering on the edge, president trump appears to be toying with the idea of easing the nation's 15-day social distancing period, aimed at flattening the deadly curve of the coronavirus. the president tweeted, we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. at the en

the education gap between whites and blacks in the south in 1910 was eighth grade for whites, fifth gradelacks. booker t. washington partnered with rosenwald and put up 4.6, they built five roosevelt schools, so one third attended the schools, in 1920 in 1940, the study showed that that three year gap was reduced to six months so if blacks could reduce the education gap between 1920 and 1940 and we have five major high schools, dumbarton washington and atlanta where the class sizes -- we used textbooks, the budget was a small fraction of what the white schools. but every one of those black high schools in the 20s tested higher than any other white school in the city. >> mark: i think this is very important, you and i agree if we lose our history, we lose our future. that is a battle taking place here. we'll be right back. remind me to call petsmart for ralphie's appointment. who's his groomer? carrie. full groom for sure what? i just booked ralphie's appointment online. that work? wait you what? it's that easy! download the app or book online at petsmart.com i'm phil mickelson. that's me

folk came together and changed the country and every effort to poor black and white. together has always been either assassinated or destroyed because as dr king said when that possibility is there the aristocracy knows the danger of it too is political control on this country we believe in our campaign we have a moment in history that we can really work to change and it doesn't take much to 34 percent change in many of these states could fundamentalist shift the political calculus could fundamentally shift the political calculus with a big election coming up in november the presidential election who do you think should be the best democrat to fight this campaign on behalf of the poor against donald trump and a member. but we've not society yet we've not endorsed it because this is what we're saying 1st of all we have 140000000 people living in probably 43 percent this nation we've not had one debate televised on poverty no candidate running to date has dealt with 140000000 number and with the intersecting connections between systemic racism ecological devastation and

but white women, white men falling in love. that's what those stories are about, overcoming rejection, obstacles, blah, blah, blah. so most of our movies in the '80s are dealing with white folks falling in love. think for a couple seconds about how we, people of color, african-american people appear in those films. give it just a little bit of consideration. we are more often or not marginal or tan jen shl. we are someone else in the story. so when we make it to august wilson we have -- the things that are motivating august wilson are his desire to move black people from the margins to the center, and say what's true about us. what matters to us. what's happening in our lives. because when we're just otmn th margins, what we have to say is maybe not -- it's not part of the main story. so it becomes this caricature, where we're saying the funny lines. prior to this we have george jefferson, who began as a marginal character in -- it's not called the archie bunker show, but it's archie bunker. then we have "good times" black peop

capitol on inauguration day was in the audience of the white -- at the white house that day. he turned to his friend and said, this means negro quality. he did not use the word negro as you can imagine. that is the last speech he will ever make. and three days later, for a reiteration of what he said in his inaugural address, for another extension of rights and opportunities, john wilkes booth did indeed assassinate abraham lincoln. so lincoln's lesson is clear, his eloquence unmatched. we dare to assume ourselves superior to other people, and at our risk to divine will for freedom and justice. have we absorbed the lesson? history has yet to fully unfold, and we shall fully see. -- and we shall see. what lessons can we draw? as lincoln said to his son, who was having trouble comprehending his shakespearean soliloquy, he turned to his son and said, my boy, it is all in the speech. i think we can say the same of the great second inaugural. thank you. [applause] thank you. [applause] thank you. i think we have a bit of time for me to answer these questions you put on cards. how

house doctor and i should say many white house doctors to frankly and i asked them that same question and they said you don't have any symptoms whatsoever and we don't want people with that symptoms to go and do the test the tests is not insignificant as far as the cruise line business where with of all the way it's a great business it's a great u.s. business frankly and i know how important they are to the country that includes airlines but the cruise line business obviously was hit very hard we had a tremendous success out in oakland where we've moved and vice president pence to defend testing with that we work with the u.k. we worked with canada they took their people back and catheters approximately 600 people u.k. likewise took a large number of people back to the united kingdom and we have people quarantined it was a big operation and it worked out really you don't hear about it anymore it worked out really well you mike you may even want to say something about that because that was really done properly. well thank you mr president and that that that program with the grand princ

and more than anything, that is what this white house is bracing for. they are seeing that they suspect that the number of cases are going to surge in the next fe weeks, and americans really don't know what's coming. >> steph, go ahead. >> brian, i would just say and people across the board are wanting solidarity from business leaders, medical professionals, and the white house. and jonathan makes a great point that the president is making this turn today, but it was earlier this morning his economic adviser, larry kudlow, reiterated that this is a good time to buy stocks if you're a long-term investor. i can tell you some of the biggest investors in the world right now do not care whether or not it's a good time to buy stocks. they see this as the massive health crisis that it is, and it is not just larry kudlow. yesterday, yesterday treasury secretary steve mnuchin said he doesn't see a recession coming. survey any professional investor on planet earth, and they will say, yes, without a doubt we're going to face one. we're in one right now. it's a glo

host: chatting with jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters and former president of the white house correspondents association. we both know jonathan karl of abc news who has that position now. a lot of changes inside the white house and the briefing room. what have you seen in recent days and weeks and what more can we expect, if anything? guest: that's a good question. veryhing we have seen, a determined attempt by reporters with the leadership of the tion toondence' associai practice social distancing. there was a time when i walked into the briefing room one morning, and there had been new seating assignments made, basically for fewer journalists to be able to sit in the briefing room. that was changed up a few days later to make it an even smaller number, so there were greater numbers of seats in between the reporters, who were sitting there for what have become almost-daily briefings by the president and his team. yesterday, when the president went to virginia, they reduce the size of the normally 13-member press pool of reporters and journalists who travel with him. all

phil rucker, white house bureau chief and ashley parker white house reporter. phil happens to be owe author with his coauthor carol leonnig. here with us in new york, jonathan lemire, white house reporter for the associated press. good evening, gang. and welcome to you all. and, ashley, i'd like to begin with you. is there any degree of fear that you're picking up in the white house that the facts are going to supersede the plot line the president is giving the american people? is there any degree of surprise that with all this guy has survived and put behind him, to wake up every day, this is sitting in the middle of the road in front of him? >> well, there's certainly already a lot of internal infighting and finger pointing and recriminations. and one of the things that's notable is as you said, all this president has faced, a lot of these are crises of his own making. this is a little bit of self-sabotage. this is the rare crises from outside, from abroad, and there is a sense not necessarily in the white house, but certainly administration wide, that there