of the white house. it became a private space for the first family to enjoy. this is very early photographs of the white house conservatory. because this large glass building here. the conservatory was steamy and exotic and overflowing with all types of hothouse plants. one 19th-century news reporter somehow did manage to get inside and describe the scene as like penetrating the luxurious fragrance of some south american island. so warm and open for us is the atmosphere." first lady lucy seen here with her children, and one of their friends in the conservatory had a tremendous amount of plans and was an avid gardener. they utilize the conservatory in a special way. after a dinner with guests, instead of serving drinks, they led tourist in the conservatory. it seems to have gone over surprisingly well with guests going away pleased with the experience. the year 1900, the single conservatory, which is can growuilding here, into one vast glass complex that ranged over much of the southwest grounds. the cons

the white house has always seen the rows as can of the flowers. finally, a general propagating house and an orchid house. in 1902, everything changed. all of the greenhouses, as well as the conservatory that we see here, were unceremoniously torn down. the reason? to make room for the expansion of the white house under theodore roosevelt, specifically the new west wing, seen in the foreground, but the last remnants of the greenhouse are behind. that was that. there has never been another greenhouse at the white house since. so understandably, the loss of their indoor flower garden did not thrilled the president or his family. first lady edith roosevelt did come up with a wonderful solution to the problem. since the south grounds had been closed in 1893, it was possible to move the presidential flower gardens back outdoors. this is precisely what she did in 1902 and 1903. specifically, the first lady created two colonial style gardens along the south face of the mansion -- one a distance west of the south portico and the other in the same position o

since she joined the white house in january since she joined the white house in january 2017, she has repeatedly and flagrantly abused her position of trust. in march 2017, the office of government ethics recommended that the white house discipline ms. conway for using her official position to oppose the private business during fox and friends. holding her accountable, the white house minimizes the seriousness of her violation by claiming that this was made in a "light, offhanded mander.". the committee discovered that she wasted thousands of taxpayer dollars by traveling around the country on private jets with former secretary of health and human services tom price. secretary price paid the taxpayers back then resigned. ms. conway refused to reimburse taxpayers and faced no disciplinary action at all for president trump . recently, on june 13, recently, on june 13, 2019, the independent office of special counsel which is led by henry carter, who was appointed by president trump, issued a report recommending that the president fire ms. conway for "persistent, notorious, and deliberate

chairman cummings asked the white house to produce emails of white house officials july 1st, 2019. three weeks ago. the white house, and abby wolf, attorney for ivanka trump and jared kushner are cooperating with requests from the chairman. he briefed the committee twice. chairman cummings is rushing to subpoena for headlines before august recess, choosing confrontation over cooperation. here are the facts. here are the facts. jared kushner's attorney told us he preserved all records as required by law and does not use personal email or other platforms to conduct official business. following the law. imagine that. ivanka trump inadvertently used unofficial email for official business on a few occasions but corrected her actions exactly as the law directs and provided all, every single one of those emails, to the white house for preservation. furthermore, contrary to chairman cummings' assertion, her attorney explained she forwards all emails relating official business to her official white house account. again, as you're supposed to do according to law. despite this, the chairman i

numerous hatch act violations, when they did flag this unprecedented recommendation they only give the white house 16 hours, that is right, overnight to respond. the items they flagged are problematic, -- as problematic, are ridiculous. ms. conway said, vice president biden and senator bernie sanders, two old white career politicians, she said senator warren was lying about her ethnicity and appropriating someone else's heritage, she suggested congressman o'rourke does not think women running are good enough to be president, and she said senator bernie sanders had ideas that are terrible for america. i think a lot of americans would agree with her statements. whether you agree or disagree with the statements it's not changing the fact that they are miss conway's honest opinions and she has every right to share her opinions. democrats on the committee are more than happy to attack mis-conway and of course, the president. this is yet another example of the committee, as i said, being used for politics. special counsel henry koerner testified for several detailing every fact hours about his report. a

the story about teddy roosevelt's when he came to the white house, the white house had all the offices in it at that time. the president lived there, it was a small family. he had six children and everyone had to have his or her own bedroom. thethey had to build executive office building so that they could all have their own bedrooms. and that was when charles mckinnon came in to build the west wing with the oval office. and of course you know in the colonnade connecting the white house, the president still has to go outside every day to go to his office. there is no way through the house to do it. and at that time he also built the east wing, which as you can see here in this wonderful postcard from 1930, the east wing is a right angle because it porticon official entrance to the white house. the east garden that we are going to be talking about is embraced, as it were, by the east wing. and if you go in october you can see that. actually wanted the idea of having wings. and evidently when they were building these, they did find foundations that had been started. he would have seen th

we hear about her college campus projects and her white house garden designs. whiteas hosted by the house historical association. ms. griffin: i would like to introduce the panel that is entitled the legacy of beatrix farrand. the members, who are very close, will each give a short presentation on her work. the first will be paula deitz, who is editor of the hudson review. the second is judith tankard, author of " beatrix farrand, private gardens, public landscape." the third is therese o'malley, at the national gallery of art. [applause] ms. deitz: it is wonderful to be here. i was up early this morning, and therefore i had a lot of time to walk around. i am from new york, so being in washington is a tremendous pleasure. i woke up when the fountains were going and the trees were just getting that wonderful spring green. i really thought this is america's versailles. you know? this is our place. and it occurred to me that louis the 14th probably thought it was a really good -- big deal. what we are talking about is really a very big deal. designing gardens for t

of the white house. the place where the public can get the closest to the home of the american public. this is even more true throughout the 19th century, when the public was allowed ready access to the north grounds. people weren't shy about coming for a visit, as we can see from this fantastic photo of these rather dapper gentleman lounging on the north grounds, fittingly in the shadow of the jefferson statue, that was a centerpiece of the north grounds. all of this was good so long as they respected the right to privacy, and stayed out of what was supposed to be the private south grounds. what do you think happened? before very long, folks started making themselves quite at home in the president's backyard. this trend really started with a bang during andrew jackson's first inaugural reception in 1829. more than 20,000 boisterous supporters descended on the white house, and ran through before spilling outdoors and continuing the party outside on the south grounds. to be fair, washington was still a yo

that work with the white house. when i explained that to people. almost think of it as a foundation with an educational mission. the federal government will only appropriate money for the maintenance and upkeep of the building. if you want the state floor to have presidential trips and state services, historic artifacts that are returned to the white house all of that has to be raised privately. there is no taxpayer money used for those things. >> to have a say as to what pieces are in the white house? >> there is a group called community for the preservation of the white house it consists of a lot of the major heads of agencies like the smithsonian, chief usher of the white house, white house curator, head of the national park service and the number of presidential appointees that serve on the committee. the association works with the community for the preservation of the white house to acquire things but also for various renovation projects. for example, when first lady laura bush decided to renovate the lincoln b

being interns at the white house.ieve josh, who is now a congressman, was an intern, one of my interns. he is now a congressman. way, if you can get one of those internships, i would highly recommend that you try to go for one of those. ms. sams: we love internships. i am a first-year graduate student. i noticed your commonality between generality and specificity. things people notice in their everyday life. versus the specificity of senior and the specificity of the badger versus where you were when you knew it or other wording that made me think of friends parents who died in 911. how do you choose when is a good detail?o use a specific bothdmonds: i think you do in most speeches. you always want to have a real-life life story, an example to bring your point to life. and i think you might notice and most of the modern state of the union addresses, they have people in the gallery who represent different parts of the speech. and they asked them to stand up at the appropriate time. in most modern campaign speeches and

in and around the white house. we will hear from jim adams and jim mcdaniels, secretary for the white house historical situation board of directors. like our previous panel, we will hear three short presentations and then our panelists will have a short conversation moderated by dr. chapelle. please join me in welcoming our speakers. [applause] >> thank you, it is an honor to be here today to speak with you about white house gardens. both of our other panelist our named jim and both work lted at the white house. at the end am going to let you ask questions. we are the last panel of the day and we will finish the discussion by talking about gardens that have been established and modified since the kennedy administration. so from the johnson administration on. in many different ways, the white house gardens have been inspired and used. i'm going to start off the panel by talking about some of the garden trends and movements that have inspired and influenced the development of the white house gardens and grounds. i'm

the white house and congress recognized anything they want to do with some sort of purpose in congress is unlikely to pass both the house and the senate. host: one of the big issues was the census and the citizenship question on the senses. the president is insisting he will push back a little bit about this. let's talk about that for a moment, but first hear from the president on friday as he was headed toward new jersey, adding the questions about citizenship. [video clip] mr. trump: we are thinking about doing it. we are doing well in the census. he made a statement. he wrote something out. the judge did not like it. ford a lot of respect justice roberts. he did not like it. he did say come back. that is what he was saying. we will see what happens. we can also add an addition. we could start the printing and do an addendum after we get a positive decision. we are working on a lot of things, including an executive order. , the alayna treene president says there are four or five ways to do this. what are they thinking about right now? guest: last wednesday, when the president had sta

tonight president trump back at the white house. tweeting there wasn't a thing missing or a mistake that was made. perfect. on the heels of the g-20 and his monumental surprise visit to north korea. where he had an impromptu meeting with north korean leader kim jong-un. >> i didn't expect to meet you at this place. the first u.s. president to cross this line. >> reporter: trump taking 20 step news north korea, making him the first sitting american president to set foot in the hermit kingdom. he was greeted by the smiling kim jong-un. >> this is my honor. i didn't really expect it. step ago cross that line was a great honor. >> reporter: the two leaders met for almost an hour, agreeing to restart negotiations on a long, illusive nuclear agreement. the president even suggested kim jong-un should visit the white house. all of this as the "new york times" is reporting the u.s. may be willing to agree to a nuclear freeze. which would pause further weapons development in north korea, but allow it to keep existing weapons. this would be a

chairman cummings asked the white house to produce emails of white house officials july 1st, 2019. three weeks ago. the white house, and abby wolf, attorney for ivanka trump and jared kushner are cooperating with requests from the chairman. he briefed the committee twice. chairman cummings is rushing to subpoena for head lines before august recess, choosing confrontation over cooperation. here are the facts. here are the facts. jared kushner's attorney told us he preserved all records as required by law and does not use personal email or other platforms to conduct official business. following the law. imagine that. ivanka trump inadvertently used unofficial email for official business on a few occasions but corrected her actions exactly as the law directs and provided all, every single one of those emails, to the white house for preservation. furthermore, contrary to chairman cummings' assertion, her attorney explained she forwards all emails relating official business to her official white house account. again, as you're supposed to do according to law. despite this, the chairman

>> i'm not going to the white house. i'm not going to the white house, we are not going to be invited. >> you're not going to be invited? >> i doubt it. >> the president responded back then by tweeting in part megan should never disrespect our country, the white house, our flag, especially since so much has been done for her and the team and now heather, the president is taking a second look at white house invite extended tweet last month, not likely though that we will see the champs show up by the way. heather: we will see, great to have you with us. it was a great win for the usa and your comments have been pouring in on this all morning long, many of you believe it is time for athletes to put patriotism over politics, james on facebook writes, i hope all of the patriotic america-loving players go to the white house, shay, tweets, president trump took the high rod which i doubt repinoe and her teammates will reciprocate, large stain on the victory, keep your comments coming. you do have a lot of them, time now is 11 m

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when osc did flag this unprecedented recommendation for the white house, osc only gave the white house 16 hours, that's right, just overnight to respond. the items osc flagged as problematic are ridiculous. ms. conway said that vice president biden, senator bernie sanders are two old white career politicians. she said senator warren was lying about her ethnicity and appropriating somebody else's heritage. she suggested that congressman o'rourke does not think that women running are good enough to be president. and she said that senator bernie sanders has ideas that are, quote, terrible for america. frankly, i think a lot of americans would agree with ms. conw conway's statements, but whether you agree or disagree with those statements it does not change the fact that they are ms. conway's honest opinions and she has every right to share her opinions. democrats on this committee are more than happy to use osc -- the osc report to attack ms. conway and of course the president. this is just yet another example of the committee, as i said, being used for politics. we had special counsel he

also spshl special counsel to the clinton white house. he was also general counsel to the house judiciary committee. starting in 1989 always as a justice official. there are 19 questions congress will be asking him and how. one goes to the heart of trump's actions, and we quote, if mr. trump were an ordinary citizen, would you have found there was sufficient evidence to charge him with obstruction of justice? we'll have much more on the question of obstruction coming up. here's what mueller had to say about it on may 29. >> the order appointing me special counsel authorized us to investigate actions that could obstruct the investigation. as set forth in the report after that investigation, if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. we did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. under longstanding department policy, a present president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. that is unconstitutional. even if the charge is

there is no other pathway to the white house. he has to narrowly win these four or five states by turning out the white grievance platform voters and the only way he can do that is through this. because what we saw in 2018 is the policies of republicans on immigration, on taxes, on health care. none of that works. they got trounced in 2018. >> how do you replicate that when you then have to deal with the fact the president will have a two-year track record where he said, i'm going to change things for you but he didn't? >> because he is not playing to the high information, intelligent, policy driven voter. it is not the fault of the voters. it is the fault of the leader who's taking them there. the voters being framed an issue that is frankly untrue and they're buying it. >> all right. you have to give a last piece of advice. you played president trump which is maybe my favorite fun fact about you, when hillary clinton was preparing for debates. knowing how he plays the game what are you looking for in democratic candidates tonig

white house will have the date out soon, i'm sure. have the opportunity to talk about what they are doing. one of the things that has been of concern to us is how some of these companies manipulate their algorithms. that pushes forward certain content and then diminishes other's, and the exercise is a form of bias. marty: tennessee senator earn. lashingt trump caps on out at big tech even after the social media summit ended. he took to twitter to attack facebook's digital core and all cryptocurrencies, saying i am not a fan of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies which are not money and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air. ra will have little standing or dependability. we have only one real currency in the usa, and it is called the u.s. dollar. joe weisenthal is here with the story. and reaction to the story. what did you make of all that? >>joe: a couple things. people who are super obsessed with bitcoin have been waiting for the bitcoin tweet. when is trump finally going to say something about bitcoin? a lot of them w

and of course you know in the colonnade connecting the white house, the president still has to go outside every day to go to his office. there is no way through the house to do it. and at that time he also built the east wing, which as you can see here in this wonderful postcard from 1930, the east wing is a right angle because it became an official portico entrance to the white house. the east garden that we are going to be talking about is embraced, as it were, by the east wing. and if you go in october you can see that. thomas jefferson actually wanted the idea of having wings. and evidently when they were building these, they did find foundations that had been started. he would have seen them more as utility wings, like for the washing or the horses or something of this kind. but he was really in this -- in love with this idea of eventually making the white house like a 16th-century italian villa, with its extended wings on either side. and when it was finally built, theodore roosevelt said to him that it was like having the great saucers for the teacup of the white house. a wonderful

but this is the trump white house.al media summit is instead shaping up to be a "star wars" bar of the outright. a thinly vailed con cav on the design. platforms like facebook and twitter are not invited. instead there's a pro-trump meme creator and some banned on social media to spread toxic nonsense. it's appropriate the president is convening this meeting not to talk about rereform but to give oval office oxygen that social media is discriminating against them. >> if you look at twitter, they don't treat me right. a lot of people try to follow me. it's hard. i have so many people coming up to me. they say it's so hard. they make it hard to follow. what they're doing is wrong and possibly illegal. and a lot of things are being looked at right now. >> okay. so put that casual threat from the president aside. his twitter followers exploded from about 13 million before the election to nearly 62 million today. some suppression. what the president might be talking about is twitter's push to suspend suspicious and fake acc

today it's hard to get an answer out of the white house since there are no longer white house briefings and the white house has deferred questions about this today. i think this is something they will have to address because this is his labor secretary, and jeremy is exactly right, the labor secretary is the person in charge of investigating the same and protecting against the same sorts of crimes we are seeing now. we are talking about this is not a victimless crime. this is a horrible crime of trafficking of children, and the fact that this is connected to this white house, i think in any other administration the secretary acosta would no longer have a job already but they will have the very difficult task of defending him now. >> julie, immaterial to end where i started -- i want to end where i started. i wonder if you can pull this thread through your body of reporting, what you uncovered, what the victims have been through, what they were denied and what your understanding is of how this prosecution in the southern district of new york just so far on day one feels and looks differe

and we have a predator living in the white house.ump has predatory nature and predatory instincts. and the thing about predators you should know is that they prey on the vulnerable. they prey on those who they do not believe are strong. and the thing about predators you must most importantly know, predators are cowards. predators are cowards. and so when we look at this campaign and we look at the task before us, it will be to successfully prosecute the case against four more years of donald trump, and i am prepared to do that. >> all right. california senator kamala harris is among the 2020 democratic candidates flocking to iowa this fourth of july weekend. by a "des moines register" count there are at least 50 campaign events scheduled. and a new abc/"washington post" poll today shows former vice president joe biden continuing to bleed support, although the numbers are less dramatic than other polls we've seen this week. the poll sums up the trend like this. the post/abc poll underscores what has been the case from the time biden e

david spunt is at the white house with breaking adopts. >> reporter: good evening from the white houseident trump confirmed this about an hour ago here from the white house. john july 12th -- on july 12st, fox news was the first to say he was considering it. late this afternoon confirming this, he wrote: a former u.s. attorney will lead and inspire greatness for the country he loves, dan coats will be leaving office on august 15th, i would like to thank dan for his great service to our country. the acting director will be named shortly. dni director coats and the president have had a a tumultuous relationship over the past year with coats contradicting the president multiple times. he was on the defense when the president went on the attack criticizing different intelligence agencies. in an interview last year, coats found out during the interview that vladimir putin from russia may come to white house. he expressed concern publicly. he also contradicted the president on north korea and syrian policy. congressman john ratcliffe, the incoming head of the dni if he's confirmed, is the op

white house correspondent kelly how good is with us to give us reaction from the white house what are they making of all of this. yeah despite some you know. problematic would be putting it nicely sound bites that have come out of this morning's hearings and again as these continue for the white house that patty outlined that many democrats would see as a point scoring the white house is also seeing that it has scored some points the president has been tweeting throughout the day rather vigorously for our president who said he wasn't even going to watch these hearings it's quite obvious he is not only is he retreating what he thinks are point scoring by the republicans he's also put in place some of the tweets of his own that have been echoed by his press secretary stephanie grisham namely that the white house is viewing this as an embarrassment to the country that's the word that is being used embarrassment used twice sensually what they're trying to do is discredit not only these hearings but also the report itself and the man behind it robert muller so there are a number of vic

he didn't replace him at the white house. as the state department we have a small team, two small but nonetheless we had a team worrying about international norms and perhaps arms control negotiations. we really need cyber norms and international norms and control. so on paper the strategy looks good. there is little reaction going on to implement it in terms of regulation the trump administration literally says any new regulation has to identify two regulations to abolish the fourchon at one new one. i'm sure that is scientifically derived formula. but they won't regulated. regulation is an anathema to this administration and frankly to a lot of people in congress. so they say no regulation. what kind of the government does regulation and cyber all the time? it was in the book 12 different government agencies who have cyber regulations that the sect or level. they are all inconsistent. they were never developed politically. what we call for is let's have a clean slate on the federal regulation. let's have all the regulators

plus, how the white house tonight has punished the british ambassador for candor. why joe biden apologize gud at campaign event and who decided he would not realistically be elected president. all of it on this "11th hour" on a monday begins now. >> good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. this was day 900 of the trump administration, 561 days remain in his presidential term and tonight, the trump white house has a wary eye on an explosive case that the feds announced today to the north here in new york. it's a deeply disturbing and lured sex trafficking case involving this man, 66 years old. he's a multi millionaire financer named jeffrey epstein that has ties to the president and notably his labor secretary alex acosta. more on that angle in a moment. today, federal prosecutors in the southern district of new york in effect the manhattan office of the justice department charged epstein with sex trafficking conspiracy and one count of sex trafficking. epstein has pleaded not guilty to the charges he faces up to 45 years in prison if

and the white house correspondent for the white house. is a public dispute i haven't seen in any a decade between the diplomats and the national security advisor on what could be the most important issue right now, apart from iran perhaps. >> it's hard to imagine a scenario like this, kind of in the past where you have like steve hadley, extremely thoughtful national security advisor disputing his boss in public or tom donlin disputing barack obama. unthinkable. it's very concerning, andrea, both inside the inner agency -- and i've been in those debates and confrontation in the situation room. but normally, you resolve it in the situation room and then you walk out together. so inside the inner agency it's bad form. publicly it sends a very bad signal, both to our allies and also it encourages our opponents. kim is thinking, wow, this is terrific. president xi is looking at this thinking i've pushed president trump to a very different and strange place. so however you score the merits of should we continue to press for a full verifiable t

what's the white house bracing for, what's the white house been doing today? >> well, you've seen it on twitter, steve. you would have seen it potentially here at the white house, because many of these republican leaders, at least half a dozen, we understand, were supposed to come here for a meeting, but because of this, very remarkable, as you and kasie are talking about, floor fight, that didn't happen. they stayed over at the capitol. the president and the white house has told us that meeting is being postponed to a date tbd, and the president has been very public in trying to make it clear that he wants to make sure republicans stay unified against this resolution, that nobody votes for it, likely not an issue on that front. i will say, steve, no matter what happens from here, i would predict that the president, this white house and republicans will already capitalize on this as a kind of win. you are already seeing that from leader kevin mccarthy, who is tweeting about how nancy pelosi broke the rules, essentially, so, the fact that this discussion and th

that's what makes this so politically divisive. >> see you back at the white house in a little bit. thank you, my friend. deputy chief of staff at the department of housing and urban develop in the obama tkphepb station. and move on.com and contributor. ocasio-cortez has something to say about this. today she is saying it is important to note that the president's words yesterday, telling four american congresswomen of color to go back to your own country is hallmark language of white supremacis supremacists. she described it as outright racism and it should concern all americans. can you say what the phrase go back to your country means to you? >> a lot of african-americans in particular, techly older african-americans, are very familiar with this saying. i talked to my grandparents about this last night. my grandmother's outrage, she remembers when she was a student in new orleans. she was a first class at a desegregated school. and she said i remember people telling us go back to africa, go back here. and i remember listening to her pain in her voice as she discussed with me how th

note that when there were a lot of follow up questions mr talkers kept saying you have to ask the white house because ultimately it's up to the president to decide whether to continue accepting the credentials of another country's ambassador open whether to indicate that the ambassador should leave the country what president of the settling insinuated that they want to going to maintain relations with sir cam so where do you think this leaves the so-called special relationship that the u.s. and the u.k. have often have always enjoyed. well certainly there have been strains in the past this wouldn't be the 1st time certainly and there hasn't been anything this personal at least in recent years as best as i can recall but certainly this is not the kind of situation where for example you have had venezuelan diplomats kicked out of the country because the u.s. is not pleased with the conduct of the mud doodled government in caucus certainly not the situation where the u.s. was very displeased with the ongoing conduct of the syrian government of bashar assad in its civil war and it basically told

kelly o'donnell at the white house for us. ken delaney and vice president for the national security program. lots to break down this hour. what's the strategy here for the democrats? because you write while america's political class has been obsessively falling into russia's efforts to help trump win the presidency, most of the country has not. so some would say this is done for, as we mentioned in the beginning, swing voters. >> that's right. at a minimum democrats are hoping if this doesn't move the needle on impeachment, at least it can reach swing voters. our own nbc news wall street journal poll shows a third of americans believe that the mueller report cleared president trump of wrong going. another third are not sure about that. so what that shows is that they're just -- it just hasn't broken through. democrats are hoping even within the constraints of robert mueller sticking to the four corners of the report, if he goes on television and talks about the findings it will reach more people. here's what one said in descri

everybody at the white house okay with this? this is now a third straight day's news cycle taken up by this, or do they see this as an effective weapon of some sort?o >> an effective weapon, perhaps. they argue about the 2020 presidential race dividing the country. they know they have inflamed the nation's civil fabric with the president's racist tweets and comments that began on sunday. at the same time, brian, talking to my top sources tonight, republicans in congress, and some even in the white house, acknowledge that the president may have played a reelection strategy here, but he has jeopardized his congressional agenda. he still has to try to get the u.s. trade deal through, still has to extend the debt limit. all of that up in the air as democrats move forward with this legislation, including with a few republicans. >> donna edwards, i need an honest answer. you're the only former member of congress we have to ask this question of. are you surprised only four republicans crossed over? >> i was surprised. and pretty satend

you're watching "deadline: white house." president tweeting in just the last hour, quote, our border patrol people are not hospital workers, doctors or nurses. the democrats' bad immigration laws, which could be easily fixed, are the problem. great job by border patrol, above and beyond. he writes many of these illegal aliens, his words, are living far better now than where they came from, and in far safer conditions. no matter how good things actually look, the president writes even if perfect, the democratic visitors will act shot and aghast and how terrible things are. just pols. if they really want to fix them, change the immigration laws and loopholes. so easy to do. this after a scathing inspector general's report after the department of homeland security confirming what democrats have been saying about the horrific conditions at migrant detention centers. the report even quoted a facility manager who described the situation there as a, quote, ticking time bomb. joining us now is "the new york times" correspondent anni

the white house announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. >> say that again. >> vladimir putin coming -- >> did i hear you? >> yeah. >> okay. that's going to be special. >> that fits the straightforwardness that andrea has been describing to us. i want to go to nick. i know you just are joining us as well. is john ratcliffe, going to be that straightforward talker? in this case when he was with andrea, almost laughing at the development andrea brought up to him. >> hi, richard. i think we are getting ahead of ourselves if we assume ratcliffe will be the nominee if coats steps down. what frank and andrea said earlier points to something we can expect with the confirmation process. certainly, any confirmation process organized by the senate select committee on intelligence would ask these kinds of hard questions of ratcliffe or any other nominee. how would you present intelligence to the president? how would you present intelligence to the president when you know it runs against his personal view? are you willing to speak truth to power in the sa

the white house and congress recognized anything they want to do with some sort of purpose in congressunlikely to pass both the house and the senate. host: one of the big issues was the census and the citizenship question on the senses. the president is insisting he will push back a little bit about this. let's talk about that for a moment, but first hear from the president on friday as he was headed toward new jersey, adding the questions about citizenship. [video clip] mr. trump: we are thinking about doing it. we are doing well in the census. he made a statement. he wrote something out. the judge did not like it. ford a lot of respect justice roberts. he did not like it. he did say come back. that is what he was saying. we will see what happens. we can also add an addition. we could start the printing and do an addendum after we get a positive decision. we are working on a lot of things, including an executive order. , the alayna treene president says there are four or five ways to do this. what are they thinking about right now? guest: last wednesday, when the president had started

with the latest poll numbers they show a changing race for the white house. let's go our political reporter articlette symes. articlette iowa is joe biden's first stop at a five-day campaign swing. >> that's right joe biden will be in waterloo iowa in a while. they hit the campaign goal but they were not prepared for mayor pete buttigieg to post such a high number. they set the tarrings thinking the other candidates would be raising no more than $10 to $12 million in a quarter. that clearly wasn't the case. joe biden may be the democratic front runner but not leading the pack in the money race. the former vice president second quarter fund raising haufl totalling $21.5 million. that puts behind mayor pete buttigieg at 24.8 million but ahead of bernie sanders raking in 18 million last quarter. biden entered the 2020 race three weeks into the second fund raising quarter. but he did devote a substantial amount of time to raising cash. holding more than two dozen high-dollar fund raising events since launching his campaign. earning criticism from grass roots focu

this president has created a hyperpolitical white house, a white house that unfortunately uses a platformd a lot of women have been offended for years by his treatment of women. we still have 14 or 15 women accused him of sexual harassment or assault in one form or another and there's not been an investigation. something is wrong with that picture. the bottom line is athletes feel personally hurt. and one think i would do and i think anybody who becomes the next president needs to do, it's a place that should foster unity and respect for everyone, not hatred and division. and in the end if athletes who are generally not particularly political, if they feel so offended they can't go, that speaks volumes. we want to put our athletes on a pedestal where they belong but they also have to follow their consciences. >> i want to ask you about the breaking news this morning where the u.k. ambassador, sir kim darroch resigned really in embarrassment after these leaked cables became public where he was giving his assessment about the trump administration, that he was telling the home office he felt

cnn white house correspondent boris sanchez at the white house for us. so what are you hearing? >> reporter: white house officials are not commenting on this reporting in "the new york times" that the director of national intelligence dan coats is expected to step down in the coming days, but this is something that white house officials had seen coming. we had reported just a couple of weeks ago the president was having discussions who he might tap to replace dan coats. white house officials have told cnn that they got the sense from him that he was eyeing retitle. he'd already been on the job for two years, and as one white house official put it, the president never fully warmed up to dni coats. we should point out the two men have had very public disagreements on a wide array of issues. the director of national intelligence frequently contradicting statements made by president trump on everything from the objectativity of the intelligence community to foreign policy with syria and north korea, russia specifically. so it's not clear at this point that those disagreements, those

hillary vaughn at white house, says we react to that from the white house with details there.orter: president made history stepping into north korea and north korea's leader kim jong-un, may make history by stepping here in the u.s. the president invited kim jong-un to come visit the united states after both leaders agreed to pick back up nuclear negotiations. the president says the timeline could move quickly. he says his focus is not a fast deal, it's a good deal. >> over the next two or three weeks the teams will start working to see whether or not they can do something. very big step. pretty complicated. not as complicated as people think. meantime there has been no nuclear tests. there has been no ballistic missiles. there has been, a lot of goodwill. reporter: "the new york times" reports that a nuclear freeze is on the table. national security advisor john bolton pushing back on that in response. i read "the new york times" story with curiosity. neither the nsc staff nor i discussed or heard any desire to settle for nuclear freeze by north korea. this was a reprehensibl

from speech writing in the white house in law school? thank you. speeches inspire a lot of people, so i'm curious who inspires you. >> have you ever felt that posedic posted -- an ethical dilemma to your message, and if so, what did you do in that situation? >> ok. [laughter] inspiration, you want to listen to great speeches -- franklin roosevelt and kennedy, ronald reagan, martin luther , to maket in terms of another point as well -- when we talk about authenticity and nowadays there's so much talk on theuthenticity being top of your head, it is authentic. so when martin luther king was writing these speeches and sermons, he put a lot of effort into them. when he got up there, no one said hey, throw that aside and give that some authenticity, would you? there was nothing more authentic . the presidents i mentioned were very serious about speeches, and in my own case, working with president bush, he did a lot of aliving -- add living -- d-libbing with his speeches, but it was always what he wanted to say. he always got high marks for aut