we know at this point, the virus is in the white house. it's inside the white house. it's in the perimeter. it's a contagious virus. people are in the vulnerable age groups. they should be wearing a mask. i think it's really good that these three doctors are quarantining themselves. i think it sets a good example and reminds people what you have to do and what significant numbers of people will have to do as we start to do significant contact tracing. these conversations about masks, no masks, the testing, i think some of this is going to seem, in a few weeks, wolf, trivial, kind of like when we first started talking about people should be physically distancing outside. people were really reluctant and a couple weeks later it became obviously the norman peop, and understood it. if you wear a mask, it will decrease the likelihood you will spread the virus. weep know that vir we know the virus is in the white house now. we don't have a vaccine. we don't have an effective therapeutic. so we need to do what we know to do as best as we can do it. and wearing a mask is part

kaitlan collins joins me now live from the white house. and we're already beginning to see changes at the white house today. what are you learning about the vice president's call with governors? >> reporter: so this is the only thing on the vice president's schedule today, of course after his office said he was not going to be quarantining and still here at work today. but typically the calls are done in a conference room and the other members of the force come with him including dr. birx, several of those that you pointed out are quarantining after coming into contact with his press secretary but today we're told that the vice president was on the call via video, he was in a separate room, dr. birx was on the call but also in a room bry herself as well and while a few staffers came in during the calls into the rooms, we're told they were not hanging out in there. they were wearing masks, the people that you saw entering the room. though the vice president wasn't. but dr. birx was wearing a mask. so it is notable. they are separating them

but she had lots of people coming to the white house because she made the public aware she was makingto a museum. it increased nationwide the interest in historic preservation in old houses and the contents of old houses. so one of her early acquisitions was this little engraving -- i am not advancing after all of our conversations. there we go. sorry, wrong button. this 1840 engraving was acquired for the white house collection in 1961. the engraver entitled the piece "all creation going to the white house," because even in 1840, they were envisioning the public was attracted to the white house. at that period, it was attractive because people like andrew jackson were living in the building. --1961, acting kennedy gave gave a whole new level of attraction as a historic site and trying to the presidency and a museum of important american objects. following through her tour route, you see in the upper left-hand corner, the east room as she found it in 1961. not too much has changed from what theodore roosevelt had done to the room in 1902. the chandeliers, the tour shares, the cornices

but she had lots of people coming to the white house because she made the public aware that she was makingt into a museum. it increased nationwide the interest in historic preservation in old houses and the contents of old houses. one of her early acquisitions was this little engraving -- well, i am not advancing after alof our conversations. sorry, wrong button. this 1840 engraving was acquired as an are keisel opt for the white house collection in 1961. in 1961, plls kennedy gave a who whole new level of attraction to the white house as a great museum of important american objects. following through her tour route basically, you would see in the upper left-hand corner the east room as she found it in 1961. not too much has changed from what roosevelt had done to the room in 1902 with the architects. cornices liers, the over the drapes date from the 1902 period. the mantles are white. they are in fact red marble. but mrs. kennedy thought white was better, so she painted them. that was fine for a long time. they were difficult to keep white. the paint chipped and such. you see in the lower

white house and across the country. mark meredith is live at the white house now with more. mark. mark: good afternoon, jon, as you mentioned president trump is due to land in florida later on this hour for the spacex launch but so much of the focus is also on the violent demonstrations that we have seen happening all over the country including in minnesota, the president did address that before leaving the white house this afternoon. here is what he had to say. >> it's a great state, minnesota, they've got to get tougher, they've got to get tougher. they've got is to be strong. honor the memory of george floyd, honor his memory, they have to get tougher and by being tougher they will be honoring his memory but they cannot let that happen. mark: the president praising efforts of u.s. secret service outside of the white house. we were told 6 people arrested after the demonstrations in lafayette park outside of the white house fence, we got a statement from the secret service about what transpired last night. they say, quote, demonstrators repeatedly attempt to knock over security b

and he continued to press for a return to work even as three members of the white house coronavirus task force are self quarantining after possible exposure to covid-19. dr. anthony fauci, the cdc director and the fda commissioner all have come into direct contact with at least one of two house aides who tested positive for the virus. meanwhile moor states are set to ease restrictions. you new hampshire, construction, car dealerships and horse racing can restart their businesses in kentucky. and most restaurants can begin limited dine-in services this week in arkansas, indiana and arizona. in california, where many restrictions are still in place electric car maker tesla decided to sue alameda county to challenge the shutdown of its factory. elon musk tweeted saturday that the county's order was the final straw and he is now considering moving the company's headquarters to texas or nevada. lastly, the united states surpassed another grim milestone. more than 80,000 people have died of covid-19 in the u.s. 1.3 million people have been infected. let's get right to nbc's monica alba at the

we are hearing from the white house's office that he'll be going to the white house tomorrow. we'll see whether or not he will choose to wear a mask for additional precautions. >> we'll see what dr. birx decide and alex azar decides as well. a lot going on. jeremy, we'll get back to you. i want to bring in dr. harris, director of the global institute. you just heard what our reporting is, let me start with you doctor, would the vice president be in self-quarantine like dr. fauci is right now or is it okay for him to show up and work tomorrow at the white house? >> the best evidence suggests that he should be in quarantine. it takes a few days for the test to turn positive. one out of seven or six times the test will be falsely negative. it says you are negative even if you have the disease. last thing we need is more people in the white house getting infected. it is best for him to quarantine for a while and watch those symptoms and continue to get tested. >> the vice president spent a lot more time with katie miller than dr. fauci did or dr. redfield or dr. haun did. you woul

at the white house with mrs. john f.ennedy, created for the cbs television network. ♪ >> this is the white house as seen from the south lawn. johnhe next hour, mrs. f. kennedy invite you to visit. [applause] >> good evening, everybody. ok. what i would like to do for a few minutes is ring a little color to a black-and-white tv show. some color pictures of how the rooms looked when mrs. kennedy was doing it, and then pictures of how the rooms have changed since that time. i think mrs. kennedy would have been the first person to say to everyone that what she was doing was a first step, when she was ,sking people to donate things may be the best things were not offered at the time, but when you had nothing you took what was offered. there have been improvements and growth in the collection come and that is what she expected every first family to do, to contribute to the house, remaining a museum and growing and becoming more interesting to the public. you can see the white house, and a picture of mrs. kennedy during the tel

and the white house refused to answer that question. >> the white house refused to answer that question. so that was all july 8th, 1974, the last time a case like this went to the supreme court. that was the supreme court considering whether the then president, president nixon, had to comply with the subpoena and hand over a bunch of white house tapes that had been subpoenaed. the nixon white house raised the specter in court that even if the court told president nixon he did have to obey the subpoena, the nixon white house said they might not obey the court. they were just there to get the court's advice, but they weren't even sure they considered a supreme court ruling to be binding. 16 days later, 16 days after they heard the arguments, the court very quickly ruled in that case. they ruled unanimously that president nixon did have to obey the subpoena. he did have to hand over those white house tapes. and frankly the country was so riveted by this at the time that everybody was still kind of camped out on the courthouse steps to hear the ruling when it came down. >> we interrupt our

staffers, they're white house representatives, they're white house executives, and everybody hask on. we've had just about everybody i've seen today, has worn a mask. >> reporter: are you the one who required that, sir? >> yeah, i did. i did. i required it, yes. please. go ahead. >> reporter: mr. president, you're now promising that everyone who needs a test will be able to get one at some point soon. can you give us some figures on what you're changing to ramp up testing, when will that be a true statement exactly, and how exactly are you going to accomplish that? >> it's a true statement already. we have more testing than any country in the world by far. but i'll let admiral go into a little bit of the future. >> when you look at the testing numbers that we worked with collaboratively with the state leadership, it's not just with the governor but the state health officers, the state epidemiologists, the public health labs, it's really a combination of testing those who need something for diagnosis, diagnostic testing, tracing, but the largest fracking part of th moving into sur

. >> it is in the white house, the white house could be a hot spot, we don't know yet. but that's two people in a confined area, one has to assume what we know about the virus that more are infected. it has two important implications. the first is, of course, the confidence index. the american public in polling is showing that it is not ready to come out, it doesn't have confidence in how the federal government will protect them. the fact that the white house can't protect itself is just -- just goes to that sort of competence challenge that i think the white house has. i want to raise a different point from the crisis management perspective, we think a lot about what is called continuity of operation, continuity of government. it is to ensure your leadership is protected during a crisis. it is the designated survivors of the state of the union. the fact that the white house views it as sort of machismo to continue to work, that they're work for the american people, no, in fact, crisis management envisions you want to protect your leadership so that they can lead us thr

what do you think of this, the white house rejecting safe opening guidelines from the cdc that the white house asked for? >> kate, i find it very concerning. you don't want to get into a situation where public health and public health science is set up as the enemy of restarting the economy. you know, clearly people are suffering. everyone wants to get back to work. but you need to do it in a way that's safe, that protects workers in the community. if you don't do that, front line essential workers, those who have been getting hit hardest to date, they're going to feel the brunt of this in a big way. as we've talked before, black and latino workers, they're getting hit very, very hard. >> absolutely. this is also what we', what we' play out, is how the cdc has been sidelined really since the beginning of this pandemic. you especially understand the importance of the cdc in such a crisis. i want to play some video from 11 years ago to the day as acting cdc director, you were front and center because of the hours you spent briefing the public. now as you heard from nick valencia, cnn repor

white house for the new year's reception. and well over 100 african-americans show up for the reception, and mary lincoln was not having it, and forced them to wait until after white guests had gone through so i don't think mary had the same egalitarian strain her husband did. > late in the war, did lincoln solicit or share his thoughts on reconstruction? jonathan: did he share them with whom? >> his black visitors to the white house. jonathan: that is a good uestion. to some extent they did, in terms of reconstruction and talking about expanding the franchise, but i don't know that he did. he certainly talked about public policy. robert smalls is a famous slave from south carolina who escapes and after the war becomes a congressman. smalls gives a speech in the 1880's, in congress, where he talks about when he met with lincoln in 1862, and smalls claims they talked about arming black men to fight, and this was before the emancipation proclamation, so smalls may have influenced lincoln's thinking with regards to that important

it's in the white house. it's -- i'm sure they're disinfecting, they're obviously taking these precautions, but these are still just precautions. it's the best we can do right now. people sort of fundamentally understand that. these precautions are important. but they're not a failsafe in terms of protecting this virus from being contagious and still continuing to transmit from person to person. now we're talking about a situation in the white house, the virus is there, the president and vice president both work there. i think it's really important to make sure you can do everything you can to stop the spread, especially among people who we know have been exposed to the virus. the president was likely exposed to his press secretary in some way, whether it was a low risk or medium risk exposure, we don't know. but he did have an exposure and that's of concern. even if he's being tested on a regular basis, it could be he tests negative for several days and then tests positive from an exposure many days ago. i m

what jeremy said about the cd director saying he's under self-quarantine but he would go to the white house if he was needed. that's not what you do when you're self-quarantining. you don't need your house, you i don't come in contact with other people, even if you're wearing masks or gloves. i'm also concerned about the test used in the white house, because if it continues to be the abbott id now rapid test that gives you results within 15 minutes, that has a 15% rate of returning false negatives, meaning one in six people will get a negative result when actually they are carrying the virus. that's very concerning to me. we need to make sure the folks in the administration are following the protocols and using the best available testing. >> on that point, dr. shaftner, say you can give the virus to someone else even if you test negative because it takes a few days for that negative reaction to unfold, is that right? >> yes, that's absolutely right, wolf. that can happen. and, of course, that's the reason we recommend that masks be used when anybody is within 6 feet of someone else. i mean,

you know the white house well. what do you think the president was meeting with the top military brass in the cabinet room, no one, for example, was wearing a mask? >> well, wolf, put quite simply, think it's gross negligence. the stakes here are just so high, wolf. as you know, white house personnel are deemed essential personnel. that applies as well to members of the joint staff and other cabinet officials. that means their ability to do their jobs, which rests on them staying healthy, is paramount. you really have to ask yourself why the president and his team woo wouldn't take any precaution possible to prioritize the heal of themselves as well as the people around them. having worked in the white house, i feel this is the tip of the spear in terms of learning about more official who is have to engage in some kind of quarantine. if the president and vice president themselves were exposed to the virus -- i worked in a converted closet for years. it likely other officials will have too engage in some form of qua

"the washington post" reports that all white house staffers received a memo from the white house management office on friday encouraging employees to, quote, practice maximum telework and to work remotely if at all possible. but the paper reports this, several administration officials say white house staffers were encouraged to come into the office by their supervisors. here is one of the president's senior economic advisers, kevin hassett, discussing his concerns about working in the cramped west wing. >> it is scary to go to work. you know, i was not part of the white house in march. i think that i'd be a lot safer if i was sitting at home than i would be going to the west wing. but i think everybody knows going to work, you've been in the west wing. it's a small, crowded place. it's a little bit risky. but you have to do it because you have to serve your country. >> so according to the "new york times," white house officials initially asked reporters not to identify katie miller as the aide who had tested positive. but the president blew the secret when he publicly identified her during

tonight is maga night at the white house. the president said he heard there was the mobility of these demonstrations -- the possibility of these demonstration. we have not seen anything official. lafayette park is shut down to the public. as we were coming in, we noticed more secret service officers. the perimeter around pennsylvania avenue was more secure than on a typical saturday morning and will be interesting to see how the rest of the afternoon plays out. the president is due back at the white house later on this evening after that spacex launch. arthel. arthel: mark meredith, thank you very much. eric. eric: arthel, the case against former police officer derek chauvin now winds through the legal system. what comes next. joining us is former assistant attorney general, bob driscoll. we understand that the attorney general, bill barr, will likely have a statement later on this afternoon, meetings at the department of justice, your former employer in the area that you dealt with, civil rights. what will they be looking at

even in the white house. while they operate on a do as i say, not a as i do policy, fushls saying it was only a matter of time before the virus arrived in the west wing. where aids rarely worn masks and social distancing is recommended in theory, but often doesn't happen. a source telling cnn that the president doesn't want to be near anyone who hasn't been tested. and has bristled when coming into contact with some people in the white house. 11 secret sfls agents currently have the virus. get this. he's reportedly asked why his valets weren't ordered to wear masks sooner. really, mr. president? you want to know why your valets weren't ordered to wear mask when is you yourself have refused to wear one? just two days ago the president refused to wear a mask a at an event with vet events pap i said this again and again but it's really important. this is about saving lives. wearing a mask is the not about protecting yourself from the virus. it's about protecting other people. and those elderly veterans are at an

the white house.ccording to officials, he was annoyed to learn that ms. miller tested positive. he was really annoyed. as soon as he found out, he sent her an irritable arrangement. trump is reportedly also worried that aides contracting coronavirus would undercut his message that the outbreak is waning and states should begin reopening. can you imagine that attitude from a fire chief? "hey, knock off the screaming. you being on fire is really undercutting my message that you're not on fire. so, stop, drop and shut up." what are you going doing back here? ( laughter ) here. you're doing a great job. you're doing a great job. you're just so -- thank you. i'm really grateful. just try to keep it down while you're rustling him. please. no, we're not going back. this is it. this is in. trump is obsessed that this virus is going to cost him the election. aides describe him as glum and shell-shocked by his declining popularity. "glum and shell-shocked." also the name of lindsay graham and mitch mcconnell's

joining me now from the white house is nbc news white house correspondent kelly o'donnell.ly, this story seems to have been shifting very quickly over the last couple of hours and here just in a few minutes ago we got this new statement from the vice-president's office. what do we know about whether the vice-president is going to be there, what kind of contact he had with the aide who had coronavirus, and how he's handling himself as compared to those health officials that are going to go so far as to appear via video conference at that hearing on tuesday? >> reporter: well, kasie, good to be with you and happy mother's day. the vice-president is keeping quiet over the weekend. nothing on his schedule. he was cleared to a extend a national security meeting held here saturday night, but he chose not to participate then. so keeping a quiet weekend, but no restrictions on his schedule based on the white house physician. and so his coming week, his schedule will not be affected by that, meaning no isolation, not in quarantine. but out of caution, kept a lower profile, laid low

does anyone outside the white house and your acolytes believe that? i doubt it. i yield the floor. >> mr. president countless times they stir up stepped up to serve our country during the covered pants, 19 pandemic their actions are amazing and they save lives i would prefer to name individuals in their particular circumstances because of the tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands of people have participated i'm going to

>> oh, the virus is inside the white house. so, now, the white house is going to have to try and do contact tracing. this is what epidemiologists have been insisting that, in order for a state to open, states need to be able to do, on a massive scale, do contact tracing. so the white house needs to track down every person that the president's valet encountered during the period he may have been infectious. they have to track down every person that ms. miller interacted with during the period where she may have been infectious. and, then, track down all of those contacts and their contacts. this is contact tracing. this is epidemiology. this is how you put the virus down. but i think it's -- >> so, doctor -- >> -- incredibly likely that there are more people at the white house that are infected. >> so -- so if it's good enough for the white house, if the president can be tested every day, and everyone in the white house can be tested every day. and they're going to have to do contact tracing. so, then, what is it -- why is it go

he spoke at the white house. we begin at the white house.

it all adds up to a white house that

and so far the white house is declining to say whether any other officials on the task force or white house officials who would be in frequent meetings with the vice president press selk tear whether they will work from home and enter some kind of quarantine. what we are also learning is that those three officials who are going into quarantine were set to testify before the senate health committee on tuesday. those officials will still go forward with the testimony. the chairman o. committee announcing all three of them will appear by video conference. >> joining me now from new york. cnn national security analyst. great to have you on. the president playing down the need for widespread testing and at the same time we have this cluster at the white house. vice president press secretary. secret service agents. presidential valet. and the vice president going against recommendations to isolate. what do you take from that white house spread and how it is being handled? >> the first instance you expect the president and the vice president in the white house to lead by example. if they're

the white house said mr. trump has since tested negative. let's begin our coverage with our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. jim, the president now says he'll be tested daily after one of his personal valets became sick with the coronavirus. >> reporter: that's right. that's after president trump was downplaying the revelation that one of his valets at the white house test positive. white house officials are telling us there are very few aides who wear masks when they work in the west wing. the white house is shelving guidelines for reopening businesses and schools and putting less of a focus on its coronavirus task force. it all adds up to a white house that desperately wants to reopen the country but doesn't seem to know how. for president trump, the pandemic just hit home, as in the white house, as one of his military valets has tested positive for the coronavirus. but the president is insisting it's no big deal, that a personal aide was infected. >> know who he is, good person, but i've had very little contact. mike has had v

i'm eric >>> tonight, the coronavirus hits the white house staff. a top-level aide to vice president pence, who is married to one of president trump's closest advisers, testing positive. this week seen talking to reporters without wearing a mask. the news coming days after one of the president's personal valets also tested positive. the president's chief of staff calling the white house the safest place to work. but are they following their own guidelines? >>> the risks of re-opening. 44 states now easing restrictions, but cases still climbing in 20 of them. frustration mounting for many. some business owners defying the stay-at-home orders. in california, elon musk threatening to pull headquarters out of the state if he can't open his doors, as the u.s. death toll now tops 78,000. staggering new numbers about how lethal the virus has been to america's seniors. >>> and we have reporting on the warning from doctors about a shock-like syndrome involving covid-19 and children. two more kids dying here in new york in the last 24 hours. tonight, the symp

that is the main fence of the white house, and there is the white house. the president is sleeping in the white house, or at least watching television, and this is what is happening right outside of his house. there are the usual chance of "black lives matter," "i can't breathe." and then what you are seeing in front of me, shannon, trying to break down the is barricades and push through. every time they would come of the secret service will advance. and go through the barricades getting back up. just recently now we have much more confrontation of a standoff between the secret service officers and their riots and the protesters. for every time you have been at the white house, even when things get a little unruly or there is protests, et cetera. secret service takes great pride in their resolute professionalism. and they have certainly shown that today in the restraint. but there has now been a very clear line drawn between the protesters of not going over these bicycle barricades. the protesters have stolen a couple of bicycle barricades. they don't know

we'll go straight to the white house. chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us. jim, two coronavirus cases reported inside the west wing of the white house and just two days. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. and taking an extra precaution today because of the day's news, the white house medical staff is now testing aides to the president and vice president as well as members of the press in what's become a scramble to respond to a potential hotspot on the white house grounds. it was the president who revealed that today a senior member of the vice president's staff, his press secretary, katie miller, tested positive for the coronavirus. all on the same day that the president is responding to devastating new unemployment numbers, the worst since the great depression. for the second straight day, the white house is confirming a staffer has contracted the coronavirus. this time, a senior official. vice president mike pence's press secretary, katie miller. >> she's a wonderful young woman. katie, she tested, uh, very good for a long period of time and then all of a s

but the white house is ramping up the use of the tests for staff and the white house. >> let's bring in dr. sanjay gupta. with these two new cases in the white house how concerned should you be? >> i want to take a second and wish you congratulations 30 years you with the company, wolf. you are cnn. i am honored to work with you. >> time flies. >> i think there is a level of concern. we know there is a contagious virus and now a couple of people in close proximity with other people in the white house. i know katie and hope she is doing well. but this is a concern. i spoke with ambassador birx about this last night and said what are the things in place to try to protect people? it is like how does the secret service protect people in the white house. this is a virus. what is being done to protect people in the white house. wearing a mask is a big one. i get that it is culturally not something we are used to, but we need to do everything we can to slow down the spread and that's part of it. >> dr. mcclelland, this isn't just any staffer. sai katie miller we hope will be just fine and t

obviously, the white house tapes were damming. they contained the smoking gun in which nixon offered to pay $1 million in hush money to cover up the watergate crime. and there was his infamous 18.5 minute gap in one of the key tapes at a key moment that suggested there had been a deliberate erasure. the result of the revelations in those secret tapes was so dramatic that impeachment resolutions were drafted in the house. obviously before the house could even get to impeaching richard nixon, members of his own party, including senator barry goldwater, went to the white house and said they could no longer support him. on august 8, richard nixon flew away in a green helicopter, the first president in american history, and all of these presidents we have studied, to resign in disgrace. so that begins another dramatic moment in american constitutional history as we move into the presidency of gerald ford. it lasted less than 2.5 years. president ford's pardon of richard nixon becomes one of the seminal moments in the history of the ame

from theive minutes white house. we get to the white house. i go to my office, she goes to the residence. as i walk in, there's nobody in the office, and the phone is ringing, which is very unusual. i pick it up and it's this reporter for "the washington star," jennifer hirschberg. she said, "capitol police are radio is" -- "police reporting there were shots at the washington hilton. do you know anything about it?" i said no, and i dropped the phone and just ran all the way back toward the residence. she ran this way. we went right to the hospital in fact -- in spite of the fact that the secret service did not want her to. no one knew yet what was going on, and they like safety. they like to know what is going on before they walk into a situation. i think she even said, "i'm going to the hospital." her agent said, "no, ma'am, if you just wait, we will drive you over." she said, "forget the car, i will just walk. he needs me." ms. drake: at that point, you did not know he had been shot? ms. tate: no, we didn't even know. >> not until we got the

because even as early as 1840 they were envisioning that the public was attracted to the white house.that period it was attracted because people like andrew jackson were living in the building. by 1961 mrs. kennedy gave the house a whole will you level of attraction as a historic site and a shrine to the presidency and a great museum of important american objects. so following through her tour route, basically you would see the upper left hand corner the east room as she found it in 1961. not too much has changed from what theodore roosevelt had done to the room in 1902 with the architects. the chandeliers, the torches, the corn over the drapes dated from the 1902 period. will you see in the picture that the mantels are white and marble but mrs. kennedy thought white was better and painted them. and that was fine for a long time. they were difficult to keep white. the paint chipped and such. and so you see in the lower right-hand corner today's east room. as it was refurbished in the 1990s. the red mantels have been restored to their original color because they match the heathers and

the white house task force, they go on to say, and the white house principles disagree on how strongly a public health response should still be in place right now more than eight weeks in. john, erica. >> we should also point out, it has been a long time since we heard from the cdc directly. used to be regular briefings, that has not happened. you have some reporting on that as well, nick. >> i don't know if americans are clear on this but we are according to two federal health officials. people have been criticizing very critical of the cdc for not being more front and center, at least optics wise, dr. robert redfield criticized by people internally for early on not being more visible. what people should know, though, is that according to two federal health officials, the white house and hhs asked the cdc specifically to stop their daily briefings so that president trump could hold his own daily briefings. the result has been, of course, that the american public is getting language from a politician instead of, you know, mostly from doctors, that, of course, is a huge issue with those

my ability to respond to questions about what goes on in the white house counsel office or the white house may be limited by my ethical obligations that bind all lawyers and i will follow the example of limiting comments about her service in the white house counsel. >> if we were in its different situation, first of all this is $2.2 trillion of taxpayer money and second, i've watched. on the impeachment, it didn't happen and i watched you remove the one fine. the question is you worked as the white house counsel and the practice i have no doubt he's going to remove you because he's done it time and time again. the question is were you aware of the situation and did you have any input? >> i will be independent if the president removes me he will remove me and if i am unable to do my job i will reside. but i will do my job faithfully and independently not on the white house counsel operations with the justice and many others that have come from the white house counsel's office and have gone to the appointed positions as judges and other positions. >> senator kennedy. >> you were appoint

white house?e can't win. now that we're doing so well on tests and so quick and so fast, five minutes, etcetera, and so accurate, you're complaining that we're getting too many tests. so you can't win. >> so then the president abruptly ended his news conference after asking for more questions in the rose garden yesterday. it all happened after a tense exchange with two reporters. watch this part. >> you said many times that the u.s. is doing far better than any other country when it comes to testing. >> yes. >> why does that matter? why is this a global competition to you if every day americans are still losing their lives and we're still seeing more cases every day? >> well, they're losing their lives everywhere in the world. and maybe that's a question you should ask china. don't ask me. ask china question, okay? when you ask them that question, you may get a very unusual answer. yes, blind you, please. >> sir, why are you saying that to me specifically, that i should ask china? >> i'm telling y

white house. now the senate considers an appointment to the office that will be responsible for, among other things, investigating the trump administration, exactly what you criticized. even if i did not have concerns about your independence i still , have concerns about how this administration treats i.g.'s that simply do their job. here's a recent example from friday. the president, after unfairly smearing her, removed christi grimm, the acting i.g. who identified shortages and testing equipment and ppe. mr. miller, you can establish your independence right now in front of this hearing. can you tell this committee that it was wrong for the president of the united states to remove ms. grimm for doing her job and holding the administration accountable? mr. miller: senator, first of all, i'd like to say, i wrote an article defending the independence of inspectors general. i'm always concerned that inspectors general remain independent from any influence, whether it be from the executive or the legi

the white house has not enforced social distancing

staffers, they're white house representatives, they're white house executives and everybody has a mask on. just about everybody i've seen today as worn a mask. >> are you the one who required that, sir? >> yeah i did. i did. i required it, yes. >> do as i say not as i do. he wants everybody else to wear a mask. he just refuses to wear one himself. and you know who wasn't in the rose garden today? the vice president. mike pence. the head of the coronavirus task force. even though we know that he was in washington. we saw him arriving at the white house this morning. it's a little hard -- there he is. a little hard to see him through all those trees. but he's not wearing a mask, from what we can see. do as i say not as i do. that's leadership, right? that was sarcasm. sure seemed to play well with an audience of one, an audience of one in the white house. and then there is the latest example of this president's obsession with former president barack obama. obsessed. we've seen it over and over. obama lives rent-free in his head. just listen to president trump randomly smearing the

er for it's already clearly in the white house. it just seems obvious that you would protect yourself. >> dr. phillips, they all get tested when they come to the white house. they do have brief 15-minute tests. but there are concerns about how effective these tests are right now. where apparently there's a rate for about 15%. that's a problem. there's a problem with that test. and a false negative test you get. let's say that test has a 50% false negative rate. and all negative. 15 of them could have the virus. that's what we struggle with in our hospitals. there are more sensitive tests out there that take a slightly longer period of time to get the results back. and that's what we routinely use. and we typically only use but there's a severe emergency that requires them to have a basic procedure. and whether advising them. and getting the most sensitive tests. >> and dr. phillips, i'm going to have you both stand by. there's more medical-related issues we need to discuss. once again we're following breaking news. three members of

the white house's suppress secretary insisting that the white house is safe. >> we'll have this individual, there is a member of the vice president team who's positive for coronavirus. we have put in place the guidelines that experts have put forward to keep this building safe which means contact tracing and all guidelines that we have for businesses and essential workers. as america reopens safely, the white house is continuing to operate. >> mcenany is saying there they are following the guidelines. if you came in contact with somebody who tested positive, those initial guideline that is the president held up of 14 days extended to 30 days. you are supposed to self-quarantine. the president and the vice president were not self-quarantining. >> they were asked about that, the president did not offer an answer. are you guys going to quarantine. the president did not answer and the vice president took over. it was not clear. they did reference the guidelines but did not say what they're going to do. we did have the press secretary confirming a member of pence's staff have tested positive fo

a white house in disarray.an senators now understanding that their fate is tied to donald trump, and that is scaring the hell out of them as they move toward the fall, expecting to absorb huge losses. what is planned this week for the white house? what is the president planning to do after wasting a weekend just mindlessly tweeting and re-tweeting throughout most of mother's day yesterday? >> joe, he's going to start with a news conference. it's back. he's got one today at 4:00 in the rose garden. he is going to give an update on the nation's testing program which, of course, has been the single matter where this administration has faced the most criticism. for the lack of widespread, effective testing, which is seen, of course, as the biggest obstacle to having a reopening of this nation. to have state economies start to spring back to life. how hard it'd be to do that without the testing. the president is going to address that this afternoon in that news conference. there is a lot going on. of course, the new

the white house and the vice president are very formal places.re's a reason why there's a downstairs official area in the living quarters upstairs because there really is a difference between this public life and private life. what about you, lynne? i'm sure you have many funny stories. have you had strange ones as well from that period? lexus is funny and strange. we spent a lot of time at camp david, as carl knows, after 9/11 it was the undisclosed location and we had our kids and it's the same as carl's story in the sense that you find joy in life even though you are in a dreadful time.we also had our dog a big labrador yellow lab named dave. dave was the level of our lives. we took them everywhere in camp david. dogs are allowed everywhere. except one day come, karl help me. as a laurel that we eat. >> yes. >> barney, who is the president's dog, kind of mean little scotty. >> mean little vaster. he used to bite me all the time. [laughter] >> barney was a troublesome dog. dave thought he was probably a squirrel. because it was kind of little s

any moment we could be seeing images from the white house. governor abbott is there to meet with president trump, but breaking news puts into question whether that should event be happening at all. why? one of the president's personal valets has tested positive for the coronavirus. a source says valets do not wear masks, and they're part of the elite military unit, often working with the president and his family. will we see him at the very least in a mask if he continues to follow an apparent unwritten code at the white house, he probably will not. cnn has learned about the internal battle there about whether to wear a mask, whether the president wearing a mask contradicts his message of reopening the nation. and the white house is also facing scrutiny for rejecting the cdc guidelines to help schools, churches, businesses move forward, especially as the majority of the nation reopens. this is all happening, you see the red on your screen, despite cases spiking or remaining about the same in a lot of areas, and it's not quite clear, at least

because even as early as 1840 therein vision-ing that the public was attracted to the white house. le like andrew jackson were living in the building, by 1961 she gave the house a whole new level of attraction to the public as a historic site and shrine to the presidency a great museum of important american objects. following through her tour, you see the upper left hand corner the east room as she found it in 1961. not too much has changed from what roosevelt had done to it in 1902 with the architects. the chandelier's, the corn hisses over the drapes, you will see in this picture that the mantles are white. they are actually read marble, mrs. kennedy thought white was better so she painted them. that was fine for a long time, they were difficult to keep white. the paint chipped. in the lower right hand corner is today's east room as it was refurbished with in the 1990s. the red mantles have been restored to their original color as they match the baseboards. there were no carpets originally, one of the first things barbara bush did, wasn't their chance we could have some carpets ma

it's in the white house now.bly, the testing and contact tracing going on in the white house is the most diligent in the country. all of that goes squarely against the president's plot line. >> right, and the cases that we know about are the ones that have spilled into public view. we don't know about the cases -- i mean, there is such thing as medical privacy in this country. there may be more than the three infections that have been reported by the news media. what's so remarkable, though, is that even when the pandemic reaches into donald trump's home, his valet worked in his residence, not in the west wing, and deep inside the vice president's staff, his press secretary, katie miller, sat in every coronavirus task force meeting. she sat with the entire group of human beings that are tasked with protecting every american from the pandemic. they were all exposed. so for donald trump not to value their health, it explains a little bit, doesn't it? why he wouldn't value ours. >> it sure does. it sure does. >> and

. >> what else, kaitlan, the white house had a statement, white house spokesperson had a statementribing the veterans attending the ceremony choosing nation over self. are you hearing the white house is acknowledging and understanding the risks involved here? all of these men, these war heroes, these american heroes are in their 90s. >> reporter: exactly and so they are in the group that health experts have told us is one of the most at risk, and so that was the question that we heard some people asking. was this the right decision to hold this event, given of course what's going on throughout the nation, and so that is why you saw the white house take these precautions that they're taking here, keeping people distant but you know, new questions were raised about that, given the events of the week, and you know, they also raised questions about what's going to be different inside the white house. trump said he's going to be tested daily now instead of weekly as is the senior staff who meets with him. the next natural question, is it going to be stopped here? is the white house goin

jeremy diamond is at the white house. what's the white house saying? >> reporter: well ana first of all those comments by president obama were a searing indictment of president trump's handling of this coronavirus pandemic. president obama calling it an absolute chaotic disaster. and what obama said is that he believes this is because of trends being selfish and dwizive divisive. >> it is part of the reason why the response to this global crisis has been so anemic and spotty. even with the best of governments, it has been an absolute chaotic disaster. when that mind set of "what's in it for me," and "to heck with everybody else," when that mind set is operationalized in our government. >> reporter: and the white house is now responding to the comments by the former president saying president trump's coronavirus response has been unprecedented and saved american lives. that is a comment from the white house press secretary. is who also insisted there's been bipartisan recognition of president trump's leer leadersh. and while some of that criticism has b