this is not the first white house school, but it likely was the last time the white house had a school inside. jacqueline kennedy had an experience where caroline had ballet classes outside of the white house, which was no issue until they became until her husband became president and then they were caroline was being followed by reporters. so she decided this is kennedy decided to create what was initially called a playgroup you're kind of evolved into a nursery and then by the time carolyn what caroline was school age became a first grade classroom and john jr. was part of the playgroup ultimately, but it was comprised of children. who were the kids of their close friends and the parents all pulled their resources and funded? the salary of the teachers the parents pooled resources for the supplies books. there was a trampoline that was purchased for the the school kids. it was her way of providing her kids with an environment where they were learning in something like a classroom setting with other children, but again, it was controlled they were. in you know behind is for private wa

house, or to donate them to the white house. no, this is something that had been done and actually, the room on the upper left, on the upper right here, there's actually a silver collection back in the corner. and this one had been donated, this silver collection is a gilded sofa collection, had been donated much earlier. but i point this out because while some things were donated to the white house, others had to be bought. and for this and for the work itself, for the rebuilding and the restoring of the woodwork and the flowers, everything else, mrs. nixon which set up these luncheons or these t's and they would invite people in and they would have, they would say, okay, so now coming, and this is what we are planning to do here, and this is going to take a little work, and we need your help and support in this. and so mrs. johnson -- 90 pointed out to mrs. johnson didn't like to ask people for money, and she was very good at saying thank you, mrs. dickson was good at bringing people in and charming them and showing them this

the white house? well the theory of restoration and preservation, is that by restoring and preserving the past we can make certain that we don't make that were made in the past and we can learn and do better citizens for the future. that's the whole theory of history why we study history. it's to learn from the past make certainly don't make the same mistakes and do better at going forward. now the human brain has not yet evolved such that when you see a picture of the white house or a picture of any historic building, it's the same as actually visiting it you can look at the picture of the white house and get some sense of what it's all about, but it's not the same as a visiting it and therefore if you preserve it more people want to visit it what people want to see what this white house is about and therefore our citizens flock to see it all the time and they should and it's possible to make this white house better because we can provide the resources through the white house historical association t

telling the rich stories of white house history has been the mission of the white house historical association since we were founded in 1961 by first lady jacqueline kennedy, he was her vision at the young age of 1861 by first lady jacqueline kennedy. it was her vision that and the young age of 30 want to create an organization that would provide non taxpayer funding to maintain the museum standard of the house, which had been somewhat neglected through presidencies leading up to the kennedys. although the association has developed and expanded over the past 60 years, the mission established by mrs. kennedy still guides our work and our offerings. earlier this month, the association celebrated our 60th anniversary with a gala at the temple of gender and the sacrum win of the metropolitan museum of art in new york. the evening featured powerful and poignant remarks from the first lady of the united states, dr. jill biden, ambassador caroline kennedy, david rubenstein, chairman of our board, fred ryan, and vice chair, john rogers, and l roker soviet the master of ceremonies for the evening. we h

white house. we will hear from dr. susan pell, deputy director of science and public programs manager for the u.s. botanical gardens. jim adams, horticulture manager from the united states botanical gardens. and jim mcdaniel, secretary for the white house historical association board of directors and a former liaison for the white house and national park service. like our previous panel, we will hear three short presentations and then our panelists will return to the stage for a conversation moderated by dr. pell. we will leave time at the end for open questions with the audience. so please join me in welcoming our speakers. [applause] >> thanks so much. it's an honor to be here today to speak with you all about white house gardens. i won't pretend that -- both jims worked at the white house. i will open it up at the end for the are questions because i feel like it's a unique opportunity for you to ask questions of people who worked on the white house gardens and maintained them. so we are the las

house or work on restoration of the white house. there's a whole series of first ladies and presidents prior to that. absolutely. well, i was just going to say nancy. what a remarkable discovery during the the process of preparing this presentation. and so i guess quickly. i'll ask the other two of you. you know, you are tremendous scholars of these first ladies. is there anything you learned that was was new to you as you looked at them as preservationists? well, i actually last night was looking for some more information on john carl warnicki the architect from the west coast who worked with mrs. kennedy by virtue of his friendship. first of all with president kennedy, and so there's a really brilliant lecture given by a stanford architectural history professor last year about john carl warnicki, and he spends a fair amount of time talking about this relationship with miss kennedy, but i learned a lot about this concept of contextualization and i i knew that that he was famous for being able to preserve historically while building

they are also in the white house. did they have any interactions with them. >> they did run into them. >> frequently? >> i don't know how frequently, but i think it was something that was not necessarily anticipated when they first got into the white house. the first interaction caroline -- she went into the white house communications room. that is what it was. there were some reporters there. someone casually asked her, where is your father? she said something like, oh, he's not doing anything. he's just sitting around with a shoes off. he's not doing anything. it ended up in -- it makes the washington post. >> you try aspirins to create a normal childhood in the strangest of circumstances. it may be impossible. that is a timeline to walk. >> yeah. images that emphasized the normalcy of childhood behavior but in a setting where you are not used to seeing that. >> they really are just kids being kids. >> one of the offshoots of popularity of the kids was when they started getting into this era of the commercialization

white house. we will hear from dr. susan pell, deputy director of science and public programs manager for the u.s. botanical gardens. jim adams, horticulture manager from the united states botanical gardens. and jim mcdaniel, secretary for the white house historical association board of directors and a former liaison for the white house and national park service. like our previous panel, we will hear three short presentations and then our panelists will return to the stage for a conversation moderated by dr. pell. we will leave time at the end for open questions with the audience. so please join me in welcoming our speakers. [applause] >> thanks so much. it's an honor to be here today to speak with you all about white house gardens. i won't pretend that -- both jims worked at the white house. i will open it up at the end for the are questions because i feel like it's a unique opportunity for you to ask questions of people who worked on the white house gardens and maintained them. so we are the las

white house. tell us a little bit about that. normally you see secret service agents, new season the nice suits with their earpiece and. you never see their weapons, here is a photo of a long gun that is out. can you tell us a little bit about what happened here? >> sure, i remember president bush coming back from a visit out of town. we came back to the white house, typically once you get inside the gates of the white house there is a little sense of relief that you have accomplished your mission. there is a little bit of a deep breath. but, just as we were pulling up to the oval office area where the president gets out. you've seen it many times in the brass. we are going to walk up to the oval office, we got over the radio there was a fence jumper. the fence jumper was over on the east part of the complex by the treasury building. i was sitting in the right front seat of the limousine and i had to turn back to the president and say we have a funds jumper, we are going to have to stay here in th

abc news white house correspondent kelly o'donnell. white house correspondent association vice president and npr news correspondent tim eric keats -- tamara keats. karen travers. justin frank of bloomberg news. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome white house press secretary jen psaki. [applause] tonight's headliner and host of the daily show, trevor noah. [applause] the president and chief executive officer of cbs, mr. george cheeks. and the president of the white house correspondents association, cbs news radio correspondent stephen portnoy. [cheering] ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the nation's colors presented by the joint armed forces color guard and please remain standing or our national anthem performed by the united states marine band. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> present arms. ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ ♪ >> now, ladies and gentlemen, the president of the white house correspondents' association, stephen portnoy. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen, thank you to the band into the sergeant. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the white house

everyone at the white house is so excited. i told my grandkids, pete houthi judge that he could watch tonight. questions over whether we should gather with covid. we are telling the country we are ready to get through the pandemic. plus, everyone had to prove they were fully vaccinated and boosted. if you are at home watching this, and you're wondering how to do that, just contact your favorite fox news reporter. they're all here, vaccinated and boosted, all of them. [laughter] fox news, i am really sorry your preferred candidate lost the last election. to make it up to you, i am happy to give my chief of staff to you also he could tell sean hannity what to say everyday. ron klain is here. mick mulvaney. next, on cbs, i was tom. -- stunned. i know this is a tough town. i expected it, i just hoped it would be from republicans. i am not worried about the midterms. i'm confident we can work it out during my remaining six years in the presidency. folks, i am not here to roast the gop, that's not my style, besides there's nothing i

except it was at the white house. i think the example that most people know is the one that actually did get a lot of media coverage. stanley's image of john junior under the resolute desk, playing while kennedy is sitting at the desk. >> that's a famous one. >> iconic. >> yeah. >> we are going to move on, actually, to that section of the exhibit now. scenes. and obviously that is so here we are in the next exhibit. let's call this one, behind the scenes. obviously that is what we are seeing here. these are portraits. some from the official white house photographers, really giving us an inside look as to what life was like in the white house for the children. it's just like your family albums at home. >> you have pictures of your kids in their halloween costumes, hey we are walking outside the house. you know? it just happens to be the white house. [laughs] we do have a few official able to that were taken specifically for the media. this was taken for one of the photojournalist by stanley trebek. it just illustrates

stay at the white house overnight. for political reasons one he was married to a white woman and two he was african-american and jfk worried about the political implications of having sammy davis jr. this great celebrity stay at the white house. so it's a story. it's a it's a it's a long story that has major implications and the lincoln assassination changes. i think they're the trajectory of that story and you know, i don't do counterfactuals and i don't know what would have been different it had lincoln lived, but what i do try to show is that for a brief period for four years the white house is different than it was before and it's different than it would be for a long time afterd

seung min kim, the white house reporter for the washington post. and susan page, washington bureau chief for usa today. it's so good to see both of you at the table, and you, manu, remotely. we are so glad to have you here with us tonight. let's start by talking about that package that the white house is asking for. remind us, how much are they asking for, and what is in that package? seung min: when they initially put forward that request to congress, they had asked for more than $22 billion to cover the cost of additional therapeutics, vaccines, all these essentials the country needs to continue fighting this pandemic. several months ago they were supposed to put it in this must pass package in congress to fund the government, but that got left out over disputes on how to pay for it. now we are looking at this orphan package. because of protests from republicans, that already $22 billion has been sliced by more than half. now we are talking about $10 billion. there are a lot of other complications. the biggest company and with that package is rep

but afternoon, welcome to the white house. i'm very excited that you hear today with me and thank you in advance for sharing your stories and your thoughts about your struggles and trials. i want to help children everywhere to be their best. so with your help. we can achieve positive results. so before we start i would like to ask each of you introduce yourself. and then you could start them maybe share some hobbies or the story that you want to share with me as we see here. we have a two boards on. on my rights i put down some of the towards that we need to live by in everyday life and on the left. we have a board that is empty and what i would like is have three of you to come up and maybe share your emotions how you feel maybe in school how you feel at home or with your peers so we could have them discussion and you tell me your thoughts and i will tell you my thoughts. so maybe i could be the first one and tell you what i feel today. instead good. yes, perfect. so i feel today very excited. and thankful because you're here

out of the white house complex. ten years later, president obama went over on one of those missions unfortunately, i had the experience from watching nick and how is teamwork it. and the rule was, if it leaked out, we would not do all the stops. we would limit the time on the ground. and as we were leaving turkey to go to iraq, it did leak out. so, once again, you're in a position where you have to make a recommendation which you know is not popular, but and the recommendation was, we just go to the military base and there was a lot of discussions about it. but once again, at that point, the obama administration, there was a pretty big discussion on air force one and they were very supportive. and it means a lot to the agents, of course, when you get that kind of support. >> [inaudible] could i [inaudible] infer second. >> go ahead. >> on that trip, what's joe didn't mention, joe was a special agent in charge of president on bomber. i was's sister director. and we were leaving, as he said, from istanbul to go to afg

there were a lot of momentous occasions in the white house life. i think jimmy's grace's treatment was his humans rights policy. which called for freedom for people and the right that they have around the world. i think that since his presidency, that human rights policy has continued. i think as far as that is concerned, we are better off because our country changed the way we conduct foreign policy. we take human rights in these countries and consideration. our relationships with different countries. i think we are better off in that way. as far as freedom around the world, there are lots of people that are not free. we have a lot of programs with the carter center of our grid culture, health programs, and some of the developing countries of the world. we see that the people are not free. too many wars. too much suffering. i think anything we can do to help people have a better and for your life, our country should do it. we should do it. we try to do at the carter center. >> it was awful. i look back now and i have memories. just waiting for the

the white house isn't doing enough to solve the crisis. >> the white house said they've been working on this for months and months but it didn't appear that way since we got to such a crisis point. >> it certainly doesn't. the baby formula issue is shocking to america. the political ramifications are profound. the biden administration knew about it in february. whatever came afterwards and the investigations determine the buck stops in the oval office. >> harris: somebody woke them up. rachel campos-duffy is a mom of nine and co-host of "fox & friends" weekends super mom. when you see the legacy media going after this president and the white house what does it tell you? >> wow, it says this is really a kitchen table issue that no one can ignore. it is. it's unbelievable and amazing to see them tout our great u.s. military flying baby formula from europe to -- back to the united states as some sort of political win for them. it is embarrassing. it is as bad as our country begging the mullahs and communists in venezuela for oil when we could produce it ourselves. it just feels like one

house or the biden white house. and certainly you would agree that there was vaccine available before joe biden became president. >> yeah, of course. i mean, he got vaccinated, and others got vaccinated. so i mean, i think from a pure accuracy, that's not a correct statement. but i mean, you know, it just went out. i'm sorry, there's nothing i could do about that, jake. >> all right. well, i think you have done something by pointing out it's inaccurate. dr. fauci, thank you so much. have a good weekend. >> coming up, israeli police beat mourners at a funeral procession for a palestinian american journalist who had been killed. the shocking video and what led to the attack. that's next. erie-style chicken. it's sweet, it's tangy, it's tender, it never misses. you could say it's t the steph curry of footlongs. you could, but i'm not gonna. subway keeps refreshing and refreshing and re... (vo) every business, big or small, coast to coast, needs internet that can keep up with its demands. verizon has fast, reliable inte

why the next white house press secretary may look jen look moderate and reasonable. but first, hello. inflation is the biggest problem facing the nation right now with prices surging at their fastest pace in nearly 40 years. but instead of finding measures to bring it under control, the biden administration spent most of last year finding someone to blame for it. >> our prices are rising because of putin's actions. it's no excuse to exercise excessive price increases or padding profits. the reason for inflation is the supply chains were cut off. gerry: well, nice tries, but somehow no one seemed to believe that agreedty corporations just suddenly decided last year to gouge their customer or that vladimir putin could be responsible for a surge in inflation that started a year before his invasion of ukraine or that it was all about global supply chains when other countries were not experiencing anything like the increase in prices here in the u.s. so now when we learned that the rate of inflation stayed stubbornly over 8% last month, they finally identified the real cu

ashley, why did the white house cave, was it your pressure? >> ashley: i think they underestimated the american people and those paying attention to their calculated, orchestration to mislead the public. mayorkas said he is effectively controlling the borders, policies are not contributing to the surge. nothing to see here, don't worry, american people, i've got you. those paying attention knows it's disaster. we hit record number of those coming over the border last month. if title 42 goes away in less than a week, it will double that number, over 500,000 people a month. they knew, they had told border patrol not to talk to media a year ago when numbers had risen to 172,000 a month. now they came up with an idea of disinformation board and in his word, to address migration to see if we can snow the american people. i think americans have had enough. i've had enough. as an attorney general that has had to stand up and push back on this overreaching by this administration to destroy our institutions, i think you are going to see a november like

and does the white house like to get involved in the negotiation? i don't -- karine: i don't have anything to preview about upcoming meetings at the white house this week or in coming weeks. we leave the mechanics up to senator schumer and speaker pelosi. we are confident that senator schumer will bring this forward. it is time for congress to act. this is what the president has been calling for since the beginning of his administration and that is what we encourage congress to do. reporter: senator schumer was talking about 1-about 10 days. karine: we leave the mechanics to senator schumer. once -- we want action. that is what we are calling for, but we leave it to the democratic leadership to figure out how to move this forward. reporter: did the president talk to other officials in texas about what happened? karine: i don't have any calls to preview. the president and first lady are looking forward to meeting with families, community leaders when they are there sunday. we have an trying to give the families time to grieve. this just happened two

white house. i want to press you on this because you understand how this works in practice. does this mean, do you think this could mean boots on the ground in that region in taiwan? or are we talking about a contract being sent and the white house to justify what it said? >> i think that we can safely say jake sullivan got on his cell phone as fast as possible to talk to his chinese counterpart the moment those words came out of the president's mouth. why? for our viewers up learning about this, the u.s. does not have official diplomatic relations with taiwan. we recognize the government in beijing. we do, however, help supply weapons and have said taiwan should have a right to defend itself. so the suggestion that the u.s. would militarily intervene should china take an aggressive move towards taiwan is something the administration has not done. the cleanup on aisle nine and especially as you point out in the context president biden saying that the burden to protect taiwan is "even stronger" in

>> and moving into the white house. well, yes. and they were the first couple to move into the white house. but nobody stayed terribly long. they weren't impressed. i think abigail, in some ways, embodies another part of partnership that diana is talking about. she really wasn't interested in what they would call presiding. so, she adopted martha's innovations and ceremonies rather dutifully, but the role that abigail played was really that of advisor. she really was her husband's closest adviser. and in the spirit of republican virtue, that's small r republican virtue, john adams made a terrible decision not to change his cabinet, so he ended up with a cabinet full of traitors all working behind his back, that he was always relying on abigail, but in that particular circumstance, she really was his very closest adviser. >> and that's fascinating that you mentioned that, catherine. because really, coming up to modern first ladies and contemporary first ladies in terms of personnel issues, we know for example that nancy reagan so i

so really, as the white house, the white house is the people's house. i think it is really important to see that every american sees their stories reflected in the white house. their stories, their ancestors stories, they should be able to see themselves in the building. that speech by michelle obama caused a lot of people to head our way to find more information about slavery in the white house. and we really didn't have a lot of that information available at the time. and so us launching our slavery in the presidents neighborhood initiative is an effort to correct that, to add the voices into the narrative, to put them in conversation with first ladies, first families, and the presidents themselves. they are essential to white house history, and american history! they are not just witnesses to white house history they are deeply involved. one of my favorite stories, and things that is sort of a correction, and enslaved man for president james madison, paul jennings, he wrote the first white house memoir. it's a pretty remarkable read, and in it he act

attention looked at slavery in the white house. so 10 different families had brought in slave servants and part of the reason some of them did it was that congress was so tight with the money for running the household and they had to use a lot of their own money. it was just they would bring their own enslaved servants with them to say, you know on the funds so we look in this chapter starting with martha washington and the contributions those early southern first ladies made to systemic racism. and then we get into. you know mary lincoln who has an african freed woman who is her dressmaker and she is giving money to the freed slaves who have come to the dc area and are living hand to mouth and she's taking her own money and supporting them then you get up to eleanor roosevelt. you know who did amazing things and was actually on a hit list by the ku klux klan they had a bounty on her head for what she was doing to promote civil rights and to bring the issue of lynching out lady bird johnson's incredible whistle stop tour after the

first, hillary vaughn, live at the white house with the latest from there. >> the white house says president biden's face-to-face with the fed chair is to not try to persuade powell to hike interest rates faster or the fed to do a better job getting a handle on inflation, but instead they insist the president believes it's the fed's job to fight inflation and not the president's job to meddle in the middle of it. >> my plan is address inflation, starts with the simple proposition, respect the fed, resuspect the fed's independence, which i have done and will continue to do. >> larry summers, a former white house economic adviser under president obama says he thinks the fed flubbed the response to inflation early on. >> i do think there needs to be considerable soul searching at the fed as to how they missed this as badly as they did. >> republicans say the fix for inflation raising interest rates is not an economic cure without its own side effects. >> put jerome powell in a box. they have to raise interest rates. makes it harder to buy a home, usually the stock market goes down as we have se

coolidge had a very pristine white house even a laid off the white house housekeeper could see that they spent too much because he was asking is he said the people to cut the budget federal budget then he must cut his white house budget as well and the big character thing that he did was he was rather popular contrary to what history books suggests now. and so he easily could have run again in 19. 28 he chose not to run why because he was trying to convey that office. is more important than man? i'm not as an lbj or of course roosevelt who said the elections about moi, you know. coolidge wanted to receive to in order to make the office more respectful. we live in a republic of laws. not men. and that that was a tough decision not to run because the party didn't exactly thank him for it when a candidate is very popular. he has big coattails. well coolidge did it. anyhow, there were other factors including illness his wife and so on but the main factor was he wanted to make like george washington rather than make like theodore roosevelt who said he wouldn't run again and then did and also

let's bring in our chief white house correspondent cecilia vega, live at the white house tonight. cecilia? >> reporter: david, at 8:15 eastern, that is when the president is going to address the nation. those flags, you mentioned, they are lowered right here behind me here at the white house. the president spoke to the nation after that horrific were shot and killed and two adults, including a fourth grade teacher. we now learned the teacher's name, eva mireles. the governor identifying the shootering a 18-year-old salvador ramos. ramos shot and killed his own grandmother before going to that school. president biden just returned to the white house tonight. he spoke with governor abbott while onboard air force one. the white house saying the president has promised any and all assistance. the president lowering glags to half staff at the white house and of course, it was just ten games ago, he ordered flags lowered following the mass shooting in new york. uvalde is a rural town of fewer than 20,000 people. you can see it's not far from the mexico border. some of the children were t

will the white house speak up? >> john: nobody better to ask than kayleigh mcenany just ahead. >> sandra: who is behind the groups attacking the supreme court. kelly o'grady has that for us. >> hi, sandra, about dark money. liberals have long accused conservatives are funding, but now their own agenda and playing out how groups are targeting the supreme court. white house linked dark money group demand justice pushing to expand the court and a number of groups like ruth sent us and for choice, aim at the pending decision and you find yourself down a rabbit hole hopping from organization to organization, some dark money experts say the source is the george soros' backed arabella advisors. an they can produce little pop-up entities that are based on the issues of today. so, whether or not, if today we are dealing with the supreme court draft leak, in a week we might be dealing with something else. >> it's not a new tactic, just a new focus. hundreds of millions were raised in 2020, majority donated by dems, and now c

reflections on your time in the white house, this white house. anyway. i will start. first, if you'd like to make a few brief opening remarks, the floor is yours. jen: sure. thank you for that. and thank you all for the opportunity and for seeing you all this morning. i would first say that i, having been here, having worked in the white house before, i have -- and worked in the press office and the communications team before, i came into this job knowing and understanding some aspects of it and -- but also coming into it at a time where trust in media, trust in institutions had been completely crazed and recognizing that at no other time in modern history, that part of my job was going to be to try to re-establish and rebuild trust with the public and trust in institutions and trust in the media. when you say that sometimes people say, well, but you're on a different side. and in many ways, we are. but i think what i tried to do, some days i did, some days i did not, is re-establish the briefing room as a place where there's information shared, we're peeling back the

it is a very different situation right now, obviously in the white house even if all of this help white house set with a teleprompter joe biden still bumables around and gets confused and embarrasses himself and by default america. whether you are a united states citizen, a friend or foe to america it does not make you feel good that the leader of the free world doesn't even basically have control of himself. doesn't make you feel like he is really in control of anything else. >> joey: on that topic real quick, if this is all withholding his hand and keeping him on script it kind of makes you wonder if he believes some of the things he is saying like with roe v. wade. >> yeah, i mean i think a lot of stuff joe is probably prescripted for him. hand him a little note. unfortunately we could figure that out if they would let the press do their job, ask questions and the press would do their job. man, could you imagine if they gave joe biden a third of the questions that they had given to president donald trump. very different scenario. >> carley: i have the numbers here biden 22 trump 92.

the white house threatens retaliation. we got it. critics say biden's new disinformation board should investigate the administration itself for information. where is the president, where is ag garland, why are they silent on illegal protests at homes of supreme court justices over abortion? tonight, why trying to normalize harassing the high court must stop now. it is literally a crime. judges, families have been attacked across the country. the house gop answer to the democrat culture wars, stop the u.s. crime wave spreading across the nation. now the gop ready to launch new legislation to stop democrats weak on crime policies, defund the police and how crime is connected to biden's border collapse. how will this play in the midterms? new developments in the hunter biden scandal, two prominent gop senators raise potential conflicts of interest in the government's case. stunning admission from the black lives matter cofounder that could blm in legal jeopardy. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit," it starts right now. ♪. eliz