white house for the summer. that's when tragedy struck. we'll learn more about what happened with the next video. >> let's head into the vault where we keep specific things about the coolidge family. grace coolidge early life, before married to kelvin. as well as documents about her family specifically children and gayle grandchildren. she was a loving wife and mother. we have wonderful correspondence that documents that. and i teen 22 grace wrote to the head of the academy were both persons were, and she writes, is there a way that we can arrange for calvin junior to have a soft boiled eggs for breakfast at a time that would be inconvenient. he just had a surgery and chris was concern about his health. this was written in 1924, like many sons he talks about his schooling, which wasn't going too well. his clothing that needed to be updated because he's going out of it, and his plans for traveling back to washington d.c. to visit his moment at. the letter reads i hope you are well and happy, i know you're, happy

create their white house staff. that the cabinet officers are in charge of the respective areas but then they were setting up policy. this is your area you handle it. that said i do highlight a couple of instances where you do have the cabinet secretaries meeting with white house staffers in a way that was different. so in the truman administration and to fly in the face today that such one - - not such a cultural proposition but it was a big ?-question-mark at the time including george marshall who is not only a war hero but also secretary of state and revered more than anyone else in public life. and then to recognize the white house meeting where he would be against marshall. he was not that interested in said what we are doing here but he said he is here to help. and john foster dulles who is secretary of state. and then to negotiate on the arms deal. the new york time when they came on board and he was causally trying to undercut. and then to have women to run afoul of the cabinet secretary. >> so another thing

back here in washington the white house versus dr. fauci, that drama continues after the president's trade adviser of all people wrote an article slamming the infectious disease expert. dr. fauci is now speaking out about efforts within the administration to try to discredit him. he is calling all of this bizarre and says the, quote, nonsense, all of this, quote, nonsense he says, needs to stop. let's go to cnn's nick watt joining us from los angeles right now. nick, more disturbing numbers tonight from california, from texas, and elsewhere. >> wolf, yeah. record numbers in texas. you know, we just heard from our cnn team in florida that miami-dade county has now run out of icu beds, record numbers here in california. pasadena has just canceled the world famous rose parade, which was for new year's day 2021 and here in los angeles we have just been told that returning to a stay-at-home order is now a possibility. that we are right now in an alarming and dangerous phase of this pandemic. we're not alone. more theme parks opened up toda

what did he do in the white house? >> he taped his telephone conversations as eisenhower and roosevelt had a little bit -- kennedy had a little bit more, but johnson, about 650 hours over 5 years and taped people in most cases without their knowledge which would include jacqueline kennedy whom at that point had a very good relationship more or less with lbj but i think she would not have been too thrilled to know he was having this call taped. >> this is a phone conversation with ten days after the death of her husband. jacqueline kennedy and the new president, lyndon johnson. let's listen. >> first thing you got to learn, you have some things to learn. one of them is you don't bother me, you give me strength. >> i wasn't going to -- >> don't send me anything. you just come over and put your arm around me, that's all we do. when you haven't got anything else to do, let's take a walk and let's walk around the backyard and let me tell you how much you mean to all of us and how we can carry on if you give us a little stre

house. 0ver doctor anthony fauci and the white house. over the weekend, the white house issued a series of bullet points detailing why doctor anthony fauci should not be tested. then peter navarro today doubled down on all of that in an article in usa today. president trump has since sought to distance himself somewhat from peter navarro's comments and doctor felt she, you just were explaining, has said that he does not really understand what is going on. he called it a major mistake, did not understand why the white house would seek to discredit him. and it is of concern to people

and initially, that terrified people in the white house. after the "60 minutes" interview, the president said, he says jokingly, you've lost me, 10, no 20 million votes. it was only a few days later when the first polls came in and the people in the white house were astonished that in fact, there was an overwhelming 70% of those who were polled sympathized with the first lady's candor, if not necessarily her specific views. >> here's the first lady herself talking about the equal rights amendment to the constitution and urging its ratification. >> the equal rights amendment, when ratified, will not be an instant solution to women's problems. it will not alter the fabric of the constitution or force women away from their families. it will help knock down those restrictions that have locked women in to the old stereotypes of behavior and opportunity. it will help open up more options for women. but it is only the beginning. the debate over e.r.a. has become too emotional because of the fears of some, both men and women, about the changes alre

they so enjoyed the white house. her women friends were very dear to her and she kept many of her friendships during her entire life. >> here is pat invented mississippi. you are on the air. >> that's in michigan. >> offensive michigan, sorry. >> we had the pleasure of going to independence and during the house. we had to go and through the back door just like the family. seeing the presidential library which we really enjoyed. my question is about the true man's -- tremendous financial circumstances. it was controversial that she was paid, perhaps they needed the money. certainly the president was the reason that congress has established a pension for retiring presidents. i wonder if their financial circumstances might have led them not to do is much entertaining and so forth as previous presidents who had their own budgets. >> absolutely. financial reasons were why he does put bess on the payroll. margaret truman always described her mother as a penny pincher but margaret all so admitted it was a good thing she did

i put him in the white house." you said you don't really believe that she thought that. >> well, i don't know if she thought that or not, but maybe at any given moment she did. but the nickname she had before she was the duchess was the boss. and warren sort of toned that down for public consumption but i think you probably thought half the time that she was the boss in many ways. he valued her opinion. i think -- i think there was a real partnership there. >> absolutely. >> roger (ph) is watching us in baltimore and you have the next question, roger (ph). hi. >> roger (ph) roger (ph): hello. thank you. i have a few questions for ms. sibley. since listening to you, ms. shipley, i think i would like to read your biography of florence. i've already read one biography that was very detailed and i'm wondering if you have an opinion on that one. do you think mr. carl anthony's biography of florence harding is accurate and well-researched? i haven't... >> shall, i answer? or, oh... >> roger (ph) roger (ph): one other que

last day in the white house? >> my first day in the white house. you mean walking in from the receiving? oh you know we reviewed the parade. i remember we had huge family, and i remember the twins. they're not going to like this, but going with the babysitter down to the bowling alley and ordering a meal. we were getting ready to go to the ball and we had the whole family gathered for a very large sort of buffet meal. i said, where the twins? we're all leaning. a said there in the bowling alley ordering hamburgers. they came right up laughing. but i remember being surrounded and seeing everybody at the ball and how pretty they looked and what fun they were having. i mean they were all over the white house, those children. >> what about you lost? a >> last day, our children left town. -- they did not want to be around for that. it was very moving and saying goodbye to the white house staff was difficult. we never drunk we would be back. it was hard. but life goes on. we got on a plane with all our friends and fami

room at the top of the white house. they hired teachers and had other kids around the same age who were mostly the children of other members of the administration. and that school went through the length of the kennedy presidency. and at the time of the assassinati assassination, november of 1963, one of the things that lbj did do which was gracious which was to say the school can go on at least until the end of the semester. >> there was a controversy because all the children were white. >> there was. although there is a photograph of them, in fact n michael's ho oral history of mrs. kennedy shows the class portrait of caroline and her schoolmates and there's one african-american boy, son of andrew hatcher, assistant press secretary. they were receiving. >> he said to his father, the president addressed me by name. how do you think he knew it was you, he must have been told i was the one with the blue pants. >> as opposed to the african-american child. >> this is at the height of concern over integration and people wer

a senior white house official telling cnn that certain people in the white house don't trust dr. fauci anymore. they accuse him of not having the president's best interests at heart. the president only yesterday wore a mask in public for the first time. something most americans have been doing for months. largely because of sound advice from scientists like dr. anthony fauci. so who to believe? a globally-respected scientist and public health authority? or the man in the white house, whose message over and over has been, don't worry. the coronavirus is going to disappear. cnn's kristen holmes is at the white house for us. what else have we learned about this growing rift between dr. fauci and the president? >> reporter: ana, a white house working to discredit one of the nation's top health official would been extraordinary in any circumstance. given it's happening in the middle of a pandemic when we see cases surge it's striking. i reached out to the white house to talk about their relationship with dr. fauci, president trump and dr. fauci, and received a statement from a white h

obama met with students at the white house to talk about it. >> having the platform of the white house is really helpful in getting attention to stuff. a lot of times when i do something, a lot of cameras show up and people tend to watch and write about it. sometimes they write about more than what i'm wearing. so i think it's my job to help shine the light on things that are already working. so that's one of the reasons why i chose this as my initiative. i also think that one of the reasons -- the ways that i think we can move this effort, one of the reasons why i think that we can be successful is that it doesn't require, i don't believe, and others may have struggled a bit more, it doesn't require whole scale changes in your life. the beauty about kids, you guys, is that you're young, your metabolisms are really healthy, which essentially means once you start moving and eating right, you're going to, you know, you guys change really quickly. you're growing and everything is working right. so if we make some little changes, get you guys moving more, a little more movement, a little l

the white house supports unemployment insurance. benefits. the white house supports ensuring americans done get evicted. what do democrats support? what do they stand for? they have offered zero, nothing except rejecting martha mcsally's bill to ensure that those receiving those checks continue receiving them. reporter: as the white house set a cap for what they're willing to spend? ms. mcenany: not that i'm aware of. the president said he wants to make sure money gets to the american people. reporter: the trump administration wants $377 million in coronavirus relief bill for the long-delayed modernization of the west wing. how is that a priority in terms of the coronavirus pandemic? you talk about priorities, you have the f.b.i. bill which doesn't seem to have much support from capitol hill as well. ms. mcenany: two things. i'm glad you asked that. i do want to give you some details about those two items in particular. when it comes to the f.b.i. building, this has been a long-discussed issue. i would note that the three previous covid bills

it was emotional. >> was it possible to have a private life in the white house, and did the white house feel like home? >> it felt like home to us immediately because we'd all been campaigning. all our boys had been campaigning and i'd been campaigning, and we were together -- not all, i had two of my sons and amy there. and we had meals together. we had to make a rule if you were not going to be there for a meal you had to check off a little thing so we'd know who would be there. and amy -- was there almost every day, sometimes not. but most of the time i was there when she came home from school. and i through the lessons and followed classes. and then as i said earlier jimmy and i would jog. or swim. if it was raining, we'd go to the boat. we had a fairly good family life. i think it was so precious to us because being gone, traveling for two years. >> does the white house affect a marriage? >> i think it could. i don't think -- it didn't affect ours. because we'd just been partners working together for so long. but i could see if the first lady was not particularly interested in the

>> yeah, white house officials are telling me and my colleague that mark meadows, the white house chief of staff is not happy with the white house tr e trade -- advisor after the scathing op-ed on dr. anthony fauci. they said navarro had been warned to deescalate the situation between the white house and dr. fauci. and that navarro, quote, violated those instructions. so, at this point, it's unclear whether this is going to lead to peter navarro being fired or something like that, but mark meadows, who has been trying to get things under control since coming on board, he is not happy about this. the other thing that makes this interesting, as you recall a couple of days ago, when white house officials were anonymously trashing him with the talking points, that were critical of the infectious diseases expert. part of the reason he's in so much hot water is meadows was trying to lower the temperature after the talking point. clearly that backfired. and meadows wanted to put a stop to it. and that didn't happen. so, clearly the chief of staff has his hands full because you can't have, as y

white house press association, i have often advocated regular briefings by the white house press secretary, which lapsed in 2016. canmerits of the briefings be debated, but i think the white house has obligation to answer pronouncements of the executive branch. the white house press secretary's job differs fundamentally from those of a spokesperson, a candidate, or a political party, and the white house press secretary serves as the president of the -- pleasure of the president, but their salary is paid by the taxpayers." from your standpoint, we are not getting that from the administration, correct? guest: no. i am glad to see that briefings are taking place, but if you look at the briefings, they are very short events. they are almost always less than half an hour. sometimes no more than 15 minutes, and they have fallen into a pattern where there is kind of an opening monologue that is meant to, you know, either attack the people in that room, the reporters in that room and the news organizations, or to promote some political issue that the president is harping on. and then they closed i

did you ever hear anything inside the white house that was racist? >> i don't think in terms that can be described as racist, no i do not. there were other statements that were tribute to him before i joined the white house but no, i do not recall any and if i had i would've put them in the book. >> you right about the president and his belief in democracy, do you believe that the president will follow the peaceful transfer of power and leave the white house peacefully if he is defeated this year? >> i certainly hope so. i think it is important for republicans especially to make that clear. this is something, if we are not careful carrying this around our next any longer than necessary will cause great harm to the country for sure but conservatives and republicans as well, that will come you are describing would be the worst. >> let's pause, i hope so about the peaceful transfer of power. so you are not certain? >> i think in the trump administration you cannot be certain of anything. >> what does that mean for the fate of this country? >> i think th

in a tweet, white house the op-ed "didn't go throughid normal white house clearan processes and is the opinion of peter alone." the president also responded: >> that's peter navarro, but i have a very good relationship with dr. fci. so there's never been a time when two candidates o different. >> alcindor: all this, as president trump is behind in many polls and faces fierce to covid-19. his own response and, yesterday, what was billed as an official white house news conference quickly morphed into campaign-style event. utthe president spent 63 m mostly criticizing his november opponent joe biden. he mentioned biden by name some 30 times.th he hit aformer vice president on a range of issues, from china... >> joe biden and president obama freely allowed china to pillage our factories, plunder our communities. >> alcindor: to jobs...ca >> ameost nearly 10,000 factories while joe biden was vice president. think of that: 10,000 factories. >> alcindor: to the paris climate agreement. >>s vice president, biden was a leading advocate of the paris climate accord, which unbelievably expensive t

weijia jiang, white house correspondent for cbs news. ayesha rascoe, white house reporter for national public radio. peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the "new yor times." andon jonathan swan, na political reporter for axios. ayesha, i just t got off phone a minute ago with a trump campaign adviser who told m this speech tonight at mowrt, mount rushmore, he's going to go cancel culture.wing mob is this part of a pattern we've seen all week with the president stoking racialnd cultural tension? ayesha: yes. this i clearly where the president feels most comfortable, basically touking white grievances, talking about the culture war, monuments, things of that nature, the radical left. that'shere he wants to be and that's what he wants to be talking about because he doesn't want to be talking abo all that other stuff you menoned like the russian bounties and he definitely doesn't want to be estalking about the c that are surging and the reopening that is not going the way that he said it would be going so he's leaning back on th

intellectuals in the white house as well as emergency preparedness at the white house and the use of social media by presidents. so i hope you will take the time to listen, but also to think about buying this book. the fourth of july coming up we have presidents birthdays in the summer, anytime is a great time for loved ones learn more about the white house. karen skinner is in verse of action and scholarly repute she's worked most recently in the white house or the state department of director of policy and planning is served as another of white house or administration advisory and other roles as well as presidential campaign she is also the toby professor and director of the institute of strategy carnegie melon university. there she studies presidency she's written books on ronald ragan in foreign policy as well. we have a great lineup today what were going to do is jump into the meats of the book we want you to get a little sense of what's in the book part of the key points that i want to hear some of her thoughts will have conversation and then we will turn to you prudhomme menti

she became very, very significant in the white house. for example, one of the founders of citizens, charles willis, the other was stanley rumbo jr., became the chief of new people coming in. he said, with lois, they developed a system that is still in use today in the white house. >> this is a fascinating element. thank you for raising this. we've already -- you've already talked about, was eisenhower too timid? did he think twice about not just the education, but the broader issue? >> let me just put it this way, to dodge the question, historians disagree. there are those who feel he was really quite out in front on civil rights and those who didn't do enough. can i add to your very useful story by pointing at another figure in the white house, an african-american named frederick morrow. he was a -- >> he's the one i referred to, came in almost four or five years later. yeah. morrow was a fascinating man. he wrote repeatedly about his experiences in the white house. he wrote a memory called "black man in the white house." i high ly reco

welcome to the white house, everyone. i am so honored to help introduce this year's nominees for best picture. >> this is my mid life crisis, the bangs. i couldn't get a sports car. they won't let me bungee jump. so instead i cut my bangs. >> so you went for the bangs. ♪ >> you can take it from me. eating the right foods can help make you a better athlete. >> ooh! >> i'm just wondering if you can do more push-ups than i can do. >> you know, it depends how your back is. i know you get these back issues. >> no, no. no, no. [cheers and applause] 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. [cheers and applause] >> so it has been fascinating during the series since television arrived on the political scene in the 19 -- late 1950s, you mentioned jacqueline kennedy and her tour of the white house. to watch how the political campaigns, the white houses have used this medium to communicate with the public and to portray an image. how is this white house doing, and how is the public receiving it? >> you know, it is fascinating to look at the

a white house official with the courage or decency to be named told cnn several white house officials are concerned about the number of times dr. fauci has been wrong on things. the official went on to have a long list of examples including this from late february. >> at this moment, there is no need to change anything that you're doing on a day by day basis. >> that was february 29th. when he said that five people had died in this country. still, you might think as the nailless oc nameless official wants you to think dr. fauci was not taking it seriously. that's february 29th. that's the lost month for the white house by their own admission and surveys how great a job they have done, february is the lose month. you might until you didn't hear anything from the president during february about this talking to diamond how it's going to magically vanish. but what they don't tell you about what fauci said on that program, you might not understand what he was saying because hi didn't give the whole sound byte. here are his words that came next, which the white house didn't mention. >> righ

house with a man on the inside, white house chief of staff mark meadows. ask for being here. >> great to be here. >> bret: the president making the announcement about jacksonville, was he disappointed? >> all of us are disappointed that we can't have the convention but it's a responsible and dedicated decision by the president of the united states to focus not only on the safety of those that might be attending but really on the safety of all americans to keep focused on making sure that we combat this china virus and make sure that we have vaccines. he made one of the most difficult decisions of any president or politician might have to make, which is saying what we are going to do is put aside those partisan politics and make sure that we actually focus on what is key. and yet there was an easy decision for him, he said we're going to put the american people first, focus on make sure we get testing for those schools and day care centers centers and nursing homes done, but more importantly than that, open our schools in a safe and responsible way, we've b

susan: well, the two boys came home for some of their vacation to the white house, come to the white house that summer. and that's really when tragedy struck. we're going to learn a little bit more about what happened with the coolidge sons on our next video. [video clip] kate bradley: let's head into the vault where we keep specific things about the coolidge family. grace coolidge's earlier life before her marriage to calvin coolidge, as well as documents about her relationship with her family, specifically, her sons and her grandchildren. grace was not only a loving wife. she was also a loving mother. and we have some wonderful correspondence that documents that. in 1922, grace wrote to the head of the mercersburg academy where both of her sons were. and she writes, "is there a way in which we can arrange for calvin jr. to have a soft boiled egg for breakfast for a time without great inconvenience?" calvin jr. just had a little minor surgery and grace was very worried about his health. the other letter we have is written by calvin jr. this was written in 1924. like many sons, he ta

he changed it to the white house. david: linda, what is the fondest memory of your father being president? when you think back on those years, what do you enjoy the most, or what is the best memory you have about it? linda: i think when he went to the congress and asked them, it was bipartisan, he went and asked them to pass massive civil rights legislation. and i'm -- [applause] david: that wasn't easy for somebody whose best friends in the senate were not in favor of it, and had come from texas. why did he decide he wanted to do that? linda: he knew it was the right thing. before he represented texas, he represented his constituency. time had changed. and he personally knew of discrimination. he'd seen it, not just with people who were african-american, but for instance, when he was the senator, our phone number was in the regular phone book, and he got a call, a hispanic in texas had been killed -- i believe he was killed in korea. the local funeral home in texas refused to take his body. because they said that if

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the white house tradition. rolling easter eggs on the lawn was revised by the president and his family. thousands joined including president eisenhower's grandchildren, dwight, david and, barbara and. among his people, a popular president. to mrs. eisenhower at left, the white house is home, where she can be together with her mother, on the day set aside in america to honor all mothers. mrs. eisenhower, a sister, and they're proud mother enjoyed strolling the grass. as part of his official duties, the president must report to congress on the state of the union. shortly after his inauguration, dwight eisenhower delivered this message in person. >> and outlining his foreign program, he declared, the policy we pursue will recognize the truth, that no single country, even one so powerful as ours, can alone defend the liberty of all nations, threatened by communist aggression from without or subversion within. mutual security means effective mutual cooperation. for the united states, this means that as a matter of c

all right, joe johns at the white house. thank you very much. >>> major developments in florida overnight. the state is reporting record hospitalizations with dozens of intensive care units at capacity this morning. florida's largest teachers union is suing to block the governor's mandate to reopen schools. cnn's rosa flores live in miami with more. i keep on looking at those icu numbers, rosa, and they're not getting better. >> reporter: they're really not. 53 hospital icus across the state of florida are at capacity this morning. here in miami-dade county, they have gone from operating icus at 107% capacity on thursday to 130% capacity just yesterday. the good news is that the county says that they have more than 400 beds that they can convert into icus. but the other issue and the bad news is the need for medical staff. now, we've learned that jackson health has requested an additional 275 medical personnel. the state has already sent 125 nurses here. and all new this morning, we're learning from the state operations cent

they reached the white house. and it's interesting to note -- we were talking about this before we started -- we're doing this program live on the 20th of january, 2014, and it is today exactly the 25th anniversary of the bushes coming into the white house. >> the bush years -- and we have, as we do in each of these programs, a still of the important things that happened during those four years in the white house just to put it on the record books. and they include his "no new taxes" pledge. the savings-and-loan crisis also happened during that time period. of course, the first iraq war, which was known as desert storm. tiananmen square also happened during that time. and for many of your interests, the end of the cold war happened during the bush years. so on the national stage, so much going on. what was happening domestically during that time period? >> a lot of social upheaval. jeffrey alluded to it with the changes in society and the role of women. hillary clinton becomes the first lady later, but first lady

house and your last day in the white house? >> my first day in the white house. walking in from the receiving, you know, we reviewed the parade. i remember we had huge family, and i remember the twins -- they're not going to like this -- but going with the babysitter down to the bowling alley and ordering a meal. we had -- we were getting ready to go to the balls, and we had the whole family gathered for a very large, sort of buffet meal. and i said, where are the twins? we're all eating. i said, well, they're in the bowling alley. they're eating hamburgers. i said, get them up here. we don't order food away. they came right up laughing. i remember being surrounded and seeing everybody off to the balls and how pretty they looked and what fun they were having. i mean, they were tearing2 all over the white house, those children. >> what about your last day? >> last day, our children left town. the local, dora and her family and marvin and his. they did not want to be around for that. but it was very moving. and saying good-bye to

how about the white house? >> you know that he has no plan. >> does the white house have a plan? >> look -- well, what we have is a situation where a large percentage of the government is trying to work around the president as if he's not there. so yes, the cdc, despite the president tweeting a game show host smear against it is trying to do its job. it put out guidelines on reopening schools, although we saw the president's education secretary yesterday would not embrace in any serious way those guidelines. you have anthony fauci trying to do his job at nih and in the infectious disease division of nih. so yes, there are people who are working very hard, members of the task force, to try to get information, to try to coordinate with states, to try to remedy some of the holes in the administration's response, but we've seen that the problem is, if you do not have coordinated leadership from the top, it is very difficult to be effective, and clearly the federal government has not been effective, and states which follow the lead of this president have also not been effective. so it

it was the stupidest white house press briefing in the history of the white house, but it succeeded in changing the subject. and that was its mission. mission accomplished. but changing the subject is not saving donald trump from voters' harsh judgments of him. a gallup poll released today shows donald trump with a declining approval number of 38%. leading our discussion tonight is former director of the cia, an msnbc senior national security and intelligence analyst and also with a us a staff writer for the new yorker and professor of journalism at columbia university. and professor cobb, i want to start with you on this tonight because it does present a dell limb ma. it presents a dilemma for us in the news room. it is fascinating you can be asking the question in a white house press briefings why don't you fly the confederate flag here at the white house. but there is always that challenge of what are we moving out of the way in order to cover the latest trump outrage? and do we cover it just because it's the latest trump outrage? what would your guidance be for how we navigate thro

there's been a few private meetings, conversations, one dinner at the white house. mark zuckerberg told me, let me be clear, there is no deal he called the idea pretty ridiculous, and he pointed out all the ways he differed with the white house. and why it matters is mark zuckerberg is becoming increasingly vocal about these differences. we saw him interviewing dr. anthony fauci last week expressing his contempt for the administration's coronavirus effort he has expressed, in the past, his objections to the president's immigration climate policy as general rhetoric so this is an ad boycott saying even though he supports free speech particularly in the political area he has big, big differences with donald trump. >> mike allen, thank you i'll be reading axios a.m. in a little bit, you too can sign up at axios.com that does it for me on this monday morning i'm yasmin vossoughian "morning joe" starts right now >>> it's one person coming in from china and we have it under control. it's going to be just fine. >> when you have 15 people and the 15 within a couple days is

these two were at the white house. and sanjay said it's very likely there are others who have been infected and, in fact, just today, the white house sent out a memo to staffers that said they had to wear masks when they entered the property, which is odd, too, because the c.d.c. told the rest of us a month ago that we needed to wear masks. so i don't know, although there is this idea that president trump might think that people who wear masks are displaying weakness or something. that's been suggested about why people don't do it at the white house. but it's very disconcerting, and i am at a loss for words quite often, covering this. >> stephen: you've talked on-air to a white house aide to ask the president to talk to him about invoking the defense production act for the manufacturing of tests, among other things, and asked members to have the g.o.p. to talk to the president, take the science seriously. is that the role of journalists now to encourage people close to the president to take action, or take certain aspe

you see here the white house. and a picture of mrs. kennedy during her televised taping, a color still picture taken showing her the blue room. one of the things the president talked about was how many people had come to visit. they had 1.3 million people in the year 1961. so it wasn't so much that the tour kicked off the interest in the white house, mrs. kennedy had already attracted the public attention. she was -- she got early in 1961 congress to pass the law that she mentioned which didn't just protect the collection but established that the museum character of the public rooms of white house must be maintained in perpetuity and the secret service has a lot of say about the security issues, but the museum character was what she was so interested in grasping. then she created the curators office also in 1961, with the idea that you needed a professional staff there to collect and preserve and interpret and conserve the pieces that she found in the house and the things that she was adding to the house. we actually have the dichotomy

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the white house continues to say this is not yet verified. one of the reasons that the president -- it did not rise to his level. it sounds like you're speak being this maybe a little bit more conclusive than the white house does. is that your view? ms. pelosi: let me just say. this you got the con. the white house put on a con that if you don't have 100% consensus on intelligence, that we shouldn't be -- it shouldn't rise to a certain level. well, we were practically -- we would practically be investigating nothing if you had to start off at 100%. so don't buy into that. and neither should the -- does the intelligence community. it's an investigation -- it's gathering intelligence. and they have enough intelligence to know where we have to go next with it. so i don't -- i don't know what the point of your question is. just because they didn't have 100% consensus, should this be not briefed to the president of the united states? when it involves the security and safety of our men and women in uniform? as we said in our statement, chuck schume

and that's where the white house has a miscalculation here. his poll numbers have been obviously going down continuously since the beginning of the year. a lot of it is due to the coronavirus pandemic and his mishandling of it, but if you look at the actual major turning point, it was when he cleared lafayette square to do that photo shoot in front of st. john's church. the calculation inside the white house then was that it would be perceived as him bringing order to a disorderly city. it would be seen as him, you know, putting down protests and respecting both the sanctity of law and of the church. and in reality, people recoiled at the idea that federal agents would do that to peaceful protesters. and i think what trump misunderstands is that we're not in sort of a nixonian area of politics, where suburbanites look at the cities in horror and we never step foot in there and look at peaceful protesters in horror, wondering what they're protesting. we're in a different era now, where people in the suburbs are more diverse, more supportive of

i'm in the white house doing this. we had a mentor program that we never really publicized but i worked every year with a group of 20 girls from the area -- mentoring has always been a big part of my life and barack's as well. so he had some young men that would come, and they would come once a month. they were usually kids from the d.c. area. not the top kids, not the kids struggling. sort of those kids just in the middle where there probably isn't a lot of programming for them. they would be paired up with a high-powered woman in the administration. valerie jarrett was a mentor, the first female executive chef at the white house who laura bush appointed. she was a mentor. and they'd meet with these kids all the time but they would come together once a month in the white house. it was interesting to see their transformation when they first start. they were shy. they couldn't look me in the eye. they were just nervous, because it was nerve-racking. you're in the white house, meeting michelle obama. why were you picked,

house social office, social secretary gets involved as well, and the white house florist, and the white house chef. everyone's involved in trying to plan a dinner, the most american, -- it was really fun to work on those, to make all those plant. we always did a tasting of the food, of the menu that the chef i propose. meantime she would ask members of congress come to the tasting, they were guinea pigs for the state dinner that we were hosting but of course they would be very forthright and say, that would be, could you this. i don't know if this dishes that tasty. they would be more forthcoming, really, i think, then our friends would be, and we just, say that's great, whatever you've got. and that is really what little spread that pleasure of the state dinner over a number of notes. and then, of course, we will try to pick entertainment represented the united states in a wonderful way, like the new orleans jazz ban, for instance, that we invited, that came to play. that was, in a way, to try to actually show these heads of state what was important to us, and what american music was i

to lead the obama white house's ebola response. doctor, welcome. thank you for joining us. let me start with a layman's question here. i see a headline, i read a story that says the goal here is to get to at least 50% effectiveness with a vaccine. my reaction is, i take the shot and it's got a 50-50 shot of working? is that too low? >> that's a great question, steve. you know what, i think what people should know is that's actually okay. historically our influenza vaccines that we use year-over-year are only 40% to 60% effective. so that number of 50% is actually right in the middle of that, and i think that's a reasonable estimate to start with. you know, i think as we have subsequent vaccines, assuming that we get there, you know, the second and third iterations will get better. but starting with a goal of 50% is in line with what we used for influenza on an annual basis. i think the context there is whether or not things are being rushed through too quickly. and i think using a goalpost like this, if that's really what the fda s

how did they use it in the white house? >> well, you think this, everybody talks about reagan was an actor, but she was an actor as well. she was on the stage. she had 12 feature films. the comfort level of these two behind the camera, it's the envy of every political couple, and they used it as easily as you and i would just pick up the telephone and call a friend, and that's what they showed. >> and even the little things. >> you know, she's talking about color and she's wearing a red dress, and they understood the lighting, they understood the message, how the message should go with the pictures. they really got it all, and it was almost second nature to them both. i want to move to the second term in the white house, again, full of so many issues. in brief, some of them included the soviet summit, which included concluded with the arms treaty, the explosion of the challenge or -- any of us alive at that time certainly remember that day well -- the iran contra affair, we'll take a little bit about the effect on the presi

she's over at the white house. kristen, tell us about this growing rift and it's ugly between the white house and dr. fauci. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. this would be extraordinary during any administration at any time, to have the white house sort of broadside one of the nation's leading health experts, but the fact that it's being done during a pandemic is incredibly striking. now, we have been reporting over the last several weeks a growing tension between both president trump and dr. fauci. we saw this playing out in the media. the two men are not talking. dr. fauci had not briefed president trump in person in months. we know that. so then we started seeing this kind of back and forth. fauci saying he wasn't sure where president trump got certain information. clearly, disagreeing with president trump in one interview saying that the u.s. government's response to coronavir coronavirus wasn't great. of course, wolf, as we know, we've reported on president trump's fnarrative over and ove again saying the gove

today, the white house did allow, the traveling white house press pool, the photo journalist have him wearing a mask. today, we saw a different depiction with the white house blessings. the first time he had the ability to get the president wearing a mask. we're also hearing, kristen, for the first time, from robert mueller, the special council, and roger stone, he is talking about the president's decision to commute stone. tell us about that. >> this is striking, wolf. the first time we have heard from robert mueller on his investigation, he is defending it in the public since last july when he test fied in front of congress. he is issuing an op-ed. it seems to be a direct response to president trump in the white house. and to give you an idea what he was responding to. he said how happy he was when he commuted the sentence of roger stone. this appears to be some ort of a direct response to that. he said he had to write this op-ed, and mueller said i feel compelled to respond to the claims that the investigation were ill legitimate and that stone was prosecuted and convicted because

the conversation and mindful of the number of white house norms that this white house has not followed, i note the president's tweet you mentioned about how well he is doing in rasmussen. we have ever reason to believe they are doing the same internal white house or party polling that other white houses in recent history have done. we have every reason to believe this president knows the score in reality. right? >> this say president who carefully tracks his poll numbers. let's recall that during the 2016 campaign when he was leading in the polls, he would recite them every night. he is not doing that besides the occasional tweet about rasmussen. the campaign has previewed some of the numbers to reporters in recent days. they acknowledge, despite what the president says, the campaign acknowledges they are losing. their line is that it's closer than the public polling would suggest. they are only down a handful of points in most of the key battlegrounds that will decide the election. we saw some of that in public polling the last day or so. gaps by a point or two instead of eight or nin

the white house is looking to pardon the pun, the white house looking to turn the page. >> let's bring in alice frankston, she's a woman we saw in peter alexander's report, she's a childhood friend of mary trump who is authorized now to speak on mary's behalf. because as we pointed out, mary is not doing media under that gag order. thanks for being with us this morning. first of all, your relationship to mary trump, you go back to i guess summer camp days when you were kids. you've known her for a long time. in the context of this conversation, did she share some of these stories with you in realtime? do these ring true to you? >> oh, absolutely, yeah. i've been with her talking about this and reading through things with her since the beginning when she started to write this and when she even thought about writing it. >> and why is she doing this right now? what does she believe is the significance of putting out a book like this let's say three and a half months before election day? >> she felt morally obligated. she felt it was her duty to let the american people, if not the world, k

the white house says the change will streamline things. but the move has concerned some health experts like the former acting cdc director richard besser who told dr. sanjay gupta this. >> i worry with the data going directly to hhs is that it could be further politicized. and that's the last thing you want. cdc is the nation's public health agency. they need to be getting these data. >> reporter: now, jake, as the president was leaving for atlanta, dr. fauci was showing up at the white house today for a task force meeting. it didn't seem to be by mistake that the vice president then tweeted out this photo showing dr. fauci with a prominent seat and speaking at that meeting with vice president expense seated next to him, as that was going on, the president was arriving in atlanta where he is now giving a speech on infrastructure. but i do want to note when he got there, he was greeted by everyone and officials wearing masks on the tarmac waiting for him. though the president himself was not wearing a mask. >> all right. infrastructure week