as white. being counted as white and being socially recognized as white carries with it a host of economic privileges, social privileges and conversations you have had about economics. .. >> so the racial wealth gap is widening. we can look at white men in politics. white men represent about 31% of our population, but they hold about 65% of all elected offices. so we can look at these, whether it's politics, economics, right? and see that white dominance is not just about the kkk, it's about that too, but it's also about the association between whiteness and economic and political privileges. >> host: but the pushback could be i feel like i work hard. >> guest: yeah. >> host: and that i've earned whatever i get. >> guest: exactly that, right? we could get people of color. people of color work hard, but they then have to deal with the burdens of racism. so one of the thicks i write about -- things i write about in the book is the denial of racism. and the fact is even if you are working class wh

aspiring reporters, the best way to cover the white house is not to cover the white house. it is talking to congress, the state department, the pentagon, to former officials, to foreign governments. anita lobbyists. :olivier: "outside" advisors. i want to emphasize that be best way to do that is not to pry information from the white house. you're always looking for overlap of information. not an overlap in keeping that information secret. you are reaching out to these other sources of information in washington, d.c. >> margaret? margaret: what i don't like and what i think is dangerous about the anti-media rhetoric is that it makes it difficult for us to go to a briefing or whatever, i think it has an undermining effect on american democracy. i think it endangers working journalists in this country and overseas. that is what concerns me about it, not that it makes our day-to-day lives uncomfortable. if you are in washington and paying attention, you know that president trump's relationship with the media is more complicated than an enemy. you are constantly getting called i

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the white jesus. people see him, lacks and -- black and white, as a white person. those two questions. would you answer them? host: we will get a response. guest: thank you for your questions. i will start with a question about religion. you are absolutely right. religion, not just in this country but we will focus on the united states, religion is tightly connected to the maintenance of white supremacy, and for a very simple reason. those europeans and their descendents who came to this lands, and still native dispossessed indigenous people, -- kidnapped africans they enslaved and exploitative labor. one of the things they did was to draw on religion and their religion, christianity, to justify the religion, christiano justify the dehumanization of people they said who were racially inferior, so , the people who are already in church now and will be going to church later today and who may not know enough about the history of the use of christianity to justify racial oppression in this country. again, i want to be clear, christianity is not the only religion that h

house or a lot of republicans that support the white house were afraid that the white house was not preparing at all for what they have now. and in talking to past people that have gone through this in the past, so this is people that went through it with the george w. bush administration and the obama administration, when congress changed hands and it was the opposite party, they learned a lot of lessons of things that they should do. hire more staff would be the number one thing. the white house, as you know, is already understaffed so they needed to hire more staff and staff that would be separate from everyone else, that would just be dealing with the investigations. you heard some people say that they wished that emmet flood who worked in the george w. bush administration would work and some were laboring for the president to choose this because he knew about this. he is still at the white house and dealing with the russia investigation, but the investigations are far greater than the russia investigation. telling staff that they would have to hire their own attorneys as oppose

they have worked in the white house and have gone on to advise white house hollywood studios and so we hope you will enjoy this special evening and now i would like to introduce our partner in this who does so much to bring everyday history to life and has been instrumental in the success of this and probably having one of her more difficulties of the kennedy center but please join me in welcoming the president of the kennedy center, deborah rutter. [ applause ] >> good evening and welcome. when stuart mclaurin called me to share with the fact that this summit was going to take lace to invite us to participate, i was overjoyed, because so many of us don't even know or understand we are the living memorial to john f. kennedy. my guess is in this room you all know that. but we love being involved in experiences like this and this summit. that said, i know many of you came farther than virginia or maryland or down the street and the saying is you only have one chance to make a first impression. and i just really want to say this is a hot place to spend time. we have been working on the ch

soldiers and had taken satisfaction in parading his white girlfriend in front of white american soldiers. nonetheless he realized that the irony of fighting combat had altered profamily his relationship to america. he tells a story in his memoirs of being in the hospital after having been wounded and getting so angry with a red cross nurse who refuses to treat him because she put him in the back of the line even though the white soldiers had come in later that he throws a book towards her in anger. the anger generated by his experience overwhelmed him and kept him from functioning and so what he says if he was fighting two wars at once. his own, and woodrow wilson's, and he's not sure which war did more damage. he also chose to stay in europe after the war's end, he survived a speculating on currency for about five years and traveled around europe because he hated white americans so much that he couldn't go home until he purged himself of that hatred. he was released from the pines that held local patriots and pragmatic loyalists. for many of the black exiles who left the u.s., paris cam

the white jesus. people see him, lacks and -- black and white, as a white person. those two questions. would you answer them? host: we will get a response. guest: thank you for your questions. i will start with a question about religion. you are absolutely right. religion, not just in this country but we will focus on the united states, religion is tightly connected to the maintenance of white supremacy, and for a very simple reason. those europeans and their descendents who came to this lands, and still native dispossessed indigenous people, -- kidnapped africans they enslaved and exploitative labor. one of the things they did was to draw on religion and their religion, christianity, to justify the religion, christiano justify the dehumanization of people they said who were racially inferior, so , the people who are already in church now and will be going to church later today and who may not know enough about the history of the use of christianity to justify racial oppression in this country. again, i want to be clear, christianity is not the only religion that h

lincoln used to drive goats down a corridor in the white house. amy carter roller skated in the east room. alice roosevelt gambled, partied and was even seen wearing a live snake. this led her father teddy roosevelt to say i can be president of the united states or i can control alice. i cannot possibly do both. many presidential descendants have gone on to great things, two presidential children have later become presidents themselves. other children of presidents and their children have made contributions to american life representing a wide variety of fields including educators and entertainers, activities and artists. steve ford even became a national villian as the boyfriend who broke meg ryan's heart in "when harry met sally." we've been honored to have over 40 descendents of american presidents join us. the unique representatives are from james monroe to george w. bush. and amazingly, it's going to be here in a few minutes, but we'll be a few degrees removed from the tenth president of the united states john tyler. he served from 1841 to 18

white people across the board, white men, women.was talk after he was elected of the working class, but he was supported by rich white people, middle-class and working class. that is indicative of the extent to which the psychic conversion or internal transformation i am calling for doesn't exist. it hasn't happened. there are individual white people who are exceptions, and there is a basis for coalition politics. there is support amongst the segments for black lives matter. that is important and needs to be built on. in general there isn't sufficient support in the white community for the kinds of policies and programs we would need to advance a worthwhile kind of racial integration. part of the reason why it is important to maintain what might seem like utopian ideals is because otherwise we are essentially resigning ourselves to the world we inhabit right now. if it is unjust, that means we are accepting the endless continuation of injustice. we have to be realistic when it means to reshape the imaginaries and create new visions

the key to white survival. so why the alt-right? that's a complicated question. one of it has to do with politics. and a connection between putin, russia and russian orthodox. since 2011, putin has more explicitly appropriated the russian orthodox church, russian politics for a new political agenda and especially as a defender of traditional values, antiwesternism and anti-liberalism. it's important to know within orthodoxy, it's had a bit of a self-identification of the proximate other and part of that is an anti-westernism. and part of that is related to that is an anti-secularism. however, that's seemingly defined and related to that is an anti-liberalism. this is a move that has moved into the orthodox sphere. so there's a kind of new west that's emerged within the o orthodox that has something to do with the with protestant, it has something to do with the broader public sphere having to do with secularism, liberalism and all those kind of buzz words. it's also clear that russia supported alt-right politic

television reporters at the white house were on the rise.pictures and sound. >> i'll be covering the president and his advisers as they have never been covered before. >> the media-savvy reagan administration understood that and remodelled the briefing room to help create better pictures. >> the old doctor's waiting room look gave way to theater seating. quality studio lighting, better microphones. >> there were also now lots of cables, which allowed tv to go live when needed, which was often. >> we became a deadline every minute. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. >> all this meant, when reagan came into the briefing room, the networks could easily take it live. >> has it damaged your reputation, mr. president? >> anything you want to say to him? >> which advisers like david gergen sometimes thought was too much of a good thing. >> reagan was under a lot of pressure to come out and give a press briefing. we wanted to get the news out but we didn't want him out there for an hour taking questions. >> enter david gerg

the white house. has cuffi's long floorrod the white house floor." alluding to the black guests at the new year's reception, columbus, ohio, paper snidely said "a negro major in full uniform was put off the street cars in washington and made to walk. let him go to the white house for consolation, there he will be received as one gentleman receives another." three weeks later, that african-american major took up took upnder t. augusta, that newspaper's sarcastic challenge and went to the white house. dr. augusta was the director of hospital.an's along with his assistant, protege,and dr. anderson abbott, also black. he attended a white house aception where, according to baltimore newspaper, they were kindly received. dr. abbott recalled that the commissioner of public buildings, benjamin brown french, greeted them. that is, he greeted him and with all the urbanity imaginable, and president.hem to the upon catching sight of major augusta, lincoln grasped his hand. greetings,hanged robert lincoln, who had

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you americans seek white supremacy. they saw white supremacy and financial force as interrelated. though more financially stable than green, his idea resonated with his own belief that jim crow kept down poor whites as much as it did black people. stating it more materially, the belgian captain argued that the american government, through law and economics, had made free slaves out of african-americans in order to control the wage scale of the white layman. when a dubious green asked him how he knew so much about law and labor, he said, i've been living here for six years. he called himself a proud worker of the industrial world. working on the docks in france, green had found himself a wobbly dechatta. a field of koirencounter for african-americans curious about the world beyond texas or tennessee. they exposed stevedores to more than just heartache. likewise, african-americans, rarld ms of their frustration, heads of labor battalion since policing to keep them from frrmt. it also teamed with life. colonial troops, chinese laborers and see. and in cosmopolitan marseilles, black s

house and the white house's credibility from the white house. both are under siege today. there's very little trust in the press and there's very little trust among some jen way in the information that's coming from the white house. i certainly remember when i was at the white house and when i was bureau chief at cnn, if the president said something or a press secretary would say something that was mistaken or a misstatement there was an effort to quickly correct the record. i remember marlin fitswater would walk around with his big cigar that he wouldn't light and he would actually walk through the press office and say, what i said or what the president said, let me just tweak that. there was a very good relationship there and he got a lot of credit for that. but we are not at that place now. i mean -- and now there is a very particular and personal and some would say grandstanding environment around this. where do you see this question of credibility now in terms of, again, plugging this into all the technology that we've got and the cameras a

it's celebrated by alt-white supremacists and white nationalists. it's a symbol of resentment towards this nation's racial progress over the last 70 years. again, just to sort of bring it home for all of you, on this friday night, i mentioned earlier that i'm 64. president trump is 72. we're about the same age, eight years' difference. nothing grand in terms of the scale of difference in age. but the progress in race relations that i have been describing to you earlier, especially the formation of that black middle class and the heightened black political voice, is the story of my lifetime. my dad's education, his housing, his jobs, were all limited by the color of his skin. my dad was born in 1902 and then here i am, born 1954, and if my dad came back to life in 2018 and he saw that i live in an integrated neighborhood, he would say son, that's a different world. and fe sif he saw my daughter's georgetown law degree, he would say wait a minute, georgetown doesn't accept black students, not in the '60s. i would say no, dad, they accept black student

they were trying to erase any symbol of white identity in america. white history.both sides think they were right. both sides had points. valid points they were trying to make. >> somebody died because of the actions and the rally. it doesn't matter to me who has side they're on. innocent people shouldn't die. >> this might come across the wrong way. to certain people. i think if we were separated we wouldn't have these issues. throw everyone together and blend them together and say get along. obviously that's not working the people want want to be living together in harmony and unity, should be allowed to do that. the people who don't should be allowed to do their thing as well. >> what would you do if given the choice? >> i can't really say. that's something i have to think about. if i had to make a split second decision on it, i would go with the separatist. >> gabe can't imagine a world where different races coexist. because hees never allowed himself to be a part of one. to help him escape his twisted world view. i know where i have to go. i know exactly who i

who counts as white has changed throughout history but to be counted as white is socially recognized carries a host of economic and social privileges of white dominance that estimates by 2020 that median white households will have 86 time the wealth as the median african-american household white families will have 68 times by 2020 that is less than two years. the racial gap is widening white men in politics representing 31 percent but they hold 65 percent of all offices. whether politics or economics to see white dominance isn't just about the kkk but the association of whiteness and economic and political privileges. >>host: but i feel that i work hard and i earn what i get. >> exactly. they also have to deal with the burden of racism so one of the things they write about is racial denial the denial of racism and the fact is even if you are working class in this country even if you are poor there is a way because of the history of systemic racism for you to get out of generational poverty than people of color we can look at the homestead ac act, whites build wealth through hundreds

>> yeah, so, when we talk about white supremacy -- white supremacy is an ideology that says white isormative, and there's a value judgment there. so white is normative and better than everything else. >> isn't white supremacy more of a call-out for violent racism? >> no, so, that's interesting, is that the way people think about white supremacy is normally rooted in things like lynching and enslavement. that is, like, how people think about it, but white supremacy shows up in a host of other insidious ways. so you think about -- funding for school systems is a great example. like, some kids aren't worth an investment, and some kids are certainly worth an investment, and that is about saying that, like, there's a set of people who just are worth more than other people. >> do you think that most people define it the way you define it? >> no, i don't know if, like, it is one thing. you are talking about the way that it manifests, which is different than the way we define it. so we live in a world where there are a host of things -- like band-aids are "skin tone" and don't look like my -

that turned into white supremacist, that turned into white power, then white pride, now white nationalists. they've gone from calling themselves racists to racialists. it's trying to bring their language closer and closer to something that mostly white americans who don't identify as racist can suddenly think some of these ideas maybe are closer to some things that i could potentially believe. which is a really scary thing. even scarier, they've been very effective in those talking points. i think, you know, it'd be tempting to think of white nationalism or this kind of racism in our country as something that is propagated and furthered by a small number of extremists. the truth is polls consistently show that about 30-40% of white people believe they experience more discrimination than people of color or jews. that is wildly off base by every statistical measure that we have. but the fact that so many people have this false sense of grievance is something that white nationalists and other people in these positions try to play toward to bring them more and more toward their side of being m

police, white teachers qhiet students, or white ran doll, yipght want to teach white folk not to steal i didn't want teach them to treat us respectfully but fairly white folk and a knock them out even more than knocking out i wanted to never ever lose to them again. i knew there was no way to not lose unless we took back every bit of what had been stolen from us i wanted money, safety, the education, healthy choices, second chance hads they stole, that we would ever get what we were owed i knew we have to take it all back without getting caught because no creation on earth was as all world as white folk at punishes black whole for black individual they were geniuses at new ways for masses of black folk with less to suffer more. our superpower i was told since i was a child was perseverance ability to survive no matter how much they took from us. i never unked how survivorring when white folk made sure so many of us did not survive and those of us who did practice bending so much that breaking often seemed inevitable. that night, when you finally started snoring i crept into kitchen ope

now, this is philip white in kentucky. the junior vice commander was always african-american, because they made up a fairly substantial proportion in that state. he was an extraordinary man. he was an african-american sailor and became a lawyer. he was very well-known. now, while encampments may have been integrated, it is said they had all black posts. this is the evidence that white veterans did not treat them as the same, but they treated them instead as second-class citizens. it is true, white veterans created their own posts. i found about 220 across the country. in virginia, there are 16 black posts, including the steadman post in petersburg. but this is important. it must be understood that african-americans chartered these groups. they were not created as separate organizations for black veterans. it was not the same as black schools meant to segregate black children. instead, i found these organizations were vital in african-american communities. they were charitable organizations, fraternal organizations, and pat

front lines of trump's white house. what's the difference covering president trump and some of the other presidents that you've covered? >> there's a huge difference. the biggest difference with the other presidents i've covered the last 3 even though they did not agree was, there was respect, we understood that we had to work with one another, with this administration w -- with this administration this president looks at us as the enemy and when we tell the truth and tell the facts, he believes we are the opposition, he believes that we have an agenda, we are one of the pillars of the foundation of this nation, what the founding fathers put in place. it's just -- it's awkward, painful deadly time compared to prior administration's that i've covered. >> what's a typical day at the white house? >> most days there's no briefing. you wait for him to speak, you wait for him to take your question or not take your question. it's a different day. it's a very different day. the dynamic has changed. we are losing ground when it

the war on whites is real. normalized. >> the government is nothing compared to the jewish menace. >> and destroying lives. >> there are people who will say once a nazi, always a nazi, and that you can't change who you are. >> but i know change is possible. from the age of 14 to 22, i helped build america's first neo-nazi skinhead organization. i believed diversity was a code word for white genocide. that jews controlled the media. immigrants were raping our women. and i was going to save the world. recruiting vulnerable kids and transforming them into violent extremists like me. but now, instead of pulling people into hate, i'm guiding them out. >> ein folk, ein reich, ein fuhrer. >> i'm not willing to let it happen to anybody else. >> the first thing i would like to say about the american flag is i don't salute the american flag because two stars stand for nonwhite states. >> with me today, chris pi piccolini, 19 years old, director of the northern skinheads. >> we're fighting for a great cause which is the w

you americans, he told green, remember he thought he was white, you force white supremacy and dominate when you can with financial force. things,ain saw the two white supremacy and financial force, as interrelated. though more self-consciously radical than green, the ideas resonated with greens own leaf that jim crow -- on belief that jim crow kept down poor whites as much as black people. stating it more materially, the belgian captain argued that the american government, through law and economics, had made free slaves out of african-americans in order to control the wage scale of the white layman. when the dubious green asked him how he knew so much about american law and labor, the captain replied he had lived there for six years. he had toiled as a machinist in indiana and instill mills in consulting and counted himself a proud member of industrial workers of the world. working on talks in france, green had found himself a wobbly. france supplied a haven for black soldiers bruised by jim crow, and a field of encounter for african-americans serious about the world beyond texas or te

white house. and now identi've been so bless go to the white house numerous times. every child should have the opportunity to go through the white house, one way, shape, form or other. now what we're doing is really the whole point of this, we have three uses for the app which stewart can go into more detail, but the goal is really to make sure that every student can experience the white house. every adult, but, you know, if you think about really bringing that into the school and starting that conversation, there's really so much you can do with that today. it will continue to evolve as well. so stewart kind of from your perspective, talk about this project. how it's grounded. >> this is grounded and goes back to mrs. kennedy in 19 6r62. she founded our organization in 6r '61. she'd been to the white house with her nmom and concerned thee was no guidebook to take you through the white house. first order of business after finding the association was you must do a guidebook. in 1962, the very first

i knew they were physically white but when i think of white people, i associate whiteness with this attitude of i'm saving you. i'm taking care of you. i know better than you. you know, that area that feeling of i'm the default. you're the minority. that. and i don't know how that happened but i lucked out that i met all these people that i never, that was never probably made me feel area how people make you feel, i remember my angelo that at one point, i remember how you made me feel. it was never that point. it wasn't until i moved to washington dc that i met real white people, the newsroom of the washington post that i met real white people. how did you get here, who are you? why didn't you go to princeton or yale or that kind of elitism but i didn't realize i'd grown up in a community. i knew they were wealthy because they would pay for stuff and it felt like a lot of it was because i was the onlyperson couldn't take it . >> host: because you went to school. >> i went to school in this community in silicon valley, and mountain view, but this was before google but a community that was lik

any white house officials?otentially this is what they asked me, this is what i told them, this is the story. what do you think? >> almost like they were trying to get on the same page. especially for someone who just got convicted of ten felonies. or pled guilty to some of them. the fact he continued to lie to mueller's folks is just extraordinary. does he not realize the amount of prosecutorial firepower? this is the best in the business going against, you know, the trump team. you could see a scenario where manafort reached out to white house officials when he knows certain members of this people are going to be witnesses against him or, you know, talk about their interactions with him. so if they say -- if he goes to them and says, well, don't say i talked to you, you know, you can see that happening. >> you know, are these contacts part of a larger pattern perhaps? >> it's interesting. this wasn't the only contacts with white house officials we learned about yesterday. in the cohen filing, there's also a s

who white house? we don't know.ut that coordination is certainly trouble for the white house and for the president as well. and also that president trump himself direct t we knew this from his plea. but this is very specific that the president of the united states directed those payments when he was candidate to tse o women. and this is a violation of campaign finance law as has been admitted to and that they believe that cohen does not deserve a lenient sentence. they say his corration was not immediate or full. the details about his -- the allegations that have now been o establishe tax violations, millions of dollars in unpaid taxes is a lot more to michael coe went than what we knew before. robert: the president said in a tweet, phil that he's not worried that he's in the clear.e is that the s in the white house? >> he's not in the clear. but this is something of the president to create an alternate reality, that it's a witch hunt, it's pehony, don'teve what you see in the news. when theseou filings have all the

white, we were hoping all day egg white at the time. and you know what? they never came up. i said man, i used a different word. but i mean honestly, here the guests are going to come because a souffli that size needs over an hour to bake. at least. so, and the dinner at the white house takes maybe a little bit less than an hour already. so i said okay let's throw those away, we washed the bull we start all over. we start again. they don't come up again! now the clock is ticking and you know at the white house, when they come for dessert, you cannot say i need another 10 minutes. you cannot do that! the only word that they want to hear is speak up, now. so, we were cutting eggs again, wash the bowls when i heard, i was still working in the kitchen with the main ship spirit i heard the new chef and the assistantship told him about the mayonnaise that they made on that machine that morning. you know how many drop of oil it take to mess up in a great? 2 drops, one drop, forget it. and i didn't see it, i wasn't there when they did it, so al

i didn't know who they were when i was in the white house., because i knew at once instinctively it was our guys. >> g. gordon liddy, ex-fbi, ex-treasury, ex-justice, ex-white house consultant, and e. howard hunt jr., ex-cia, ex-bay of pigs planner, ex-white house consultant. >> we didn't think they measured up. it was closer to the typical gang that couldn't shoot straight. >> earl silva read the names of 60 government witnesses. the list included only one low ranking white house lawyer and several former employees of the committee to re-elect the president. >> if you don't know richard nixon's psychology, you don't know his background, you could never understand why the white house reacted to watergate the way it does. >> from day one, there was a great sense that we were under siege. and we were not deceiving ourselves that the press did not like us. both houses of congress did not like nixon. i mean, that is the truth. and the question is how you deal with it. >> he tries to build a little like mafiosa group out of the oval office, guys t

okay, let's start the egg white. whip the egg white. we were whipping the egg white at the time.k and you know what? it never came up. i said, man. or different word. [ laughter ] but i mean honestly, the guest are going to come in.be so, at the dinner, the white house takes a little bit less than an hour. so i said let's throw those away. we wash the bowl. start all over. it don't come up again. the clock is ticking.n, you know at the white house, ck when they come for dessert, you cannot say, i need another 10 minutes.fo you cannot do that. the only word the butler wants u to hear is, speak up, now.h so, we were cutting eggs again. washed the bowl. when i heard -- this is when i was still working in the main kitchen with the chefs. i heart the executive chef and the assistant chef talking about the mayonnaise they made on the machine that morning. do you know how many drops of oil it takes to mess up on those egg drops? one drop, two drops, that's it, forget it. they do the mayonnaise, but i didn't see it. b i wasn't there when they d

i've always said the best way to cover the white house is not to cover the white house. it's talking to congress. talking to the state department. talking to the pentagon. talking to former officials. it's talking to foreign governments. >> lobbyists. >> yes, lobbyists. quote unquote outside advisors. right? as we talk about the briefing, i want to emphasize the best way to pry information is not to pry it out of the white house. you're always looking for overlap of information and not an overlap in keeping the information secret. you're reaching out to all these other sources. >> what i don't like and what i think is dangerous about the anti-media rhetoric is not that it makes it difficult for us to go to a briefing or whatever. i think it has an undermining effect on american democracy and i think it endangers some working journalists in this country, but especially overseas. that's what it concerns me about it. if you're in washington and paying attention you know president trump's relationship with the media is certainly more complicated than an enemy where you're th

beyond that, this is not a white house centered operation. >> it's so amazing that even the white houseef of staff as a job is debased under trump. >> yeah. i have wondered for some time who he actually listens to within the walls of the white house. we know he listens to hannity and jeannine pirro. giuliani was helping him negotiate mueller i thought giuliani is about to steps away from during a commercial that says, hi, have you been injured in the workplace? but who is he listening to? who is speaking common sense to this man when it looks like the roof is about to come off the white house? and i don't know who the answer -- who is the adult in the room right now? >> robert, you want to jump back in on that? i'm sure you know. >> giuliani at this point is in the president's ear. he is talking to mark meadows all the time but you cannot forget the president as someone who came out of a family business, relies on jared kushner and ivanka trump. and it's jared kushner who is an informal shadow chief of staff based on conversations with trump msofficials that is alway now around the pres

we just saw white house press secretary sarah sanders brief the white house press corps. couple questions came up with regard to a potential government shutdown. congress has four days. so as it pertains to the border wall, president trump is asking for $5 billion. democrats are saying not so fast. we learned the president has been making phone calls and asking every single agency to see if they have money that could be used to fund his border wall. let's go straight to our senior congressional correspondent manu raju. he's up on capitol hill. what do you know about this? >> reporter: what the white house came to congress with earlier today was a proposal to approve $1.6 billion in funding for border security that had already been agreed to by republicans and democrats on the senate side, and an additional $1 billion of what is being described as unspent money. that appears to come from various accounts from various agencies and perhaps that's what the white house is also referring to is where the president himself could find money through his agency heads. the problem is

my children saw that dealt in these two historic persons in the white house. and now to president trump. what do i think about the moment? the thing that i think about him is can you get the cdc together? i think about why i'm in the center of the fire for them because of all rosa and the residue still lingers and i think about david still bothers me. but david, i asked the president,are you a racist? january 2018 , and now we are the latter part of 2018. and people are calling it out. and they were very angry with me for asking that question but if you remember, the lead up to that question , explanation versus norway, people were saying it. and think about charlottesville and david johnson and how they treated frederica wilson. i think about all that in the area so that question, and i asked the head of the naacp, what is the definition of a racist? they said the intersection where the meeting of power and presence so i asked the question and he never answered me and he answered that question three days later that sunday but now the nation is bringing that q

not one from here at the white house other than the president's video that was produced by the white house, put out earlier tonight, in which the president said he hoped this shutdown will not last long. but the expectation is, we're in this thing now for probably the next 48 hours or so. i'll tell you this. we heard from senator lindsey graham, who said he just got off the phone with the president at about 10:00 p.m., 11:15 p.m. or so. he did deliver a message to the president on the airwaves which we can assume he delivered over the phone. dig in, don't back down. graham talking about how there is some room talking about $1.6 billion and $5 million, some negotiating room. but i'm told the president is insisting he wants more than $1.6 billi 1.$1.6 billion. anything less will be seen as a washout. democrats don't want to give the president that kind of money. it's a stalemate, mulvaney says the conversations are still ongoing. but it's a tbd, and they'll be there tomorrow talking this through. lots of question marks as the president remains here in washington tonight. he will not be

so what was it like inside the white house?w president clinton's press secretary at the time and a reporter on the front lines who covered clinton for the associated press from his time in arkansas all the way from 2001. i learned more watching ron report over the years than anyone else. thank you both for being here. so, joe, to you. first of all, a little history here, your first day on the job as white house press secretary was when henry hide opened impeachment hearings for bill clinton in october. that's a heck of a way to start a job. >> it is. i had been in the white house, so i was well versed on the starr investigation and all that, but it is a big jump to stand up at the bode ypodium on particular day. there was no easing into the job, as you might say. >> your history is you covered clinton for a long time. but in terms of the path of impeachment, you were in the roosevelt room when bill clinton faithfully said i did not have sex with that woman, monica lewinsky. when you were there at that moment, you had a thought

the white jesus. people see him, lacks and -- black and white, as a white person.se two questions. would you answer them? host: we will get a response. guest: thank you for your questions. i will start with a question about religion. you are absolutely right. religion, not just in this country but we will focus on the united states, religion is tightly connected to the maintenance of white supremacy, and for a very simple reason. those europeans and their descendents who came to this lands, and still native dispossessed indigenous people, -- kidnapped africans they enslaved and exploitative labor. one of the things they did was to draw on religion and their religion, christianity, to justify the religion, christiano justify the dehumanization of people they said who were racially inferior, so , the people who are already in church now and will be going to church later today and who may not know enough about the history of the use of christianity to justify racial oppression in this country. again, i want to be clear, christianity is not the only religion that has b

we have the white house correspondent for sirius xm in the current president of the white house correspondents association. on my far right, we have margaret, with bloomberg news. and the immediate past president of the white house correspondents association. and to my immediate right, we have anita who is the white house correspondent for mcclatchy. and she is a former paul miller fellow. what i want to do is i'm going ask each of them to talk for a little bit about a different aspect of the next year and what to be on the lookout for from the white house agenda perspective, from the investigations perspective, and then from the media perspective. margaret is going to talk about that. i will explain why in a second. then i'm going ask a couple of questions and we will toss it out to you. based on the last panel, we are plenty of questions out there so i'm going to keep my questions to a minimum so we're plenty of -- so we have plenty of time for questions from all of you. it is a little after 10:00. this session will go until 11:00 and then we will have a change over and our final session wil

i worked in the white house.nd for someone like ayers who is supposed to be an up and coming rock star in the republican party, to not take the biggest job of them all, does say a lot about what some people -- how some people view this administration. you are talking about a white house who cannot be managed. trump cannot be managed. and he undermines his people who work for him and throws them under the bus and goes at it alone so many times. you are a tweet away from being fired. that's the white house they're dealing with. >> what do you expect in terms of the posture, the approach this administration, this white house takes toward these investigations in these coming months from the democrats in congress and from the special counsel and southern district of new york as well. >> well, i think what concerns me the most, steve is the departure of john kelly. essentially the departure of one of the last remaining remnants of adult supervision. when you think about what the approach is going to be to these incomin

the company hold the news we have yet another high profile exit from donald trump's white house this time its chief of staff john kelly will be leaving at the end of the year the retired marine general has been in the role for sixteen months and he was chosen for the job to bring to the white house which has seen a high turnover during trump's nearly two years in office. john kelly will be leaving rita but i don't know if i can say retiring but he's a great guy john kelly will be leaving at the end of the here will be announcing who will be taking john's place it might be on an interim basis i'll be announcing that over the next day or two but john will be leaving at the end of the year he's been with me almost two years now as you know between the two positions so. we're probably going to see him in a little while a white house correspondent complete takes a look back at joel kelly's time as chief of staff we just watch. general kelly crisis may have ended john kelly's time in the west wing down with the four star marine general was brought to the white house to restore order as pre

it's an honor to work in the white house. and i'm glad that i have the privilege to do that every day. >> would you accept another job in the administration, potentially in the future? >> i have no idea. [laughter] i'd have to cross that bridge when i came to it. like i said, i love what i do. and i think i get to do it with some of the greatest people in the world, and i'm proud of the work that we do, and i'm honored every day i get to be there. i always say that if you walk into the building and you don't have a sense of reverence then you've been there too long, and it's time to go home. i hope i never experience that, and every day that i do, i'm thankful for it. >> we are just about out of time, but -- >> good, because i was running out of good stuff to say. [laughter] >> but this has been a really great conversation. thank you so much, sarah, for being here with us. >> thank you. >> to share your perspective on the news that broke as we were sitting here, but also on how you've juggled an extremely public and high-prof