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, 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

the white house by president eisenhower. typical of the many receptions held throughout washington for the best in attending the inaugural ceremonies was this reception given by senator and mrs. bridges in honor of the governor of new hampshire. the senator and the receiving with lovely mrs. bridges with champagne music by this marine quartet directed, by lieutenant king. the morning of january 21st dawned cold, cold and overcast. the plaza, as seen from a navy blimp overhead. as the president and mamie came out of the white house. he paused momentarily, thought back to his first inauguration when he came to the white house to be accompanied by president truman on his first ride to the capitol capitol. the president continued down the steps. the the vice president waiting. and as the presidential caravan leaves the white house grounds, the president's his second such historic journey down pennsylvania avenue in four years. the waiting crowds herald, his arrival at the capitol, where the ceremonies are to be held. like ever t

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

correspondent outside the white house.jia, you have covered this president so closely. what do you make of how he made up this address, not only the accomplishments, that he feels he did not get credit for, but also this morning in a very populist tone. >> reporter: well, norah, frankly i expected much more about his accomplishments and his personal story in this farewell address because white house sources had talked about leading up to this moment how this was not just an exit from the white house, but this was an exit from 50 years of his public service, and he really wanted this to be personal and positive and nonpartisan, but certainly his message was dark, in many ways, as he issued those warnings, and even though he did not mention any of his political opponents by name, including trump, even though he did not talk about those tech tycoons who are now weaved into the trump administration, certainly almost every warning he had was a veiled strike at them, whether it was miss amp this information, talking about the la

>> 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

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

you're not in the white house this time around but is there gonna be the same shock and all viable or something different altogether. >> i think it's gonna be much more tense. we refer to it right now as days of thunder. i think the days of thunder starting next week are to be incredibly incredibly ntense. we spent years people developing the policies developing executive orders in the direction of where we want to take the movement and developing personnel many more people hit the beach many more cabinet people get confirmed much quicker gonna be many more executive orders most of these are the beginning all of them at the beginning the 50 they hit right away will be office of legal counsel days of thunder i think would be the concept starting next monday. >> heritage foundation aspi the groups that have been building playbooks like project 2025 and things that will infiltrate and have an impact on some of the policies of the administration? steve, did we lose you? that is the futuristic excitement i was talking about. can you hear me steve? >> i'm afraid i didn't hear you, can you r

>> 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

i was in the white house on 9/11.staff in the white house. what i saw was a government that was not well prepared to handle a terrorist attack. how much of that is due to the truncated transition we had? it's hard to say. we didn't have as many national security senior leaders in place as we could have had, had we had a full transition. the 9/11 commission, which was sort of the most important summary of what happened for our country and why, highlighted the fact that, for president bush, the fact that he had not had his top national security team in place or in place for very long, was an important contributing factor to what occurred in our country. post—9/11, there has been a recognition that we live in a very dangerous world, and that understanding those dangers is a fundamental responsibility of the leadership of the united states government. the first weeks after the installation of a new president is a period of real vulnerability for the united states. inauguration day, even- as ijust say that, i literally get

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

i read them that statement from the white house. tiktok has no immediate response to the white house. we'll see if they comment later today. but for now, this app will stop working right after midnight, and that will be tiktok's choice because technically, the law would allow it to be online. if if there was action from the biden administration or in this case, the biden administration saying we're not going to enforce it, don't worry. the problem, i think, fred, is the white house and the doj saying those words in a kind of in a statement is different from a legal letter. the general counsel's the lawyers for these tech companies. they believe they need it in writing in a more serious way. so there's a little bit of a standoff now between the government and tiktok. and i think, frankly, tiktok is trying to assert its power and leverage here. if they turn off the lights at midnight, that's going to send a big, bold message, and it's going to put even more pressure on trump to resolve this on monday and beyond. >> brian stelter, than

was it a big blind spot in this white house?d, have seen the immigration issue play out in different ways, as the world has just changed so dramatically. this was a tough issue for the administration. it was one where we continually asked congress for more money to secure that southern border, and congress was unwilling to give it to this president, where, as you pointed out, a bipartisan broader solution that addressed so many of the issues was negotiated and was scuttled by the republicans because they didn't want to give biden a success and where finally he took executive action, which, um...was necessary but, again, without the funding we really need for the southern border. i think that it is, you know, an unfortunate example of how issues get caught in the political process here in the united states sometimes, and where problems that need to be addressed are not addressed, because one side or the other sees a political benefit or a political detriment to actually addressing the problem. one of the things that biden i think

senior white house correspondent peter doocy joins us with more. i expected a different speech but we got what we got. >> i did, too, dana. and it goes to show over the last half decade or so this president has evolved from no malarkey to no tech oligarchy. >> president biden: today an oligarchy is taking shape in america of extreme power and influence that threatens our entire democracy. we've seen it before. more than a century ago. but the american people stood up to the robber barrons back then. >> the president was happy to have wealthy tech types on his side when they were supporting him even working years ago to censor donald trump. they are a problem for biden now that many are making nice with donald trump. even the ones he concedes are critical to controlling the future of artificial intelligence so that china can't. >> president biden: social media is giving up on fact checking. the truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit. we must hold the social platforms accountable to the protect our children, our families, and the ve

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

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if you sat me down there in the white house, i wouldn't have a clue.ry do you feel about this? because there are some who call themselves tiktok refugees, who are signing up to a mandarin service called rednote and, at the same time, accepting all the rules that are put down by the communist party in china. would that be an avenue that you would go down to protect your business? no, i would not — i would not go to that degree, and i think my friends who are doing so, i say you need to rethink your priorities and you need to rethink what you hold dear in this life. because, no, it's not that serious. there's the other social media companies, and i don't feel like a revolutionary, because we're not refugees. you're in the reporting business. you know, quite frankly, what real tragedy and real downfall looks like, and this is quite a... you know, we are so pampered to think that this is such a tragedy that it is. it is upsetting, but it kind of stops there. dyla n was dylan was speaking to me in the last hour. after a 90 day extension would help. after a

sometimes he doesn't, and that's okay. >> ainsley: where are you be spending most of your time in the white houseouse. when i need to be in new york i will be in new york. when i need to be in palm beach, i will be in palm beach. my first priority is, you know, to be a mom, to be a first lady, to be a wife. and once we are in on january 20, you serve the country. >> ainsley: first 100 days, what will that look like for you? what are you looking forward to the most? >> i establish my team. i have a few positions i 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 spending too much taxpayer money. i want to make sure every position they are talented, they have merit. they know what they are doing. and as well as they are a team player. they don't have their own agenda so, they serving me. they are serving my office. and they are serving the country. >> ainsley: will you continue with your platform be best? >> i will continue with be best and also i will expand be best. i started in the first administ

what is the expectation from within the white house? does it happen tomorrow morning on joe biden's watch? >> well, they certainly hope so. that's the deal. that's the official schedule that has been promulgated as part of this agreement. obviously, you know, as we see so many times before, there are last minute hitches and you can never quite tell whether they're a last minute hitch that's going to pull the whole thing apart or just something that needs to be ironed out in the in the process. but the three hostages should come out tomorrow, and then we're supposed to see them essentially once a week going forward through the course of this first phase. 33 in all, in this next six weeks. and i think that joe biden for joe biden, it's very important, obviously, to begin this process before he leaves office. it won't end while he's in office, but at least he will be able to see the beginning of the end while he is still president. >> yeah, look, the deal was brokered and certainly fits and starts for months by president biden and his admi

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

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

geoff: that's lara baran lopez at the white house for us. you. ♪ amna: all around los angeles today, residents again held their breath while firefighters worked to prevent major fires from starting or spreading. geoff: at least 25 people are dead and more than 12,000 structures have been damaged or destroyed. more than 80,000 people remain undamaged under evacuation orders. stephanie sy has our report. stephanie: it was another tense 24 hours in southern california, as exhausted firefighters worked to contain flare-ups and protect hard-fought progress across the city. >> the anticipated 70-mile-an-hour winds have yet to materialize. however, this could change and we are still at risk. stephanie: as of this evening, millions remained under red flag warnings, while crews continue to battle flames from the ground and the air. the good news for weary angelenos, winds were mostly weaker than anticipated. and the forecast for the week was largely favorable, though there's still no sign of rain. >> the danger has not yet passed, so please, please p

white house, in your view? no, i think it's _ white house, in your view? house, in yourview? iirr, i think it's early to assess, but i do think there was a number of factors that were at play that resulted in the continued delay of an agreement. 0bviously, continued delay of an agreement. obviously, i continued delay of an agreement. 0bviously, ithink it started with the killing nasrallah and haniya, and the killing of sinwar. under the negotiations in terms of how many palestinian prisoners will be released, for every hostage life that is passed as a result of this conflict. i think that every adversary will attempt in every adversary will attempt in every terrorist organisation will attempt to try to exploit strategic transitions, and i think what we saw today in this announcement that there is no gap between our current administration and that of the incoming administration. to your point, prime minister netanyahu had the experience of working with president—elect trump in his previous ministration, so i think he clearly knew that there was a concerted

tom homan, as border czar, is essentially white house staff. stephen miller is white house staff.he senate confirmed presidential. and bory exists wholly within the responsibility of the secretary of dhs. so if tom homan calls her up and says, i want you to do x, does she have to respond and comply with the direction from someone who's white house staff? and i'm not sure. we got a whole lot of clarity on that today. >> and, michael, as we look at these hearings, it does look as though right now at least hegseth has the votes. some of these more controversial choices. we haven't yet had a hearing for tulsi gabbard because they haven't finished the background check, apparently, and there may be some problems there. nor for rfk jr is one scheduled, i think, as of now. so there is still a couple of controversial choices. and kash patel, of course, at fbi. but so far, pam pam, bondi, hegseth and others, certainly marco rubio, who is not controversial in terms of the republican majority and many democratic senators who admire what he did on the intelligence committee and think he's a 14

positions of responsibility, taking those responsibilities seriously. >> bob bauer worked as a white housensel, also a lawyer for president biden as well. personal side of things. bob bauer, thank you very much. still ahead, what or who pushed speaker mike johnson to oust the chair of the house intel committee? and why the highest ranking democrat on the committee said it sent a shiver down his spine. he will join us to explain that in a moment. plus, they lost everything in the in the california wildfires. what small businesses are now doing to try to rebuild? they spoke with my colleague jacob soboroff. work, play. >> blink. relief. work. play. blink. relief. >> the only 3 in 1 extended relief formula for dry eyes. >> blink. this is kathy. she's about to see her dentist. she's afraid. not because of the drill, but because of the bill. a big bill. but kathy doesn't need to be afraid, and neither do you. thanks to affordable dental insurance for physicians mutual insurance company, it's easy to get this coverage. don't believe me? call or go online for all the details. you can even have th

this is your last friday at biden white house, we can tell the story now, he called you when you were live on special report with bret baier and told you something nobody knows. >> peter: he did. i can say this now because it never happened. he called me and initially told me it is nothing personally, pal, he said a bad word. he said and this was at the tail end of covid, he said he would have me in for lunch when it was safe. his lunch card is probably filled, it never happened. it was never safe to have lunch with me. >> steve: no kidding. when jen psaki left, you famously took a picture with her and you asked her, he will remember about lunch, right? >> peter: the lunch never happened, i've told many people about the lunch, it never happened. fridays i'm out of leftovers, we're out here. >> steve: if somebody from the white house is uch watching, you are available to have lunch with the president? >> peter: i don't know how many tvs are turned on in there. people don't want to watch what is happening. a lot of picture frames are empty, i don't know, empty picture frames and turned

let's go to the lawn of the white house, francesca chambers is joining us, the white house correspondentor usa. to talk about the transition that is going to be happening or is underway there for the incoming trump administration. let's first talk about the latest on the israel-gaza cease-fire. is that administration confident things are on track? guest: we expect the israeli government to formally improve -- approve the deal later this morning. it has been a long road to get to this point, president biden first unveiled the details of the deal in may and then for months, there were starts to get to what happened this week, which is when the administration said hamas finally agreed to a list of hostages to be released. we expect the deal to go into place beginning sunday. host: there is a flurry of activity from the outgoing administration. what has the president done in recent days and executive orders and other actions he can take from the white house? guest: president biden, the only savior running through the tape, but he is making the most of every last-minute he has here in the whi

they might have had a better shot at the white house. most of the party was complicit in covering up the decline he obviously had paid this is to be expected to a certain degree after a party has such a huge hit as they did in the selection. none of it is necessarily helpful for a democrat party that needs to be focused on the people and how they get a new policy agenda that puts a more in line at that. paul: bill, briefly how do you think historians will view biden's presidency because they're clthereclearly making ao history. >> presidents don't get to do that. your legacy is written by events. after certain point there outside of your control. i think the world is a more dangerous place everything seems to be a model one thing i can think of that i agree with him is aid to ukraine. he did in such a way he made everything more confusing in the world more dangerous. >> still had the middle east prepares for the return of donald trump as president biden claims a credit for this week's the fragile cease-fire agreement. now taxes is gettin

stop the generals from covering is white house and threatening to cut them off from access to the whitepart and parcel of the whole context of how joe biden operated final word doctor. peter: 's hope is a rented day in the second administration of trump in america has enough this authoritarianism and it is time to return to our new billable rights and are complete assurance reversible civil liberties that we all want to hd onto the matter what. liz: okay doctor mccalla, and batya ungar-sargon from that was a and thank you for being with us predict the story coming up, questions swirling over this mystery, how exactly did the la wildfires begin we have a former top la fire battalion chief, will give us his take next. please stay right there and we will be right back out to after the break. >> identifying the cause of these fires, is critically important and also committed to holding anyone who is responsible for these fires accountable. further protect the residence of los angeles, the city. [coughing] hi susan, honey? yea. i respect that, but that cough looks pretty bad. try this robitu

white house we are cheap at — fronts. white house we are cheap at the _ fronts. the washingtons l fronts. white house we are - cheap at the washingtons post, thank you so so much forjoining us on bbc news. we will of course bring you thatjoe biden farewell address as soon he starts speaking. that's expected at around about eight o'clock eastern time, 8pm eastern time and we will talk plenty about that in just a few moments. for now, let's turn more towards that big news coming to us from the middle east today, news of that cease—fire deal between israel and hamas. joining me now is mohamed taha from bbc arabic what is the situation like in the region tonight? we heard reports earlier about israeli strikes continuing in gaza and somewhere between 20 have been 30 people reportedly killed. yes, indeed, after the announcement of the cease—fire deal between the palestinians and israel, the palestinians started to celebrate, started to have joyful atmosphere started to celebrate, started to havejoyful atmosphere in gaza and all of a sudden, this turned to be, again, st

parallel white house policy memorialized by councils directed to a white house staff contain similarrestrictions and contacts with all departments and agencies. the incoming attorney general would be well advised to continue to adhere to the white context policy and urge the council to do the same. in closing public respect for the department of justice begins with public respect for the attorney general. that respect it comes to an impartial adherence to the rule of law free from improper political influence. the next attorney general is committed to taking steps to earn that respect. >> thank you. i just want to say thank you very much for allowing me too be here today a man from a small town in florida his father was a trucker and mom was a mail carrier being before the united states than it is a true blue honor. so thank you for allowing me too be here. i note him bondi and known her for about 35 years i've known her as a prosecutor had been her colleague, i've been her supervisor, she is been my supervisor i know her as a statewide prosecutor of florida. i hope to share with you