the white house. but that's me. maybe i'm in a minority in that role. >> yes, sir. >> but it's been reported that the service had multiple contacts with gonzalez prior to september 19th incident. will any review of that event include a review of how information regarding the suspect prior to that date was handled, including information gathered by the secret service investigators following gonzalez's arrest on july 19th, 2014? >> yes, sir. that's correct, sir. do you want me to explain a little bit what happened? >> if you would do that. >> yes, sir. during that time, sir, when mr. gonzalez was arrested down in virginia, our roanoke office was advised of the arrest. there was consultation between the local authorities, and our agents, and at that time our agents did not interview mr. gonzalez. subsequent to that, when mr. gonzalez posted bond, our agents did interview mr. gonzalez, and we were aware of the weapons that he had in his vehicle. we were also aware of the map that he had in his possession.

>> at the white house? >> the white house. >> well, i would have to say it was a news event that won marin. it was the failed rescue attempt in iran. >> right. the iran hostages. and he scooped everybody. >> he did. he ended up at the white house. no one else was there. they finally had -- jodi powell had to tell him what happened but they wanted him to wait until after johnny carson went off the air. he turned to the cameraman and turned on the lights in the lawn and said i'm going on the air whether you share this with me or not because this is going on the air. so it is a great story. >> when he talked about sort of this idea where you're sort of this idea of you're the "news catcher," what was the part of the job he hated? having to do that? >> i would have to say when television changed in 24-hour news came in, having to say the same thing over and over when there wasn't any news. i really think not a breaking point but a difficult point was right after 9/11 was anthrax. i don't know if you remember it

luke russert at the white house. thanks for the update. >> drilling down on the possible successors. one long time military leader saying that the top two candidates are in order. michelle flornoy and ashton carter. the president needs a nonpolitical choice after uh ousting one of the republican advisers. the buzz for flournoy goes back to the confirmation. listing the reasons the president should ditch chuck for michelle. he was under secretary of defense for policy and founded the office for rule of law and international humanitarian policy and joins me now. thank you so much, rosa. >> good to be here. >> you called her a skilled translator, saying she understands the military and the culture, but understands the different assumptions and pressures that motivate white house officials. the civilian military gap is often at the widest in washington and flour noy has the ability to bridge it. >> it depends what they were looking for. they were looking for someone who would be a policy nonentity who is easy for them to

that was his greatest heat as a white house correspondent and -- greatest beat as a white house correspondent and i think he was the first broadcaster to win the award was because at 10:00 that night he got a call from the desk there was a tip, prankster or something going on. john said i will check it out. threw on a suit, ran down to the white house and at the north west gate saw that there were all of these cabinet level limos in the west driveway and went in and started asking what was going on and went up to jot -- -- jodi's office -- and said there were people in the oval office but stacks of plates with dried lasagna indicating it was there for hours. he asked around and one person lied to him and said it was something in bogata and he knew that wasn't true. he ran into the deputy press secretary who said i have nothing. it was enough to alert the network. because we were not cable. this was 1979. this meant interupting forming -- prime time programming and "the johnnywas carson show." it was the middle of the iran hostage crisis. and eventually he bluffed his way with jodi and describ

historic nature of the white house and the american people should have access to the white house, so we are now in the process of working at the partners. that's the first step to see if we can do something that would be appeasing to the eye and keep the historical nature of the white house, but maybe the high fence. >> he got further in the white house than some of my republican colleagues have gotten. >> yes sir. it would certainly help us and we are looking for ways and options and in fact we hope within the next few months to have some drawings of options for people to look at. >> into the incident there's hardly anything we can do about a great. >> what we have done is we've pushed out the perimeter after the constitution ave. again to monitor that area as well. >> i yield back the balance of my time. >> i have a great admiration for the secret service when i was a judge in texas i had agents bring cases that were well prepared and well received by the juries and that is the case today. the secret service does a lot of things. is your number one priority protecting the president

this is the white house that has led to this. it's white house decision that his made this happen. hagel in, my view, is just a scapegoat if a weak isness in policy and a weakness in leadership that is lead to go countries around the world being more willing to take on the united states. >> mark, i always ones enter this when a cabinet secretary goes. are they supposed to be telling the president things or is the president supposed to be saying here is my miami policy carry it out? it's not clear in the case of chuck hagel which direction the impetus was supposed to go? >> it's never binary like that, ray. the fact of the matter is when don rumsfeld left after a drubbing in the midterms under president bush in 2000 suction, he departed and at the same time the policy changed we went with a surge in to iraq, that had a sorts of december recipients and common sense approach to it. the issue now is, know that secretary hague is on his way out the door. will there be a similar change in policy or will the white house say basically policy is fine, which secretary hagel by the way said l

the white house will receive $5.6 million for the iraqi advising mission.chuck hagel was invited to the white house by the president today for lunch to brief a bipartisan congressional group. the chairman of the joint hinted at the need for more troops last week. >> that's why we need to expand the train, advise and assist mission into the anbar province. but the precondition of that is that the government of iraq is willing to arm the tribes. >> administration sources say the white house began making plans to roll out this announcement on wednesday, a day after the midterm elections. pentagon press secretary rear admiral john kirby says there was nothing political to the timing of today's announcement. bret? >> jennifer griffin live at the white house. >>> we want to get to ed henry on reaction to this move of troops back to iraq, but now the chief white house correspondent has some breaking news tonight, hello, ed. >> reporter: the -- a federal polluter to be nominated to be his next attorney general, she's highly regarded as a prosecutor. her name has be

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logs from the white house. now a lot of people visit the white house. tens of thousands of people every month. and, obviously, most of them are there for white house tours, right? but when you sign in, as a white house visitor for any reason, you sign what is in effect a public document. and it's hard to argue why public documents like that should be kept secret. if journalists or researchers want to fig are out who was in or out of the white house on a given day. it's a matter of public record. in the george w. bush administration, those records were sealed. when the next president took office, that is one of the things that the new president, barack obama, changed at the white house. starting a few months after president obama was sworn in, the white house started releasing big batches of the visitors logs for who was visiting the white house. these were huge files that they released. tens of thousands of people visit every month. they released them in an interesting way. they released them online as a search

and entered the white house in 1929. lou was very much in the washington social circle to the extent that she wasn't in california or working with her girl scouts. but lou was considered to be a tremendous style icon emulated and believed to be one of the best dressed women in washington. she is also, when she became first lady, one of the first -- excuse me, the first lady to be photographed for "vogue" magazine. and "vogue" does a photo shoot on every first lady now. so this is one of her dresses. this is a day dress. again, we can see that that soft dressing style that began to show with grace coolidge is still dominating when she is first lady. these are some photographs, and i want to give a special appreciation to marcus eckhart here on the staff of the hoover who went up into storage and pulled two dresses for me so that i could show you some of the detail of the things that lou wore. lou had an exquisite eye for style and for color. these are things that sometimes are not remembered. this particular dress is actu

at the white house andrea mccarren, wusa9. >> some of those demonstrators outside the white house areof casa de maryland, a local immigration advocacy group. they hosted a watch party on both lafayette park and hyattsville. tonight's speech spoke to some of those people directly involved in this issue. >> the president made some big promises and urged lawmakers to put pen to paper. our jim osman is live in hyattsville where that casa de maryland watch party and rally just wrapped up. >> reporter: the president's speech will have a direct impact on the lives of the folks we saw tonight in hyattsville. organizers with the immigrant rights group casa de maryland handed out american flags just moments before president obama's speech was piped into this packed room in hyattsville. the president's executive action will impact people like marcella campos. >> it affects me directly because my status in this country is not lyle right now and i'm a mother of a usa citizen, children 2 years old. so it means much for me because now i won't be afraid. >> reporter: jose pena reacted moments after s

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don't go to the white house.the white house is the place where you have to engage if you want to get it done and get in the process. i like the process engaging with people even though they may not agree with you the challenge of talking and debating with was important. let me give you an example. we captured a number of russian spies and we had to proceed to arrest them because we were concerned one of them might go back to russia. so they placed them here a long time ago they develop their community relations and become part of the community. we were aware of what they were doing. we were going to proceed. they said maybe we shouldn't arrest them because it might upset our relations with russia. i said excuse me we have russian spies. i want you to envision the "washington post" headlined. even though there was a debate i could see the lights go on in their eyes and the result was they said okay we should do this and we did. as to make the take away is when the secretary says excuse me. no when you are shopping

jim acosta is joining us from the white house. our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto is joining us. he's in vienna, austria, right now covering the u.s./iranian nuclear talks. we're standing by for our chief international correspondent christiane amanpour. jim, you're working your sources over there. a lot of sensitivity, the president will presumably down play this notion that hagel is being forced out, pushed out. what are you hearing? >> i'm hearing from defense officials that this was mutual. that's a consistent line. i know that others are hearing he was pushed out and, to be frank, there had been talk of dissatisfaction from the white house with secretary hagel for some number of weeks. now, to be fair, that criticism does not only go in one direction. fact is, in the halls of the pentagon you will hear frustration with the white house, with lack of strategic planning, with micromanagement and that's, frankly, a criticism that i've heard, wolf, outside of the pentagon as well in other departments. the state d

the white house says the dynamic changed after the senate passed the come pre henlsive bill and it sat house did not act on it. they stay president is pushing for action. that if the house passes the senate bill or they move forward on some piece of legislation, that the executive action that he's going to announce would be torn up and thrown aside. whether that happens is really a long shot. >> there is thinking, maybe call it cynical. but there is the thinking that the president is sort of daring republicans to take him on over this issue. that he wants the blowback to be so fierce that the republican brand is damaged or programs the democrat brand is enhanced for the 2016 white house campaign. what do you think about that? >> that is a thinking that is circulating a lot here in washington. and setting a tram for republicans. and you're going to have leadership making that case. that's exactly what is happening here. but for the leaders, speaker boehner and now mitch mcconnell, to be able to therd coots this issue is going to be pretty tough when it is this explosive, obviously, this

the white house. but that's me. maybe i'm in a minority in that role. >> yes, sir. >> but it's been reported that the service had multiple contacts with gonzalez prior to september 19th incident. will any review of that event include a review of how information regarding the suspect prior to that date was handled, including information gathered by the secret service investigators following gonzalez's arrest on july 19th, 2014? >> yes, sir. that's correct, sir. do you want me to explain a little bit what happened? >> if you would do that. >> yes, sir. during that time, sir, when mr. gonzalez was arrested down in virginia, our roanoke office was advised of the arrest. there was consultation between the local authorities, and our agents, and at that time our agents did not interview mr. gonzalez. subsequent to that, when mr. gonzalez posted bond, our agents did interview mr. gonzalez, and we were aware of the weapons that he had in his vehicle. we were also aware of the map that he had in his possession.

the obama white house, bush white house, and clinton white house. and he was moscow bureau chief and recently wrote a book about bush and cheney, which everyone should read. and stephen collinson, who is a white house correspondent emeritus. he recently left us for cnn. but he covered the white house for afp for a number of years and also did a number of stints overseas, asia and europe. and so i'm delighted to have all of you. you're definitely among my favorite white house correspondence. and selfishly, i've decided to start the panel off by one of the things that i am most interested in as a white house correspondent. particularly given all of the access, limitations that our previous panel talked about. i'd like to know how these guys get their stories and like where do you get that information from and how does it all come together. so i've asked them to each talk about some of the -- the one big standout story they've done on the beat and just give us a little window into how they came about it. and so i'll start with margaret, if that's okay.

you're looking at a live shot of the east room of the white house. president obama is scheduled to make a statement and take questions from reporters. following last night's results of the midterm elections. republicans winning a majority in the senate. the dwopgop now controlling both the house -- g.o.p. now controlling both the house and senate. what this might mean for president obama's final two years in office. what it will mean for the g.o.p. going forward. stay with bloomberg. we'll take you to the white house live and our two bloomberg politics host, mark and john, will have coverage of the president when it happens. in other news, tesla released third quarter results today. after the market closed. bloomberg wes editor at large joins me from san francisco with a free view. tesla's target is to sell 35,000 cars this year. how close are they to hitting the goal? >> quite a ways. the company has to do a 1700 vehicle sales for the quarter. that's the first number we'll look for. more important than revenues and the losses. we are not talking abou

whod, recently retired as white house correspondent rick >> -- correspondent. house white correspondents'association hosted a panel. the moderator is christi parsons. this is about the minutes. -- 50 minutes. our panelists are here. we are starting early. that is the way we roll. we have a lot to do. i want to make sure we get a full discussion. and i feel sure we'll leave with a lot more to say, but we have plans for another meeting. so stay tuned for that. i appreciate everybody coming in on a saturday, especially when there are so many good football games you could be watching. i will get you, steve, out for the tennessee game tonight. this -- >> no question. >> i'm just saying. if you feel like you need to see the alabama-tennessee game. this event is just as important to us as that big shindig we throw every spring known as the dinner. this means a lot to you too. you've shown that by turning out on your weekend day, and we really appreciate that. the waca is really devoted to two big things that we talk about all the time ad nauseam. we talk about press ac

did you advise the white house at any point or brief the white house about the, about obamacare's rolling out? >> sir, can you repeat the question? >> did you at any point brief the president or the white house about the obamacare website before it went operational? >> so, as i can recall -- >> and roughly how many times if you did. >> as i can recall, i gave a briefing to senior white house officials about the results of the red team review. >> how many times did you brief white house personnel? >> so i met with senior white house advisers. >> how many times roughly? >> i can recall two? >> okay. and during either of those times, two or more times, did you ever say anything to them about the problems that were inherent in the system or about any of the warnings that you'd received? >> so in the, both the red team briefing from early 2013 and the follow on in july -- >> again, my question was fairly specific. did you alert the white house staff to any problems with the website? >> so we were very clear, yes, about the risks identified. >> you did make it clear to the white house that ther

between two white house is is. i would say the clinton white house was just a little more volatile. you know, decision-making happened at a slower pace in the clinton white house and at a very frantic pace at the end of the event that you had to deal with. and i guess president obama in terms of people to spend time with. president obama is probably more likely to engage you on happenings outside of politics. perez president clinton might choose to -- whereas president clinton might choose to mcgill u about a coon supper -- might choose to regale you about a coon supper that he went to 30 years ago. you are more likely to get politics of clinton and more likely to get popular culture with president obama. >> there was a democratic leadership election on the hill today. president obama has been clear saying this is a big loss for the party in the midterms. there should maybe be some soul-searching about what went wrong and ways to change going forward. whether the right message to project that is by reelecting basic

and peter baker of the "new york times," who has covered three white houses -- the obama white house, bush white house, app clinton white house and was moscow bureau chief and recently wrote a book about bush and cheney, which everyone should read. and steven collinson, who is a white house correspondent emeritus. he recently left us for cnn but covered the white house for asp for a number of years and also did a number of stints overseas in asia and europe. so i'm delighted to have all of you here. you're definitely among my favorite white house correspondents. selfishly, i decided to start the panel off by one of the things that i am most interested in as a white house correspondent, particularly given all of the access limitations that our previous panel talked about. i'd like to know how these guys get their stories and where do you get that information from and how does it all come together? i've asked them to each talk about some of the -- the one big standout story they've done on the beat and just give us a little window into how they came about it. so i'll start with margaret

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there's a possibility that the white house rushing to judgment sent three white house representativesse where a guy might have struggled for a gun in an attempt to kill an officer. that's what's wrong with rushing to judgment, isn't it? >> the white house in particular and the department of justice that they didn't send investigators. they sent prosecutors right off the bat. >> amazing. >> you also get the injuries, the injuries on this officer are consistent with him getting beat up. now, you know what the problem is? now you have the audacity of people, a $5,000 bounty on this officer's life? >> where is the person that put that money up? because isn't that a terroristic threat? isn't that against the law? >> the attorney general should be prosecuting the punks that are putting the bounty up. >> more with this panel after the break. also coming up tonight -- >> the problem is not that gruber helped them put obama care together. the problem is what he said in the last two weeks and how the white house has handled it. >> new video tonight. a former key adviser to president obama revea

down to the white house. and immediately at the northwest gate, he saw there were all cabinet-level limos in the west driveway. whatnt in, started asking was going on. went up to jodi's office and saw there was not only everybody in the lower press office and in the lower press office, but plates, he describes, with dried lasagna, indicating there for hours. he started asking around. initially one of the lower press lied and said, oh, it's something in bogotÁ. figured out that that was not true. the secretary,on who said i have nothing for you on it. course, toough, of alert the network, because we weren't cable. 1979. this would meanen interrupting prime-time programming. his informal cutoff was the advent of the vebt show, the tonight show. it was in the middle of the hostage crisis, the iran hostage crisis. eventually, he bluffed his way jodi. it's a classic for any journalist, saying he knew it had to be a international crisis, given who was there. on inomething was going the room and that he was going to

tuesday night, the white house announced that the president invited congressional leaders to the white house for a chat on friday. we shall see. candy crowley, cnn, washington. >> joining me now with more on the gop juggernaut and what it means for the next two years is david chalian and john avlon and margaret hoover. david, first to you, you're the guy in the know. this is what you cut your teeth on every single day. let me just start with the next two hours. what does the president have to say when he goes on tv at 2:50 this afternoon? >> that's a great question. i think what you're going to see the president say is a two-pronged message. we got a preview of this when vice president biden sat down with our gloria borger a few days ago. they are going to try to express that they're ready to compromise. but i think you're going to hear the president challenge the republicans. from his point of view, they've been a real opposition party, an obstruction party, a party of no. i think he's going to challenge them to say, okay, guys, now you're in the big driver's seat and you're governing

that there is going to be a white house conference in 2015. and it is going to be different than the past ones have been and i think that the last one was in... actually ten years ago. and i was still, and i believe that chuck from central latino was one of the delegates to that conference. so in the past, delegates have been elected from all of the states and chosen, and sent to washington it has been a very, very big event, and there were caucuses looking at platforms and discussion of policy, and things that they might want to go in to the older (inaudible) and so on, and because congress has not and we are under a continued resolution and we don't have a budget, at this point, or a significant or a regular budget, no money has been set aside for a white house conference and so the white house itself has pulled together, about 3 million dollars, to go ahead and host something in 2015. and national association of associations on aging was briefed on what information is available at this point, by the lead person from the white house. and so

unlocked front doors to the white house late on a friday evening. and a k-9 officer who was on a personal cell call without his radio earpiece in his ear, or his tactical radio at the time gonzalez scaled the fence. this delayed the officers response, meaning that the k-9 was not able to identify gonzalez as the target. the report also discusses a number of training and staff issues, as well as potential missed opportunities to stop gonzalez in the months leading up to september 19th. today's hearing will take place in two parts. a public portion and a closed portion, from which we

white house officials do tell me the president will be aggressive. that's exactly the word republicans are using tonight. and behind the scenes both sides are polishing legal arguments, lester, for what is surely a major political confrontation. >> all right, chris, nice to have you with us in new york tonight. >>> cynthia mcfadden up next in search of the coolest place to work in america. what she found, unlimited beer and unlimited vacation. we'll show you where they're hiring. >>> and later, and for the record. it's not just rokerthon. why people all around the world have chosen tonight to give it their best shot. $21. could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement? i don't think so. well if you start putting that towards your retirement every week and let it grow over time, for twenty to thirty years, that retirement challenge might not seem so big after all. ♪ [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it in your heart. [

the white house has been white since it was first built. this is an example of the sandstone.ted to throw that one in because it has great graffiti that dates from 1814 to 1815. there's many examples of the stone throughout the washington, d.c., area. and this guy would not get out of the way when i was trying to take these pictures. but if you look very carefully, this is the entrance to the kitchen down in the basement area and you can clearly see the scorch marks but i'd particularly like you to look at the left-hand side where the scorch marks suddenly disappear and what that shows us is that obviously those stones, for whatever reason, were replaced over time. exactly when that took place, i do not know. but not all of the original stones that make up the white house nor the capitol were there. many of them were damaged. and then this is just a detail of the same thing where my hand is pointing, that's what you would look if you could get a close-up of it and then just below it, right after all of that scorch you can see good, clean stone. and this is just another example

don't come for the white house. don't come to the white house after richard nixon is convicted. you're wasting your time as long as gerald ford is in the white house. this is his opportunity and he won't accept it now. i was trying to [indiscernible] with that, i said let me call [indiscernible] and with another 30 or 40 minutes, we began to tinker with the resolutions and with alexander haig's agreement, and we talked about the culpability of nixon, and i found i acted very poorly. i was obligated [indiscernible] to personally advise ricard nixon, specifically, that position is a position of admission. richard nixon was informed that he had a right to refuse the pardon and richard nixon understood the law that accepting the pardon constituted acknowledgment of guilt. president ford would not have it any other way, and he said to me when i came back to washington, did he understand it? we went through that process, and what i found was he was somewhat depressed [indiscernible] on what he wanted and what he did not want to do. we got to the subject of pardons. it was very difficu

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this is something that the white house wanted.t has sort of gotten lost in the shuffle, fwraifrnling all of the other noise an the politicalests happening around it from the mid-term elections to some of the other issues that we are going to be talking about but the white house is disappointed. there is no question about it. it's pretty much finished for this congress, perhaps anotherbrity apple next year. >> libby, what happened? there are many people on capitol hill on both sides of the aisle expressing a did distaste once the snowden revelations were made by just how much the government was able to find out about our communications. >> as they say, politics makes strange bed fellows. there were some interesting coalitions being built because of this. an add vocat, one the authors, patrick leahy, a liberal had, also had the support of ted cruz who, of course, is one of the most outspoken conservative libertarians in the senate. it had a handful much of others on board but only a few. the mainstream republicans, mitch mcconnell w

tuesday night, the white house announced the president invited congressional leaders to the white house friday for a chat. we shall see. candy crowley, cnn, washington. >> as we mentioned, we expect to hear from president obama this afternoon just before 3:00 eastern, the day after republicans took the majority in both houses of congress for the first time in his tenure. >> exit polls show that 59% of voters say they are angry or dissatisfied with the president. senior white house correspondent jim acosta joins us now. jim, yesterday was a very, very bad day for the white house. today is a very big day for the white house. this statement, these questions he will answer will be very key. what do you expect him to say? >> you know, it's going to be very telling about the next couple of years, john. one thing that i think we're going to hear from the president today is that this is the fourth quarter of his administration. that is something that we are hearing from white house officials last night, that he is eager to get to work, that he wants to put these midterms behind him. and they we

lewis who visited the white house. if you get a hundred thousand people visiting the wliet house in a month, mostly as a tourist destination, and then you relesioned seven months of visit xx logs at a time, you're getting a half million names. there are some people who sound like they are public figures, when really, they are not. >>> given this large amount of data, the records we're publishing today include a few false positives. names you may think of a well-known person, but are actually of someone else. when that happened, the normal media at the time, mostly, reported it that way. white house posts visitor's list. is that the bill heirs? no. here's the new york daily managing. white house jeremiah wright. michael moore. names don't match, controversial figures. so that's perfect, right? they get -- the boldface names up there, they've got the scandal right up there in the headline and they tell you, actually, this is not a scandal. that's how to report what did or did not happen. in the conservative media, michael

congressman lujan joins us live from the white house having stepped out from this meeting. thanks for braving the cold for us. i appreciate you being here. >> rachel, a pleasure to be with you here. it's not too cold out. >> oh, good, you're not chattering your teeth yet, so i don't feel guilty yet. what beans can you spill about what you've learned about the president's announcement for tomorrow? >> what we learned tonight is an important briefing about the actions that the president will be taking with comprehensive immigration reform. you know, ak actions that were taken by presidents since eisenhower, like ronald reagan, george h.w. bush who took action to keep families together. bush's action kept 40% of those who were undocumented together. what the president laid out was a very clear plan. it's going to be bold, but it's going to be tough. accountability, paying taxes, contrary to what republicans are saying, i think marco rubio said it best when he said that the environment that we have today is de facto amnesty. what the president is doing is not amnesty. it's acco

he apparently left a message, and the white house says he will try again. on friday the president has invited the current leadersover the house and senate to the white house to talk about moving forward. >> they have won but the pressure now shifts to the republican party. what should we expect from them over the next two years? >> well, certainly they have been emboldened, as they should be. they want to pass the keystone pipeline, for example, and they also want to try to pick apart obamacare. on the other hand we're going to have to see how much progress they can make. we have the presidential election looming in two years, and also there is that continuing tension in the republican party between the tea party faction and the more moderate republicans, so all of that could make it very difficult for the republicans even to push forth that agenda. >> and they don't have the supermajority we have been talking about. >> they do not. >> libby casey is joining us live from louville, kentucky where mitch mcconnell sh still celebrating his victory from last nigh

. >> what is the best case for the white house if he does this? publicans turn the house for over two democrats and let them pass conference of immigration reform? >> the best case will be in upper down vote on the senate bill. >> you can't. >> the best case is that president obama has made a promise to the hispanic voters and lock them in for 2016 for the >> but he's not giving them a path to citizenship, which is what they want. >> the other day, the national committee said clearly a party has a problem. and they responded by basically relaxing their entire slate of leaders with few dissenting voices. one voice is different elizabeth warren. she spoke to the post, along with the capital and the rest of the democratic team. >> i believe in what the democrats are fighting for. wall street is doing well. ceo's are doing millions more and families across the country are struggling. we have to make this government work for the american people. that is what we are here for. i'm grateful to the leaders, to the caucus for giving me a chance to be part of

athena, this is part of all the white house christmas parries because we're entering the white house christmas party season. >> exactly we are. people can come in and tour the white house, see all the christmas decorations. this tree will be in the blue room. and, of course, this is a room with a very high ceiling because 18.5 feet tall is pretty tall. so it will be put up in the blue room and i can tell you next week, next wednesday military families will be the first to get to come in and see the decoration this is year in the white house, they will be coming in for a tour next wednesday. and just like in years past, many of the decorations on the first floor of the white house here will be honoring military families so it's the beginning of the exciting holiday season here and this is the launch we'll be witnessing in a few minutes. guys? >> i think we were just seeing -- was that the president peeking out the window? >> who could blame him if it was him. >> we saw somebody. we saw somebody upstairs looking out the window wondering about the arrival. there's a whole team of people

major garrett is at the white house. first, major? >> reporter: scott, the white house says it has the law and history on its side, that presidents kennedy, johnson, nixon, reagan and bush 41 all used executive actions to protect various immigrant groups. president obama's version will protect from deportation or provide work permits to between 3.5 million and 5 million undocumented adults and children. those affected would be parents of u.s.-born children or children who are legal permanent residents. also children brought here illegally but with deep roots in the country, more of the so-called dreamers would qualify. now, scott, none of this will take place right away. the president will sign the orders putting all this in motion friday in las vegas, but it will take some time to put the rules in place and to verify eligibility of those seeking protection from deportation or those work permits. >> pelley: mange, thanks. nancy, how are republicans reacting? >> reporter: scott, their anger is universal and intense. they say this plan

fronts to defend himself and his administration in controversies tied absolutely directly to the white house. first the government's ebola response. defense secretary chuck hagel today approved a recommendation by joint chiefs chairman general martin dempsey to quarantine all u.s. military personnel returning from west africa for 21 days, although secretary hagel refused to use the word quarantine. and incredibly, almost comically, has already ordered a review of his own decision. >> what i said in response this morning was give me within 15 days the operational specifics of how that would work and then i believe we should review that policy within 45 days. >> president obama just hours later and for the second day in a row claimed that travel bans and quarantines will not help stop the spread of ebola. while appearing with health care workers who had been exposed to ebola and who are still within the 21-day monitoring period. >> we may continue to see individual cases in america in the weeks and months ahead, because that's the nature of today's world. we can't hermetically seal ourselves o

the white house. this is an extremely difficult, high-profile mission where which there is no margin for error. recent incidents give me great concern that the policies, procedures, and training at the secret service are not entirely up to the task. just after 7:15 p.m. on september 19th, 2014, omar gonzalez was able to scale the white house fence, evade numerous secret service officers outside the white house, and force his way through the unlocked front door, armed with a knife. although it was initially reported to the public, and congress, that gonzalez was apprehended just inside the north portico doors, we have since learned that he actually made it all the way to the east room of the white house before being tackled by secret service officers. the department of homeland security's review of this event uncovered a laundry list of errors that evening. including, communication systems that didn't work, and that officers were not trained to use properly. a construction project along the white house

. >>> and the highest honor this nation bestows on civilians today at the white house, a slew of notables -- kennedy, street, stevie, and someone pretty well-known around here. "nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. the grand jury in ferguson, missouri has reached a decision. and in about 30 minutes from now, give or take, we will learn what they have decided. we'll be back on the air with that decision. their job, though, is now done. they've been deciding whether or not there is enough evidence to charge a white police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager. there is great caution surrounding tonight's announcement because of the violence that exploded in ferguson in the heat of this past summer while the whole world was watching, as they will be again tonight when this decision is announced. it's where we begin this evening high above ferguson. crowds are already gathered. hard to tell if it's all the hubbub of news crews and helicopters above that makes for more

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it's the latest alarming incident at the white house. the secret service is still reeling from the series of failures that allowed omar gonzalez to jump a fence and get deep inside the white house. today the agency's acting director apologizing on capitol hill, acknowledging the secret service has been severely damaged by its own failures. >> devastating. what hits so hard is the range of shortcomings that ultimately allowed omar gonazlez to enter the white house practically unencumbered. >> reporter: it was a comedy of errors. the officer in charge of the attack dog was on his cell phone, and was without his backup radio. the secret service saying they're considering making the white house fence taller. and working to improve the response to intruders. and the acting director saying he's worried about low morale. >>> and word that president obama will unveil new policies on immigration tomorrow. >> everyone agrees that the immigration system is broken. >> and the president is expected to announce a plan that would give up to 5 million u