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. it was her vision that at the young age of 31 to create an organization that would provide non-taxed by your funding to maintain the museum stand him off 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, it's a mission established by mrs. kennedy still guides our work and our offerings, earlier this month in the south of the time -- in new york. the evening featured powerful and poignant remarks from 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 all worker served as a master of ceremonies for the evening. we've had performances from the great coat five foot five and drum court, metropolitan opera soprano brandi sutton, and the nyu start school, which we have a new partnership with, provided

yeah, which is about the white house gardens in the white house grounds. it's really an extraordinary issue. so thank you all for coming. have a safe travel home. i hope you all are having a good time. we'll start our second panel today. first i want to introduce the moderator our very own colleen shogun. who is the senior vice president at the david m rubinstein national center for white house history of the white house historical association? dr. shogun is

the white house is also known as the peoples house, that really means the white house grounds are the peoples ground. if you start to think about it that way it is not so far removed from a typical suburban home. typically, suburban homes, mine included, have a more formal or dressy front lawn, that would be the north grounds of the white house facing pennsylvania avenue. and a more private, less formal, backyard. that is the larger south grounds looking down towards the washington monument. that is pretty much what happens at the white house today. >> let's get to the issue of just how sacrosanct are the white house grounds? are they untouchable. you are a historian, i am a journalist, neither one of us is a politician but first ladies, especially in the modern era, they want to go around changing things. there is resistane to that. i think it is fair to say people have had an opinion about melania trump's recent rose garden renovation. the history of that site, the rose garden is a fairly historic white house grounds 1962 is not that long ago. and previous to that time there were di

how do you make the white house, how do you make the white house accessible to the people? she looked for different ways to say who is being excluded. one thing she was -- she felt there were all these people living in washington dc and they passed the white house every day and they never saw it so she had eliminated. in 1970, the white house was eliminated for the first time in the evening. then they opened up so the working people could come and visit the white house. this is misses nixon leading one of the tours. she also revived of pre-world war ii event by opening it for one weekend in the spring and fall. it had been closed since pearl harbor. she revised the tradition in 1973. as you had seen in the previous pictures, misses nixon was very interested in trying to make children feel at home, to make for undignified -- dignitaries at home. we can't see the tour guides, but she is speaking to a group of tour guides. she was insistent that one of the things that the tour guides had to do was make sure that they spoke facing the people that the tours that they were leadin

white house mansion. please join me in welcoming our panelists to the stage for our final panel today. [applause] >> put me in the middle here, i don't like this. >> well, thank you sarah, for that wonderful introduction. it's been a pretty incredible day. heard some fascinating insights from different people. i know this will be a fitting conclusion to our symposium. before we get into our conversation about preservation of the white house, i figured we should share a little bit about history behind these preservation efforts at the white house. and some of the challenges that we face. in addition to being the home and office of america's head of state, the white house also must serve as a ceremonial stage and as a museum. all while continuing to function on a daily basis as a home for the first family. the white house is not frozen in time. rather, it is a historic place where history is constantly unfolding. this makes the task of preservation even more challenging when the historic site you seek to pr

to the white house to meet with the president. now, in the lincoln years, african americans feel that they have that right as well, to go and meet with the president. >> and it's brand-new, right? you make at least a couple mentions, once or twice, previous to that, african american people have been in the white house to entertain or something like that. they had always been, you know, abused. >> right. i found, i did as much research as i could on this, and i found a handful of instances where african americans go to the white house as either guests or not as a servant. in one, case jefferson met with an african american went to the white house and said, hey, one of the white house servant stole my coat and i wanted back, and jefferson gave it back to him. madison met with paul cuffe, daniel pane meets john tyler in 1833 or 34 and doesn't have a very positive experience. one of the things i show is that african americans were more likely to be bought and sold as enslaved people by a sitting president then to be welcomed, prior to

kennedy's influence on the white house and her role establishing the white house historical association. but rarely do we get to hear that history from a first person perspective like we did from ambassador kennedy. many of our 1600 session followers know that the educational mission of the association is housed in the david m. rubenstein national center for white house history. so it is no surprise that our wonderful friend, david rubenstein, was a featured part of the gala's program. everybody in the room was moved by mr. reuben stone's powerful and poignant remarks as he spoke passionately about why the mission and work of the white house historical association is important to support. >> the white house that we know is much different than that one that was originally designed. that the one that was originally designed was much smaller in many ways, as many of you may know, it's changed over the years and in fact, at one point it was so dilapidated and falling apart that it was completely gutted, completely gutted, when harry treatment was president, and they started all over again k

cherished memories of our friends our staff and our time at the white house. thank you for joining us at this moment of reflection and celebration. may god bless you all. thank you for joining us on american history tv for laura bush and her own words next week michelle obama a lawyer mother of two daughters and the nation's first african american first lady first ladies in their own words is also available as a podcast and you can find it wherevand i am so excited to be introducing our amazing first lady michelle obama. well oh. well, hey there. you guys are pretty fired up, right? i like that. i like that. and if people wonder yes, hillary clinton is my friend. she is been a friend to me in barack and malia and sasha and bill. chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day. my husband took the oath of office. some campaigning for hillary and i know that there's some folks out there who have commented that. it's been unprecedented for a sitting first lady to be so actively engaged in a presidential campaign. and and that may be true. but what's

white house mansion. please join me in welcoming our panelists to the stage for our final panel today. [applause] >> put me in the middle here, i don't like this. [laughs] >> well, thank you sarah, for that wonderful introduction. it's been a pretty incredible day. heard some fascinating insights from different people. i know this will be a fitting conclusion to our symposium. before we get into our conversation about preservation of the white house, i figured we should share a little bit about history behind these preservation efforts at the white house. and some of the challenges that we face. in addition to being the home and office of america's head of state, the white house also must serve as a ceremonial stage and as a museum. all while continuing to function on a daily basis as a home for the first family. the white house is not frozen in time. rather, it is a historic place where history is constantly unfolding. this makes the task of preservation even more challenging when the historic site you s

kennedy ended up at the white house. and mrs. kennedy realized that this was a home, the peoples house, as she would call it. it was badly in need of historic restoration. she believed that the white house should represent the very best of america. artisans, craftsman, decorative arts, fine arts, furnishings. and so, she took that on as her project over the course of the next three years, cut short tragically by the assassination of president kennedy. but when she put in place that is still the legacy of her influence of historic preservation at the white house, acquisitions for the collection and actually education, that's a key part of our mission. and we are mrs. kennedy's living legacy at the white house today. well, it was those 61 years ago that we were founded by her. and today we continue to undertake that work. my colleague, colleen at that david rubenstein is two for history, which is the educational part of our work. we publish books, we published a quarterly magazine, we have conferences, symposia, book events like th

about the white house garden the white house grounds. it's really an extraordinary issue. so, thank you all for coming, have a safe travel home! [applause] we continue now at the white house historical association's discussion on the presidency and historic preservation. up next, the contribution of women in preserving the white house and other presidential sites. >> i hope you are having a good time. we will start our second panel today. first, i want to introduce the moderator, our very own colleen shogan. who is a senior vice president at the david m. rubenstein national center for national history of the white house historical association. doctor shogan is a trained political scientist, with a ph. d. in american politics from yale university, as well as a bachelors degree in political science from boston college. she has almost 15 years of service and the federal government, including prominent roles with the u.s. senate as well as the library of congress. doctor shogan teaches government students at georgetown university and served as vice chair of the women suffrage

is that something the white house is for? karine: i am not going to comment on this. >> has the president focus -- spoken to the attorney general today? karine: i'm not going to speak further on any conversations. there's no calls for me to preview. again, just not going to comment on any ongoing criminal investigations. >> when it comes to student loans and the current pause on the payments, that are set to expire thin of the month. a lot of followers told us they feel they have been left in limbo, meaning it is difficult to plan financially. is there any update on that? when can they expect that and will it just be another extension or what is on the table? karine: the president spoke to this two weeks ago about the student loan and his decision. he said by the end of august. we are still at the beginning, getting into the middle of august. when he is ready to make that decision we will let you know. >> oh would you say to the borrowers -- what would you say to the borrowers? karine: we have been clear on this. the presiden

white house historical association. and for those of you watching by c-span. thank you for your interest in our work and our mission and telling these important stories of white house history. the book is available. mark is available to sign. thank you so much have a good evening.

big questions for the white house. of course as well for the doj at this hour about that raid on mar-a-largo. >> i've been in the room when you have big news days like this and reporters want answers. the press secretary has something to say. we'll see what the karine jean-pierre has the say when it's 3:05. wisconsin voters are heading to the polls today. tim michaels is up against clay fish, pitting donald trump against mike pence. grady trimble has more. how are the candidates spending election day? >> mike, both candidates started getting out the vote first thing this morning because they know this race is going to come down to the wire. tim michaels is a construction company executive and never held a possession in elected office before. he's former president trump's topic. trump attacked his opponent at a rally friday night calling her a political insider. that opponent is rebecca clayfish. she served with governor scott walker, both me and former vice president mike pence have endorsed her. clayfish says her care

trisha was the first white house daughter to have her shower given in her honour by a member of the white house press corps. helen thomas was the hostess of the party at which mrs. nixon and others were honored guests. other guests included members of mrs. nixon's staff and women reporters. one of tricia's gifts appeared to be a gift of sympathy for the couple's desire to be anonymous. to the amusement of all, she dawned this disguise. on june 4th, at washington's beautiful anderson house, mrs. william p. rogers, wife of the secretary of state, hosted a reception. ambassador's acosta led the way through the receiving line. the ambassador himself was unable to be there. trisha graciously accepted the ambassadors gifts. in his remarks, the president expressed this wish for her's daughters husband and his daughter. >> it is my wish for the bride and groom after the wedding ceremony to live their own lives. but second, more than anything else, the chance to know the world as i've had a chance to know it. i look forward at a time where this will truly be an open world where they will have the

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

they had a very close relationship even after she left the white house. a very different personality, kind of night and day. that is what i found so interesting in researching them both. i see mrs. nixon as teeing women's issues up and betty puts them in the spotlight. mrs. nixon was very private, did not like the spotlight. i think mrs. ford perhaps enjoyed the spotlight more. an interesting contrast because they were dear friends even though they were quite different. >> i think -- we could go on. we may do this again in a non-problematic way. i would like to thank linda and the first rose garden wedding. the naval photographic center produced this film. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> one of the most important days in tricia nixon's life was drawing to a close. the wedding was over but a w life and career as mrs. edward finch cox was just commencing. at a press conference tricia once said speedy the most important thing is love but love -- you can't really define it. you can say i i love this aboa person, i love this -- intelligent -- [in

with white house counsel, lawyers, and mr. tony arnoldo, who served as the white house deputy chief of staff. she also worked on a daily basis with members of the secret service posted in the white house. in short, she was in a position to know a great deal about the happenings in the trump white house. she has already set for for videotape interviews with committee investigators and we thank her very much for her cooperation and for her courage. we will cover certain but not all relevant topics within our knowledge today. our future hearings will supply greater detail, putting the testimony today in a broader and more complete context. today you will hear her relate certain first-hand observations of his conduct on january 6. you will also hear new information regarding the actions and statements of mr. trump's senior advisor's that day. including his chief of staff mark meadows and white house counsel. we will begin to examine evidence bearing on what president trump and members of the white house staff knew about the prospe

she poured herself into restoring and re-modeling the white house. enhancing its elegance and beauty. now at a time when elected officials had not only working relationships, but your friendships across the aisle, democratic speaker tip o'neal praised her efforts on a visit to the executive residence saying, the white house has never looked better. nancy reagan cared deeply about the health and well-being of fellow americans. perhaps her best known initiative was leading americas campaign against drug abuse. it is a bit ironic that a woman who would never take no for an answer would ask an entire nation to just say no. new we well still first lady, she received a frightening diagnosis of breast cancer. through her own personal trial including public decision to undergo a radical insect to me, she devoted herself to raising greater awareness to breast cancer and inspired generations of women in their own battle against the disease. and after the white house, when her husband was struck with alzheimer's disease, hers was the strongest voice and support

this is from january 1997 in the white house roosevelt room. thank you, and please be seated and welcome to the white house. i am pleased to see all of you here today for the presentation of this report of the presidential advisory committee on gulf war veterans illnesses. the work of this committee reflects the administration's commitment to finding answers for the thousands of brave men and women suffering from undiagnosed illnesses after serving in the persian gulf war. and it reflects the president's abiding commitment to being responsive to and responsible for our veterans and their families. i know that there are members who are here of the commission and i'd like them if they would just to stand so that we could see all they're all standing good. we appreciate very much the time and effort that went into this service, and i know firsthand how important and difficult your task has been over the last four years the president and i have received many heart-wrenching letters from gulf war veterans and family members. many veterans and their

house, because we hear obviously at the white house historical association and melissa, i know you've done some research recently and a presentation about some of the first ladies prior to jacqueline kennedy who engaged in preservation efforts at the white house. can you share with us some of those lesser known stories and where these women really the necessary predecessors to what we see eventually realized under the kennedy administration? >> sure. i would be happy to talk about it. absolutely, i absolutely think the story of historic preservation often begins and ends with jacqueline kennedy, and there were certainly many precedents that were in place when she became first lady in 1861. and so, many first ladies were involved in this effort, but i wanted to highlight a few today. look at the first slide, the first first lady who really deserves the credit of promoting historic preservation at the white house was felicia hayes, lucy hayes, and her husband rutherford b. hayes came into office quite controversial-y in 1877. but first of all, i want to point out that she appears 84 yea

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

she lived in the white house. the concession statement she delivered on behalf of a horse president gerald ford ending. the 1976 campaign was not the end of her own political life. she continued to her work to improve the lives of those facing breast cancer and substance abuse focusing a spotlight once taboo topics. she built a friendship and policy partnership with the woman who followed her into the white house rosalyn carter an advocate for the mentally ill. and she revealed that she'd lobbied her husband to name a woman to the supreme court and to his 1976 re-election ticket. betty ford was fond of saying she was known to have an opinion or two you'll hear directly from her featuring footage from c-span's video library. let's listen to her now in her own words. the equal rights amendment when ratified will not be an instance solution to women's problems. it will not alter the fabric of the constitution. are forced women away from their families? it will help knock down those restrictions that have locked women

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

the white house historical association? dr. shogun is a trained political scientist with a phd in american politics from yale university as well as a bachelor's degree in political science from boston college. she has almost 15 years of service in the federal government including prominent roles with the us senate as well as the library of congress, dr. shogun teaches government students at georgetown university and served as vice chair of the women's suffrage centennial commission. another feather in her cap in an illustrious resume is that she currently serves as a co-chair of the board of directors at the women's suffrage national monument foundation designated by the congress to build the first memorial in dc dedicated to the history of the movement for women's equality. it's a huge deal. to begin with our panelists we have elaine rice bachmann, who is the state archivist of maryland and a co-author of a wonderful book designing camelot published by the white house historical association, and i'm proud to say it was lau

the white house says it found out the same way we all did. what reaction are you getting out of the white house to this search? >> reporter: exactly, aaron. the white house yesterday saying they learned the reported action just like everyone else. they had no advanced notice and they also referred everybody to the department of justice which, if you ask legal experts, that's exactly how something like this is supposed to work. it wouldn't have been something that would have been common for the white house to know of this search and seizure of the former president's home in mar-a-lago. today they are not talking about this either. they're very focused on the legislation that the president just signed on the south lawn where we did attempt to ask questions to see if he could hear us and provide a reaction. it's a little tricky sometimes when the music is playing, and it's unclear he could hear them, although he did look in our direction and seemed to know what we were asking about. if i can predict, what the white house is going to continue to

house advisers, his white house counsel, his campaign, all told him the 2020 election was not stolen. this appears to have changed the strategy for defending donald trump, while the argument seems to be the president trump was manipulated by others outside the administration. that he was persuaded to ignore his closest advisers, and, that he was incapable of telling right from wrong, this new strategy is to try to blame only john eastman, or sydney powell, or congressman scott perry, or others, and not president trump. in this version the president was, quote, poorly served by this outside advisers, they strategy is to blame people his advisers called, quote, the crazies. for what donald trump did, this, of course, is nonsense. president trump is a 76 year old man, he is not an impressionable child. just like everyone else in our country, he is responsible for his own actions and his own choices. as our investigation has shown, donald trump had access to more detailed and specific information, showing that the election was not actually stolen, than almost any other american, and he w

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

and the trump white house felt? . i haven't spent that much time in the biden white house, but i've got some more questions about this and i think that it's-- i think it's hard-- it's just as hard to cover trump as it is to cover biden. people think in a way that it was, by covering trump was easy pickings and there's so much, so many things, you know, to details to learn and to collect. the problem with covering trump 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 meetings or school board meetings or you know, state legislative committee hearings, never have i been anywhere where-- except the trump white house, eight people go into a meeting and 12 versions of what happened in the meeting emerged afterwards. i mean, to understand what was happening behind the scenes, you needed to talk to almost everybody who was in the room to have an understanding of what happened because there were so many rivalries

okay, and we want you to feel welcome here at the white house. which really is as the admiral said it's the people's house. it belongs to all of us. so just remember that okay. and as the people's house, we believe the white house should be a place for learning and for sharing new and different ideas. sharing new forms of art and culture and history and different perspectives. we want you to visit and we want you to take advantage of these opportunities and maybe see something for yourselves that maybe you never thought you could do or be so i'm happy to welcome you here for our little black history month celebration. i'm glad you guys are here. so many milestones in black history have touched this very house. just to name a few. did you know that african-american slaves helped to build this house? you knew that? did you know that write upstairs in a bedroom called the lincoln bedroom president lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation that marked an important step forward and ending slavery. did you know that happened right here? you knew tha

can you take us inside the white house? you have covered this white house for a while. and what are -- this has been a pretty good week for president biden. are aides and people close to the president, are they optimistic, are they knocking on wood, are they nervous still? what is the mood, what are they saying? ashley: it's -- it's been a great week and a little -- almost a fortnite for president biden and funny this has yeon sided with him having covid and then having to re-- a rebound case of covid and having to sort of work from home as it were. although when your home is the white house, that's quite a potent place to work. and his team is very much -- has very much pushed back on the assertion, my colleague asked the press secretary in the briefing, you know, what do you make of the fact that biden has been isolating when all of this has come together including you haven't mentioned it yet but the strike on the trichet al-zawahri. their answer is -- they have laid the groundwork they would argue for this for months now. stuff like the chips bill and -- for theemic

our chief white house correspondent cecilia vega leading us off. >> reporter: at the white house today, a celebration that not long ago seemed almost impossible. president biden signing into law the landmark inflation reduction act, and then handing the pen to joe manchin, the democratic senator who once threatened to derail the entire thing. >> and joe, i never had a doubt. joe had an operation on his shoulder. i just want you to know it wasn't because of anything we did. >> reporter: it is a massive victory for a president facing record low approval ratings and a party hoping to avoid big losses in november's midterms. their goal? to convince americans that this will reduce inflation and help their bottom line. nearly $740 billion in all, with major investments in health care. expanding subsidies to help 13 million americans pay for insurance, and capping prescription drug prices for medicare recipients at $2,000 a year. and starting next year, ensuring they pay no more than $35 a month for insulin. it is also the largest investment in fighting climate change in u.s. history. rw clit

we want you to feel welcome here at the white house. which really is, as the admiral said, it's the people's house. it belongs to all of us. so, just remember that, okay? and, as the people's house, we believe the white house should be a place for learning and for sharing new and different ideas, sharing new forms of art and culture, and history, and a different perspectives. we want you to visit, and we want you to take advantage of these opportunities, and maybe see something for yourselves that maybe you never thought you could do or be. so, i am happy to welcome you here for our little black history month celebration. i am glad you guys are here. so many milestones in black history have touched this very house. just to name a few, did you know that african americans slaves helped to build this house? you knew that? did you know that right upstairs, in a bedroom called the lincoln bedroom, president lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation that marked an important step forward in ending slavery? did you know that happened right h

are they wrong or is this white house really painted in a corner. they can't do what they like to do because they are afraid what will happen in the midterm? >> part of the problem in white house faces the left, are calling for policies that are politically unpopular. they can't put together a good bipartisan compromise of a border security package because the left wants more liberalized immigration policy. this is true in lot of areas. you have these activist groups that are demanding politically unpopular positions and forcing a freeze because they don't want to piss off the left. >> kevin: in this circumstance, the white house has made clear, they love to do something they like partnership from republicans to do something, anything to try to solve the immigration issue. especially now because it's an acute problem. we're talking millions crossing the border since this president became the president of the united states. yet, they seem hand strong, they seem afraid to do a lot. is there anything that can be done? >> there's nothing can be done whe

so that is the white house. that's the latest from the white house and we'll get reaction in the afternoon goes on. it's the one let's bring back congressman mike gallagher, member of the house armed services committee. your thoughts on the bills the president is signing. he touted the fact that they are bipartisan. it's rare you get bipartisan cooperation in washington these days. what do you think about those two measures? >> well, i am all for going after fraud. we had the low estimate of $150 billion worth of theft of the unemployment plus. that number is actually probably 300 billion. it's astounding. this gets to the contradiction with the president said. he is the one who came into office and immediately spent $2 trillion unnecessarily on quote-unquote coronavirus release. a lot of that money is going to be wasted if not outright stolen. the second point come he continues to blame his predecessor, donald trump, for all the problems. he has been commander-in-chief for almost two years. they need to stop wi

cheney: you will hear from witnesses how the day played out inside the white house, how multiple white house staff resigned in disgust and how president trump would not ask his supporters to leave the capitol. it was only after multiple hours of violence that president trump finally released a video instructing the rightists mob to leave. as he did so he said to them, "we love you and you are very special." you will also hear that in the immediate aftermath of january 6, members of the president's family, white house staff, and others, tried to step in to stabilize the situation, "to land the claim before the presidential transition on january 20." you will hear about members of the trump cabinet discussing the popularity of invoking the 20 for the amendment and replacing the president of the united states. multiple members of president trump's own cabinet resigned immediately after january 6. one member of the cabinet suggested that the remaining cabinet officers need to take a more active role in running the white house and the administration. but most emblematic of those days is thi

welcome to the white house. i'm very excited to have you here today with me and thank you in advance for sharing your stories and your thoughts about your struggles and triumphs. 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 to introduce yourselves and then you could start and maybe share some hobbies or the story that you want to share with me. as we see here, we have two boards. on my right, i put down some of the words that we need to live by in everyday lives. 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 school, how you feel at home, or with your peers. so we could have then a discussion and you will 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. is that good? yes? perfect. so, i feel today very excited and thankful, beca

mj lee joins us from the white house. what does the administration say about the outcome in kansas for abortion rights nationally? >> there's no question that the white house is celebrating this news overnight from kansas, basically saying this isn't just about the state of kansas, but there is a bigger message about the rest of the country. president biden saying in a statement, in part, this vote makes clear what we know. the majority of americans agree that women should have access to abortion and should have the right to make their own health care decisions. now, this, of course, comes as the white house continues to deal with the fallout from the supreme court overruling roe v wade. in just a moment, we are going to see the president virtually address this issue executive order that he had issued. this is the second time he has done so since that historic decision. let me take you through some of the top headlines. he is directing the hhs to consider actions that would support women who now need to travel out of stat

positions on the white house including the one i held white house council, but also the chief of staff the staff secretary would say that. yes, they have an obligation support and defend the constitution of the united states, but they also part of their job is to preserve the president's political capital his reputation and his power and that's can be manifested in and i think one of the clearest mistakes and i can say this is a reagan alumni, although it wasn't the white house at the time and that was in the context of john hinckley's shooting of attempted assassination of president reagan the one book i would recommend is rawhide down which is a pretty clear example of what i would call an all-star group of white house staffers a number of whom are friends of mine who were who told a lot of us about how to run the white house, but they should have implemented the the 25th amendment and they did and and probably the most clear cut case in my lifetime and i i came to washington and 1973 to stay 18 months. i've been here ever since so it's that that is one of those cases conversely in t

in the white house and i have to give heath credit here. i told her this story in heath decided we needed to find her and then she she located anita mcbride who was first lady laura bush's chief of staff and anita knew how to find a curator to find wherever susan was buried in the basement of the white house. and she's she's now out of there and she's here. she's here. yeah, she came either yesterday or the day before he did. and so thank you for making that pleasure. and i got my own i saw her yesterday you can you can see her. she's installed in the permanent exhibit and and there she is and i was just so delighted to see see her after 50 years, but it was a great symbol. and i think she still is and now she's here on loan, which is great. we're to have her back. should we wrap things up here? perhaps and we are of course around to answer questions, but secretary franklin is an american hero and she is a rockstar so i would love to give my happy task is to introduce the distinguished panel of

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

justice susan knew it would be, and the call came from the white house. but unfortunately, the call came in on our private, childproof line, which had no extensions. and by child proof, i mean that it came with a, kind of, death threat to any child that tried to use it. under the circumstances, susan naturally sprinted upstairs to the phone and called her father, and then things began to get really confused. president nixon told jerry, he wanted to speak to both of us, and as my husband, asked to please pick up the extension. that is the nonexistent childproof extension. attempting to remain cool and controlled, jerry explained that problem, and he said, you know, to the president, please, can you call back, giving him our phone number. [laughs] then, he hung up. he came back downstairs, and said, you know, president nixon is going to call back because he wants to also have you on the phone when he speaks to me. we waited what's seems like an eternity. to this day, i wonder what we had done if the other phone hadn't run a few minutes later. i often wonder

but afternoon, welcome to the white house. i'm very excited that you hear today with me and thank you in