displayed in the white house. and so she really elevated this art form, having this contest and then displaying that artwork in the white. and then it traveled all over the country and it actually here is in our archives and there's a beautiful book. oh, yeah, there is printed about it really, really amazing. let me go to how first ladies, many first ladies have had a turning during their tenure that affected their activities and just saw this incredible clip from the then first lady, hillary clinton's speech to the 1995 fourth world conference on women conference that was held in beijing. and it put a finer point. i think her long standing efforts to promote women and girls and also it laid of a platform for her future as secretary of state. i diane, if you could maybe comment about a little bit about that and how sort groundbreaking that was and, i'd love to hear from you all your perspectives. yes. this you know, she had some international trips before hand and had talked about some of the issues. as you said, y

white house, the biden white house, unlike the trump white house, makes that information public. the memo goes on to say the results of this year's physical exam of president biden were detailed in my february 28th letter and it said this, on february 28, about president biden's physical exam. it says an extremely detailed neurological exam was again reassuring that there were no findings which would be consistent with any cerebellar or other central neurological disorders such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, parkinson's or ascending lateral sclerosis nor are there any signs of cervical myelopathy, this exam did come again, support the finding of peripheral neuropathy in both feet, no motor weakness was detected. he exhibits no tremor either at rest or with activity, he demonstrates excellent, fine motor dexterity. but a subtle difference in heat cold sensation could be elicited as it was last year. this heat cold sensation deficit was detected a couple of inches higher on his ankle calf this year, which is not unexpected. there may, in fact, be day today subjective variation of t

guest: to the caller say the bombing of the white house or the burning of the white house?t: i believe he said burning. guest: i will start there because that is where the book starts and it is something that took place in 1814 during the war of 1812 when the british marched into washington and torched the city to an extent i do not think a lot of people realize. you mentioned about washington being a colonial backwater. it was still thought of that way during the war of 1812. president madison and residents of d.c. did not think d.c. was in any danger when british warships appeared nearby because why would anybody burn d.c.? it is nothing place. they assumed baltimore was the intended target of the british. there is a famous story that on the day the british burned the white house -- dolley madison had a party set for 3:00 that day, the table was set, food was laid out. when the british actually begin -- when it became clear the british were heading for washington, she and the rest of the white house staff had to gather as many valuables as they could. there is a famous st

nixon made on the white house collection. and just on how it looks overall and the fact that all of the things she did to enable more more people to come through the house and enjoy it, particularly in the era era, when it was much easier to get into the white house is something that, you know, literally millions of people have seen. they may not know that it was mrs. nixon who who acquired all these things and made it possible for. people with disabilities, others to come through and enjoy the house. she really has left. she really left an enduring mark on executive mansion that people and and really enjoy right up until the present time and i'm sure will for many years. you know i know that along with the furniture she was, as you mentioned, the adams portraits. she was responsible for the, i think, permanent loan is what they called it, of a portrait of dolley madison in bringing that to public display for the first time in the white house and was also there to oversee this rather sensitive process of bringing the portraits

the white house. well, with us to give deeper insight into pat nixon and betty ford, we have some distinguished people on this stage, susan ford bales only daughter of president and mrs.. susan is the sponsor, the aircraft carrier uss gerald r ford and recognize one of her extraordinary service as the ship's sponsor. susan was named an honorary aviator by the united states navy, becoming only the 31st american ever to receive this distinction and the first woman ever to be so honored. she is the recipient of three honorary doctorates and is the author of two novels set in the white house. i'm waiting for those novels. get on tv now, because the netflix we need to clean up next looks a little. edward cox next to susan, the son in law of president and mrs. nixon. many of you recall that the hauenstein and the ford held a joint program. i figured it out 12 years ago. you asked when it was 12 years, 2011, where we were at the ford museum and featured ed cox talking about what it's like to work with presid

the white house. well, with us to give deeper insight into pat nixon and betty ford, we have some distinguished people on this stage, susan ford bales only daughter of president and mrs.. susan is the sponsor, the aircraft carrier uss gerald r ford and recognize one of her extraordinary service as the ship's sponsor. susan was named an honorary aviator by the united states navy, becoming only the 31st american ever to receive this distinction and the first woman ever to be so honored. she is the recipient of three honorary doctorates and is the author of two novels set in the white house. i'm waiting for those novels. get on tv now, because the netflix we need to clean up next looks a little. edward cox next to susan, the son in law of president and mrs. nixon. many of you recall that the hauenstein and the ford held a joint program. i figured it out 12 years ago. you asked when it was 12 years, 2011, where we were at the ford museum and featured ed cox talking about what it's like to work with presid

, white house visitor logs, public, the trump white house refused to have press briefings. they simply stopped doing it when it became too difficult or challenging or uncomfortable for them. the trump white house went 300 days without having a single press briefing. 300 days of silence in that room. one of the trump white house press secretaries, stephanie gresham, never had a press briefing and that meant that she was the only trump white house press secretary who did not publicly lie on camera to the country and the press. there are some great reporters in that room. there always have been, there always will be, and there are people in that room who can lose their professional bearings and become hysterical and enraged and unprofessional and harmful to the accurate flow of information to the american public and at a period when too much in our politics is broken, accurate information for the voting public has never been more valuable or more important or more necessary for the very preservation of this constitutional democracy. congressman maxwell frost will join us after

white house restored the white house policy of making the visitor logs public. today, nbc news reported that on most of the days that the neurologist visited the biden white house, president biden was not there. so, if the new york times would have done just the minimal amount of homework, checking the president's travel schedule, they would have reported that the neurologist had visited the white house exactly 3 times when president biden was there. three, instead of the eight times in eight months reported that the new york times delivered and was breathlessly accepted by the white house press corps. that was easily available information to the new york times, the president's travel schedule, and they did not bother to even think about it, look at it, or report it. not one person working at the new york times from the publisher, editor on down to those reporters, not did it ever cross their minds, where was president biden on that day? where was he in the world? never crossed their minds. that is college newspaper standard. that we're talking about, here. pres

displayed in the white house. and so she really elevated this art form, having this contest and then displaying that artwork in the white. and then it traveled all over the country and it actually here is in our archives and there's a beautiful book. oh, yeah, there is printed about it really, really amazing. let me go to how first ladies, many first ladies have had a turning during their tenure that affected their activities and just saw this incredible clip from the then first lady, hillary clinton's speech to the 1995 fourth world conference on women conference that was held in beijing. and it put a finer point. i think her long standing efforts to promote women and girls and also it laid of a platform for her future as secretary of state. i diane, if you could maybe comment about a little bit about that and how sort groundbreaking that was and, i'd love to hear from you all your perspectives. yes. this you know, she had some international trips before hand and had talked about some of the issues. as you said, y

discussion in the white house the white house has been the go ahead. >> the white house lets the publicng take care of the country. the topic that he will little houses a little like everything as far as joe biden, i would vote for joe biden if his head was in a jar and would make any difference. >> in florida, no line, your next. >> i don't think the white house for president biden has been in spirit. one thing they could do the transparent is biden could challenge trump to another debate for the republican convention, the sooner the better is better because he would be showing the rebate he can handle dealing with trump. if he had another debate he could show to be with drug it will be transparent agility can. we needed to happen right away, not until september. he needs a debate with trump right now before the republican. cnn just do that debate because they have this is what it is a challenge that had a delay before the republican convention could see public he is about be him being transparent. he waits until september, is not being transparent. >> alyssa on the gas line. good morn

displayed in the white house. and so she really elevated this art form, having this contest and then displaying that artwork in the white. and then it traveled all over the country and it actually here is in our archives and there's a beautiful book. oh, yeah, there is printed about it really, really amazing. let me go to how first ladies, many first ladies have had a turning during their tenure that affected their activities and just saw this incredible clip from the then first lady, hillary clinton's speech to the 1995 fourth world conference on women conference that was held in beijing. and it put a finer point. i think her long standing efforts to promote women and girls and also it laid of a platform for her future as secretary of state. i diane, if you could maybe comment about a little bit about that and how sort groundbreaking that was and, i'd love to hear from you all your perspectives. yes. this you know, she had some international trips before hand and had talked about some of the issues. as you said, y

if you thought any of the white house press briefing today, it was the white house press corps and many of them at their absolute worst in the way they approached the press secretary who was trying to be responsive to medical questions where there were limitations on what she could say and the new york times reporting of the way the press secretary handled that was to say that she dodged the questions and that isn't true. the new york times is wrong about that. she responded to every one of the questions and she didn't answer the questions with the name that they were asking for of a particular doctor. she didn't give the answer the new york times wanted or other reporters wanted. but she did, in fact, answer every single time the reporters kept banging on about a new york times report today that indicated that a neurologist had visited the white house eight times in the last year. here is the full explanation of how that has nothing to do with president biden and president biden's health and the kind of out-of-control behavior by the white house, most of the white house press corps and

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at the white house. these enslaved workers performed a variety of jobs. they were chefs, gardeners, stable hands, maids, butlers, valets, ladies, ladies and. and did all sorts of other cleaning and other work around the white house. so we had this long history up until the lincolns of having a lot of enslaved workers in the white house itself. but things changed with first ladies, beginning with this with abigail adams, who had a very, very different opinion of slavery from her predecessor, martha washington. abigail was an abolitionist and shortly after john adams was inaugurated, and abigail wasn't there at the time. that was not a typical first lady. martha was not there for george's inauguration either. but martha had written a letter at one point in her life to john which said that and fortunately how could they, the southerners, reconcile human bondage with the ideology of freedoms that america had fought for. and abigail hired a free african-american named james, who worked at their farm. and duri

the white house. she would stand and sometimes three and four times a week she would greet them at door. she would them in the eye, talk to them and shake their hand. and everybody left. walking on air and and you know that those people still have that. a memory of of a highlight of their life. but she understood how much it meant to people to have a sense of the kinds of people run the the and who are in the white house. so she also was known because she so much mail she had a view. remember it's like this has up outside her door for her to write her replies and she did it personally and not only. i mean, she never allowed else to sign the letters, but at any rate, she, she understood what mail meant to people and she made sure that everything was answered and. you know, sometimes it's what agency do you go to? i mean, you can't believe the the both the volume and how much time they they took because understood what it meant to people to have that kind of a relationship to being in the white house, b

when we worked in the white house, my office was like west wheatley, white house staff. i don't know. this is still true, but back when we were there pre-covid, you could after the president had gone home for gone back that home ivy down the hallway to his house you could give tours, private tours of the west wing. and my office was at the very end the tour because it was next to the oval office at the time and vice biden would have to walk past my office to leave in that day. and so i i'd say 15 times over the course of the two years i sat in that office would walk out of i could hear president biden and vice president biden consoling someone like would person sobbing on his shoulder about something had happened. their lives slip or a loss of a family member, you know, cancer, all these things and i always wondered, like, how did they get to that conversation so quickly? like they were just in the hallway. but it's just like that is who he is. i can only imagine how hard that was to tell to tell him that that of him on the most painful thing in his had not the other wer

one would expect if you've ever been in the white house and you were the white house correspondents.'ve been over there, you've seen the number of people and you've seen the medical staff over there people, there's a lot of people over there and you bring folks in. i mean, when i was there in 2022 during covid, it was crazy to watch the number of medical professionals that are coming through there so i think that that is an issue. i think that they have been look, president biden's 81-years-old. he is he is not a president that is going to run up and down steps he's not the counter president who's going to do the things he's not, but he's not also trying out to be the starting quarterback for the buffalo bills. he is he is what frankly, let's bring the panel into this too. i mean, it's in some ways it's easier to be the quarterback for the buffalo bills and it has to be present in the united states. no not from not from a physical standpoint. >> it is not the person the united states has a team around him and that is about judgment. and that is about taking in all of the things that

, you directly pressed the white house press secretary. this afternoon about the level of transparency they're having with americans yeah. >> jake, the white house just made clear for the second day in a row that they do not think if they should release more information about the president's health or his medical records. were using a lot of questions about transparency. take a listen to the white house has said no to releasing the results of that i said no to make a dr. o'connor available for questions from us know to releasing any other information that would shed some more light on the president i guess i'm just wondering if now is not the time for full transparency. when is so i would say mj to your question that what we have released for the past three years, every year since he's been in office has been transparent and it has been comprehensive. it has been one of the most transparent. we have been one of the most so transparent administration when it comes to medical records she also told me, jake, that the president has had no addi

this out of the white house, the u.s. does not believe in war between and israel is inev inevitable. hopefully they will avoid that because certainly as gillian turner was pointing out a lot of people would die. if war broke out on a full-scale basis. we are going to take a quick break, we will be back with a lot more on this. more analysis of the big hearing today with the secret service acting director of the deputy director stay withall us. cardinals, orioles... what's missing? the andean condor? no, walnut-brain! pigeons! they'd rather name a team after socks! to be fair, we're not very athletic. ♪ i'm gonna hold you forever... ♪ ♪ i'll be there... ♪ ♪ you don't... ♪ ♪ you don't have to worry... ♪ when we're young, we're told anything is possible... ...but only a few of us go out and prove it. witness the greatness of anna hall on a connection worthy of gold: xfinity mobile. only xfinity gives you the most powerful mobile wifi network, with speeds up to a gig in millions of locations. and right now, get up to $800 off

this pushback from the white house?use will damper those but i think you have alluded to the meeting that at the president will have his evening with democratic governors, people are going to give him their advice, their thoughts and he will give them his explanations and his thoughts, and will process them. at the end of the day it is joe biden's decision, with respect to congressman roy, if you really want to joe bought into leave you could just call on him to resign and waiting donald trump's statement guide on trumped or not a call for him to resign, because it's politics being played thereto, donald trump does not want joe bought into leave, he wants him to be the nominee. in terms of the president's health, i will give him the benefit of the doubt. another one to be a lot of that people watching right now, but it is complicated. health is complicated. we all know that unfortunately too well, you don't always know things right away. i was a this finally, the idea there was any kind of cover up or malicious intent i

the white house. for the better part of a decade. then she went into storage and was found again 50 years later and is now on loan to the library from. the white house. and she arrived at the library in 2022, just as we were going to celebrate the 50 years since signing of title nine, which was a great advancement to women women that happened for women that happened during during the nixon era. as he signed law, now there's a back story to this that i want to share with you and i hope it you smile in the fall and i do 70 to 2 women's groups the force on women's rights and responsibilities and the citizens council on the status of women came to me and said they would like to give a bust of susan b anthony great suffragist to the white house in honor of what president nixon has done to elevate women in the federal government. i thought that was a wonderful idea and they proceeded to get it done. they had a copy of the marble bust of susan b, which is in the u.s. capitol. now, this one is bronze made in

the white house, right now, and we're going to hear from the white house press secretary at the podium, just minutes away and whether donald trump wins the white house are not a new 140 today suggests the justice department could pursue the cases against him right up until inauguration what this means for all those legal battles. >> and hurricane beryl closing in now on jamaica as a potentially lethal heatwave blankets california is sweltering summer turning dangerous in an era of extreme climate change, we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central we begin with breaking news. >> cnn is learning that president biden has privately acknowledged the next stretch of days are critical to deciding whether he can stay in the race. it's a major development after the president's debate performance raised serious concerns about his ability to win reelection and serve out another term. just hours from now, the president will meet face-to-face with democratic governors seeking reassurance biden will also speak separately with several co

when we worked in the white house, my office was like west wheatley, white house staff.uld after the president had gone home for gone back that home ivy down the hallway to his house■ you could give tours, private tours of the west wing. and my office was at the very end the tour because it was next to the oval office at the time and vice biden would have to walk past my office to leave in that day. and so'd say 15 times over the course of the two years i t office would walk out of i could hear president biden and vice presidenting somr about something had happened. their lives slip orosof■z■ member, you know, cancer, all these things and i always wondered, like, how d conversa? like they were just in the hallway. but it's just like that is wh was to tell to tell him that of him on the most painful thing in his had not the were upset by that but yeah that is part of him and y him first f all when that when the and theyo me about the interviewed for tht the end of my job interview job interview with him, he was lik . and i was like, okay, i don't know thank you. but my, i

kevin kinard visited the white house ate time in eight months with different white house staff listedcontact points. now, knowing this information and white house logs reported on, one would think on this big relaunch day, the white house would have been ready to answer some pretty legitimate questions about dr. kinard and the nature of his visits. but instead to come america witnessed more stonewalling. >> the president, i can tell you, i have seen three times connected to physical that he gets every year that we provide. >> direct question... >> hold on, wait, wait, wait a second... >> in regards to the president specifically... >> hold on a second, no, no, no, wait a minute. ed, please come a little respect here. every time he has a physical, he's had -- that is answering that question. no, it is. you are asking me... but i also said to you, ed meyer also said for security reasons, we cannot share names. i cannot share names of specialist broadly from a dermatologist to neurologist, we cannot share names. there are security reasons. we have to protect... i understand that. ed might

the white house immediately responded to this.ndrew bates tweeted that claimed by "the new york times" is absolutely false. if "the new york times" had provided us with 7 minutes to comment, we would have told him so. you played the campaign denying this on the airwaves. we've heard from a couple of folks. this is a big piece of news this morning. the major piece of news which speaks to the landscape he is facing is this report that 25 house democrats are preparing calls for the president to step aside if he has a shaky performance over the next few days. we are going to see the president at a medal of honor ceremony. prepared remarks with no indication he will take any questions from the press. it will be an opportunity to field questions of what is normally a teleprompter event. we are also going to see him meeting with democratic governors who had been asking for a meeting with him just to make sure that he is okay. listen to what andy said. >> i think the governors want a direct and candid conversation with the president. we w

is that what is going on at the white house.ou don't have parkinson's' specialist comes 8 times in one small segment of time earlier this year unless there is a reason for it. those physicians are there to serve the president and his family. anything else is incidental and on the side. they are there for the president. >> laura: yeah, congressman, the "new york times" reported something that we all had understood but it bears repeating that an array of neurologists who have not personally examined mr. biden said they observed symptoms in his public appearances consistent with parkinson's or related disease such as hypo phonic speech. forward flex posture, a shuffling gate, masked face and regular speech pattern. they emphasized a specific diagnosis couldn't be given without firsthand examination. so that's true. but, there are an enormous, huge array of symptoms that he is, you know, showing the world seems to me there is a security concern about this. had it's a national security concern. >> you are right it's a national securi

i mean, you've been in the white house.orts that european leaders are worried about the president looking older and increasingly old. you've been in that white house. do people get their own specialists just showing up? >> not that i know of. i mean, listen. they have to have a full disclosure to the american people about what's gone on for the past four years. everyone's seen it. the press is culpable here. the fact that they are angry today and actually doing their job for once in four years is a little bit of a joke. these are the same people that allowed him to campaign from basement and even though a lot of people were warning that he may not be up to the job for the last four years, the press is by and large ignor ed it. you know what's more troubling to me, liz, especially from a foreign policy perspective is what has gone on in those one on one meetings or those small group meetings between the president and putin, between the president and xi-jinping. you know, all of these people meet with president biden and then

this is how you report. >> we will see if it does pair the white house briefing set to begin at the topgain after house democrats held a meeting on president biden's future. we will bring that to you live in former president trump will bring a rally in florida later tonight. look at that. we are learning one of trump's contenders will be speaking at the rally next. ♪ ♪ veteran homeowners checked your credit card rates lately? many are over 22%, near 30% if you pay late. why not do what thousands of veteran families have done. call newday and pay off that high rate debt with the lower rate newday 100 va cash out loan. it lets you pay off your credit cards and car loans with one easy monthly payment. get the cash you need and the peace of mind you deserve. time to press rewind with... neutrogena rapid wrinkle repair. it has derm-proven retinol... ...expertly formulated... ...to target skin cell turnover... ...and fights not one—but 5 signs of aging. with visible results... ...in just one week. neutrogena i'm jonathan lawson, here to tell you about life insurance through the colonial penn

his white house engulfed in a firestorm, more and more white house aides are leaking about his mental fitness, anger issues and cognitive decline, watch what happened. >> i will respect powers i have for three and a half years. >> supreme court blocked be but that didn't stop me. i concur with the dissent today. she said in every use of visual power the president is now thinking of the law with fear for our democracy, i dissent. [inaudible] >> what makes you so confident to be the president? >> he said he respect the presidential power when he did the student loan bailout collapse border with 100 actions due to vaccine mandate. what you make of should not run again? we are hearing from peter welsh and the white house saying it's a disaster former senator tom harkin also saying he should step aside? >> first of all, president biden is a pathological liar. he's leading a lawless administration. the decision on student loans is one example, the supreme court ruled you can't extend moratorium on leases and sent them anyway. a lawless administration. it is obvious to me have been saying si

i've been a white house reporter. administration from the campaign well into the white house. and reading that hur report, i realised that there's no other person who does not work forjoe biden, who has spent five hours with him one on one. hur did it over two days. and so i read it with that in mind of, "my goodness, "this man had access to the president that no "journalist has had and really nobody aside from his family "or, you know, people who work for him," and that, you know, our bureau chief got us together and we sort of launched in a lot of directions to try to understand, "what is the president like behind "closed doors? " and the question was also amplified by pushback from the white house. voters have long said that the president is old, and they worry about his acuity. and the white house pushback has been quite simple. it has been, "if you could see what we see behind closed "doors, you would not have those concerns. "joe biden is absolutely fine. "he is sharp as a tack, and we see it every "day in meeti

we had multiple back and forths with the white house.e. i think, to me, one of the more surprising things about it — and i think it gets to the sort of partisan environment that we all live in — is there was a sense that — and we put it in the piece — we were very transparent that most of our sources were republicans. not an - — most of them were republicans. but we put that in there, because it's a very — it's a very politically fraught topic to be writing about. i was surprised that so many people discounted itjust because our sourcing had included republicans. i think that if you approach a beat, especially in washington, with some sort of view, that if you have an r next to your name, you're a liar, and if you have a d next to your name, you're a truth—teller, that really gives the democratic party a lot of veto power over important reporting. it also gives a real sense of the partisan nature of american journalistic reporting, potentially. i did see a tweet, something put on x byjennifer rubin of the washington post, who said, "the

. >> the white house medical cover-up. a special report. >> think of starting a party until midnight. >> that is a different type of party that is the after party. >> sued for sex trafficking and what is keeping him above water? america is the greatest country in the world because? >> beaches and alcohol. ♪ >> jesse: washington in the middle of a hostage crisis after the democratic party was taken captive joe biden sent a letter with a list of demands telling the democrats he is firmly committed to staying in the race whether they like it or not. stick with me and no one gets hurt while democrats are looking around to say if we stick with you we all get hurt. if they lose they will lose with him it wouldn't be fair to the democrats who have already voted as if the party cares about voter integrity i call hostage negotiations you bring a family member into talk down the hostage taker. morning joe try to talk to the president releasing the hostages and resigning and it did not go well. >> i am not going anywhere. i believe i