this is not the first white house school, but it likely was the last time the white house had a school inside. jacqueline kennedy had an experience where caroline had ballet classes outside of the white house, which was no issue until they became until her husband became president and then they were caroline was being followed by reporters. so she decided this is kennedy decided to create what was initially called a playgroup you're kind of evolved into a nursery and then by the time carolyn what caroline was school age became a first grade classroom and john jr. was part of the playgroup ultimately, but it was comprised of children. who were the kids of their close friends and the parents all pulled their resources and funded? the salary of the teachers the parents pooled resources for the supplies books. there was a trampoline that was purchased for the the school kids. it was her way of providing her kids with an environment where they were learning in something like a classroom setting with other children, but again, it was controlled they were. in you know behind is for private wa

maybe not in the trump white house. [laughter] but they get in there and they shave the edge off of their advice. they shave the edge off of their disagreements because they don't what the president to have to referee amongst people who have some bitter disagreement and make his life harder. that is a huge mistake that i think when we made mistakes any the bush administration, it was when we did not reflect the full depth of this agreement to the president -- depth of disagreement to the president . make it your job when you are in the oval office to sharpen the disagreement. provoke people to say what they said outside of the oval office to the president and make his job dam hard because that is the president's job, is to make the hard decisions and he should make them knowing what everyone thinks. >> unvarnished. kellyanne conway, we will give you the final word. >> don't overestimate how much you and your colleagues and a president can get done by this friday. underestimate how much he can get done in the next 1, 2,

here with me in studio jonathan lemire, white house bureau chief for politico and the white house of "way too early" for msnbc. and michael shear, white house correspondent for "the new york times. thank you all for being here. jonathan, i want to start with you. there was so much news about these white house call logs, a big mystery here. what's the significance of these missing call logs given the fact that there is still so much that lawmakers are trying to figure outbout january 6? jonathan: obviously the january 6 committee is trying to figure out exactly what the president was doing that day as his supporters were storming the capitol. and we know from media reports, from accounts offered by lawmakers and aides that he was working the phones for at least part of that day, that he had retreat for the most part, a private dining room just off the oval office. he's in there and a bank of televisions and watching what was going on and per witnesses seemingly pleased by a lot of what he saw, and we know he was making phone calls. but yet knows calls aren't showing up in the logs. th

okay, and we want you to feel welcome here at the white house. which really is as the admiral said it's the people's house. it belongs to all of us. so just remember that okay. and as the people's house, we believe the white house should be a place for learning and for sharing new and different ideas. sharing new forms of art and culture and history and different perspectives. we want you to visit and we want you to take advantage of these opportunities and maybe see something for yourselves that maybe you never thought you could do or be so i'm happy to welcome you here for our little black history month celebration. i'm glad you guys are here. so many milestones in black history have touched this very house. just to name a few. did you know that african-american slaves helped to build this house? you knew that? did you know that write upstairs in a bedroom called the lincoln bedroom president lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation that marked an important step forward and ending slavery. did you know that happened right here? you knew that

elizabeth: so it basically undercuts the white house narrative that they're being humanitarian, rightr illegal immigrants in texas the, arizona and and new mexico, targeting each other's stash houses to force these recently arrived border crossers to call home, call their relatives for ransom money so they can send the money to their captives, then that undercuts the white house narrative that their do-gooders. you're not allowed to ma recalled and bully yourself across any if border in any other country in the world. that's the thing. the prime minister's not the president of -- the president's not the president of a caucus, he's president of america, and there are crimes going on here. >> yeah. and what he's doing, liz, is he's allowing one of the bad things that that people say heir running from in mexico to occur on u.s. soil. this is what he's allowing lawlessness, which is happening in other countries, he's allowing it to happen in our own country. and, good lord, with the defund the police movement and and many of the other things that have lawlessness built this in with them,

one, in terms of how the white house is reacting, it was a joyful day at the white house.ou saw jen psaki afterwards in her briefing try not to tear up because of the emotion of the moment for her and everyone at the white house. politically, it's important to mention, this is a pretty concrete example of president biden making good on a campaign promise. presidents don't always get to do that. he had this opportunity and he fulfilled it by nominating judge brown jackson, and now with her confirmation he can say, i did not just promise to do that, i fulfilled it. it comes politically at a time when he's not doing super well in the balls. -- in the polls. only months still until the november elections, but this could be a positive jolt in the arm for democrats, for progressives, for black women and men who are a an important part of the -- are an important part of the democratic constituency. to your point about mitch mcconnell, certainly that is part of the overall political picture here. if indeed republicans end up gaining control of the senate and perhaps the house as w

so really as the white house -- the white house is the peoples' house, and i think it's really important to see that every american sees their stories reflected in the white house. their stories, their ancestors stories, they should be able to see themselves in the building. that speech by michelle obama caused a lot of people to head our way to look for more information about slavery in the white house, and we didn't have that information available at the time, and us launching our initiative is to correct that and add the voices to the narrative and put them in context with first ladies, first families and presidents themselves, and they are essential to history, and they are not just witnesses to white house history but they are deeply involved. an enslaved man for president james madison, paul jennings, he wrote the first white house memoire. it's a pretty remarkable read. in it he correct a popular myth. there's a popular story that dolly madison when the british come to burn the white house, that she cuts the portrait from the frame and carries it to safety herself, and that's the

she lived in the white house. the concession statement she delivered on behalf of a horse president gerald ford ending. the 1976 campaign was not the end of her own political life. she continued to her work to improve the lives of those facing breast cancer and substance abuse focusing a spotlight once taboo topics. she built a friendship and policy partnership with the woman who followed her into the white house rosalyn carter an advocate for the mentally ill. and she revealed that she'd lobbied her husband to name a woman to the supreme court and to his 1976 re-election ticket. betty ford was fond of saying she was known to have an opinion or two you'll hear directly from her featuring footage from c-span's video library. let's listen to her now in her own words. the equal rights amendment when ratified will not be an instance solution to women's problems. it will not alter the fabric of the constitution. are forced women away from their families? it will help knock down those restrictions that have locked women

she used the white house as a platform to advance the issue. you'll hear from her next at the 2010 white house easter egg roll where the south lawn was convert into a sprawling playground. >> hey, everybody. is this not the perfect day for the easter egg roll. let's say thank you to mother nature. we're so excited to have you. welcome to the 2010 easter egg roll. the theme for this year's event is ready, set, go. as you guys know, this year i launched a nationwide initiative to try to end the epidemic of childhood obesity. it's called let's move. today we have transformed the south lawn into a playground. we have wonderful food stands in back. with have some of the best chefs. you can learn to cook. there's farmers market. you can see the garden. we also have some great activities. we have several athletic centers. we have football, basketball. we have our washington redskins here. we have olympians. we have billie jean king. in the center we'll have some dancing opinion we have dj tony from the ellen show who will do some stuff. if that's not

she didn't like the idea of redecorating the white house a lot of people say dolly redecorated the white house, but what she did was restructure it in a way that mrs. kennedy would have proved by this is amazing that before dolly's white house, which is called the executive mansion and it would only be during her tenure where it would get that familiar loving nickname the white house there was no place in the in the capital city where all the men of government could get together. let alone their families let alone visiting diplomats. let alone visiting americans let alone anybody it was so what dolly did was she took that executive mansion and she turned it in to a center for entertaining where everybody in town would show up and they did and she threw weekly parties and they were as regular and as grueling as they sound but they became an independent and indispensable part of the washington political machine. and it's in those parties. i can tend that these people learn to work together in a bipartisan ways going towards something they didn't even know is going to happen, which is that

and moving into the white house? >> they are the first cup toll move into the white house. nobody stayed terribly long. they weren't impressed. i think abigail embodies another part of the partnership. she wasn't interested in what they would call presiding. she adopted martha's ceremonies dutifully, but the role she played was as an adviser. she was really was hr husband's closest adviser. and in the spirit of republican virtue, john adams made the terrible discussion not to change his cabinet. so he ended up with a cabinet full of traitors. so he would have always relied on abigail, but in that particular circumstance, she was his closest adviser. >> and that's fascinating you're mentioning that because really coming up to modern first ladies and contemporary first ladies in terms of personnel issues. we know that nancy reagan so important on issues of personnel. never afraid to tell her husband. that person should go or that person is not good for you. so it clearly starts at the very beginning in that kind of advisory capacity. so before we come back to dolly, let me tu

so really as the white house the white house is the people's house. and i think it's really important to see that every american sees their stories reflected in the white house their stories their ancestors stories. they should be able to see themselves in the building that that speech by michelle obama caused a lot of people to come head our way to look for more information about slavery in the white house, and we really didn't have a lot of that information available at the time and so us launching our slavery in the president's neighborhood initiative is an effort to correct that and to add those voices into the narrative and put them into conversation with first ladies first families and presidents themselves. they are essential to white house history and american history, and they're not just witnesses to white house history. they are deeply involved one of my favorite stories and things that sort of a correction is an enslave man for a president james madison paul. he wrote the first white house memoir. it's a pretty remarkable read and in it. h

so you might remember at the white house correspondence center, she dressed up and came out into the tune of second hand rose and said i'm wearing second hand clothes. and she brought the house down. and if -- if you are being attacked and you can make fun of yourself or poke fun at yourself, that's a lesson, of course, to be learned. let's talk about some other tech any logical changes that would have changed the role of first lady and that is as travel became more of an opportunity or ease of travel. so the railroads come into being and also planes. talk about all of the first ladies that you know or have studied and what travel then actually contributed to their own work and to the work of their husbands. >> well, the pokes did a trip down to the south, and sara poke went with him, and this was one of the early opportunities for a woman to be beside her husband someplace outside of washington. this was the thing, if anyone knew about the first lay days outside of the washington area, it was either in their home state or what they were reading in the press. so with train travel then

it is hard in any white house. the next panel can speak to this too, to get outside perspective because it is the difficulty of surviving the day sometimes. >> i want to peel back the layers of what it is like to be in those meetings. it brings to mind the fact that the president is sort of emotional, he is colorful, faulty in his language sometimes. does that exist in meetings? is there space for people to be emotional, colorful when you are debating ideas or is it always more formal? is it on the topic only or does it have a more free-form? jen psaki: it is definitely free-form. >> i ask because the creative prices in the decision-making process has a connection to how people feel when they are making decisions and when they are offering ideas. is it constrained or a free-flowing environment? how would you describe how that goes? cedric richmond: it is free-flowing and when you have people like ron klain who have been around him a long time. even when it is not senior staff that want to deliver something. they wi

price and food prices all over the world. >> mike: and lawmakers travel to europe, pressing the white housedo more for ukraine is putin pivots to the east. we will ask house minority leader kevin mccarthy about ukraine, inflation, midterms, and republicans' chances to win back the house. it's a "fox news sunday" exclusive. plus, as the covid cases spike in half of u.s. states, the white house extends mask mandates for air travel and the texas governor sends busloads of migrants to washington's doorstep amid a backlash over plans to end covid restrictions at the border. we will talk to white house covid response coordinator dr. ashish jha about changing covid rules as well as vaccines for kids, boosters, and how to plan for travel. then, a dnc vote this week puts iowa's first in the nation status in doubt ahead of 2024. we will ask our sunday panel what's driving the push to change how democrats pick their presidential nominee. and, we will discuss the growing debate over power and free speech on twitter. >> i think it's very important for there to be an inclusive arena for free speech. >> m

-- in the white house. the president looks to him for his assessment of congress, he trust him implicitly. i have nothing to announce, but when we have something to announce, it will involve a new, important role for him, something the president is excited about. reporter: did the president see any larger meaning in the french elections in terms of the allied effort against russia? jen psaki: i don't have any assessment of that, i will leave that to others. the president was pleased with the outcome. he spoke with president mike roan -- macron this morning and is looking forward to working with him. reporter: an interesting observation that president macrn -- macron secured a double digit win, though he was down in popularity. jen psaki: i do not have information on that front. reporter: is the white house supportive of that? jen psaki: that is decisions for the nato alliance to make, so we will leave it to those entities. reporter: we learned more about friday's shooter from d.c. police who say he had hund

a big win for the white house and for democrats.lso following what's happening on the hill as it relates to ukraine. with multiple bills passed in the senate unanimously today aimed at punishing russia even harder. we're talking about that and

if we take the house back, you still have a democrat in the white house. will you get to actual consensus and get bills signed? >> we will pass them out of the house. i believe going through this current administration we support policies. remember what happened after 1994. we balance the budget, we reformed welfare, we did that after the american public spoke very clearly that they wanted a new agenda and a new transformation. the other thing that comes as you are able to hold this administration accountable. able to stand up to an attorney general that goes after parents are causing terrorist if they want to go to a school board meeting. you are able to actually find, why did we have 13 new gold star families peeling americans out of afghanistan. we can look at the irs releasing taxpayers filings. why is that going forward? numerous places to hold this administration accountable. we will finally get to the bottom of the origins of covid. why did it kill so many people across this world. where did it start to make sure it never happens again. >> some sugge

and you can feel the white house feeling the pressure.he mandate, the mask mandate on public transportation affecting everything from ubers to the airplane you travel on. and that is not politically popular. i know dr. jha was on the morning shows sort of dodging the question. i think he is actually a very important voice of moderation in this administration. he sort of punted to the cdc. he punted to some of the more progressive voices in the administration on whether that was going to be extended. it's not popular. a lot of these mask mandates, they are almost all gone. philadelphia brought it back today and already democratic politicians in the state are speaking out against those measures. so the white house the last thing they want is a new scope of public health regulations before the midterm election. >> bret: meantime, across the world. different countries are handling it differently, brit. here is shanghai in china. take a listen. >> if you think wuhan 2020 was bad. welcome to shanghai 2022 this has been like no other lockdown. a

does the white house stand by that comment?ely stand by the president's comments pray but as you know i do not speak for hunter biden to there's not more i can say on that. >> nothing was unethical. my son has not made money in terms of this thing about what are you talking about, china. elizabeth: $4.8 million at least came out of china into hunter biden's accounts. if it's all ethical, why is hunter and the biden family by querying millions of dollars of cash flow from china, russia, ukraine and more. in all in shell companies but selling access to political power is corrupt to pray. >> it is correct to the core. it is something that is going to really come out more and more. and let me tell you, it is something as i said before that not only hurts our country but you know, i have often said on your show we have a week president and that he is not capable of the job. i now think we literally have one of the most corrupt presidents ever. my god, tell the truth once in a while. he says something different every day about everyt

and the obama white house held back more than 48,000 pages. judge jackson also gave the white house confidential, nonpublic probation recommendations for some of her cases. but, when we asked about a probation document filed on the hocking case, judge jackson claimed she was not able to assess records for her old cases . that was allegedly because she was no longer on the district court. we now know that she sits on the d.c. circuit court of appeals. now, if that is true, there are many unanswered questions about how information the white house got was helpful in so easily obtained. so, we should take into account the all the helpful and -- information has already been leaked. that brings me to the merits of just jackson's nomination. for judicial nominees, their philosophy ought to decide how they decide cases ought to be a primary consideration. part of having a judicial philosophy is having an understanding of the fundamental principles of her constitution. natural rights are a part of that system. judge jackson explained to us that she doe

but afternoon, welcome to the white house. i'm very excited that you hear today with me and thank you in advance for sharing your stories and your thoughts about your struggles and trials. i want to help children everywhere to be their best. so with your help. we can achieve positive results. so before we start i would like to ask each of you introduce yourself. and then you could start them maybe share some hobbies or the story that you want to share with me as we see here. we have a two boards on. on my rights i put down some of the towards that we need to live by in everyday life and on the left. we have a board that is empty and what i would like is have three of you to come up and maybe share your emotions how you feel maybe in school how you feel at home or with your peers so we could have them discussion and you tell me your thoughts and i will tell you my thoughts. so maybe i could be the first one and tell you what i feel today. instead good. yes, perfect. so i feel today very excited. and thankful because you're here

how can the white house topspin this? obama white house visitor logs?ps saying i never knew about hunter's business deals, didn't know anything about it, the business logs according to the "new york post" say eric schwerin that he visit the white house 19 times. why does he get to visit and president keeps denying he never knew anything about it? >> the 19 visits to the white house plus 80,000 emails and text messages and counting show that joe biden knew a lot more than he is willing to fess up to these days. i want to know everything that was happening like, jim jordan said recently last week, that we need to have an investigation oversight and i serve on oversight with jim jordan. one of the first subpoenas we ought to issue is for hunter biden's laptop. guess what, even if it doesn't show up, we'll hoed him for contempt. that is how that works. >> first biden campaign basically telling journalists if you report on this you will commit journalistic malpractice. that was the during the campaign, right? they bullied that. then they said it was russian

that is one of those things that for a white house, any white house it is very hard to overcome thathe car with gas to have the for the growth grocery store. it's really hard to put some messaging that can change that reality. think democrats face a significant challenge. biden facing a significant challenge when it comes to trying to show other points for what his and restoration is done. how do you say look over here would people say i feel this way every time i go to pull out my credit card. again i think democrats are looking to try to change some of their messaging present the reality of that is going to be quite difficult the next few months. spent harold ford junior to think the is anything they can practically do to change the trajectory of their midterms? >> i think probably one or two things. i greet largely with what is already been said. the kind of people does have an answer how to retain control but he has a right the for democrats is not strong. that got a story to tell the should tell every of what brit set. looking for candidates who can tell until the country in a c

what is the human level response to the white house? >> we have anticipated that there will be rising numbers of covid cases. it's not the number that it was around omicron and i don't know if it was lamancha press corps. certainly was among the general public. there were number of questions we put in place -- precautions we put in place to protect him and other members of the team. that includes testing for anybody who goes to see him and that includes social distancing in meetings whenever possible and additional precautionary steps we take in order to protect him and protect other senior members of the white house. >> is there any ongoing err near future conversations with china on the russian situation or has the u.s. concluded china will not budge on the decision and being involved? >> they are been ongoing discussions with china would expect including their expectations they abide by -- and don't support and send material support to russia. certainly i would expect there will be ongoing discussions. [inaudible] >> that is what we

ebony mcmorris is the white house correspondent for that network. nicholas wu is with political, with political. thank you for joining us today. >> that is a much. >> c-span's washington journal, every day we take your calls live on the air on the news of the day we discussed policy issues that impact you, coming up tuesday morning, the chief advocacy officer of the national alliance on mental illness discusses federal efforts to improve mental health programs in the u.s. and we look at the u.s. and nato response to the russian invasion of ukraine with democratic congressman peter. watch live seven eastern tuesday morning on c-span or as c-span now our free mobile app. join discussion with your phone call, facebook comments, text or tweets. >> tuesday on c-span, secretary of state antony blinken testifies before the senate foreign relations committee about u.s. assistance for ukraine and the state department they -- budget request live at 10 a.m. eastern ended 2:00 p.m. the houses back to work on several bills including one to help small business co

this is from january 1997 in the white house roosevelt room. thank you, and please be seated and welcome to the white house. i am pleased to see all of you here today for the presentation of this report of the presidential advisory committee on gulf war veterans illnesses. the work of this committee reflects the administration's commitment to finding answers for the thousands of brave men and women suffering from undiagnosed illnesses after serving in the persian gulf war. and it reflects the president's abiding commitment to being responsive to and responsible for our veterans and their families. i know that there are members who are here of the commission and i'd like them if they would just to stand so that we could see all they're all standing good. we appreciate very much the time and effort that went into this service, and i know firsthand how important and difficult your task has been over the last four years the president and i have received many heart-wrenching letters from gulf war veterans and family members. many veterans and their

what do you think is behind that in the white house? >> i'm astonished that they don't see this as a political albatross hanging around their neck. >> martha: it is in the polls. >> in 2022, there's a lot of democrats that voted for the biden border policies and are going to stand accountable in elections. that's why you're seeing erosion in the president's own party on this title 42 issue. >> martha: it's very interesting. sort of lack of pivot that we've seen. very quickly. you're out of time. trevor reed, marine, returned from russia to texas today. i know this has been a big issue for you for years. your thought on that. >> it's a glorious day. i can't help be happy for trevor and his parents. his folks list in texas. we've been consulting on this, trying to do everything we can to encourage the biden administration to pursue this trade. i'm appreciative of the president for making this transaction. >> martha: happy for him and his family. a few people still there that need to be worked on. thanks for all you've done. thanks very mu

the cheers in the senate chamber and at the white house. judge ketanji brown jackson with the president. the first black woman to serve now on the nation's highest court. >>> the war in ukraine. tonight, what our james longman has witnessed first-hand. the atrocities. and tonight, the u.n.'s historic vote to suspend russia from the human rights council. and reports tonight of germany intercement intercepting russian military communications. what the reported messages could prove. >>> here at home tonight, the secret service scandal. two men accused of posing as homeland security agents. authorities believe duping members of the secret service, giving them lavish gifts, including an agent on first lady jill biden's security detail. four secret service agents suspended tonight. so, who were these men working for, who funded this? martha raddatz reporting tonight. >>> this evening, new cases of covid on the rise in half of the u.s. and in washington, d.c., house speaker nancy pelosi testing positive for covid. and the new questions now after t

proud to share the stage with steve portnoy, who many of you know as a white house -- longtime white house press correspondent. steve, why don't you add a couple words? [applause] s on helping things work better. c: thank you so much, jason, and thank you to the white house correspondence association for putting this on. our organization was founded in 1914, to advocate for the working man -- and they were almond -- who were assigned by publications to cover the white house. the history i believe is relevant as today. president woodrow wilson was a hardy, former princeton university professor who was deeply suspicious of reporters. the late historian stephen ponder wrote that wasn't viewed washington correspondence generally as unimpressive intellect -- that wilson viewed washington correspondents generally as unimpressive intellects. university professor in new jersey governor who was deeply suspicious of reporters. one historian wrote that wilson viewed the washington correspondents generally as unimpressive intellects, concerned with things and pushing family members. he found the

white house coming here? >> i remember the first day when he was, after the inauguration when i came walking in the door and he was sitting behind the day it was -- >> impressive? >> it was impressive, yes. but then, i remember when the panama canal treaty was signed and he called me at the last vote and i came running over to the oval office. that was special, but i was in and out. the last day that we were in the white house, the day of the inauguration of president reagan i came over several times telling him to get dressed for the inauguration because he was still working on the hostage situation. there were a lot of momentous occasions in our white house life. i think jimmy's greatest achievement was his human rights policy which calls for freedom for people and the rights that they have around the world, and i think that since his presidency, that human rights policy has continued. and so, i think as far as that concerned, we're better off. because our country changed the way we conduct our foreign poli