he's at the white house? using his stanford credentials to try to shine up his reputation here and the president's bragging on that all the time i mean, so warned scott atlas' former colleagues from the medical school from wrich hehic no longer. and by the way, he was a radiologist, not somebody who actually worked on infectious diseases, before the white house plucked him from obscurity/fox news to bring him into the white house to run the response to an infectious disease epidemic, something on which he has zero experti expertise. so these things are coming together in the news right? caputo today is out as the trump guy, riding herd on the cdc, his so-called science adviser has been exposed by the academic institution he tried to associate him with meanwhile, the white house top covid doctor is also exposed by his former colleagues at the institution the white house has tried to associate him with but this isn't a personnel story what this is about now, thanks to the president being unable to con dane hims

white house they just received that rulers lost as white house is. screaming at everything it's the president's reelection campaign and then wonder why did america 'd. we've had as they are of our but of justice every arba our government turning what our president little campaign and i later found out shot list of serious violations in n c i don't live up to the american people those on and on a lot so i can't imagine what the mood is in the white house with these a bunch of if then i certainly don't want to have been any more if. people were supporting president of the ways but i think it's very dangerous. you say that there are lies coming out of the white house yet the doctor found she who is the us is tough public health official he he has said just yesterday that he does not think that there was any distortion in the communication about the pandemic from the white house task force or coming from the white house. you know you as an ethics expert what do you think dr felt she is trying to do there. i have no idea why he saying that because for the

we've heard no such pronouncements from the white house. what the president has been doing almost every day in recent days now is holding these increasingly large, almost completely mask-free, no social distancing rallies, including this one that he's doing tonight right now in virginia. this crowd was gathered there for hours before the president got there. the president has just taken the stage within the last few minutes. health officials in virginia tried to stop this rally tonight because a gathering of thousands of people violates the ban in that state on large gatherings in order to try to prevent the spread of coronavirus. the campaign and the white house were totally defiant in the face of that state rule. a local director from the state health department in virginia wrote to the group hosting tonight's rally, pleading with them to cancel it for health reasons. quote, the make america great again event will draw thousands, estimates of up to 4,000 people into the city of newport news. an event of this size during the covid-19 pande

in any of your time at the white house? do you remember feeling like, hey issue think he just told a lie there. >> guest: no, not -- i thing he president -- one i things love about the president you always know where he is and i think you guys know that better than anybody. heels the most accessible president. he's always willing to take questions from the media and his own best messenger. sometimes that makes my job a little harder because he was owls there talking so you have to keep up, be on pace with him. what thing that the president did that i think so many politicians are unwilling to do is he actually was the politician -- the person that was willing to go. there willing to tell the truth on a lot of things that people were unwilling to talk about. republicans in particular. leading up to that 216 campaign -- 2016 campaign help called out the tact fact we had forgotten so many americans so long and that what his 2016 campaign was about. willing to call out the fact that both sides dropped the entail think he spent

white house the obama white house they just received the rulers law this white house is. screaming at everything is our president election campaign and then what a lot of americans. that is they are are out of justice every arba our government turning what our president little can i mean if i later a list of serious violations and it says i don't lock the american people both on and on a lot so i can't imagine what the mood is in the white house in these the types of if then i certainly wouldn't want to have in any large if. they were supporting president of the ways they think it's very dangerous. and you know you say that there are lies coming out of the white house yet the doctor found cheney who is the u.s. is tough public health official he he has said just yesterday that he does not think there was any just or sion in the communication about the pandemic from the white house test force or coming from the white house. you know you as an ethics expert what do you think dr felt she is trying to do there. i have no idea why he saying that because for the several months

>> every white house has had leaks. that is not new but the level is much higher in this white house than we have seen in the past. people get excited of the proximity. some people want to drive an agenda. some people are hoping to feel important and let people know they are in the room or to settle a score so they can take them down but i think leaking is a disloyal and disgusting practice. i like to see a stopped it out see that happening in any white house. >>host: do you know who anonymous was? i don't know if you would tell us but do you suspect who it was or describe the person's role? >>guest: and i have anything hard and fast i would have announced that long ago because i don't think that type of action, i think it is cowardly if you feel so strongly then stand up and i have no problem talking about what i believe to be upfront and outspoken what my beliefs are and i will call and the person to do the same. >>host: with the atlantic story is a possible some pieces of the story were possible because you are not w

white house the obama white house they just received the rulers last white house is. 'd screaming at everything it's the president's reelection 'd campaigns and they wouldn't why did america and we have a state department that are but it just us every our but our government turning what our president when it will campaign and i later found out shot list of serious violations and it says i don't live up to the american people both on and on a lot so i can't imagine what the mood is in the white house least the types of thief that i certainly wouldn't want to have been any more if. they were supporting president of the ways and i think it's very dangerous. you say that there are lies coming out of the white house yet the doctor found she who is the us is top public health official he he has said just yesterday that he does not think that there was any distortion in the communication about the pandemic from the white house task force or coming from the white house. you know you as an ethics expert what do you think dr felt she is is trying to do there. i have no idea why

shwas very heavily lobbied for in the white house by key white house officials including a white house chief of staff mark meadows and counsel pat sibaloni and heavily promoted by senate republicans, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell who will be steering so much of this process on capitol hill, was confident with judge barrett. she is a known cmodity. not only has she been confirmed, she had become kind of this rising rock star among conservatives because after her brutal confirmation fight for her current circuit cot seat, and a lot of senate republicans had been privately pushing judge barrett for some time. they have seen her as the perfect candidate for the ruth bader ginsburg vacancy. someone who really ds excite the -- their base, conservative voters. and they seem to think -- they know it's going to be a bruising fight but this is on nominee that they're happy t put it all on the line for. robert: carl, will leader mcconnell be able to get this done by election day? carl: yeah. that's the big question surrounding all of this. the time line is pretty tight. and as we've seen

if you're the white house counsel, there's no other white house counsel to call. it's just you and the president. and i try to tell the story of what that's like. i thought that is the most unique thing i could find in the trump era. >> i think what you have is the first of what will be many volumes of people telling authors what they were doing to save the country from president trump while they were working inside. that's what you heard from pretty much every nixon operative who didn't go to prison. you would be hearing for decades later in washington what they were doing. some of them, it's real. don mcgahn, we see in the mueller investigation exactly some of these things that you laid out and how he refused to go through with the firing of mueller. but this book is a remarkable, a remarkable account of life inside that white house, and this book has taken on its own life inside that white house today. michael schmidt, thank you very much for joining us tonight. we really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> thank you. >>> and when we come back, david plo

the white house has tried to pass this off as his normal physical.ou do not have to be anesthetized for any part of your normal physical. so we have that from mike schmi schmidt's book from last night. this morning the president said this on twitter out of the blue. he just wanted everybody to know that he had never suffered a series of mini strokes. never happened. now, nobody said stroke. why are you worried that people think you had a stroke? the president then got his doctor at the white house to release a statement repeating the same thing, that he had never had a mini stroke or a stroke. again, nobody reported that. michael schmidt did not report that in his book. no media outlet reported that. the white house didn't give any further details, but this walter reed trip is now even more intriguing than it was before. we know it was not planned because it was not on the president's schedule. we know doctors at walter reed were not notified. we know that trump stayed at walter reed for a couple of hours and didn't hold another public event until th

the white house didn't give any further details.er reed trip now is even more intriguing than it was before. we know it was not planned because it was not on the president's schedule. we know that doctors at walter reed were not notified of the president's visit. we know that president trump stayed at walter reed for a couple hours that way and didn't have another public event for three days. but other than that, we know very little other than now the president is insistently and repeatedly tweeting that it definitely wasn't about him having a stroke. in his words today on twitter, not mean a minor one. okay. you're the one who brought that up. keep an eye on this. still many open questions here. e e >> tech: and you'll get a text when we're on our way. >> tech: just leave your keys on the dash and we'll replace your windshield with safe, no-contact service. >> tech: schedule at safelite.com. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ ♪ where everybody knows ♪ someyour name ♪ant to go ♪ and they're always glad you came ♪ app

white house agenda red what is taking place t how decisions are made. and, you know, i tnk one of the big misconceptions about the press secretary at a lot of people have outside of the building is that the only time the press secretary and the press interact is at the briefing, which is not true at all. thousands of reporters had my cellphone number, my e-mail, and access to my office. and so there was a constant mmunication between the press office anthe press itself. >> you write in the acknowledgments section of your book, quote... who are the "real journalists"?h >> i would nam off, but i'm afraid i would probably ruin their carrs. but i think the characteristics of a real journalist are -- and there were many in the white house, and i tried to make that point throughout thbook that there were several peopleor that id extremely well with. i didn't always agree with them. esn't mean i liked their stories. a lot of times, i didn't. but they were fact-finding, and fact-focused journalists. injecting their own opinions into their news stories, but they

the white house relies on a document created by rosenstein as the white house's rationale for the dismissalards. he says a lot of unusual things. mccabe and these investigators eventually sit down in this period of time and open up this investigation, and they believe -- mccabe believes by opening it, he will be protecting it, that he will be creating a paper trail, and he's pushing rosenstein to appoint a special counsel. he's saying, we need a special counsel. if we had had one in the clinton email case, we would be on much different footing. this needs to happen. and rosenstein goes ahead, and he appoints mueller. and mccabe thinks it's one of the greatest accomplishments of his life. here he has opened up these investigations, and bob mueller, one of the great heroes of the post-9/11 era, is going to take these over, and he will be a safe steward for these investigations. and mccabe goes, and he briefs mueller on these investigations, and he assumes for the remainder of his time as the deputy fbi director, which lasts for several more months, that mueller has taken these over and will d

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people who have worked at the white house say the white house medical office is so well equipped that white house medical staff can handle on site all but the most serious incidents without a president ever having to be rushed off campus from the white house to a hospital. but rushed he was that saturday afternoon in mid-november. what was that all about? >>> well, tomorrow this book comes out. it's called "donald trump v. the united states: inside the struggle to stop a president." it's by two-time pulitzer prize-winning "new york times" report michael schmidt. and we get a little bit of a hint about what might have happened there on page 389. quote, either the constitution meant something and was worth defending, or it wasn't, pelosi contended. the senate would almost certainly not convict, but that wasn't the point. this was for the record and for history. the whistle-blower on the ukraine matter had accomplished what everyone before him had failed to do. he'd stopped president trump in his tracks and had him on the path to being impeached. two months later on a saturday afternoon

that's the reporting, the white house denies it. here's what vice president pence -- >> almost president pence, it seems. >> here's what vice president pence said about it yesterday. >> i don't recall being told to be on standby. i was informed that the president had a doctor's appointment and, um, uh -- i must -- >> i don't want to -- >> yeah, i got to tell you. part of this job is you're always on standby, as you're vice president of the united states. >> sanjay, look, i don't want you to have to weigh in on the politics, but since that visit, you've looked at some videos, listened to some of the president's speeches to try to figure out if there was anything happening that they haven't v l revealed to us? what do you think, now, ten months later? >> first of all, i think if that issue was true, there was a reporting of drawing up papers for the 25th amendment, for the vice president, you know, that's significant. that's not happened many times in history, when reagan was shot, it happened. president george w. bush was under anest

, we are awaiting that signing ceremony on the white house south lawn. these are the live pictures. it's a diplomatic agreement, an historic agreement between israel, the united arab emirates, and israel and bahrain. right now prime minister netanyahu is in the oval office with the president he's been holding a series of individual meetings with the two foreign ministers from the arab countries and with prime minister netanyahu who of course owes president trump a great deal for having done major things for israel just before his most recent two hard-fought neck and neck elections including recognizing israel's sovereignty over the disputed golan heights. as you see, there's pictures of the arrival of prime mince benjamin netanyahu, sarah netanyahu, earlier this hour at the white house west wing, with of course the first lady and president trump. and before the signing ceremony begins, joining us now nbc white house correspondent peter alexander, "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker, and jeffrey goldberg, editor in chief of "the a

-full-t i don't see that happening in this white house or in the white house after. >> host: do you have any idea who anonymous was entitle was ty would tell us if you did do you suspect who it was and can you describe may be the persons will? >> guest: i have guesses, but i don't have anything fast. i would certainly announce that long ago because i just don't think that that type of action is very cowardly if you feel strongly about something, stand up and be bold in your declaration. i have no problem talking about what i believe in and being up front and outspoken on with my beliefs are and why i believe them. it's my support and i will call othat person to do the same. >> guest: i do with the atlantic story being in the news, is it possible that some pieces of the story were possible because you have some of the other staff were not with him at all times, is it possible that he made that comment when you were not around? >> guest: it was specific to whether he went to that cemetery. i was there and was only one of a handful of people that were part of the discussion and the majority

and then, there was a refusal by the white house and by the white house coronavirus task force to launch a national strategy, allowing a massive resurgence across the south. and devastated houston and texas and don't forget who paid the price the most for this. the hispanic community, the african-american community, the native american community. 20% of the deaths are under 65, but for hispanics, african-americans, probably native americans, as well. 35% under the age of 65. bottom line, this is the single largest public health failure in the modern history of the united states. certainly in the last hundred years. and it happened because of the refusal by the white house to launch a national campaign and a national strategy against the virus. it's beyond upsetting. and we're moving pretty quickly, soon the 200,000 dead americans by the end of this month and we'll probably hit 300,000 dead americans by december 1st. it's -- there's almost -- there are almost no words for this. >> dr. hotez, we heard on february 7th, the president says, out loud, on tape, this is five times deadlier than

job harwood is at the white house. john, is the white house offering any proof to back up these denials based on my interactions with the trump campaign communications director, the answer is no? >> reporter: your exchanges with tim murtaugh is a good reflect that, no, they are not offering any proof. they are not releasing any data. in fact, the trump white house asked the "new york times" for the data that the "new york times" used for their reporting. instead, what we're seeing from the president, from his aides is to denounce it as fake news, to say it's a smear, to say the "new york times" is trying to help joe biden on the eve of the debate and say that the american people took this kind of -- similar kind of information into account four years ago. now, they have got a point there. it is very difficult at this point in the campaign for anything to change how americans view donald trump. this is not likely to peel many voters away from trump. the problem is that it is president trump, not joe biden works needs to

every white house has had leaks but i think the level is much higher in this white house than we have seen in the past. i think people get excited about the proximity and look for different reasons. some people want to drive an agenda. some people are hoping to feel important and let everybody know they are in the room. some people do it to settle scores. the i think it's such a disloyal and disgusting practice. i'm not a big fan of it as i write about in the book. i would like to see it stopped but i don't see that happening in this white house or any white house. >> host: do you have any idea who anonymous was, the anonymoi don't know if they would tell us if you did that do you suspect who it was and maybe describe that person's role? >> guest: i don't have anything hard and fast but if i did i would have announced its long ago, because i just don't think that that bit of action, if you still so strongly about something, stand up and be bold in your declaration. i have no problem talking about what i believe in being outside and outspoken on what my beliefs are and who i support an

i know the white house, i have spoken with iga, i know the white house has been in contact and the chiefms of the hurricane, this president is engaging in an important response. fema is active. we have high water rescue teams, disaster medical assistance, generators, 1.8 million meals, 1.5 million bottles of water, the fema administrator has said we are cordoning with the states right now. we have a significant footprint in louisiana because of hurricane laura so we are well postured. we are leaning into it to make sure we meet all the needs of all three of those states. >> reporter: are you aware, though, of any changes since hurricane michael that are being apprised it to the specific response? >> secretary mcenany: i have not looked at changes hurricane response. this president knows how to respond and will do so and protect the men and women. >> i have the transcript from last night. i wanted to ask you and get clarification. the president did say there are a lot of people that think masks are not good. who are the people he's referring to? "a lot of people?" >> secretary mcenany: it

the white house scrambled to try to fix the errors about travel bans and insurance coverage.hen, one day later -- >> today i am officially declaring a national emergency. >> the country had lost two months really to ramp up testing and production of key supplies such as ppe and ventilators. >> he had it at his fingertips. >> president trump says historian could have nationalized the response and invoked the defense production act to immediately force companies to manufacture what was needed. >> he had an opportunity with covid-19 to use the enormous power of the presidency in a moment of national crisis. >> governors were left to fend for their states. >> it was just mass pandemonium. >> maryland republican governor, larry hogan. >> it was a 50-state strategy, some states doing better than other. >> hogan secretly sourced half a million tests for his state from south korea. >> i asked the president about that at a briefing we had. >> could have saved a lot of money but that's okay. >> go to south korea for testing kits? >> i don't think he needed to go to south korea. he need

>> i think the white house, the people that work in the white house have cast their lot with the president and i believe they're going to continue to cast their lot with the president up until the point that they no longer can cast their lot with the president. i think it's up to the republicans to come forward at some point in time and to stand up for you know the constitutional rights of everyone and what the constitution says. i have to tell you, jim, i thought that was a fairly simple question. i thought it would be, have a fairly simple answer. okay, i'm going to follow the rule of law. i was a little shocked i got the answer that i did and the fact that it is a controversy with this president is sobering for all of us and should make usual think. >> brian, your podcast is aptly titled, just ask the question. thank goodness you did ask the question and press again to try to get the answer. what i wonder is how many mitt romneys and liz cheney and a congressman from ohio who all basically said, no, no, no, no, no, this is so clear on the constitution, don't go there, mr. president. but

it depends on how it gets responded to by the white house.e president can legitimize and raise things when he hits the twitter machine. it also matters how people are grabbling with the issues reported on in the book. for instance, if the book is just telling us it's a deadly disease. we know. we lost almost 200,000 americans. we already know we are grabble ing without a vaccine on the horizon that we are struggling to know what is next. there is a little bit for everybody. does it change anything for the voter? i think it's impossible to say. i doubt it. >> okay. we are going to squeeze in a quick break. no we are going to harris's new show. tanks. we will continue our coverage. >> harris: you are the best partner in the world. i will take it now. it's chippy off the top. we were waiting for this event to start and given a. two warning two minutes ago. we want to keep that blue door to the left of the screen in view. the white press secretary kayleigh mcenany will walk through it. there will be a number of

white house, brown house? this is where the hoover's were. they derived a lot of peace and rejuvenation from the outdoors. when mrs. hoover designed the camp, which she was responsible for all kinds of details, she wanted to look for ways to bring the outdoors in and to provide great outdoor spaces. all of the cabins have these huge, wonderful decks. i want to take you to a particular feature of this deck and look at a couple of things right here. i want you to notice this and all right here and these hinges. we are going to talk about that more in a few minutes. looks like there is a problem here. if you look down here, you see a hole in the deck. that was totally on purpose. the hoovers, being huge lovers of nature, they did not want to cut down the trees. they let the tree grow right through the porch and into the roof. it had to be unfortunately taken out in later years. let's take a look inside and see these relaxing, beautiful spaces she created. the hoovers came often. one of the things that happened to sort of evolve about the camp is

the white house medical unit within the white house structure itself can do a lot of things.ying he had routine labs done that day. the president can get routine labs done at the white house. you have to ask yourself what was it that walter reed was offering on a saturday that the white house medical unit could not offer? >> and also, sanjay is correct that they do not have to tell us what is going on. but a president's health is important. it's important for voters to know what's going on. it's especially important when it's donald trump who has repeatedly tried to cast doubts about joe biden's health over the last several months but has not been forthcoming about what this visit was about. >> right. and we've heard his doctors in the past seem to use hyperbole talking about his health. it's always been this big thing, right, with his doctors. to kaitlan's point, sanjay, why is it important for not just this white house but for every administration to be honest about the health and the fitness of the president? >> when we talk about the most powerful job in the country, obvi

the white house didn't give any further details. but this walter reed trip now is even more intriguing than it was before. we know it was not planned because it was not on the president's schedule. we know that doctors at walter reed were not notified of the president's visit. we know that president trump stayed at walter reed for a couple hours that way and didn't have another public event for three days. but other than that, we know very little other than now the president is insistently and repeatedly tweeting that it definitely wasn't about him having a stroke. in his words today on twitter, not mean a minor one. okay. you're the one who brought that up. keep an eye on this. still many open questions here. it's time for the biggest sale of the year on the sleep number 360 smart bed. can it help with snoring? i've never heard snoring. exactly. no problem. ...and done and now, all beds are on sale. save 50% on the sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. only for a limited time. yeah. this moving thing never gets any easier. we

white house tonight. i have no idea what's going on in the in the trump white house this is america white house the obama white house they just received that real the rulers last laugh and was. screaming at everything is the president's reelection campaign and they wouldn't why did america 'd. that is they aren't with us are out of justice every our but our government turning toward our president little campaign and i later found out shot list of serious violations in n c i don't lock up the american people both on and on a lot so i can't imagine what the mood is in the white house least the types of if then i certainly wouldn't want to have been any large if. people were supporting president of the ways but i think it's very dangerous. and you know you say that there are lies coming out of the white house yet dr found she who is the us is top public health official he he has said just yesterday that he does not think that there was any distortion in the communication about the pandemic from the white hou

was on the official white house website. have instances of reporters asking to cover it and they were directed to the website, which is an affront to the working journalist. from the obama administration, there was very aggressive investigations of journalists. and the two best-known ones, who are the most consequential ones have similar names. james rosen and james rising. one from fox and one is a print journalist. both of them were wiretapped in the case of the fox news reporter. family phones were wiretapped all to find the sources of the material. whether you agree or not that america was in the same kind of peril for its very survival as it was during the civil war, i think you have to see that barack obama was a president who could crackdown on press accessibility and coverage. and if you look at the rankings that resource organizations did at the end of his presidency, i think they come down on the side that he was not transparent, except in the sense that he argues he was. susan: as with bill clinton, you describe h

there's a messy public fight with white house scientists. the president insists we have rounded the final turn. joe biden insists things remain bleak. the president and democrat will share a stage in ohio. this is the pandemic campaign in a year like no other. we are 35 days to election day. this debate is a 90-minute national platform to rally supporters and try to persuade those that are not locked in on a candidate. the incumbent is an underdog. the race tilts decidedly joe biden's way. polling reinforces that advantage and underscores the president's debate and final week's challenge. without pennsylvania the path to 270 electoral votes not impossible but it is highly improbable. we know this. the president does things his way, meaning he wings it. and debates apparently are no exception. the white house team said the president spent little time in formal debate prep, roughly two hours. let's go to cleveland now and kaitlan collins. the burden heavily on then couplen' -- the incumbent. >> reporter: presidents in the past struggle in the

the white house lowered its flag to half-staff and will fly that way throughout the day. the first plane struck the world trade center's north tower at 8:46 a.m. eastern. the white house memorialized people by walking down the capitol steps for a moment of silent -- moment of silence at that precise time. >> [indiscernible] >> on september limit terrorists hijacked four civilian aircraft's and crash them into the world trade center in new york city, the pentagon outside washington, d.c., and in a field in pennsylvania. 11,:46 a.m. on september 2020, join us as we observe the national day of service and remembrance with a moment of silence. >> this concludes our moment of silence. >> ladies and gentlemen, please join us and join -- and singing one course of god bless america. america, land that i her and guideside her through the night with the light from above. , to the mountains prairies, to the oceans white with foam. , my home sweetca home. ♪ >> the scene outside the u.s. capitol this morning, down pennsylvania avenue at this same time, the white house held a brief cer

steve strong is the national cochair of our white house, national council on white house history. he and his wife andrea are here with us tonight. this is one of our most important groups here at the white house historical association. their support, their encouragement, their inspiration , their wisdom really puts the wind in the sales of so much of what we do. we are grateful to have you with us here tonight, steve. the program tonight, dr. matt castillo -- costello is going to share with us about his brand-new book hot off the presses. this is the first time we are making it available. we are very proud of proud of matt. he is one of her historians here at the association. he has been with us now -- how long has it been? -- three years on november 1 and he has made quite a mark and makes a contribution to the association. prior to coming here he contributed to the george washington bibliography project. he is a fellow at mount vernon and is currently doing two things i am particularly proud of. he is teaching a course at american university on white house history, the first tim

but as the president heads to kenosha, there are some new documents out of his white house that show the extent to which he is lying to americans about the coronavirus pandemic. the house sub commit tee on coronavirus just released eight weeks of state reports by the white house coronavirus task force and shows that while the president painted a positive picture of the crisis urging states and schools to reopen he was receiving increasingly dire reports from the task force about the virus spread in july and august and today the nation's top infectious disease expert is debunking another false claim by the president. dr. fauci respondsing to the president's retweet of an article by a qanon conspiracy theorist wrongly asserting the coronavirus death toll is lower than lo official numbers. >> the point that the cdc was trying to make was that a certain percentage of them had nothing else but covid. that doesn't mean that someone with hypertension or diabetes who dies of covid didn't die of covid-19. they did. so the numbers that you've been hearing, 180,000 plus deaths, are real deaths f

and and you were in the white house, we have a cio in the white house, cto in the white house, chief information security officer, the office of science, all of those offices, and to protect in terms of cyber. and what authority he has to upgrade. it will cost at least billions of dollars multiple years, the legislation that came out of the committee to absorb federal agencies to make that induction. will the cyberczar have superseding authority with respect to that? required to coordinate with the cto charged with setting certain sets of goals for the federal government that include cyber but are not limited to cyber. i say all this, worried about the execution, worried about overlap. once you go on with this in terms of coordination, presumably those are real concerns, what protections in creating this division to avoid the conflict. >> i certainly agree this position would need to work closely with federal cio. the way look at it, you would want to have this position, work with those offices, designed to focus exclusively on federal networks. and and they are able to highlight fed

former obama white house health policy director, dr. kavita patel, and chief political correspondent for politico, tim alberta. phil, i was going to ask you if there's anyone at the white house that's concerned about this politicization of vaccines, but i guess the question i really want to ask is, is the politicization of vaccines a political move in itself for the white house? >> it is a political move, katy. the president wants to try to change the psychology around the coronavirus pandemic in this country. he wants to give people hope, he wants americans believing that the cure, as he puts it, is just around the corner. and so, you know, irrespective of whether a vaccine actually passes all the trials and is authorized to begin distribution by november 3rd, the date of the election, the president cares more than he convinced the american people that progress is being made and that the vaccine will be able to reach everybody in short order and to answer your first question about politicization at the white house, that has been a conc

you've had statements from the white house on this today.ou shed any light about what's going on there? there's the matter of health on the one hand, but there's also the matter of what is going on in the white house right now when it comes to this subject? >> this is purely driven by the president. the president, as we discussed earlier, had a trip to kenosha that his team believed was a good trip and a good message for him, and he overshadowed, as he often does, that trip, that message, by becoming obsessed with something that was not even on cable news, that was basically that was not reported. it was not in michael schmidt's very good book. but the idea of mini strokes was not in the book. it was a single tweet by a former press secretary under bill clinton. the president saw it. he got obsessed with it. he had his white house put out a statement from his physician. he tweeted about it again, and he is the one who purely injected it into the media today. and it's also worth noting there's more than a little hypocrisy complaining about sp

it calls for disruption within the white house. this is probably the most, in terms of individuals, paranoid, backstabbing white house we have there hasse i think been a huge breakdown in the hiring process there. it's not surprising to me to hear from trump callers -- trump voters to call in and say one of the biggest disappointments is the draining of the swamp. i don't think the president necessarily agreed with everyone that works in his white house, policies, what the agenda of the white house is, the messaging is coming from people who are not necessarily trump, who i think have radically different visions for the white house and president. a veryink that's important observation. i think that is absolutely true and i can understand her frustration. it's frustration held by a lot of voters and supporters from trump. host: a couple minutes left of joe simonson this morning, washington examiner political reporter. if you're interested in his takes, you can find him on twitter and washington examiner. try to get in linda, who has

but first let's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, the president seems to be doubling down and refusing to follow the precedent set by every president before him. what's the latest. >> that's right. the white house is trying to explain the president's refusal to peacefully transfer power. the white house said she'll accept what she calls the free and fair election. that's hardly ironclad. the president is not backing away. it's another sign he's threatening to ignore the will of the american people. in what may be a warning siren to the world that american democracy is in serious trouble, president trump is standing by his comments that he may not accept the results of the november election. >> i don't know that it can be with this whole situation, unsolicited ballots. >> reporter: the white house is giving the president plenty of wiggle room to offer up his own definition of a free election. something president trump hinted at when asked to commit to a peaceful transfer of power. >> will you commit to make sure there's a peacefu

or couldn't be diagnosed at the white house. now, i won't speculate what that is, but, you know, no one mentioned today about mini strokes. the president was sort of auto defending that. i don't know what happened to the president, but something did and the white house is going out of their way not to tell the public. they need to explain what happened to the president. this is an election season. the public is entitled to know about the health of the president, and we know very little about this man. mind you, his sort of clearance letter when he ran for president four years ago was written by dr. bornstein who later admitted the president himself had written the letter. that's the famous let that are essentially says that if elected he would be the healthiest man to assume the office of the president and that all his tests were exceedingly positive. the president wrote his own letter. we know nothing about his health. yet he carries the nuclear launch codes, yet he managing the worst public health disaster in the nation's hist

left the white house last month. ms.been a big change in your life to come out and talk about these things in this way. thank you for being so brave. thank you for leading on this. i appreciate it. >> thank you. that means a lot to me. this has been very hard. >> yeah. i'm sure it has been. your country needs you and you rose to the occasion. thank you. all right. we'll be right back. right back. instantly clear every day congestion with vicks sinex saline nasal mist. for drug free relief that works fast. vicks sinex. instantly clear everday congestion. women with metastatic webreast cancer,.... ...standing in the struggle. hustling through the hurt. asking for science, not sorrys. our time... ...for more time... ...has come. living longer is possible- and proven in women taking kisqali plus fulvestrant or a nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitor. kisqali is the only treatment in its class with proven overall survival results in 2 clinical trials. helping women live longer with hr+, her2- metastatic breast cancer. kisqali was

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you became friends when tina was working in the white house. sure you're happy to see one another. as congress did take ax then in 2009, the president signed the lilly ledbetter fair pay act. how are you remembering ginsburg today? >> ginsburg's dissent changed my life and it changed a lot of lives across this great nation. because the outcry and the outpouring across the nation when the verdict came out and the led bbetter good year case,t not only affected me and my family but it was thousands across this nation and it's a fundamental american right that women are paid and compensated according to the law and the law has been on the books for many, many years, but most companies and employers do not adhere to it. so it was nothing but right and she changed my drastically, but i will say this. she gave me some dignity to hold my head up and go forward because she and three other justices realized that should have gone as it was presented in court. but five justices ruled against us and change d the law. that's why it is so critical right now o