through the white house. and so mrs. bush had made sure that any of the resident's staff that were still working in the white house that had been there in the johnson time were there to greet mrs. johnson at the diplomatic reception room door when she stepped in. and in addition, one of the butlers that had worked for the johnsons, mr. german, was now a part-time elevator operator, operated the president's elevator in the white house, just a few days a week, mrs. bush made sure that he was there and that he was the one that greeted mrs. johnson when the door was opened of the car for her to get out. and the way that mrs. johnson reached up in recognition to embrace mr. german and how he embraced her, is really would just make you weep. but would also, the two last things that i'll just say about mrs. johnson's visit, her last visit to the white house, is, mrs. bush wheeled her into the vermeil room on the ground floor, which had just been repainted under one of the restoration projects that mrs. bush did, tha

white house. there is that shot that we're going to keep our eye on. he's en route to the white house. we do not know the status, though, of his employment at this moment. there's a lot of confusion over rod rosenstein after that bombshell report coming out friday night in "the new york times" that rosenstein is offering up his resignation or if he's expecting to be fired or some combination of both. we're waiting for more detail on this. let's go, as we do that, let's get over to cnn's senior congressional correspondent manu raju on capitol hill. manu, you can be sure a lot of folks are not reacting yet because they don't know what they're going to be reacting to. but this potential has been a topic of conversation for months on capitol hill. >> yeah, no question about it. republicans have actually been urging the president not to take this step of firing rod rosenstein even after that "new york times" report from friday, saying that doing so right now would cause a major distraction for the part

kennedy had been to the white house. he reportedly believed himself that he had been picked for the court. but then at the very last minute, conservative staffers in the reagan white house intervened and said no, no. we have a different guy we would prefer for the seat. better choice. somebody we like more. and so this man, who you see here with reagan, douglas ginsburg, he jumped to the head of the line and he got the nomination. and then it all fell apart. reagan didn't get him on to the court. and immediately everybody started to try -- everybody started trying to figure out who they were going to blame in the reagan white house for this political disaster. >> president reagan today suffered his second defeat in trying to fill a seat on the u.s. supreme court when the man he nominated only nine days ago, douglas ginsburg, asked that his name be withdrawn. it was an embarrassing admission of marijuana use that doomed ginsburg. white house officials knew he could never win confirmation. the front-runner to become the ne

you know, in the white house i was in, and previous white houses. there were people who had a longstanding association with a president there. there were bonds of trust that he simply hasn't had. other than with his own children, his daughter, and son-in-law, perhaps that's one of the reasons why he wanted him there. but it's very hard to run the united states government like your family business. and you need to rely on others and this is just a very toxic environment. >> you know, one of my favorite shows it on the weekend now, don't tell fareed, it's "the axe files." >> thank you, sir. i appreciate that. >> thank you. mr. david axelrod. enjoy l.a., whatever you're doing there. thank you. >> i will. >>> as the president rails against the writer tonight, is that writer courageous or is that writer a coward? ♪ introducing e*trade personalized investments professionally managed portfolios customized to help meet your financial goals. you'll know what you're invested in and how it's performing. so you can spend more time floating about on your infla

-- into the white house. then there was one elevator to go up but those were very tiny. it was better than nothing. it worked for me very well. i was given an additional room, that was the chocolate room of the white house. so you see, everything is possible to give it time. and the white house, i always said, was a place made for me. i love to work there because they let me produce whatever i wanted to. but all my desserts had a significance in some way. >> sometimes, we had desserts from italy. i find something special around the town and that will be duplicated in the pastry of course. i did that all the time, all the time, all the time. one of the first ladies, she was great. i loved to work for her because she knew what she wanted. personally, you better do what she asks you to do and do it the right way. there is nothing wrong there. again, i love to work with people like this. i would rather do that then people who say i do not know. the last one with mrs. reagan, we were doing sunday noon at the white

house stand on this privilege where no white house in the past has done this? but john i think the consequences here, this person will go on the supreme court at a time that we have a president who is under investigation, so legally exposed civilly and criminally and this judge said a president is above the law and cannot be sued or prosecuted so we should put the screws to him and find out if he can apply the law independently or recuse himself if necessary. >> i know why you think judge kavanaugh has said that and you may be right -- it was a law review article in the university of minnesota. >> what he says he was writing is that congress should pass a law which says that a president can't be investigated or indicted, not that judges should rule. now, he may rule that way. it may be a window into his ultimate thinking, i don't know but he's using the language of suggesting congress should pass a law to explain that away. you have been been accused congressman and you have admitted you're considering running for president in 2020. am i correct? >> i'm conside

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

which is that today with his white house in crisis over people within the white house expressing their dissatisfaction with the trump administration that when they have a meeting about that and when they have a discussion about that and when they reduce their suspect list to 12, that it is immediately leaked to "the new york times" that their suspect list has been reduced to 12. >> yeah. you know, of course it's also in their interest, perhaps, to make clear that anybody that might think about doing the same thing as this author that they are doing to respond, right? a white house wants to have discipline. they don't have any discipline, as we see in this white house at the moment. so they're trying to basically send a signal this will not be tolerated. there will be repercussions for anybody that might think about it. you can play it out a couple different ways. it is not clear whether this list or the idea of it will go any where. it is an indication of just how, you know, anxious in exercise this white house is, particularly because you have a president raging in volcanic terms abou

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

and white house officials saying that he was coming to the white house to resign. so neither of these two -- beneath neither of those statements is -- one or the other is right, they can't both be true. and they could reach some sort of compromise in which rosenstein agrees to stay on for some period of time. this is not merely the fact that this is the number two official at the justice department, that this is the official since the beginning that brought in robert mueller to be the special counsel and that he supervisors the special counsel's investigation. if rosenstein does end up leaving, we're told that the day to day supervision of the mueller investigation will fall to the tony general, who's not acting in -- and now we have noel francisco, who is now the u.s. solicitor general, who's basically the top courtroom advocate and the deputy attorney general's other work would wibe taken over by a man named ed o'callaghan, who is the so-called -- he's a long time federal bruprosecutor in new yo and also here in the main justice and national security division. so

first up, cnn's chief white house correspondent jim acosa, this book must be rocking the white house right now. >> reporter: there is certainly fear inside the white house over this book, wolf. the white house released a statement this afternoon slamming the book. sarah huckabee sanders saying, quote, this book is nothing more than fabricated stories many by former disgruntled employees told to make the president look bad but the book is the latest deep dive into the trump white house full of bombshells that reveal top administration officials are worried, deeply worried about the president's behavior. >> hello, bob. >> president trump, how are you? >> reporter: before the release of his new book on the trump white house, entild, fear, bob woodward managed to get the president on the phone. mr. trump's assessment of the woodward book, not good. >> sounds like this is going to be a bad one. >> reporter: there are devastating episodes throughout the book. woodward explains how the president's former lawyer john dowd attempted to do a mock interview with mr. trump to demonstrate how he

read, does it jibe with your experience in the white house? >> absolutely. what we're seeing are these themes emerging. you see these themes about his mental stability, about his ability to comprehend complex policies, his ability to lead. >> this hashtag you say you and other staffers used, tfa. what does that stand for? >> 25th amendment. >> and you used that in the context of what? >> we use it as a way to cope when donald trump would flip from one moment to the next. >> and back to the legal battle he pass pitched against the russia investigation and the open question about whether he and mueller will sit down for an interview, today ken starr, former independent counsel in the clinton investigation, was asked if he thought trump should speak with the special counsel. >> i think as the president of the united states, he should. my perspective is the president of the united states has an obligation to enforce and obey the law. >> we should tell you ken starr will be here in the studio with us on wednesday, and we will no doubt hear more fro

white house struggling to focus on the strong economy. the president mucking up the message with the false information forcing his top economists to come out and contradict the boss. trump wrote the gdp is higher than the unemployment rate in years. that is not true. it happened a lot of times. at the briefing, his top economist cleaned it up. >> what is true is that it's the highest in ten years and at some point somebody probably conveyed it to him adding a zero. they shouldn't have done that. at least numbers here at the white house and we are grateful. when the press finds mistakes, we are grateful. >> from the white house, they are grateful when the press finds mistakes from the president. you heard it here. it is not ten years. it is about 12 years. anyway, 56 days until the midterms. the economy should be a strong selling point. his tendency to exaggerate and embellish. he goes for superlatives. the best economy in history. you see the poll numbers. it is not translating outside of that specific point. >> i'll bathe in that for a w

lincoln used to drive goats down a corridor in the white house. amy carter roller skated in the east room. alice roosevelt gambled, partied and was even seen wearing a live snake. this led her father teddy r roosevelt to say i can be president of the united states or i can control alice. i cannot possibly do both. many presidential have gone on to great things, two presidential children have later become presidents themselves. other children of presidents and their children have made contributions to american life representing a wide variety of fields including educators and enlt faentertainers, activities and artists. steve ford even became a national villian as the boyfriend who broke meg ryan's heart in "when harry met sally." we've been honored to have over 40 descendents of american presidents join us. the unique representatives are from james monroe to george w. bush. and amazingly, it's going to be here in a few minutes, but we'll be a few degrees removed from the tenth president of the united states john tyler. he served from 1841 to 1845.

is this just the white house being sloppy? does this reflect on don mcgahn who was the one who was pulling all the names and making the suggestions for supreme court nominees to the president as he did with neil gorsuch? >> i'm not sure what specific individual might be at fault, but what i can say is that this appears to be more of the same in terms of how this white house respects the vetting process. you know, when i was directing the office of presidential personnel i took the perspective that vetting our candidates was an essential part of the process. you learn a lot about how they are going to be acting in their prospective positions, how they will be dealing with a bureaucratic process that will test their patience and whether or not these are the sorts of individuals who the president wants to put his imprimeter on. that was important to us and president obama. it does not appear that the same is the case for this white house. remember, you're coming off a period of time where there have been background investigation

we're getting mixed messages from the white house. president trump saying they have free rein to investigate whatever they need to. the scope of that investigation will be limited. kavanaugh and the gop, will the supreme court nominee help or hurt republicans come november and what the future of the party may look like if republicans go all in. he hasn't made it to the supreme court. >> i'm here tonight to tell you it was a con job orchestrated by the democrats and hillary clinton. i'm usually an optimist. i'm a keg is half full kind of guy. for what i've seen from the monsters make me want to puke and not from beer. >> president trump saying snl is no longer funny, no talent or charm. every someone a critic. >>> white house official confirms to nbc news that investigators were told to steer clear of kavanaugh accuser julie swetnick. officials telling nbc that fbi has not received new instructions after the white house counsel limited the scope of the inquiry. also off limits, kavanaugh former classmate who is contradict him on storie

jeff zeleny, cnn, the white house. >> all right. so the anonymous writer isn't the only administration official out with an op-ed. nikki haley published her own in "the washington post" writing i too many a senior trump administration official. if i disagree with something and think it is important enough to raise with the president, i do it. and he listens. sometimes he changes course, sometimes he doesn't. that's the way the system should work. the author and frenzy media reaction to the op-ed hurts all of us who are trying to do our jobs for the country by throwing gas on a fire of endless distraction. on twitter, you called this anonymous op-ed a cry for help and its author a coward. so what do you think about nikki haley and what she wrote in "the washington post"? >> thank you, fredricka, for your question. let me first say the senior white house official has confirmed what books and articles have shown about the trump presidency, which is that donald trump is unfit for office. but i agree with nikki haley that the way the whi

judge kavanaugh was a senior lawyer in the white house. he advised the president on judicial nominations, provided legal advice on separation of powers issues, and handled litigation matters. as a supreme court has put it -- [shouting] -- >> unless the present can give his advisers some assurance of confidentiality, president could not expect to receive the full and strength summations of fact and opinions upon what's the effective discharge of his duties depend come in a quote. the issues judge kavanaugh worked on are the sort of issues that require according to the supreme court some assurance of confidentiality. we in the senate and everyone else in america expect exactly the same sort of confidentiality. most senators would not agree to turn over their staffs communication to anyone. for example, we didn't ask that judge cajuns records for her service be turned over duringg her nomination. and because of attorney-client privilege, everybody has a right to keep communications from their lawyers out of governments hands. we therefore did

who's the mole in the white house? what's going on in the white house? are they a coward, are they not a coward? this is the deflector in chief at his best. this is the strategy that is employed for everything! the mueller investigation. it's a perjury trap! everything is spun around to what else is the critical issue. the critical issue and the story here is the fact that there's a president that doesn't even have the confidence of people who work for him, right? this is not an attack that's coming from democrats or these leftists. it's an attack that's coming from within, and the op ed was riveting in that regard. but instead, the president speaks to, what errol was speaking to before in response to your question, is it a national security? was there a crime committed? that's not the point. and now it gets to the issue of the president is fuming, so he wants to interrogate everyone, he wants to weed out who it is and who it's not, and people saying, don't do this, because it's going to build to the story. but yet, he persists. it's just unbelievable ho

you know, in the white house i was in, and previous white houses. there were people who had a longstanding association with a president there. there were bonds of trust that he simply hasn't had. other than with his own children, his daughter, and son-in-law, perhaps that's one of the reasons why he wanted him there. but it's very hard to run the united states government like your family business. and you need to rely on others and this is just a very toxic environment. >> you know, one of my favorite shows it on the weekend now, don't tell fareed, it's "the axe files." >> thank you, sir. i appreciate that. >> thank you. mr. david axelrod. enjoy l.a., whatever you're doing there. thank you. >> i will. >>> as the president rails against the writer tonight, is that writer courageous or is that writer a coward? that's why we designed capital one cafes. you can get savings and checking accounts with no fees or minimums. and one of america's best savings rates. to top it off, you can open one from anywhere in 5 minutes. this isn't a typical bank. this is

he changed it to the white house. david: linda, what is the fondest memory of your father being president? when you think back on those years, what do you enjoy the most, or what is the best memory you have about it? linda: i think when he went to the congress and asked them, it was bipartisan, he went and asked them to pass massive civil rights legislation. and i'm -- [applause] david: that wasn't easy for somebody whose best friends in the senate were not in favor of it, and had come from texas. why did he decide he wanted to do that? linda: he knew it was the right thing. before he represented texas, he represented his constituency. time had changed. and he personally knew of discrimination. he'd seen it, not just with people who were african-american. but for instance, when he was the senator, our phone number was in the regular phone book, and he got a call, a hispanic in texas, i believe he was killed in korea. the local funeral home in texas, refused to take his body. they said, that if they took his body from

the white house still wants to investigate this writer of the anonymous op-ed. but they cannot cite a law that was violated. is this an abuse of the department of justice, in your view? >> just another one, unfortunately. the president needs to appreciate the fact that justice department is not his own private law firm. the fault lies not in our stars, but in ourselves, mr. president. clean your own house. you need to address this internally. obviously, you have issues to address. >> and some democrats have said that using the attorney general to carry out a personal political investigation could be an impeachable offense. do you agree with that? >> you know, i do. but it joins a long list of issues that could meet that standard, unfortunately. i think the president is in panic mode. i think he's far too worried about an op-ed. he's far too worried about a book. if his press secretary says reviewing all the mistakes the book a waste of time. if the president thinks these aren't true, then treat it as a waste of time and get on with the nation's business. obvious

the white house. the white house, in coordination with the republicans have di- vised a strategy aimed at satisfying his defenders and appeasing senate republicans who say they are uncomfortable with forging ahead until christine ford gets a full public hearing. senate republicans, such as susan collins, the moderate swing vote in the supreme court confirmation said as much, this accusation deserves a full, public hearing. as you mentioned, brett kavanaugh was here working the phones calling senators, defending his name, defending his own nomination as white house top officials and president trump say they want him to do. here is what president trump said yesterday. [ inaudible question ] >> has he offered to withdrawal? >> next question. what a ridiculous question. say it? >> do you think the confirmation is on track? >> i think he's on track, yeah. he is very much on track. if they delay to make sure everybody is happy. they want to be happy. i can tell you, the republican senators want to be 100% h

by the white house.also possible the "times" getting played by the white house. maybe this is a white house endorsed effort to make the president seem so besieged from withinton justifies extreme action by the president to clean house and fire lots and lots of people without too much scrutiny on any one of those firings. there's no reason to think either of those things is what happened and no reason to think the "times" would have done anything other than their best due diligence on this in terms of figuring out the origins on this and not getting played or getting hoaxed. there's every reason to think it is what it appears to be. if it is what it appears to be, if this is a real senior administration official that feels the need to sound this alarm about what is wrong with the serving president, why are they making this public case now and what exactly are they trying to get us the public to do about it? you can snipe these sort of comments in gossip. you can make these sort of plans and plots among yo

they take that report, they send it to the white house. the white house reviews that for the nomination process. there's no criminal investigation here by the fbi. they don't have any jurisdiction about any of the events that occurred more than 30 years ago, but they could go back and do a follow-up investigation to look at these allegations if in fact the white house went to the fbi and said we want you to follow-up on these allegations to determine the credibility of the allegation, ali. >> i guess that's an important distinction to make. there's likely not to be any criminal charge to come out of this, but there's an establishment of facts that the senate now is charged with trying to figure out, and as senator leahy said, they're not really good at that, they're not really equipped for that. so the mind goes to the fbi, you think they're an investigative body. what can the fbi do if this is not their bread and butter, if they don't investigate one off crimes, do enterprise crimes and bigger things, let's say the white house said open t

the white house is calling the tentative call a delay tactic. he has been in and out of the white house just about every day since dr. ford identified herself as his accuser. joining me right now nbc white house correspondent kelly o'donnell. is there anymore reaction from the white house on this? >> not yet this morning. but there were some new developments late into the evening. and you're right that brett kavanaugh hane on the grounds at the white house throughout the past week, but really has been doing that since he was named as the nominee for the high court. the white house complex is sort of a home base for the confirmation process. so that has certainly been under way and preparations for whatever appearance he might make this coming week, they weren't sure exactly what it would look like, what day it would happen. and the white house has been clearly frustrated by what they perceive to be delays. of course for christine blasey ford and her legal team, they felt that an offer to appear needed to be treated with very specific conditions,

i'm wondering what you make of how the white house -- the strategy the white house is using on the woodward book, on the op-ed. is it wise, is it keeping it in the headlines? >> you know, no, i don't think it's wise, quite frankly, to keep those stories in the headlines. i think it's wise to try to find out who it is, because i really think that there is a really sniveling, dishonest, disloyal person who needs to be outed within the administration, and perhaps people. so i think that part is important. but i don't think that the president should be focusing on it in terms of his social media, in terms of his specioeches and interviews. i would like him to focus on the things that are going on. for instance, the idea that he's not supporting working class people in this country, the facts are otherwise. we're seeing the best blue collar job creation we've seen since the 1980s. i want to hear him talk more about that and less these things like this op-ed. >> mick mulvaney is reported by "the new york times" suggesting that the republican party officials in a private meeting on saturday, that

jeff is at the white house once again. jeff, tell us how the vice president is reacting to all of this. >> reporter: hey, alex. the vice president issued a direct rebuttal to one of the more explosive claims made in the op-ed. the vice president said he did not participate in any conversations about invoking the 25th amendment as a mechanism to oust donald trump from office. the vice president dismissed the entire op-ed as absurd. as you heard in the open of the show, he was asked if he would be willing to take a lie detector test, given there had been talk to use a polygraph test to ferret out the author. the vice president said he would be willing to do it in a minute. but he did put some distance between himself and the president's comments, the president, you remember, likening the op-ed to treason. there has been talk that the person who wrote the op-ed actually works for the president. i know omarosa has some theories of her own, but here's what was said by the vice president when asked directly about that. >> mr. vi

what does that tell you about this trump white house? >> well, it tells you that mattis is trying to restrain these impulsive decisions by trump. trump thinks that he is some kind of god, that he can just declare things and they will happen, that he can murder foreign leaders and that will be okay. and if he's angry, it's clear that he thinks why is on it i be able to do that. mattis and everyone else and the policy establishment knows perfectly well why you can't do that kind of thing. >> does a cabinet member like mattis have a responsibility to ignore an unlawful order like that to kill another world leader, and is there any responsibility to report that type of order? what is the legal bearing for officials who are given unlawful orders? >> well, i think in that case like this, it's incumbent upon the cabinet secretary in this case, the secretary of defense, to talk to the president why something like that is illegal under u.s. law and talk him down from the idea and explain to him why we can't do that but we can do this and work thr

>> you mentioned something about renovating the white house. he renovated -- rather his wife renovated the white house, and they too moved out. >> but part of it later, i thought the west wing was created. >> the west wing was created. i think somebody else mentioned it was called the executive mansion. he changed it to the white house. >> linda, what is the fondest memory of your father being president? when you think back on those years, what do you enjoy the most, or what is the best memory you have about it? >> i think when he went to the congress and asked them, and it was bipartisan, he went and asked them to pass massive civil rights legislation. and i'm -- [applause] >> that wasn't easy for somebody whose best friends in the senate were not in favor of it, and had come from texas. why did he decide he wanted to do that? >> he knew it was the right thing. before he represented texas, he represented his constituency. the time had changed. and he personally knew of discrimination. he'd seen it, not just with people who were african-america

white house?" i was just stunned. >> the white house neither confirms nor denies... >> what do you see? >> gold! [ laughs ] >> let's investigate! >> i scrape the paint layers down to the wood. >> and when you heard what it was worth? >> and sold! [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] >> i'm jamie colby, and today i'm in boston to meet an heir who has an inheritance so strange, it takes years just to figure out what it is. >> my name is mike meister. my siblings and i inherited something that goes back to our great-uncle more than a hundred years ago. we'd always been told that it came from the white house, but it was just a family story. hi, jamie. welcome to boston. >> thanks, mike. nice to meet you. >> yeah, nice to meet you, too. >> mike leads me inside, saying he has something amazing to show me. he keeps it in its own molded, air-tight protective case. can i take a look? >> sure can. >> you brought me all the way here, mike. this is... what is it? mike's strange inhe

white house insider, former white house communications director anthony scaramucci. anthony, always a pleasure. >> congratulations on the show. >> you've heard what's going on with the reactions to this. mattis says never happened. kelly said, i never said it. the white house comes out and says this is all untrue. bob woodward? months of interviews taped, documents all untrue? what's the chance of that? >> well, i mean i think the chance is low but where i would disagree with van is let's say it's 10%, 20% true, even 50% true, what everybody is missing about this is that the president has an operating style that's different from the other 44 presidents. and he's an aggressive guy. he has a tendency to say what's on his mind. he wears things on his sleeve, and despite all that, i think he's been resoundingly effective. if you look at his record, chris, a lot of great things have happened for the country over the last 19 months. so what's really at issue is, is the style of his communication and who he is as a person, is that what the american people voted for? is that

>> you mentioned something about renovating the white house. he renovated -- rather his wife renovated the white house, and they too moved out. >> but part of it later, i thought the west wing was created. >> it was created. i think somebody else mentioned it was called the executive mansion. he changed it to the white house. >> linda, what is the fondest memory of your father being president? when you think back on those years what do you enjoy the , most, or what is the best memory you have about it? >> i think when he went to the congress and ask them, it was bipartisan, he went and asked them to pass massive civil rights legislation. and i'm -- [applause] >> that wasn't easy for somebody whose best friends in the senate were not in favor of it, and had come from texas. why did he decide he wanted to do that? >> he knew it was the right thing. before he represented texas, he represented his constituency. time had changed. and he personally knew of discrimination. he'd seen it, not just with people who were african-american. but for instance,

is the white house opposing the fbi? people look at the situation with clarence thomas and anita hill and the white house supported putting together a thorough investigation. >> there is a big differences, one of the biggest ones that has gotten lost in the conversation is when anita hill made her allegation it was privately. it was submitted to chairman biden who gave it to the white house, unlike senator feinstein who sat on it for 6 weeks knowing she could have brought it up anytime or given it to her colleagues and then at that point the white house decided to do interviews and the hearing after that, it was public information. the purpose of an fbi investigation is to keep things confidential and private because that ensures people will speak with candor and they can be anonymous and that is not where we are. everything is public. the fbi has done its job, the senate judiciary committee has done its job and they are looking seriously at this allegation. shannon: we are all paying very close attention. the media play

house. >> he may be a guy inside the white house. he may be upper level, lower level, maybe he's in the old executive office building. >> the 538th, nate silver makes a living with predictions zeroed in on anti-trade, tweeting it made him wonder if it's someone in treasury or highly concerned with economic policy. whoever anonymous is, it's a whodunit taylor-made for tv. >> i'm surprised by how good a writer ivanka is. >> randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> cnn chief political correspondent, dana brash and douglas brinkley, saw in randi's report. you've been talking to sources, what's going on behind the scenes? >> it really is still an explosion of anger. what we saw in the initial outburst yesterday we saw in public when the president came out and talked about all the great things his administration has done, has become a little bit less so according to people i'm talking to who are speaking to those in and around the president, and more kind of a -- i wouldn't say shoulder shrug but more of a hope that this is like so many other big exp

through the white house, and so mrs. bush had made sure that any of the resident staff that were still working in the white house that had been there in the johnson time were there to greet mrs. johnson at the diplomatic reception room door when she stepped in, and in addition, the -- one of the butlers who had worked for the johnsons, mr. german, was now a part-time elevator operator, operated the president's elevator at the white house just a few days a week. mrs. bush made sure he was there and that he was the one that greeted mrs. johnson when the door was opened at the car for her to get out, and the way that mrs. johnson reached up in recognition to embrace mr. german and how he embraced her really would just make you weep but would also -- the two last things that i'll just say about mrs. johnson's visit, her last visit to the white house, mrs. bush wheeled her into the room on the ground floor, which had just been repainted under one of the restoration projects that mrs. bush did, thanks to the white house histor

the white house simply is not saying. all of our sources in president white house in washington as well as here say they simply are not sure of the status. rod rosenstein is not going to be around for long. in a weekend interview with geraldo rivera made clear that rod rosenstein is a jeff sessions man, hired by jeff sessions. we know what the president thinks of jeff sessions, obviously. i'm sorry i can't clear up any more confusion hereali at the u. the president will get a read from him in a couple of hours. he may have to be the 1 one to y if he is on the job. by the end of the day, we think he probably will not be. >> a request to laura. if you have anything within the hour, the associated press, cnn's manu raju and kate lynn col collins. he has gone to the white house to say i resign or say fire me? >> it's pretty safe to say he is not going to walk out of that meeting and have the job he has now. they are there hash things out and what they say going forward. they had a conversation last week where rod rosenstein o

i mean, you know, journalists, our cnn colleagues who cover the white house, when i cover the white house, we quote senior administration officials all the time. this is just sort of an elaborated quote of senior offici administrations officials. more personal and the idea of sources in the administration who will talk anonymously to journalists is not new. it's not new with the trump administration. wh what's new is sort of magnitude of the betrayal here. >> well -- >> and, you know, people can believe it or not but you have to conclude that it is consistent with basically all the other evidence coming out of this administration. >> also interesting is what was highlighted there in the tweet, this is a bit of a difference between, you know, our colleagues and friend maggie haberman and the hard news folks at "the times" and run independently. >> right. >> different rules apply. and so what does that do? why did this person go to mag any or someone who covers "the times" on a daily basis and writes with a lot of credibility and say, hey, i have a story with you. >> we don't -- the truth o

>> white houses do not, in the white house, they are probably not. white houses do not protect their security punitively. they protect their security by inspiration. people believe in the president, and people who believe in each other. presidents are politicians, they rise to the ability. and what has been true about this white house is because of the president's utter lack love leadership. recording devices are now pretty small, but the reason that no one checks is because they trust them. they don't check if they have a pen recording device. there is a sign to remind you if you regret. remember the story about a white house staffer saying hurtful things about each other, that was leaked by another staffer, they were just trying to setting a vendetta. >> and the author of this op-ed will soon be outed, is it dangerous? >> i don't imagine, it is hark to crack they are dealing with a number of false clues. we may assume they are going to stay currently employed. they may not be employed now, it may be more than one person. so there is indirection her

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"fear: trump in the white house" is already causing a lot of turmoil in the white house. all you have to do is check the president's twitter feed to see the publication has already shaken him. i asked bob woodward about the response to the book and much more in an extended conversation earlier today. we started with something that the president's son eric said on fox news this morning. there's a lot of -- i obviously want to ask you about the book. i do want to ask you about something that was in the news today. eric trump was critical of, obviously, of the book, calling it sensational nonsense. they said, cnn will definitely have you on, because you love to trash the president, you'll sell three extra books, make three extra shekels at the behest of the american people. besides the point that he does not know how to use the word "behest," some have talked about his use of the word shackles as an anti-semitic dog whistles. do you see it that way? >> i just hope that nobody would talk like that, frankly. i think that just doesn't fit. and i'm sorry that anybody talks like

i don't think the white house knows. i don't think you have to -- >> you don't believe this whole whittling down the list? >> no, because it's not based on any actual evidence. just to say to someone in national security, well, the whole thing is about foreign policy and national security. you don't have to be clairvoyant to guess it's someone who works in national security. all of those denials don't mean squat either. mark phelps denied being deep throat for 40 years. in the end, the person will be revealed if they want to be revealed. that's something that frustrates the president. i'm sure it makes him crazy. but, you know, that's not something that he can do anything about. it's definitely not something he can order the fbi to do something about. leaking is not a crime. senior administration officials leak all day every day. let's talk about the substance. the substance is someone who works for the president believes that he's immoral and unfit for office. guess what, people inside the white house and in the adminis

this white house is in crisis. when you have a group of unknownses unelected officials taking over the white house and taking over things because of someone they consider inept, you are in crisis. >> to be clear, there is a data point. there is an norms amount of data points. the omarosa data point. >> it's not a surprise. i don't think voters had an idea how unhinged donald trump is. i think they're progressively becoming more aware of that. >> i think that's true. i was speaking to republicans and democrats earlier, it could mobilize voters and demobilize republican voters keeping them home. a lot of people that voted for donald trump saying we like what's happening in the country with taxes and jobs. we don't like what comes out of his mouth and don't support his more controversy comments and policies but people are still willing to vote for him or his agenda. if this op-ed resonates with them, if they realize this is such a critical moment, it's coming from someone from the white house, they might stay home. >>

he did not talk about it on his way out of the white house on his way to the rally, but the white house has been struggling to contain the fallout from this anonymous op-ed all day long from a person claiming to be a top administration official slamming the president. cabinet secretaries have been coming out with statements saying don't look at me. trump world has gone -- it's become a washington who done it as in the history of the senior administration official who anonymously wrote a scathing op-ed in the "new york times" claiming to be a part of the internal resistance. so far more than a dozen top officials a who's who from the vice president to cabinet secretaries released statements to say not it. >> i think it is a disgrace. the anonymous editorial represents a new low in american journalism. i think the "new york times" should be ashamed. i think who wrote this editorial should be ashamed. >> reporter: the daughter of u.s. ambassador to russia said it wasn't her father. >> my dad works for the administration. >> did you write it? >> i did not write it. my dad did not write it a

what's life like in the white house today? >> you get the sense that this sort of latest west wing soap opera is defined by paranoia. you have heard of people using polygraphs. when the president was asked do you trust your staff? his response was yes but i often look around the room to see who is there. so imagine that. >> it forces the activity of this so called resistance within even further under ground. that's what all of this done, right? to the extent that there were a number of senior administration officials who were disagreeing with the president and trying to advance their own policy agenda makes it even harder to do that if that's what they were doing. >> i have all right talked to somebody here outside of the incident. s he is angry but not going shake anything up. >> it would be that's normal and smart behavior. it is untrump-like. >> it is. again, this white house is even beyond the word dysfunctional. i think that's clear every day. i can't imagine what it is to be inside of a white house and not to know who yo

or the white house. our country needs a supreme court justice who will better our legal system, a justice who will serve as a check and balance on the other branches of government, who will stand up for the rule of law without consideration of politics or partisanship, who will uphold our constitution without fear or favor and who will work for the betterment of the great american experiment in democracy. that is what this hearing is about. thank you. >> senator sass. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we need to get to judge kavanaugh, but i really want to riff with amy for a while. senator klobuchar, you did madison, lin manuel miranda, the magna carta. i had all that on my bingo card. i've taken my two little girls to court a few times, mostly to juvi to scare them straight, not to turn them into attorneys. >> who said that wasn't what my dad was doing? >> wisdom in minnesota. congratulations, judge, on your nomination. actually, congratulations and condo condolences. this process has to stink. i'm glad your

so to what extent do you think the white house is removing itself from the white house probe? >> i would be really surprised if the white house is, as trump said, giving free rein to the fbi on this. it's been reported by multiple outlets including your own that there have been significant limits put on the scope of this investigation. they're not letting the fbi talk to swetnick, who has made explosive claims against kavanaugh. it seems like that would be relevant in any criminal investigation of him. they're not letting -- the fbi talked to his old drinking buddies at yale who have is said that the picture he painted himself under oath is very different from the man this they remember, and they're limiting the questions that they can ask mark judge about where he worked at the grocery store, they can't contact the grocery store, so it sounds like the white house is severely hampering this investigation, and there is a lot of questions about whether the fbi can be impartial, anyway, when it is being directed by the white house to do this. >> so, john, laura is talking about h

so, they moved to the white house in 1889. caroline harrison is interesting an first lady, because she did all the hostess duties, had her daughter help her, had a niece help her, the cabinet ladies help her. she was not a terribly comfortable person in the public role of first lady. she liked to paint china and so forth, was something of an artist. that they had lots of family living in the white house, and it was quite cramped. so caroline harrison conceived this idea, what you needed to do was to expand the white house. she worked with committees in congress to develop an elaborate program that would have changed the white house essentially into a quadrangle. as the drawings were made, architectural historians say, it was a monstrosity. one of the great things that happened, that it did not happen. but she did get some money to refurbish the white house. as i said, assisting her in her social duties was a niece, her sister's daughter, named mary dinnick, a widow. she had been married only three months. a widow for six or ei