white house grounds. they've been very carefully installed over the years so as to not impinge upon historic character of the grounds, damage any of the significant tree plantings and really to not interfere with views to and from the white house. sort of the iconic shots to of the exterior of the building. so i don't think anybody would consider it an eyesore. >> do you know who, which first lady used the pool more than anybody else? >> i believe it was barbara bush. >> it was barbara bush, who loved to swim. and i think she had to be very careful when she wore her white terry cloth bathrobe, he got by without anybody seeing her. [laughter] i remember old pictures of the white house showing they had a greenhouse or a conservatoriesome. >> yeah. so the -- conservatory? >> yeah. so the greenhouses and the conservatory are both 9th century -- 19th century aspects of the white house and the white house grounds. the conservatory was a private space rather for the president and first lady, their invited guests

white house correspondent. winning awards for reporting from both the national press club and the ford foundation. michael set out to write a book about trump's 2020 reelection campaign. he expected to do what he calls in the introduction a traditional campaign book about how copy would market himself for a second term. of course, 2020 turned out to be most unconventional year given the pandemic and nothing traditional about trump's campaign. book chronicles much of the chaos and disorganization that marked the reelection effort, disastrous dysfunctional response to the coronavirus crisis, the internal battles between trump and military advisers over whether to unleash soldiers on civil rights protests and much, much more. the review of the book, nuance, sharp and fairly reviewing and publishers turned the work in immersive blow by blow onedown. michael's conversation partner here this evening has been the columnist for the wall street journal since 2000. she's also the author of 9 books, u.s. politics history

from the trump white house felt? >> i i haven't spent that much time in the biden white house but i got some more questions about this. i will say i think it's hard, it's just as hard to cover trump as it is to cover biden. people think in a way like covering trump is kind of this easy pickings, there's so many things, details to learn and things to collect but the problem with covering trump was that so much of it wasn't reliable or coming from reliable narrators here. i mentioned my kind of long newspaper career, whether it was any of these county commission meeting for school board meetings or state legislative committee hearings, like never have been anywhere except the trump white house where eight people could go into a meeting and 12 versions of that what happened in that meeting emerged afterwards. to understand what is happening behind the scenes you needed to talk to almost everybody who was in the room to have an understanding of what happened. there were so many rivalries, so many, i mean trump came up in

now, there will always be erects in the white house. a wrecks in the white house. >> mister president, mrs. reagan, thank you for what you have done for our country, our world, and for each one of us. good luck and may god bless both of you. (applause) >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you all are not alone for the gifts because they're wonderful, particularly this last one, because he's already taken over this white house. i'm glad he's got one of his own now, and you know something, he doesn't get kicked out of it in two terms. (laughter) (applause) there aren't any words that can properly tell you how bittersweet these days are, and the things that we would like to say to all of you. you know, i keep remembering back and not too far, when someplace along the line there would always be a picture of a president standing in the oval office and looking at the window, usually the picture from behind, and he's standing there and that is words are quoted as a tag for that picture about this is the loneliest place, lonely and so forth. i don

in the white house. let's listen to it. . from the early days of our administration, nancy has been intentionally involved in the ever to fight drug abuse. her personal observations and efforts have given her such dramatic insights that i wanted her to share them with you this evening. nancy? nancy: thank you. as a mother, i always thought of september as a special month. a time where they can go fill those restless mind was so much has happened over these last few years. so much to shift the foundations of all we know and all we believe today, there is a drug and alcohol abuse epidemic in this country and no one is safe from it. one of the things one learns when reading your book is that the irony is that even though she was promoting just say no, she had an issue with prescription drugs. karen: that is correct. you have to go back to the 1950's. she had this 19 -- this very anxious personality. very tightly wound. when women would go to doctors back then, the doctors would hand them a sedative. they ha

gerald ford takes over the white house with only a day's notice. he is surrounded by aides and advisors who are nixon loyalists. those include the chief of staff alexander hague, general hague, the attorney general william saxby, nixon's fifth attorney general because they all kept resigning due to the scandal. in california, nixon's former press secretary ron ziggler is now acting as nixon's handler from afar. in the midst of this, a big issue arises. what is going to happen to nixon's records and tapes? these are key evidence in all of the watergate trials of nixon's co-conspirators in the white house. they are scheduled to go forward in a few months. there are only a few people surrounding president ford that he can trust. bob hartman, who was his chief speech writer and now counsel to the president phil buer and a young lawyer named benton becker. he was a trusted colleague. he was special counsel to president ford. most of the figures in this drama died years and years ago. one of them, benton becker, whom president ford trusted completely, ju

this white house. >> yeah, this white house. no, i never felt fearful. i didn't have bullets flying over my head and i didn't have sharks coming at me from all directions so i had it easy compared to these two. the one thing that we were talking earlier, you have to have intuition in terms of when it's time to give the man some space. so it's more of just an intuitive sense of when it is time to sort of slowly back away. >> every three months we would go to walter reed and he would visit wounded warriors. i think it affected him emotionally. one time he went and we saw corey remsberg, the guy he was on patrol with in afghanistan was killed instantly. corey was thrown into a ravine. he was under water. somehow he survived, not drowning. he spent months in a coma and he lost half his eyesight and the ability to control half his body. he had to relearn how to walk, talk and eat. but here's the thing that really took me aback. president obama had met corey in normandy the previous june. and i had taken a picture of that encounter. and the picture, we had sen

getting better, armored glass at the white house. so a lot of things changednd mostly changed for the better. i go back to those metal detectors as being the difference that there hasn't been the historic assassin has been be of the lone gunman that gets close. and there hasn't been an incident since march 30, 1981. i think mrs. reagan had a little bit to do with it, she exerted influence, said, listen, it's time to make changes. >> the metal detectors were huge for security. funny thing is, we were told no early on as you remember, tim. >> yeah. >> these were the same people to go to the airport and go through metal detectors on a airplane can yet don't want it at the white house. anyway. there's employees everywhere. the president goes. >> these guys are experts from security but from the point of view not making it happen, i can tell you the changes started immediately as he was in the hospital. it was twilight when four of us in the motorcade were still at the hospital and they let our cars go back to the white house. even the wh

that was nixon's favorite room in the white house on the second floor the white house and the private quarters. the smallest room in the white house actually pretty in nixon would go up there every night to listen to the music and scribble on his yellow legal pad and a phone his cronies. on the night of january 20th, 1973, at 1:00 o'clock in the morning among other things he had trouble sleeping pretty could not get to sleep read he called his aide chuck was also known as a catch man and it talks about the work his wish to get even with his enemies. and now is going to wrap up the vietnam war and also how he was going to get even with the washington post my former newspaper following this investigation into watergate. so i began to have an extract from that tape. and so you can see how rich this material is. now he is just come back from the kennedy center. the concert from the kennedy center and he actually played tchaikovsky's 1812 overture. and that is the pianist. so his pumped up about that. and he doesn't like that washington symphony orchestra because for physical reasons and h

and the white house confusing on this issue of masks, of what to do. what's your reporting say about the white house's handling of all of this and what's it mean that we're back up to 100,000 cases a day on president biden's watch as he continues to say he's following the science? lisa: there have been complaints about how the white house has messaged this both from democrats and republicans. some democrats feel the white house moved towards declaring victory too early. we remember that july 4 barbecue they had over there but the reality is the white house is in a really difficult spot on this. we know from polling, from data, analyzing, voters and trump counties that went for trump versus counties that went for biden that republicans are more vaccine hesitant. that the areas of the country where people are most skeptical of vaccine, many tend to be republican and those are the exact areas where the president's words are likely to have the least amount of sway and may prompt the kind of political pushback that we saw from governor desantis. there is po

the white house described it as a brief pause. our clarissa ward and team on the ground in kabul described this as an eight-hour delay. hardly a brief pause. it gives you a sense of how difficult this process is to bring people in, fly them to the countries and process them. that caused a bit of a backup. a significant backup, actually, but the white house is saying that president biden will announce that the flights are resuming. they will resume. the order has been give ton start the flights up again. but the question here is is the state department, is this government bureaucracy working as fast as it needs to here? that's one thing on the minds of officials here at the white house as they've been meeting with the president and others, trying to get some of this backlog unjammed, if you will. that's been a challenge of the morning. this is just the airport we're talking. never mind the people trying to get to the airport, still trying to go through taliban control. that still needs to be addressed. we're told the president will

in conversation will be opposed public affairs, ashley berger who covers white house. ashley joined the postwar years ago after 11 years at the new york times in her reporting on russian interference in the 2016 election was part of the package of national reporting in 2018. ashley frequently appears on an msnbc as a contributor. take it away. >> thank you for doing this and thank you for everyone tuning in. i assume you fall preordered the book, here it is, it's fantastic. i spent read it. your book is so great, i'll ask my questions and you can spread it out for answers. we want to use as our to recount all the amazing anecdotes in your book and i'm not going to do that but there is one i wanted to ask about that's got a lot of attention already, he report president trump at one time suggested cruiseship passengers sent to guantÁnamo bay, toss about back. >> this was something that jumped out at us for a couple of reasons. one, in february 2020, there's a lot of focus first on the diamond princess cruise ship off the coast of japan, five or 600 passengers on the shi

it is a political nightmare for the biden white house. there's nothing more treacherous for a politician than parents worrying whether kids will be safe in school, worrying about the virus spreading because of policies at the state and municipal level in these communities, and the central tenet of biden's campaign for president was that he was going to tackle covid, he had the skills and the bipartisan relationships to effectively cut through the crap and address the pandemic in a way trump did not, and the fact that covid numbers are rising now, the fact that the delta variant is so potent and the fact that getting the vaccines into some of the communities has been such a challenge is really spelling political trouble for biden at this hour. >> do they have the covid task force, ron klain, do they have new ideas to tackle this or feel as if at this point, even though they know they're taking on water politically, a lot of people at the end of the day say they're going to blame the top. ron desantis has poor poll numbers right now too, i

but even during the white house years. i tell one funny story in the book, heath generally fly up to washington every two or three weeks. particularly when there was a crisis so he could just be in the white house for a few days and wander around quietly observed what was happening. and would have a one on one with carter and tell him what he thought. one day carter is in the residence upstairs of the white house, having a session with a group of journalists, a group of thirsty journalists. but remember famously carter moved into the white house and announced he was not going to serve hard liquor. so he had served these thirsty journalists iced tea. so at one point, suddenly the door opens and he wanders in. and he yelled to him, and help yourself to a bourbon. he made an exception for him. >> one of the things you pointed out did not realize was part of the reason why the carter's did not serve hard alcohol was it because it cost so much. it was a financial decision less than a puritanical religious reason. they'd drink a

master the white house back to the white house rawhide is okay. and so they're heading back now towards the white house. and drew and rue is flying the driver of the museum. just hurdling down, connecticut avenue. close to traffic there wouldn't be traffic here in 1981 on march 30th, because they had closed the streets for the limousines ride expected ride back. now at about as they're driving along and now remember the limousines alone, they have no support they've left the motorcade behind. the follow-up car the armored follow-up car two guys brandishing uzis on it finally catches up behind them and the spare limousine which has the president's position in it, and another agent finally gets up near them too. and so they're going along the police cars are starting to now follow up in the police motorcycles are getting ahead of limousine. and as they're going through about right about here. jerry part realizes that something's wrong with the president because he's having trouble breathing. he says mental breathing. i don't know. what's wrong. are

house. -- house, and buy a very expensive new set of thousand dollar a place setting white house china. they announce it on the very day that the reagan administration , which is cutting back on social programs, announces that catch-up would be considered a vegetable for nutritional standards on school lunch menus. she just sort of has one after another of these unforced errors. but so symbolic of how clueless she is, i discovered that eleanor roosevelt could have warned her against this. eleanor roosevelt also bought in -- but an expensive set of china during the great depression. unlike nancy, which was rightly funded, eleanor roosevelt paid with it for -- with taxpayer money and had to have a huge press conference to say that her china and was -- her china was putting people to work in the great depression. nancy reagan does is something very common in hollywood but forbidden in politics, was that she borrows -- barrows expensive clothing and jewelry and doesn't return them. and this would create a gigantic tax problem for the reagans. there is an investigation and it tells them tha

today, outside the white house, there was this. >> a protests just outside the white house from two big well-known advocacy groups targeting president biden specifically asking him to do even more to make the senate do the right thing. to use every power he has to persuade the senate to do what they can do and which they so far lacked the will in the gumption to effectuate. under the banner of no more excuses, voting rights now, activists ordered by people for the american way and illegal women voters, where there to call that president biden to ask him to do more. to do more, to do more. to do everything he can to change the filibuster rules so that democrats can protect voting rights. at the white house fans people for the american way, president then jealous called through a megaphone quote it is time to step up, it's time to step up he led protesters in a chant of hate joe, the filibuster has got to go. joining us now is ben jealousies the president for the american way, he's the former president and ceo of the naacp, mister jealous, ben, it's very nice to see you,. >> it's good to

house on the second floor of the white house and the private quarters, the smallest room in the white house actually and nixon would go every night to listen to music and phone his cronies. on the night at one in the morning among other things hehi had trouble sleeping he couldn't get to sleep he called his aid and talked about his wish to get even with his enemies and how he was going to wrap up the vietnam war and also how he was going to get even with the "washington post" pursuing this investigation into watergate so i'm going to play a little extract from that tape so you can see how rich this material is. he's just come back from the kennedy center and they played the 1812 overture. he's pumped up about that and he doesn't like the washington symphony orchestra because of political reasons. he's brought thefr philadelphia monarch down to play d for him d considers them all politically aligned particularly the conductor. he goes on another extract is about hisis inaugural address tt he's about to deliver and he shares portions of it and then talks about the vietnam war. i'm going

house with more on the mask rules across the nation, good morning. >> the white house admits masking guidelines are not going to be popular but officials here in the cdc say they're necessary because of the delta variant of this virus causing a surge of cases nationwide. >> president biden said the pin democrat is lasting longer than expected because of millions of americans still unvaccinated. >> what is happening in america is the pandemic of the unvaccinated. >> health officials that even vaccinated americans can spread the virus the cdc recommends people mask up in areas where there is significant or high spread like missouri where the governor says no dice. >> we never had a mandate we will not do a mandate. >> many u.s. committees are requiring customers and employees were mask again some going even further like facebook and google mandating employees get a vaccine promising federal employees will be required to go regular testing of the nonvaccinated fox news asking the cdc director of the national mandate was coming. >> that something that a administration was looking into. >

the white house knew that this was coming with the supreme court decision previously, so the white house tried to speed something through congress. that put the heat on the house. the house wasn't able to do anything with such short notice, and made sure to mention that the white house gave them such short notice. now as you mention come you got alexandria because the -- you've got alexandria alexandria ocasio-cortez criticizing this lifting of the you fix and moratorium. -- the eva should moratorium -- the if action -- the eviction moratorium. jonathan: mario, thank you. this has expired. about 7.4 million household are behind on rent in total. they are staggering numbers. lisa: if you take a look at the different regions within the united states, the south may be hardest hit by some of these, which is interesting from a political standpoint, how much trauma might be more concentrated, but how this will play out for president biden heading into the midterm. jonathan: we didn't get an answer over the weekend. why did they wait so long to ask congress? i can't get my head around that. lis

subpoena-ing the secret white house -- white house tapes that would approve or disapprove mixers complicity in the water get cover-up. i've done a lot of work on this era of the american political history, that's why it is one of my favorite topics of all. i know most of your parents weren't even alive at the time of watergate in 1973, 1974. when all of this was taken place. i thought i would step the stage today and take you back to october of 1973 during the darkest months of the naked -- nixon presidency, this time the wounds of watergate are fresh. the wounds of the vietnam war are just receding, and the country is being consumed by a growing scandal called watergate. so we are going to show this video. >> october of 1973, the senate has begun hearings investigating possible white house involvement and the burglary at the watergate hotel, and the subsequent cover-up. the big question, what did the president know and when did he know it? investigators learned that president nixon has made secret tapes of every conversation in his executive offices. special prosecutor archibald cox has su

instead, what we know is that the white house is also for now delayed the briefing of the white house press secretary. and we also know that the bill there has been delay or cancellation of a scheduled meeting virtually with the us president and governors around the united states would raise their hands and that we're offering to try and resettle some of the afghans that have been evacuated from afghanistan, now instead what the president is doing is he's being brief continuously. we know early in the morning, he was briefed in the situation. room not only was the secretary of defense, as alan fisher reported present with the president, but also the chair of the joint chiefs of staff and as well the secretary of state and the vice president of the united states, comma, la harris, who appeared virtually because she is out of the country right now, continuing her asian tour. now, what we know is that they were given real time intelligence and that they are coordinating with the commanders of the us military in afghanistan on the ground. so we are expecting potentially to still hear from

white house, sounded like a social invitation. george shultz was pretty new in his tenure. he'd only been secretary of state for seven months. so he didn't really know the reagans all that well. he had just gotten back from a long trip overseas that included a stop in china. as the dinner progresses, the reagans, both of them start peppering him with questions about the chinese leaders and do they have a bottom line, and do they have a sense of humor, and what makes them tick, and beyond that they start talking about the soviet union, and shultz away from the kind of hardliners and the typical national security council meetings begins to realize something about ronald reagan which is that this man has never had a conversation with a big-time communist leader, that he is dying to have one, and that he has really thought about this a lot. he's very confident in his own abilities as a negotiator, but then shultz realizes something else, which is that this dinner invitation was not a social invitation, that really nancy reagan had wan

house on the second floor of the white house in the private quarters. smallest room in the white house, actually Ãand would go up there every night to listen to music and to scribble on his yellow legal pad and to phone in his cronies and on the night of january 20, 1973 at one in the morning among other things he had trouble sleeping. he couldn't get to sleep. he called his aid chuck colson who was also known as his man and talks about the, his wish to get even with his enemies. and how he is going to wrap up the vietnam war and also how he would gain to get even with the washington post with pursuing my former newspaper was pursuing this investigation into watergate so i'm going to play a little extract from that tape and so you can see how rich this material is. now, he's just come back from the kennedy center. there's an inaugural day concert at the kennedy center and he's actually they played tchaikovsky's 1812 overture and the pianist was ben clyburn so he's pumped up about that . he doesn't like the washington symphony orchestra or political rea

what is the white house doing to avoid this waste, and could the u.s. be donating more vaccines to other countries and faster, and will president biden soon announce more vaccines to share to the world? sec. psaki: well, yes, he will announce this afternoon. that's what his remarks are about, getting 110 million doses out. we also announced our purchase of 500 million pfizer doses. he will talk about all of that this afternoon. i will just note, it'll give you just a little bit of a preview. he will also say that this work is just beginning. the united states remains, with the announcement today, we will have donated more to the world than all of the countries in the un, including russia and china combined. this is just the beginning. we are going to continue to be a provider of vaccines and assistance to the global community in their fight against covid. so he will certainly talk about that today. there will certainly be more to come. on the question you asked about waste -- the covid vaccine wastage rate nationally is approximately 2.6%, which is very

i: the radio back to the white house -- called on the radio back to the white house. we had no idea the president was under treatment. i thought perhaps he had come to check on brady. i saw the deputy chief of staff was on the telephone line. the president was in treatment. >> go ahead. >> i was going to ask for a little bit more time. i wanted to cover a couple of these things. i came out of the hilton hotel, i know jerry was on the president's left. now i am on the right side. jerry is on the left side. we are probably 10 feet from a fully armored car. all of the setting, six shots go off. there was some electricity in the air. i had heard gunshots before but these were not very loud. it was a revolver. an inexpensive revolver. what i wanted to say, from where he was, he had the gun in the rain coat pocket. as soon as he saw the president and he followed him from left to right. god bless jim brady. that is when he first responded. he stood right in front of where the president was. they had the old doors on those cars. they open from front to rear. that gave us a bi

it was consul in the headlines, the white house situation room, they're constantly talking about this and the president was getting really nervous about the idea of sending these people back to the united states if they were infected. at one point using meeting in a situation room and said we are not bringing them the back. i don't want them back. he was really focus on the numbers at the bottom of the television screen that said the stock market is this in the number of people who are sick is 14 for 20 something. he did not want that number nevg up because he thought that's what people were looking everyday. he wanted to put them somewhere. he always thinks outside the box obviously so they came up with this idea of sending the two guantÁnamo bay. first they couldn't believe he said but they did what the often did, like over the years visit okay, we will look into and get back to you. kind of hoping he would forget about it and he would never bring it up again. sure enough a few days later in the oval office he asks what's the status of the gitmo move? that's when the a's got to giv

one is taken by a white house photographer. his fourth day as a white house photographer. he was around here somewhere. he shoots over the limousine. he has the great shots. he's shooting pictures that way. that was helpful. and i've come here a few times but coming here is difficult because if you notice this thing, obviously, it wasn't here that day. they built that to protect the president. then you have the little, umm, garden area. reagan was 15 feet when the shots were fired. they interfewed the agents and witnesses. i was able to know what everyone said they did. everyone said they did. and that usual kind of matched up with what the video and the picture showed. and that was helpful. it was also helpful to get in their heads of what was happening. i interviewed them all too. and i also got the -- some fbi reports, for example, there's a great fbi report. no one has seen reagan's fbi interview shortly after the shooting. he gave an interview to the fbi agents. that was sealed. and i got it unsealed through my foia process. and reagan was coming out. he said he was c

but the white house is driving this. sean: one of the things that we see every day or every other day our cars at the gas station, they will cost have gone up in urine texas congressman and edward lawrence was just talking about a big-play and energy in texas, what is the feeling in texas about oil and energy in the increase in prices? >> we can help we are right here right now barrels is down 2 million barrels, rather than the president begging opec to open this ticket or now having russia to the number two importer in the united states, america was energy independent, can be for the long-term, why the president is baking some of our enemies to provide us oil when we have american-made energy right here ready to go in this war on american energy it makes no sense but these are families and workers in small businesses who are paying the price for this. >> has a real impact on her pocketbook but also families in texas. i want to turn to house politics is internal fighting in the democrat party. we have the left-wing squad

>> we are going to ground. >> great. >> [inaudible] back to the white house, back to the white house. >> rioters okay. >> so they are heading back now towards the white house. and [inaudible] rudy is crying, the driver of them are seniors hurtling down connecticut avenue. it's close to traffic. they wouldn't be traveling traffic here on 1818 one 1981 on march 30th. [inaudible] now at about, as they are driving along and then remember the limousine is along. they have no support. they've left the motorcade behind. the follow-up clerk, the armored follow of two guys brandishing with this on it finally catches up behind him and despair limousine which has the president positioned in it and another agent finally gets up near them to. they are going along, the police cars are starting to follow up the motorcycles are getting ahead of the limousine, and as we are going through right about here, jerry parton realizes that something is wrong with the president. he's having trouble breathing, i don't know, what's wrong, are you having a heart attack? is it your heart? reagan says i don't think

the white house has not confirmed that. but we are being told by the israeli side that the meeting has been delayed due to the afghanistan situation. but again, the white house schedule remains intact and we are awaiting any further indication of what will happen moving forward. what i can tell you though, is that it has been a week of delays as a result of the rapidly changing and evolving situation of an afghan. not just of the white house, but the state department, the pentagon, given the fact that things are changing. so quickly, schedule briefings are often having to be delayed in order to get the information necessary to brief the media because the events are moving so quickly. now in terms of the events, we should point out, the bio ministration has confirmed that there have been 2 explosions that there are u. s. and civilian casualties. but we don't know the numbers. we don't know the extent of any of the injuries. what we do know, according to the statement coming out of the by no ministration is this was a complet

no longer in the white house, right? andin there's like these last mn standing of jared and kellyanne, a really smart point of the pandemic. this is from r.j. again. the republican party has tried to to dr. fauci now as the bogeyman to motivate the voter. how much damage do you think this does to the current coronavirusf response? >> i think it does a lot of damage. he's still out on tv all the time trying to tell the country what to do, but his approval ratings were really high last year, and you can see that they've taken quite a dip because the conspiracy theories about him and, you know, the sort of hate towards him was kind of confined last year to a specific part of the republican party, anda it's become way moe widespread. like, tucker carlson on his show is calling for him to be criminally investigated. over what with, i'm not sure, you know, but and then at the rally overr the weekend, marjore taylor green, they were chanting lock him up. it's gotten really bad. i mean, it's almost -- it's a bit unbelievable how

the white house has not commented on that. john kirby put out a tweet saying that they have seen -- they have had a number of civilian -- u.s. fatalities and casualties, and beyond that we don't have further detail, so i would assume that those are the things that they are trying to get a handle on and pass that on to us when they speak to us. those are the questions we will be asking. >> emily: it's emily compagno, what are your reactions to the lawmakers on the ground? >> as hillary vaughn just put out in an email, and i believe she reported on error that there was a threat or a warning from the state department to lawmakers not to tell people who were remaining on the ground in afghanistan to go to the airport. there was some effort that was continuing even as of this morning by various offices to try to reach out to people who are still in afghanistan and get them to the airport to make it on some of these flights, the state department telling those lawmakers, stop doing that. that is posing a security threat and there has

meeting or no white house meeting. the problem you've got right now is that corporate america has pumped so much money into financial resources toward these hackers in the form of ransom payments that the hackers are now using that money to finance even more sophisticated technology you've now got hacking groups i'm told that have nation state level technology and capabilities and sometimes veterans of nation state level intelligence agencies working for them so that creates a very tricky picture. these ceos who were at the white house today are up against a very significant challenge here. >> i think every penny spent on cyber is a good thing. granting another attack at the same time, this pledge by microsoft is maybe not surprising considering the number of hacks it's been involved in in just the past few months >> sure. and one of the questions when you talk about a white house meeting like this and the companies announce these deliverables, this is a standard ritual we see between corporate america and the white ho

white house has a balancing act. speaker pelosi has to do it, too, where you have to satisfy the moderates and progressives. is there any concern of ill will? >> in the white house, yes. there are conversations where people are a little worried about that. they're feeling good about the infrastructure bill, however, they know that nancy pelosi knows what she's doing. they hope she'll be able to keep everyone in line for the infrastructure bill. >> politico's eugene daniels. thanks so much for being here. >>> still ahead, yankee ace gerrit cole is out with covid. but we'll show you a totally different catastrophe in the bronx last night. back in a minute. it's "way too early." lisa here, has had many jobs. and all that experience has led her to a job that feels like home. with home instead, you too can become a caregiver to older adults. apply today. are you one of the millions of americans who experience occasional bloating, gas, you too can become a caregiver to older adults. or abdominal discomfort? taking align ca

house or the trump white house? because the biden white house obviously would they want to set that precedent? >> are they going to allow that precedent to come in. because in the not nonzero chance that democrats lose the house and the senate and the republicans go, we want an investigation on this, that, and the either. that puts their back against the wall. they certainly have folks, biden's certainly not ripping up his documents and throwing them into the trash. there's really more of a paper trail in the biden white house so they have to be careful. >> whether that was his kids, whether that was his chief of staff, anyone around trump and/or trump himself because they were so willy-nilly and not careful, i do think they might be selective like they have before in perhaps not wanting to protect that executive privilege because of how dangerous everything surrounding the january 6th insurrection was. and that i think holds it apart from any other incidents of wanting to protect the executive privilege. so, we're

collins at the white house. the president is back. how does he hope to make this better? >> reporter: he's been getting briefings from his top national security advisers. he returned here last night so we did see the defense secretary and the chairman of the joint chiefs both arriving here, among others, this morning to update president biden on the latest on afghanistan. we will hear from him this afternoon on that announcement about booster shots, but there is a chance that he could take questions on afghanistan, something he has not done since last tuesday. people are eager to hear what the president's take on all this is, given we've heard from his national security adviser, we've heard from the press secretary. it is not just his critics who are raising questions about how this withdrawal as gone down and how the evacuation has been chaotic and what it's like on the ground in kabul right now. democrats as well. it's also chairmen on the foreign affairs committee on capitol hill who say they want to have hea

. >> back to the white house. back to the white house. raw hide is okay. >> they are heading back now towards the white house. and the driver is flying, the driver of the limousine is hurgtsing -- hurdling down the connecticut. they closed the streets so there is no traffic. remember, the limousine is alone. they have no support. they have left the motorcade behind. the follow-up car, armored follow-up car with two guys brandishing uzis on it finally catches up behind them. and the spare limousine which has the president's physician in it and another vehicle comes along, too. the police admonitions are catching up and getting ahead of the magazine. along here jerry pear notices the president is having trouble breathing. are you having a heart attack. the president says i don't think so. he dabs blood from his mouth. jerry pear has to make a call. this guy is struggling. they have a medical facility at the white house, the most secure place in the world. doesn't know if it is world war iii, or they can go to the hospital. if they go to the

the white house is being pressed on this, and the white house press secretary jen psaki said that we've made contingency plans to do both and a lot of questions i believe, hallie, in this briefing about our capability to follow through on that and given that we said in early july that we weren't going to do this, whether that is really going to be possible but of course, this new data came in, and we expect at this point, though, hallie, given that they've set out this time frame to answer your question, that this will be happening by mid-september. the question really is just going to be about the johnson & johnson vaccine more of a formal recommendation as well. >> the statement says and i quote "we conclude too athank a booster shot will be needed to maximize vaccine induce product tex and prolong its durability." translate that into plain english for us >> as heidi pointed out we have data in the u.s. that vaccine effectiveness does seem to decline the further out from your completed inoculation series and looking closely at the israeli data which seem to suggest a significant dimin

former white house advance staffer, rick achorn, who helped save white house press secretary jim brady's life with his quick reactions that day. and former white house speech writer, -- who have been drafted the speech the president delivered that day, was walking just in front of the president and shots rang out. our conversation will be moderated by del quentin wilber, currently enterprise an investigator for reporter at the l. a. times washington bureau and bestselling author of rawhide down. the near assassination of ronald reagan. it is by all who have studied it, the best written account of that fateful day. let's get the conversation started. del? >> thank you very much. it's great to be here. i've been doing a bunch of talks lately about this day, whenever we approach an adversary. people reach out to me to discuss the ends announce an extraordinary that i got to interview all four of our participants in the book. and also, how much detail one day can have in it that i can't keep it all in my head and keep all of them. nor things that i forget left and right. there's so much that