this is the cross hall in the white house. it's red carpeted and it runs from the east room on the east end of the house across to the state dining room on the west end. very famously, you can your mind's eye can visualize the president coming out of one of these side doors, probably the moat, one of the most famous occasions was president obama. when one sunday evening he walked down this hallway and announced to the nation that osama bin laden had been killed and certainly many presidents we've seen president reagan, many others walked down this hallway to a press conference in the east room and it has it looked like this most of its history, essentially. yes. yes. if we were visiting in the 1800s, what would have happened? you know, i've often asked and we've talked about our wonderful hero, william seale, the wonderful, renowned historian of white house history who has passed away. i said, bill, would george washington and thomas jefferson recognize this building if they were to come in today? he said fundamentally, yes, of

the adams was pretty much holed up inside the white house. i pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and on all that shall hereafter inhabited may none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. john adams. november 2nd, 1800. written on his second night here, fdr orders it inscribed above the fireplace mantel in the state dining room. and it is john adams lasting gift to thomas jefferson and all presidents since who have lived here. the state him is one of three dining rooms here in the white house mansion. as visitors go through the state floor today, they have a president to thank for allowing the public to come in for tours and his presence is felt throughout the rooms and parlors on this floor. every room that you seen today has a specific purpose in the white house. the white house was opened first in the spring of 1801 by jefferson. this is the greens, and it was originally utilized as the official white house dining room during the days of thomas jefferson. there's a particular feeling in the green room to me

he received mail at the white house. one of them, one of the letters arrived at still in the churchill archives holdings. and it was it was just addressed way. churchill the magnificent the white house washing dc we all get mail of that of that kind. and what i'm suggesting is he was he was becoming some and he using the new popular authority to advance his cause and his was the cause of democracy the cause of freedom. and for this partic killer visit, he wanted to make sure that even though the japanese had attacked pearl harbor, that the alliance would focus on germany first. very important to. get germany out of the way and then deal with japan. and as history unfolded, that's exactly what transpired after that, things settle down and they get to work and they put together the opening of the war linking the u.s. and the british troops. but it's a farce, an ending opening to the series of visits that he to the u.s. and seven different times he is staying at the white house in our business professor at cbs, we often use

white house?very interesting, if you did not have the paint on the stone, the stone is from virginia, 30 miles down i-95 towards richmond . you can still visit, a county park today to go back in the woods and you can see the stone and the stonecutters markings. they would break off a piece of the rock, drag you down to the river and, with the help of enslaved workers, would pull it against the shore upstream and offloaded it. they drug it to today, the building ground of t the white e this stone was a gray sandstone. if you were to see it not painted, it would be great. the scottish stonemasons who came with experts in carving this soft stone, they knew that you had to seal it so the water creeping and would not expand and crack the stone further. they whitewashed it. after the war of 1812 and it was burned by the british and rebuilt, after that time it started to be referred to as white house. descriptively referred to as white house or executive mentioned, but the white house, but was not offici

white house weddings. countless physical performances. visits by heads of state and events celebrating its history. >> this house is forever renewed by the ageless fidelity of its founders and the boundless promise of its future errors. >> and it is also a place where the nation mourns together, serving as the room where seven of the eight presidents who have died while in office have lain in state. but more than a place of morning, the east room and its events are symbolic of a home where the unfolding history of our country is represented, and where george washington's idea of a public audience room connects to our nation's passed. >> it's a room that's always been sanctified by the portrait of george washington, and now kept company by a leader portrait from the 1870s of martha washington progressive figuratively the washington's watch over this room. which i think in so many ways, he inspired. >> it is this painting of george washington that is the only portrait hanging in the white house on november 1st, 1800, the day his successor, j

did before the white house. it doesn't cover the time of our lives after i was president. that's basically part of the carter center, which is next door to the library and the museum. but it's a very extension i have picture of our lives up through and including the white house time. >> there are a number of things in the museum i want to ask about. first and foremost, a notation from your mother that says on your baby book that it's jimmy now, but later it will become jim. that never happened, did? president carter: no, i was always jimmy. my father's name was james earl. i'm james earl jr. everybody called him earl, and they always called me jimmy. when i began to run for president, i had quite a hard time with some secretaries of state who refused to use my nickname on the official documents. i had to go to court in two states, as a matter of fact, to get jimmy on the ballot instead of james earl carter jr. but all the time i was president, i signed the official laws and documents with the name i've always us

carter white house? rosalynn: yes. the upstairs has a hall all the way down with rooms on the side and the dining room was icon of across from the bedroom and a kitchen that i think jackie kennedy had ranged. before the president appear families wept downstairs. it was not the big state dining room but were more form. some of them we were told the eisen hours ate off tv trays but when jackie was there with babies she had a kitchen put up stairs and that was just normal. i see chip is dressed up. that is not always normal. >> the tree house and looks like you are facing amy on -- chasing amy on. president carter: i don't remember the chase. amy was a typical 9-year-old child who went to the public schools and bring classmates home. she wanted a tree house so i designed it and they wouldn't let us nail it on to the tree so i had to do it so it was self-supporting but she would spend nights up there with the friend and grand sons would spend all night with her in the tree house. amy was only 13 when we left

and that's the sort of thing that the president as the head of the executive branch, his white house counsel, his house staff, the attorney general, the solicitor general, that's the sort of thing that i think there needs to be more communicate on and not assume that doj just figure it out so in the camp of this sort overdone contact policy can lead to some silly results and to some some misfires on policy in areas that that really matter. so but a little bit of difference but would think what do you think the no contact policy could be? well, it's not a no contact policy. every policy says the president's in charge and can contact the attorney. oh, sure. right. but in terms of channeling contacts, would you think would be more appropriately to individual enforcement decisions as to broader policy? would you see a role of separation for kinds of cases like it or. i can see. sure. look, i think that with respect, the prosecutions are brought by u.s. attorneys and, you know, it's it's countless prosecutions. and my point is, don't throw out the baby with the bathwater, because there's a

the white house. it doesn't cover the time in our lives after i was president. that is basically part of the carter center, which is next door to the library and museum. but it is a very extensive picture of our lives up to and including the white house. >> there are a number of things i want to ask you about. there is a location -- notation from your mother that says on your baby book that it is jimmy now, but later it will become jama. that never happened, did it? fmr. pres. carter: i was always jimmy, and my father's name was james earl. i am james earl junior. everyone called him a earl, and me jimmy. when i began to run for president i had a hard time with some secretaries of state, who refused to use my nickname on the official documents. i had to go to court in two states to get jimmy on the ballot instead of james earl carter junior but i signed the official balls and documents with the name i had always used, and that is jimmy. >> a lot of letters back and forth to your family when you are in

.- leave the white house.ere involuntarily retired - leave the white house. they were involuntarily retired from the white house and decided they— the white house and decided they wanted to set up something they wanted to set up something they could continue to do the good — they could continue to do the good work they had done, and so creating — good work they had done, and so creating the carter center 40 years — creating the carter center 40 years ago was an opportunity to bring — years ago was an opportunity to bring people together for conflict resolution and to look at global— conflict resolution and to look at global health concerns and all of— at global health concerns and all of the work they did, whether they were travelling to a small— whether they were travelling to a small village in south sudan or chad. — a small village in south sudan or chad. it _ a small village in south sudan or chad, it reminded them of their— or chad, it reminded them of their home and it was a lifetime _ their home and it

white house, bill allman. and we wanted to borrow a couple of that she had acquired for the exhibit. and i said to mr. allman, i said, you know, i'm sure you have some stuff the white could the white house has this huge warehouse of things. and i said, i'm sure you have some pieces in the warehouse that you could lend us. he said, oh, no, everything she is so good that it's all here in the in the residence, in the mansion. and they gave us a chair from the green room and a painting which was pretty cool. but you know, her, her efforts at the white house building on jackie kennedy started. tell us a little a little bit more about them. oh, indeed. white house historical association. of course, jackie kennedy starts this, i believe, 62 rooms around there. so mrs. kennedy deserves credit for starting that. but of her time in the white house was short then lady bird comes in and lady bird is into and outdoors of course famously and did a bang up job on that. to be fair to lady bird, she couldn't have touched anyth

almost every major legislative proposal that we put forward when i was president was drafted in the white house, and we would bring in key members, a key leaders of all the senate and house committees to work with us legislation we got ready to to create the department of education or to create a department of energy or to pass an energy legislation or health care and so forth. we would work with the leaders in the house and senate, in the white house, and then they would take the bill back to their committees and modify it to some degree. and if i didn't like if i thought the modifications were too large or contradicted, i wanted i would veto it. so there was never any doubt from the beginning to the end what what we wanted and and we made sure that everybody in the house senate knew what we wanted. i think that president obama has taken a different point of and i say this saying that he might be right that is that when he got ready for the energy for the health care legislation he told the five committees you draft basically what you want and later we'll put it all together and we'll pass leg

they spend four years in the white house. years of global citizens.arians was really important to them. >> what is the future of the carter center now? i know there is a commitment to sustaining in the future and jason carter has been so involved in that, the grandson who spoke so eloquently and humorously about jimmy carter, the man. >> as the oldest grandson, jason is the chairman of the board of trustees and for us it has been this opportunity the president and misses carter were intentional. they knew this day would come. he wanted to make sure that he has a founder led an organization he was establishing also a founder based organization to continue leadership and the legacy he and mrs. carter put forward. >> thank you so much, paige alexander. thank you for all of the service you do. >> thank you. it is his legacy we all have to live up to now. >> you know so well the work of the carter center from virgin atlanta. expand on all it has been doing around the world. >> well, you know, as paige just said, the mission will continue. jimmy carter has

white house.certainly thought so. things he could do as a former president that he couldn't do as a sitting office holder. and i think it has set a standard and set a model for other presidents who have followed in terms of fighting disease, promoting democracy, trying to resolve conflict around the world. didn't always make him popular in the white house among the sitting presidents who found him to be kind of in the way when it came to their own policies. he was not always a congenial former president with his fears, but he stood for certain principles and i think he indicated with his life and his actions that he believed in the humility that he always preached. he lived what he said he preached. >> i want to tell viewers what we're looking at here. this is the carter presidential center in atlanta. it is where there will be a private service at 4:00 p.m. eastern today. we will be covering that for you live as well as the motorcade carrying his hearse is making its way from his boyhood home and

the first ladies and media, family life in the white house and growing up in the white house. to give the full dimension of being first lady. in addition betty ford and rosalynn carter, the panelist concluded that mrs. johnson's press secretary carpenter, hoytt her press secretary and diane sawyer, co-host of cbs morning news and two panels with johnson turbin, linda johnson, and franklin roosevelts granddaughter. betty ford welcomed them and did a keynote speech. i am going to take the liberty of quoting because unfortunately the keynote speeches were not filmed. all we have are the written remarks from the keynote speakers. betty ford clearly stated the conference's goal. today we started a new, and i hope, a continuing project. we set out to look at what the role of a first lady has been, and what direction that role will take for the future. we are the first formed group effort to bring definition to a job that has no job description but has been shaped by tradition and individual preferences. i hope we will focus on future attention on what this might be one of the most d

>> it tells -- it makes a good picture of what we did in the white house and before the white house.t doesn't cover the time of our lives after i was president. that is in the carter center, which is next to the library and museum but it is a very extensive picture of our lives up and including the white house time. >> there is a notation from your mother that says on your baby book, it is jimmy now, but later it will be jim. what happened? >> my father's name was james earl and i am james earl jr. and everyone called him earl and they always called me jimmy. when i began running for president i had a hard time with some secretaries of state who refused to use my nickname on the official documents. i had to go to court in two states to get jimmy on the ballot instead of james ehrlich carter jr. but all the time i was president i signed the official laws and documents with the name i have always used, jimmy. >> a lot of letters back and forth your family when you were in annapolis. were you a prolific writer? >> i don't think my parents would agree, they always complained i did not wr

and growing up in the white house.o give the full dimensions of being first lady. in addition to betty ford and rosalynn carter, the panelists included mrs. johnson's press secretary liz carpenter, marilyn hoyt, mrs. carter's press secretary and diane sawyer co-host of cbs morning news and linda johnston robin, susan ford vance and alan seagraves who was franklin delano roosevelt's granddaughter. betty ford wrel xhd and did a keynote speech as well as dr. gold, and i'm going to take the liberty of quoting because, unfortunately, the keynote speeches were not filmed and so all we have are the written remarks from the keynote speeches. betty ford clearly stated the conference conference goal today we have started a new, and i hope a continuing project. we have set out to on look at what the role of a first lady has been and what direction that role will take for the future. we are the first formed group effort to bring definition to a job that has no job description, but has been shaped by tradition and individual prefer

you know, it was only ten years after he left the white house. and so most most of his papers were still classified. so i back off from the idea, but it you know, i was still curious about carter. i went on to other projects. and then in 2015, i sat down and wrote a proposal and i was still ignorant. i think about the south and all those other issues, but i was still curious and i wanted to learn. and you know, you write a book to try to satisfy your own curiosity. in the first instance, i sold the proposal in 2015 and then just a few weeks later, carter had that incredible press conference where he announced that he had brain cancer and was probably not going to be with us very much longer. so i thought i'd never get a chance to interview him. but as we all know, he survived. and i did get a chance to have four or five good interviews. and six years later, i have produced the book. yeah, well, talking about those interviews, i wanted to ask you about, you mentioned the prolog. you had access to president carter to interview him. i wonder what wa

post-white house. what stands out to you? >> well, after president carter left the white house in 1981 and beyond, what he did in this building behind me, i think his legacy will be best defined by his service in the post-presidency. most notably, as you mentioned, starting with habitat for humanity, which he started volunteering with back in 1984 and established the carter build project alongside his beloved wife, rosalynn. the two of them built about 5000 habitat houses across the country and the globe. and as you mentioned, back in 2019, i traveled to nashville with the carters, where they were building houses. carter at the time was 95 years old. and you may recall at the time he fell and hit his head and got 14 stitches the morning he was set to travel to nashville. he continued on with that, and he was so hands on building, and he would fall down and come right back up and get back to work. and he was asked why, at 95, he still wanted to do this work. he said he always got more out of it than he put into it. he also est

it makes a good picture of what we did in the white house, but we did before the white house. our lives after i was president. that is basically part of the carter center which is next door to the library and museum. it's an extensive picture of our lives up through and including the white house time. >> there are a number of things i want to ask about. as a notation from your mother that says on your baby book that it is jimmy now but later will become jim. that never happened, did it? president carter: i was always jimmy. my father's name was james earl. i am james earl junior. everybody called him earl and they called me jimmy. when i ran for president i had quite a hard time with some secretaries of state who refused to use my nickname on the official documents. i had to go to court in two states to get jimmy on the ballot and of james or carter junior. -- earl carter junior. i signed official laws and documents with the name i have always used, jimmy. >> a lot of letters to your family at annapolis. for you a prolific writer? -- were you a prolific writer? president carte

the white house was home the second and third floor. we had our children there. we had been separated from our children for so long. all but one of our sons and his wife could not live there. and and and everybody as i said before, in the family, the same experiences when they go out. so you treasure those times together and a real one close family feeling and the criticisms come and so you develop that attitude in the white house. all of these things are going on around you. you're doing the best job you can, can do. and besides that, you think you're doing a good job and what's best for the country. and all of the hubbub is going on and but you you secure if you're confident in what you're doing and that that's the way i felt i just feel that if could understand sometimes the criticism of who are trying to do their very best in that position in white house and had a little. basic understanding and a little more patience to see how things are going to move along. they move differently every month or so. i'm unhappy reading a lot of criticism and and and real nas

>> with an office of white house counsel? yes, senator. >> and is working within the white house counsel's office different than representing donald j. trump individually as his personal lawyer? >> absolutely. >> how is it different? >> you're working for the government. you're working for the office of white house counsel. you're not representing him in his personal capacity. >> and so you have not represented him in his business affairs, in his personal life, or in any of the criminal trials he has faced. >> no, senator. >> and, you know, when it comes to weaponization, it's worth noting that in more than two centuries of our nation's history, no president had previously been indicted. no president had previously been prosecuted until the biden-harris white house came along. and in the last four years, we've seen donald trump indicted and prosecuted not once, not twice, not three times, but four separate times. >> and two assassination attempts. >> senator, i have to say javert from les miz would be chagrined at the efforts

almost every major legislative proposal we put forward when i was president was drafted in the white house. we would bring in the key leaders of the senate and house committees to work with us. to create the department or energy, or to pass energy legislation or health care. we would work with leaders in the house and senate in the white house and they would take the bill back to their committees and modify to some degree. if i thought modifications were too large or contradicted what i wanted [indiscernible] there was no doubt from the beginning to the end what we wanted and made sure everybody in the house and senate knew. i think president obama has taken a different point of view. i'm saying he might be right. when he got ready for health care legislation he told the five committees, you draft what you want and later we will put it all together and pass legislation. i think in that case the five committees reached the lowest common denominator before they agree on a common bill that comes before the house and senate vote. it is a different approach. i can't say which is best. i persona

>> within the office of white house counsel, yes, senator. >> and is working within the white house counsel's office different than representing donald trump individually as his personal lawyer? >> absolutely. >> how is it different? >> you are working for the government. you are working for the office of white house counsel. you are not representing him in his personal capacity. >> so you have not represented him in his business affairs, personal life, or in any of the criminal trials he has faced. >> no, senator. >> and you know when it comes to weaponization it is worth noting in more than two centuries of our nation's history, no president had previously been indicted, no president had previously been prosecuted until the biden-harris white house came along and in the last four years we've seen donald trump indicted and prosecuted not once, not twice, not three times but four separate times. >> and to assassination attempts, senator. >> i have to say, the character from les mis at the efforts to do anything possible to take him down. the real target in this was not president trump but the

yesterday at the white house we had nearly 150 black entrepreneurs and business owners at the white house were some to talk about entrepreneurship, what policies are helping you, what's working, what do we need to do better because we are not just checking the box. there's been a lot of programs in america but this is an initiative. the opportunity zones do as a long-term sustainability. so when people come to the widest we want your what's working for you. what can we do better? how can we help you to be successful in your business to take care of your family to be in back in your community? long after all of us are gone the vision is to have generational impact in our country and that's why i'm here that's why were all here, right? that's the heart of it. entrepreneurship is a big driver of that. you get someone who has a skill set like someone who can cut hair, or meet a lady who's a beautician, or even somebody that's good with her hands and want to be a plumber or a welder, and we built career and technical centers to teach the trades, to teach somebody how to draw blood, to teach co

the white house on january 20? a the white house onjanuary 20?he white house onjanuary 20? a point of transition, the white house on january 20? a point of transition, lots the white house onjanuary 20? a point of transition, lots of questions around that, in turn support the biden white house is saying, what are its concerns minute talks about security and supply chain concerns? tell us more. it is all about— concerns? tell us more. it is all about preserving - concerns? tell us more. it 3 all about preserving domestic production of us steel. if you look at what nippon steel has been saying, they have pointed to, we will run decisions past you first, we will invest lots of money to grow the plants which are now looking pretty outdated and in need of substantial investment, they had bent over backwards to try and allay the administration because my concerns but it landed on deaf ears. the biden administration clearly felt that because this was a global company that ultimately market forces would dictate what the company did in the future. so that

of freedom to 19 exceptional honorees at the white house. it is the nation's highest civilian award. several people will be at the white house to receive the award. and among the big names, denzel washington, hillary clinton and bono will bring you the ceremony live once it gets underway. all right. now to the latest in the deadly new orleans truck attack, sources tell cnn investigators are trying to figure out where the former army veteran got a rare organic compound used in the explosive devices that he planted along bourbon street, and now temporary barriers designed to prevent a similar attack are in place. but questions remain about why those barriers were not in place before the new year's eve. cnn's rafael romo is following all of this for us. rafael, you have some reporting on a warning. the city actually received years ago. >> that's right. little by little, we're learning about the horrific details, and it is really quite terrifying when we learn about what happened. and cnn, one of those things that we have learned is that a secur

why is the j-6 committee having people go to the white house to beg for blanket pardons. why is jack smith quitting early and-- . they're worried about the political persecution in the same way that you claim-- >> if they thought it was political persecution they wouldn't be worried. this has to be adjudicated you have to adjudicate 2020, you have to a. >> you had kate j6, the vast criminal conspiracy against president trump and on this one we're adamant. president trump needs to do this for this country not for himself, you see last night the jack smith thing is a nothing berger, total nothing berger. >> look, president trump himself has said he wants to look to the future so let's keep doing that, otherwise we'll get off the rails fast here. >> president trump does want to look to the future. he says his retribution will be peace and prosperity, that doesn't mean that some of his colleagues that understand what they-- not just tried to do to him, but did to this country has to be adjudicated and this is going to be a big effort, i think, of people trying to get presiden

that's white house correspondent. kimberly how, cuz we are also getting some new lines in the guitar. e m e a has said that she has received a him boss delegation to discuss the cx 5 deal in gaza, and we will bring you more on that as it comes to him. we're going to go now to honey mike. mood who is in guys are in town butler in central cancer, and clearly a lot of tool going on around the world now about a potential of cx 5 do, but that has installed the is rarely as strikes over the last 12 hours of science. absolutely. tom and what scares people the most right now is the repeated failure that they experience in the past. every time stewart sort of talks or leaks about a potential these fires do with let down big time and this time they are very optimistic, but it's still on the cautious optimism because the one hand throughout the d d, i've enjoyed many of the attacks that are really caused civilian further civilian casualties. many of the people are here have relatives in golf 0. have either been injured or killed

some came to the white house on formal occasions. others i met in large groups but individually when i visited the u.n. in new york. in the other three years, i met a number of others. i am a professor at emory university. this is my 16th year. i have given a lot of lectures earlier. i do not do it anymore. one of the most popular questions i get is who is the greatest leader you have ever met in your life? i have only had one answer. [applause] i first met him a few months after i became president. i taught sunday school for many years. i have a deep religious interest in the holy land. the importance of the middle east personally and to those who share faith in god and to those concerned about the integrity and the future peace about my own country. there was an alignment of forces in the middle east, very disturbing, with the powerful soviet union and the depths of the cold war, aligned with certain groups, and with our country aligned with others. i felt it incumbent on myself to cast aside any restraints about political populari

in the white house, balm beach? >> the white house.palm beach, i'll be in palm beach. i want to be a mom, first lady and wife. when we are in january 20, serve the country. >> ainsley: first 100 days, what are you looking forwards to the most? >> i established my team. i have a few positions i still need to hire. i will not rush into that. i will see when i'm in the white house and what is needed. i don't want to hire too many people on my team and spend too much taxpayer money, i want to make sure every position they are talented, have merit, know what they are doing and as well, as they are team player. they don't have own agenda so they serving me, serving my office and serving the country. >> ainsley: will you continue with your platform be best? >> i will continue with my platform be best and expand be best. i started in first administration and did not have much support from anyone. i invited all of the streaming platforms to the white house, had the round table, and i didn't have much support from them. imagine what we could do