when people go for dinner at the white house, do they ever like the silverware? >> it's been known to happen. >> there's some beautiful old silver that says it's engraved at the president's house and we just upped using it because we didn't have enough pieces to use, it because it had been taken. whenever you something that you would see at any caterer so that there's less desire to take it. >> but president obama would actually sit at holiday parties, take the napkins, take the towels downstairs in the restrooms. you don't take the silverware because it is rented. it is not from here. because it is somewhat natural. also liu told me about this. for the name plates at each place, and eagle that is very attractive. yes they would take it. so i was told very early on to pick up those before desert. because most people don't think about it until it gets towards the end. now one of the problems was when we would be short, there was no budget to buy that. it was pulling teeth. 50 dollars each. if we were short it wasn't like we will get the slush fund to pay for it. we

white house. i found that in the lincoln book, he gave me an opportunity to take a perspective all the as employer, as manager of the white house the way that he used it politically, socially and otherwise and i found out that it was very interesting and different from what had been written before and i thought the same thing should work with jefferson and i hope it has. and the second thing i guess is i worked in washington myself for eight or nine years in the seventies and eighties on capitol hill and elsewhere. and, a used to strike me then that and must have been an entirely different place back when he was a wilderness. i've always found that interesting and worth looking at more carefully, so those are the basic reasons why i focus on that. >> so we'll start at the beginning of the story. the election of 1800 was famously contentious and acrimonious. can you tell us a little bit about it and the john adams welcome thomas jefferson to the white house? >> well, first of all, particularly in t

i worked in the ford white house at that time. and i knew the white house. i knew the white house structure. i guess better than anybody else. who was there at the moment and so i was drafted into this effort. jim baker stayed away from washington for the majority of the time left at edm used to run the transition, but we had a small team that worked towards the planning and it was just by chance, and i guess i knew knew the structure and new where new the offices that i would be put in charge of the planning for the white house piece of it. about this i'm sorry. i didn't hear your question stuart. this chris. i was gonna ask chris the same question. yeah this come to drop in your lab. well in april of 2008 i was then senator obama's legislative director. he was off on the campaign trail trying to win. he was in the middle of a heated primary contest against hillary clinton, but he had the foresight to realize that this was going to be the first post nine eleven transition and since i had been with him from his first day in the senate, i actually am a law sc

he comes with a parade to the white house and they review the white house. and then the evening events and that's when we see the inaugural balls. there can be one ball, five balls, or 14 balls. president clinton in 1993 had 14, that is the record at the present time. frequently there are six or seven and it depends on the president and their resources available, it depends sometimes on the weather as to what they're going to be able to do. it's up to them, the nature, the timing, and the expanse of these. they can have them be very elaborate or fairly simple. >>> you're watching american history tv created by america's cable television companies and we're brought to you by these companies that provide american history tv to viewers as a public service. >>> so you're on the property of dr. howard hankins. it is an industrial recycling area and he owned as much as 600 acres here and has partitioned off a couple hundred to the near by golf course. and this is a small sliver of what is remaining

and she slid right into plantation life after leaving the white house. and one of the interesting things about her, you know, the second part of her life was that she was a big pro-slavery activist. and she is the first white southern woman to really make the public argument that southern women, you know, take care of their enslaved people and that they're like family. she does this in an open letter which she publishes to the duchess of southerland who was involved in anti-slavery activities and basically tyler says butt out, mind your own business, we take care of our people. this is an argument that gets made over and over again. and it's very unique for a woman in -- a wealthy white woman in the 19th century to make this kind of an argument. and having been first lady, this really gave julia tyler a voice that she may not otherwise have had as regrettable in retrospect as what came out of that mouth actually is to us today. speaking of slavery, we've included in the exhibition a number of other things that point to the complicated lives of first ladie

has the white house reached out? press sec. psaki: we have been in touch with senator manchin as we have been for many weeks and will continue to be moving forward. not only is a -- is he a key partner to the president and the white house on this package, but on his agenda. he will remain in close touch with him. reporter: in regards to myanmar what efforts are being made to coordinate a response of allies like the japan, eu, and britain and has there been contact with china? press sec. psaki: we have had intensive consultations at multiple levels with allies and partners in the region and around the world. i would expect many of those would come through the state department. i would refer to them for more specifics. reporter: in your statement last night when you said you might take action, you refer to it as myanmar and burma, and the president statement he only uses it that she only refers to it as burma. is that indication of a formal shift in how we refer to that area? press sec. psaki: our official policy is use burma off

mark meredith has more live from the white house. mark. >> good evening president biden is spending his weekend at camp david we're waiting to see what wife white house there may be to news regarding impeachment but as this town is focused on impeachment there are still grows questions about nursing home deaths. we did see the governor of new york andrew cuomo here at the white house yesterday he had a chance to meet with president biden as well as other governs as they were talking about this covid relief package, this bill that stimulus package that the administration has been eager to get passed the white house press secretary was asked after the meeting, if the administration stand behind cuomo gwinn new allegations of a coverup. >> the president hosted governor cuomo and a bipartisan group of governs and mayors to the white house today to get their perspective from the frontlines. not to give anyone a stamp of approval or seek their stamp of approval, and to discuss the urgency of passing the american rescue plan. >> now cuomo i

white house. the key differences between these two plans, and what is it that the -- that the biden administration says that they absolutely won't accept? >> well, the price tag is a big difference given how big the numbers are and how far apart they are. that's something that the white house focused on today, but even when you look inside these packages you can see some differences, though there's similarities in what they are laying out in the proposals and allotments for different areas are pretty different and one of them is the stimulus checks that, of course, we have seen laid out, the $1,400 checks in the proposal from the white house but what the republicans are suggesting are narrow concerns, heard some concerns over centrist democrats over what that look like and who exactly it would be that would qualify for them but what this group of republicans being led by susan collins by putting this forward is saying there is a path to a coronavirus relief bill that could get bipartisan support.

that's why he invited them over here to the white house.ined the specifics of what he would like to see in the package andin his prime time sph a few weeks ago. there are some realities as we look at what the american people are going through right now. 1 in seven families don't have enough food to eat. we don't have funding to reopen schools. we don't have enough money to ensure we can get the vaccine in the arms of americans. so there are some real impacts which he will certainly reiterate as he has publicly and privately in many conversations, but they've put forth some ideas, he's happy to hear from them, but he also feels strongly about the need to make sure the size of the package meets this moment, and feels the american people expect that of their elected officials as well. >> reporter: the statement the president put out, he says, the united states are standing with the people of burma in this difficult hour. is that perhaps a message to china? >> i think it's a message to all countries in the region and countries who, you know, wi

rally at the white house. and what's driving them, they -- you know, jonathaand i were talking about this today. this is politics as almost a cult, right? if not a cult, certainly a cult of personality around the president. and the president led his supporters to believe that there was some sort of nefarious plot to steal an election from him, an eleion that he clearly lost, that there's no evidence was rigged or was any -- was tampered in any way. tampered with in any way. so -- i think that's the main core of it, right? i think we have -- there's this group of people who listen to wh the president says and, you know, were not involved in politics before him and might not be involved in politics after him and they hang on every word and every word he said for weeks was the vice president can overturn this. he can reverse this. and i think that's what's driving them. i think -- and that's why a lot of them were not wearing masks. because the president, you know, said you don't have to wear masks for many, many

this time, the entire democratic party is basically singing the same tune from the white house, to the senate, to the house of representatives. they remember what happened the last time they were in this situation in 2009 and they are not going to let what happened under president obama happen again this time. >> look at 2008 where we spent a year and a half trying to get something good done, aca, obamacare, and we didn't do all the other things that had to be done. we will not repeat that mistake. we will not repeat that mistake. >> "we will not repeat that mistake." senate majority leader chuck schumer here on this show just last week talking about the mistake that democrats made in trying to work with republicans on obamacare. "we will not make that mistake" again. just yesterday he reiterated the point to "new york daily news" talking about the 2009 stimulus, he said, "we cannot do the mistake of 2009 where they whittled down the program so the amount of relief was so small that the recession lasted four or five years." this time around the head of the budget committee in the senat

gwendolyn dubois shaw to white house history live. she is the national portrait gallery seniors dorian and director of history, research and scholarly programs. appointed in 2019, she is the first woman and the first african american, to hold that position. before joining the national portrait gallery, she was an associate professor of the history of art, at the university of pennsylvania. her work has focused on race, gender sexuality and class in the united states, latin america and the caribbean. in addition to the first lady's exhibit, that we will be talking about this evening, she has curated many exhibitions, and including 200 years of african american art at the university of pennsylvania at philadelphia art. the mauve clear art museum in new jersey as well. she received her ph.d. and art history from stanford university. if you'd like to ask doctor shaw the question, please write in the comments section of this life easy. we will get to as many questions as possible at the end of our program. gwendolyn dubois shaw we look for

that's why he invited them over here to the white house.of what he would like to see in the package and his speech -- in his primetime speech a few weeks ago. and there are some realities as we look at what the american people are going through. one in seven american families do not have enough food to eat. we're not going to have enough funding to reopen schools. we don't have enough money to ensure we can get the vaccine in the arms of americans. so there's some real impacts, which he will certainly reiterate as he has publicly and privately in many conversations but they've put forward some ideas. he's happy to hear from them. but he also feels strongly about the need to make sure the size of the package meets this moment and the american people expect that of their elected officials as well. >> can i ask you -- >> sure. >> the united states is taking note of people of burma at this critical hour. is that a message to china? >> i think it's a question to all countries in the region and countries who will be asked to respond or to conside

see you tomorrow. >>> the white house press secretary jen psaki ending a 43-minute briefing at the white house, day 20 of the biden administration and still a lot of topics covered because there are so many compass points being reset in the biden administration in washington. questions about getting iran back in the nuclear agreement, questions about priority number 1 for the new president and his covid relief package on capitol hill. questions about the new president's views this week will be dominated and probably next weekend as well by his predecessor, jen psaki ducking questions about the senate and impeachment. important questions regarding negotiations. negotiations will continue on the house side this week even as the senate impeachment trial begins on this. let me bring in manu raju and kaitlan collins, who will join us shortly. a family credit of $3,000. there is still debate about whether they can have a $15 minimum wage in this. the president said in an interview he thought it would get thrown out of the bill, but progressives still want to keep it in there. the details of st

and the white house, i talked to a senior white house adviser today who said to me, look, the country gets what we need to do. and they're not worried about 50 republicans in the senate. they're not worried about whether you pass it with 51 votes on a budget bill or 60 votes. they just want to get it done, and that's the way biden feels. >> you know, john, democrats are also trying to shore up support within their own party. how crucial will it be for democrats to keep the party united, given the very fragile majority, 50/50, that they have in the senate? >> that is the defining challenge of the biden presidency, at least the first few years, until we get to the mid-terms. democrats have no votes to give in the senate unless they're winning over republicans and they simply can't count on that. the democratic unity, again, we focus a lot. it's important to focus. republicans made an offer. joe biden repeatedly said, now president biden in the campaign, i want to be bipartisan. it's important to explore this. the math is the math and the math, we know from recent years, republicans are

the white house reporting team here is using the tools of journalism.arly someone leaked to this, they wanted people to know that this was happening and they were upset about it. i think that's good, that's a sign the white house reporters are taking this seriously. >> i think that's great. they also the same kind of issues with the obama administration. and the press should push back here, marie, i know you have been in some of those tough briefings. and of course it would be great to have all the questions ahead of time because you know exactly what you're getting into. we don't get that in life, we should not get that impressive briefing you should not get it on tests. you don't get the questions in advance. >> that is actually not what we're talking about here. first of all then saki has done a great job of bringing back the daily press briefing and actually answering reporters questions every single day that's really good for our democracy. they are not screening questions britta someone who sits at a podium every single spokesperson of both partie

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how does the white house view that as any different? >> look, the president is, joe biden is the president. he's not a pundit. he's not going to opine on the back and forth arguments nor is , he watching them that are taking place in the senate. >> let me ask you about the covid relief package. yesterday the ways and means committee democrats proposed limiting the $1,400 direct payments to those making $75,000 or less. is that something that president biden supports and does he have any concerns that progressives might not be on board with that? >> well, the president has conveyed from the beginning that he's open to having a discussion about the thresholds. he has been firm in his resolve that americans should be made whole on the $2,000 checks which would mean maintaining his firmness on the $1,400 checks. there's been a discussion about the thresholds and what those should look like. he doesn't feel that families making over $250,000 a year should be the target of this relief. but there is a scale up. even in the recent negotiations

in the white house, or in the administration, contact with white house officials? >> sure. for anybody who covered the campaign, i was not on the campaign. they tried to be very transparent about anyone who had any contact with, would have been in close proximity to the president or vice president and released if they had a covid positive test. and so we will certainly model that transparency. if and when that occurs here, and venture to provide accurate and up-to-date information as quickly as possible to all of you. not through the media, but directly. i mean, you are the media, but you know what i mean. go ahead. >> one question, jen and what for a colleague who knt be here. >> sure. >> the cdc director says the vaccination of teachers is not a prerequisite for reopening schools? does the administration agree with this? >> i saw the comments of dr. walensky, but i will say even she would say if standing here, welcome to come anytime, but in atlanta. they have not released their official guidance yet from the cdc on the vaccination of teachers and what would be needed to

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deputy press secretary at the white house t.j.ter being suspended after threat ping a reporter. so, arlette, starting with you, what are you hearing? >> well, pamela we're learning that d.j. ducklow who was the press secretary at the white house has resigned from his position after making threatening remarks to another reporter who was working on the story about a romantic relationship he was having with a separate reporter. white house press secretary jen psaki tonight releasing a statement saying we accepted the resignation after a discussion this evening. this conversation occurred with the white house chief of staff. she added, we are committed to striving every day to meet the standards set by the president in treating others with dignity and respect. duck low has also released awe statement of his own where he said no words can express my regret, my embarrassment and my disgust for my behavior. i used language that no woman should have to hear from anyone, especially in a situation where she was just trying to do her job. he

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in one term the republican party has lost the white house, house representatives and senate. that hasn't happened since herbert hoover in 1932. so i think that there is a whole bunch of stuff the party of lincoln and reagan needs to do to persuade people we have a 2030 agenda, not a 30 minute twitter agenda. >>> turning now to the pandemic. during a cnn town hall last night, joe biden defended his $1.9 trillion relief bill. >> now is the time we should be spending, now is the time to go big. we can come roaring back. it is estimated that if we pass this bill alone, we'll create 7 million jobs this year. i think bigger and the vast majority of the serious people say bigger is better now. not spending less. >> meanwhile the biden administration has also announced a sharp increase in the amount of vaccine doses they are sending out to the states. >> we're increasing the vaccine supply to 13.5 million oses per week, that will go out to states. this is a 57% increase since the president was inaugurated. >> and also upping the number of covid vaccines sent to 40,000 local pharmacie

he looked over at jack, his admiration and pride was unmistakable. >> i think everything in the white houseohn f. kennedy invites you to visit the president's house and see some of the restorations she's made in its interior -- >> the record 80 million viewers watched jackie's tour. donations to her restoration project flood in. >> are all the pieces from lincoln's time? >> yes, they are. the most famous one, of course, is the lincoln bed. every president seemed to love it. >> it got rave reviews. there were governors' wives all over the country who were saying, we have to do this with the governor's mansion. >> it was bought by mrs. lincoln. she made her husband cross, he thought she spent too much money. >> people tended to underestimate her intelligence, which was considerable. the whole historic preservation movement in this country owes a great debt of gratitude to her. >> the dictatorship of fidel castro -- >> three months into the presidency, the kennedy administration suffers its first major setback. the cia-backed invasion of cuba ends in disaster. >> reality really bit both kenned

he left and went back to the white house. and while he was on en route to the white house violence began to grow at the capitol, within minutes of donald trump's speech ending there were significant reports of escalating violence that began to surface. building around the capitol were starting to be evacuated. and by 1:15 an explosive device had been found at the dnc. a pipe bomb had been found at the rnc about 15 minutes earlier. the house sergeant at arms had called for immediate assistance. 1:# 34 p.m. the mayor of washington d.c. called for additional national guard troops. i won't go through all of the details of the violence that unfolded here. you just saw that. but as we walk through what our commander-in-chief did that day, i want to be very clear about what exactly what was happening here at the same time. for 40 minutes our buildings were being cleared, pipe bombs were being found. his supporters were literally breaching the perimeter of the capitol overwhelming law enforcement and you saw the violence that was occ

the white house reached out to him?psaki: we have been in touch with senator manchin for many weeks and will continue to move forward. not only is he a key partner to the president and to the white house on this package, but on his agenda. we will remain in close touch with him. >> reporter: and in regards to -- what are the efforts made with a response to ally such as japan, e.u., britain and has there been any contact with china to discuss the situation? >> press secretary psaki: well, we have had intensive consultations at multiple levels with allies and partners in the region and around the world. i would expect many of those would come through the state department. so it is certainly referred to them for more specifics. >> reporter: you said that you might take action. you referred to burma and the president's statement he only uses burma. is that indicative of a former shift of how to refer to that confusion? >> press secretary psaki: our official policy is that we say burma but mia martin certain communications.

the white house office of records management managed that process in the white house. when folks were either running out of room and had to fill up a box or as they were leaving would fill up the boxes with paper records, give to records management that would then help organize them, mark them, identify them, box one of three, two of 3, 3 of three, and hopefully with every folder says, and then put them in a place where we could pick them up in our fans and trucks -- va ns and trucks which we did. nara has a service that we have done for decades which is where we provide courtesy storage. while the president is in office we get the paper records into our building in washington during the presidency as they start to retire them on an ongoing basis. by transition time we have the majority of the paper records already in custody because we have been storing them. it kind of works out. then we pick up the rest and on a two-term presidency we can start picking up as they are nearing the end of the administration starting in the fall. we can send trucks over. in a one term t

she's a former state department spokesperson and white house communications director in the obama white house, barack obama's traveling press secretary for his first presidential run, a veteran of capitol hill and a former cnn contributor. but this role is her highest profile possession yet, approaching a job with what she jokes with her obsessive ten dansys. >> i try to be conscious like a laid back cat, but i have a color coded with kiend of printd labels. >> to watching hours of white house briefings back to the '90s and she sought advise from her predecessors, both democrats and republicans. >> one of the consistent pieces of advice is to remember who your audience is and who you are speaking to and that you are speaking on behalf of the president and the white house, but you are speaking really to the american public. >> she did reveal a few details of the note that kaiyleigh mcenany left with her. it was about a conversation the two had had in the past where they talk about serving in the white house is the honor of a lifetime and, brian, she calls that a very nice note. >> thank

joining me from the white house is nbc's chief white house correspondent kristen welker, and from capitoll leigh ann caldwell. kristen, let's start with covid relief and the talks biden has had back to back, the ten republicans and then today with the senate democratic caucus. what's been the message? is there -- are they -- are we officially in a moment where we can say they're negotiating with republicans? or are they just talking? >> reporter: i think they're talking, chuck, with the intention to keep talking. i am told these talks are going to continue right through the moment that this legislation is passed because it's my sense that the white house is just not going to back off of its $1.9 trillion proposal. and speaking to officials here just moments ago they reenforced what we have heard from president biden from the start which is that he got to that number because he believes that's what's necessary to get the vaccine rollout to where it needs to be, to get the aid that state and local governments need, and to get those direct checks to americans. now, again, just to put this in

look for that on the white house digital channels. finally next week the president will be engaging with bipartisan groups on the american rescue plan and other key priorities, including current vaccine distribution and national security. on monday he will virtually tour a vaccination center. on wednesday he will visit the pentagon to meet with the secretary of defense. and on thursday president biden will visit the national institutes of health. so with that, speak. >> reporter: jen, a couple questions for you. why is the president going to delaware this weekend? >> he is from delaware and has a home there, and is going to spend the weekend with his wife and family there. >> reporter: as you know, in the white house briefing a couple hours ago, there is a big x over airplanes and people should avoid travel. is there an extension to that? >> he is ensuring that people take steps not to make others vulnerable in our effort to get the pandemic under control. as you know, any president in the united states, democrat or republican, obviou

jon: david spunt at the white house. david, thank you. >> reporter: thank you. or more on this and other matters on capitol hill, let's bring in republican congress 'emman from florida, byron donalds, he's a member of the house budget committee and the house committee on small business. good to have you on again, congressman, thank you for being here. when republicans took over the house in the first, well, two years after the election of president obama, earmarks, i thought, were eliminated. it sounds like earmarks are creeping back into the nation's business here. >> listen, we got rid of earmarks a long time ago because it's wasteful. frankly, it's corruptive of the legislative process and the budgetary process, and it's indicative of how terrible the ideas are coming from the democrat side of the aisle that they literally have to buy off members of congress in order to support these radical bills and ideas. we should not be bringing back earmarks. they should continue to be left in the past of the way washington used to work. if they want to get buy-in for th

tomorrow the white house -- i'm a week ahead. tomorrow the white house will launch a new effort for the president to regularly communicate directly with the american people in was a question one of your colleagues asked earlier this week. there's a time honored tradition of hearing from the president in this way from fdr's fire side chats to ronald reagan establishing the weekly presidential radio address. president biden will continue that tradition. we expect it to take on a variety of forms. it will be a conversation between the president and michelle. she lost her job at a clothing company. look for that on the house digital channels. next week the president will be focused on engaging with bipartisan groups on the american rescue plan and other key priorities, including current vaccine distribution and national security. on monday he will tour a vaccination center. on thursday president biden will visit the national institutes of health. >> why is the president going to delaware this weekend? >> he's from delaware and has a

parties who are trapped here calling the white house to ask for help. some members even appealed directly to donald from these members who had quote been loyal tram supporters and were even willing to vote against the electoral college results were now scared for their lives. minority leader kevin mccarthy repeatedly even got into a screaming match as the attack was under way demanding that trump do something issue a statement denouncing the mob i imagine many of you sitting here today picked up your phone and tried to reach somebody at the white house to ask for help this wasn't partisan politics these were americans from all sides trying to force our commander in chief to protect and defend our country he was required to do that now the extent of how many people tried to reach the president to get him to act is not known but what is clear what we know without any doubt is that from the very beginning the people around down lobbied him to take command what's also clear is what donald trump our commander in chief did in those initial hours to protect us

jeremy diamond is at the white house.eremy, there was this genuinely friendly meeting between the president and republican senators. and that in and of itself is something. i don't want to diminish that at all. but where do the talks go next on a relief bill? >> reporter: yeah, that's right, john. president biden having his first meeting with lawmakers at the white house. and choosing to have that first meeting with these ten republican senators. trying to show that he is serious about reaching out to republicans and attempting to get a bipartisan deal. but at the same time, no clear signs that they are any closer to an agreement. both the white house and those republican senators saying that it was a good faith discussion. and that there were areas of agreement and they agreed to talk more. here is senator susan collins talking about that. >> it was a very good exchange of views. i wouldn't say that we came together on a package tonight, no one expected that in a two-hour meeting. but what we did agree to do is to follow

she said the white house has been in touch with manchin. she did not say specifically whether president biden has called him. >> that's a very good point. and, gloria, obviously when you look at joe biden's inauguration speech, it was all about unity, and yet here he is kind of coming up against the cold, hard reality. it's really just an issue of is the white house actually going to admit it at this point in time. i think back to, for instance, the obama administration when they came into power, and there was this ernest push for there to be bipartisanship when it came to a health care plan. i think it was very much generous on the side of republicans as well. in the end that's not really what ended up happening, so it's a wonder of what the lesson and the takeaway is going to be moving forward. are they really into a bipartisan push? >> i think they're making a really big bet here, brianna. and the big bet here is this covid relief package is going to be more popular with the country, including republicans in the country, than it probably

let's get straight to the white house right now and kaitlan collins. the president is strongly defending his pandemic stimulus package. update our viewers. >> reporter: he is. and what president biden said in the oval office tonight is that he doesn't understand how republicans can oppose this plan though we should note they did for the majority since no congressional republicans have actually embraced or signed on or said that they would vote for this bill. but president biden is touting it as integral to his pandemic response and how the next few months will look and how the plan could shape this. but this comes as there are new questions about the white house's embrace or i guess rather lack thereof new cdc guidance on reopening schools and whether or not teachers should be vaccinated in order to do so. on track to get his coronavirus relief bill passed by next month, president biden said today republicans who don't support it are making a mistake. >> i asked a rhetorical question. those who oppose the plan. what didon't they like, what particular p

louisiana senator bill cassidy is part of the group of republicans that met with president biden in the white housene a pretty good job of the american people. it's more rhetoric to say that, oh my gosh, the house is on fire when in reality, if you look at what the data is from the fed, the families are doing pretty well based upon what we've already done. >> senator chris murphy, democrat from connecticut. i imagine you've seen some of that data that senator cassidy just referenced. are american families doing, quote, pretty well? >> well, you know, bill's a friend, but it is not accurate to say that american families are doing pretty well. just look at the lines around the block over and over again for food assistance. look at the number of people who are filing jobless claims. i mean, we can't afford to go small here. the good news is that there's really a lot of unity out in the american public about the things that joe biden wants to do. there's a new poll out this morning that shows that things like $2,000 checks and additional money for vaccines and raising the minimum wage, these have 60% t

we're going now to the white house. thanks, guys.auditorium where the president is giving a report on the state of the covid-19 pandemic. let's listen in. >> cancer is something that is so personal to so many families including me and kamala's and many viewers. we've asked dr. eric lander, an mit scientist to serving a my science adviser and head of the office of science and technology and co-lead the advisory, science and technology. these are the white house offices that bring together the country's top scientists to address our most pressing needs. and they'll be part of the work to dark advanced research effort on cancer and other diseases just like we do at the defense department. they have break-through projects to secure our national security. relatedly, i'm delighted to see five of the leading cancer centers are joining forces to build on the cancer moon shot that i did during the obama-biden administration to help break through on cancer research. we're making progress. there's so much we can do, so much progress within our

he lives at the white house. i asked you, is he the legitimate president of the united states and do you concede this election was not stolen? >> once the electors are counted he's the legitimate president. if you're going to ignore that there were states that didn't follow their own state laws that's the issue at heart, that millions of people still are not happy with and don't want to see happen again. you know, look, you can rehash the election from 2020 all day long, but there are people concerned about what the next election is going to look like, are we finally going to get back to the way the rule of law works, that's the biggest frustration people have. those states that didn't follow the law, get back to the what the constitution calls out for electing our leaders. >> congressman steve scalise thank you for joining us on this "this week." >>> up next, the roundtable with the latest on those scandals involving ted cruz and governor andrew cuomo. >>> and later, we honor the legacy of late congressman and c

the white house keeps changing.house walking it back at the press briefing saying they haven't released their guidance for that. we know there are teachers all over the country without vaccinations. >> bret: we go back and forth about where this vote is and where the money is. we had senator manchin on from west virginia. he's had concerns about how it's all packaged together. it seems as we go along here that democrats are planning to go it alone. one element of it, the $1400 checks that used to be back in the georgia runoff $2,000. >> their election will put an end to the block in washington that $2,000 stimulus check. that's money that will go out the door immediately. >> there were $600 payments in the $900 billionkage that passed in december. this is $1400. that's $2,000. that's a promise he made and he is sticking by. >> bret: when he said $2,000 it included the $600 from the trump administration. where do you think we are on all this? >> thanks for having me on again. what we're saying, joe biden has a bigger

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