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

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mansion to get in there that is the deal that he cut with chuck schumer one month ago is something white houseoderating closely maybe we see sell my house officials on capitol hill but not something bin is driving he's putting his trust and democratic leaders on the hill. >> what am i missing? what are you wating for this week? at else is on the agenda? >> i think we lost him. >> it's on the economy and are we headed into a recession and that is an ongoinghallenge how do we talk abo this where we are highlighting accomplishments with wage grow and gas prices and the at the same time to make sure we are headed in the right direction. >> were having a little bit of audio trouble but thank you for that time go to politico.com thank you for joining us on monday morning. ia half.

cnn's kaitlan collins at the white house, tonight. you've got some new reporting about what white house officials are saying about the threats from putin. >> yeah, they're not saying much publicly as they're clearly saying behind closed doors. because they've said that they're basically spelling out to russia what the consequences would be if they were to use nuclear weapons, inside ukraine. those are not things that they're disclosing publicly for obvious reasons but they say that they have made it very clear, russian officials, behind closed doors. i think the important part of this john is that this is coming as these so-called referendums are being conducted, in russia, that the white house -- that the white house is watching really closely. because these poor regions, the results are said to be announced tomorrow. and the concern that white house has met with results. because they basically say, that it is predetermine, we know what they're going to say, that people over only voted to join russia. which, of course, these referend

michelle was the best thing about living in the white house.tell you, the pastry chefs delivered delicious pies on request. that is saying something. [laughter] i could not ask for a better life partner and, in my humble opinion, america could not have asked for a better first lady area please give it up for michelle obama. [cheering and applause] mrs. obama: thank you, thank you. [cheering and applause] thank you, everybody. let me thank my husband, first of all, for such spicy remarks. [laughter] and of course, thank you to joe and jill, president biden and first lady jill biden. thank you for inviting us back, this means so much to us. we were saying at lunch that the girls have lived in this house longer than they have lived anywhere. this is as wonderful as it can be, it is a special place because we raised our girls here. it means so much to come back to friends and be able to spend time talking about our girls. i am grateful to both of you for the work you are doing, the love you are showing us, our staff and the work you are doing for t

let's go to phil mattingly at the white house. phil, while we wait for this event to get underway, give us a sense of what we can expect. >> reporter: you've already seen the former staffers from former president obama filing in. to some degree, a reunion, not just for the staff but also the president and the former president and obviously the president was the former vice-president as well. eight years together serving in the white house, obviously a close relationship, a very deeply personal relationship, one that's had its ups and downs, but there's no question throughout the roller coaster the two have remained friends and remained in contact since president biden took office last year. this will mark the first trip back to the white house for michelle obama since she left office on january -- a tradition, one that has been on a pause, at least for the last decade since george w. bush and laura bush had their portraits unveiled by president obama. president trump decided not to. we don't know why. but both the former president

carol, see you at white house. the fight against the coronavirus today. new york's governor plans to end the years long mask mandate for mass transit, signaling a shift in the pandemic. this comes as a new round of booster shots is about to be rolled out. my colleague chris jansing spoke to dr. walensky about what the agency has planned for the coming months. >> the latest numbers i saw was 67.5% of the population have two shots. even fewer, less than 50%, have one booster. why do you think the response has not been better? does your agency need a new game plan to get more people to get shots in the arms? >> our data have been crystal clear about the importance of getting vaccinations. we will continue to send that message. we will continue to put vaccine in places that people can access it. right now vaccines are rolling out across this country. we will have 10 million vaccines in over 15,000 pharmacies across the country by the end of the week. 90% of the population will live within five miles of access to a vacc

obama white house. secretary panetta, very nice to see you. as someone that had this job, what goes through your head when you see that mark meadows was communicating at a minimum, communicating indulging a conspiracy theorist about attempts to gain access to voting systems? >> well, it just adds to evidence that mark meadows was obviously trying to find ways to implement president trump's desire to be able to set aside the election results and have him be able to be elected. so what you're picking up here are all of the text messages that mark meadows was involved with all kinds of shady characters and phil waldron is one of those involved in theories related to election machines that were out there. and, you know, it just shows that the level of desperation, i think, to try to see if they can find any way to overturn the election. >> you know, mr. secretary, at the beginning of the administration we have seen the pictures of new white house staffers taking an oath. raising their right hand and taking

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 that is the white house. they worked right out here in this beautiful park, and they never dreamed it was beyond their comprehension that 230 years later, we would be sitting in this room honoring their work and their legacy and telling their story. and that's our privilege, is the white house historical association, on behalf of the american people to tell these stories, to remember these people. it's not all the daily madison's. it's not all the current former next presidents of the united states. and first ladies. but it's the people who work the melissa and the curators office, the johns in the park service, the others who work in that house, and all levels to to save it, protect it, preserve it, to honor it, and to tell the stories with us of it's rich and abundant history. so that's what we're about here in our mission. that's what we're here about today with this symposium and i'm looking forward to the panels as much as i hope you are. and i want to thank you for joining us today. and it is now my pri

many of the people that served in the obama biden white house are not serving in the biden white house. my former chief of staff is chief of staff to the national security counsel just appointed ambassador. we have so many over lapse and the enthusiasm and excitement in the room that you will feel will erase all of the non-sense that i think you're going to hear. this is why i don't live in washington anymore. this is why i'm outside of this chamber and back around the american people who celebrate what president and mrs. obama did who recognize that part of his legacy is the important work that president biden is doing now and who want to come back together and have a wonderful celebration together and that is what is most important. >> let me ask you to put on your former hat and talk politics because we know the former president remains probably the most popular democrat in the country. he's going back of the campaign trail. i think at least three fundraisers have been scheduled this month. what's the calculations in deciding where he's campaigning and what capacity? talk about the

the occasion was an evening at the white house a celebration in honor of the visit to washington of johnter of ireland and mrs. nixon's birthday. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i understand i'm supposed to make a surprise announcement. [laughing] the difficulty is that every time i'm supposed to make a surprise announcement, i find that somali it is leaked before i get to make it. and this seems to be no exception. under the circumstances of course i was wondering whether making an announcement to this very distinguished group of our very close friends from all over the united states to making such an announcement which seen to be rather an anti-climax for this wonderful evening. i discussed it with the prime minister and he's given his permission. and he is one who has had great success that i going to take his advice. he tells me that even though the information may have leaked out, that until i say if it's not official. [laughing] and so tonight mrs. nixon and i are very honored to announce the engagement of our daughter tricia to mr. edward cox of new york. [applause] just so happy that we can share happi

are -- they are -- they are tourist attractions, and i think these for those who can come to the white house will be too because they are so striking and unmistakable, and michelle obama in particular talks about this a lot. she has talked about living in this house that was built by slaves, and she kind of echoed some of that today talking about how this was an institution that i think the people who created it never imagined a woman looking like her ever living there, having her portrait hung there, having her portrait hung alongside the jack qie kennedysf the world, i think is a profound moment. as you mentioned, alisyn she had something to say about this country and about what her husband ran on, which was this idea that there's no red america and no blue america, and she made it very clear that after all that has transpired, after everything that has been said about them, the way that they have been racially demonized, including by people who -- who subsequently held the office after they left, she still believes that that is true of this country, and i think it was notable that she too

you from the white house. thank you. >> sandra: democrats claim migrants are being lured onto the buses under false pretenses. our reporters at the border are telling a much different story. bill melugin is live in eagle pass to kick things off from there this morning. bill, what are they getting wrong here? >> sandra, good morning. none of these migrants are being lured or forced against their will when it comes to these texas buses. as i talk about these buses we want to show you the live fox drone. we've had another large group of several hundred cross illegally here into eagle pass this morning. back to the texas buses, all of the migrants sign a voluntary consent waiver form. i've seen the form. do they want to go to new york city or washington, d.c.? when they're on those buses along the way they get food, water, get off wherever they want to go. the migrants themselves have said they are excited to make this journey. a lot have family on the east coast and getting a free ride and happy about it. the loc

we had a big dance at the white house the night. we were selected as white house fellows. he did dance with me. it wasn't that peculiar. there were only three women out of the 16 white house fellows, but as he twirled me around the floor he whispered that he wanted me to be assigned directly to him and the white house when you're a white house value either work one person in the white house staff the others for a cabinet officer. but it was not to be that simple for in the months leading up to my selection like many young people i'd been active in the anti-vietnam war movement while i was at harvard and a friend of mine and i had collaborated on an article which we'd sent into the new republic but heard nothing from them, which was an article against lyndon johnson against the war in vietnam. and suddenly this article appeared in the new republic several days after the dance and the white house with the title how to remove lyndon johnson in 1968. so i was certain he would kick me out of the program but instead surprising. he said oh bring her down here for a year, and if i

and good morning and welcome to the white house. and thank you to the us postal service and isn't this stamp? just beautiful? you know there really is nothing that can prepare you to be first lady to wake up here steps from the oval office to sit in the jackie kennedy garden and watch the morning light. just climb the monuments of our nation's capital. first ladies aren't elected. we have really no instructions to guide us. we're just sort of thrust into the national spotlight. in a way that i know none of us could have anticipated. yet each day is such a blessing to serve the american people with such an incredible platform. first lady nancy reagan served the american people with grace. she understood that the role of first lady came with inherent pitfalls and scrutiny. yet she found the humanity in it all. she knew the potential of this role. she traveled the country listening to american stories and just brought them home to her husband. she raised attention on issues that she cared about and she spoke bravely about her cancer as

he has got the white house.eft what they wanted with trillions in new spending but he has been attacking maga voters. now he is flip-flopping on that, watch this. president biden: i pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify. does not see the red states, blue states, only sees the united states. maga republicans do not respect the constitution. don't believe in the rule of law. i don't consider any trump supporter threat to the country. want to be very clear up front not every republican is a maga republican. people voted for donald trump, they were not voting for attacking the capitol. they were not for overruling a an election. they were voting for a philosophy he put forward. >> he has been very clear he is talking about officeholders, he is talking about elected officials who have these maga, ultramaga republican agendas. elizabeth: okay. there seems to be confusion. i mean i understand what they're saying now but he was very forceful, congressman in the beginning boeing after republicans who

the white house is a family. 2017, on the day that we all went our separate ways. we were gathered back together today. it was just a joyous occasion, for sure. >> i have to get your reaction to the portrait of president obama by robert mccurdy, because it is photo realism in. it looks like it is a big blowup of a pete souza photograph. what was that one like for you? >> i love it. i think it's so different than any of the other presidential portraits that currently hang in the white house. i love it. it reminded me, not other pete souza portrait, but of a richard avid on portrait with the white background. i was there after the ceremony, when they took the portrait from the east room and they hung it in the grand foyer. it was a thrill to see them place that on the wall in the grand foyer after the ceremony today. >> and you of course have taken probably more photographs of michelle obama than anyone else ever has. what did you see in her portrait? >> i saw michelle robinson. i saw michelle robinson obama. i tho

the democrats control the white house, house and senate.vember. >> harris: cassie smedly and kevin walling, great to see you both. cassie, when someone says i don't like where you are driving me to, can we go to a different mall and you continue to go where they don't want to go do you think they will be happy? >> makes more not a very happy camper, that's just about to say. that is where the american people are as you point out in the polling, all-important independents running away from president biden because of his policies. policies which so many of these democrats who are on the ballot in eight short weeks have supported. and no matter how many parties joe biden throws on the south lawn of the white house we know the reality because we're feeling it in our pocket books and seeing it when we can't find what we need at the grocery store and feeling it when we fill up our gas tanks despite democrats saying gas prices are going down. they are a lot higher than we need and like them to be and not hearing any substantive solutions from the

>> well, the white house, any white house can always find a handful of economists to prostitute themselves note two prominent democratic economists, mr. summers, mr. furman, have both said that inflation is gutting the american people like a fish. certainly the stock market, the capital markets as you pointed out, john, are not impressed with the inflation reduction act because they are crashing. they, meaning the markets. this is what the inflation reduction act did. it took a quarter of a trillion dollars out of the pockets of the american people at a time when the economy is slowing, prices are rising, and 401(k)s are crashing and gave that money to the green new deal industrial complex which is going to spin that money in a way that will cause energy prices to rise without reducing world temperatures a smidgeon of a degree, and it represents a gross misallocation of capital. and we are seeing that reflected in the capital markets, the stock markets today. >> sandra: the press secretary just took a few questions on this, she was challenged on the dow falling as a result of this really,

the occasion was an evening at the white house a celebration in honor of the visit to washington of johnter of ireland and mrs. nixon's birthday. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i understand i'm supposed to make a surprise announcement. [laughing] the difficulty is that every time i'm supposed to make a surprise announcement, i find that somali it is leaked before i get to make it. and this seems to be no exception. under the circumstances of course i was wondering whether making an announcement to this very distinguished group of our very close friends from all over the united states to making such an announcement which seen to be rather an anti-climax for this wonderful evening. i discussed it with the prime minister and he's given his permission. and he is one who has had great success that i going to take his advice. he tells me that even though the information may have leaked out, that until i say if it's not official. [laughing] and so tonight mrs. nixon and i are very honored to announce the engagement of our daughter tricia to mr. edward cox of new york. [applause] just so happy that we can share happi

the new details about efforts to acves voting machines reaching the top tier of the white house as federal and state prosecutors are trying to up end the 2020 election and as the house committee is get geared up for a committee hearing this week. fighting against trump even if it means leaving the goppic. >> i'm going to make sure he's the nominee and if he is i won't be a republican. >> and all of the swirling about ai nine second call to one of the rioters. >> get a real aha-moment. >> after the call was revealed by denver riggleman, cnn reporting it went from a white house land line toe a cell phone belonging to 26-year-old anton luttig, a trump supporter from new york who illegally entered the capitol with friends and plead guilty in april. sources tell cnn the trump supporter doesn't remember receiving the call and doesn't know anyone who worked in the trump white house. the call's content and significance still a mystery, one that has committee members urging caution. >> we've been very careful about what we say. not to overstate matters. >> reporter: the commissiony also awaiting an

although at the white house party house speaker nancy pelosi said it was beautifully named.amed act. listen, if you looked at all the people who were there, the constituents they represented, this bill called the inflation reduction act, was a climate bill. a healthcare bill. a bill that incorporated some long-time democratic priority items that they had not been able to pass before. and they called it the inflation reduction act for obvious reasons to make it look like they were taking action on inflation. but even if it did work according to their plan, that help would be years away and the mid-terms are less than 60 days away. so they are going to have a political problem with this especially after throwing such a big party on the day that not only did inflation go up, but the dow jones industry all average went down 1,267 points. >> dana: proof we're living in an episode -- on the president they have the big climate bill takes air force one to delaware to vote because they forget to get him an absentee ballot. you can't make that up. you write that democrats filibuster s

my wife and i were sitting in the driveway. >> the white house popped up on his screen. >> so i take nd my wife steps out and goes in the house. i sat there in my little prius and had a chat with the president with bad phone reception and backed out of the house where i get better reception. >> rudy giuliani was on the line, too. and bower says it was giuliani who began making crazy claims about voter fraud in arizona. >> i can't give you the exact numbers -- but i'll throw out numbers but they're kind of of the audacious numbers like 200,000 illegal aliens voted. 6,000 military ballots were stolen and used. >> bowers says giuliani wanted him to hold an official arizona house hearing to air these claims publicly. >> and then i said but what's the mole purpose of this? what are you trying to achieve? and he said, well, we've heard there's an arcane law in arizona that if you have sufficient cause that you can throw out the biden electors including trump electors, and i said that's a new one to me. i've never, ever heard of that. and so now you're asking me to do something that's agains

be well. >> the former president barack obama getting back on the campaign trail as well as the white house celebrates his legacy. >> portraits that will hang on the walls of this sacred place, the people's house forever and a reminder of all here and now for those to come to power that hope and change matters. get decisionon tech from fidelity. [ cellphphone vibrates ] you'll get proactitive alerts for market events before they happen... and insights on every buy and sell decision. with zero-commission online u.s. stock and etf trades. for smarter trading decisions, get decision tech from fidelity. president biden signed the inflation reduction act into law this afternoon. ok, so what exactly does it mean for you? out of pocket costs for drugs wi be capped. for senis, insulin will be just $35. families will save $2,400 on health care premiums. energy costs, down an average of $1,800 a year for families. and it's paid for by making the biggest corporations pay what they owe. president biden's bill doesn't fix everything, but it will save your family money. are you one of the millions of ame

white house lawyers pat cipollone intervened and warned clark not to communicate with the white house the situation with an email that set off a series of events that would rock the justice department. >> we came in on monday, december 28th, hectic day as they all were and in the afternoon got the email which i had to sit down and read more than once to make sure i understood what he was proposing. >> what was he proposing? >> he was proposing sending out a letter signed by the three of us, the acting attorney general, myself and jeff clark to georgia but also the other states, the other swing states, as well, suggesting essentially that they set aside the electors assigned to support president elect biden and hold hearings and basically have the state legislatures pick a new slate of electors. >> did a letter claim the u.s. department of justice's investigations has quote identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple states including the state of georgia unquote. was that true? >> no. >> while the letter was sent solely by jeff clark,

we're also learning about new links between the white house and a rioter on january 6th. denver riggleman who was an adviser to the january 6th committee is telling cbs "60 minutes." riggleman will join us on "the lead" in a moment. cnn's sara murray who has been tracking all the developments and what we know about the high level contact. >> reporter: as donald trump as and allies made a final push to overturn the 2020 election. >> there's still plenty of time to certify the correct winner. >> reporter: retired army colonel and election conspiracy promoter, phil waldron. >> the core of these voting systems are rife with vulnerabilities. >> reporter: communicated directly with then white house chief of staff mark meadows complaining that an arizona judge dismissed a lawsuit calling for state officials to hand over election equipment. waldron hunting for proof of baseless fraud claims said arizona was our lead domino we were counting on to start the cascade and complained opponents were using delay tactics. pathetic, meadows responded. waldron and his attorneys didn't respo

like a seen out of cocoon looked tone deaf at the white house yesterday.w down, like 1200 points based on the horrible inflation number that came out yesterday? it will do anything, but lower inflation, people are hurting and elites in washington do not care, they want to maintain power and willing to say just about anything to keep it, that was an applause line. >> todd: clap for joe, not even the pr arm of the democratic party, the media, could spin this. >> president biden will celebrate passage of the inflation reduction act. >> inflation remaining high, why this is worse than expected and how president biden framed this today. >> the white house is celebrating the inflation reduction act, which will take a while to make a financial impact. >> todd: you question whether or not the white house even cares, do you think this was a tone deaf situation with the white house? do you think this white house does not care about the plight of the american people that are struggling right now day-to-day, month to month and potentially year to year? >> joe: todd, i

with more on this today and. >> senior administration officials huddling at the white house on immigration policy not ready to call it a crisis quite yet hours ago another busload of migrants from texas arriving outside of the vice president house from texas, alexandria hoff stating the watch was a massachusetts avenue not long after they arrived, she saw five young children exiting the buses and told going to churches including catholic church used for food, shelter and clothing, this after the republican governor ron desantis sent a plane load to the wealthy island of martha's vineyard. >> it's only when you have 50 illegal aliens and deputy very wealthy rich sanctuary enclave that he decides to scramble on this. >> the white house things republican governors are playing dirty tricks. >> these vulnerable migrants were reportedly misled about where they were headed, told they would be headed to boston, misled about what they would be provided when they arrived promise shelter, refuge benefits and more, these are the kinds of tactics we see from smugglers in places like mexico a

celebrates it with james taylor at the white house. first we go to white house correspondent jacqui heinrich. hi, jacqui. >> even though that new gallop poll shows that voters are far more concerned with the economy than the climate, the president is fixated on climate telling reporters that he's not concerned about yesterday's hotter than expected inflation reading or the stock market sell-off before announcing that $900 million for electric vehicle chargers on highways across 35 states. >> great america road trip will be fully electrified, whether you're driving coast to coast on i--10 or on i-75 in michigan. charging stations will be up and easy to find as gas stations are now. we'll invest $7 billion to have the batteries and other critical materials that car companies need. >> the white house wants half of all new cars to be electric by 2030. moneys from the chips act can produce necessary semi conductors here at home. they can't say when the cars would hit the market for americans to buy them. then there's the issue of charging t

specific people, why they were talking to the white house. >> reporter: specific white house phone recordst secret to protect every administration. but in his book "the breach," riggleman wrote he begged the committee to push harder to identify numbers that showed up on the monster. >> that was one of those individuals sadly at the beginning where i was very, very aggressive about these link connections, getting those white house phone numbers. >> did you express those concerns to the committee at the time? >> yes. >> what was the response? >> their response was go forth and just do the best you can with the resources that we have. >> reporter: riggleman requested $3.2 million but only received a fraction of that. his team burrowed into the data. the mother load dropped into their laps, not just phone records but more than 2,000 actual texts to and from mark meadows, former president trump's chief of staff. there were numbers but no names, so riggleman told us his team made a giant spreadsheet painstakingly identifying the people behind each number. and when they did, they were privy to th

kristen welker, nbc news, the white house. also getting a statement from former president jimmy cart kwhoer writes, "rosalynn and i extend our condolence to the family and the united kingdom. her dignity has been an inspiration and we join the millions around the world in mourning a remarkable leader." again, lester, i think that look back just underscores her extraordinary ability to connect with not only those 13 american presidents with whom she had met but with the american people as well. it is worth noting, you saw there, she'd met with former presidents obama and trump. former president obama remembered her as truly one of my favorite people. former president trump referred to her as a great, great woman. and high praise from the current commander in chief as well as they continue to process this news here at the white house. again, i anticipate that we will hear from president biden in some form today, and the flaggings have been lowered to half-staff at the u.s. capitol. >> it may be too early, but has there been any