he is serving currently as the editor of white house history, the journal of the white house historical association. catherine is professor of history and director of the american studies program at st. joseph's university of philadelphia. she is editor of a companion to first ladies. anemic dried -- anita mcbride has contributed to one of professor sibley's most recent works. she has published extensively including books including the first lady, lawrence harding behind the tragedy and controversy and read spies in america, stolen secrets and the dawn of the cold war. susan swain is president and co-coo of c-span. she is moderator of first ladies, influence and image series. she directs programming and -- at c-span for three television networks and over a number of years has moderated and conducted on air interviews on a wide range of issues, susan tells us that she is not -- now currently covering her eighth presidential campaign. susan also heads up the publication of c-span books, the latest being first ladies. and our moderator, someone who needs no introduction but i will provide

the white house post a lot of photos on the white house flickr page. i think people in the media don't necessarily like it, but a lot of the users out there love it because you get to see a lot behind-the-scenes. so they are putting out thousands more images than we ever put out. very selective, put out two or three photos, and that would be it. maybe once or twice a week. whereas now, with digital, i think it is a daily occurrence. it has really changed. some of the press photographers are using the iphones as the primary camera on some of the campaign trips , because it is smaller and easier to get around, but they can also post it instantly. it is a dramatic change. i know when i worked on george p bush's campaign, it was dramatically different than when i worked on the other campaigns. on other campaigns, i would shoot film, and it would be 3, 4, 5 days before i saw anything. now it is instantaneous. i actually like it now better. y.ready -- alright >> good morning. my question is, when you were traveling with the bushes, were you shooting every si

and in valley forge and go all the way up to the tweets being korean and as i'm speaking in the white house. it is more than just this building. one of the busiest place it national personnel center in st. louis which houses more than 5600 veterans records. the senate response to those any up in a wideserved variety of benefits including military honors and medical treatment. presidential libraries are not -- also part of the light version herbert hoover the george w. bush. museumse archives and to bring together documents for the president and the administration the first lady and the family and present them to the public for study and discussion without regard for political considerations. we will soon have another come of future obama library in chicago's historic jackson park. we are currently outfitting temporary storage space in chicago, and have hired our first staff for the library and artwork collecting artifacts and prepared records for the move to illinois. jerry 20th, 2017, we will have transferred hundreds of millions of textual electronic and audiovisual records -- january 20,

in the white house there was concern about who they can trust within the white house to be acceptingthis information and even getting people on board. we saw, some years later, there was a real lack real lack of trust of the institutional processes in the white house with the fbi security files and all these things. there was some of that. in addition to starting late, there was a not understanding, not knowing, not trusting what the institution the presidency provided to them as well. it was very difficult. 2000 was difficult, but 1992 was pretty bad as well. >> we only have time, we only have four more minutes, so if you have a question, please keep the question and answer targeted >> can i hear more about the transition team and the folks that will be stepping into the roles. you just made a point about trying to keep those separate. i'm wondering what the transition is thinking. >> the transition. >> the transition team. >> well let me distinguish very quickly, the transition team is one thing. the campaign is a different thing. in my judgment, there ought to be a lot of continui

back to the white house momentarily. the arrival of the japanese visitors from the .ast harriet lane in the blue dress. the japanese ambassadors. wonderful lights outside the white house that word -- that were taken out during the roosevelt rehab in 1902. the japanese were immensely popular in washington. people were driven mad by them. women gathered outside their windows. there said to become hysterical and huge crowds followed them wherever they went. grasp thefficult to amount of excitement they caused, both in washington and then later on a new york. things that i return to a great deal in my work is building. this is the library for the whole american people. this is the library of congress on the east front. in front of the dome of the capital. i'm interested in building methods. kids are interested, too. amause i build my works, i interested in process. to show how things are made because most people have no idea how anything is made. and in this case, made by slaves. this is deconstructed with the help of bill a

arrival, thetico front door of the white house. is the guest of honor coming from before they arrive? they are coming from where they are staying. some folks stay at blair house. some folks might be staying at the italian ambassador's house. we couldn't drive through the north portico. it is exciting make it to drive right in. >> it is right across the street from the white house which is where the prime minister and wife are staying. they turn, the couple's turn and then they go back inside. where do they go from there? upstairs topside -- the private residence. they have a smaller reception in the home, what is the president and first lady's home. the leadership and both governments up there as well to mix and mingle for about 20 minutes. and then the colors are resented to the president. and then you saw them walk down the stairs. the colors? >> the flags of our countries. you go up and say, are you ready to receive the colors? they go down the stairs. >> what is the tradition behind this? what is the tradition behind this? >> th

we want to go to josh earnest at the white house briefing room. >> i have made clear that the white house will be skroop louse about avoiding even the appearance about these decisions. that's a posture that i won't change and it is a posture that speaks to the institutional responsibilities here in the white house which is preserving the independence and integrity. conducted by the department of justice. you raised a question about some of the decisions that were made to communicate information about the investigations to the ub lick. what's true is i don't have independent knowledge of how the decisions were made. i don't know what factors were considered. dating all the way back to july. when director comey announced the results of the investigation and spoke at length to the public about his decision not to prosecute secretary clinton. included in the news conference were rather harsh condemnations of the way secretary clinton handled the situation. director comey testified before congress at some length on camera under oath about the investigation. some of the testimony provided fodde

when you cover the white house it's approximate pest not to cover the white house. talk to congress. talk to the agencies. talk to the political operatives. above all talk to congress where you may as well have 535 press secretaries all talking. and people in congress, allies in congress always hear things so rather than just relying on the daily transition briefing it's a good idea to go talk to all of these other people that have the same information or close to it but are not as guarded as the principals. >> kimberly, you covered department agencies like the va and education department. what happens there when all your sources, especially the political appointees may be gone. how do gou about getting ready for the next administration? >> this is really the time to be going to key lawmakers and key interest groups that say, ask them, what are you formally and informally asking the transition teams to do in the next administration? who are the people that you want to see filling these positions and then just keep going back to them. what are you hearing back from t

arrival, thetico front door of the white house. is the guest of honor coming from before they arrive? they are coming from where they are staying. some folks stay at blair house. some folks might be staying at the italian ambassador's house. we couldn't drive through the north portico. it is exciting make it to drive right in. >> it is right across the street from the white house which is where the prime minister and wife are staying. they turn, the couple's turn and then they go back inside. where do they go from there? upstairs topside -- the private residence. they have a smaller reception in the home, what is the president and first lady's home. the leadership and both governments up there as well to mix and mingle for about 20 minutes. and then the colors are resented to the president. and then you saw them walk down the stairs. the colors? >> the flags of our countries. you go up and say, are you ready to receive the colors? they go down the stairs. >> what is the tradition behind this? what is the tradition behind this? >> th

the white house garden now contains tomatoes and garlic. immigrants. america is stronger because of immigrants and america is great because of immigrants. [applause] as president, i am especially grateful with my partnership with my good friend matteo renzi. he is young, handsome, put forth a vision of goodness that's not rooted in fear but rather their hopes. he knows that as nations as individuals we have the power to achieve great change. in italy he is challenging the status quo with bold reforms. he likes to tweet a lot. we also have in common the wisdom to mary remarkable women leaders in their own right who dedicated their efforts to giving children every opportunity to succeed including a good education to our sons and our daughters. i am told there is an italian saying, roughly translated, it means clear conditions lead to long friendships. constantly in the united states, the underlying conditions could not be more clear. we are united by our interests and our values. our love of liberty and commitment to the dignity of every huma

the white house briefing. josh earn effort, white house press secretary discussing this very issue. let's listen in. >> -- that was not appropriate. eric holder said that was not the right decision. before getting into the content of the invest which i know you can't discuss, does the president feel it was appropriate for comey to make that public just days before the election? >> josh, i anticipated you wanted to start. i appreciate you noting that over the nearly two years now that i've been answering questions about secretary clinton's e-mail system that i have made clear the white house is going to be scrupulous about avoiding even the appearance of political interference in prosecutorial or investigative decisions. and that is a posture that i won't change, and it is a posture that speaks to the kind of institutional responsibilities that are vested here in the white house. which is preserving the independence and integrity of independent investigations conducted by the department of justice. now, you raised a question about some of the decisions that have been made to communic

i was in the white house.r. >> and also how that affected clinton's ability to accomplish other items like health care first down the road in his first term. >> well, the clinton '92 transition was transition. >> no, i agree. >> it was, however, a very useful case study. some would say object lesson. so what went wrong during the clinton transition? well, first of all, as i mentioned earlier, this enormous and lengthy focus on the cabinet with the white house as an after thought. that was backwards. secondly, not drawing a clear enough distinction between the campaign team and the governing team. it is always a mistake to bring your senior campaign people lock stock and barrel into the white house. third, and this gets to your point, the transition and the president elect did not do a good job of controlling the issue's narrative. president-elect clinton on november 16th of 1992, a day that will live in infamy, was asked the question based on what he would say in the campaign how he intended to handle the issu

pomp and circumstance at the white house. what the first lady is going to wear, who is going to be invited. we talked about some of the folks that came through, 400 guests. first of all, let's talk about how you decide members of congress. talk aboutn so let's members of congress. what is the approach to how they decide? which members of congress should be invited? >> the legislative affairs office is great at the white house. as toave a lot of input who should be invited. we want to make it bipartisan, the same number of republicans as democrats. you put the invitations out. a lot of members are back in their home districts, campaigning or whatever. i didn't see a lot of members. >> nancy pelosi, of course. legislative affairs has a huge role. they are trying to get as many members of congress as possible. engagementof public wants to invite folks. it is a huge amount of compromise and debate. >> many names in the media. chuck todd. gayle king of cbs. what is the rationale behind inviting the media? shop puts a lot of effort

it is of theer white house crashers. when you took over in 2010, what changes were made to make sure that did not happen again? >> the state dinner for india was youthful. -- it was wonderful. it's a shame that we had crashers come in. it was a matter of making sure we all communicated very clearly and that we knew every person on the list. a few little tweaks here and there and we have not had any problem's sense. >> secret service is in charge of this evening? >> yes. they are great partners. they will make sure everything goes smoothly. for the guest list do people have to supply their social security and all of that information? >> you have to have a government issued id. much like going on an airplane. birth. birth, place of you are checked in by the secret service and checked in one more time on the east side of the building. >> after that 2009 dinner, there are other interesting leaders that were honored at the white house including france's stag.ent, who came what is the protocol when a leader comes by themselves

for an official visit that included a white house state dinner in his honor. that is next on c-span. been our road to the white house coverage has donald trump and hillary clinton campaigning in ohio and angelina and pennsylvania with their vice presidential running mates. president this week, obama and the first lady held a state dinner for the italian prime minister, and was in the u.s. and his wife for an official event. this was the 13th and final state dinner for the obama administration. next, highlights from the event. it is two-and-a-half hours. >> guests are arriving for tonight's final state dinner in the white house. minister matteo renzi will be arriving shortly. josh earnest from the white house along with many of the members of the president's cabinet, along with business leaders, members of congress, nancy pelosi will be there. people of the media, rachel ray, chuck todd and others. jerry seinfeld and glenn stephani will be there. with blake there shelton. these are people who got the coveted in -- invitation. there are an expected 400 guests th

>> it's clear the white house and u.s.r a number of reasons. first of all, duterte, the new president of the philippines, is a guy who built his presidency on making these sweeping and extremely controversial statements. this is the same person who on the eve of his first meeting with president obama, or what was supposed to be the first meeting, cursed president obama and said he would curse him again if he brought up the extrajudicial killings of people during the philippines drug war. the white house then canceled that meeting that was supposed to take place. so the white house knows that a lot of what duterte has been saying is rhetoric that seems designed to get attention for the philippines, to make his case of an independent philippin philippines with less u.s. influence and get a rise out of the u.s. he stated clearly on thursday that he wants to separate from the u.s. militarily and economically. what complicates things is that since then his trade minister said no, he didn't talk about separation, his spokes cert

when you cover the white house it's approximate pest not to cover the white house. talk to congress. talk to the agencies. talk to the political operatives. above all talk to congress where you may as well have 535 press secretaries all talking. and people in congress, allies in congress always hear things so rather than just relying on the daily transition briefing it's a good idea to go talk to all of these other people that have the same information or close to it but are not as guarded as the principals. >> kimberly, you covered department agencies like the va and education department. what happens there when all your sources, especially the political appointees may be gone. how do gou about getting ready for the next administration? >> this is really the time to be going to key lawmakers and key interest groups that say, ask them, what are you formally and informally asking the transition teams to do in the next administration? who are the people that you want to see filling these positions and then just keep going back to them. what are you hearing back from t

president coolidge is in the white house. he does have his conception of limited government ethics the federal government should be to involve any worse but the constitutional president of getting involved also under outside pressure. and, in fact, will rogers of the comedian tells of this joke that colleges low response to this disaster is in the hopes that most of the people died in the meantime so we will not have to do anything about it. not exactly quite as sharp as a late-night comedians would you today but it's not that dissimilar from a joke jay leno made about the katrina disaster when he said bush is i listening troops to the gulf because he found that there's oil in louisiana. so did the same kind of sense of the joke, although i think it had sharper comedy writers in the more moderate air. there's this outside pressure and also the internal pressure in the form of the secretary of commerce, herbert hoover, who was nicknamed this negative commerce and undersecretary everybody else because you like to get in everybo

a flu doesn't care if a democrat or republican is in the white house. it needs to be able to step above the fray in dealing with it. you have to make sure you use the twitter account wisely the entire time not just when there's a disaster. >> thank you, guys. >> i want to say one more thank you to julianna for a lovely event. >> everybody should buy a book. you should also buy a book for your friends, great christmas gifts. >> and thank my wife tammy who couldn't be here tonight. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> here is a look at some books that are being published this week. john jay college professor completes three volume series on the life of eleanor roosevelt which includes the first lady's life through world war ii, the death of president roosevelt and eleanor roos -- roos velt -- roosevelt's own death in 1962. richard snow recalls the creation of the union army's iron battleship the monitor and ushered a new era of airfare. in black scare reports on life in the ukraine after russia's annex of crimea. and first black regiments to fight in w

it was a favorite piece of wilson's, and he had it hanging over his bed in the white house, and over his bed here at the history has. -- estuary house. over the bed, there's also an interesting artifact, the pillowcase has been woven into the likeness of president wilson. the story explains it. during world war i, the united states, they had to send food aid to belgium, partially occupied by germany. part of it came in the substance sacks.r in cotton the belgians had centuries-old traditions of weaving lace, they did not have any fine thread. but they would take the flour sacks, undo them, and weave them into designs. this was a gift, with a likeness of wilson, with some work around the edge to decorate. it is an amazing example of what people will do in war, when they are limited in materials that yet they have and skill, and want to exercise that skill. this is the drawing room in the house. this home tells so many stories. every room has stories to tell. one of the important stories in this room is the high regard with which the american president was held by the leaders of the wor

it's white house and cabinet. the second thing is we're talking what the administration has to dlochlt is alo. there is also a program going on where the agencies are preparing career staff, not the outgoing staff, but the career staff are preparing their agencies to receive their new bosses. and guess what? they're highly motivated to do this. how do you want to be really impressed when they first come in? your new boss. so it's fascinating to see them working on this. because they come up with fabulous ideas about how to best brief their new people and get them on board and so forth. let me get mack, turn it over to mack mclarty. >> clay, thank you. jamie, thanks for organizing and hosting us today. i'm delight to be with you. i always enjoy working with clay johnson who is a friend and someone i respect. and i'm glad this is a bipartisan effort. clay and i have traveled in this vineyard for a number of years working on presidential transitions, and trying to streamline the process. and in that regard, i don't t

these groups are not that big in the white house. the idea there are thousands of people. >> there are 1700 actually. >> omb and all the council's >> but we would deem the -- deal with the senior personnel. they would pick up the phone if there were issues if you have the relationship efficiently we could also leverage our staff for the benefit of communication. >> day you thank you drove policy from your department or that was driven from the white house quick. >>'' first of all, i came in the middle of the housing crisis there was a lot going on. i was extremely involved with a lot of policy issues of mortgage modifications with the homeowners and the sba i called the white house and reversed issues on budgeting, that actually ended at being unpopular for the administration but thought that was important for the integrity of the administration. >> a problem for you to be overly involved and suffocating the white house staff? [laughter] that zaps the policy-making of her own agency? and discourages them to drive away talent quite. >

it's the call of the white house to do it.but one other point i want to underscore, what judy and i have been talking about that donald trump complaints so much about the press did not have the scrutiny during the primary that he's having now and he is the gop presidential nominee having not gone through the kind of standard vetting that because he wasn't taking it seriously as he should have during primary. so he was only getting now what in a routine time he would have gotten further reason why he should not have no complaint about the press. john: there were predictions, judy, that that would be the case and predictions along the same lines for john mccain, john mccain was a beloved figure when he was sort of the republican maverick but once he became the nominee the press started beating up on him. >> yes, it happens when you get the nomination of your party. i think you have to expect that. now, i can remember some of the stories about john mccain that appeared on the front pages of new york times and other prominent pape

all of the records that are created in the white house become records -- record of the country. that is what ends up at the presidential libraries. now, decision-making crosses lines. those federal agencies support house,k of the white that there is a separation in terms of the records themselves. thank you for your interesting presentation. he mened

jamie was invited to the white house to present to white house office of science and techonology policy. policy. we got blue badges which is the top badge you can get there.students gave ideas on how to use stem for new part of the presidents kids science advisory, advisory, i kinda wanna change the way physics is taught in high school classes.jamie wants to make sure students who aren't strong in math can still enjoy science. it was just more math heavy than it should be and i kinda want to change focus off of math to concepts toothis would mean teachers would do hands on labs before giving a lecture to keep students intere. interested.: right now most traditional physics classes are a lecture than a lab and read a book from the end to the begining.she presented to 10 other students and the science advisory board - including astronaut twin brothers mark and scott kelly. >> she presented to 10 other city -- students. >> walking to the white house i was nervous. i was excited once i got to the white house. >> then the unexpected happened. >> the president came in. >> >> jamie thought he

looking back, what was the hardest moment for you in the white house? my father died and when bill's mother died in the same year. the tragedies that make a big hole in your heart because you lose somebody that you know, you care about, a family member, those were the hardest. the others, of course, had their difficulties as well but it was the loss of my dad and my mother-in-law that were really tough. >> so hillary clinton went back to her roots, advocating for children, women and veterans. she became an ambassador of sorts for her husband. it was september 1995. >> no one had any idea what she was going to say. >> hillary clinton traveled with her chief of staff to china for the united nations conference on women. >> there were expectations that she probably would tread lightly and not say a whole lot that was news making. >> but those expectations were wrong. >> we are the primary caretakers for most of the world's children and elderly, yet much of the work we do is not valued, not by economists, not by historians -- >> this vast room filled with hu

will be a desire to get things done to show or were progress but there could end up being that the white house would like to stay far left and house and the majority of republicans in the senate are not going to want to go in that direction see you could end up two years of stalemate. >> on trump and the rhetoric we have heard from him on the rigged election, is there a concern that diocese the gop that and hurts the down ballot candidates? any evidence in polling data that might take place? >> that is an interesting question about whether that kind of rhetoric can make people think it is all for not. thus far in our polling voter interest and intensity are notably comparable on the republican and democratic side. hillary clinton has her own base footer mobilization problems but both sides seem motivated to vote based upon our polling. the concern i have is whether the machinery is there is it typically is to make sure that the people who are more episodic voters are nevertheless encouraged to go out and vote. suggest that democrats have an overwhelming advantage compared to past years but the

so here is the white house's statement today.l the tape. >> as far as creamer is concerned with all those visits here to the white house in particular, i'm wondering is that a reflection of the ethical standards of the obama white house that a guy like that who at least according to the videos admittedly these videos are in some dispute in some circles, seems to be suggesting voter fraud, a person who is a convicted felon, who is often frequent visitor here at the white house. >> i think at this point i would urge extreme caution in drawing conclusions about anybody's character based on a few hours of having looked at this video. >> all right. that's a nonanswer, of course. and the question was lodged by a fox news correspondent because the other press doesn't cover this. so, based upon that, i mean, it's pretty embarrassing, the guy was 300 times. and he was in the president's proximity more than 40 times. we don't know what that was. he obviously had entree. >> he should have totally condemned it, called it out, and said, you k

. >> the path to the white house was narrowing. but he's trying to expand it. his poll shows he's done three points to hillary clinton. and he was in new mexico yesterday and going to wisconsin tomorrow and battling it out in colorado, arizona, and nevada and back in pennsylvania tomorrow where he will be in valleyy forge, pennsylvania and with a message about health care. and riding the obama care pony all the way to the white house. >> as much traveling as you do. i don't fault you for mixing up one city here and there. >> please don't ask me where i was yesterday. >> it doesn't happen very often, jon, and you cover it well. >> hillary clinton is hitting the campaign trail today. and the fallout in her e-mail. secretary clinton turning her attention to ohio where she is locked in a tight race with donald trump. she will hold a early voting event in kent state university and will make a case that trump poses a threat to our national community. >> she is doning a clinton campaign and ally and democrats have continued their campaign to discredit james comey afte

i don't cover the white house, but the white house cares what the "new york times" says about the white house? does the supreme court care about what the "new york times" says about it? >> on occasion. >> good to know. >> i would like to ask a question. obama has been criticized for for the press in launching leak investigations. do you have any sense of what these candidates would be like? >> no, but that is the wary. years ago when people thought the obama administration was actually going to go after reporters criminally for leaks and they were going to start investigating, and then they kind of toned it down. i think we all thought that was .he way it was going to be and i think definitely with a donald trump, you would worry about that. i am not sure about that would hillary clinton. again, i was being diplomatic when i said it is not a priority. she clearly does not want some information. that is not even putting information out there. that is actually going after reporters. that is a huge leap. >> let me pivot over to kaite and let's talk about the obama administration's record f

what should the size of the white house be in the white house staff? i don't have an opinion about that. i have found the most important thing is what you said which is relationships and is it collaborative or not. there is also perspective that you may not have. we think as we run our departments that we have a relatively decent handle on what's going on in our department but there are many that thengs going on president is trying to balance. >> can we keep going? >> [indiscernible] >> ok. i have more questions. madam secretary, you said policy is driven by budget. in the last several years, we have not seen a budget passed by congress. how does that affect policy? i don't really see budgets eating past the way they used to. >> that was my question as well. [laughter] >> what's the impact of congressional legit dysfunction on the impact of your agency? >> it's a huge challenge. likefunny way, often shared services we are trying to implement to run our organization more efficiently and more effectively get more value for the taxpayer. it's not that muc

on behalf of michelle, and myself, welcome to the white house.nd welcome to the final state dinner of my presidency. [applause] president obama: in the immortal words of a great italian-american, yogi berra, it ain't over till it is over. we have a wonderful evening ahead of us as we celebrate the great alliance between the united states and italy with our great friends. prime minister matteo renzi and landini.se is ae to say this remarkable crowd. at first, i was little nervous about this dinner. is called the scrapper. the demolition man. here.berto bengini is as any italian and they will say the dinners can get animated. michelle said to think of this as a typical italian sunday dinner. remindedwe are american democracy has been graced by the touch of italy. men arearation that all was penned by thomas jefferson and penned by his -- shared by his friend from florence. we stand by the lincoln memorial brothers.e work of sometimes, a presidential campaigns can seem like dante's inferno. [laughter] [applause] all went obama: most of see the spiri

i don't cover the white house but the white house cares what "the new york times" says about the whitehouse. >> does the supreme court says what "the new york times" says about it? >> on occasion. [laughter] >> good to know. i wanted to ask anita a question, obama has been criticized for being bad as -- for the press in leaked investigations, launching more leaked investigations than all the presidents combined. do we have a sense of what the candidates might be like on that metric? >> no, but i think that they would -- that's the worries that -- so a few years ago when people thought the obama administration were actually -- was actually going to go after reporters criminally for leaks and they were going to start an investigating and they kind of toned it down with eric holder when he was attorney general, i think we thought that was the way it was going to be and they set back a little bit. definitely with a donald trump he was worried about that because just the way he has talked. i'm not sure about that with hillary clinton. and again, obviously maybe i was being diplomatic, that'

>> there are calligraphers in the white house. master calligraphers.hey get the list with addresses. they find the address for them. goes right, they go out about six weeks ahead of time. >> what is required of you? >> rsv. rsvp. friend invites you to a state dinner. i would say, if you are invited to a state dinner, do everything you can to get there. ask to many people say they cannot make it? >> not very many. >> are they told to keep it a secret? not come outt did until an hour before the dinner. >> we didn't tell people to keep it a secret, but it is kind of braggartly. you probably do keep it under raps a little bit. but you know a few months out to the country is going to be. to befriend we are going honoring. we will talk about some of the notable faces we saw coming through the east garden room. to show thet viewers what happened moments thewhen the president and prime minister of italy and their spouses dissented the grand -- descended the grand staircase. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the prime minister and president of the united states coming down the grand st

i don't know how many of you have been to the little white house.'s now a georgia state park and it's worth visiting. the simplicity of the house has columns outside and it looks almost grand. when you are inside it is just plain paneled with pinewood. it's very touching and there is a nice museum including a portrait that was being painted of him by lucy's friend. >> to the timdo we have time foe question? [inaudible] >> do you think that roosevelt was in a way a victim of world war ii and that he died in service to this country? >> a lot of people drew that conclusion when he died. at least one newspaper they use to listen daily usually for the community that was being served. the atlanta paper into the new york would have to new york. but at least one paper headed in its list with franklin roosevelt commander-in-chief, resident ref the white house, and there is i don't think i can paraphrase it but i ended that chapter with a quote from a surprising source, which is senator robert taft that is known as mr. republican. he is somebody that ha have

they are frustrated with the white house. the white house is frustrated with hillary clinton.obody looks good in it and pretty much everybody seems to have been dishonest about it. >> chuck? >> well, i'm disappointed in neera tanden for misspelling the word heel. two es. >> they don't know how to spell english. in all seriousness, there is kind of a back story which i'm thinking about here. long standing love-hate frenemy kind of relationship between the obama white house, the president himself and hillary's team and you kind of get the sense that the president, i think legitimately felt like he had been put on the spot by hillary doing this. now, he obviously seems to have found out about it after the fact in the sense that he did see these emails that didn't say state.gov. it wasn't as if hillary went to him and cleared it ahead of time, to the contrary. i'm sure he didn't feel too great about all the, you know, bad exposure that this created for his administration. i must say this shows that back behind the scenes, the clinton team from a very early point recognized that th

it is information getting to the white house. primary reform panel is kissinger came out of southeast asia. it came from the three-star serving with the south vietnamese during incursion, went back down to added one more, the joint chiefs, and then kissinger. it is remarkable to look at these ongoing reports because there is embedded optimism, this can do attitude part of the literary mindset, but they kept thinking that things would get better tomorrow. they kept that report repeatedly for the duration of the operation. the second thing that i think we pick up from this is the difficulty in picking up key information in all the noise and policy process. the stuff was in the pdb's. you could hear the small scale voices of these warnings, the new kind of enemy that they resolved to win this battle at any price, it changes your perspective, i think, in how you decide with respect to that operation. the third thing though, and it was referred to frequently as intelligence feeding into the intelligence makers important, but you are t

to be reminding people in the face of these voter suppression efforts that if democrats win the white houseouses of congress that won't be any investigating at all. >> reporter: right. clinton has called them political investigations to begin with. that will come up empty, and many think that by going forward republicans are ignoring the public's clear desire for the two parties to work together. the ranking democrat, by the way, on the house oversight committee, elijah cummings, says it's no exaggeration to say on the first day secretary clinton walks into the white house republicans will have already investigated her more than any other president in history, and as you know, thick is all based on republicans keeping the house, which for now looks like a pretty good bet, but certainly no guarantee. >> trace gallagher live. thank you. the election lawsuits are already beginning. the democratic national committee is suing the republican national committee. that's next. i work 'round the clock. i want my blood sugar to stay in control. so i asked about tresiba®. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ tresiba® is

next, the white house swearing in ceremony, held 20 years ago -- 25 years ago this month. this is 20 minutes. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states and mrs. bush, accompanied by justice byron white, and justice and mrs. clarence thomas. [applause] ♪ [applause]

you didn't even think about being in the white house. all you thought about was how many people you could say to them that day, i want you to vote for jimmy carter. he wants to be your president. so, of course, we all, most of you, i know, have read about the lust in my heart. and that unfortunately playboy magazine article that he wrote about. and it almost took us down. it just sucked all the air out of our campaign. rosalynn was the first one to be furious. she was not mad at jimmy, but she was mad at the young man that wrote the article. she said she reckoned that he'd never been to sunday school, had never read a bible, and he didn't really know what he was talking about. so that was the way -- and one day somebody asked her point-blank after, mrs. carter, have you ever committed adultery? and she said, well, if i had, i certainly wouldn't tell you. [laughter] so that was how she handled this very tough situation. and we got over it. jimmy picked up his bible, he taught his sunday school class, and he won an election. and that was h

to play baseball on the white house lawn." once he got a mothball stuck so far open nostril he almost swallowed it. all he could say in his defense was that he thought it would fit. and another abuse of a body cavity, he got his worst year infection ever when he stuck a pebble into it. again, he said he thought there was room. but in addition to being a slapstick comedian, he was a witty and sophisticated little whacks at the age of 10 he looked down at them and said to his father they looked like a sunset, don't they? story -- quilinton nten story. he entered the room without foot snaketh a four around his neck. eachld a smaller snake in hand. knox was horrified. roosevelt had seen things like this before. he smiled and took it in stride. later roosevelt wrote this of the incident. go in thed quentin next room where congressmen were waiting until i should be at my leisure. i thought he and the snakes would enliven their waiting time. the next day the story was reported in the new york times. something us important about theod

you can't take care of the white house or the country. where is that? i don't hear that. >> reporter: trump a tireless campaigner, ramped up his schedule to three rallies a day, insisting he wants to leave nothing on the table. >> at least i will have known, win, lose or draw, i will be happy with myself. because i always say, i don't want to think back if only i did one more rally i would have won north carolina by 500 votes instead of losing by 200. right? >> reporter: the political stakes were laid bare last night. a tradition where the candidates engage in a good natured roast. >> hillary accidentally bumped into me and she very civilly said, pardon me. and i very politely replied, let me talk to you about that after i get into office. >> reporter: trump managed barbs but he also drew boos for what many thought were jokes that crossed the line. >> here she is tonight in public pretending not to hate catholics. hillary is so corrupt, she got kicked off the watergate commission. >> reporter: while some catholics describe it as cringe worthy, the cardi

what was the hardest moment for you in the white house?daughtfather died an bill's mother died in the same year. the tragedies that make a hole in your heart because you know and care about them, a family member, those were the hardest. the others, of course, had their difficulties as well, but it was the loss of my dad and my mother-in-law that were really tough. >> so hillary clinton went back to her roots. advocating for children, women, and veterans. she became an ambassador of sorts for her husband. it was september, 1995. >> no one had any idea what she was going to say. >> hillary clinton travelled with her chief of staff to china for the united nations concerns on women. >> there were expectations that she probably would tread lightly and not say a whole lot that was news making. >> but those expectations were wrong. >> we are the primary caretakers for most of the world's children and elderly, yet much of the work we do is not valued, not by economists -- >> this vast room filled with hundreds and hundreds of people began to awake

friends to play baseball on the white house lawn." once he got a mothball stuck so far open nostril he almost swallowed it. all he could say in his defense was that he thought it would fit. and another abuse of a body cavity, he got his worst year infection ever when he stuck a pebble into it. again, he said he thought there was room. but in addition to being a slapstick comedian, he was a witty and sophisticated little boy. at the age of 10, on a day when his legs were stinging from a terrible sunburn, he looked down at them and said to his father, they look like a turner's sunset, don't back? -- don't they? once during a meeting he came into the room with the secretary of defense with snakes. knox was horrified. roosevelt had seen things like this before. he smiled and took it in stride. later, roosevelt wrote this the incident -- i suggested that quentin go into the next room, where for congressmen were drearily waiting until i should be at my leisure. i thought that he in his snakes would likely enliven their waiting period the ne