and then they make their way around the white house staff. they walk in and say -- they have a little device, and it says a punch a button and it makes a noise. if you hear this noise, it's a chemical attack. then they handed me a big plastic bag. this is your mop suit, take it out and put on the helmet and the mop suit. if you hear this sound, it's a biological attack x what you need to do is take this need, stab yourself in the heart and then put yourself in the mop suit. and i said, sure, like that's going to happen. [laughter] and my assistant, susan ralston, is standing there listening to this lecture, and i said, okay, where's her outfit. and they said we don't, we have a limited number of suits, it'll be several days before we have more. and i told, handed mine to susan and said, okay, don't tell me when you stab yourself in the heart. [laughter] >> i don't quite understand that. could you help us with that? >> what? >> stabbing one's self in the heart? >> it's adrenaline. you stab yourself --? >> you can run then. >> yeah. or maybe it

i will bring efficiency to the white house. what trump is brought is something else entirely. >> host: i am thinking both of the systems america has created two entrepreneurs and businesses create wealth, you outlined it very well. also the various rule breaking that trump has obviously -- the rules he has broken during his career. he and jared kushner they were born into wealthy families. they have talents and have broken rules in certain cases also. how much of their power, success, and wealth should we attribute to their own talents and their own efforts? and how much should we attribute to the fact that it's very easy to become wealthy in this country if you start wealthy? >> guest: one of the things i really want to talk about in my book was this very issue of intergenerational transfer of wealth. the successful generations of the truck family and the kirsch kershner family and the quasi- legal schemes to not pay taxes. that means the next generation just becomes richer and richer and richer with the snowball effect. there

so cheney quietly sought to bring kissinger to the white house. so in a sense he was taking a more hawkish and anti- soviet view than the white house. when he was in the ford white house he supported one of ford's ventures which was the panama canal treaty in the next year as he's running for congress so he doesn't treat what he is doing in the white house as white house chief of staff as his own teeth - - d believes. and actually, when this carries forward in the george h.w. bush administration was secretary of defense to work well with bush senior and scroll croft - - brent scroll croft and his more conservative on the issue. maybe some of you have heard of ukraine cheney was the precise opposite so do we push for the breakup of the soviet union or do we do we hold closely to gorbachev to the soviet republic and the bush white house to stick with gorbachev and cheney was at the pentagon and the words of one of his aides the breakup of the soviet union and he was much more's anti- soviet in the bush white house. so cheney has a view of himself an

it is the people's house. the white house. a we need to know about people who build the house -- built the firstand impacted beyond families. he was very generous to our story -- historians and thus began a three-year project. a had a privilege to host group called the presidential leadership scholars, a program that is a collaboration of libraries and foundations of president clinton, both bushes and president johnson, and they ofng together the dynamic early career leaders. wentwere at the park and up to historic slave quarters that night. intrigued, encouraged, and they took us to task that we need to do a better job of interpreting that space. into this story we are telling we unveiled our website with a treasure trove of research document papers. you can encourage your friends to do so as well. bridget by our continued research. this fits with our mission. in 1961 to bed the nonprofit, nonpartisan partner to the white house. every year, we provide non-taxpayer funding to maintain the beautiful museum standard of those roo

at the white house. he walked in and they said the stage will be here, and he looks up and says the chandelier has to go. we all went, not on your life. do you know how much effort it takes to take a chandelier down? well, you do. the people here do. the funny thing about it was one of the things we always discovered, the chores are provided by the secret service, and for a long time they got asked questions by people that seemed to be how much is it worth? they have to wrap their mind around it in terms of how valuable it is, or in terms of the chandelier, how much does it weigh? if it dropped on you, you would be dead or not? and the tour officers made it up. they said 1200 pounds. wow. then we did conservation to them and took them down and re-pinned all the glass and we asked the company doing the cleaning and weigh alld you please of the parts? 600 pounds. there were off by a factor of two. they over exaggerated but 6000 pieces of glass in those chandeliers. here at the end of that production of 177

white house collection. that is the most of any presidency. the significance of this will be discussed in tonight's program but it is important to us here at the white house historical association as a core part of our mission. this was inspired by jacqueline kennedy to be the private, nonpartisan, private partner to the white house for conservation, preservation, restoration of the state rooms. for the acquisition of items for the permanent collection at the white house as well and for education programs like this. where we teach and tell the stories of the white house and its wonderful history going back to 1792 when george washington selected the site across the street where the white house is today. occasion ofte the ms. nixon's 50th anniversary, the white house historical undertaken has also an additional partnership with the richard nixon foundation and this is where we created a digital exhibit highlighting ms. nixon's efforts to restore the blue room in 1972 to the original french empire style. photo

a white house tradition. rolling easter eggs on the lawn was revived by the president and his family. thousands joined in the custom including president eisenhower's grandchildren, david and barbara and. among his people, a popular president. to mrs. eisenhower at left the white house is home where she c an be together with her mother on the day set aside in america to honor all mothers. mrs. eisenhower, a sister, and their problem other enjoyed strolling the grounds. as part of his official duties, the president must report to congress on the state of the union. shortly after his inauguration, dwight eisenhower deliver this message in person. president eisenhower in outlining his foreign program he declared. policynt eisenhower: the will recognize the truth, that no single country, even one so powerful as ours, can alone defend the liberty of all nations threatened by communist aggression from without or subversion within. utual security means effective mutual cooperation. for the united states, this means t

jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. >>> joining us now is former nixon white house counsel john dean. john, the fact that 1,100 former prosecutors and doj officials, again, from both democratic and republican administrations, are coming out and they're calling for the a.g.'s resignation. have you ever seen anything like this? >> not on that scale. it really is quite remarkable, and it's not unfounded, ana. these people are loyal to the department of justice regardless of who is at the top of it. and they don't like what's going on. what happened with the stone case, it's the straw that broke the camel's back, if you will. that's what prompted these people to put their signature out and tell barr he's got to go. >> what could people currently inside the justice department who may feel outrage do? >> well, there are a couple things they can do. first of all, and i think they're alert to this now because of the former inspector general alerted them that reminded them that they can indeed if they see improper conduct, if they see political influence at play in justice department position

the white house, and everyone who works in the white house knows the impact or sees the impact, or reads the impact, you can see it on the wall with the things they have acquired for the collection. the beautiful museum and gift to the people that it is. what patty mentioned about correspondence, i chuckled about withtoo because i worked several first ladies and correspondence was incredibly important to them. nixon came from a small town and she really understood that if somebody got an envelope from the white house, the president of the united states, what that would mean to receive in their mailbox. that's why she was relentless to have her mail responded to, and anybody that wrote to her would get a letter from the white house, and how much that means and still means to this day of course. but the fact that she took that so personally is one of her great legacies. there are people here in the audience that work as volunteers for correspondence right now so they know what we are talking about. everys something that white house really feels is important, and thanks to eleanor roosevelt

house chief of staff mick mulvaney, the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani and white house counsel pat cipollone, part of trump's defense team. >> yet another reason why we ought to hear from witnesses. the facts will come out. they will continue to come out. >> you shouldn't let the president escape responsibility only to later see clearly what happened. in ambassador bolton's book. >> reporter: this as trump's former chief of staff john kelly told a new jersey newspaper he believes bolton who described as a copious note taker, arguing a senate trial without witnesses is, quote, a job only half done. republicans saying the house already heard from more than a dozen witnesses. and democrats didn't prove their case. >> what they're asking you to do is now become the investigative agency, the investigative body. mr. schiff went through every sentence of the articles of impeachment, just a few days ago, and said proved, proved, proved. the problem is, would it prove, prove, prove is not an impeachable offense. >> these articles of impeachment on their face are defective. and w

there is some optimism from this white house official that i just spoke with that the u.s. has been successful at least so far in tamping down any potential exposure of the virus here from those cases we had seen inside the united states. as for the stock market sell-off, this white house official saying to me our initial reaction is the dow is still above 28,000 and nobody thought it would get that high the official saying we understand the market is reacting to the news of the day as it should, but the actual economy itself is very strong. this official suggesting this is a momentary wobble as far as the white house is concerned although they are paying close attention. back to you. >> the president is still very much in touch with his own task force, i would assume. are we getting regular updates from them? >> well, the president is getting regular updates. the question is what if any action is the u.s. going to have to take here i'm told these meetings at the white house are very high level and that the president is getting a lot of information from them. the question i

house call and the white house meeting the answer is yes another pivotal witness in the impeachment korean to president trump was lieutenant colonel alexander that mn was a highly decorated soldier an expert on ukraine been man's testimony was said to have been breached the president is improper for the president of the united states to demand a foreign government investigate a u.s. citizen and a political opponent it was also clear that if you create pursued an investigation into the 2016 elections the bidens and greece it would be interpreted as a parson play on friday lieutenant colonel the newman and his twin brother a lawyer at the national security council risk ordered from the white house by officials both have been reassigned just hours after the president commented on the lieutenant colonel well i'm not happy with you because supposedly happy with the bump that it is midnight in washington senior figures in the democratic party reacted angrily to the firings adam schiff who took a lead role in the president's impeachment tweeted lieutenant colonel that man did his job as a

-- to the white house? >> a pardon would be in the front page of every newspaper in media outlet would run it for a while. long-term politically, like everything in new cycle it would probably be a 24, 48 hour new story and then a talking point in the campaign. i'm not sure how that would end in terms of where people go in november. >> you said earlier one of the things heritage action is advising the president or white house to do is focus on policy, you talk about the economy. one of the phrases we've heard on the trump campaign this election cycle is socialism takes an capitalism creates, i just wanted to ask you if you truly think that that is something that animates voters outside of the conservative base and is able to shore up support with suburban communities and demographics that are trending away from republican party at the moment. >> absolutely. we've done a lot of work at heritage action in terms of polling in swing states and polling in key battleground districts. the socialism issue is the ma

hear anything from the white house. there's always some news coming out of there. >> hello, everyone. it's a very busy day at msnbc headquarters in new york. we are watching a growing number of cases, growing fear and a growing response to the coronavirus. 2020 democrats make their final push in south carolina, less than 24 hours away from polls opening. these are live pictures from joe biden and bernie sanders, both holding events in south carolina. these are the candidates who are on the ground there right now. but while their attention is on south carolina, today most of them are ready to bolt heading to super tuesday states starting tomorrow. we start with our road warriors across south carolina. mike memoli is covering joe biden, garrett

john harwood at the white house, thank you. let's speak to kylie atwood, it is not just ukraine, general kelly was talking about, and beyond gallagher as john was referencing there, also president trump's diplomatic efforts with north korea. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. so general kelly offered some criticism of president trump essentially ever thinking that he would have been able to strike a deal with kim jong-un to denuclearize north korea. this is important given the fact that general kelly was the chief of staff to president trump for both of the summits he had with kim jong-un. i want to read to you what kelly said in his remarks last night. he said, quote, he will never give his nuclear weapons up. obviously they're referring to kim jong-un. he said, quote, again, president trump tried, that's one way to put it. but it didn't work. i'm an optimist most of the time, but i'm also a realist. and i never did think kim would do anything other than play us for a while. and he did that, fairly effectively. also, casting dou

they heard at the white house. they did not think that the white house team had their act together. we'll see here.president had several hours since. his tone did change. when he landed from india, his tone did change. so now it is incumbent on him to come out and convince the town and not just democrats in congress, but republicans are nervous too. they are on the ballot too. they have concerns about their communities, i don't want to make it all about politics, but they are up for election too and they want to see that this white house and president has wrapped is arm around this and is not dismissive. >> kaitlan collins is also monitoring the developments. you've got experts there, the leaders from the centers for disease control, national institutes of health, department of homeland security, department of health and human services, they are all there standing waiting for the president. the picture as john king says is very significant. >> reporter: yeah and the door just opened, we're waiting for the president

house and out of the white house. >> host: what do you think he will do when he leaves the white house he spent a lifetime in real estate and four to eight years in politics. he no longer has residency here in new york. i think it's hard to predict the future. they wanted me to kno to know as is thei their work, donald trums sent on a bus so he thought it was the new york pacific real estate society. they also thought it was so far off the scale. the donald trump is in a category by itself and that is what people wanted me to understand in the real estate industry in new york, that he is an outlier in his business practices out as was his father. >> host: what about living in washington now for three or four years and working in the white house and politics that they both have family company back in new york and new jersey, what do you think their aspirations are in the future? >> guest: all we have is what they say. ivanka trump said her focus is in washington and there is a broad national portfolio and white house person. going on and on and on so many officials have come and gone an

now the white house no longer has that. so these are the people who manage the relationships with these countries. they know them inside out. they deal with them on policy day to day. they're getting side lined. in the meantime this impeachment chapter of the story in the ukraine saga may have just closed. >> reporter: the trial may have ended. >> donald trump is not guilty as charged in the second article of impeachment. >> reporter: but the ukraine jag is not over. >> so we will continue to do our oversight to protect and defend the constitution. each a check and balance on each other. >> reporter: republicans and democrats with sights set on their own targets. for democrats, john bolt job, t bolton who said he is willing to testify in the senate trial but republicans blocked witnesses. so democrats asked him to submit a swarn doement which bolton declined. >> frankly, it's more inexplicable that when he wanted to come forward, the senators didn't want to hear what he had to say. >> reporter: now it's likely they'll subpo

lieutenant colonel alexander vindman was fired from his white house job and marched off the white house grounds today as was oddly his twin brother. he had nothing to do with the impeachment inquiry. he did apparently commit the crime of being born a few seconds after alexander vindman, his twin brother. that is enough. within hours of colonel vindman and his brother being marched off the white house grounds, there was word that gordon sondland, the president's appointed ambassador to the eu was also fired. sondland gave incredibly damaging testimony about the president's behavior during the impeachment inquiry. as of tonight, he has also suddenly been recalled from his post. his lawyer confirming to nbc news tonight that gordon sondland was not just reassigned to some other job inside the government or within the state department. he was smarly fired. and we don't know if this is the full list tonight or if there are more long knives out for people who testified in the impeachment inquiry or are related to that scandal. or literally are familially related to anyone who did so. but desp

the white house locking down someone like anthony fauci. he worked during the bush presidency, in which i served. he worked on the preparations and i was part of a team that prepared for the bird flu pandemic. i'm not sure he has ever been constrained in terms of being able to speak about public health issues. does that worry you? >> i'm extremely concerned because that means the white house is more concerned about political messaging. fauci has served under ronald reagan and was never prevented from speaking out in this way. during the hiv epidemic, he was able to say what he needed to say to bring it under control. >> you've got a story out at the beginning of the week that put in black and white, the degree to which donald trump is relying on the strength of the stock market for his own re-election. what are you hearing from the white house about how they thought last night looks and standing shoaleder to shoulder with the president and today's effort to push it all through mike pence? >> there has been deep concern for days. it's clear

an appeals court today rejected a house committee's effort to compel former white house counsel don began to testify david's fund is here with details. >> this is significant. this is a decision that both house democrats and those to the president have been waiting to learn four months. in a 2-1 ruling thread telling those democrats thought began, the former white house the members of the house committee subpoena don a lot has happened since then. the mueller investigation is history, has not been white house counsel sent 2018. setting it back to the lower court with instructions to dismiss it. house democrats were hoping to get information relating to the president's conduct during the mueller-russia pro. wrote that article three of the competition forbids federal courts from resolving this kind of interbranch information dispute. we agree and dismiss this case. this means a federal appeals court in washington has ruled that constitution bars federal courts getting involved in certain disputes between branches of government. during the president's impeachment episode last fall, house dem

let's go to the white house now. we said to you at the top of the hour president trump is leaving, going to north carolina. he spoke to reporters. >> this is the d.c. circuit and we just won the big emoluments case. i think it was a unanimous decision. this was brought by nancy pelosi and her group. just came out a few minutes ago. so i'll be read it on the helicopter but it was a total win. this was brought by 230 democrats in congress on emoluments. it was another phony case and we won it 3-0. we won it unanimously. >> reporter: is mick mulvaney going to stay your chief of staff? >> that was a false report. i have a great relationship with mick, i have a great relationship with mark and it's false. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]. >> well, i'm not happy with him. you think i'm supposed to be happy with him? i'm not. they'll make that decision. they'll make a decision. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]. >> they're going to be making that decision. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]. i can't hear. you have to speak louder. >> reporter:

house briefing room in the next hour all right to commit how good that the white house can believe thank you for that let's go live now to our latin america and it's a messy and human cheese and something i'm going to see are so what more can you tell us than about this 1st case on the continent. well hello there for i can say that the 61 year old man who has now been released from hospital in the city of south while we know he is at home he is doing well according to brazil's health minister and while he has been the 1st case to be confirmed in latin america's largest country he certainly will not be the last that i can assure you of at least 20 other people are now suspected of having or of carrying the virus 12 of them had come from italy the other 8 to it has not been confirmed where they were but if the minister of health says that regardless he expects the numbers to spread to jump and quite quickly another interesting fact is that the the stock exchange the stock exchange of brazil which is the largest on the continent plunged by 7 percent as a result of those nudes now the govern

we've worked with the white house on criminal justice reform. we've worked with the white house on the u.s.-mexico-canada trade agreement. we worked with the white house on paid family medical leave for military families. and millions of federal government employees. we're always willing to find common ground, get something done with the white house and the senate on behalf of the american people. and infrastructure is no different. reporter: [indiscernible] -- bernie sanders was at the top of the ticket, everybody expects the speaker -- [indiscernible] -- ur response to [indiscernible] -- mr. jeffries: i look forward to renominating speaker nancy pelosi on the floor of the united states house of representatives in january of 2021 and making it clear that house democrats are still down ith n.d.p. all right. let me just mention in closing that i want to thank elena. i want to thank the little lobbyists. i want to thank siamara whose name means ready for battle. and from the very beginning of her life she's been ready for battle. the little lobbyi

presidency,he william allman, former white house curator, talks about the white house east room. we join the program as hugh hew itt talks about renovations to the museum in yorba linda, california. >> true to form, with any facelift, we need chiseled gins. we have four copies of --in the white house to collection and hang in the east room. these are brand-new reproductions that were done with the assistance of the white house historical association, beginning with the most famous of them all, george washington. [applause] it is now a complete renovation down to complete historical detail. i can't begin to tell you how much better looking that is than just a month ago. it would not be the same without his partner in the white house as he was father of the country, martha washington. to her left is william mckinley. i will leave it to our guest speaker, bill allman, to tell us why william mckinley is in the east room. on the far left, he needs no introduction, t.r. teddy roosevelt. these are touches that anyone will see, the business groups that use it, the productions we do, the

but the white house says trump's okay with the remarks. democratic candidates fanning out across nevada and south carolina, ahead of the upcoming contests in those key states. what's tom steyer's strategy to attract

long story short, final week i met the white house. we are flying back from reno, nevada where the president spoke to the american legion. we finally had television than on air force one. i'm watching television and i'm sort of mystified because there's a camera at the corner of the white house on what's called temple beach. when you see the north portico of the white house being shot from pebble beach, it has swiveled around and is looking down at executive drive and it's looking at a car that has messages filled out in post-it notes on all the windows. forming letters and words. someone has wrapped thecar in industrial cellophane . giant sheets of industrial cellophane and decorated it with stuffed animals. and it's my car! cnn is saying, we don't know what's going on on west executive drive but someone's car has been - - whose car is that? eventually it's like, we've been told on good authority that it's senior advisers karl rove's car. so i call up hubbard. i say fantastic. you paid me back for every time i've stole yourcar. you've

nine of the first 12 presidents used enslaved labor at the white house. out,re trying to figure what do you need to get a building going? what you need for the entertainment? what they realized is, enslaved labor that was going to provide the foundation for them to craft and create what became the white house. america, the 1945 film "the shores of iwo jima." 8:00 p.m. on the presidency, a look at lincoln, douglas, and emancipation with historians. explore the american story, watch american history tv this weekend on c-span three. >> in august of 1918 5000 soldiers of the 39th regiment sailed to a russian city 1000 miles northeast of moscow. they would spend the next year in the frozen north fighting the red army in an attempt to aid anti-communist forces. next, author james carl nelson tells the story while discussing his book "the polar bear expedition: the heroes of america's forgotten invasion of russia, 1918 to 1919."

now, the white house press secretary stephanie grisham, who we should not has not held a white house briefing during her tenure as the press secretary but does frequently appear on fox news, she commented on fox news just this morning about john kelly's comments. listen in. >> i was in the room with him when he actually backed the president on many of the things that he's now saying, you know, weren't great talking about the media, especially. i have heard john kelly say some things about the media. so i thought it was a little disingenuous. >> and so beyond that pushback, bro brooke from the white house, you saw that tweet from the president you read moments ago. that is notable, particularly because one thing we have not seen john kelly do is write a tell-all book about his time at the white house. actually, we reported back in the fall that that's because the president told the president he would not write a book on trump during his time while he is still commander in chief as long as the president didn't attack him first. so does this change the calculus as we see the president n

house and not doing the white house. .. was really interesting to me was there so many people in the new york real estate world, big important people that they wanted me to it understand was they wanted me to it know, and this is their words, donald trump is not one of us. they felt he was not part of the new york civic real estate society. but they also felt that his practices were so far off the scale. i want to be clear, new york real estate is a shady business. but donald trump is in a category by himself. and that is what people wanted me to it understand in the real estate industry in new york. that he is an outlier in his business practices as was his father, an outlier and business practices. the near time says they committed outright fraud. this is not something you hear every day about a realistic family in new york. b10 what about ivanka and jared. they have been living there for three or four years they are both been working in the white house they have companies both new york and new jersey i guess both in new

history. >> clinton was one of the greatest politicians the white house has ever seen. he was a great leader in the sense of being a charismatic, well-intentioned, visionary president. but he undermined himself with his personal foibles. >> as mr. clinton moves into his final year in office, he's already sharing the spotlight with the candidacies of his wife and vice president. >> it's one of the tragedies of the clinton years that this period of real prosperity and real peace leads to a more polarized america. bill clinton leaves the country more divided than he found it. >> he came with these enormous expectations. the expectations of a generation behind him. and although he had some big achievements, he also had some enormous setbacks. that cycle of achievement and setback came to define his presidency. >> we know the sun will always rise on america as long as each new generation lights the fire of freedom. our children are ready. >> the thing about bill clinton was he never stopped trying to find a sliver of ground on which you could build agreement and move the cou

he wrote i'm seeing governor cuomo at the white house, he must understand that national security far exceeds politics. new york must stop all of its unnecessary lawsuits and harassment, cleaning itself out and lowering taxes. leticia james has filed a subpoena and a number of lawsuits against the trump organization. she responded to the president's tweets writing in part this, when you stop violating the rights and liberties of all new yorkers, we will stand down. until then, we have a duty and a responsibility to defend the constitution and the rule of law. by the way, i filed the lawsuits, not the governor. house judiciary chair, jerry nadler drew a link between trump's tweet and a quid pro quo writing this, dear senate gop, this is what another quid pro quo by the president of the united states looks like. and president trump has now attacked the lead juror in the case that ended with his friend roger stone's conviction, trump tweeted this in part, now it looks like the four person in the jury in the roger stone case had significant bias. add that to everything else and this is no

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there has been a statement from stephanie grisham, white house secretary,aying that the bush white house press secretary, saying that the president has been totally vindicated and slams democrats from naming adam schiff and nancy pelosi, and asked the question quite ominously in this statement, "will there be no retribution?" unclear what he means by that. also hav romney for voting for the first article from the onen republi who broke on one of the articles. we will get statement from the president tomorrow at noon. we are expecting him to address the aftermath of the impeachment process. we will see what his mood will be inerson, i think. laura: gary, just how disappointed is the ite house by the fact that mitt romney did break ranks and vote to convict the president of abuse o power? gary: i think if you see the fact that they specifically called him out not by name, but describing him as a failed republican presicantial idate in this statement, that is clearly rankled with his white house. they would very, very much l te to have sat this was a completely and utterly partisan vote in

thank you very much. >>> with us now, john harwood, cnn white house correspondent jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters. you guys, you cover the politics on this, jonathan, i'll start with you, given you're at the white house, the president seemed to hear barr's comments, but then tweet that fine for you to say that, but i'm going to go my own way. >> reporter: jim, the white house reaction on this was a tell. you had stephanie grisham put out a state last night saying the president was not bothered by bill barr's comments. the president has made clear through his conduct throughout his presidency that he is bothered by criticism approximately 100% of the time. so if he -- if the white house is putting out a statement like that, that is a sign that they're not really bothered. now, when the president tweeted this morning, that's his maximum flexibility position. i didn't do this wrongdoing i'm accused of, but i could have if i wanted to. remember, we learned from the mueller report this is a president who according to the testimony, this white house counsel, directed him -- th

alexander vinman who testified during the house impeachment wao ed off of white house grounds and removed from the n.s.c.st and efore we sat down at 8:00 p.m. eastern on friday, president trump recalled gor doan sondland the u.s. ambassador to the european union. odesh from the white house and the beat, is this a president unbound? is he purging the ranks? >> it is. it is angry. he has grievances that he's been nursing for months through this impeachmt inquiry. and he's determined to retaliate against everyone who he believes onge t him. ant's not limited to the democratic congressionaleader. it includes the congressional leaders who testified against him and people witn the govement that he suspects of betraying him. robert: was this a long-time coming? was this in the works? >> it did seem for a while that the vinman twins because alexander's twin also worked in the white house that there was strust for them. this idea the concern that they might have been leaking and thia and and so there has been concern there. and i mean, i think generally,oi don't hat people thought unat sondland or

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watch the president want him serving the white house? what is so hard to understand about any of this? let's remember, vindman didn't just want the president out of office. he is someone whom the ukrainians asked three times to be their defense minister. i still can't get over that. here now is an investigative journalist, author of the book "the plot against the president." along with dinesh d'souza, conservative author and filmmaker. you and i've talked about this before regarding mr. vindman and others like him who find themselves, they can't stand the fact that they are not sitting in the oval office. how is reassigning a bureaucrat worse than what the mom does to people, as the crowd was saying today? >> i remembered distinctly from "the godfather" that one frank was part of a coup against the boss, he expected recriminations. he didn't think that he could try to take the big guy out and not expect there to be any consequences. the thing about vindman is that vindman was, if we can step back from this and look at it, he was part of

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?" 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

and too much of what was said by white house counsel was not only wrong, but disgraceful. the presentation and the chamber by the white house counsel characterized by smear out right misstatements and various dishonest rhetorical tricks that i doubt they would care pool before judges knowing that we were a captive and cyanide audience, knowing the outcome was predetermined in their favor and grandstanding for the tv audience particularly an audience of one. they delivered a performance that leaves a stain on the pages of the senate record. perhaps there would be consequences for some of the conduct of the chamber. i ask that might further remarks on the subject the attached as an appendix to the statement. >> without objection. >> so, in my professional discussion with the performance, let us agree that this ought not be precedent. let us also agree on something else. there was one particular argument the white house made that we should trample, discard and put out into the trash the notion that the united states district court can supervise our senate impeachment proceedi

we saw this public statement from the white house. i suspect behind the scenes the president is not happy now. we'll see what happens. always good to have you here in "the situation room." >> thanks. >>> the president is lashing out at his former white house chief of staff as john kelly is speaking out against his former boss. john bolton is weighing in on their feud. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ wherever we want to go, we just have to start. autosave your way there with chase. chase. make more of what's yours. othroughout the country for the past twelve years, mr. michael bloomberg is here. vo: leadership in action. mayor bloomberg and president obama worked together in the fight for gun safety laws, to improve education, and to develop innovative ways to help teens gain the skills needed to find good jobs. obama: at a time when washington is divided in old ideological battles he shows us what can be achieved when we bring people together to seek pragmatic solutions. bloomberg: i'm mike bloomberg and i approve this message. wean air force veteran

breaking news on the campaign trail to the white house. democratic presidential candidate pete buttigieg is now submitting what he says is evidence of inconsistencies in the iowa caucuses. cnn's dianne gallagher is in des moines with more on this. dianne, what does he mean? >> fredricka, what this essentially means is that his campaign, according to an aide, has identified at least some of these inconsistencies in the precincts reporting when it comes to delegates or when it comes to the final numbers. there is a noon central time deadline today for campaigns to submit exactly this. and this doesn't mean they're necessarily calling for a recanvassing. senator bernie sanders campaign on thursday said it submitted a list of about 14 discrepancies that it found when going through the numbers that the iowa democratic party had put out. now, the deadline today is simply to submit documentation of those inaccuracies or discrepancies at the campaign finds. there's a separate deadline on monday noon central time for them to actually call for a rec

but is the white house -- are folks around the white house and inside it thinking of this in those terms at all? >> they are beginning to, steve. there's a heightened sense of concern within the president's circle about the coronavirus situation, about this perhaps worsening into a pandemic. about the economy remaining shaky, jittery. the market's continue to decline as stephanie was just alluding to and what this may portend for the president. that's a realization too that trump is not a great fit for this moment. this is a moment that of course requires leaders to present honest, factual information to rely on the scientist experts in the government and what you have in president trump is a leader who's prone to hyperbole. who doesn't always tell the truth, who likes to be a salesman and can exaggerate and can be i motional in his responses when calmness is really the order of the day. so it's sort of a wait and see moment in the white house. there's an attempt to get things under control here with vice president pence taking charge, but a lot of concern this can go off the rails very

the white house specifically rejected all of that. remember, the president keeps saying the phone call was perfect. the actions were perfect. the impeachment -- even the inquiry was utterly illegitimate and unconstitutional. that's the extreme position the white house has made and never waive verdired from. i don't expect the president ever, ever to say any of the things that his defenders are now saying. so i think they're going to find

let's get straight to the white house to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. you have information there may be a bigger purge coming inside the trump administration? >> reporter: yeah, brooke, this has been a running theme ever since the president's acquittal in the impeachment trial. he has been out to get people he sees asnever rumpers,people he sees as being disloyal to him and his agenda out of his administration. from what we understand, our reporting coming from myself, jeremy diamond, kaitlan collins and kristen holmes is that johnny mcinty that heads the presidential personnel office over here at the white house summoned a meeting yesterday. at that meeting he told tom agency staffers across the federal government that his office is going to be on the lookout for so-called never trumpers, people who are viewed inside these various departments, inside these various agencies as being disloyal to the president. i talked to one white house official about this earlier today who said that this is probably a bad idea, that this is not going to work out well

we don't know what the white house is going to do. we don't know how long this classified review is going to be. and how bolton will respond to that. >> well, he's at their mercy. i mean, i've gone through this pre-publication review process, and you know, based on a supreme court case involving a supreme court -- a former cia agent named frank snep, if you publish a book in defiance of a pre-publication review judgment or without getting pre-publication review, they don't scensor the book, they tae all your money away. they do what's called a constructive trust. they take your money. and he's not going to defy the -- defy the national security counsel. the question is, how long will that review take? and will they actually censor the book to a degree he doesn't want to publish it? >> the people who are reviewing it, in the national security council, are they under the sway of political -- >> they are, apparently, career officials. but the national security council is run by the white house and the national security adviser, who is ve

the white house generally knew what barr was going to say. they may not have known that he would have said the president is making it impossible to do my job, but barr may have told them, look, i'm facing a mutiny over here, and i've got to get it under control at the justice department. the question is, if barr believes the president is making it impossible to do his job and the president continues to tweet as he tweeted today, what will barr do the next time -- and i pribt there will predict there will be a next time, i'm going to go out on a limb -- >> what will the attorney general do the next time the president tweets. >> what if despite what bill barr said president trump tweets on andy mccabe, how dangerous is that? >> a test, a test, a test. let us see if the attorney general then says publicly what he said yesterday and says as i said, the president needs to stop tweeting and making my job impossible or does he, in fact, decide it becomes too impossible and that he has to leave? i don't know, you know, i just don't know the answer to

fox team coverage, and following the white house shakeout. standing by with a debate about analysis, the correspondent, peter dusen, live in the spin room and highlights, human, peter. >> good evening, and lowering expectations for joe biden and announcing in front of the national audience, he does not think that the come back in new hampshire is going to happen for him. >> i took the hit in iowa and it will probably take a hit here and traditionally, bernie won back by 20 points last time and the senator did well. >> so as joe biden talked about his own onto new hampshire like they are thinking, he treated it pete buttigieg like his campaign is rising. at the sharp warning he thinks that being 38 years old auntie don't have enough experience to be president. >> i freely admit to that if you're looking for the person with the most years of washington establishment experience under their belts, you've got your candidate, of course it's not me. i was the first major leader of the public office to call for same-sex marriage. i d do not know abou

weijia jiang is at the white house. what's the white house's strategy this week? >> reporter: good morning, president trump will try to move forward and deliver a quote very, very positive message during tomorrow night's state of the union address. senior administration officials say there will be a strong focus on the economy and they won't reveal whether the president will even mention his impeachment trial. but during an interview last night he did not hold back. >> me and my family suffered because of all of this. >> reporter: in a traditional pre-super bowl interview president trump said impeachment has taken a toll and doubted whether he could work with democrats going forward. >> i see the hatred. they don't care about fairness. i'm not sure that they can do it. >> reporter: mr. trump has always insisted he did nothing wrong when he asked ukraine's president to investigate political rival joe biden. now several republicans are publicly disagreeing. >> i think it was wrong. inappropriate was the way i would say improper crossing the line. >> reporter: but no