white house library. that did happen. hundred 50 years later we did see that in the white house. there's also a actual white house executive office building, a great library and resource for office staff. >> from heidi in long island, new york, abraham lincoln embrace the new technology and had several photos taken of himself. would that be an example of tapping into pop culture to make himself more familiar to the american people? >> absolutely. the picture that he took in the union address became the image of. lincoln credited for making him president. so the new photography was very important. he knew what the guy was and i think today we talk about how lincoln was a handsome, man, actually i think lincoln with the older stiffness and the, beard a ruggedly good-looking guy, >> steph from connecticut asks about saturday night live. it's been a great way for politicians to connect with people. do you agree? >> saturday night live was a mixed bag for presidents. it came out before the ford administration,

sometimes they'd even moved out of the white house the clevelands moved out of the white house for a while to get more privacy for their kids, but the roosevelt's sort of said, we're here look at us and of course the the rambunctious children with their i mean they got so much attention and of course we must remember that it was during that the roosevelt administration that the west wing was built. so if you look at pictures of the white house upstairs born 1900 for example in the in the period of mckinley you wonder how on that second floor they could have the family living and also the office of the president, you know, there were telephones around there were jumbled desks. it was impossible for the roosevelt family to move in there and live with among the telephones. so it was during that period that the west wing was built and then the second floor the white house what we now think of as the residential quarters where you have to be invited up you don't get shown that on the public tour. that developed and the roosevelt's very much are a part of that. eleanor roosevelt is often c

we were five minutes from the white house, we get to the white house, i go to my office, she goes to the residence. as i walk in there's nobody in the office and the phone's ringing which is very unusual. i pick it up and it's this reporter for the washington star and she said capitol police are reporting -- police radio report is reporting that there were shots at the washington hilton. do you know anything about it? i said no and i drop the phone and i just ran all the way back toward the residence. she ran this way. we went right to the hospital in spite of the fact the secret service didn't want her to because no one knew yet what was going on and they liked safety. they liked to know what's going on before they walk into a situation. >> i think she even said i'm going to the hospital and her agent said, ma'am, if you just wait we'll drive you over. and she said forget the car i'll walk if you won't take me. at that point you didn't even know he'd been shot. >> we didn't know until we got there and he told her. and it was the same -- a lot of it was -- it was so chaotic ipthere,

between the trump white house and the biden white house is that the biden white house i don't have a problem with more ideological outlets in the newsroom know they are putting more people in there than should have happened in the time we are all supposed to be keeping 6 feet from each other it would have been a huge problem with having they were clearly not supposed to be there so obviously the white house doesn't have that problem with 40 people outside, inside cameramen, producers. i haven't covered the white house surveillance but it is a limited number. i can only get in once every seven or eight weeks within my team so that is more related to covid than anything else, but the second point i think that it is obviously we are always going to be wanting more assets. once they start to turn around and once we are all vaccinated there won't be a major reason to restrict access to the white house again because it does matter how many people are married. we try to be generous and we try to ask questions to help each other out. we've tried to set up a similar system where we share thos

phil mattingly at the white house, thank you. we'll have more on that coming up but right now the fbi director's testimony about the capitol insurrection. jazz ka schneider is covering that for us. they had tough questions for the fbi director. >> reporter: those senators definitely showed frustrations here. but director chris wray said the fbi warned in three separate ways all while wray stressed domestic terrorism is growing for sometime and the threat is not subsiding. >> that attack, that siege was criminal behavior plain and simple and behavior that we the fbi view as domestic terrorism. >> reporter: in the first congressional testimony since the attack, fbi director wray appointed by former president trump put a dagger in the conspiracy theories pushed by some trump supporters of what happened that day. >> is there any evidence that the january 6th riot here, the insurrection organized by people simply posing as supporters of president trump's? >> we have not seen any evidence of that, certainly at -- >> is there any eviden

in what that would be in a white house library and that white house library does now exist and i've been to the room in the white house and actually in honor of my book. i took a picture of myself in that white house library with the bookshelf behind me so that that did happen. it didn't happen when the questioners just but about 150 years later. we did see that with arthur schuster. library there's also an actual white house library in the executive office building. that is a great library and a great resource for white house staffers and they would get most of you and deliver them to you, but that's it. that's a different thing. that's a kind of public. from heidi in long island, new york abraham lincoln embraced the then new technology of photography and had several photos taken of himself. would that be an example of tapping into pop culture to make himself more familiar to the american people? oh, absolutely that famous picture. he took in new york city during his when he get winters cooper union address that became the image of lincoln and he credited and part with helping making p

officials are going to hold a briefing at the white house. the administration is also holding a summit focused on how to quickly and safely get every student, all of them, back into the classrooms. the education secretary saying this morning over on "the today show he expects that to happen by the fall or sooner. >> do you expect that 100% of schools will be open for inperson learning? >> thank you for having me. i do. but i really want to focus on getting as many now in the spring. >> talk through some of the actions that we expect to hear announced today, what is your anticipation as you talk to sources there? >> hallie, the agenda has suddenly gotten very crowded, hasn't it? he has been making plans. the situation at the border, the conversation about gun control, but there was a time when that goal that he set during the transition of getting kids back into the crass rooms in the first 100 days was a source of criticism. now this question of getting their kids back into school remains. we'll see the president, the vice president, the firs

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

what does the white house think about that? >> i think there has been a fair amount of reporting done on that. i think the schools are opening in april. >> april 12 to hybrid learning. >> so students will be back into the classroom and this is related part-time. you know our objective for the white house, opening five days a week majority of schools for country. they are on spring break right now and this is related to volunteering or being paid, i'm not sure. you would have to ask the school district during spring break for these migrant kids. >> the san diego county supervisor says i think it is great there is in-person learning for unaccompanied minors, but i think every child in san diego county was allowed the same opportunity for in person teachings. i guess the question is, does the white house think this sends the right message to these 130,000 kids in san diego and their parents who have been stuck in the classroom? >> i'm saying context is important and these kids are going back to school. for hybrid learning, we want

house and the biden white house is that the biden white house is not proactively inciting people to violate social distancing protocols, like the trump white house did. i will only speak for myself, but i don't have a problem with more ideological outlets in the newsroom or the briefing room for the problem was they were putting more people in their then what should have happened at a time when we are crawl supposed to be keeping six feet from each other, when we are covering a white house that was careless with social distancing protocols, which is a huge problem with having oan in the briefing room when they were clearly not supposed to be there, so the biden white house doesn't have that problem with 40 people outside, inside cameramen, producers. they are restricting it to 80 people. 40 people outside. 40 people inside. that includes all the people just 80 people a day. i haven't covered the white house, but it is a limited number. i can only get in the white house once every seven or eight weeks because i have an internal rotation within my team, then we get to be part of the b

and you heard earlier on your program, white house spokeswoman karine jean-pierre talk about that and why they want to hit the road in a way we have not seen this white house do in the first 50 plus days. >> this is a critical moment. this is a moment where we have to make sure that the american people know what's in this plan. and so there's so many things in this bill that meets the moment that we are in that he's going to hit the road as well with the vice president, the first lady, the second gentleman. respectively they're going to crisscross this country and talk about the plan, talk about how we're going to implement this plan, talk about the funding that's in this plan, the resources in the plan that's going to move forward even further. >> reporter: the first event actually takes place at the white house tomorrow, alex, where they're going to be discussing the implementation. the white house hasn't announced yet, though, who they're going to put in charge of that process. back in 2009, the then vice president, joe biden, was the one in charge of trying to roll out the recover

right to the white house. we're going to crown. back to the white house. back to the white house. rawhide is okay. >> they are headed back to the white house. the driver in the limousine is hurdling down to connecticut. there would be traffic here in 1930, one march 30th, as they are driving along, remember the limousine is alone. they have no support. they left the motorcade behind. the follow-up car, our follow-up car, finally catches up behind him and despair limousine which has the presidents position in it and another agent finally gets up near him as well so they're going along, the police cars trying to follow up in the police motorcycles are going along with the limousine. as they get about here they realize that the president is having problems, is he having a heart attack? reagan says i don't think so, then he starts dubbing blood, bright and frothy blood. from his training he knows that means that it is probably from the lungs. that's not good. so jerry has to make a call. this guy struggling. the medical facility at the white house. it's the most secure place in the wo

house and the biden white house is that biden white house is not proactively inciting people to violate social distancing protocols like the trump white house did. i'll only speak for myself, but you know, i don't have a problem with more ideological outlets in the news room or the briefing room. the problem was that they were putting more people in there what should have happened in a time when we're all supposed to be six feet from each other. covering a white house that was careless with their social distancing protocols, which has been a huge problem with having people from oan in the back of the briefing room when they were clearly not supposed to be there. so, obviously the biden white house doesn't have that problem now because they are restricting reporters and journalists to 80 people, 40 people outside, 40 people inside, including correspondents, reporters, cameramen producers. and that is a limited number. i can only get into the white house once every like seven or eight weeks because i have an internal rotation within my team and then we're part of and we get to be part of

what about the priorities we are hearing from the white house? obviously, there's this big focus on immigration because of this terrible situation that's unfolding at the border. but if that wasn't on the table, what the white house would be talking about now is covid relief and infrastructure. what's an issue that a moderate democrat like joe manchin would like? infrastructure. the white house is not moving hard into these far left issues. certainly they say they support the voting rights act. certainly they would like to see gun reform legislation. but are they heavily engaging to get those items next on congress's agenda? not necessarily at this point. i don't know if that is the joe manchin influence or if that's just joe biden's instincts, which it seems from what i'm told that's president biden's instincts might be closer to joe manchin's than they are other members of the democratic party at this point. >> that makes a lot of sense. shannon pettypiece, leigh ann caldwell, peter baker, thank you all so much for kicking us off today. really

house and the biden white house is that the biden white house is not proactively inviting people i have a questit conservative outlets. the primary difference between the trump white house and the biden one is that the biden white house is not proactively inciting people to violate social distancing protocols like the trump white house did. i only speak for myself, but i don't have a problem with more ideological outlets in the news room, or in the briefing room. the problem was they were putting more people in their than there should have been at a time when we are all supposed to be keeping six feet from each other when we were covering a white house that was careless with social distancing, which is a huge problem with having people from oan in the back of the briefing room when they were clearly not supposed to be there. obviously, the biden white house is stringent lee restricting reporters and journalists who -- 80 people on campus a day. 40 people inside. that includes reporters and producers, all those people, 80 people a day. it is a limited number. i have only been to the whit

jeff zeleny is over at the white house for us today. the president can't afford to lose a single democratic vote in the senate if his plan is going to pass. >> reporter: wolf, that's absolutely right. the math simply does not work without all 50 democrats voting with the white house. that is why president biden was doing a virtual meeting with nine democratic senators. he needs all of those votes on the covid relief bill. they're still working out specific details about fooind funding on broadband and other matters. he needs their votes to push this over the finish line. at the white house tonight, president biden intensifying his efforts to push his signature covid relief bill through yet another hurdle in congress. after returning from his home over the weekend in delaware, the president meeting virtually with nine democratic senators, whose votes he needs to pass the $1.9 trillion package. >> we reserved time in his schedule to ensure he could be engaged, roll up his sleeves and be personally involved in having more zoom meetings, po

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

just because the white house said so. so we reported, a lot of people reported on a number of different elements of the cdc coming under inappropriate political pressure. six months ago, "the new york times" obtained documentation showing that the white house and the trump administration were repeatedly intervening in the scientific process at the cdc, and indeed, they were just publishing their own nonscientific white house junk. but they were putting it out under the cdc's name. and when cdc scientists and cdc officials tried to object to it, they overruled them, and this trump nonsense went out as if it was cdc guidance. it's like if you ordered food from a super fancy, fantastic restaurant with an amazing reputation, but i stole the food and instead dropped off some terrible frozen pizza at your house. right? i put it in the bag from the fancy place, but it was just like, gross, old pizza in the back of my freezer. if i did that, first of all, of course, i'm a thief and a fraud. but also, you probably wouldn't order d

we are five minutes from the white house. we get to the white house. i go to my office. she goes to the residents. as i walk in, there is no one in the office and the phone is ringing, which is very unusual. i pick it up and it's a reporter from the washington star, jennifer hershberg. she said the capitol police are reporting, police radio, is reporting there were shots at the washington hilton. do you know anything about it? i said no and dropped the phone and just ran all the way back towards the residents. she ran this way. we went right to the hospital, in spite of the fact that the secret service didn't want her to. no one knew yet what was going on and they liked safety. they liked to know what was going on before they walked into a situation. >> i think she even said i'm going to the hospital and the agents said if you just wait we will drive you over and she said i will walk if you won't take me. >> she said he needs me. that's exactly what she said. >> at that point, you didn't even know he had been shot? not until we got there. and it was the same. it was so c

champ and major are here at the white house. they joined the first family at camp david last week and and returned with them sunday. the dogs will come and go and it will not be uncommon for them to go back to delaware on occasion. as the president and first lady often do as well. more about the dogs? >> [indiscernible] ms. psaki: colin is qualified and experience and would bring an incredible reservoir of perspective to the job at the department of defense. we look forward to his confirmation. >> [indiscernible] ms. psaki: nope. >> you said leader mcconnell and the president spoken several times but leader mcconnell said only one time. ms. psaki: i don't have any more calls to read out. >> has the president's definition of bipartisanship changed? ms. psaki: no,'s definition of bipartisanship has always been working on behalf of the american people and governing for all people whether it's democrats, republicans or independents and moving forward on proposals and policies that will make their lives better. >> even without republ

you sent it to the white house. you said we don't have the resources for what you anticipated would happen. what was the response from the white house? >> well, i spoke with julie rodriguez from the white house. they say they were trying to facilitate the needs and trying to come up with a plan of action. this is nothing new. we managed it in 2019 and here we are in 2021 managing another crisis and nothing is being done. it's a biden border crisis in my opinion because there's no action. seeing what we're seeing now, happening in the rio grande valley with people wrapped around in blankets made out of silver, it's absurd what is happening. >> why do you say the way the administration is handled this? you personally feel this is a slap in the face. >> well, because when you're pleading with the president to stop the release of migrants into your community while we're dealing with a weather phenomenon that hasn't happened in 30 years and we get three or four days of that time per the border patrol sector -- by the way

they have the votes and the proposal in the white house that the white house will face the dual crisis cease that it currently faced. right now senate democrats on track to try to pass that bill by the end of this week, phil mattingly, cnn, the white house. >> the white house on tuesday pulled neera tanden's nomination to lead the office of budget. the nomination facing opposition op almost from the start from both parties. >> reporter: the first casualty among president biden's cabinet nominations coming tuesday night with the white house withdrawing the nomination of budget director neera tanden. for the last week or so, this nomination has been very much in question. senators raised objections to some of her past social media comments largely calling republicans vulgar names some democrats as well. senator joe manchin of west virginia raised questions that he would not support neera tanden. of course in a closely divided senate that became a problem but the white house has invested considerable capital trying to keep her on board but they decided on tuesday night it was not worth to

the same goes for the white house. zoom is a central part of the white house, not ours. now big questions over whether china could be listening into the white house zoom conferences. david has the details for us but david could this be true? >> jonathan an interesting question but not only white house use zoom but the president often caught zoom with lawmakers to mother embers of the administration because after all in the middle of a pandemic. that is the way to use it. zoom has become so popular. many people concerned about the most powerful person on the road using this platform. indiana jim thanks white house chief of staff wrote in a letter expressing his concerns. he told fox news in a statement to cybersecurity risk comes from within zoom itself so we cannot be sure zoom for government is a secure platform just because at a meeting is not officially classified does not mean chinese communist party would not give an arm and a leg to listen in. the the fbi currently looking fa former zoom employee likely based in china accused of infiltrating zoom meetings in the un

house and white house officials set mid-march as the timetable for this priority. and so this is a certainly real victory the first legislative and you mentioned the president's tweet saying help is here. what he's saying since being declared the winner that help is on the way and a longer statement the president calling this a victory for the essential workers who he called the backbone of this country and calling notary public the most important speaker in the history of this country and very soon hearing from the president in public for the first time with an event with the ceos of johnson & johnson and merck as a beginning of what to expect a sales campaign from the president even after the legislation is passed leading up to the prime time address tomorrow night and marching the progress this country made since the lockdowns a year ago and then a signing ceremony potentially on the south lawn friday. >> we'll get the remarks to you when they get under way. anna, the big ticket item ahead, infrastructure. you and jake sherman had a chat with the white house chi

i hope they run for 28 in his 1st public address since he left the white house rejected by voters trump ease the minds of many republicans with a call to unify the party across the bitter divide he helped create the republican party is united the only division is between a handful of washington d.c. establishment political hacks and everybody else all over the country i think we have tremendous and. call for unity behind trump is a challenge to those republicans who want to be the party behind someone else in a post from europe but the former president isn't releasing his vice like grip on a clear majority of republican voters every party but now especially the republican party has to look inside after january 6th and say what have we become what's our great history and how do we go forward from here and i tell you reaching out to donald trump and more of the same is not going to do that as expected in his kitchen sink speech trump attacked his rivals promise to defeat the. repeated baseless claims that he won the past election actually as you know they just lost the white house but he

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

white house fellow. but because i was a white house fellow, i was given that privilege. now, i normally sat on the side of the room, and not around the table. the real senior staffers were at the table. and that morning, john open the meeting by saying that the president had talked with him and wanted a thorough review of federal indian policy in that he was not pleased with president state of affairs. john also noted that the vice president -- october 8th convention in albuquerque to begin to set the stage. so john looked everybody in the room and said, okay, anybody have un-expertise in this area? and there was just released silence. and i hesitated for while, because i was supposed to be a backbencher but one no one else volunteered, i raise my hand and i said, i want to yell law school and some people said, that explains all you need to know, right? i said, inside joke. i want to yell law school and that my thesis at yale law school had been on community control of indian education and that i'd spent

not just the white house. philip: anthony, do you know the status or do you want to comment further on that act? anthony: i don't know the status, but anne makes a good point. with the new obama model, that does not give the national archives a role to play at the obama center, they will just run a private museum, much like the nixon foundation for 16 years ran a private museum but have an agreement with the national archives to feature documents and artifacts and memorabilia. i think tying that to performance is important because if a president decides i don't need the national archives, i will do what i want, there is still the idea of not quite the strong motto of the archives on the door, but these are records that belong to the people in this private museum. there is a less strong still an idea of support that we would not want to give to a former president who acted atrociously in office when it comes to record-keeping. philip: it gives some teeth, but in general, what is the enforcement mechanism for th

as been done in previous white houses fox news has requested comment from the white house about the change have not heard back. joining us now is someone who spent time at the white house george w. bush's white house who had a running mate named dick cheney but he was not on all the letterhead. ari fleischer joins us. ari there is 15 executive departments. it's all switched now to biden-harris. do you read anything into this? >> well, walter cronkite, let me tell you my take on this is either one of two things, either joe biden is being incredibly gracious. >> brian: yep. >> just wants to extend the rubric of the administration to his vice president or it's a real sign and it could be both that joe biden is definitely a one-term president at the age of 82 he has no intention of running for re-election and he is paving the way now for his preferred candidate to succeed him kamala harris. i strongly suspect it's the latter, much more than the former. >> brian: right. now, something else that's going on and might be because the former senator, former attorney general is new to the job. but, a

in less than a week the white house is considering executive action. what president biden could do to strengthen our nation's gun laws. how great is it that we get to tell everybody how liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? i mean it... uh-oh, sorry... oh... what? i'm an emu! no, buddy! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪ it's moving day. and while her friends are doing the heavy lifting, jess is busy moving her xfinity internet and tv services. it only takes about a minute. wait, a minute? but what have you been doing for the last two hours? ...delegating? oh, good one. move your xfinity services without breaking a sweat. xfinity makes moving easy. go online to transfer your services in about a minute. get started today. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin with the national lead. today we see evidence of three different national tragedies going on in the united states beyond the covid pandemic. we begin with the latest in the epidemic of gun violence in this

president biden coming before the cameras at the white house today. what he said about the victims and what he said about the families of police officers across this country who leave home not knowing if they'll come home. flags at the white house just raised after honoring the victims in the mass shootings in atlanta last week ordered lowered again today, this time for the victims in boulder. the president then made an urgent plea to congress today and we do have it all covered for you tonight, beginning with the horror inside that supermarket. and abc's chief national correspondent matt gutman leading us off from the scene tonight. >> reporter: tonight, eyewitnesses describe how an ordinary trip to the supermarket turned into an afternoon of terror. one that left ten dead and the city of boulder reeling. dean schiller came to shop for groceries. instead he found this. >> someone's down, right here. something just happened here, guys. look, there's people lying in the [ bleep ] street, guys. he went in the store. >> one down right there. >> oh, my go

jonathan, where is the white house on this? the president saying one thing, the press secretary saying another. the bottom line is are they going to put together a piece of legislation that could get 60 votes? it doesn't seem like the next one is positioning for that. >> there's a few parts to that. i don't think anyone who had the functioning brain who works in the biden white house thinks that they're going to pass infrastructure with 60 votes. i think everyone is working towards a 55 -- realistically, the amount of money they want to spend, the way they want to pay for it, corporate tax hikes, they're not going to get a whole bunch of republicans voted for that. they are certainly not going to get 10 in the senate. as for the filibuster, biden is leading himself flexibility but the real trouble, there's a few democratic senators who say they are still not decided, but you know, when he talks to members, most think that to be 29 with the exception of joe manchin could probably be pressured with a bunch of these bills like hr

the white house wants to pay for it with tax increases on corporations and the wealthy. the question this morning, whether democrats will be able to move it through the house and the senate all on their own as they did with the covid relief package. of course, we'll be watching as that plays out here on capitol hill kenneth. >> faith there in washington, thank you. >>> turning now to the pandemic, health officials are growing more concerned about a new surge in coronavirus cases. overnight germany reversed course and imposed a strict new lockdown through easter. back in this country, 21 states are seeing cases rise. some states like new jersey are pausing their re-opening plans. the cdc is pleading with americans to avoid traveling. >> the continued relaxation of prevention measures while concerning variants are spreading rapidly throughout the united states is a serious threat to the progress we have made as a nation. >> meanwhile, we're learning more about the so-called long haulers who suffer covid symptoms for months. most experience neurological symptoms, which incl

. >> white house chief of staff ron klain talked about the chief administration's coronavirus responsible with punchbowl news, this about a half hour. >> i'm joined by fellow founder, jake, and we're thrilled it kick off punchbowl's focused on president biden first 100 days. a big thank you for edelman for making this possible. we want to bring you close to a key decision maker in joe biden's washington. we're going to be joined by chief of staff ron klain to discuss the covid relief package and what's on the agenda and more. and the edelman's ceo will join us for a fireside chat. a reminder we'd love you to share any insights or big moments on twitter. we'll be taking questions, feel free to tweet us at punch bowl news. >> anna, thank you for having me. >> thank you mr. chief of staff for joining us. a quick 15 seconds, maybe more depending how generous we feel, and about what congress is about to pass in the next 24 hours, the 1.9 trillion american relief-- rescue plan, arp trying to set the tone for the recovery. what have you learned about congress in these last, let's call it, you kn

>> look, obviously the white house is willing to fight for it. the white house lost that fight. and so when you're looking at an administration that hasn't had really anything catastrophic occur over its first six weeks, this would be considered a loss. in the grand scheme of things when you're still getting your core cabinet officials confirmed with pretty wide bipartisan support, they feel good about where they are. and officials i spoke to over the course of the last week asking them the writing feels like it's on the wall here, what are you guys doing, kind of going to the mattresses on this one. was there was a sense inside the white house that they needed to show that they were willing to fight even if they were going to lose. and clearly they made the calculation that they were going to lose neera tanden made that calculation as well. and so the nominee was withdrawn. so i think they felt like they put an important mention out there that they were willing to fight for their nominees while also acknowledging reality when it kind of hit them in the face to some degree. it's

watch live coverage of the house right here on c-span. >> white house press secretary jen psaki spoke to reporters about the executive orders president biden signed regarding gender equality. jen: hi, everyone. today on international's women's day the president signed two executive orders. the first establishes the white house gender policy council to ensure that the biden administration advances gender equity and equal rights and opportunity for women and girls. the second directs the department of education to review all of its existing regulations, orders, guidance and policies for consistency with the administration's policy to guarantee education free from sexual violence. to talk about these executive orders, we're thrilled to have two newly named co-chairs of the gender policy council, julissa and jennifer. julissa is the ambassador of the united states to uruguay from 2014-2014 and served as deputy assistant of -- central american, caribbean, and cuban affairs. in addition to being the co-chair, jenn is part of the gender policy council. she was previously chief strategy and p

and we'll get a job in the white house no matter what. the issue of immigration, take a listen. >> they are a leading undocumented people in, that concerns me and my community leaders down there. >> we have more than 7,000 unaccompanied kids who have come into the united states, and that is certainly a lot of children that we are trying to treat humanely and safely in a process through the system as quickly as we can. >> at what point does it become a crisis? >> i don't think that we need to meet your bar of what we call it. we are going to approach it without labeling. >> we won't be able to handle it. >> bret: democrats in that border state are saying that it is starting to become one, axios' with this report on monday homeland secretary said from the white house podium that it is not a crisis. today the president will be told that the number of migrant kids is on pace to exceed the all-time record by 45 percent in the administration does not have enough beds. facing the growing numbers, the department of health and human services which

house and at the obama white house. and the conclusions are very striking and scathing indeed, don. among the things that they conclude here is that he did make sexual and denigrating comments about one of his female subordinates to another, and he drank alcohol with subordinates against the white house policy. he took ambien, sleeping medication, in violation of white house policy while he was taking care of the president. and at the same time, concerns about creating a toxic workplace environment. so, i will walk through the detailed findings as part of the investigation. it says that a one specific instance, for in 2014, he, as part of a trip to manilla, it alleges he was actually drunk. he went to a female subordinate's room, knocked on her door and said, i need you and then later commented about that subordinate's breasts and buttocks to someone on his staff. he appeared to be drunk on duty while he was in argentina back in, on a presidential trip from march 23rd, 2016, through march 24th, 2016 and that at a time w

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. >> mary bruce joins us live from the white house tonight. mary, the president signing that bill today, you and i were on the air for that. and then the white house revealing that americans could start seeing these payments through direct deposit, in fact, as soon as this weekend. >> reporter: david, they are trying to move as quickly as possible here. those payments will start landing in bank accounts in just a matter of days. in the meantime, the president is going to be hitting the road to promote this law. we already know that this plan is widely popular, but the president is making a big push to inform americans about these benefits and the relief he and democrats are providing. that campaign starting right here tonight with the president's address. david? >> mary bruce with us live at the white house tonight. mary, thank you. and we should point out that before he hits the road to sell this new law, the president will address the nation just a short time from now on the next chapter for this country. 8:00 p.m. eastern. i'll be right her

let's start at the white house. president biden addressing the pain of the nation for over a year, but with an eye toward the future, setting some big goals over the next few months. what did we hear? >> yeah, officials said that he really wanted to strike that balance, acknowledging that, yes, you are still seeing 1500 people die every single day. but look ahead to what's going to come. so he was setting some goals tonight. we have dates from president biden and one of the biggest i think and most significant that people are going to be looking at is that may 1st date. saying this is when he's going to direct all states which the white house says he has the authority to do via the health and human services department to make sure all americans are eligible to get the vaccine no later than may 1st. they are talking about tolls to find a way to schedule vaccine points. they're going to have a federal website to look at where the closest vaccine to you is. they'll have a call center for those who don't have access to