coming to the white house. it's a really important milestone. and they tell their family about it. they want to take him a little paper napkins. they're very proud of it. my favorite thing was watching people enter the white house for the first time. and they look around at the columns and you can just see them thinking. i share a common heritage. with all the people that lived in this house. they often become very emotional. it's just a very lovely reinforcing thing. i'm sure that every social secretary has seen it many times. is positive. we have a lunch. for the family. and then about a week later i got a letter handwritten letter laura bush had called my assistant laura wants to send something to jeremy met someone sends something to the white house. anything that goes to the white house becomes public record. i got home one day. and have this beautiful handwritten note from mrs. bush saying how welcomed they felt in the personal china from upstairs. she noticed everything. and think the chef for making enc

it's a working house and the white house is a working house. a working house where many things are done so you have to regulate public access and tours and the way people access and who accesses it. unfortunately, you'd like everybody to be able to and one gets criticism because, you know, you can't afford it to everybody, but you try to educate the best you can and the people who are receptive to that education and try to encourage those institutions that will benefit from it. and that's what we do in a more regulated way and i'm sure her majesty does the same, too. >> lydia? >> well, i just want to say, it helps to educate the staffs that work with you, too. i mean, we try to hold handling sessions to be sure that everybody, when they pick up a chair, know they need to pick it up by the seat, not grab it by the back, and every little thing like that helps. but in a house that's only partly a museum but a home, it can be very frustrating at times. yes. -->> yes. we have a question. john peters, ireland, and then over here. >> i have to preface

white house historian william seale discusses the scottish stonemasons who helped build the white house and the exterior carvings that are still visible to this day. mr. seale is the author of "a white house of stone: building america's first ideal in architecture." from a symposium on british and irish connections with the white house and hosted by the white house historical association, this is 45 minutes. >> so the next session is one that is very special for me personally. as a tenth generation scottish american, the story of the scottish stonemasons and the white house is very meaningful and important. our presenter for this session, dr. william seale, literally wrote the book on these masterful craftsmen, a book that's available to you today in our shop if you would like to use your 10% discount and go purchase it. and he will also be at the reception this afternoon and will sign your copy of the book for you. this is a wonderful book that tells the story of the scottish stonemasons and the work that you can still see evidenced on the white house today. we're also honored to have

back to the white house where they originally were placed. indeed, the blue room where she was the hostess for that evening, was really at that the -- on that night restored to where it had been during the administration of james monroe and a number of the furnishings were purchased by monroe. she also launched the white house's historical association and two months before this dinner, she gave the very celebrated tour of the white house which was on cbs. she was actually the first woman to get -- well, she got an emmy for the presentation but was the first woman to be featured in a documentary on television. so, great, great accomplishment for mrs. kennedy in terms of work with the white house and on this dinner as well. the most controversial people at the dinner pauling, he received a nobel prize for chemistry in 1954 but had become peace activist and he was concerned that there wasn't sufficient progress being made on an agreement with the soviet union on nuclear testing. so he had written a number of letters to president kennedy and, in

i will leave you with one more white house story a more recent white house story. the presidents last christmas party, 2008 in the white house. they invited me to light the menorah with a grandson of the first president of israel. he and i went up to practice this, we did this at the foot of the grand staircase. the foot of the grand staircase with everyone in the entrance hall sitting in chairs, the president, the first lady in the first row. we had little instruction up front from a rabbi. to tell us how to do this correctly. this was mostly for me, the episcopalian to get this right but he gave us instruction and at the end of showing how to do it he moistened his fingers and put out the candle he was using and he looked at him and said, why did you do it that way? the rabbi said, i never blowout the flame of life with the breath of life. and he said, oh. but the rabbi said but, do what you want, it's all right. don't worry about it or stress. so we sat down and everything got started and here came the president and first lady and we go to do the lighting and we

serving in the obama white house for presidential candidate barack obama and then to be the white house liaison the national endowment. serving as a senior advisor in france and again after being in the right place at the right time he landed in school as a social secretary. it is with pleasure to have them with us today i hope you will be ready to ask them questions later. please join me to solve the former white house social secretaries. [applause] - thank you. so we will get settled before we get to the book, i'm sure i'm not the only one in the room was very interested in your background. so how you get to be social secretary of the united states ? to make it different for every person but traditionally they were daughters governors or senators or some formal and aristocratic way jeremy and i could serve grip on small farms in ohio and i went to washington after college and work at the center for strategic and international studies which was georgetown university's think tank that was a full-time mother for ten years incidentally was the best possible experience and after that frien

namely, the white house's historic furnishings and first families and official white house china as well as art in the white house, and nations pride, essays by the art historian, all published by the white house historical association, i should add. with the object featured today, i think you will see that nearly all were gifts to the white house. some examples are gestures of goodwill, tokens of friendship while others were presented to enhance the historic furnishing so that only the finest objects would be found in the home of the president of the united states. what better place to begin them n with the desk made by the timbers of the hms resolute? it was a part of an exhibition formed in 1852 to search for the explorer sir john franklin. sir john franklin had set out in 1845 in search of the northwest passage. by july of that year, he had disappeared. in the meantime, other expeditions were formed, but this one consisted of five of vessels, including the resolute, that was constructed especially for arctic service. the bow, which had been hired to cut through the ice and was under

but do you think a change the way she operated white house? >> i never knew it change the way she operated. i knew she was terrified every time the president left the white house. she felt like that was the only safe place. as a result of that, there was something they read about astrology entered the picture. it made her feel better that she had some assurance that if he did this on this day be safer than if he did it on that day. >> did they change her security at all? >> no. >> her security, it's funny, some people resent security. nancy reagan embraced it. her detail were so loyal to her and so good. there's a great story in the book about her leave agent named george he never talked to anybody but he wanted to talk to me. he sent me copies of the notes they had exchanged a day at the hospital he went into the chapel and he handed her the handkerchief. he said to her, there is nothing we can do now but pray. she wrote him a note back when she set back the laundered handkerchief, and they share that with me and i put that in the book as wel

and inviting putin to the white house. the white house. honestly. what is going on here? let's bring there now cnn global affairs analyst susan glasser. a staff writer at the "new yorker," for the "new yorker." maybe she can help us understand what's going on here. good evening to you, sauzusan. thank you so much for joining us. let's talk about vladimir putin. invited to washington for a second summit. are we in bizarre-o world right now? >> well, i have to say, listening to your opening remarks there, don, it seemed to me that the white house had really helped you out there by almost writing your lines. it's been one of those weeks that not only feels like a year, but feels like every day is filled with revelations you're having a hard time digesting and, you know, when the news came out this afternoon that the president was, in fact, having a second summit, wanted to have a second summit with vladimir putin here in washington, i thought back to march when president putin was actually invited here to the white house in march by president trump. the white house didn't ad

the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. >> say that again? >> vladimir putin -- >> did i hear you? >> yeah, yeah. >> okay. >> that's gonna be special. >> the white house announcement andrea referenced earlier said putin was invited to washington this fall. were you aware of that, i want to clarify. >> based on my reaction, i wasn't aware of that. >> what do you think the agenda should be for that meeting? >> oh, goodness. first of all, they won't ask me. >> would you recommend there not be a one-on-one without note takers? >> if write asked that question, i would look for a different way of doing it. >> that is how they learned and that is how the director of national intelligence learned, surprise, russian president vladimir putin is coming to washington. soon. and that's how we learned that the dni does not believe the next conversation between trump and putin should take place without a note taker in the room. which is what happened between trump and putin earlier this week. today in the house, there was an effort by th

ray to a white house in trouble. and this is a white house in trouble. if it's a mob novembermovie, it farce. it's not just that you have cohen. how many of these mob movies the plot revolves around the accountants? now you have the concigliary and the accountant flipping. that is terrible news. if there are many bones buried at trump tower, and if there are bones buried there, these two guys know what it is. so all along we see, when the president is under great pressure, he lashes out. i think in this case, look, i think he knows that by taking a swing at cnn, he's going to get all of us in a mood to talk about the media for a couple of days, which is never a good look for us and we're already stopping talking about putin. but who can blame us if the accountant is in the crosshairs? i just think they are trying to distract us a bit and do their favorite thing, which is to make us talk about ourselves as if we're really important. >> all right. we're going to resist it the way i resist doughnuts when i walk by. we'r

john bolton invited put on the the white house d. the views change or grin the teeth, bear it and make the invite the president wanted? >> we have seen a lot of grit his teeth and bear it out of the john bolton. one point few weeks ago he said he wasn't commenting on all of his previous writing. well, i can imagine why john bolton wouldn't want to comment on the previous writing. you could have reached for a great essay about how the president should go meet kim jong-un, explain to him where to mail the nuclear weapons, not getting into a lengthy conversation with him and only after the weapons were turned over to then do much. well, what did we hear from secretary pompeo the other day and the president? this is going to be a long, drawn out process. i think that's reality. but it's certainly isn't the reality that bolton thought he was signing on for. >> really quickly, shawn, before we go, angela merkel today, not only on the same page as the president on a lot of things, she welcomed trump/putin summit 2.0 if you will. she said i

with bill shine going into the white house. has there ever been any equivalent of that kind of a relationship between a white house and any form of media? >> not really. you know, andrew jackson, for instance, would have a very friendly newspaper that would say a lot of the things that he wanted to say, but one newspaper did not have the kind of power that a tv network like fox news does now. so, this is something that we have not seen before. >> yeah, and i wonder if it's amplified more because you have sinclair broadcast network that is taking that strategy out to the local news. in a way, has nixon's dream been super fulfill? because fox is just one media network that is carrying that unified message. >> this is exactly what nixon dreamt of. and we could see a situation where the president is able to get a lot more things done and is able to survive challenges and criticism and opposition by, you know, the opposition party, in a way that nixon was never able to do, so -- in a way, richard nixon has won. >> yeah, and i have t

what is the white house response. >> reporter: so far the white house hasn't said anything about this, and president trump walked on the south lawn of the produces. you can hear the helicopter marine one behind me. president trump walked past reporters who shouted questions at him presumably about the stunning news and development that michael cohen did record a conversation between the two of them, but brook, he didn't answer any questions. instead, he boarded marine one, he is on the way to joint base andrews where he is going to spend the weekend at his golf club in new jersey. brooke, we know the white house doesn't have the best track record on these things. in the past, they said the president had no knowledge about anything to relate to karen macdougal, the playboy model that alleges she had an affair with the president. they also said the same thing about stormy daniels, the porn actress that said she was paid to keep quiet about her relationship with president trump. now that of course came to light when the president's own lawyer, rudy guiliani, said on a cable news show, th

was in costume and trick-or-treat at the white house. any major state event we found a way to incorporate kids so we have a big act performing and they agreed to do a separate performance from when we would fly the men from all over the country so every major star that came to the white house we had the whole cast of hamilton come back and perform. it was a very full circle moment for me because the very first cultural event we did at the white house was a spoken word event which is wrap a few don't know, cool poetry, but has never been done in the white house with george and martha standing there so we were finding some of the hottest young voices. and we said what we perform young man? he said i will wrap about alexander hamilton. [laughter] that is when you remember that you cannot laugh in the face of your gas long -- and guests. are you kidding? then he on to perform the first number that he had prepared and obviously it was amazing. afterwards we were like that is really good he said yes i will do a whole broadway show on it. and w

andrew jackson at the white house. she would later describe the president as a good specimen of a fine old battered soldier. sully met her in philadelphia, introduced by pierce butler, a cousin of his. he was quite enthralled by her. in fact he did several likenesses, he painted several likenesses of her. fanny went on to marry gus butler in 1834, he came from a wealthy philadelphia family that owned plantations in georgia. there is however was not a happy marriage. she was opposed to the slavery that she witnessed on her husband's plantation and that and other factors led her to leave him in 1846. she returned to england and later divorced in 1849. but fanny's story doesn't end there. she did return to the united states from time to time. she had lost custody of her daughter and was only able to visit them for short times each year. until they turned 21. she did return to the stage to raise money but not as an actress. instead she gave public readings. and she was a prolific writer. she published a couple of plays, a

from the white house. so "give him hell, harry" approach to it was, forget about all that stuff, just buy it in. so most of it was dumped. it went off to various sort of military dumps around the place and all kinds of news materials were brought in this had the 1940s. of course since then, it's acquired a new association with all the presidents and all that has happened since the truman time, but going back to washington, what hasn't changed is, in fact -- sorry, i shouldn't say washington. i should say the beginning of andrew jackson's presidency when the portico and, i think, the gallery on the portico. the portico is the north side. the gallery is to the south. but when these were completed, that, in fact, nothing really much has changed since then. and that if you ask what is the significance, the answer has been said here by several people who use the word icon. the word icon is the greek word for an image. and that an image, in fact is a reflection of what you see yourself. so when you look at it, w

>> no comment officially from the white house. in this instance, normally that would not be interesting, no comment from white house officials. in this instance it is, because if that was not the president or if this was not an issue, because that wasn't actually the president, you would be hearing about it. there would be push back saying, well, this was fake, this is edited or faux podcast. that is not the reaction we've heard from west wing officials today so a couple things to point out. number one, you are rieft because you know this. there is a procedure and protocol that goes into place. for this president he speaks with members of congress all the time without going through the director of legislative a pairs or through that office. he has a direct line to members of congress. bob menendez, given the case he was able to be connected through the switchboard. it is not always the procedures and protocols are followed with this president because of his relationships on the hill. that said, there are security questions that ha

white house in the fall. >> say that again. brn laughter). >> did i hear you? >> okay. that will be special. >> director of national intelligence there with andrea mitchell there, is the breaking news now, coats released a new statement, regarding his comments regarding the summit with valdimir putin. he said, some press coverage his mischar rised my intentions in responding to breaking news, presented to me during a live interview. my admittedly awkward response was in no way to meant to be disrespectively or criticize the president. >> in his recentlyinal statement, coats said this. we have been clear in our assessments of russian meddling in the election, and their ongoing pervassive efforts to undermine our democracy. >> former chair of the does. c democratic party and the national bar association, i will ask you first. both weigh in on what director coats said today. susan, i will start with you? >> i think he is trying to clean up a bit of a mess for him with the president. the president was very upset. it has been report

they're not guaranteed any amount of time in any white house, but especially this white house where this president seems to change his mind sometimes on a near daily basis. but for right now, he does seem to be expressing a vote of confidence in his chief of staff john kelly. >> kaitlan collins, thank you so much for that great reporting, as always. appreciate it. back around the table. jeff zeleny, you are a senior white house correspondent. you are there every single day. what does this say to you? i'll just say as i ask you that question, my initial take on what kaitlan was saying is for someone who's known to be apolitical and not have a political bone in his body, meaning john kelly, this is very shrewd to get it out there that the president asked him to stay until 2020. >> no doubt. this was said at a senior staff meeting, as kaitlan was reporting. this is john kelly doing what he does, managing the staff. he's very much the staff part of the chief of staff. he's sending the word to senior staff that, yes, indeed, the president has asked me to stay. so for all of those in the room

to the white house? >> i think this is another example of the president versus the presidency. the administration clearly does not think this is a good idea. we knew from our reporting that the helsinki summit was a very guided white house as to whether the president should do this at all. there were more objections about whether he should have this one-on-one meeting. but he insisted he wanted to do this. he was in there, just the two of them and the interpreter. we shouted some questions, they each gave a statement, that was it. they proceeded to be in there more than two hours. we are still days later not really sure what was discussed. >> it's not just the reporters, it's u.s. officials as well. you just heard dni coats say he didn't know what was head in that interview. when you have a president that passed on top-secret information to the foreign minister and ambassador in the oval office, does that leave you to believe that something bigger could have been passed on from the president to the other

house was. >> after leaving the white house? >> yes, after leaving the white house. >> it's a tough act to follow. we talked about this. for me personally, i still want to take pictures. it's what i've always done and what i love to do. if i'm taking pictures of a college basketball game or corporate event, i'm happy taking pictures. is not at the level of covering president obama, but it's still real emotions and still doing some nice work for organizations. but there are real emotions and moments in that, and i enjoy that. >> everything's a letdown. no. [laughter] just like lawrence said, it really is tough to experience the same level of intensity and importance and travel and it's one of those things, too, once it's over it's over. it's like cinderella, the clock strikes midnight and you are behind the gate and you can't get in anymore. your life starts over. its almost like leaving high school. i'veike lawrence said, always been a photographer and i will continue to work on stories and i love politics, and i will continue t

this is a white house that has only had three white house press briefings in one month and president trump on the lawn refusing to answer questions from reporters about this and a number of other topics that have come up about this issue. the reason we continue to ask the white house about this is because hope hicks, the president's spokesperson during the campaign denied any knowledge of this payment to karen mcdougal during the campaign. and now that's known to be untrue. but the president who is normally used to kind of stopping and talking to reporters at moments like this, refusing to answer questions. giving us only a stern look and a bit of a wave as he walks back into the white house. >> is the white house now telling us why they aren't saying anything or silent on that, too? >> they're pretty silent on that, too. but this afternoon on air force one, the deputy press secretary got some questions on this. all he did was refer to the president's outside attorneys. that's the move they're taking right now to deflect some of these questions. we also had a chance to ask bill shine

more on that from white house correspondent jeff zeleny. >> reporter: dave and christine, the white house doubling down with the meeting with putin scheduling this fall. john bolton extended the invitation to come to washington. it was clear this was an attempt to the white house talking to a number of officials here that the president making the case he did not make a mistake in helsinki. never mind they have been correcting and cleaning up reversals all week long. one person was surprised by the announcement. the director of national intelligence dan coats. watch his reaction when he was told yesterday about the second invitation. >> the white house announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. >> say that again? >> vladimir putin coming to the white house. >> i heard you. i heard you. >> yeah. >> okay. that's going to be special. >> reporter: he alsos was asked if -- he also was asked if he would resign. he said he will stay in his position as long as he speaks the truth. dave and christine. >>> thank you. white house aides are concerned that this w

the white house won't submit to any sort of inquiries at all from white house reporters about what they make of this new reporting and how that squares with all of those past statements, denying any knowledge whatsoever from the president about that meeting, anderson. >> do we have any idea what the mood of the president is right now amidst all of this? >> well, he is clearly very angry. a white house source told us this week that he has been stewing for days about all of this reporting, watching the coverage on television, and he is angry not just with his former lawyer michael cohen, but also with reporters who continue to ask him about this at all these opportunities. they try to change the subject this morning at a pretty hastily put together press conference in the rose garden. the press reporters kept feet away from the president, against the president just turned and walked out of the room after. but those questions kept coming. and president trump is clearly pretty annoyed about it. the tweets we have seen from president trump this morning reflect pretty accurately where he is.

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let me ask you lastly, where does the white house go from here? the president is spending the weekend at his golf resort in new jersey. what does he return to? it has been an exhausting week to cover, i imagine exhausting for those working for and with the president of the united states. how does he get beyond this? what's on the agenda for next week? >> david, one thing the president is good at is stirring up new controversy and wagging the dog, finding some new outrage to talk about. already this week he tried again bringing up the controversy of national football league players kneeling during the national anthem, one of his old go to sort of distractions when things get too hot for him in other areas, but we come back to a week in washington where we're still looking at the supreme court confirmation hearings, we're looking at mid term elections which are getting -- democrats and republicans are heating it up over the summer, and the trade war with china. so he's certainly got a lot on his plate, beyond all of the other stuff with the russia i

i mean, the white house got creative yesterday. and the president got creative trying to clean up something that's not remotely able to clean up which is what he did with vladimir putin so they thought, okay, try it again and they did it on a much smaller scale today. >> lindsey graham said initially he couldn't believe that the president said this and that the president -- there is meddling going on, a constant attack and then lindsey graham said he believes this version of events tie white house to call him and say, no, no, in. >> if you need more proof he didn't mean, hey, get out of the room, i'm not taking questions, look at sanders asked repeatedly of attacks and wouldn't answer it in present tense. she said, this is what we have done to prevent. we know that the threat exists and not answer it directly and all the proof you need if you needed at all. >> jeffrey, you are a legal expert. they refused over at the white house to rule out the possibility that the u.s. might let russia question a former u.s. ambassador to russia a

still no clarity from the white house on what was discussed or promised, so why does this white house think scheduling another meeting with putin this time at the white house is beneficial? >> yeah, good morning, fred. i think if you look at what happened this week with the president and president putin helsinki and look back a few weeks ago to north korea, a meeting that took place between kim jong-un and president trump in singapore that's since not yielded that much fruit, you see that president trump displays at times a feeling that meetings in and of themselves are accomplishments. he likes the pageantry of meetings, he likes the idea he is moving chess pieces on the world stage, and what you have here at home is people on both sides of the aisle, in the intelligence establishment and in the state department saying let's get to work on policy goals. although they are at work, the president's rhetoric with regard to president putin helsinki and actual goals of the united states with sanctions and so on, there's a disconnect between those. i think that's what caused so much controv

i will see you at the white house tomorrow. thank you for watching. you can follow me at twitter at peter alexander. "deadline white house" with my friend nicolle wallace starts right now. nicolle? /s >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. a tweet is just a tweet except when it isn't. that's donald trump's new reality today. brand-new reporting in "the new york times" reveals that special counsel robert mueller is examining donald trump's tweets and public attacks on witnesses in the obstruction of justice investigation. special counsel is stitching together details of the president's private conversations with witnesses such as ousted fbi director james comey and embattled attorney general jeff sessions to see if the private h

ask the white house questions, to have them on the record here at the white house today, beyond what i did during that meeting in the oval office. >> no, that was the only thing, and as you point out, in the rose garden, people are yelling out questions about, oh, michael cohen and vladimir putin, the exact same topics that you had asked when you were the only representative for the broadcast media. okay. kaitlan, thank you very much. i want to go now to paul begala, democratic strategist, former white house counselor to president clinton and jason miller who worked in communications for trump when he was the senior kmaun-- communics adviser for the trump campaign. so paul, what do you make about the white house's actions here and bill shine, who is the person who called her in and had the meeting and banned her from the next event. >> well, mr. shine, i'm quite sure, is just the monkey here, and it's the organ grinder who's driving the show, i don't have any doubt. i'm just speculating, but it's informed on history that this is the president's order. he seemed very upset by kaitlan'

i want to start at the white house. the administration says we're on-track for the big monday announcement. sarah sanders was asked that. >> reporter: you're hearing from sarah sanders that the criteria are going to be academic. and any notion that gender will play an influencing decision on champion's final call won't have an effect, have a listen to what she said. >> the criteria is who i said yesterday. what we said several times before. he wants someone with tremendous intellect and somebody that will uphold the constitution. >> reporter: he had four interviews. the president is talking about having a couple more in the coming days. the question is talking about qualificati qualifications. we'll see, in the next coming days, what sort of indication the president is giving. it's clear the president likes the drama here. he likes the buildup. >> i mean -- >> he wants to make this, and have a lot of suspense. >> he's a reality show guy, huh? it fits in to everything he has produced in his former life. >> we're in the m

i talked to two white house officials, including the white house press secretary earlier this evening who said no, the summit is still on. no second thoughts about that. and, you know, the one thing that i did ask the president earlier today is whether or not he will tell vladimir putin to stay out of u.s. elections. he did say yes, he would do that. he said as he was leaving that press conference with the prime minister theresa may here in britain. but anderson, i think the big question going into that summit on monday with vladimir putin is whether or not the president will insist that vladimir putin turn over the 12 russian agents who were named in that indictment today. of course, that is not expected to happen. the russians obviously would probably not turn them over. but it might be refreshing to a lot of americans to hear the president at least issue that demand. but no sense whatsoever as to whether or not that's going to happen. >> as far as we know, the president's never really issued any demand to vladimir putin in the times they have met. >> that's right. yeah, anderson, y

the white house says it is off the table. sarah sanders issued a statement saying it is a proposal made in sincerity by president putin, but president trump disagrees with it. hopefully president putin will have the 12 identified russians come to the united states to prove their innocence or guilt. this is a proposal that president trump came out of the press conference, said vladimir putin made essentially that in exchange for letting special counsel robert mueller question the 12 military intelligence officers who were charged with attacking an american election, that they would be able to question some americans they believe have interfered in their affairs, including the former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfall, who has been incredibly critical of russia and vladimir putin and his human rights record. this is astonishing, brooke, that the white house was considering this idea. we had 24 hours of backlash after sarah sanders was asked twice during the press briefing if the white house made a decision and was consid

it has to be knocked down by the white house today. i'm so glad the senate is going to knock this down probably 99-0 here in a few minutes. people wonder when the other branches of government will start to perk up. i think you'll see it today. >> adam, you want to weigh in? >> i think what putin was doing in some ways was taking advantage of trump really just not having the experience to know that this is a nonstarter. there's such deep distrust between our intelligence and law enforcement agencies and their agencies. even though we cooperate in some ways, there's a fundamental distrust. we're not going to be allowing them to question one of our former ambassadors. it's something that would never be accepted, but frankly, maybe trump, you know, because he talks about getting along with russia just didn't really understand how deep that distrust is. >> you say he took advantage. he's playing the president. that is really one of the many reasons but one of the main reasons why the president's fellow republicans are so upset about that pe

at the white house. he was ouchted from his old job as co-president of fox news last year amid allegations he helped cover up roger ailes sexual har harassment. jason miller was the original communications director until he resigned in scandal after three days and sean spicer, then sean spicer again, and the mooch did it for 11 days, then hope hicks and now bill shine. substantial amount of turnover that's reflect the in the rest of the trump administration. at this point, donald trump has the highest turnover rate. 61%. rates for obama and george w. bush were 14% and 5% respectively. with the ousting of disgraced epa administrator pruitt yesterday, trump has had more turnover of cabinet level position. in the last 100 years. for more on this record setting dysfunction, i'm joined by the white house correspondent for the daily beast, and christy goldfuss, who is a former managing director of the white house council on environmental quality under obama. you and she have been reported about this. i'm skept

even to the white house. >> well, look. i think for president trump the truth has been, speaking the truth has been a bit of a disability. for him to get into a fight over what he said, what the reporters think he said, it makes him the winner of the battle. if he goes tow to toe with journalists, his base will believe him. so this is a defensive measure. >> i think this is important for reasons beyond the moment. this is part of the his, toal record. it has been an important part of the way presidents have operated in modern times, to make sure there is a full record of everything he says so historians can look at it. it is not just a momentary preference by a president to not use normal procedures for conversations with foreign leaders, another important difference with this. >> it was done by armed forces to keep the records. anyway, a program note. we'll have the white house stenographer. her name is dori stein. it will be fascinating to have her on with us tomorrow. the roundtable up next. you're watching "hardball." t

president trump suspending white house protocol. tonight, he says, no longer going to release summaries of his calls with foreign leaders. it's a major break from long-standing white house protocol. this breaking news from our kaitlan collins coming as russian president putin gives trump what appears to be the runaround. but the kremlin, as they tell you things, right, says it's received trump's highly touted invitation for a second summit in washington, d.c. tonight a russian aide, though, saying putin's not ready. telling reporters, quote, i think it would be wise to let the dust settle and then we can discuss all of these questions in a business night way, but not now. not now? that is hardly an embrace of an invitation to come to the white house. i mean, you know, trump didn't seem to be aware of that, because he's still plowing full steam ahead with his summit. he had his press secretary announce it on twitter, as we know, surprising his own top intelligence chief. also tweeting that he's, quote, looking forward to the meeting

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i covered your white house. i covered the obama white house. i would be stunned to find out something like that would have happened without you at least being informed of it if not consulted. >> yes. this is clearly unconventional, unorthodoxed white house. >> obviously, no one knows what was said in that private meeting except the translators. the director said a private meeting is not the way he would have done it and suggested it is possible putin recorded it. what do you think? do you think that putin, the russians, anyone might have recorded that conversation? >> absolutely. i'm quite sure that they did it. i would be amazed. i'm quite often the russians have accounting of what transpired in that private meeting. >> your successor said he would tell and challenge officials to put their heads down and do their jobs. how difficult is it for intelligence officials to do their jobs when they hear these types of comments from president trump doubting their work openly? >> it's not helpful, obviously. i don't think we overblow the impact on mora

jeff zeleny has more from the white house. >> christina, dave, the white house still in cleanup mode and damage control mode after the helsinki summit this week. president trump we're told realized this was a massive problem after of course seeing many of his friendliest advisors from fox and friends to the conservative pages of wall street journal to many supporters on capitol hill saying he had to do something to address it. we saw the president yesterday here at the white house trying to clean up what he said in helsinki. >> i have president putin, he just said it's not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. >> i thought it would be obvious, but i would like to clarify just in case it wasn't chblt in a key sentence in my remarks i said the word would instead of wouldn't. the sentence should have been, i don't ee asee any reason why it would. he was hearing it was unpatriotic. that certainly got to him. so the white house will find out if all of the fallout is over or if it lingers. so many questions here at the white house and on capitol hill. dave and ch

nbc white house correspondent kristen welker joins us from the white house. here with me tonight's panel, nick confessore, reporter for "the new york times" and msnbc political analyst. elise jordan, former white house aide to george w. bush and msnbc political analyst. jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst. kristen, another day. more fire for this white house for what the president said. how can sarah sanders say with a straight face that we didn't hear what the president said we heard him say? >> we were frankly astounded, katy, and here are the reasons why. one, as you pointed out, if you look at the tape, the videotape and the audio, what we can see and hear with our own ears and eyes, you see the president respond to my colleague, cecilia vega's question, does he still think russia is a threat. he says thank you, no. pretty direct lly as he looks a cecilia. we've all been in those cabinet meetings and shouted questions at the president in those more intimate settings, and typically if he doesn't want to answer questions, he says thank you, and that's t

, suggests the white house is no more willing to do that. is thing that happens next we will continue to see a push and pull, including from republicans, who want more answers. from her publicans, does it include getting the translator in the room with the president, either behind closed doors, or in a committee hearing to hear what she heard in the private meeting? >> that was definitely something democrats were seeking, more so than the republicans. think there is desire from both parties to go on record on this issue. whether that is more votes, or trying to get the legislation offed to try to warn russia of any further interference. oft is a more narrow slice this broader issue of trying to get to an understanding of what happened. there was an enormous amount of pushback on the performance at the helsinki summit from both parties. that was rare, to see the republicans really counter the president. i think we are not done with this. we will see if they move some legislation. there is a lot of interest. >> what about more hearings? >> i d