so is the executive mansion, which now remains the white house.-- renamed the white house.here is only one white house. >> how long did the renovation take? >> one year.1902. >> where did they stay? did they go back to the hill?-- sagamore hill? >> over the summer they stayed there. the renovations started before she left.tr was hit by the trolley in the middle of this, so they have difficult moments where he is negotiating in a wheelchair because he was hit by a trolley accident. >> how involved was edith roosevelt in the actual renovations? how much of a vision did she have for ultimate design? >> edith was very interested in -- mckenn was very interested in the present. she was very interested in history. it reflected the long, important path of the united states. she had her eye on the bottom line. --ith was good at managing the managing, as you mentioned, she also read the accounts. and when the money got tight, she was very creative and a good steward of the nation's money. she took the carpets on the first floor and she said, we are running out of funds and had them

for the white house. they had to move from their home on long island back and forth. she would be there in the was the civil service commissioner in washington. she was used to packing up the servants in the households and moved back and forth. she is somebody who knew how to manage things. with money.ood she would organize him and the children. .he was a good manager couple of things. we are learning a lot, but we also learn in what you are interested in. in a few minutes, we will take telephone calls. let me give you the phone numbers. -- also, a conversation already going on facebook. you can join it by logging on facebook's c-span page and log into the mix. tweets. we are taking a #for the series we did not have in the first session, at first ladies. will mix all of that up over the next 90 minutes. one of the other great things is we have a video logger for out at the site of the earth's ladies along the way recording the places where they live. tonight, we will introduce you to two of those associat

the white house gardener, let's re-create this garden at the white house. ellen wilson could look out her bedroom window and see the flowers all day. roses.ted to see this becomes the rose garden at the white house. alan does not live to see the rose garden completed. she dies in the summer of 1914. is watches as the garden work done, but does not live to see the completion of the garden. it is a vision that begins here at prospect garden. >> so, ellen wilson cannot wait to see the rose garden completed. and as become part of our national lexicon. has become part of our national lexicon. here's what it looks like today. we have her tenure in the white house. we have a list of things that she did during the 17 months. we talked about the rose garden. the fact that she was a broughtonal artist and her profession to the white house. how significant was that? >> they did not set a standard for future first ladies. she earned money from selling her paintings. she'd set up a charity for her brother. the only of the first lady to earn money in the white house was

produced by our white house, the white house historical association.hronicling life in the mansion in the tenure of each of the first ladies. find out more at c-span.organize/firstladies. is. >> c-span student cam video competition is under way. it's open to all middle and high school students. this year, we're doubling the number of winners and prize money. create a five-to-seven issue documentary on what congress should consider in 2014. it should show varying points of view and they're due by january 20, 2014. need more information, visit student cam.org. >> a look back at the 2008 financial crisis with henry paulson and former representative barney frank. in an hour, president obama marks the fifth anniversary and takes a look at the economy. then the first ladies' program on helen taft. >> university of maryland professor will talk about the middle east reaction to the situation in syria. and its impact on the u.s. foreign policy. then politico magazine editor susan glasser discusses the unites nation's role in syria in the days ahead. later, bloo

he's the white man went to howard law school. howard had white students all the way back. and she he was very influenced by ghandi nonviolence. after getting out of law school writing a memo to thurgood marshall saying you thought do it. marshall twhawnt sympathetic. so lots of people in the book were influenced. some people in the book were influenced by began i -- ghandi and ideas and others were not. who is next? >> hell -- hello what are the current civil rights issues facing african-americans today? >> i think civil rights -- i actually have a new book about this it's called "the new black; what is changing what is not, race of america." in the book i and a bunch of other people argue the civil rights issue of today are not the civil rights ideas of a generation -- excuse me the civil rights issues are not the civil rights issues are those of generation ago. in some ways they are, some ways they are not. i would think the biggest civil rights issue right now is the fact that an entire generation of african-american men are essentially being sent to prison and no one s

she saw it as her husband coming into the white house and herself coming into the white house. it was a very ceremonious occasion for her. she marked this occasion, her entry into the white house and added it as a mark of first ladies on the united states when she became the first first lady to donate her inaugural gown to the smithsonian institution. she happeneded to be the first first lady when the founders were putting the collection together. they met helen taft at a lunch commemorating dolly madison. they asked her if she would be interested in the new collection they were putting together. they were trying to acquire something from every first lady. mrs. taft generously offered to lend and donate her inaugural gown to the election. she's the founding patron of the first ladies' collection and she established a tradition that the first ladies would donate their gown to the collection. every first lady after mrs. taft who had an inaugural gown donated it to the smithsonian institution. >> many of you watching tonight have been through that exhibit over time. well, the taft

her husband served in the white house from 1909 to 1913. here to tell us about her life and legacy is biographer, louis gould. the biography is helen taft, our musical first lady. you open the book by making the case of the 20th first lady, she's the most obscure but she deserves better from history. why is she better than being obscure? . >> she did some things that were constructive. the cherry trees. bringing musicians to the white house and making washington the cultural center of the nation. it didn't work out because of medical reasons. she had an agenda that would have made her rank well nowhere roosevelt or lady bird johnson in terms of transforming washington had things go the other way. >> she seemed to have an agenda to get her husband to the white house. >> the story is she decided to visit the white house in the hayes administration, hey, i want to do that as well. a lot of women who thought they would like to have their husbands become president. she's a trade between mommy dearest and ladimac beth. that wasn't the case. she w

whites from joining. c-span: it took you 15 years to do this? >> guest: 19, yeah. c-span: what were you doing during those 19 years? >> guest: i have to say fiber the years were spent cutting the book because the amend the original manuscript was believe it or not five times longer than what you have in your hand there. c-span: we are talking about look that is 700 pages. >> guest: the original manuscript was 3400 pages. so i cut it and i started over again and finally i was able to figure out a way to tell the narrative in a more streamlined fashion although the reviews called exhaustive. this is like the cliff notes version of it. c-span: where we living when he did the version of the? >> guest: i was living in boston when i read the campus sits meyer and have been working for an alternative legal there and was the managing editor of boston magazine. c-span: what was the name of the alternative? >> guest: the boston phoenix. c-span: how did you get into journalism in into journalism and the first-place?

most people were white and there weren't that many -- invited to the white house. this was the -- era of social life. and so exclusive society with washington elite and people in government, foreign diplomats, and people like new york society. of it an exclusive group. >> it's important because she begins what is a much longer tradition now of the sort of bureaucracyization of the first lady. she's the one who stays the longest and starts them down the path. mrs. taft you'll learn next week doesn't have the same sort of social secretary relationship. that is to her peril. >> that's an a point to us. she began the bureaucracyization of the role of first lady. the professionalization. >> yeah. that's a better way. >> we're going go back to calls in a bit. let talk to bud from st. louis. hi, bud you are on. >> caller: hi. thank you for coming back again. >> glad to be back. >> i'm a major teddy -- and just a sideline note, we got a great connection here in st. louis with the tr, you know, with the world fair and i know the history museum on forest park there's a great

it's not correct she only started when she got out of the white house area did -- a white she was veryractice and politics even before she went into standing in for franklin in new york state when he had polio. she had been an activist in the women's movement, the labor movement, and she was probably one of the few first ladies who came into the white house with political constituencies of her own separate from her husband. >> has that happened since then? where was she unique? -- or was she unique? >> maybe hillary. >> on a much more modest scale. ine got away with things. terms of conflict of interest. personal radio broadcast. she was proud she drew bigger audiences than her husband. she commercialized the role of first lady. >> people would come down on her in reference to the film clip we saw tom a -- we saw,one of the things i thought was interesting about her is she was into the media at the time, on theularly the radio. night of pearl harbor, franklin is addressing the congress and eleanor is the one on the radio address to the american people. and talking about we are going to

to put it bluntly, whites higher whites. -- whites hire whites. it is good to have you on the program. let me start by asking you the obvious question. how do you have racial inequality without racism? >> the primary argument in my book is that racial inequality gets reproduced i merely by whites helping other whites more than five whites actively discriminating and doing things to blacks and other nonwhites. because we have focused so much on the issues of race and discrimination, i think that we have missed this very real dynamic, that people essentially get jobs because of the people who are like them help them get their jobs. 70% ofstudy that i did, the jobs that people got over their lifetimes included some kind of extra help like this. either getting information that other people didn't have. having somebody used influence on their behalf, such as this is my friend, help them. or somebody who could actually offer them an opportunity or a job. tavis: let me play devil's advocate. what's wrong with playing favorites? isn't that the american wa

so that is the critique of the white moderate and finally the white church that hides behind stained-glasswindows. he has now gone through this great trip. i have traveled. listen it's the gentile. i have traveled the length and breadth of alabama mississippi and all the other southern states in sweltering summer days and crisp autumn mornings i have looked at the beautiful churches with their lofty spirals going heavenward and impressive religious education buildings. over and over i found myself asking what kind of people worship? who is their god? where were their voices when the lips of governor barnett dripped with nullification. where were they when governor wallace gave a clarion call for violence and hatred? when bruised and weary men and women decided to rise from the dark into the complacency to the bright hills of creative protests? and he has contrasted the church with the early christians and when he describes the christians it sounded like the foot soldiers. they went into town and were called outside agitators and extremists. because they were intoxicated by god and i will j

there for the white house. is there a sense that the white house work is going to pay off? >> the white house is going to stay optimistic. we've seen the unofficial vote counts from media organizations. you never know. they're back in session. they're milling on the floor of the house. they're trying to get a feel of where they are will be politically and in terms of other members of their respective caucuses. having said that, it does not look loalook good for the presi, they will try to turn some of those votes and move some of those votes on capitol hill as we look at those series, a very vital procedural vote is expected. the president traveling up massachusetts avenue where joe biden was entertaining republican senators and lobbying behind the scenes. the president is doing no less than six interviews all of them taped for broadcast later today and into the evening. then tomorrow the president makes the trip up to capitol hill. he'll be behind closed doors with senate democrats. he'll have to count on demo

>> that is the huge question, carol, and if you ask the white house that, you hear from white house officials they say, well, the president still has the authority to act, but officials won't say that he will do that. and i have talked with some long-time observers of the u.s. relations with syria and of this administration's policy when it comes to syria and they say, you know what, without congress okaying this, president obama may very well not go ahead. i think that that is a distinct possibility and i think that's part of the reason why, as we look at all of these lawmakers coming here today, why we see senator mccain and senator graham really tentatively lending their support to president obama. you recall they were here yesterday for that meeting, as well, carol. >> they had strong words of support for the president. nick to you, ban ki-moon wants the weapons report released very soon so the u.n. doesn't appear irrelevant, but that report isn't back for a week or two, plus two members of the security council, russia and china, won't vote for anything to punish syria. is the united nati

gwen: is the white house secretly happy about this? > i think the white house might be secretly happy about this. i think they are content to sit of the watch this, one white house spokes people call it a civil war going on in the republican party. while they are maybe willing to wait until a civil war in syria weapons there is no way we are getting involved in that civil war. of the ink that is true shutdown. the debt ceiling seems to be the one they are fighting. time this came up in august of 2011 it appears to have hurt the economy. markets reacted. there was a big drop in confidence and they blamed that economy in down the the summer of 2011. outcomes.two bad they take it down to the wire and it hrlts the economy and the other we go past the red lane. >> and ben bernanke who is still the federal reserve chair, actually talked about that this week. he talked about what his worries were. lets listen. >> however, tightening of observed innditions ecent months if stain sustained could slow the pace of recovery. in addition, federal fi

correct she only started when she got out of the white house area did -- a white house. been an activist in the women's movement, the labor movement, and she was probably fewof the first -- the first ladies who came into the white house with political owntituencies of her separate from her husband. >> has that happened since then? >> maybe hillary. >> on a much more modest scale. with things. broadcast.dio she was proud she drew more than her health and. -- her husband. of commercialized the role first lady. >> people would come down on her today. one of the things i thought was is she was about her into the media at the time, particularly the radio. they were talking about we are going to do anything we can to win. that illustrates her ee is in ee's --e media -- her the media.ng >> you often hear the times make the man or the woman. her husband served longer than any other administration. the public was eager to hear from the white house. >> she rose to the occasion. >> she was seen as the conscience of the administration. it made apec are for him to govern -- easier fo

white skinenjoys privilege, it is white males. lot of people do not get how many americans, white americans, white males cannot develop a sense of empathy, understanding to step in the shoes of someone else. i am not trying to indict all white males. -- asmething to me as the a white male found himself open to the world to want to hear about somebody else's point of view and to be empathetic towards their situation. how did that happen for you? was anuse my father actor and a wonderful director. my mother was an actress. i come from -- that is what we have to do in our work, whether i am genetically disposed to appreciate and embrace empathy. ignorantly, i got out of vietnam. i had no idea what vietnam was. i started my career and i did not want to go. york a psychiatrist in new to write a letter and said i was nuts. either had to confront going to canada, going to jail. tavis: some would say that makes you a coward. >> i think i was a coward. out of ignorance. i also had nothing to defend. i did not understand what was at stake.

and they told any white house staff, any reporters on the north lawn to get inside here to the whiteefing room so that clear the lawn and make it safe. we've seen more officers engaging out there, circling around the lawn, obviously making sure that the residents, the west wing, et cetera, is safe right now. >> when you say engaging, what do you mean? >> reporter: i saw one officer with a large weapon. and i didn't see him actually fire it. i saw him put it up. then i heard another shot closer to where the suspect was. i didn't actually see the officer shoot. but he was moving closer with a large weapon like he was about to fire. and then i heard a pop. and it sounded like someone else closer had more directly engaged with the suspect. i heard at least two or three pops, not more than that. and then the yelling, the screaming, the clearing-out. and i could not tell because i was close here to the briefing room, to these various officers. i was not close enough to the gate to see whether or not the suspect had actually been hit. but he was certainly on the ground and they had officers

she brings the white house gardener back to this garden at prospect house and says to the white house gardener, thus re- create the rose section of this garden at the white house. ellen wilson could look out of her bedroom window in prospect mansion and look right down and see the flowers all day. similarly, she wanted the president of the united states to be able to see roses when he looked out of his window in the white house. this becomes a famous rose garden at the white house. ellen tragically doesn't live to see the rose garden completed, however. she is dying in the summer of 1914. she is wheeled out into the space outside in her wheelchair and she watches as a gardener works, but she doesn't live to see the completion of this vision she had for roses blooming at the white house. that is a vision that really begins here at aspect of art and in princeton. -- that begins here at prospect garden in princeton. >> here is a photograph of what it looks like you're in the wilson administration and here's what the rose garden looks like today. >> we have for short tenure in the white h

so that is just a white squirrel.was another thing that i was going to say.what sa they do seem to be in pocketss like tucker said.ke tu what is interesting is you had never seen one, because they seem to be more predominantly in new jersey. kenw ton, tennessee, charlotte, north carolina, florida, pensacola, florida, yes. >> sarah wants to mention. >> only illinois claims to beil theli home ofnoi the white squis and i have been there. they have a big sign. has a little white squirrel on it.it. home the white squirrels. >> how does ite look. [ laughter ] >> oh my -- >> in north carolina, there's plenty of white squirrels.e that is where the white squirrer research has been established, yes, the white squirrel institute. >> are you kidding me. >> the question is would all ofl them taste the same? [ laughter ] >> down south they do, i don't. >> have you had squirrel. >> i don't eat squirrel. >> i don't eat squirrel, rabbit, deer or anything like that n i don't do that. >> have you? >> see all the people in my family are

it was black and white. i think it represented one of the finest hours in american history. >> what struck me about the speeches that unfolded that morning were that they weren't just about segregation. they were about an egalitarian vision of america, white and black, that was part of the social gospel that all of you seemed to be preaching. that there was something larger than ending segregation, as important as that was. >> i believe i used a line in my own speech when i suggested we must seek more than mere civil rights, but we must seek to create a community. we must -- a sense of brotherhood. and the day i was there, we were trying to create and move us toward the creating of a beloved community. >> it was a universal vision that unfolded in speech after speech. >> it was an all-inclusive message, a message for all americans. so it didn't matter if we were black or white, latino, or asian-american, or native american. it was -- and that's what dr. king had the ability to do in his own speech. he delive

for our younger viewers what did she do for the white house? >> jacqueline kennedy reportedly when she went for her tour with maimie eisenhower came away appalled. she thought the white house looked like a third rate summer hotel. out of she decided pride that it was a patriotism. she was going to restore the house. bring back the best of the past and make it a show case for the very finest. >> and that was i think a way to exert a kind of cultural influence that was commensurate with the status of the united states in the 60s. the n, the economic power, military power, and i think jacqueline saw that to go along with it was needed this cultural influence of the united states. that was what she was doing. and a stage again for her husband's conduct of politics and diplomacy. >> eevep more than j.f.k. who we all think of as really the first television president and a president whose style, the kind of ironic wit was absolutely perfect for tv. but she was a real tv star. >> and she was the one who image it had administration. >> one of the things

such is the case for philip white.e an aspiring rapper, he was recently convicted of murder. >> look around like [ bleep ]. how did i just go from five star hotels room service to an 8 x 10 cell? i mean, people's bathrooms at home is bigger than where i'm living. ♪ i don't want to die like this ♪ ♪ i don't want to cry like this ♪ ♪ tell me why is life like this ♪ >> after serving a six-year prison sentence in indiana for drug dealing, white moved to oakland for a fresh start and had made some inroads in the city's rap scene. ♪ michael jackson moonwalking frying to backtrack ♪ ♪ wish i was in school again with notebooks and back packs ♪ ♪ but that's fiction, fictitious and frivolous ♪ >> but his dreams of stardom ended after he fatally stabbed his 44-year-old girlfriend 12 times in the arm and hand. ♪ all i ever wanted was a deal for a mill and my face being shown on the big screen ♪ ♪ number one song trying to shake heads ♪ ♪ now i'm locked in a cell ♪ how cot lord forget me ♪ don't cry >> white was living with his gir

i think -- i've been over here all day, you haven't been at the white house to talk to white house officialsbut i think what they will say is in the moment give a sense that life goes on at white house, it's business as usual. the nation's capital hasn't been disrupted, but then what they did is brought out a picture of the washington gridlock in dysfunction. that's what everyone doesn't like about washington, and what we saw here today in the aftermath of this horrific attack is some of what people do like about washington, the rallying together here, the heroism that we're told happened inside the washington navy yard as officials responded within seconds to this shooting. the immediate responders here and then, of course, the civilians and military officials who handled this with dignity and class throughout the day, a very, very trying and tough day here in washington. that was the tone down here by the washington navy yard, larry. >> you know, eamon, larry, of course, you've been down there at the navy yard all day, eamon. i spoke earlier today on cnbc with the chief economic adviser to

they were often used by white employers as strike breakers. so that their businesses could continue to operate while white employees were on strike. well, as time went on, by 1902, at the turn of the century, more than 40 national unions didn't have any members, not a single one, who were african-american. but as the quest for civil rights began in earnest, african-americans would soon find a home, a good home, with labor unions all across the country. by the 1930's the congress of industrial organizations welcomed everyone it encountered, both black and whites, as members, and was one of the most integrated organizations in the united states at that time. by 1945, more than half a million african-americans were members of unions that comprised the congress of industrial organizations. labor unions played a critical role, we've heard that tonight, in the civil rights movement and served as one means by which african-americans could fight for civil rights and fair pay and safe working conditions. mr. speaker, we recently celebrated the 50th ann

is called "the crimson white." i'd like to acknowledge that for a moment. i know it's got a long tradition and a rich history. just yeah. >> obviously tradition carries a lot of weight. [ laughter ] >> it does. so people have talked about it but not until this year did it really blow up? well, yeah, basically. it's been talked about. it's been discussed. it's really progressed past even the point of an open secret. it's just something that people know about. this year specifically "the crimson white" broke a story about two african-american girls fantastic candidates for the sorority system. one woman had a 4.3 high school gpa, her family was connected in local politics and i think state politics as well. she volunteered, and she was beautiful and all these other things and was rejected from every white sorority on campus. >> was that the root piece? >> that was what started discussion. >> was the person who wrote that piece, did they feel like they were being physically or physically uncomfortable for having expos

when you go to the white house today it is really edith roosevelt's white house. >> there was too much looking down, and i think it was a little too fast, not enough change of pace. >> yes, ma'am. >> i think, in every case, the first lady is really -- has really done would ever fit her personality and her interest. >> she later wrote in her memoir that she said, "i myself never made any decisions. i only decided what was important and when to present it to my husband." you stop and think about how much power that is, it is a lot of power. >> prior to the battle against cancer -- part of the battle against cancer is to fight the fear that accompanies the disease. >> she transformed the way we look at these bugaboos and made it possible for countless people to survive and flourish, as a result. i don't know how many presidents have realistically had that kind of impact on the way we live our lives. >> just walking around the white house grounds i am constantly reminded of all of the people who lived there before, and particularly all of the women. >> first ladies, influence and image, a

people will never believe it until white people experience the poverty the reality is more poor white people in america have. the nets and but it's but race has been played on in that way and particularly in this the reagan era where we talk about the march on washington and the kind of progress that was being made the idea that someone like ronald reagan could come along and play on the burden of government on the backs of the people and then image wise that was translating into black people or the bird and even the white people were getting i mean they may be disproportionately black people but in terms of total numbers white people have always been a bit more for these programs and by the way be the be the progressive thrust of trying to include and expand a culture right has always. additionally help people who for those of article new york times yesterday memphis tennessee a little town north of their guy struggling with how to struggle you know and they're on food stamps and they're feeling embarrassed by it and people are fishing and hunting and very trying to piece things toge

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paul is at capitol hill but first we're go to the white house where mike viqueira is covering the white house. is there reaction to that assad interview? >> there certainly is, and it might not surprise to you learn that the white house is unimpressed. this is the same individual that secretary kerry called a thug and a murderer. the president has high confidence that this is the individual or his regime carried out the attack on august 21st. here is the official reaction from the spokeswoman. it doesn't surprise us that someone who would kill thousands of his own people including hundreds of children with poisoned gas would lie about it. bashar al-assad unlikely to get traction in the administration here if in fact, he gets any among the public at all. >> and mike, it just seems to indicate that is gaining traction on several fronts now. you heard minutes ago that russia has now entered the fray saying that th the assad shouldt aside its chemical weapons. >> it might be too late. u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon spoke last friday in st. petersburg, rush russia, alf these proposals we

here is the story that white house aides behind the scenes are giving us we at the white house.along the south line a 45 minute walk with chief of staff, the president was affected by not only the resistence from congress in both sides of the all some 200 members had written to the president asking him to come to congress for prior authorization, not incidentally some 80% in a pole yesterday of the public thought that should happen as well. but the president also looking on at what happens in the u.k. at david cameron lose that go vote. when he returned from the walk the president informed his senior national security council staffer of his decision to go to congress, discussions en excuse throughout the evening and in to the morning. and culminating in the president's appearance there that surprised virtually everyone, joey. after the president had for all intents and purposes most aids had assumed had decided to go ahead with a military strike in the relatively short-term. if you look at the events that transpired since august 21st, the steadily, more aggressive hawkish commen

i think the white house candy store is open. i think the ideal job to have today is to be a democratic member of congress. what do you need for your district or state? a post office? a new military facility? what do you want? i think anything you want you're going to get because the white house is going to do whatever it takes to get a majority. bill: that means we're hitting syria based on that answer? >> well, maybe. who knows what the president is going to think in about two weeks. bill: but if you give him the authority then he is going to go forward? >> that's what he said on friday. you think, you think he is necessarily going to hold that view in two weeks? i'm not so sure. bill: thank you, ambassador. john bolton there still dubious. we'll check you in the dubious column today out of washington, sir. talk to you again tomorrow. thank you for your time. >> thank you. bill: 19 past, martha. martha: we're watching all these developments. we're expecting a statement from the state department soon as all angles continue to be

such is the case for philip white. once an aspiring rapper, he was recently convicted of murder. >> look around like [ bleep ]. how did i just go from five star hotels room service to an 8 x 10 cell. i mean people's bathrooms at home is bigger than where i'm living. i don't want to die like this. ♪ ♪ i don't want to cry like this ♪ ♪ tell me why life like this >> after serving a six-year prison sentence in indiana for drug dealing, white moved to oakland for a fresh start and had made some inroads in the city's rap scene. [ rapping ] >> but his dreams of stardom ended after he fatally stabbed his 44-year-old girlfriend 12 times in the arm and hand. >> number one song trying to shake heads. now i'm locked in a cell. how could the lord forget me? don't cry. >> white was living with his girlfriend and her four children. on the night of the murder, he and his girlfriend were at a rap show where white was performing. >> crowd was loving me. females was loving me. i'm just chitchatting and the person i was involved with, you

power, white supremacy and whites only. and deepening the stalemate over obamacare and the budget. we just learn ed president obam spoke to house speaker john boehner reiterating his pledge not to negotiate with him over the debt ceiling. mr. obama told the speaker that the full faith and credit of the united states should not and will not be subject to negotiations. he went on to say according to a white house official the last thing the united states needs is another politically motivated self-inflicted wound. boehner sa baoehner aid said the speaker ws disappointed. they don't want the government to default on its debt. what many republicans and democrats say is shaping up to be a colossal waste of time, effort, your money and possibly a lot more than that. the backdrop of the phone call between speaker pain ner and the president was stripping all money from obamacare, 2 tlabt-39, almost totally along party lines. a short time later, the house republican republicans held a victory rally. >> our message is simple to the u

it was basically explicitly, vote for the white man to keep white jobs for white people.david broder at "the washington post" wrote that he was, quote, the last prominent, unabashed white racist politician in this country. when he finally died in 2008, his "los angeles times" obituary noted that unlike other symbols of segregation, such as an governor george wallace and strom thurmond, who eventually recanted their opposition to racial integration, jesse helms held firm, until his death. that whole story of the republican party capturing the white vote in the south by becoming the party of modern white racism, saying, vote republican, white people, we'll protect you from the black people, that is not a made-up story. and it was not a subtle thing. and jesse helms whistling "dixie" in carol moseley-braun's face, saying he wanted to make her cry as the only black person in the u.s. senate, jesse helms is the personification of that. never repented, never apologized. it was the whole point of his politics. jesse helms. now, watch this. >> there's another story i heard of jes

the white house was put on lockdown. we were told to come inside but i have been told that this was simply somebody for whatever reason throwing firecrackers over it is fence of the north lawn of the white house, especially on this day as you can imagine it is something that caused quite a square at the white house but now it looks like nothing to worry about. we have an all clear. >> jon karl, thanks very much. two pops and a man tackled by the secret service. >>> ahead in two minutes, more breaking news, cut off, 1,000 flood victims trapped in their homes waiting to be rescued, the massive dangerous operation to reach them when all the roads were washed today. >>> tonight the herculean effort to avoid another disaster. ♪ need advice on how to juggle those big family meals? this kenmore elite dual temperature double oven, exclusively from sears, can help. so you never have to worry... ...about dropping a dish. impressive! and so is j.d. power ranking kenmore elite highest in customer satisfaction. come celebrate kenmore

and she painted a little in the white house for her one year in the white house. but she was interesting. a genuinely interesting woman. she was the first actively social first lady we had. you think of eleanor roosevelt to be in the trenches. ellen wilson is the first to take on a cause here in washington which was the slums and she thought the way the african-americans live in this city was just appalling so she literally used to drag members of congress through the alleys of washington just to see what was happening. literally on her deathbed, she called out to wilson who proposed some legislation to say, you know, have they passed the legislation yet? and, indeed do, they did just moments before she died. >> the id she have a different attitude then about the races? >> well, no, i think their attitudes were very similar, which is to say, again, that we -- we have to put ourselves in the 19th century, not just the 20th century. wilson, again, did not want to keep blacks down. he did believe separate but equal might work, should work, had to work for a while. be

white on white, black on black.anic on hispanic. >> how does the media treat those factions of crime in the media? >> i wish they paid more attention to black on black, i tell you that, 'cause right now, one of my pet peeves, they pay a lot of attention to trayvon martin when they think it's white on black. but when it's black on black, which is far more of a threat, oh, it doesn't exist! >> you can make that point and i think you're accurate about that, but we can also make this point to say that it's a shame because these type of stories are treated much differently in the media. that is also true. >> it should be treated differently. i think there is a history, a pattern of racial crime that's not black on white in america. if you wanted to look at the historical record, i this it's the other way -- >> the ratio is much higher for black on white than white on black. >> no, no. you're talking about i think, in all honesty, i think what you're talking about is poor people and people who are more often in jail and h

has white house had a chance to massage it had it edited ok here's the s.f. and it didn't hold up to scrutiny and apparently the military got to the president and i see some evidence of this next thing we know the president has changed his mind on a saturday afternoon and the only thing that really intervened was the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff martin dempsey telling the president look you know it's going to be really hard as we're going to be really hard to explain what we have to do this now we could do this tomorrow or next week or next month we don't really have to do it now and the president said that and justifying his delay now what's more evidence lindsey graham and john mccain the next day just took off after the joint chiefs of staff chairman in a very personal and vindictive way because they know that finally the military leaders went to the president said look you know we know we know you've been told that this is going to be easy and limit all our stuff but these guys and these gals don't know a thing about war we do how do you think th

now decades later the dice has turned and many white off the corners feel that white homelands are the only solution but many south africans fear their communities that came from tain a merely lingering outpost of the apartheid era threatening to return the country back to the dark days of its racist past policy r.t. came from tain south africa. so international news in brief and i remain is witnessing mass protests against plans to build europe's largest open cast gold mine thousands of march nationwide to voice their criticism over a draft approval for a canadian company to mine for gold and silver in western france the very near environmentalist say the mine could become an ecological time bomb project will mean the destruction of historic sites dating back to the roman empire and for mountains in the area hundreds of families also have to be relocated. there have been a series of suicide bomb attacks targeting an intelligence headquarters near the afghan capital at least four offices are dead the taliban admits the string of assaults on local government offices in the town of made

when you go to the white house today it is really edith roosevelt's white house. >> there was too much looking down, and i think it was a little too fast, not enough change of pace. >> yes, ma'am. lux i think, in every case, the first lady is really -- has really done would ever fit her personality and her interest. >> she later wrote in her memoir that she said, "i myself never made any decisions. i only decided what was important and when to present it to my husband." you stop and think about how much power that is, it is a lot of power. >> prior to the battle against cancer -- part of the battle against cancer is to fight the fear that accompanies the disease. >> she transformed the way we look at these bugaboos and made it possible for countless people to survive and flourish, as a result. i don't know how many presidents have realistically had that kind of impact on the way we live our lives. >> just walking around the white house grounds i am constantly reminded of all of the people who lived there before, and particularly all of the women. >> first ladies, influence and image, a

the 2010 expo shows that the white house meeting off campus at coffee houses near the white house offo it was not on the visitor log. so we don't know about it. penny? >> well, i think that again, i think that it is in the best interest of them to hear all sides of the argument, whether it is somebody representing google or facebook or whether they represent the american cancer society. i think it is a good thing for them to hear all sides. oftentimes the lobbyists -- many times they have the information there so they can avoid unintended consequences. so i think it is important for them, too. >> you mean the favoritism, corporate welfare, loopholes for corporations -- >> or how about the u.s. chamber on behalf of advocating -- >> number one, the president broke his promise, which you said he never intended to keep. the second point is that the people of this country do not have access to the white house. but people with the money, people that are literally buying influence, buying their way in, and getting rewarded for it -- >> shawn, i was just on capitol hill today and i saw hundre

hagel will suppress the white house. >> at the white house, a lot of strong statement and support of the president's call for action. and del, it's important to important to hear that we're called to action. speaker boehner's press secretary coming out with a statement saying that it's still up to the president. it's his responsibility to make his case to the american people, perhaps tempering that support a bit, waiting to see which way the wind will be blowing ahead of the huge meeting this afternoon. secretary kerry, secretary hagel going before the powerful senate security committee, and we'll see if the committee gets behind it this afternoon. >> if two men know the senate well, it's both of those gentlemen, former senator john kerry and former senator chuck hagel. sherry from political co-,the white house must be smiling right now. oddsmaker would have said that this would not be the case. >> i think you're right, del. weekend when the president first announced this there was a struggle to rally the support in congress. i don't think he's entirely there yet in terms of making t

i want to turn to nbc's peter alexander live at the white house. peter, we know the president is supposed to make remarks any moment now. any idea how it will be focused at the shooting on the navy yard? >> we know for sure he's going to continue with comments about the economy, the crisis. we do know we expect to hear from the president pout what happened in the washington navy yard. a lot of teams like this when it's been delayed, almost an entire hour from when the remarks were supposed to begin, the white house works closely with local law enforcement. they don't want to step on the message of the local police department. you heard from the police chief, chief lanier a short time ago. the expectation is the president would come out there as those remarks are finish any time soon now. one thing very striking, since we heard electric that police chief suggesting there are unconfirmed reports of potentially two other shooters out there, you would think in this area in and around the white house there would be a change sort of security situation. e

. >> about being white or acting white?idney poitier is nothing but a rich uncle tom. >> look at you. all puffed up. your hat on your head. coming in here saying whatever you want. you need to go? >> what? >> gets the hell out of my house! >> no. >> now everybody just -- >> i'm sorry, mr. butler, i didn't mean to make fun of your hero. >> everything you are and everything you have, is because of that butler. >> good morning and welcome to a special labor day edition of "morning joe." happy labor day. >> happy labor day. >> this is one of my favorite holidays. >> it is? >> why? >> to be honest with you, the food. i always -- i always have -- get ribs on labor day and burgers and hot dogs. >> and you take a much needed day off. >> no. no. i won't do it. >> right. >> i'm here working. >> that's right. >> labor day means ribs and also the start -- school is starting and football season is starting. very exciting holiday. >> i love september. >> what's your favorite holiday? >> i would say easter. >> easter? >> yeah. >> really?

you can't be an angry black white man on television, can't be an angry white man on television. >> can't is this such a touchy subject? >> there's this thing called the politics of respectability. there's a certain sentiment among black middle class folk that they want to appear in the general public to look a certain way, to be a certain way too, be respectable, dignifiy eied folk. obama represents the ultimate dream. if he's dropping his gs and not speaking english properly, it makes some people anxious. i disagree entirely. i think it's elitist. it's nothing but ridiculousness. and quite frankly, samuel l. jackson of all people is going to give a lesson on language? this is the guy who curses in every movie. even the voiceover -- >> mark, it's samuel l. jackson. everybody is so up in arms. my gosh, can everybody take a chill pill. it's samuel l. jackson. he's the guy with the nursery rhyme, go the, you know what, to sleep. >> exactly. >> politics, which is a term many laugh at, respectable to each other or respectable to white people? >> white people. >> that's a bunch of crap. i don'