next, white house journalists talked about their experiences covering the white house, from eisenhower to the trump administration. the association for education in journalism and mass communication posted this one hour event. thissted this -- hosted one hour event. jennifer: so one of the things the president gets to do is invite people to come give a keynote address, and as i was thinking about our locale, as we see here, our lovely logo with the capital, all i had to do was turn on the news, look at the newspaper, open my twitter feed, and realize what our topic had to be. it had to be looking at the relationship between our chief executive and the white house press corps. and so i am so honored to have instead of one guest, i decided to do a q&a panel with three outstanding white house press corps members, and i will bring them up one at a time. the format is going to be, we are going to have a conversation, and i will tell you, i think our friends at c-span, who were going to air this at 9:30 eastern tonight -- they are taping it right now, and that way it can be shared by so many

and the white house is a working house. where many things are done. so, you have to regulate public access and tours and the way people access it and who accesses it. uf unfortunately, you'd like everybody to be able to. 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, you try to encourage those institutions that will benefit from it. that's what we do in a more regulated way. i'm sure her majesty does the same, too. >> lydia? >> i just want to say, it helps to educate the staffs that work with you, too. we try to hold handling sessions to be sure everybody when they pick up a chair, knows they have to pick it up by the seat, not grab it by the back. 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 two more over here. john? >> i have to preface my question with the fact -- >> john, hold it up tight. wor

both then, you covered obama white house and now, you are in -- you are 18 months into the trump white house. how are those different? are they different at all? [laughter] >> a little different. >> we fought for access under the obama administration. we often had adversarial interactions. i was often shouting questions at former president obama as well. there are some very notable so, iences though, and will speak to some of those. i know you will address them in your questioning. i think one of the biggest differences is the pace of our new cycle. as a white house correspondent, you are constantly trying to stay ahead of the curve, and under the obama administration, we would be sort of tracking three, maybe for big stories at any given time, and i think under the trump administration, that has just grown exponentially. policy,overing domestic forward policy, covering his tweets, which at times can completely change the news cycle. we are covering the russian investigation, special counsel is investigation into russian meddling. that is a beat in and of itself, yet we can never fall

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

of the white house is about lying. of course, we have daily lies coming from the white house, the staff must know it. and they must in some way make some allowance for their less than forthright commander in chief. >> right. maybe it bought a little credibility. it's part of the all-out-war between the white house and former staffer/apprentice contestant omarosa. she's out for blood ahead of the release of her book unhinged. as part of her publicity tour, she's releasing secret audio recordings she made at the end the tail of her white house tenure. here's one of the tapes john kelly firing her in the situation room. >> but i think it's important to understand that if we make this a friendly departure, we can all be, you know, you can look at your time here in the white house as a year of service to the nation. and then you can go on without any type of difficulty in the future relative to your reputation. >> and omarosa released another recording earlier today, this one of a phone call between herself and the presiden

he has been well received by his colleagues in the white house. he has been described as an adult in the room. largely made house up of people who have never worked in the government. in appearance as a character mr. trump's first two years in office is indicative of the that people do not have to have relevant experience to the jobs trump is giving them. indicative of this presidency of of how media intersects with almost everything. his presidency has done so at .he highest levels if you follow the news, you are aware that last week trump called the media the real enemy of the state. he has appropriated the term fake news, which is used to talk about twisted headlines. he has used it to describe reporters and stories -- and andies, but entire outlets things he would rather not have in the headlines. it might surprise you that this is a game to the president. he says he is having "fun" with reporters. privatehold meetings in with executives from news outlets and then undo it with tweets. he will point to reporters out fake news." as " briefed oura

you know, to get into the white house, you know everybody wants to work at the white house until they get the job. then they don't know what to do with it. i really mean it. that's the truth. you have to understand this job is very scary because of the people you are serving. you are no longer serving just anybody like in a hotel or whatever, you're serving people that have achieved great things in life, that have had great jobs, so you better be on the same level with your food. i also served numerous emperors, kings, heads of state all during my tenure. but when i started at the white house, i was already in that line of work for 20 years, learning under the best chefs available in paris, france, germany, and specially the hotel i mentioned because that used to be the number one hotel in the world. it still exists today but i think it's lost to the years because now it's part of a chain. in those days the savoy was owned by family. big difference. big difference. and the customers, the guests that we were feeding at the savoy in those days, just to give you a short list, we had a lo

but it was not always easy covering the obama white house. >> how did the relationship change? you covered the state house and then congress, but how did it change over the eight years that you were there, the relationship between the present barack did -- between the press and barack obama? >> for me personally, it got a lot harder to get his time, so that was the problem. [laughter] >> there were more than one of you covering him. >> exactly. he had a long time to talk in the statehouse, but after a while, it -- [laughter] >> but over time, you just got better at figuring out who was really paying close attention and who the most knowledgeable reporters were on the subjects he wanted to talk about. and he gave a lot of access to those reporters, and who he attracted and whom -- who he thought would understand the story as he wanted to tell it, which is not to say they were not independent and adversarial -- they were. i cannot say that any of those people who got that deep access to the president were writing fluffy pieces. they just were not. but in general, they were somewha

search white house experience. right now it takes you on a virtual tour of the estate rooms of the house as well as the nonpublic historic rooms. eventually we want to teach the stories of what the white house was like a different times. also teach other aspects of the white house history. we would love watching by c- span and those here to download the app and explore the white house with us. we are grateful for all of you. you are on the tip of the spear in american history and presidential history and white house history. it's been inspirational to us this week to have you here and look forward to working with you moving forward. we don't want this to be a -- every four year or two year experience but want to do it all the time. we want to teach the next generation. thank you all very much. [ applause ] will be leading it in the fau future. thank you all very much. have a great afternoon. [ applause ]

manigault newman left the white house back in december.morning she released audio on nbc's "today" show of what she claims to be the president calling her the day after she was fired. >> omarosa, what's going on? i just saw on the news that you're thinking about leaving. what happened? >> general kelly -- general kelly came to me and said you that guys wanted me to leave. >> no. i -- nobody even told me about it. nobody. you know, they run a big operation, but i didn't know it. i didn't know that. [ bleep ]. i don't love you leaving at all. >> reporter: trump appearing to not know of her firing, though on "meet the press" on sunday manigault newman says he was indeed aware. >> i've talked to him subsequently, and he said he delegated, "i delegated." so he knew. >> reporter: she says she recorded chief of staff john kelly in the secure situation room as he was firing her, claiming he locked her in. >> i'm only going to stay for a couple of minutes. these are lawyers. we've got to talk to you about leaving the white house. there are pretty s

joining me now is geoff bennett, msnbc's white house correspondent, following this white supremacist demonstrator. garrett, let me start with you. give us the state of play here. you hopped on the metro in s vienna, as i understand it, with a number of these white supremacists. these white nationalists are making their way to the nation's capital for this protest. which is scheduled to kick off at 5:30 p.m., eastern time. set the scene for us, if you would, garrett. [ inaudible ] >> a little trouble with garrett's mic amid the bedlam of the protests. geoff, what did you see as those white nationalists and white supremacists emerged from the subway station? >> reporter: david, the thing that you and our viewers should know is that there are only about, to my count, about two dozen or so white nationalists, white supremacists protesters who are here. i was counting the numbers of people as they got off the metro train. our colleague, gar rrett haake s with them. we're walking to 23rd street, a half mile away from the white house. as you mentioned, when we get to lafayette square in the

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

did they intend for the people being able to access the white house? >> bill, maybe you could start on that. bill? >> well, it wasn't open to the public until jefferson, april of 1801, because he traveled in europe and he bribed the stewart to go in the house. you could go in the house and look at the paintings and things. and he started that. it's more difficult today. but, frankly, one of the jobs of the white house historical association is to cross that barrier from the public to the house. and the association does everything possible to make people know all about the house because security, we all know, is a way of life now in this century. i would say that's the status of it now. there are private tours, but it's hard to get them. and they're very quick. but they do the best they can. you know, it's always been open. franklin pierce said, can i see your house? he said, why not, it's your house. so people just began wandering through. traditionally through the 19th century they showed the east room only, and then it became more and more -- as it be

when cnn reported that senior white house staff signed ndas this year, the white house denied it. >> i can't say that the report that -- required or asked to sign non-disclosure agreements is not true. >> reporter: a white house official telling cnn they don't consider her recordings and worried she wasn't the only staffer recording conversations. all this as threatening more trouble for the white house. >> do you have more recordings? >> oh, absolutely. >> are you planning on releasing them? >> i don't know. i'm going to watch to say. they're threatening legal action. trying to figure out how to stop me. i'm expecting they retaliate so i'm going to stand back and wait. >> reporter: now, jim, the president was more than happy to mention omarosa on several occasions today and there's one critic of his he made no mention of. that's senator john mccain. whether the president was today signing a massive defense spending bill named after senator john mccain with brain cancer and who made it a top priority as the president went down his list thanking people for their help in getting that t

white house, the sudden fear if you were wearing a wire in the white house. it's very similar and a parallel to that. it obviously puts the fear of god in people to think there's a bunch of tapes out there. they all had contact with omarosa at one time or another. a lot of them met in rooms less secure than situation room. michael cohen is closer to potential crimes that the president, the president's family, people around the president may have committed. and in the end those crimes may be more consequential. but there's no doubt that the pompous stuffed shirts among us in the same way people normalize stormy daniels and michael avenatti and said it's a porn star and some chief hustling lawyer from l.a., it turned out that the porp star was more relatable, and the lawyer -- he plays the game the way donald trump does. that's what's triggered trump so much is that he look at these people, they get the modern dynamics of media. i'm not sure she understands how to sell books, but she does know the power of tapes. >> and the new wire is an iphone. the social clu

according to the paper, winter is coming, said one trump ally in close communication with the white house. assuming democrats win the house, which we all believe is a very strong likelihood, the white house will be under siege. but it's like tumbleweeds rolling down the halls over there. no one is prepared for a war. let's bring in our leadoff panel. phil rucker, the pulitzer prize winning bureau chief for the "washington post." tamara keith, white house correspondent for npr, and richard painter was chief white house ethics adviser for george w. bush. thank you for joining me. let's start with you. why now? what's specific about the potential departure of mcgahn that's got so many people worried, or is it just one more thing that's making them worried? >> ali, it's just one more thing that's making them worry. this fear has been building for a while now as it looks increasingly likely that democrats have a real possibility of taking over the majority of the house at a minimum in november's midterm elections. and people around the president, his allies, including some of his advisers insi

he's our link to an unconventional white house. he's the person that helps get these judges through on all levels of the federal court. there's an inclination to have him stay. it's been something that's lingering over this white house. >> emmett flood who you reported as a possible replacement. the top line of the biois that he was a lawyer during clinton's impeachment. a lot of people wondering what that signals. >> the white house is preparing for the democrats to possibly take over the house. they hope that doesn't happen, but you have to prepare. my sources tell me that flood is a white shoe lawyer will be ready. will be able to mount a defense of the presidency. trying to mount a defense for the president should that scenario happen. he has built a rapport with the president. it's not clear an offer has been made yet. mcgahn brought him in, a lot of people don't want to come into this white house as lawyers. flood was convinced maybe he could be white house counsel. >> the circumstances around the special council are complica

called a white house of stone. you have written so many books about the white house. why this project about the stone at the white house? >> the one thing that hasn't been addressed is what is left of the white house. it is sacred historically. what is left and how did it get there. that is why this book was written. >> before we get into the story of the stone we have to back up and talk about the location. how did the white house end up in this spot in washington d.c.? >> it was part of the city plan, that george washington approved. it calls for a palace five times the size of this. and the sellers were dog. they were making bricks out of clay. washington relocated the house to put it on the axis. there were two axes. one running from the capital down the mall and one running here. it runs right through the house. washington placed it right on their. when he reduce the size of the house by a fifth, he wanted to still be in the plan as it was supposed to be one of the two great important buildings in washington.

>> business with the white house. people who provide services or companies that provide services to the white house. i believe that would be something that would be a regular practice. but as it relates to staff, certainly. this is an anomaly. it is an anomaly. no question than. but at the same time, going back to it, the fact of the matter is it's reinforcing what is already there. as a white house lawyer, there is no way i'm going to go out and talk about the specific conversations. >> would a white house nda even be enforceable? these are employees paid by taxpayers. they don't work for donald trump, the family or personal business. they work for the government of the united states. >> no anderson, they would not be enforceable. i was a lawyer for the obama campaign, transition and white house. we never dreamt of one. i never heard of them. sarah sanders, i'll say it, she was out and out lying today, anderson. because if you listen to what she said, she said they're common in the classified setting. but that's not

namely, the white house's historic furnishings and first families and the official white house china as well as arjun the white house, the nation's pride emma essays -- and essays by the art historian, and all published by the white house historical association. nearly all objects were gifts to the white house. somewhere 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. what better place to begin van with the desk made by the timbers of the hms resolute? the resolute was part of an exposition -- exhibition formed in 1852, to search for the explorer sir john franklin. he had set out in 1845 in search of the northwest passage. 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 arctic service. the bow, which had been ironed to cut through the ice and was under the command of captain henry --. in

you can slap a miracle whip sign-on the white house, there is no diversity on this white house line-uphen he makes comments about nfl players and about anybody else he's not getting good counsel. and you said it at the top of the show when we were transitioning from chris' show to yours, you need that type of diversity so you have diverse thought. so you can actually have a valued opinion from people who do not look like you who have actually had various life experiences. donald trump doesn't have that. >> i was thinking about smith, it's such an easy one. >> smith, yeah. and he's actually a cool guy. it's like jeron smith, and you know somebody named jeron was in the white house. jeron smith. >> to bakari's point, he pointed to the housing and urban secretary ben carson, his only black cabinet member. but in fact 24 cabinet positions, 16 are occupied by white men. so the president, isn't he missing out on vital parts -- vital points of view for having so few minority in high positions? isn't he missing out on that? >> right, don i think he is. and you and i have talked about this off

over the years, how the white house has a balanced as of late, very differently, it being the seat of power and also being a house for the people. and i wonder, this famous story of andrew jackson and having anyone coming up and seeing the white house. and interacting and things like that, in the age of security and these kind of things. do you think that the white house now, in the last since september 11, has balanced the idea of it being accessible to everyone, was that its original intent for anyone who can answer the question. did they intend for the people being able to do that? >> maybe you can go with that bill? >> it was not open to the public until jefferson in 1801 because he had traveled in europe, and you know he was like the steward and you could go into the house and look at the paintings. he started that and it is more difficult today. frankly one of the jobs of the white house historically is to cross the barrier and republic to the house. everything possible to make people know all about the house because security as we all know is a way of life now in the century. i

an official white house china as well as art in the white house, a nation's pride. written by william cloth. all published by the white house historical association. with the objects featured today you will see nearly all were gifts to the white house. some examples or 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 united states. what a better place to begin then with the desk made by the timbers. the resolute is part of an expedition formed in 1852. to search for the explorer search on franklin. sir john franklin had set out in 1845 in search of the northwest passage. by july of that year he had disappeared. in the meantime other expeditions were formed. this one consisted of five vessels. including the resolute. it was constructed, especially for arctic service. the bal was used to help cut through the ice. it was the -- under the command of captain henry kollek. it was trapped in the ice in 1854. they had spent two winters in

bush white house. this meeting from the judiciary committee is 40 minutes. >> before we turn to today's his agenda, i would like to briefly speak on the supreme court nomination. i mentioned last week that judge kavanaugh's confirmation hearing will begin september 4. senators will have had by then 57 days between the announcement of judge kavanaugh's nomination, and the start of the hearing. this is a longer time than we had four justices kagan and gorsuch. is how, this is example thatother this is the most transparent confirmation process of all time . in the 12 years on the d c circuit, judge kavanaugh-ish -- kavanaugh issued and hundreds more. as senator schumer and way he at the justice's confirmation hearing, in nominee's judicial record is the best way to evaluate a nominee. also submitted more than 17,000 pages with his bipartisan judicial committee questionnaire, and that happens to be the most robust questionnaire given to a nominee. received to enter 50,000 pages of documents from judge kava

when we look at the white house, what is it about the white house that is so distinctly american? >> the first thing is the journalist whose name was willis , he was right-- quite reputable that his pallbearers were led by longfellow. he was serious. he wrote a short description on the white house that he described as being ultimately a sufficient measure of space for the republic. too much was an assertion. essentially what washington had in mind all the time was that these states could usually fracture and later on it was effectively to say that washington converted-- it was a compact into a constitution that is a definition of a nation which applies to individuals. instead of passing back through the states the constitution affected individuals directly. >> real quickly, you know the roots in dublin. when you look at the white house what do you see that is uniquely american? >> it's an interesting question because focusing on the irish, i think what we see that was modeled on obviously it's the government that an image of in terms of how it's expressed or how it expresses an am

"washington post" white house reporter ashley parker. i want to bring in joe watkins, republican strategist and former white house aide for president george h.w. bush. joe, good to see you. thank you for being with us. >> great to be with you. >> what's your sense of this? i don't want to get distracted by the idea that this is all becoming about an nda and what omarosa is allowed to say and not allowed to say because this white house does tend to concentrate on that alone and not deal with the substance of the issues which are more interesting to most people. but give me your sense of people like you who were close to a president and what you should or should not be allowed to do thereafter. >> for the most part, ndas, i don't recall people signing ndas when i worked in the white house and my daughter worked in the white house for george w. bush. i don't recall her signing an nda. now, people did have clearances. i know i had a clearance. i had a level clearance as such which allowed me to be in the presence of sensitive information, bu

the first time the white house floated this idea also in the white house briefing room a few weeks ago they were actually pretty explicit what you have to do to get on this list. >> not only is the president looking to take away brennan's security clearance, he's also looking into the clearances of comey, clapper, hayden, rice and mccabe, making baseless accusations of improper contact with russia or being influenced by russia against the president is extremely inappropriate and the fact that people with security clearances are making these baseless charges and illegitimacy to accusations without evidence. >> there is no accusation from the white house anybody is mishandling classified information or misusing their security clearance in some other way you're not allowed to do with a security clearance. the white house is now making clear, you criticize the president specifically with regard to russia intervening to help him in his election, they will use the power of the president to hurt you. they will strip your security clearance to try to discredit you as a critic of the president

bush's eight years in the white house. as my democratic colleagues keep pointing out judge kavanaugh has described how his time as staff secretary was a formative experience for him. well, justice kagan said the same thing about her time as solicitor general but in the case of justice kagan the democrats refused to request for records.le on top of the undisputed relevance of solicitor general's material judge kagan, however, backed by judicial record. in other words, unlike the more than 300 opinions that judge kavanaugh altered and the hundreds more opinions he joined in his 12 years of service on the dc circuit justice kagan had zero judicial opinions that she offered, zero judicial opinions that she joined and zero years of judicial service. her solicitor general documents for their for even more relevant democratic leaders are rewriting the kagan standard to further their stalling tactics. the minority leader also tried to draw a parallel or parallels with the request for documents from justice sotomayor's time as a bo

this is -- there's in people that make comparisons between the nixon white house and the trump white house. with nixon, we had a president that installed a taping system in the oval office because he had a bit of a paranoia that people would be lying about him and he wanted tapes of what was being said in the oval office and he could prove he's right. now we have a presidency where the opposite is true. people around this candidate, donald trump, before he was the president, seemed to be want tok make tapes because they were a little bit amazed what he might say or what he might deny having said later on. so in politics, in a world in which people talk about fake news, hearing a president or any person actually say important words on video or on audio tape is really sort of crucial to the way the rest of the trump presidency plays out. >> shepard: people inside a white house signing nondisclosure agreements, is that a new idea to you or is that something which you were aware prior? >> you know, it's a new idea to me. i was sitting here listening to the briefing. i don't exactly know w

staffers in the white house. as of right now, it seems there is not one black senior staffer in the white house. they had people that wanted to work for this white house. michael steel said that omarosa blocked some of those people from going in. on top of that, ben carson has decided to raise the rent on a lot of poor people looking for federal subsidies. you have jeff sessions looking at ending affirmative action, also looking at extending prison terms. so this is an administration, if you look at it, they were say they're champions of civil rights but people like the naacp say that only in the president's rhetoric and his policies and who he has chosen not to hire, he's not interested in civil rights. >> michael steel, donald trump saying triumphantly that mark burnett called to say there are no tapes. there is something about the claiming that there is no tapes that gives you the feeling that the person that is so excited there are no tapes may be worried that there was some possibility -- >> that there are t

kavanaugh's white house record. my staff has been pouring over these records, nearly completed its review. some of the documents are useful in assessing judge kavanaugh's fitness for a lifetime to the supreme court. but it further confirms the need to obtain the full record to adequately assess the nominee and have these document publicly avail before the hearing. i regret the decision to designate the vast majority of relevant documents as committee confidential. the irony is, there is no rule that defines what this means. but as of now, you have said only committee members and staff currently have access to these documents. my question for you, mr. chairman, is can we use these documents to question mr. kavanaugh at the hearing? to make a confirmation decision on a nominee based on secret documents not available to the public or the full senate, is extremely troubling. i participated in 10 supreme court nominations. i would like to take the opportunity to ask the chairman respectfully to ensure that the records ar

white house. he was stationed in the white house under eisenhower and kennedy, doing transcriptions and speeches, and so has come to know them. in addition to covering the white house, he covered the iranian press hostage and many, many international stories. cochran worked for 21 years at nbc as a correspondent both in washington and overseas. he covered nixon, ford, carter, reagan, and the bush administrations. from 1978 to 1987, he was based in london and was the chief foreign correspondent for nbc. he returned to nbc's washington bureau and became chief white house correspondent under the presidency of george h.w. bush. cochran joined abc news in 1994 as chief capitol hill correspondent covering bob dole's unsuccessful bid for the president, and was senior white house correspondent in the final two years of the clinton administration. from 2001 until 2011, he was the network's senior washington correspondent and he retired at that time. i have to give a "roll tide" shout out. john cochran is a

seems to be a problem from the top to the bottom in the white house. y have had meaning if he was leading health. what he is doing to housing is an absolute disgrace. frankly, he has pulled back on enforcing against discrimination. he seems to be attacking affordable housing. ben carson is not there, frankly, representing the interest of working people of any color, let alone of black folks. he's not in the west wing. they need to have diversity throughout. most importantly, they need to be focused on the policies that are actually going to make this country a better place to live for working people. ben carson is like case one for, you know, why this president's appointees are doing more harm than good. >> let me bring any panel in. the administration would push back against that and, again, they'd make the point, look, we have strong african-american leaders in the white house. henry childs, someone really taking the helm in terms of outreach. are they doing enough to counter this narrative? >> well, i think the major problem with countering this narr

bush white house did the same. and so did the obama white house although again, the weak investigations were very problematic. all presidents to a certain degree feel that the press is undermining them. it's an adversarial process. mr. trump was in era, you can choose your own news cycle, you can choose your own news feed. you can decide what news you're going to get because trust in major institutions have eroded badly and we have not necessarily helped ours selvelv along the way. but we've never had a president who has characterized the press as not just disliking him, but disliking america. we've never had a president who was engaged in incredibly personalized demonizing attacks as this president has against individual reporters and yet, we've also never had a president who simultaneously craves the attention of the media one particular in mind while simultaneously excoriating the press. and the times is like the elites in manhattan that rejected him years ago and looks for approval. as i said trust in media was

the "new york times" is reporting the white house believes there could be dozens of white house tapesg me now is mark short. now a cnn political commentator. it is great to have you on "new day." a tape from someone that worked at the white house. omarosa from the day after she was fired, a phone call with the president of the united states. >> my reaction is that whether or not the president was aware or not it seems general kelly made the right call. >> is thering in odd about taping a phone call. >> absolutely. i think in the beginning they were worried about people having phones in the oval office, when you walk in the white house, they ask if you a phone or device that needs to be turned in here, into the lockers as you walk in the door. so the fact that she would have brought a recording device into a secure facility would have been a big breach of protocol. >> it was surprising that a high level of the white house had been fired before. >> i think that general kelly's chief of staff brought discretion able staffing decisions, but i imagine he would have had a conversation about

should the white house be concerned? >> michael cohen has been out there almost begging to help himself through this issue he has gotten himself into. i think jack is right. we don't know what he knows. whether it's useful at all. quite frankly, a lot of that is going to be, for the prosecutors and for him, making a judgement, even if he has something that may be worthwhile. depending upon what he is looking at from a sentence perspective, even if he is convicted or pleads guilty, all of that is going to factor into his decision making as to he goes forward and then the prosecutors -- maybe he doesn't have anything to say that's worthwhile. >> to be very clear on this, if he were to cooperate, the reporting that -- as i understand it is that he would have to cooperate not just on a select area of focus. he would be cooperating with feds across the board. whether it came to cooperation in the russia probe, right? >> once they have you and you are a cooperator, they have you. he is going to have to make that judge emergenc

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the white house. some extraordinary language by the president and a stunning defense from the white house if you can call it that. take us through it. >> reporter: it was extraordinary language when you stop and think about it. the president of the united states calling a former employee a dog and that employee happened to be the highest ranking african-american official here at the white house and waging a war of her against the very white house. at the press briefing today, press secretary sarah sanders said, look, the president insults people of all races equally and fights fire with fire. jim, one thing is clear here tonight. there's plenty of that. >> i can't guarantee anything. but i can tell you that the president addressed this question directly. >> reporter: that's how white house press secretary sanders answering the question today of whether a recording to exist of president trump ever using the n-word while producing "the apprentice" reality show. the president denied it as omarosa newman

a lot of people wondering what that signals. >> the white house is preparing for the democrats to possibly take over the house. they hope that doesn't happen, but you have to prepare. my sources tell me that flood is a white shoe lawyer will be ready. will be able to mount a defense of the presidency. trying to mount a defense for the president should that scenario happen. he has built a rapport with the president. it's not clear an offer has been made yet. mcgahn brought him in, a lot of people don't want to come into this white house as lawyers. flood was convinced maybe he could be white house counsel. >> the circumstances around the special council are complicated. what does your reporting indicate? >> the president's torn, talking to a few white house officials today, he knows mcgahn listened to john dowd and ty cobb who urged cooperation, he didn't want to cooperate, of course he did cooperate, sad for those 30 hours, he's someone who should have exerted executive privilege months ago. he ended up sitting with mueller, anyone connected to the mueller probe. you're at risk of getting

the white house lawn the white house lawn in president kennedy vigorously disputed. this dinner brought together noble artists, authors, statesmen and scientists for one glorious night. pearl s. buck carnahan who is with widow mary was there, someone. joseph esposito recounts a snapchat in time. the week after easter when the beacon hill should've brightly in i washington. you had a nuclear non-proliferation protester by morning shaking hands with the persons who is protesting thatte night. a scientist superstar fallen from grace on the road to redemption. you had a white house executive chef with someone referred to it as brain dinner. we do not serve greens. the main courses beef wellington. all these characters and more intersect in one of the defining moments of the kennedy administration. it's my pleasure to welcome to the stage, joseph esposito, author of "dinner in camelot." [applause] >> thank you a thank you very much in thank you all for being here on this soggy day. first of all, i want to ask how many people are aware of this dinner that took place in 196

. >> the little white house in key west, florida. theake you there as we hear stories of how president truman spends his time at this historic retreat. ♪ >> the little white house got its name partly through an accident. partly through the fact that franklin roosevelt had had a little white house. in our case, president truman was at everglades city in december of 1947. the press corps started yelling at the president, are you going to return to florida? he responded by saying, of course, i have a little white house key west. -- in key west. it was painted gray, the navy took that as an indication that the president was returning they painted it all white. it is no longer navy grey. i would like to welcome you to the little white house. it is florida's official presidential museum. it has been used by seven american presidents. it was built as the navy commanders home back in 1890. it served a number of various commanders over almost 100 years. it was slightly interrupted by andidents taft and truman eisenhower and kennedy and jimmy

as i hope you can see early designs from the white house are certainly close in style to designs for british country houses published earlier in the 18th century. some owners, some owners of these houses furnish their enormous and rather bleak mansions bought from london's best makers. in the 1750s, one of the best known was thomas chippendale, celebrating the bicentennial of his birth this year. he is still one of the very few british cabinet makers many people have heard of. other than that, people think of a group of talented male strippers from las vegas. but chippendale's name was made on account of his skills as a draftsman and his book of printed designs, that gentlemen and cabinet makers director. this book proved incredibly popular and went through three editions between 1754 and 1762 and spawned numerous imitations. i share some of his chair designs which as you can see, were copied in america soon after printing. had lo chippendale's best furniture was made later in the 1760s, his designs reflect perfectly the world designs of the middle years, of the 18th century known at