the white house is also known as the people's house for the white house grounds or the people's grounds and if you start to think about it that way it isn't so far removed from a typical suburban home. typically suburban homes mine a more formal lfront lawn. that would be the north grounds of the white house with the portico facing pennsylvania avenue and the more private formal backyard on the larger south grounds looking toward the washingtonun monument. that's pretty much what happens at the white house today. >> let's get to the issue of just how sacrosanct are the white house grounds. are they untouchable and you are an historian and i'm a journalist and neither one of us is a politician but first lady's especially in the modern era they wouldn't go around changing things. there was a resistance to that. >> they are is pretty think it's fair to say people had an opinion about melania trump's recent rose garden renovation but there's a history of that site which i briefly enumerated that describes the rose garden itself in the history of the white house grounds which go on for two c

the white house, though, is also known as the people's house, and so that really means the white house grounds are the people's grounds. and if you start to think about it that way, it isn't so far removed from a typical suburban home. typically, suburban homes, mine included, have a more formal or dressy front lawn. that would be the north grounds of the white house with the north portico facing pennsylvania avenue, and a more private, hess formal backyard -- less formal backyard. that's the larger south grounds looking down toward the washington monument. and that's pretty much what happens at the white house today. >> let's get to the issue of just how sacrosanct are the white house grounds. are they untouchable? and i don't -- you're an historian, i'm a journalist. neither one of us is a politician. but first ladies, especially in the modern era, they want to go around changing things, there's resistance to that. >> there is. i think it's fair to say that people have an opinion about melania trump's recent rose garden renovation. but hopefully as the history of that site, which i j

white house press secretary dismisses that threat.t. ♪♪ >> they had no plan how to withdraw americans. american citizens are to draw interpreters out, special immigrant visa holders. ♪♪ let's welcome back to the show, house foreign affairs congressman greg sue b. your take on this? we've got growing rising leaks against the president coming out of the white house. reporting thehe pentagon is basically saying the state department and home and security were to slow, lack of urgency and evacuating americans out of afghanistan for the two agencies are now pointing finger at the president of the white house saying he was too slow. the leaks keep coming. yourur reaction? >> i think you're going to see that continue to happen as nobody wants to take responsible before the court in afghanistan so of course you will finger-pointing but at the end of the day present biden committed chief military, the state department was inof charge of the operations on the ground in afghanistan so the department of defense was responding to what they were tel

white house job. dr. hatfill appears surprised by this. he calls the email unexpected. as far as we can tell he was never officially hired by the white house in a formal capacity. he continues to refer to himself as an unpaid volunteer. what was all that about? we can also show more evidence tonight, at least to us by the committee, of not only dr. hatfill pushing the theory that hydroxychloroquine was a miracle cure for covid but that that quack advice was received by several levels of government, after the fda warned everybody to stay far, far away from high -- hydroxychloroquin here's dr. hatfill writing to the white house. he said to himself that trump has been grossly misadvised on the proper pandemic response to covid. he said both dr. anthony fauci and dr. hahn, the head of the fda, need to be fired immediately, and then he offers his advice on what the president and the country should do instead, which includes, naturally, drum roll, please, quote, the outpatient and proef lactic use of hydrox

first of all, to take care of the first family at the white house for the second was to keep the activities of the presidency, those events that take place in and on the grounds. and thirdly, it was to maintain the house for the american people. we are open for tours monday through saturday. : : : >> to try to take some of the reading burdens when the first family wanted their meals and what they wanted them and the house was taking care of that was the greatest challenge to meet the needs of the family and do it unobtrusively. >> we started in the white house did you think he was at 37 years there quick. >> no i didn't. actually i was going to school at night when he first started at the white house. than the opportunity became available one of the people in the office retired. i applied for the position and rex chose me and i never regretted one minute of the days i spent there. >> take us back to the morning of september 11, 2001 walk us through your morning. >> normally i got to work between six and 615 in the morning. on that day my primary mission was to take care of the activities th

his white house supervisor. this whole thing is almost over. looks like we're about to be done. in another email that same month doctor we steven hatfill forwards a yet to be really study on hydroxychloroquine with a study that had not come out yet. a study that would prove once and for all that hydroxychloroquine would greatly improve survival for covid patients. and look at how he and his email quote >> if fauci and steven hahn edit the fda had done their job 30,000 less people would have died. they have blood in their hands. will he means there is 30,000 americans died because doctor fauci and we stephen hahn did not support the solution to hydroxychloroquine. >> i should tell you this name rings a bell stephen harmful did have a high-profile turn in the news in a totally unrelated scandal 20 years ago a legitimate national security crisis in 2001 five people were killed after a string of letters were sent to news outlets and congressional offices containing in 3x powder. in the course of investigation who se

they believe democrats do control the white house. the house and the senate. they do. they believe they can make a credible case, mitch mcconnell is making this case, that democrats should be responsible for the nitty-gritty of governing and that's not been the case in the past. we should point that out. republicans and democrats have worked together raise the debt ceiling to fund government. if the government funding bill did not include a debt ceiling increase, republicans would vote for it, they say. i think we'll see that next week, because it's not going to get through the senate with a debt creeling from it. -- debt ceiling in it. not going to happen. a default, cataclysmic for our economy, country, credit rating, republicans will make the point democrats are to blame. democrats say republicans blocked it in the senate and republicans will have blocked it in the senate. that's a true statement. >> thank you all so much for starting us off this hour. >>> in a few moments we talk with the number three democrat, washington senator patty murray. >>> while we continue

first of all, to take care of the first family at the white house for the second was to keep the activitiese presidency, those events that take place in and on the grounds. and thirdly, it was to maintain the house for the american people. we are open for tours monday through saturday. : : : >> to try to take some of the reading burdens when the first family wanted their meals and what they wanted them and the house was taking care of that was the greatest challenge to meet the needs of the family and do it unobtrusively. >> we started in the white house did you think he was at 37 years there quick. >> no i didn't. actually i was going to school at night when he first started at the white house. than the opportunity became available one of the people in the office retired. i applied for the position and rex chose me and i never regretted one minute of the days i spent there. >> take us back to the morning of september 11, 2001 walk us through your morning. >> normally i got to work between six and 615 in the morning. on that day my primary mission was to take care of the activities that wou

what exactly did he advise the white house to do? tonight we have something new to add to that. the house committee that is investigating trump's response to covid has just unearthed new documents during the time of steven hatfill's time in office. in these e-mails we get a better picture of just how involved, how engrained inside the white house dr. hatfill appears to have been as he was pushing these lines about how hydroxychloroquine was going to be the solution to covid and how the epidemic was going to end, it was going to burn itself out. this one was from february 2020 when dr. hatfill is advising the white house. he appears to be writing to a friend. he says, quote, good morning, mate. got my first good night of sleep. never met big don but worked close with some of those right under him and helped draft the memos to him. i have never seen anything like it. unreal. i never knew the government could move so fast. it's unbelievable. it's 100% adrenaline rush. another e-mail we can report on tonight's show is in april of last year, dr. hatfill received an e-mail to white hou

back. >> it's good to know that there is schumer amid all of this. >> yes, you have to. >> so the white house and the vice president's house, these are very formal places. there's a reason why there is a downstairs official area. and a living quarters, there is a difference between this public and private life. what about you, lynn, have you had strange ones as well from that period? >> this is funny and strange. >> funny and strange? >> we spent a lot of time at camp david, after 9/11, it was the undisclosed location. and we had our kids, you know. and it's the same as carl 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. i labrador name dave. and dave was the life of our life. we took him everywhere at camp david. dogs are allowed everywhere at camp david. except one day, okay carl, help me, where do we? laura lodge. dick walked in and he had dave with him. and there is alma powell over here. and barney, who is the president's dog. and it kind of mean little scotty. is that care? >> mean little bleep is what i would sa

jillian: white house just missed g.o.p.umber of americans still stranded under the terrorist threat. here to join us is congressman byron donalds, the latest news is that the taliban is going to let 200 americans and others leave afghanistan. two-part question number one, why do we believe anything the taliban is saying unless we see it to come true. number two, wasn't this the threat all along when we left and left it to taliban rule? >> of course this was the threat. and we should neff listen to the taliban at all. this all could have been avoided and i think frankly everybody knows it at this point. we never should have left americans behind. we never should have left green card holders behind. we never should have left our interpreter and people who helped us on the ground behind. we should have stayed until the job was done. this administration can't make deadlines with g.o.p. senators but they are going to listen to the taliban about an artificial deadline. it is insane. the fact that they are blocking charters is not

did the white house drop the ball on this? jen psaki: well, first, we share david shipman's frustration that he wasn't confirmed. we felt that he was absolutely qualified, uniquely qualified in many ways as someone who had worked both at atf and also for a number of gun safety of for gun safety organization over time. there's only one. but we also knew, and we are clear eyed about nominating anyone, even anyone has qualified as him. there's only been one qualified one confirmed atf director in history because of republican obstructionism. we moved historically. quickly. there was a whole team of multiple people behind him. we engaged with members of the senate, including the president, engaged with members of the senate about his nomination. we were committed to getting it through. unfortunately, we didn't have the votes to do exactly that. we also have been engaged with him about working to find a job in the administration. that's something that we are eager to do if there's alignment on that. but we believe in his qualificat

kelly o'donnell is at the white house.e with me on set at the pentagon is helene cooper, pentagon correspondent for the "new york times" and nbc news presidential historian. 24 hours before the ceremonies are set to begin, ron, what are you seeing and hearing? >> reporter: so many people have remarked how it's a beautiful day here, blue skies, a bit of fall in the air, just like it was 20 years ago and all of that is just fueling the memories, painful memories of what happened here and a short while, they'll open up this area, ground zero, the sacred place to the public, and they expect that thousands of people to come to pay their respects, of course family members who lost loved ones, first responders, people from abroad, people from all over the country to take part in what's going to be perhaps the largest gathering here ever. we'll have the traditional ceremony that begins at 8:46 tomorrow, with a moment of silence and then the reading of the names of those lost which will last for about four hours or so. today people

this white house does have the current white house, the stitting white house counsel has the power, somee, to overrule any potential objections that the president might take here. we've already seen him claim executive privilege but something else we revealed today is that the select committee has sort of come to a consensus arguing that trump no longer enjoys the protection of executive privilege so they have been encouraging the white house actively pushing them to put aside the institutional concerns, look back at former precedents like in 1977, the supreme court ruling in nixon versus the general services and move forward with the investigation by providing some of the documents which they think are really key to putting together a comprehensive, historic record of what exactly happened during the insurrection and what the president was doing, which is still a big unanswered question. >> it is indeed. gloria borger if the biden white house did that it would surprise a lot of people because usually joe biden is an institutionalist and traditionally quite often white houses stick up fo

senate leaders announced they'd come up with a way to finance what is ultimately agreed on. >> the white housereached agreement on a framework that will pay for any final negotiated agreement. so the revenue side of this we have an agreement on. >> a framework, what does that mean? >> that means we are proceeding. we've made great progress and we're proceeding. >> no real details on any of it. joining us is congresswoman jayapal who chairs the progressive caucus. you have said you'll vote no on the infrastructure bill if the spending package doesn't pass. if democrats lose it all because you and others stood on principle would you regret that choice looking back? >> anderson, it's good to be with you tonight. the two bills comprise the build back better agenda that the president laid out for us in front of congress. and so when we met with the president yesterday he reiterated that he wants both of these bills and the deal that was passed when the bipartisan bill passed the senate was that both bills would proceed in the house because we just cannot afford to leave behind child care, leave beh

the white house said no, keep it open. the tense sass said we will keep it shut inside of texas on state ground. homeland security watchdog that said biden's border policies are putting border officials, migrants and citizens in danger. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. elizabeth: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. we begin tonight with breaking news. special council john durham announced that grand jury indicted a prominent lawyer for the clinton campaign. perkins lawyer. he is expected to make his first court appearance tomorrow. this is about the debunked claim that trump computers were talking regularly with russia's bank. the oligarchs. msnbc, nbc, cnn home. s ran with it as if it was fact. the fbi found out early on in 2017 that the trump computer was pushing trump hotel marketing information, hotel marketing information. joining us now, congressman ken buck of house judiciary, former u.s. attorney guy lewis. first to you, congressman. great to have you both on.

. >>> and the white house outreach to nikki minaj. what she's saying and what she's not saying and why that matters to people. >>> some republicans calling for general milley to step down after this new trump-era reporting came out. what does gop congressman adam kinzinger think? we'll ask him about that and more on the show. >>> leighann caldwell is outside the capitol. latest on security preps. what's being done. how confident officials are and what they think they can expect on this saturday rally. >> reporter: hey, hallie. capitol police are taking no chances for what's going to take place on saturday. they have put up this fence overnight. this goes around the perimeter of the capitol. in addition, we have these concrete barricades who were put up to make sure the fence does not topple over. in addition, there's these new high-security cameras that do facial recognition. capitol police officer just told me these cameras are straight from afghanistan, that they came here for capitol police. this is new equipment for them. now all

it souths its connections to the white house.ent, come out, make a big load of money and in a position to make deals, award contracts. you have to rely on the inspectors general. we have2 inspectors general. we have 13,500 people go behind it. if congress doesn't ask the right question or push them, the gao, you don't get an answer out of it. i do personally work with the government accountability institute. these are type of things, who benefits financially from war, those types of questions. who benefits financially from a covid pandemic. those are legitimate questions that the public should see because sunlight is the best disinfectant. we'll see how open and transparent they want to be. the biden-harris administration said they would be the most open and transparent administration ever, eight months into it, we aren't doing so well. elizabeth: we hear you. pine island as we talked about, they're not shy about leveraging their cushy relationships with the powerful and politically connected. it is partnered with west exec which

the white house grounds? did you see anything that struck you? >> guest: yes. it was quite i remember thinking contemporaneously this is like mad max. one of my favorite scary movies of all times, there were cars abandoned on the street. i initially was going to try to get home to cross over the bridge over the potomac i lived in northern virginia to get my 2-year-old and a 5-year-old at the time, to try to get with them. try to get to the tabs, the cabs were abandoned they did not turn off their motors they were flung open. i don't know where the smoke was coming from. i could not possibly been airborne. there is a smokiness to the air. people running or confused. i was a movie set kind of feeling, surrealistic. what go back to the issue of trying to get in touch with president bush was at the florida at the time edit education event. we know he is trying to do, get back to washington moving to different air force bases before returning late in the afternoon. but that initial hour where you and the others tr

when you become an official white house photographer is it during a club? >> there's so much work involved in doing the job that you don't get a chance to come up for air. you are kind of in this bubble and you will see your colleagues looking out the window. from my experience, there was so much work involved and focus on the job that until i got out, you realize how special the job was even more so. but yes it is great to be in such a tightknit club, because not a lot of photographers have done this. >> we did a talk with you together and you have been on the other side. what is the difference between what you were doing as a member of the ap and official white house photographer? >> very different. i think as a journalist, working for the media, you are there, you are on assignment and your focus is to illustrate what's presented in front of you, or if you do have access to a behind-the-scenes moment, you record it and put it out there, but it's limited. when you are an official photographer, it's like a whole another world, a whole another universe wher

remarks from speaker pelosi just a short time ago, you heard her refer to cedric richmond, a senior white house adviser, also a former member of the house democratic caucus who was in the meeting today trying to help corral democrats, using some baseball metaphors to encourage team unity. richmond should be mentioned. it was the star starting pitcher for the house democratic baseball team. tonight is the congressional baseball game between democrats and republicans at national park. what i think pelosi was signaling, they don't need a starter. they need president biden to be the closer at this point. she mentioned she would likely be in touch with the president herself. part of why the president cancelled the event in chicago today to focus on vaccination efforts was because progress was being made. multiple meetings between the president, senator cinema, senator manchin as well as white house officials in different combinations over the course of the day yesterday. and they wanted to keep that momentum going with some additional meetings today. the white house officials are also telling me the

the white house many white house agenda the biden agenda not in trouble.to the border for now, dhs director getzlaf. your reaction to the president saying because bernie sanders now looks like we want the biden is saying progressive's fight back. hold hostage democrats infrastructure plan, we want three and a half trillion spent on first and snap the president's reaction say president obama say open borders? listen joe, as a practical matter open borders is unsustainable. take those two things on. >> absolutely and i think president obama is correct and something for trump administration recognized that even the obama administration is you can't have an open borders policy not expect to have thousands and hundreds of thousands of individuals to the border each and every day but for whatever reason the biden administration continues down the path of the open border policy, a radical change in position from previous administration and the colossal failure at the end of the day bus by any measurable statistics you will cap simply is not working, they need to

before biden and his white house and republicans finally came together on an agreement and the white house actually saw that failed infrastructure vote as a key pressure point that got everyone talking at a much faster rate and so the white house is viewing this also potentially if it doesn't come up for a vote, pelosi pulls it or it fails, as another big pressure point to try to get everyone to the table to negotiate. >> it is a good point. first failed vote and then the second vote they had 19 republicans actually vote along with democrats. that said, this public internal circular firing squad is deeply damaging to democrats. your latest reporting politico quotes an unnamed moderate house democrat who warns a further delay on the bill would make democrats, quote, look even more incompetent. i wonder what is the degree of awareness of that within the democratic caucus and why the seeming willingness to kind of ignore that and just continue with this infighting? >> there is definitely a lot of concern among democrats, especially house democrats, about getting these bills passed. there

he's a former white house official.ather, ig gnomes youly fired by trump early in the administration. how can the former president say this guy is so valuable as an adviser he can't speak after firing him and trashing him on twitter for three years? >> a good question. this is one of the areas that the courts are being called onto deal with, and they're going to have to deal with it, because steve bannon was not an official government adviser in any way during this period of time. and over the communications that former president trump wants to claim executive privilege over. so again, that's going to be one of the key questions that needs to be answered. and it's going to require some litigation. you know, garrett, i think a lot of people don't realize that courts don't want to deal with these issues. they don't want to get involved with making serious decisions about how broad the executive privilege is. they will go so far as to urge the parties and they did this in the hair yet meyers litigation years ago. they said

looks like the white house may say yes to that.ith sean duffy, this story, who is the unnamed mystery silicon valley executive who is so powerful could call multiple companies and their internet data base searches to let hillary clinton against trump with a false russia story that even robert mueller wouldn't touch. jake sullivan was in on that hillary clinton story way back when. we'll dig into it next on "the evening edit." >> it is circular like i said. the clinton campaign it was important to them to be able to say wait a minute, the fbi is looking at this. let's go walter! after you. walter, twelve o' clock. get em boy! [cows mooing] that is incredible. it's the multi-flex tailgate. it can be a step, it can even become a workspace. i meant the cat. what's so great about him? he doesn't have a workspace. the chevy silverado with the available multi-flex tailgate. find new adventures. find new roads. chevrolet. liberty mutual customizes car insurance the so you only pay forh the availabwhat you need.tailgate. how much money can

i've got the chapter on the western white house. a lot of those photos, it was tough because there's a lot of favorites. >> before we wrap up here i wanted to ask you a couple of questions related to the collection. you decided to place your collection withus and why did you decide to place your collection here ? >> when don carlton proposed the idea i didn't have to think about it. i was like yes, there's a a home for my photos. but most importantly it's not just a place for it to sit and collect dust. it sounds like there would be a living archive for people to come in and study the photos. that's what really interests me. tsit's a working, living type of archive. and then also to be included with so many great photographers that i idolized through the years. and now i'm part of that group so i'm very blessed to be in the company. >> when you as a photographer take a step back and look at this collection as a whole, what do you think the value is of the collection? what is the history? >> it gives it a whole. and it's very importa

fauci said just today. >>> the high stakes negotiations under way at the white house and on the hill tonight. those two infrastructure bills and the president's domestic agenda at stake. will the vote on the bipartisan bill be postponed again? what house speaker nancy pelosi said when asked today. and all of this with a potential government shutdown looming. rachel scott on the hill again tonight. >>> news this evening about the death of gabby petito. her family breaking their silence today. >>> that deadly amtrak derailment. news on the victims tonight. the couple marking their 50th wedding anniversary with a cross-country trip on amtrak. >>> the warning for shoppers heading into this holiday season, with the growing supply shortage here in the u.s. dozens of cargo ships waiting off both coasts tonight. what we're seeing in stores already. and the advice for shoppers that sure got our attention today. >>> good evening and it's great and appearing to contradict president biden when they revealed that their advice was to leave a small u.s. troop force in afghanistan. president biden te

now it sounds like she's getting invited to the white house.that yet but she is not. todd: america needs the white house press conference. time for the good, the bad and the ugly. the surprise of a lifetime. watch this. it is a god. todd: teachers raising money to buy chris jackson a new car. community members offered to pay his car insurance for a year. jillian: and alligator swims up to a paddle border, the close encounter with scott on camera. >> oh my god! why are you messing with me? jillian: the alligator hissing as the woman pushes away with her or, he tried biting her or before she started filling. the gators swimwear the woman made it back to shore. todd: a terrifying stroll on the texas beach right before tropical storm slammed the coasts was mike myers shot a lot of looks from nervous neighbors and the officers, put his hands behind his head, taken in for disorderly conduct. president biden says he has great confidence in general nearly who is facing accusations of treason. jillian: they feel different about his calls to china. congr

this story clearly got away from the white house, first of all. they thought they had really pulled off a big coup here in working this deal with australia in concert with the british and i'll get to that in a second. and they either didn't foresee the degree to which france would be angry or they figured they could just manage that later. and it's really blown up in their face. now, what happened is that to date the u.s. has only shared this highly sensitive nuclear propulsion technology for submarines with its closest naval ally britain. and that was largely aimed at the soviet union. and that's a decade old's agreement. this agreement with the same kind of technology in the pacific in the hands of australia in a direct challenge to china. so that's the main reason that china is upset about this. they see it for what it is, which is a complete and challenge to chinese naval power in the pacific by somebody other than the united states. right now there is a daily cat and mouse between u.s. and chinese ships across the south china sea and else whe

park across from the white house about 200 yards from the white house residence.he park. trying to avoid -- in the last five minutes, people have come running out of the white house and old executive office building. there was a white jet circling overhead. you generally don't see planes in the area over the white house. that's restricted air space. no reason to believe that this jet was there for any fe nars you purpose, but the secret service was concerned, pointing up at the jet in the sky. >> that was the day that tested and changed about everything. the legendary white house reporter ann compton was in that classroom. the plane went back to washington, and i'm grateful she's in the studio with us today. i want to go back to the beginning. you're on what you think is a routine trip. president bush is in a class room, talking to children in walks the white house chief of staff. >> it stunned me. no one interrupts the president, even in front of a classroom of second graders. i wrote down in my reporter's notebook, 9:07:00 a.m., andy whispers what stuns me now 2

when you become an official white house photographer is it during a club? >> there's so much work involved in doing the job that you don't get a chance to come up for air. you are kind of in this bubble and you will see your colleagues looking out the window. from my experience, there was so much work involved and focus on the job that until i got out, you realize how special the job was even more so. but yes it is great to be in such a tightknit club, because not a lot of photographers have done this. >> we did a talk with you together and you have been on the other side. what is the difference between what you were doing as a member of the ap and official white house photographer? >> very different. i think as a journalist, working for the media, you are there, you are on assignment and your focus is to illustrate what's presented in front of you, or if you do have access to a behind-the-scenes moment, you record it and put it out there, but it's limited. when you are an official photographer, it's like a whole another world, a whole another universe wher

the president of ukraine is at the white house for a special meeting with president by then. we'll take a look at why the u. s is pledging an extra $60000000.00 and military aid and what it means for tensions in the region, plus 5 in the u. s. is done with nation building. we'll discuss whether that's really the case and how much washington is still handing out. and for an aid each year and opec plus members met wednesday to discuss the future of oil output as the delta various ways our demand will bring you up to speed on the latest developments from the car itself. got a lot to get to. let's go with the highly criticized exit from afghanistan now officially behind him, us president joe biden has now turned his attention to military aid for ukraine, as well as the future of the controversial large stream to pipeline. in fact, wednesday president biden unveiled a wide range of humanitarian and military aid package for ukraine during a visit by the country's president at the white house. joining us now or so. what's in store in this package? joining is been one co host of boom

the white house says it's banning horses at the border.r what's happening? this is a mess down there. >> it is a mess. i think it's an important component of this policy. the images were horrific. they don't belong in 2021 and they didn't belong centuries ago when we might have been more used to unfortunately seeing them. i think, though, the steps they are taking are important. most importantly probably is getting people into shelters, getting them out from underneath the bridge, 15,000 people living in those conditions under a bridge is not what we want to see. quite frankly, we have to go through the adjudication process of i would presume tens of thousands of people or at least thousands of people seeking some level of asylum. so, look, there's a whole practical policy that has to get put back together, the asylum process came basically to a screeching halt under the trump administration. immigration courts are overloaded. it takes months if not longer to get a case heard. there's a lot of practical things i think this administration h

it comes after president biden has this moment after giving remarks at the white house yesterday. >> i'm supposed to stop and walk out of the room here. i'm going to stop and walk into the room. >> it happens every week it seems now, the president expected to unveil his covid 19 plan today at 5:00 pm eastern so let's bring in doctor mark from harvard medical school. if you were in charge what was your plan b for covid at this point? >> thanks for having me. one thing, people have stronger lasting immunity, accusing to establish trust in public health, to acknowledge community from having had covid and not force those people to have vaccinations. they don't need vaccination. vaccine for people who do need them. the second point is to encourage all the people to get vaccinated, those who haven't had the vaccine and haven't had covid. important to get vaccinated as we see research in the northern part of the united states. that is the second critical thing to do. the other thing is if you're old and vulnerable you should avoid travel spaces, better testing and nursing homes for example,

of the david science center for white house history. the white house historical association is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with a mission to educate americans about that rich and diverse history of the white house and the people who live and work there. our guest this evening is michael he is a retired rear admiral from the navy civil engineer corps. he served in a variety of assignments around the world and is 29 year military career. including as commander of camp david. after retirement thousand ten, michael jordan private industry is a chief executive officer of the building information technology company headquartered in his hometown of pittsburgh, pennsylvania. in october 2017, he published his first book inside camp david the private world of the presidential retreat. mike travels often speaking about the book has been covered by the wall street journal, the today show c-span and many other print radio television outlets. after our conversation, mike will be taking questions from our live audience. please be your questi

leader schumer, senator schumer you heard say the white house, the senate, the white house, they've all reached an agreement on a framework for pay-for with the multitrillion dollar budget bill. speaker pelosi drilled into the stakes around the debt ceiling calling not addressing ate potential catastrophe. she called republican refusal appalling. she said she's confident they'll be able to keep the government open. it's a step forward. let's also keep in mind the broader context here. before pelosi spoke garrett haake, he put the politics of all of it this way. democratic priorities keep running into the brutal buzz saw reality of a 50/50 senate with republicans united. police reform talks over gun law talks, over. voting rights going nowhere. social infrastructure, prekars. mccaskill pinned it down like this. >> in the process, it looks awful and stupid to america and the republicans are banking on the fact that the democrats are going to take more of the blame than they are, because they're in charge. and it looks like a bunch of idiots running around right now. >> that political grid

and, you know, the white house is fully engaged. the president canceled his trip to chicago today to stay here to do this. so we have a lot of deadlines coming up this week. first and foremost, we are going to keep the government open. that is our, you know, basic responsibility and there is no way that democrats are going to let the republicans shut down our government because we know how critical it is for people, especially during this time of economic crisis. second, we have a debt ceiling that we have to get done in the next few weeks. the house is going to bring back a clean bill and send it back to the senate. and we cannot stand by with this dereliction of responsibility from the gop. we will get this done with democratic votes if they move out of our way. so we are going to keep pushing because we know how critical this is. we have quotes from kevin mccarthy, from mitch mcconnell on the importance of paying your past debt. 97% of this bill is the debt that comes from the trump administration. we know we have to pay that bil

live report from the white house.ean a lot more next september. where biden's south station tunnel at the end of neck september heading into october will mean a lot. phil makes an important point. if you're the democrats you see the president's poll numbers are down and on the one hand you're thinking i need to help him out because we rise or fall with him. on the other hand you think he's a little weak right now, maybe i have more leverage because he's a little weak right now and he needs me. amy walter writes about this, competence and running the government was his calling card. for democrats worry that biden's declining fortunes are dragging him down, failing to give him a victory will only make things worse for both him and them. a mid-term eselection a referendum on the president so when he flops so does everybody. >> right now is the season where you've got to get the ws up on the board if you're the democrats in order to have that momentum so you're not trying to scram to be do that at the end, because it just

the white house is disagreeing with the jct's analysis. there's some analysis to back up the white house's claim that some taxes are getting cut from the middle taxes. the tax policy center has their own analysis out. they said the bill's individual income, payroll and estate taxes provisions would cut taxes on average for households. however, including all major provisions including corporate income and excite tax increases, 58% of all households would pay more. so today the white house is agreeing there's no such thing as a free lunch but disagreeing at the end of the day who will pick up the tab. neil? >> very interesting. hillary, thanks for that. hillary vaughn. we're just getting this in from bernie sanders who is not to keen on the go-ahead vote scheduled for thursday on the infrastructure only package. the $1 trillion or so bipartisan efforts. without it being attached to far bigger spending commitments, let's be clear in the bill is passed on its on on thursday, this will be in violation of the agreement that was reached in the de

here is white house correspondent peter doocy. >> a rare admission from this white house. they know the headlines are bad. >> we're in the middle of navigating and weathering storms and dealing with crises that's what a president should do. >> u.s. envoy for haiti wants out. daniel foot resigned with this letter. i will not be associated with the united states inhumane counter productive decision to deport how sands of haitian refugees and immigrants to haiti a country american officials are confined to secure compounds because of the danger posed by armed gangs to daily life. the white house is pushing back. >> first i would note there have been multiple senior level policy conversations on haiti. where all proposals, including those led by special envoy footee were fully considered. some of those were considered harmful to the commitment of promotion of democracy in haiti. >> progressives are still upset rounded bye bye border patrol officers patrols that have since been suspended. >> what we witnessed was worse than what we witnessed in slavery. >> the white house is ho

white houses have. necessarily follow the same procedures and the same organization principles that other white houses did. you know, we knew my colleague andy carney wrote a story about how when president trump was done with documents, he would rip them up and toss them on the floor. you're not allowed to do that. those documents are supposed to be kept for the sake of history. that's the daw. we don't know for sure what documents have been kept and what haven't. by the end of their four years, presumably, they had a system in place, but we don't know what these documents might tell us and that's one reason the committee is looking. >> if these documents are there for the committee to reach, why do you think donald trump is fighting so hard to keep them sealed? >> well, look, on a broad principle, every president fights this kind of thing. every president resists the idea of their white house being open to transparency. it is an institutional, you know, tradition. having said that, more specifically on

. >>> we have some breaking news right now from the white house. we have been expecting some kind of update on covid. well, it turns out, it is an update to the international travel policy. kelly o'donnell is at the white house with the details for us. kelly, what can you tell us? >> reporter: good morning, chris. this is a significant development, one that will affect international travelers. the white house is saying that come early november, as they get the systems in place, fully vaccinated individuals, foreign nationals from anywhere in the world will be permitted to visit the united states via air travel if they have full vaccination and do a test for covid. that effectively would end what has been a long ban that has separated families and employees from businesses for many countries that have been prohibited from having travelers come to the u.s. for fear of the spread of the disease. so this is a significant change that will be implemented in early november. the cdc will decide which

when you talk to white house officials, wolf, they knew this was coming at some point. there's a recognition that over the course of the last eight or nine months to some degree, progressives particularly in the house have been good soldiers on legislative negotiations, on the covid relief package or the infrastructure bill, the bipartisan proposal that many progressives made clear they weren't happy with and the white house and congressional leaders said you'll get the $3.5 trillion and economic climate package. that's where your priorities will go. that is what's up in the air right now. this was always going to be an extraordinary complex needle to thread, and white house officials i've been talking to not just the last several days but last several days have acknowledged that fact but they have also made clear that they believe there is a way to find the sweet spot here, the sweet spot between moderates who want to downsize the package and limits the programs that are central planks, not just for progressives but president biden as well and progressives who have made