smith who was known as the white house official duster and he was born in maryland and joined the whitehouse staff during the administration of ulysses s grant. it seems from our research that it's about 1873 that he comes to the white house and he stays at the white house until the theater roosevelt administration just around his death in 1904. so quite a long time on staff at the white house and although he was known as the official duster as you can see in this great image of him on the screen with his feather duster. he also took on many other roles including cook butler dorman footman, really, whatever the first family needed and this is a thread that you can draw through many of these resident staff position. is that they're so eager and happy to help the first family in any way they can. for many years jerry also had the honor of raising and lowering the flag atop the white house. and today the flag is always top the white house. that's been the case since the nixon administration, but jerry had that honor throughout his tenure working at the executive mansion, and he was also kn

the resident staff was segregated at the white house throughout several administrations and at the sametime you see a lot of the managerial and clerical positions filled by white workers. so really the resident staff is a microcosm of american society throughout history. another important thing to understand is that although presidents brought their own staff to work at the white house pretty commonly throughout the 19th century today these resident staff positions are very nonpartisan. the resident staff is extremely private and loyal and they're proud to serve their country many of them have spoken about the fact that serving at the people's house is an extension of serving the american people and as a result many of them end up remaining for several administrations, and it's not unusual to see generations of family members working at the white house as well as husbands and wives and brothers and sisters. i included this great quote on this screen here from alonzo fields, who was the chief butler at the white house for 21 years and he wrote a memoir about his experience. he wrote you

in the white house it is different, on the white house grounds it is different. the entire 200 plus odd area. there are very few places in the nation that you can say that about. even more significant to me is the period of significance is open-ended. simply because it is the white house, whatever happens tomorrow or next week, or next month or next year is going to be historically significant. >> can i tell you one little story that affected me? it has to do with the beautiful magnolias, which are how old, now? >> if you believe the story associated with them, they were planted by andrew jackson sometime around 1828. >> they are gigantic, what we see close-up is there are huge metal poles going up the entire length, they are wired together because the presidents marine one helicopter comes out of the downdraft, beats against the morning, i got a call from the abc news desk at about 1:10 in the morning and they said a plane has crashed into the white house. get there quick, i got there, turns out it was a tiny ultralight plane. a kook had tried to land at 1:00 in

we've been involved with the white house since 1933. and then with this house itself and the collection some ways too since 1961 and i feel you know, it's it really speaks to what the national park service is about. it's about preserving protecting and telling the story of this nation for future generations. and i feel like that's what we do every day working here at the white house and i feel like you know, all those things that we see, you know are important for people, you know, we sometimes take it for granted, but people really see each one of those things as meaning something to them something they've waited their whole life to see so it's very very important to us that we all bear together and making sure that that place is very special for people when they come to visit it also too as we've said it's it's ever dynamic environment. it's changing. great moment. it's changing with every administration. and so we have to be there to adjust and be able to be nimble and to work with it. but at the same time understand that trust that's

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

and white house covid czar dr.h jha. biden is taking an anti-viral drug while he isolates. the president's physical, kevin o'connor, says he is experiencing fatigue, a runny nose and an occasional dry cough. biden put out this tweet showing him working at his desk. he said he's doing great behind is keeping busy. the president was scheduled to fly to pennsylvania today for a gun violence speech and then travel to his home in wilmington. this is him from yesterday. though that is not. both of those trips have been cancelled. vice president harris has tested negative. she was last with the president on tuesday. the first lady, who is a close contact, is also t

and as you will see to day, donald trump's own white house counsel his own white house staff, members of his own family, all implored him to immediately intervene to condemn the violence and instruct his supporters to stand down. leave the capital and disperse for multiple hours. he would not, donald trump would not get on the phone and order the military or law enforcement agencies to help. and for hours, donald trump chose not to answer the please from congress, from his own party and from all across our nation to do what his oath required. he refused to defend our nation and our constitution. he refused to do what every american president must. in the days after january 6th, almost no one of any political party would defend president trump's conduct, and no one should do so to day. thank you and i now recognized the gentlewoman from virginia. thank you madam vice chair. article 2 of our constitution requires that the president swear a very specific oath every 4 years. every president swears or affirms to faithfully execute the office of president of the united states and to the bes

went back to the white house.d haldeman that i thought i had done the best i could and that i had opportunities that i really want to explore. i thought he'd say, well, that's great, thank you for the job you've done. but that isn't the reaction he had. he just said, "you owe it to us to stay. in fact, if you want to be an enemy of this administration, you'll leave." if you have type 2 diabetes or high blood pressure you're a target for chronic kidney disease. you can already have it and not know it. if you have chronic kidney disease your kidney health could depend on what you do today. ♪far-xi-ga♪ farxiga is a pill that works in the kidneys to help slow the progression of chronic kidney disease. farxiga can cause serious side effects including dehydration, urinary tract or genital yeast infections in women and men, and low blood sugar. ketoacidosis is a serious side effect that may lead to death. a rare, life-threatening bacterial infection in the skin of the perineum could occur. stop taking farxiga and call yo

let's get straight to the white house and our white house correspondent, mj lee.he white house today is that the inevitable has happened, more than two years into this covid pandemic. the president of the united states testing positive for covid. here is what we know about his condition. we know that he tested positive this morning. his doctor says that he is only experiencing mild symptoms, as

a letter we just received from the biden white house chief of staff ron klain to white house staff onsident's positive diagnosis. having read the initial statement from the white house several times, martha, this reads similarly, it repeats the president is vaccinated, twice boosted, he tested positive this morning, he's on paxlovid, the antiviral, consistent with white house protocol with positive cases and beyond cdc guidance, i didn't know i was on the screen, i was paraphrasing. we are going to execute the plan so the president can work seamlessly from the residence, ok. it goes on to say, maybe we have not continued that, but that's an interesting point to be made, martha, there is a plan in place. ron klain notes we have prepared for some time there was a substantial possibility that the president of the united states would contract this virus. so clearly there's a plan in place to deal with this, and i believe that's what we are about to hear from this white house, how they are handling it. >> we were expecting the statement to get underway in the briefing room there at 2:00 st

and as you will see today, donald trump's own white house counsel, his own white house staff members of his own family all implored him to immediately intervene to condemn the violence and instruct his supporters to stand down, leave the capitol and disperse. for multiple hours. he would not. donald trump would not get on the phone in order the military or law enforcement agencies to help. and for hours donald trump chose not to answer the pleas from congress from his own party and from all across our nation to do with his oath required. he refused to defend our nation and our constitution. he refused to do what every american president must. in the days after january 6, almost no one in any political party would defend president trump's conduct and no one should do so today. thank you. and i now recognize the gentleman from virginia. thank you, madam. vice chair. article 2 of our constitution requires that the president's where a very specific oath. >> every 4 years. every president swears or firms to faithfully execute the office of president of the united states and to the best of

yeah, which is about the white house gardens in the white house grounds. it's really an extraordinary issue. so thank you all for coming. have a safe travel home. i hope you all are having a good time. we'll start our second panel today. first i want to introduce the moderator our very own colleen shogun. who is the senior vice president at the david m rubinstein national center for white house history of the white house historical association? dr. shogun is a trained political scientist with a phd in american politics from yale university as well as a bachelor's degree in political science from boston college. she has almost 15 years of service in the federal government including prominent roles with the us senate as well as the library of congress, dr. shogun teaches government students at georgetown university and served as vice chair of the women's suffrage centennial commission. another feather in her cap in an illustrious resume is that she currently serves as a co-chair of the board of directors at the women's suffrage national monument foundation d

as you will see today, donald trump's own white house counsel, his own white house staff, members of his own family all implored him to immediately intervene to condemn the violence and instruct his supporters to stand down and immediately disperse. for multiple hours, he would not. donald trump would not get on the phone and order the military or law enforcement agencies to help. donald trump chose not to enter the police from congress, his own party and all across our nation to do what his oath required. he refused to defend our nation and our constitution. he refused to do what every american president must. in the days after january 6, almost no one of any political party would defend president trump's conduct and no one should do so today. thank you, and i now recognize the gentleman from virginia. . thank you madame vice chair, article two of our constitution requires that the president swear a very specific oath every four years. to execute the office of the president of the united states and to the best of their ability preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the uni

she moved over to the white house in april of 2022 start as white house press secretary and she over a group of campaign staff with her so i joined her over at the white house in june of 2022 start as her deputy. >> were you at work at the white house on january 6? >> yes i was working out of the west wing out of that day -- i was working out of the west wing on that day. >> thank you. president trump summoned to the mob to d.c. on january 6. before he went on stage, he knew that some of them were armed and prepared for combat. he implored them to march to the capital as he had always planned to do. by the time he walked off the stage, supporters had already breached the capital at the foot of capitol hill. since our last hearing, we received new testimony from a security professional working in the white house complex on january 6 with access to relevant information and responsibility to report to national security officials. this security official told us that the white house was aware of multiple reports of the crowd that morning. -- of weapons in the crowd that morning. we as a c

and he is working from the white house residence.he was very pleased, as i said that he were all here together today, talking about the work that our administration is doing on behalf of parents and working families and all who deserve to be seen and heard. >> we'll break away. we'll continue to monitor that event. we did hear the vice president address president biden's diagnose of covid, saying he's working still from the white house and encouraging her to continue with her events today. again, symptoms that are mild, we are told, and he tweeted out himself that he's doing great. much more on his diagnose right after this. with a jitterbug? or returned d from war, dreaming of the possibilities ahead. ♪ where your dad waited for his dad to come home from the factory. is this where they gathered on their front steps, with fats domino on the breeze... ancestry can guide you to family discoveries in the 1950 census. see what you can uncover at ancestry. my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis... the tightness, stinging... the pain. emer

i think what we'll continue to see from the white house and hear from white house officials over they is that, of course, they're taking the president's health seriously, but the concern at this moment is not significant. they want to try to portray calm, steadiness. that has really been sort of the watch word of biden's team lout this entire pandemic. they want to model good behavior, take good precautions, but given where we are as a country, in part as they would likely say, because of the work that the president has done with the american rescue plan and other initiatives to try to make covid treatments available, vaccines available, the concern about his health is nowhere, where it would have been, we should say, two years ago, when president trump, of course, contracted covid in the late stages of that 2020 campaign, without vaccines available and the kind of treatments available now. >> quite a different time, to say the least. memoli, stand by. i want to bring in dr. uche blackstock into the conversation. dr. blackstock, thanks for jumping on for us. we appreciate it. quite a

capitol attack, and any connection between extremist groups and the trump white house. it included portions of the recent taped deposition with former white house counsel pat cipollone, and in person testimony from a former oath keepers spokesperson who called the group a violent militia. and a man who pled guilty to breaching the u.s. capitol. this runs about two and a half hours. they select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol will be in order. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. pursuing the house deposition authority regulation ten, chair announces the committee's approval to release the deposition material, any coming from today's hearing. good afternoon, when i think about the most basic thing to explain the importance of elections in the united states, there is a phrase that always comes to mind. it may sound straightforward, but, it is meaningful we settle our differences at the ballot box, sometimes my choice prevails, sometimes yours does, but, it is that simple, w

that's what the white house's plan is. it's interesting, because it's a little different than what the cdc says. the cdc says day five, regardless of test, you don't need to continue to isolate. so they're saying they're taking it a step further, waiting for a negative test, which can be a while. five days, there may be people who clear a virus and test negative within five days. but if you look at some of the recent papers with regard to these new variants, nine days is also the case for some people to continue to test positive. so we'll see how long it takes for him. >> we saw the president at an outdoor event in massachusetts yesterday. he was shaking hands, in close contact with lawmakers and others who attended the speech. we're seeing a surge in infections across the u.s. from this ba-5 subvariant. should people in vulnerable groups, such as joe biden, be wearing masks more often, even outdoors, if they are in close proximity to other people within a foot or two, given you much spread there is in the community? >> ja

capitol attack and any connection between extremist groups and the trump white house. the hearing included portions of a recent tape deposition with former white house counsel pat cipollone and and person testimony from a former oath keepers spokesperson who called the group a violent militia, and a man who pled guilty to breaching the u.s. capitol. this runs around 2.5 hours. >> the committee will be in order. without objection the chair is authorized to declare the committee and recess at any point. pursuant to house deposition authority and regulation 10, the chernow announces the committee's approval to release the deposition material presented during today's hearing. good afternoon. when i think about the most basic way to explain the importance of elections in the u.s., there is a phrase that always comes to mind. it may sound straightforward. but it is meaningful. sometimes my choice prevails. sometimes yours does. but it's that simple. my choice prevails, sometimes yours does, but, it is that simple, we cannot stop votes, we count the votes, if something seems

at the white house.y, if you can hear me, i understand you have a little bit of new reporting on this? what can you share? >> reporter: i ran into dr. jha, the white house's coronavirus koord coordinator coordinator. he say joe biden did not have a fever, but experiencing a runny nose and fatigue, as well. so obviously these are the "very mild symptoms" that the white house described this morning. the white house press shop has not provided any additional details, but dr. jha saying the president did not have a fever, experiencing a runny nose and is experiencing some fatigue. so those are the symptoms. i was trying to ask additional questions, and the white house press secretary ushered him away. so we're looking to get additional details. but as of now, those are the symptoms we understand the president is experiencing. notable he does haven't a fever. we'll see if that holds. sometimes you don't at the beginning. >> important reporting, jeremy. we're good to hear those symptoms are mild. elizabeth coh

the top white house lawyer. this conversation was about a pending call from the pentagon seeking to coordinate on the response to the attack. mister hershman turned to mister saw cipollone and said the president didn't want to do anything. and so mister cipollone had to take the call himself. so president trump wasn't calling law enforcement or military leaders. what to president trump spend his time doing that afternoon. well, first settled into the dining room. he was calling senators to encourage them to delay or object to the certification. here's kaley mcenany, his press secretary to explain. >> all right. this is back there. and he wants list of senators and then he's calling them one by one, you know, which one call. >> that's my >> as i say in my notes, he wanted a list of the senators. and, you know, i left at that point. >> because the presidential call august, andy, we do not yet know precisely which senators president trump was calling. but we do know from rudy giuliani's phone records that president

today's witness is another republican, and another former member of president trump's white house staff. certain of us in the house of representatives recall ms. hutchinson once worked for steve scalise, but she is also a familiar face on capitol hill. because she held a prominent role in the white house legislative affairs office. and later was the principal aide to president trump's chief of staff, mark meadows. she spent considerable time up here on capitol hill, representing the trump administration. and we welcome her back. up until now, our hearings have each been organized to address specific elements of president trump's planned overturn the 2020 election. today we are departing somewhat from that model. because ms. hutchinson's testimony touches on several important and crosscutting topics, topics that are relevant to each of our future hearings. in her role working for the white house chief of staff, she handled a vast number of sensitive issues. she worked in the west wing several steps down the hall from the overall office -- from the oval office. she spoke daily with member

the top white house lawyer. this conversation without a pending call from the pentagon seeking to coordinate on the response to the attack. mr. hirschman turned to mr.'s abalone and said the president did not want to do anything. so mr.'s abalone set he had to take the call himself. so what was president trump doing that afternoon while he settled into the dining room? he was calling senators to encourage them to delay or reject the certification. here is kayleigh mcenany, his press secretary, to explain. >> so back there, and he one of the senators. he is calling them one by one. you know what's once he called? >> to the best of our election, no. as i said in my notes, he wanted a list of the senators. i left them at that point. >> because the president shall call log is empty, we do not yet know precisely which senators president trump was calling. but we do know from rudy giuliani's phone records that president trump also called him at 1:39. after he had been told that the riot was underway at the capitol. mr

>> well, again, i was the white house counsel. some of those decisions are political. so, the extent that, but, if your question is did i believe that he should concede the election at a point in time? yes, i did. i believe later mcconnell said in late summer that the process is done and that would be in line with my thinking on these things. >> as attorney general bill barr testified, december 14th should have been the end of the matter. >> december 14th was the day that the stakes certified their votes and sent them to congress. and my opinion that was the end of the matter. i thought this would lead inexorably to a new administration. >> mr. cipollone also testified that the presidents chief of staff, mark meadows, said he shared this view. >> as early as that november 23rd meeting you understand this discussion about the president possibly conceding the election, and, specifically we understand that mark meadows assured both you and the attorney general barr that the president would eventually agree to a graceful exit. do you remember, mr. meadows, making such aspi

>> yes. >> reporter: white house aide cassidy hutchinson has testified that white house counsel pat cipollone rushed into see chief of staff mark meadows shortly after the first rioters broke into the capitol. >> i remember pat saying to him something to the effect of the rioters have gotten to the capitol, mark. we need to go down and see the president now. and mark looked up and said, he doesn't want to do anything pat. >> reporter: the committee plans to show that the white house staff became increasingly distraught as the trump refused it took him an hour to file this. >> the rioters defiled the seat of the congress. those that engage in the acts of violence and destruction, you do not represent our country. >> reporter: we expect to hear outtakes from that video. sources tell abc news trump argued with aides as it was being written and wanted to call the attackers patriots. and tonight we'll hear live testimony from two trump aides who were there in the west wing january 6th and so horrified by trump's actions and his inaction that they turned in their resignations right there in the whi

let's get straight to the white house and our white house correspondent, mj lee. what more do we know? >> the feeling at the white house today is that the inevitable has happened, more than two years into this covid pandemic. the president of the united states testing positive for covid. here is what we know about his condition. we know that he tested positive this morning. his doctor says that he is only experiencing mild symptoms, as of this morning. that includes a runny nose, some fatigue, and the occasional dry cough. again, this is according to president biden's doctor. and he is being prescribed paxlovid. this is the antiviral medication that is said to be more effective if you take it as soon as you test positive. again, this is a medication that the president is going to be on. we, obviously, also know that he is going to be isolating for the time being. that means that he is not going to be seen in public. we've certainly not seen him today. but earlier today, we did see the first lady, dr. jill biden, and this is what she said about his -- her husband's

white house counsels. mcgahn was terrific and pat cipollone was also terrific. the credentials on these guys professionally and politically are really high. >> it's going to be very interesting to see what we are able to get when the hearings resume next week. jim schultz, thank you as always for being with us. really appreciate your time. steve, francis, and scott, stay with us. we're going to continue our discussion. should there be consequences for any lawmaker involved in insurrection planning? what the voters say up next. this tiny payment thing- is a giant pain! hi ladies! alex from u.s. bank! can she help? how about a comprehensive point of sale system... that can track inventory, manage schedules- and customize orders? that's what u.s. bank business essentials is for. (oven explosion) what about a new oven, can u.s. bank help us there? we can serve loans in as fast as 12 minutes. that would be a big help! huge! jumbo! ginormous! woo! -woo! finding ways to make your business boom. that's what u.s. b

we expect the white house press secretary to hold a briefing this afternoon at the white house in which we can expect further updates. worth noting that karine jean-pierre was among those traveling with president biden yesterday on air force one with the president and in closer quarters aboard marine one with the president wearing a mask when i saw her getting off marine one last night but, you know, there has been something of a running joke around the press corps, around the white house even that as so many individuals in the administration mock staff have been testing positive for covid-19 the white house has almost routinely said that the president was not a close contact. so now this question of who is a close contact of the president given this diagnosis is one that we're going to be also asking officials about more and more because those officials as you would expect now would be subject to the protocols when somebody does test positive who they are considered to be a close contact for. the first lady, her office already indicating that she is now as a close contact following cdc

now he is at the white house.ion for us during the early days of the pandemic. bret, i wonder and the doctors can answer this for us in a minute here given his age, given the vulnerability when you are fist bumping for shaking hands or breathing the same air of others overseas in rooms where you aren't sure whether or not they have the virus, whether they could be infected or whether they were tested or not. it would seem that given the stakes, how high they are, that a daily test would be reasonable in my view. >> right. listen, the president is in that age in the vulnerable age group. he is taking paxlovid, an oral antiviral pill created by pfizer. it is designed to treat covid-19 in the early days if you test positive. you take this pill, three pills twice a day for five days and it is, according to the tests that they've done on it, 89% effective of keeping people out of the hospital and getting very sick. add to that that the president has been twice vaccinated and twice boosted, he has a lot of vaccination a

the top advisor to the white house chief of staff mark meadows. i think we are going to see since the video, since the deposition was videotaped, we have seen how the committee works, they like playing those videotapes. in the coming week, we will see some of his testimony. but certainly he has more knowledge than anyone else in a deep level. mixing that with the experience in washington and the legal knowledge, he has a lot to say. >> you talk about the hearings coming up. how much based on your reporting are the hearings making an impact with the american public tuning in at some time by the millions, but also among republicans who are rethinking their thoughts on former president trump? >> there is no doubt not everyone is watching for every moment. the independence or even republican voters are not. it is impossible to not have some of this information. what it has learned is a huge breath of information. more interestingly, it certainly has shattered this myth that there was widespread election fraud. shattered it in the eyes of many republic

even at the white house.hen candidate biden inventing these drive-in rallies, socially distanced events, virtual events. it was a contrast that, i think, the biden campaign felt ultimately serve them well for a country that was dealing with the virus as well. >> i want to speak to that. you were in the white house where covid protocols and testing are so prevalent. also, i'm assuming, it was pretty well known what would happen in case somebody around you and particularly around the vice president tested positive:absolutely. there are protocols in place. i would note, the president's positive case comes after an international trip. anyone who has ever traveled with the president knows this very well, there is a robust testing cadence for the president, first lady, and second gentlemen. after an international trip, especially, everyone on that trip, in addition to regular testing protocols, has extra testing. folks want to be sure. the reason we know the president of the united states of america today tested po

he was the only sociopath that was energized in the white house, in the white house staff, that was energized by mob members beating the hell out of cops within inches of their lives and trying to overthrow the u.s. government. what are the legal consequences of the fact that everybody was advising him to stop, his legal staff was advising him to stop, his family, his political allies, his media friends, all saying the same exact thing? >> this is incredibly powerful evidence, when you put it into the right context. and joe, i know you remember from the first year of law school that most crimes require a defendant engage in some kind of action. usually inaction doesn't ring the bell unless it's sort of an obscure regulatory offense. so what we're looking at in this period of time where everybody in the white house knows that the president needs to do something and he refuses to do it nonetheless, that's not necessarily the crime. what it is is the best evidence of intent that we have to this point. donald trump liked the violence. the violence was furthering his objective of interfering with

at the post in the post-white house years. so boy a wash in memories right getting ready for this. it's been an amazing journey these last couple weeks getting ready and thinking of all the things and in our our panel now we want to look at it's really there's some feedback feedback here. we hearing that right better. okay is really looking at some of the personal things that we experience with mrs. reagan and they were numerous and daily and we had just some really serious times and some really fun behind the scenes times that that we really in many cases have never shared stories like these before because it was very personal to us. i know when mrs. reagan died a few years ago our local my local paper in pasadena, california called and said like i'd heard that you'd worked for her and and would you want to write something and i sat at my computer and i typed out a few few sentences and i thought now you can't have it and i called the guy back and i said, you know everything i have about my time with mrs. reagan was so pure a

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

the nuclear age transformed the presidency from a single person working in the white house to a much broader idea a long line of men and women stretching through both houses of congress and through every cabinet agency. the presidency literally had an a team a b team and even a c team in the cold war and in the event of an emergency each team and its designated president had a different role and different evacuation destination. the alpha team which in most cases included the elective prep the elected president would remain in washington and by design be sacrificed in the opening minutes of a nuclear attack. the bravo team would head to mount weather the sprawling secret bunker in the hills of virginia built to withstand nuclear attack and the charlie team would head out to other bunkers and relocation facilities around the capitol some of the nearly 100 different bunkers airborne command posts available within an hour of washington that the government would activate in an emergency. each of course of the offices in the presidential line of succession as we have heard discussed today

the top white house lawyer. this conversation was about a pending call from the pentagon, seeking to coordinate on the response to the attack. mr. hirschman turned to mister salt, set bologna and said the president didn't want to do anything. and so mister swift baloney had to take the call himself. so if president trump wasn't calling long foresman or military leaders, what to president trump spend his time doing that afternoon. while he 1st settled into the dining room, he was calling senators to encourage them to delay or object to the certification years kaylee mckinney, his press secretary to explain or this is back there and he was list of senators and he's calling them one by one. you know which ones you go to that to my recollection. know on as i say, in my notes, he wanted a list of the senators and you know, i left and i'm at at that point because the presidential call log is empty. we do not yet know precisely which senator's president trump was calling. but we do know from rudy giuliani's phone recor

the top white house lawyer.ending call from the pentagon, seeking to coordinate on the response to the attack. mr. herschmann turned to mr. cipollone and said, the president didn't want to do anything. mr. cipollone had to take the call himself. if president trump wasn't calling law enforcement or military leaders, what did president trump spend his time doing that afternoon, while he settled into the dining room? he was calling senators to encourage them to delay or object to the certification. here is kayleigh mcenany, his press secretary, to explain. >> all right. back there, he wants a list of senators, and he is calling them, one by one. do you know which ones he called? >> to the best of my recollection, no. as i say in my notes, he wanted a list of the senators, and i left them at that point. >> because the presidential call log is empty, we did not yet know, precisely, which senators president trump was calling. we do know, from rudy giuliani's phone records, president trump also called him at 1:39 pm. a

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