the white house. they were not full services. i wanted to show you briefly a selection of some of those pieces. the slide on the left shows you some dinner plates that were acquired during the cleveland administration. by mitten and cold port porcelain works. on the right are some examples from the mckinley administration. dinner plates made by wed words and the smaller t plate also made by mitten. in 1903 a state service was purchased for the white house. made by wedgwood. by 1901 during the presidency of theodore roosevelt it was pretty obvious that the white house was in need of a full china service. the van houston charles company in new york was charged to help the white house acquire such a service. president roosevelt hope to could be made by a u.s. company. in an article in the october 30, 1902 issue of the clay records suggested in order was turned down by the knolls taylor in knowles pottery company in east liverpool ohio. the large order in the different shapes that were needed were too muc

way to the white house. one of several counter protests taking place in washington, d.c., today. >>> last year in charlottesville, the reverend tracy blackman wanted to spread a message of peace, but was swept away in a moment of terrifying violence. let's take a look. >> i was invited in to give a speech to that regard, and as we were closing down -- i've got to go, i've got to go, got to go. >> oh, my goodness. i don't know what is happening here. i don't know what just happened there with our guest. but we are going to try to find out what happened. and she was standing at the location where it looks like now violence has broken out among the crowd. >> reverend blackman is an executive minister for the united church of christ and joins me today from charlottesville, virginia. let me start first by asking you why you decided to come back. why was it so important for you to make that pilgrimage to western virginia today? >> well, thank you for having me. i am not in virginia today. i am in st. louis, missou

in the white house? john: well, i'm old. she mentioned eisenhower, so you know i am old. [laughter] john: so i will just use some prepared notes here. you are all familiar with the old axiom, i wish you to live in interesting times. well, i'm afraid we now live in a time that is too interesting. [laughter] john: this morning, my wife barbara and i were reading the washington post in bed. we still subscribe to real newspapers. the post and the new york times. [applause] john: that was easy applause. jennifer: yeah. [laughter] john: so i saw a quote from a "washington post" reporter who covers national security things, and he gave a pretty accurate summation of what we have all lived through since january of last year. it is from greg miller. and even though he covers national security issues, especially russian hacking, it applies to other issues as well. here is the quote. "it is really bewildering. it is not just the story, which is the craziest and most complicated that any of us have ever seen, but th

story of the white house. and there's no one more important to our country than benjamin franklin. this portrait of franklin was painted in 1767 by david martin. martin was a skots scotsman who established a studio in london around 1757.cotsman who established a studio in london around 1757. franklin was in london in 1757, being celebrated for his publications on electricity. he returned again in 1764, and it was his testimony in the house of commons in 1766 that led to the repeal of the stamp act. so at this time, he is perhaps the most famous american at home and abroad. this painting was commissioned by robert alexander from the firm of william alexander and sons in edinboro. family tradition tells us that robert had a disputed claim to property. he and the other claimant agreed to refer the matter to franklin and abide by his decision. it must have gone very well for robert, which explains the commission. the document in franklin's hand is one of alexander's deeds. it's not a government document. the artis

you know and with the year passing at the white house, i learned to love the first family at the white house, the president and the first lady, whoever they were. and you know win served five. and all -- many times, people ask me the same question, which one were you favorite? i said, they are all my favorite. and they say, you are a good politician. it has nothing to do with politics, it is the truth. it is truth. they all were absolutely fantastic, fantastic, with me, first lady, president, no problem, you know? and so many time, i had conversation with some -- and i can assure you another thing. during all my year in the white house, i have seen every president and first lady cry, seen them cry, and i've seen them laugh. and i tell you one thing, it gets right here. i gets right to your heart. because the first family become your family. you know, many times when i first come to the white house, i put like guidelines for me in my head. i said, if the president or first lady was attacked, would you put your body to shield them? that's not even a question. it's not even a question tha

speak to the boss of the white helmet. about allegations of links to isis and al qaeda in a going underground exclusive all the civil war coming up in today's going on the ground but first today is the one year anniversary of the landmark has built a peace deal in syria and has now syria's victorious charlottes that aided by the international community wins his war against isis and al-qaeda linked groups who exactly with the british funded white helmets and we recognize the very important and valuable work that the white house mates are doing they always he says doing this in render sleep difficult conditions they are incredibly brave the white helmets one near unanimous praise from britain's arguable synagogue roof of a power media during british support for militants trying to overthrow the syrian government is the u.k.'s channel four news explaining the context of why a legacy set up for murdered labor m.p. . cox funds the white helmet light helmets joe cox wanted them to get the nobel peace prize to save one life is to

to get to the white house, everybody wants to work, at the white house until they get the job, then they don't know what to do with it. i really mean it, that's the truth. you have to understand this job is very scary. because of the people you are serving. you're no longer serving just anybody like in a restaurant or hotel or whatever, you're serving people that have achieved great things in life, that have had great jobs so you better be on the same level with your food. i also served numerous of emperors, kings, head of states, all during my tenure. but when i started at the white house i was already in that line of work for 20 years learning under the best chefs available in paris, france, in germany and especially the hotel that i always mention because that particular hotel used to be known as the number one hotel in the world. still exists today but i think lot a little bit of its luster through the years because now it's mart of a chain. those days the savoy was owned by a family. big difference. big difference. and the customer, the guests that we were feeding at the savoy those

to the boss of the white helmets. about allegations of links to isis and al qaeda in a going underground exclusive all the civil war coming up in today's going underground but first today is the one year anniversary of the landmark hizbollah peace deal in syria and is now syria's victorious but charlotte said aided by the international community wins his war against isis and al-qaeda linked groups who exactly with the british funded white helmets we recognize the very important and valuable work that the white house mates are doing they always he says doing this in. difficult conditions they are incredibly brave the white helmets one near unanimous praise from britain's arguable still no group of a power media during british support for militants trying to overthrow the syrian government is the u.k.'s channel four news explaining the context of why a legacy set up for murdered labor. m p joe cox funds the white helmet white helmets joe cox wanted them to get the nobel peace prize to save one life is to save humanity t

the white helmets. about allegations of links to isis and al qaeda in a going underground exclusive all the civil war coming up in today's going underground but first today is the one year anniversary of the landmark hezbollah peace deal in syria and is now syria's victorious but charlotte said aided by the international community wins his war against isis and al-qaeda linked groups who exactly with the british funded white helmets and we recognize the very important and valuable work that the white house mates are doing they are as he says doing this in. difficult conditions they are incredibly brave the white helmets one near unanimous praise from britain's arguable synagogue roof of a power media during british support for militants trying to overthrow the syrian government is the u.k.'s channel four news explaining the context of why a legacy set up for murdered labor m.p. joe cook's funds the white helmet light helmets joe cox wanted them to get the nobel peace prize to save one life is to save hum

to the white house. the president wants to keep as much information back as possible. we want to get as much information that we think the american public wants. one of the things that is interesting about this particular president that i haven't heard other journalists say this but i say this, i say, people criticize donald trump for using twitter so much, as a journalist you should love it. because you get the president's thinking every single minute. that you never really get with any other president. >> the difference is you can't just ask the question. that's where the tension comes. >> yeah that's where the tension comes because we get the information. he airs his position on what it might be at that particular moment. we can't question him directly on that again. but yet again we still get a chance down the line to come back with it. so that whether we like what the president is saying or not you're getting information. we would wait with other presidents two, three, four, five days or more to get

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

in the white house. it is certainly no better, it's probably substantially worse than when she was there. i mean, why don't people leave when the president says crazy things that they are -- that his former staffers say that they say? >> easy, a five letter word, it's called power. we're talking about the white house. we're talking about serving the president of the united states. it's not like you get these jobs every single day of the week and so that's why people, frankly, are uneasy about leaving. look how many people have yet to resign after his comments about charlottesville. some people say, folks are going to leave. it didn't happen. because it's about power. now here's something that people have to understand. this white -- everybody's talking about omarosa taping conversations. first of all, washington, d.c., has one party consent. the white house is not some special thing where somehow you can ignore washington, d.c., laws. also, this administration did not have policies in place. in 2017 dona

one right by the white house, the anti-hate groups are drastically outnumbering the white supremacists, and people are gathering also in charlottesville where there is a heavy police presence and they have blocked off the streets there where heather heyer was killed in last year's violence. we are watching all of the protests today. brian todd is fwol lowing the anti-racistps

speak to the boss of the white helmet. about allegations of links to isis and al qaeda in a going underground exclusive all the civil war coming up in today's going underground but first today is the one year anniversary of the landmark hezbollah peace deal in syria and is now syria's victorious but charlotte said aided by the international community wins his war against isis and al-qaeda linked groups who exactly with the british funded white helmets and we recognize the very important and valuable work that the white house mates are doing they always he says doing this in the difficult conditions they are incredibly brave the white helmets one near unanimous praise from britain's arguable stenography of a power media during british support for militants trying to overthrow the syrian government is the u.k.'s channel four news explaining the context of why a legacy set up for murdered labor m.p. joe cox funds the white helmet white helmets joe cox wanted them to get the nobel peace prize to save one life is to save humani

white house and of the president. there were people questioning her role in the white house, what are you doing there. i think it's interesting to see that complete about face on her part to go from defending the president full throated defense of the president to saying he's a racist and we already knew that so i think i am empathetic to the fact that this white house is attacking her. i think it was smart to tape john kelly and i think it's interesting to hear him say that she was guilty of serious violations when he was the person on the record defending rob porter who had beaten not one but two of his wives and still had the support of john kelly. if they were going to attack omarosa, why did they let rob porter stay in the white house and john kelly defsding him in public after the allegations became public. >> and speaking of tapes, she does talk, bob, about the existence of tape recordings of the president using the "n" word oven if these tapes don't come out to be public. will it matter here, bob? >> richard,

implying he's the enemy of the white house. but on a deeper level, nicolle, a couple of things. first, this is going to get worse before it gets better. as we approach what is inevitably a report from bob mueller, you are going to see an outright assault on the attorney general, on rosenstein in an attempt to get them out or at least taint them so badly in the public's perception that they can't carry out their functions. it's going to have lasting repercussions. but on a deeper level, we're talking about assaulting the rule of law, the way we do things in a democratic society, and lashing out at your own attorney general knowing that you're handcuffed. you can't fire him right now because of public perception. it will backfire on you. so let's just taint him and bully him every single day, expect more of this as we got closer to a mueller conclusion. >> i expect the president, as you said, to continue to darken in his own mood, jason. pli politico, manafort this, manafort that. the russia story has dominated, according to clos

white nationalist. activists bringing the u.s. capitol to. the first verse three of the deadly charlottesville rally which some republican lawmakers now blame on russia we are live there in moments. in the stories that shape the week moscow say any further tightening of u.s. sanctions is the precursor to economic war after washington announces new penalties over the poisoning of russian double agent. and his daughter in the u.k. . we meet a russian woman who faces imprisonment for terrorism after following her husband to syria where each joint. i told my husband that i want to go back that i couldn't believe that but the moment i started talking about it we had fights he told me if you want to leave leave but i will not let you take the kids away. with the top stories from the past seven days and right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on r.t. international unwelcome our top story america's most notorious far right groups are gathering in washington d.c. along with country demonstrators it comes on the anniversary of th

to the white house. and the so far, what is remarkable, john, about the story has been the clear determined restraint of law enforcement to a gathering. when i was covering this for the inauguration, the police were much less tolerant of gatherings, of antifa. that is just a firecracker. someone has firecrackers out here. so far, law enforcement really not responding. just what appears to be the game plan of securing the "unite the right" folks and to do their rally. but this is probably going to start to get a little bit more colorful if they do indeed try to bring kessler and his couple of dozen supporters out this gait. because the numbers are disproportionately in favor of the counter protesters. >> it is fair to say there's an awful lot of emotion in that crowd there but not a lot of violence so far. reporter: that is exactly right. there has been no violence. again, the message of the counter protesters was nonviolent. antifa who i have covered, they do not want to engage with us but i've had off c

white house did the same -- the bush white house does the same, and so did the obama white house. while both presidents agreed the press is undermining them, it is an adversarial process. mr. trump believes you can choose your own new cycle, you can choose your own newsfeed, ,ou can trust in institutions and we have not necessarily helped him along the way. but we have never had a characterizedhas the press as not just his life him but disliking america. we have never had demonizing attacks the way this president has against individual reporters. and yet we have never had a president who craves the approval of the media. -- who he felt like rejected him years ago, and he continues to seek approval. set, trump's support was low before he took office. the residents campaign or in 2016, covers of the most stolen from hillary clinton's campaign chairman. there has been a lot of confusion about why the white house does certain things come and there is an assumption everything is part of a larger strategy whatever hope people would understand is after his trip through europe and the hel

he's trying break the back of the -- >> who there is in the white house staff right now? >> we have jarron, who's done a fabulous job. >> the bottom line is there is very little diversity on the white house staff. jarron smith, he is a special assistant to the president. he does work on the white house staff. he works for the vice president. but he is at a significantly lower level than omarosa. >> reporter: the white house has reportedly asked staffers to sign non-disclosure agreements, or ndas. trump today tweeting "wacky omarosa already has a fully signed non-disclosure agreement." but manigault newman says she didn't sign an nda and the recordings she's released thus far were not classified. so releasing them is not a crime. but that could change. >> i wouldn't be surprised if the white house tries to classify as much information relating to omarosa as possible so that if and when she releases anything else they say that's classified information, now we can charge you with a crime. >> are you worried about this administration? >> i fear no one. i fear no man. my relat

the white house complex. ha what do you make of that? certainly sounds like john kelly having a conversation with o omarosa about her termination. >> right, i'm of two minds. on the one hand, i'm mad we're even talking about her. she's a hustler. she's been with the president well over ten years. she's living out this villain persona and trying to sell a book. and the "n" word versus not the "n word, donald trump uses that word every day in his tweets and communications with the american public. there's that piece. the other piece is is of concern because level of laziness and incompetence in this particular administration is astounding. you all remember when, you know, we had pranksters e-mailing skr upper level administrators in the cabinet essentially setting up meetings and talking to jared and these are people who had access to individuals. we know the president still uses his cell phone that has no security. there is this very real concern, not just about omarosa, but about the fact that a cell phone co

white nationalist outside the white house were wearing make america great again caps and the anti-racist groups were denouncing trump. so a lot of people do make that connection that some of the behavior of those far right groups are being stoked by president trump's words if not his behavior what is the president's role in all of this. president his role in all this is zero because people existed before donald trump they'll exist after donald trump and by the way he has such a he stoking it so much that twenty five of them showed up for the rally that people that they in their permit they expected anywhere from one hundred to four hundred and they got like twenty five or so donald trump in the stocking and he's doing a very poor job of stoking it the whole thing is ridiculous donald trump's grandchildren and daughter and grandchildren are jewish his son in law is jewish he's been the best friend israel that israel has ever had from the white house next to richard nixon who saved israel he's ease you know he's embraced everyone and he jesse jackson once thanked him profusely for helping

the metal doors on the north side of the white house are quite on the white house-- belong at the entrance of a sears roebuck store. why do they throw off the white house duties so much? why are they there? >> they are descendents from earlier. in the bad weather, it was to keep the weather based on a great cubicle and as security functions from the 50s, right lidia? if they did such a good job on the handicapped ramp like it you would least paint that line? . lidia is going to change that. -- lydia tederick is going to change that. >> i can tell you that security has made a huge difference in how the white net -- white house has welcomed visitors over the ark of 40 years. they've said this is the people's house but after september 11 tourers were called off and there's an elaborate procedure where they get hundreds of people who are allowed to come in and often, when president bush welcomed the pope i believe they brought 10,000 people who had to stand through the whole several our process but at least they got people in their. >> what happened is there has been an evolution-- evolutionar

the white house. who did not deem her credible. hoot clearly, through her own words interviews and contradictions is not credible. and yet, these members of the media who decry the use of fake news, who talk about the need to pursue facts and the truth, give her a platform and highlight her because why? because she's attacking donald trump. that's why. >> she used to be viewed as kind of a -- >> she came out and continue the conversation she had at the white house. praising him. none of these people would have her on their shows and none of them would talk about her. because she is looking to make a buck they're willing to put her on an expose her because as long as you're being critical of trump they will give you a platform. the bigger issue i think is fascinating after the interview is she taped the chief of staff of the white house in the situation room. clearly a violation of every security protocol she signed when she applied for security clearance. they did not ask one question about that on th

then you look at the communications operation in the white house. they do everything they can to put out these fires every day and deal with the day to day, but that doesn't leave them a lot of band width to prepare for the real difficulties that could come if democrats win the house and begin these investigations. >> you know, tamara, just this last week we've heard stories about how the president i can in order the advice of john kelly, of sarah huckabee sanders to issue a proper response to the passing of john mccain. subsequently he did it later. but it really brings up the question of where do the guardrails exist in the white house? there is some talk that ivanka and jared might have been behind the acceleration of don mcgahn's demise. we're not sure what john kelly is doing exactly in the white house. he's not keeping the president out of trouble. so there is definitely some sense that there is no supervision there. >> and when john kelly came in, he said he was going to be the chief of the staff, and at this point, it's not clear, really, wh

and the white house? >> i'm certainly -- like most people that worked with her, very disapointsed that she would go to serve a self-serving, somebody that cares more about herself than our country to make it these outrageous claims and accusations. she worked here for a year. didn't have any of these things to say. in fact, everything she said was quite the opposite. not just the year that she worked here but the time that she spent on the campaign trail. i think it's really sad what she's doing at this point. >> if i could follow quickly. i wanted to ask you very briefly, we ready earlier this afternoon that the trump campaign has made an arbitration action against omarosa. i'm curious and i know there's separate entities, is it likely the white house is considering pursuing something in the way of possible action toward omarosa for violating -- >> i wouldn't be able to comment on any potential ongoing legal matter. major? >> you said one of the motives for omarosa was to tear this place down. what do yo

the president and the white nose maintain that there was knowledge? >> i'm not aware of anything, no. >> given that five convicted felons are now linked to the president or his campaign and given his promise to hire the best people, did he fail to live up to that promise? ask the president has employed thousands in his lifetime and had incredible successes in business and in the public service. he's the president of the united states, i think he's doing quite well. >> that's my second question, i understand you don't want to answer anything incriminating they, you said the president did nothing illegal, but i didn't hear a response to whether he lied to the american people. >> the president has addressed this in number of times, no. fore said he feels badly cohen and manafort. the men pled guilty to crimes, or robbed the american public of tax dollars that they were owed. why does he feel bad for either of these men? >> once again, the president has expressed his views on this matter. >> to follow-up up on that, does he believe that there is an intrin

what we do at the white house, the white house press conferences. we ask one question, we ask two questions. enough already. >> this is between hoban and latrobe. was there an age difference between them? and we -- i go to st. john's church and latrobe is just revered there. we are in decatur house, which was designed by latrobe as well. he evidently was difficult to deal with. can i ask, was there an age difference? was one more mature? george washington liked hoban, didn't like latrobe. there was a portrait of latrobe with the washingtons -- i mean at mt. vernon with the washingtons. i just wonder how latrobe was not so well thought after. >> who can take that? >> it's an interesting question on the basis that latrobe, i think, his real problem was two-fold. he had a very acerbic temperament. he lost his temper very easily. he was self-opinionated. he was good. he was actually very competent, but as a personality he was a person who tended to laud it over others. he was coming to the stage when he was falling between the air stock racy, if you lik

it says you were called the most despised person in the white house, that you'd hijack the white house meetings, you would distract president trump with negative news coverage. could that be why john kelly fired you? >> at least they didn't call me the coffee girl. that's an upgrade to their usual go-to excuses they make when they mistreat people. people despise that i was close to the president that i had access to him, that i talked to him often and influenced his policy making. i will admit to you, chuck, there were times donald trump asked me to do things that were down right bizarre. he said, go pull an article about joe scarborough and mika. i want to know about this and that. i wondered why he asked me. i wasn't his press secretary. he was working around the people who would -- >> and the negative coverage -- >> i was giving him whatever -- when the president calls you and says get this and that for me, i did it. yes, i was one of the people feeding him the things he's asked for, because he's the president of the united states. when he calls and asks, you answer. >> you talked a

white house, the sudden fear if you were wearing a wire in the white house. it's very similar and a parallel to that. it obviously puts the fear of god in people to think there's a bunch of tapes out there. they all had contact with omarosa at one time or another. a lot of them met in rooms less secure than situation room. michael cohen is closer to potential crimes that the president, the president's family, people around the president may have committed. and in the end those crimes may be more consequential. but there's no doubt that the pompous stuffed shirts among us in the same way people normalize stormy daniels and michael avenatti and said it's a porn star and some chief hustling lawyer from l.a., it turned out that the porp star was more relatable, and the lawyer -- he plays the game the way donald trump does. that's what's triggered trump so much is that he look at these people, they get the modern dynamics of media. i'm not sure she understands how to sell books, but she does know the power of tapes. >> and the new wire is an iphone. the social clu

what's the reaction from the white house there? >> reporter: so far, jim, no one commented on the new reporting yet but they're reporting on the stunning allegations made by a former white house staffer, one of the highest paid white house staffers in the time here and that's omarosa manigault newman. the white house and the president issuing several statements hitting back on the allegations and the recordings of conversations with white house staffers and the president himself causing several people inside this white house to wonder why she was hired in the first place. president trump addressing soldiers at fort drumm. >> i'm here to sign the new defense bill into law. >> reporter: as former white house staffer omarosa manigault newman escalates the war with the administration. >> omarosa, when's goiat's goin? >> general kelly came to me and said you guys wanted me to leave. no. nobody told me about it retch secretly taping the firing by john kelly in the white house situation room. one of the most secure places in washington wi

, in the white house. i never heard him say anything like that. >> have you ever heard him use any type of racial slur, say anything derogatory toward people of color or minorities? >> no. the president speaks bluntly and plainly, but he doesn't speak in those kinds of terms, that i have ever heard him say. these are consistently out of character. >> just to do a quick fact-check in terms of what omarosa said about the "apprentice" tapes, we heard rumblings of them on the campaign trail, did anyone ever say to you, i heard him use the "n" word during one of the outtakes on the "apprentice"? >> no, never. the thing is, those rumors were out there for years. you keep hearing about it, but no one could come up to me and say, i've heard this. that includes omarosa in the year and a half that i worked near her in the campaign and in the white house. >> let's talk about these tapes, these explosive tapes that we heard. before we get to the mere fact that she taped the president and the chief of staff, let's talk

what is the significance of the white house? the policy adopted since the time of washington is the exterior of the white house will not be changed. no one has permitted that and even with truman he was not having that. he did alter the inside considerably and winslow in fact wanted to reuse and replace all of the material that was taken out. this would not allow truman to depart from office from the white house. given a harry approach to it is forget about everything and just to buy it in. most of it was dumped and went out to various military dumps around the place. and all of the new material was brought in the 1940s. of course what has happened since then is it required a new association with all of the presidents and everything happening since the truman time. going back to washington, but has not changed, i should not say him i should say the end of the beginning of andrew jackson's presidency when the portugal and the gallery and the portugal run on the north side. the gallery in the south. when it was completed that noth

his white house has the most transparent in history. how does that stand up to your investigation? >> if you read the president's tweets as messages to his base, as they so often are, you see that yes it is unusual for the white house counsel to have spoken to the special counsel for 30 hours, yes, it is unusual for one of my attorneys to speak about me regarding my behavior, that's what's the president's trying to convey to his core supporters, there's nothing to see here and don mcgahn provided no inchristmas dmkricriminating. mcgahn wanted to discredit any finding of the special counsel before he presents his work to congress. >> basically the president's own lawyer questioning the fundamentals of truth, what does this say about our democracy? is our administration just like jeff alluded to, the public throws up their hands and says everything is partisan, what is the white house's goal here to muddle the story. >> sorry, i wasn't sure if that one was for me. this is what giuliani was brought in for to kind of muddy the water ahead o

just across from the white house. the killing of heather heyer one year ago in charlottesville is weighing heavily on their minds here. a lot of people are out there because they're outraged over what's happened. you had that discussion just a moment ago with omarosa on "meet the press." talking about whether or not president trump is a racist. that case is not going to have to be made to this crowd here today. they're vehemently anti-president trump. they're here to fight the fascists. even though the organizers are pleading with participants not to engage in any physical confrontation with those on the right or the alt-right as they call themselves. their unity is going to drown out whatever it is those alt-right members have to say in their march later today. >> jeff, let me turn to you now. let me is you about lafayette park where this is going to come to a head in the 5:00 hour. this is a small park north of the white house. this white nationalist group has a permit to protest there. my understanding is that two

the white house is well aware the presidents like him nonetheless. the full record is not some to,onal thing deciding depending upon who the president might be, it should be a duty of advice andstates consent cause. to set the record straight compared to things said, why i time, i worked with jeff sessions to request the full universe of justice kagan's documents bill clinton presidential library. we receive 99% of them. to everybody,able republicans and democrats alike, on this committee. similarly, for justice -- sessions andtor request records working with civil rights organization in the 1980's. for a civil rights organization in the 1980's, republicans want to see that record. i say ok, fine. that was despite the fact that they -- she had if it more than 3000 opinions over seven years in the district court judge. i did say those opinions were worth looking at. we also think because republicans wanted all of the background. i said of course, this up in court nomination. it would appear to be blatantly partisan. wouldn't be the same from judge kav

the white house has been really shaken up by the omarosa book. they have seemed unable to get their hands around it. i think the president has been bested by his own tricks. he does not know what's on those ta tapes. being out of control is something that makes him feel very nervous and anxious and uncomfortable. i think some of these was turning around to look strong, as if you are punching someone else, and fine. but this was done with no process. i still can't get clarity from anyone i talked to about what exactly the guideline is here, what's the rule. when i ask the question, what is this decision based on? well you can't have somebody like this becoming partisan. you can't have such a prominent national security official with clearance so at odds and at war with the administration, engaging in this way. what about michael flynn who chanted "lock her up" at. >> john bolton. >> he was trashing the prior administration. >> correct. so there is no consistent standard here and the line is very clear that these are people i think that general hay

to work in the white house but by the president that hired her to work in the white house, the president that promised his supporters that he would not hire people like the person he has spent all day attacking. >> we've got the best people. >> i know the best people. >> we're going to use our best people. >> the best people. >> i know guys that are so good. >> it's hard to rank the importance of the lies candidate trump told, but the lie about the best people is actually one of the most important lies that donald trump told on the campaign trail because in some jobs incompetence can kill, incompetence can destroy lives in some government jobs. and so omarosa is today's window into the cruelty and incompetence of the trump white house and the trump administration. it was the hyporasy and rulety and incompetence of donald trump and steven miller that ripped babies out of the arms of their mother on the southern border and it is their rank incompetence that keeps 559 of those children still separated from their parents tonight. the trump administration has admitted that they don't know how

there is an easy out for the white house, that is simply for the white house to call on the producer, the owner of those tapes, to release those tapes and clarify this record once and for all. you can expect a lot of questions on that. a host of questions on what's happening with the manafort trial, what the back and forth is in terms of the next steps, what the president is going to say, what sarah huckabee sanders is going to say. and issues from turkey to china. we have seen sanders more this month than last. they have done four press briefings. i shouldn't say that's a big deal. we are midway through august and there has been four briefings. in july, only three. >> in the obama white house, unless they were traveling, you hear from the president. was there any surprise that they issued a correction on the african-american jobs? this is not a white house at any level that is known to back down on anything they say. >> reporter: it was certainly rare, as you point out. this is not something the white house likes to do, is admit to having some false statements from the podium from th

i do want to turn now to the other story that has the attention of the white house, the release of a tell-all back by former trump aide omarosa manigault-newman, and of course the rehelease of a recording of her firing by chief of staff john kelly. omarosa has some credibility issues, of course. so what impact might her book have and what might the ramification be of her recording a conversation in the situation room? >> first of all, there's a question of whether or not the recording will alter the impact that her book has. and suspect once again not. we've seen things coming out of this white house which are unethical, which are different from what we've seen in other white houses. so i think once again if you look at the public reaction there will be a lack of surprise. it also isn't the first time we're going to see a book come out that tells a lot about this white house, about this president. go back to michael wolf, "fire and fury." and in the short-term there's a big reaction, and then it seems to sort of fade into oblivion almost as the frez has tonpresi continued to deflect.

leader rather as i said he was never filmed by the white helmet the boy was saved by the white elephant as it was a brother and his father's interview on this job amongst other outlets was under duress from the syrian authorities he would never say the guy did things that he said to r.t. that if the syrian authorities were not forcing him to again a very interesting and sperry but unfortunately full of holes and i actually met with around that nation his family and his father mohamed that me and last year as did eva but let another independent journalist who has worked extensively on the ground inside syria and the story that we were told of course is that the image of on the ground was exploited. if not specifically by the white helmet certainly by the entire p.r. team that manufactures the image of the white home it's including kenneth roth including the syria campaign and in fact it was used extensively to promote their nomination for the nobel peace prize in two thousand and sixteen by as i say a number of their p.r. agencies so while they may claim that they didn't directly use or

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the white house. this lawyer is not even obligated to tell us what he is withholding and why. there is no requirement for privilege log. the process is so extraordinary that the national archives released a statement yesterday. in nearly 44 years in the senate i've never seen a statement like this. which innal archives, a nonpartisan way, nothing to do with the documents currently ,eing supplied to our committee as a site arrangement put together by a partisan lawyer, is unprecedented. i would note the website maintained by the majority attempts to address this concern. the website is the archives will still act as a check against any partisan interference. if they are allowed to do their job, that might be true. given the chairman's hearing date, that statement is false. it is totally false. the archives will conclude its review two months after the hearing and after the confirmation vote. we will have the conclusion and then we will hear the evidence. a check on partisan interference occurs a month

from the white house. it was messed up later on by another chef. no, i am telling you the truth. you know the eggnog everyday went down the sink. after the party went down this -- the sink. in my time, there was never enough eggnog. >> i see that you have been in it. it is true what i am saying. that was a delicious eggnog. anyway, this book, i will be signing it. remember, let me save you some time on your shopping. and, another thing, this book, because the recipes are so true , the book is based on the truth about it. if i were you, i would buy several cases. these books will be worth a lot of money later on. i will be signing. everybody will get my business card with every book that i sign. now, when is the last time you went to buy a book and the author gave you his phone number? anything happen to you like that? but this author has been giving a card with his phone number. you know what? i have never received a phone call. okay? that tells you something. i started working with the historical associat

, on the white house. now, emmitt flood had a similar position in the clinton administration. he's there now. he could be moved up. the important point to make about the white house counsel's office is you don't need senate confirmation. this is someone there, serving at the pleasure of the president. it is a different dynamic that be if -- than if he fires jeff sessions. the nominee would have to go before the senate committee. interesting the president is confirming this. >> hans nichols, thank you for getting on the record with that. when it rains, it pours. >>> we have another bit of breaking news related to the president's former campaign chair paul manafort. there is pete williams. pete, it is my understanding now that manafort's defense attorneys want to move his trial out of d.c. partly because of things the president has said. what's up? >> right. they just filed a motion for a change of venue for the trial that's supposed to now start the jury selection on september 17th. a week later, the openin

if you are willing -- okay, the white house is our house, the white house belongs to the american people. that's where our state's secrets live. he knew what character omarosa was made of when he hired her and brought her to the white house. >> can you criticize her and believe her at the same time? >> yes, absolutely. the message by which she's doing this are horrible. secretly taping the secret staff is ground for an investigation. that's so appalling. is donald trump clearly coached to lie? he must be. he lies more than anybody. does sarah sanders lie from the podium? yes, we know that. i don't know if it is mental illness or real intellectual curiosity but we see it everyday. he has proven to have all of these traits over and over again which means we have to take it seriously. most importantly the fact that all of those years put us in the situation where somebody like that is in our white house. >> in the situation room, ned, i think you are among the people and this is what i hear from you having watched you on air so many times and interviewed you so many times. you have someone

the white house strategy was to not respond to the claims in omarosa's new book, but the president went through that when he tweeted multiple times about omarosa calling her a wacko. saying she was vicious and disliked by white house colleagues and skipping white house meetings and work all together. adding he kept her around because she said nice things about him. someone who made $180,000 of taxpayer funded money. he did have omarosa sign a nondisclosure agreement. she later said she did not sign the white house nda. >> i never signed the draconian nda. i knew from my prior time of working for the white house, i worked for the clintons prior, this was not something acceptable. >> reporter: her recordings of the conversations with john kelly and president trump have created the sense of paranoia in the west wing. when she was about to leave last december, her colleagues suspected she was recording conversations and now the fears seem to have come to light. omarosa is promising she has more recordings and if the white house retaliates against her, she may publish them. dave and christin