it's a working house and the white house is a working house. a working house where many things are done so you have to regulate public access and tours and the way people access and who accesses it. unfortunately, you'd like everybody to be able to and one gets criticism because, you know, you can't afford it to everybody, but you try to educate the best you can and the people who are receptive to that education and try to encourage those institutions that will benefit from it. and that's what we do in a more regulated way and i'm sure her majesty does the same, too. >> lydia? >> well, i just want to say, it helps to educate the staffs that work with you, too. i mean, we try to hold handling sessions to be sure that everybody when they pick up a chair know they need to pick it up by the seat, not grab it by the back and every little thing like that helps. but in a house that's only partly a museum but a home, it can be very frustrating at times. >> yes. we have a question. john peters, ireland, and then over here. >> i have to preface my questi

the white house nowadays, they are doing fewer than one white house press briefing a week. the press in a critical environment, where there's an opportunity to ask questions fewer and fewer times. a week and a half ago, when the president was overseas and jim acosta at cnn tried to ask him a question, the white house called that disrespectful, pulled a guest -- another guest from cnn's programming. this is a pattern of the white house always trying to restrict things. just yesterday, kaitlan collins reported that the white house is stopping the alongstalong-stand bipartisan practice of releasing public statements, telling the world when a president speaks with a foreign leader. this white house is pulling back access. they don't like critical coverage, they don't like critical questions, and this is another example of that. >> and as i said earlier, bill shine, the white house, they need to apologize to kaitlan and the white house correspondents' association for treating her the way they did. somebody spent seven years as a white house correspondent, fully appreciate -- >>

the very celebrated tour of the white house which was on cbs. she was actually the first woman to get -- well, she got an emmy for the presentation but was the first woman to be featured in a documentary on television. so, great, great accomplishment for mrs. kennedy in terms of work with the white house and on this dinner as well. the most controversial people at the dinner pauling, he received a nobel prize for chemistry in 1954 but had become peace activist and he was concerned that there wasn't sufficient progress being made on an agreement with the soviet union on nuclear testing. so he had written a number of letters to president kennedy and, in fact, they were quite stride and he compared kennedy to hit we -- hitler, so he was t there picketing the day before and he and his wife went to hotel, changed clothes, went into dinner and in the reception line, president kennedy said to pauling, well, dr. pauling, i see that you have been around the white house a few times. [laughter] >> before introducing him to the first lady, he said, i hope y

most white house staffers don't interview with abbas. they interview underneath, you interviewed with the boss. >> i was asked to see mrs. bush in the family resident. i have only been in that part of the white house once before and i was dazzled, there was a big window that you see on television shows about the white house and the sun was shining in and everything was beautiful and the are dark artwork was amazing. it was welcoming and pleasant and started talking about the job as if i am ready have it and a lot more, need you to work with the chef. have been trying to work with him but you should try and the list of things i should expect to do and went in thinking maybe i was talking to her about this and going to recommend someone else and i was so dazzled, she said we needed upstairs made, can you take that over? afterwards i came out, i have a job. >> interviews in the west with one advisor after another were relatively brief. the president was very brief and reassuring. it lasted an hour. i can honestly say i had no idea how it we

the white house guard was killed but he mortally wounded one of the shooters. blair house was a place that they enjoyed living. it's a risk a story. david mccullough told it so i could probably get away with it. my grandmother as i said, she went home a lot. she was being pulled in two directions my grandfather wanted her here and his mother- in-law my great-grandmother and i wanted her home to help with the house. she relied on my grandmother a great deal. grandpa, she was being pulled back and forth but she was away for a long time and when she got back to blair house, the enjoyment was infectious. they were so happy to see each other that the staff got caught up in it because everyone was in a good mood. my grandmother came down and took mister fields, the head butler aside, she said mister fields, we had a little upstairs, there is a, oh hell, one of the slats on the bed is broken. that's as close i want to know anything about that but anyway. it was a good story. but when it came to the restoration and as i mentioned earlier, abby wrote took hundreds of pic

similar designs from the white house to british houses published early in the 18th century. some owners of these houses furnished their enormous and rather bleak mansions with furniture bought from london's best makers. in the 1750's, one of the best-known was thomas chippendale, celebrating the bicentennial of his birth this year. he was slated to become the most famous and still is one of the few british cabinetmakers people have actually heard of. other than that, they think of a group of male strippers from las vegas, very talented dancers from las vegas. [laughter] his name was made on account of his designs. his book proved incredibly popular. and went through three editions between 1754 and 1762, and this book spawned numerous imitations in all parts of the country. i share here some of his chair designs, which as you can see, were copied in america soon after printing. although chippendale's best furniture was made later in the classical style of the 1760's and 1770's, his designs reflect perfectly the exuberance of designs of the middle years of the 18th century kno

from a symposium on british and irish connections with the white house and hosted by the white house historical association, this is 45 minutes. >>>the next session is one that is special for me personally. as a 10th generation scottish american, the story of the scottish stonemasons and the white house is very meaningful and important. our presenter for the session, dr. william seale, literally wrote the book on these masterful craftsman, available to you today in our shop, if you would like to use your 10% discount. he will also be at the reception this afternoon and will sign your copy of the book for you. this is a wonderful book that tells the story of the scottish stonemasons and the work you can still see evidenced on the white house today. we're also honored to have an actual scottish stonemason, is chuck with us? chuck jones -- he is in the back. if you have not been to the blue tent to see his masterful work, please take time to do so between sessions or during the reception this afternoon. about a week ago, that was a solid block of stone that had originated in the aquia q

namely, the white house, its historic furnishings and official white house china as well as art in the white house, a nation's pride, essays by art historian wilson claus. with the objects featured today, i think you will see that nearly all were gifts to the white house. some examples are gestures of goodwill, tokens of friendship, while others were presented to enhance the historic furnishings so that only the finest objects would be found in the home of the president of the united states. and what better place to begin than with the desk made by the timbers of the hms resolute. it was part of an expedition formed in 1852 to search for the explorer sir john franklin. sir john franklin had set out in 1845 in search of the northwest passage and by july of that year, he had disappeared. in the meantime, other expeditions were formed but this one consisted of five vessels, including the resolute, that was constructed especially for artic service. the bow was sheathed in iron to help cut through the ice and it was under the command of captain henry callet. in april of 1854 it was trapped

dni is upset with the white house. "washington post" is reporting that a senior white house official says coats has gone rogue. is that your sense of things? is coats being caught off guard in one case and in another reacting to the president being wrong on the intelligence assessment? >> there's palpable frustration within the white house of dan coats' interview, how he was critical of the president for meeting with putin once, for doing it again. he showed his cards on stage that he had no idea the president was inviting vladimir putin back to the white house this fall. i don't think dan coats is the most popular person in the white house today. his frustrations seemed to express the ad hoc meeting. a lot of white house officials don't know what was said in the meeting, trying to unspool what it means. you have a disconnect between the president and his administration. now that dan coats, as a prominent member of the administration, is out showing some of the frustrations, you are seeing frustrations from the white h

the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. >> say that again? >> vladimir putin -- >> did i hear you? >> yeah, yeah. >> okay. that's going to be special. >> the white house announcement andrea referenced earlier said putin was invited to washington this fall. were you aware of that, i want to clarify. >> based on my reaction, i wasn't aware of that. >> given that, what do you think the agenda should be for that meeting? >> oh, goodness. first of all, they're not going to ask me what the agenda is. >> would you recommend there not be a one-on-one without note takers? >> if i were asked that question, i would look for a different way of doing it. >> that is how they learned and that is how the director of national intelligence learned, surprise, russian president vladimir putin is coming to washington. soon. and that's how we learned that the dni does not believe the next conversation between trump and putin should take place without a note taker in the room. which is what happened between trump and putin earlier this week. tod

serving in the obama white house for presidential candidate barack obama and then to be the white house liaison the national endowment. serving as a senior advisor in france and again after being in the right place at the right time he landed in school as a social secretary. it is with pleasure to have them with us today i hope you will be ready to ask them questions later. please join me to solve the former white house social secretaries. [applause] - thank you. so we will get settled before we get to the book, i'm sure i'm not the only one in the room was very interested in your background. so how you get to be social secretary of the united states ? to make it different for every person but traditionally they were daughters governors or senators or some formal and aristocratic way jeremy and i could serve grip on small farms in ohio and i went to washington after college and work at the center for strategic and international studies which was georgetown university's think tank that was a full-time mother for ten years incidentally was the best possible experience and after that frien

the head usher of the white house.ou have to talk to the gardener, you know, to make sure you're not going to step on the plants or anything this they may have. because you want to make everybody happy. so i have to talk to everybody to make sure it's all on board. and beside having them out there like that, we got to hope it's not going to rain today. and we also do mock stuff to make sure it's all right, first, like two days before i had difference staff come out and sit and pretend to be one person or another. to make sure this was going to work. so it's fun trying to set stuff up. if you're a portrait photographer in a studio. all of these wonderful cabinet people. look at them. men and women. men and women. four score. no, it's cabinet. gore wasn't there. this is the cabinet. gore wasn't there gore was doing something else. i don't remember what. gore wasn't there for that lun that one. this is the last shot this is the stuff that goes on. you put up big lights, big back lights. everybody is evenly lit. you got th

and she followed that with other stories about the white house. grandpa called it the great white jail. and sitting alone in it. early in his presidency. he heard popping and creeking and wind sighing through the cracks in the house and told sv who would listen that it was ghosts. he was there alone, my grandmother went back to independence, missouri and he was on his own quite a bit. he saidky just imagine james buchanan and franklin pierce deciding which was more useless to the country and when millard philmore and chester arthur, joined in for place and show, the din is almost unbearable. i think they knew at this point that this was a serious problem this was not just ghosts that it was a serious problem. mrs. roosevelt came over to see my grandparents as she was leaving. they were staying at blair house and she came over to blair house and apologized for the condition of the rooms upstairs in the white house. the roosevelts had not spent any money on it during the war and the depression, they felt they could not do that. and she came over anyw

on the house, but it's not white, it's yellow. it's a pale yellow. and the white house is there we hope, for the ages. thank you. >> [ applause ] >> this weekend c-span city tour takes you to lubbock texas. as we explore lubbock's literary scene and history. saturday at noon eastern on book tv. author sean cunningham with his book american politics in the postwar sunbelt. >> billions and billions of federal resources are being poured into the south and southwest to create this new development society that is both fighting communism abroad and pursuing free-market dreams at home, and it creates this kind of mill you in the american southwest that reinforces a lot of these ideas with american ingenuity and hard work and a commitment to fighting. >> on sunday at 2 pm on american history tv, we visit the buddy holly center to hear about the lubbock native and his musical legacy. >> the city is very plowed of the -- proud of the fact that people are born and raised here. and the center is here to keep his story alive, keep his music al

andrew jackson at the white house. she would later describe the president as a good specimen of a fine old battered soldier. sully met her in philadelphia, introduced by pierce butler, a cousin of his. he was quite enthralled by her. in fact he did several likenesses, he painted several likenesses of her. fanny went on to marry gus butler in 1834, he came from a wealthy philadelphia family that owned plantations in georgia. there is however was not a happy marriage. she was opposed to the slavery that she witnessed on her husband's plantation and that and other factors led her to leave him in 1846. she returned to england and later divorced in 1849. but fanny's story doesn't end there. she did return to the united states from time to time. she had lost custody of her daughter and was only able to visit them for short times each year. until they turned 21. she did return to the stage to raise money but not as an actress. instead she gave public readings. and she was a prolific writer. she published a couple of plays, a

and so president truman ordered the white house -- he researched it. he loved the symbol of a stone house that washington had built. so he ordered the house gutted. and rebuilt inside of steel and concrete and that was done. and believe me, he protected those stone walls. because they needed to take a dump truck and a bulldozer in to dig two subbasements after they had built the new foundations under the original walls. not touching the original wall. he happened to come by when they were trying to air hammer a door wider to get through. stop, he said. so both dump truck and bulldozer were taken down to the parks and carried through the doorway and rebuilt inside. they dug the basement. and by that time. there were two stories down, they could go under the walls to get out. president truman also every day he was at the blair house, he moved across the street to the blair house for this process. it did not affect the west wing. he would walk around and he began to notice the banker marks. the banker mark, we saw one, they're ancient in building and a man

an official white house china as well as art in the white house, a nation's pride, essays by the art historian william clause. some are good wills. what better place to begin with the desk made by the timbers of the hms resolute. it was part of an exhibition formed in 1852 to search for the explorer sir john franklin. he set out in 1845 in search of the northwest passage. the bow was sheathed in iron to help cut through the ice. in april of 1854, it was trapped in the ice. they had already spent two winters in the arctic and the expedition commander decided it was time to abandon the ice bound vessels. under protest and with some ceremony, the resolute was abandoned on may 15th, 1854 in the ice of melville. in september of 1855 he was found by an american whale ship, the george henry. she had drifted nearly 1100 miles away from where she had been left. she was listing badly to her port side. she still had some ice attached. it took several weeks to pump out the water and resume an even kil. departed in october and their trip home was very challenging. full-timely arrived on christmas

and inviting putin to the white house. the white house. honestly. what is going on here? let's bring there now cnn global affairs analyst susan glasser. a staff writer at the "new yorker," for the "new yorker." maybe she can help us understand what's going on here. good evening to you, sauzusan. thank you so much for joining us. let's talk about vladimir putin. invited to washington for a second summit. are we in bizarre-o world right now? >> well, i have to say, listening to your opening remarks there, don, it seemed to me that the white house had really helped you out there by almost writing your lines. it's been one of those weeks that not only feels like a year, but feels like every day is filled with revelations you're having a hard time digesting and, you know, when the news came out this afternoon that the president was, in fact, having a second summit, wanted to have a second summit with vladimir putin here in washington, i thought back to march when president putin was actually invited here to the white house in march by president trump. the white house didn't ad

he had gotten so good at the history of the white house, he would tell you stuff. he would even do research on his own and tell you stuff about the house you didn't know and every time i heard him tell somebody something, i'm like i didn't know that. so he's a very wonderful guy with everything. i love cats. i love dogs. i think everybody should be treated fairly. he's allergic to cats, but he picked the cat up. >> that's president bush with barney. he called barney the son he never had. you might remember barney is the one that bit the hand of the reporter one day. he had to get some stitches, but again this is another situation where, you know, president bush allowed me to photograph him during some of his personal time including early on his administration when he was a jogger. later on he started biking when his knee started hurting, but it's just a personal moment like a real moment with just like any of us with our pets. that's bo. we were about to do an event with the first lady somewhere. i couldn't tell you where. my memory is shot, but yeah, bo is a great

should i tell you that he is here fresh from a meeting at the white house, this white house. >> we will get to that in a moment. also joined by chuck rosenberg. chief of staff at the fbi with james comey. he served as u.s. attorney for the eastern district of virginia. we are also joined by matthew. a $and el rod. gentlemen, thank you all very, very much for being here tonight. this is an unusual format for me. we never do this. >> it is unusual for me. i'm rarely in new york. >> really glad you could all be here. we have a little bit of breaking news that i need to get your immediate response to because it has just become known. this is the tape that became known to the public just a few days ago. it is a recording made by michael cohen, the president's long time attorney. although president had previously denied that he had no knowledge, a hush money payment over the affair of president trump, this is a tape-recording that was apparently seized by the fbi of mr. cohen apparently unknowing, unbeknownst to mr. trump, tape-recording an in-person meeting they had. we have been reporting a

i'm guessing the white house wouldn't green light attacks on him from other republicans in the white > the good news is this impeachment document won't reach the floor of the house for a vote. there won't be a serious effort to remove rosenstein from his job to facilitate the white house in doing that. everyone needs to remember that not too far behind these efforts to attack rosenstein is an attack on bob mueller, an attack on the ongoing russia investigation. this is all part of kowtowing to trump and trying to bring that investigation down, which i guess takes us full circle back to obstruction. >> back to obstruction and the president's tweets. i don't know. maybe he'll stop tweeting. joyce vance, thank you for spending some time with us. when we come back, stumping the secretary of state. democrats and republicans pile on to the secretary of state as he struggles to explain what he knows and doesn't know about donald trump and russia. crabfest is back at red lobster! discover our largest variety of crab and crab dishes all year! like new crabfest combo. your one chance to have ne

my favorite thing was watching people enter the white house for the first time. and they look around at the columns and you can just see them thinking. i share a common heritage. with all the people that lived in this house. they often become very emotional. it's just a very lovely reinforcing thing. i'm sure that every social secretary has seen it many times. is positive. we have a lunch. for the family. and then about a week later i got a letter handwritten letter laura bush had called my assistant laura wants to send something to jeremy met someone sends something to the white house. anything that goes to the white house becomes public record. i got home one day. and have this beautiful handwritten note from mrs. bush saying how welcomed they felt in the personal china from upstairs. she noticed everything. and think the chef for making enchiladas which is one of president bush's favorite meals. getting something like that and just the moment it is thoughtful. and it really means a great deal. that's in the book. that's one of the topics in the book. going thro

to the white house? >> i think this is another example of the president versus the presidency. the administration clearly does not think this is a good idea. we knew from our reporting that the helsinki summit was a very guided white house as to whether the president should do this at all. there were more objections about whether he should have this one-on-one meeting. but he insisted he wanted to do this. he was in there, just the two of them and the interpreter. we shouted some questions, they each gave a statement, that was it. they proceeded to be in there more than two hours. we are still days later not really sure what was discussed. >> it's not just the reporters, it's u.s. officials as well. you just heard dni coats say he didn't know what was head in that interview. when you have a president that passed on top-secret information to the foreign minister and ambassador in the oval office, does that leave you to believe that something bigger could have been passed on from the president to the other

i would offer a piece of advice to the white house.f the written statement here gives you a precision of communication you won't get when you try to read a statement and then ad blib from it. my advice when you know you have to clean something up or you know the first three questions are going to be, just pre-write something and hand it out in advance and say, i've already answered those questions. what else do you have? this is a very smart thing for them to do and frankly keep them out of a lot of situations like that. >> have you met donald trump? i mean, seriously eye? >> he clearly accepted a piece of paper with writing on it. why not just issue it? issue the paper. >> what about the facts? look. that excuse falls flat. for any other public, maybe plausible and thought he misspoke and unfortunately president trump has a deficit of trust and whether that's warranted or not. surrogates, people tell us, don't worry so much about what the president says but look at what the president does. we watched what he did standing next to vladi

with bill shine going into the white house. has there ever been any equivalent of that kind of a relationship between a white house and any form of media? >> not really. you know, andrew jackson, for instance, would have a very friendly newspaper that would say a lot of the things that he wanted to say, but one newspaper did not have the kind of power that a tv network like fox news does now. so, this is something that we have not seen before. >> yeah, and i wonder if it's amplified more because you have sinclair broadcast network that is taking that strategy out to the local news. in a way, has nixon's dream been super fulfill? because fox is just one media network that is carrying that unified message. >> this is exactly what nixon dreamt of. and we could see a situation where the president is able to get a lot more things done and is able to survive challenges and criticism and opposition by, you know, the opposition party, in a way that nixon was never able to do, so -- in a way, richard nixon has won. >> yeah, and i have t

this is a white house that has only had three white house press briefings in one month and presidentmp on the lawn refusing to answer questions from reporters about this and a number of other topics that have come up about this issue. the reason we continue to ask the white house about this is because hope hicks, the president's spokesperson during the campaign denied any knowledge of this payment to karen mcdougal during the campaign. and now that's known to be untrue. but the president who is normally used to kind of stopping and talking to reporters at moments like this, refusing to answer questions. giving us only a stern look and a bit of a wave as he walks back into the white house. >> is the white house now telling us why they aren't saying anything or silent on that, too? >> they're pretty silent on that, too. but this afternoon on air force one, the deputy press secretary got some questions on this. all he did was refer to the president's outside attorneys. that's the move they're taking right now to deflect some of these questions. we also had a chance to ask bill shine, th

what is the white house response. >> reporter: so far the white house hasn't said anything about this trump walked on the south lawn of the produces. you can hear the helicopter marine one behind me. president trump walked past reporters who shouted questions at him presumably about the stunning news and development that michael cohen did record a conversation between the two of them, but brook, he didn't answer any questions. instead, he boarded marine one, he is on the way to joint base andrews where he is going to spend the weekend at his golf club in new jersey. brooke, we know the white house doesn't have the best track record on these things. in the past, they said the president had no knowledge about anything to relate to karen macdougal, the playboy model that alleges she had an affair with the president. they also said the same thing about stormy daniels, the porn actress that said she was paid to keep quiet about her relationship with president trump. now that of course came to light when the president's own lawyer, rudy guiliani, said on a cable news show, that the presiden

joining us now from the white house, cnn's kaitlan collins. talk about how the president's attorney, giuliani, what he's been saying today. >> reporter: well, anderson, we're seeing rudy giuliani shift their defense. they've gone for months now saying there was no collusion to today rudy giuliani said he's been looking, and he doesn't believe collusion is an actual crime. that is certainly not what the president has argued before, that it wasn't the fact that he may have colluded that was a problem. the president has maintained for months now that he did not collude at all. so we're seeing giuliani make these statements of course that seem problematic for the white house, as well as saying that the president didn't attend that meeting with the russian officials, and donald trump jr., his son, and jared kushner, his son-in-law, now senior adviser, and then paul manafort. that's what rudy giuliani said today. he wasn't arguing about that statement from michael cohen, who is alleging that president trump did know about that meeting before it occu

i am curious how you became white house photographers. if you could talk a little bit about how you got to that position. >> my parents always had a camera in the house. if they got a picture of me, it was a miracle, because i could barely sit still in church. i played clarinet and bassoon. my mother would say you look lovely, let me get the camera. i love music, but when i saw football, that's how i got started. it was like magic. this is very interesting. that's how i got started. >> what was the path from discovering the magic of the dark room to photographing the clinton-gore administration? >> being an activist and the fbi recognizing that. because if you don't stand up for something, you are going to get done in by everything. [applause] i am clear that photography was an activist thing to do. we had demonstrations on the campus of ohio state because things were going on. we had less and 300 blacks duden's -- students out of 40,000. we would get carted getting off the jitney bus. i started working for a black student paper. i went on

the white house is eerily quiet this evening, wolf. once again silenced by news that has overwhelmed the administration's message. and just when you thought this week would end with more cleanup over vladimir putin, another encounter has come back to haunt mr. trump, and there are recordings. in this recording of the president leaving the white house there is only silence. as he declined to comment on the bombshell his former personal attorney michael cohen recorded mr. trump discussing a payment to playboy model karen mcdougal aimed at covering up an alleged affair. >> i'm not a lawyer. i did what i did. >> reporter: for a president who often boasts he likes to make recordings of his adversaries it could be the ultimate irony. >> fortunately we tend to record stories now, so we have it for your enjoyment if you'd like it. >> reporter: michael avenatti believes there are more cohen tapes covering a range of subjects. >> i will tell you for a fact there's more than one. there's multiical recordings and all of them should be released for

the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall say that again? [ laughter ] >> vladimir putin coming to the -- >> yeah -- >> yeah, yeah. >> okay. that's going to be special. >> director of national intelligence dan coats clearly caught off guard by vladimir putin's invite to the white house. that was just one moment in a whiplash week of declarations and walk backs from the white house. it began with president trump at the helsinki summit on monday saying he saw no reason why the russians would have meddled in the 2016 election. the next day the president said he misspoke. then on wednesday when asked by a reporter if he believed russians were still targeting the u.s., the president simply replied know. later that day, sarah sanders claimed that trump was saying no to taking further questions from the press. the white house want into more trouble when she said trump was working with the team on whether he would permit the kremlin to intarot gate certain u.s. officials. on thursday he said the white house would not allow that to ha

we should not be inviting president putin to dinner at the white house, to have a visit at the white house especially during the season of our mid term elections. it is incumbent that we are not helpless. we have a congress that can stand up to this president. today in the house intelligence committee we had an open hearing. ranking member shif and i made a motion to bring a translator in to test the republicans on the committee. many made statements or tweets to see if they are sincere about that. they voted that down along party lines. we have to keep testing them to see what they are willing to do to protect our country. >> the house intelligence committee is acrimonious along party lines. if it weren't shocking enough that he has to learn about a second summit from the news media, maybe even more shocking that three days after the first summit, the meeting between presidents putin and trump, he doesn't know really what happened in that meeting. >> that is why it is so important to hear from the translator which i acknowledge is an extraordinary measure. this president has a -- las

>> no comment officially from the white house.ally that would not be interesting, no comment from white house officials. in this instance it is, because if that was not the president or if this was not an issue, because that wasn't actually the president, you would be hearing about it. there would be push back saying, well, this was fake, this is edited or faux podcast. that is not the reaction we've heard from west wing officials today so a couple things to point out. number one, you are rieft because you know this. there is a procedure and protocol that goes into place. for this president he speaks with members of congress all the time without going through the director of legislative a pairs or through that office. he has a direct line to members of congress. bob menendez, given the case he was able to be connected through the switchboard. it is not always the procedures and protocols are followed with this president because of his relationships on the hill. that said, there are security questions that have already been raised

more on that from white house correspondent jeff zeleny. >> reporter: dave and christine, the white house doubling down with the meeting with putin scheduling this fall. john bolton extended the invitation to come to washington. it was clear this was an attempt to the white house talking to a number of officials here that the president making the case he did not make a mistake in helsinki. never mind they have been correcting and cleaning up reversals all week long. one person was surprised by the announcement. the director of national intelligence dan coats. watch his reaction when he was told yesterday about the second invitation. >> the white house announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. >> say that again? >> vladimir putin coming to the white house. >> i heard you. i heard you. >> yeah. >> okay. that's going to be special. >> reporter: he alsos was asked if -- he also was asked if he would resign. he said he will stay in his position as long as he speaks the truth. dave and christine. >>> thank you. white house aides are concerned that this w

president. >> not only did the president not have an answer after the white house -- after the white house banned the questioner. banned her from a rose garden event. sarah sanders issuing a statement claiming our reporter quote shouted questions and refused to leave despite being asked to do so. let me state this is the obvious, kate lynn collins is doing her job. she was doing her job. it's her job to ask questions of the president even if he doesn't like those questions. it is standard operating procedure for reporters to request the president. sometimes he answers, sometimes he doesn't answer. there's nothing unusual about caitlin collins doing her job. it is unusual for the white house to ban her for doing her job. in her statement sarah sanders says the white house supports a free press. odd way of showing it, don't you think? let's get to our guest now. let's bring in cnn senior correspondent april ryan and kirsten powers and rick wilson. april, before we get into the rest of this, let's start with the white house banning of caitlin kcollins who was representing all the network

the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. >> say that again? >> vladimir putin coming to the -- >> did i hear you? >> yeah, yeah. >> okay. that's gonna be special. >> that's gonna be special. well, that reaction and some other things that dan coats had to say apparently raising concerns within the west wing. "the washington post" reports white house aides are worried that trump will interpret the comments by coats as a personal betrayal since they came so soon after the president praised him. with me now jeremy peters, shane harris, "washington post" national security correspondent who wrote the story we just quoted. so, shane, give us some more insight. why was the white house, to use your words, in such an uproar over what dan coats told andrea mitchell? >> well, i think honestly it's because he went out and he spoke candidly and he spoke the truth and he didn't attempt to make excuses for the white house. he didn't conceal his surprise when he found out, when andrea told him as she told the rest of us in the room about th

the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall say that again. >> vladimir putin coming to -- >> did i hear you? >> yeah, yeah. >> okay on. >> yeah. >> that's going to be special. >> the white house announcement that andrea referenced earlier said putin was invited to washington this fall. were you aware of that? i just want to clarify -- >> i think based on my reaction i wasn't aware of that. >> okay. given that, what do you think the agenda should be for that meeting? >> oh, goodness. you know, first of all they're not going to ask me what the agenda is. we will be looking at what the potential intelligence risk could possibly be and we will make that information known to the president, and we'll provide him with whatever information we can gather relative to what might be on putin's mind or what they might want to achieve. >> would you recommend that there not be a one-on-one without note takers. ? >> if i were asked that question i would look for a different way of doing it. >>> all right. according to "the washington post" th

daniel: i'm sure what the white house will say ayesha: -- i'm sure what the white house will we don't that tweet thatis the hoax the issue president has desolate white house has right now and president talks about the molar probe he says it's a witchhunt. there have been a lot of indictments so is he saying all of that is fake? an -- we must stop trump. history should not see people getting shot and killed. host: we got your point this morning. auser, would you like to pick up on? one of the issues he talked about was the trade comments. on the trade issue, a story from the wall street journal, the senate finance committee chairman ratcheting up pressure on president trump to reconsider his tariff policies. take us through how that may play out this week. guest 2: very rare to see this. could -- republicans had traditionally been a party of fair trade. tariffs are not related thing. they are deferential to trump. they are giving him a pretty long leash and saying we understand what he is trying to do and we know that it is going to be some short-term pain but if it means a better deal

"deadline: white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. donald trump's helsinki hangover stretches into its ninth day today. the president tweeting another bizarre message designed to m t muddle the endellible image of vladamir putin's role in the 2016 election writing -- >> that's funny. here's vladamir putin on the question of whether he wanted trump. >> did you want president trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that? >> translator: yes, i did. yes, i did. because he talked about bringing the u.s.-russia relationship back to normal. >> once might not be enough for me. new polling data shows the extent of the political damage that the president's comments have done. 51% of americans now believe that the president is compromised by russian president vladamir putin. it's a message disaster, the likes of which this white house hasn't endured since charlottesville and new details about the intervention that took place upon the president's return to washington in response to

i'd say the biggest chance is when we started in the white house, i used to get calls from members ofess that would say, mark, it's exciting. we're here. we have control of the house, the senate, the white house. the agenda is great. can you just get the president to turn off his phone? over time what we now get is members of congress calling, saying, hey, mark, can we get the president to tweet this? you say they ignore his tweets but in reality more often than not we have members of congress calling and soliciting tweets on their behalf from the president of the united states. >> that's still not saying they love what he's tweeting out. he tweeted out that the threat from north korea was no longer. there's no longer a nuclear threat from north korea. now we have reporting that just tonight in "the washington post," north korea is actually moving forward on a weapons system. >> i think the president's pretty clear as to what's happening in north korea. i think he's got a great national security team and secretary of state pompeo, ambassador bolton, secretary mattis. those are great p