it was southern brave vs oval invincibles. did fortune favour the brave or were the invincibles unstoppable? stuart pollitt reports. going out with a bang. lord's hadn't seen anything like this before. notjust the music and the fireworks. but — after two centuries — the hundred became the first female domestic final held at the home of cricket.the oval invincibles were put in to bat by favourites southern brave who dominated the group stage. dane van niekerk soon found her range — she top scored with 26. marizanne kapp matched van niekerk�*s score — her late blows lifted the invincibles to 121—6.dani wyatt came out arms whirring to begin the chase. but the invincibles had kapp in hand. wyatt soon walking back — out for a duck. sophia dunkley followed a few balls later and then gaby lewis as well. kapp removing the first three batters. the invincibles score being made to look impossible. fortune favours the brave, so they say, but this was just reckless. maria bouchier run out racing for a quick single. it didn't

he said i had an argument one day in the oval office with carter. i left, went back to my office in a few minutes later susan clow the president's secretary comes in and hands me very formally a green envelope. in the green envelope is stationary signifying a hand written instruction from the president. and so he knew something from jimmy carter. he opens the envelope and there carter says big you ever know when to stop? now he was proud of this note. he thought it was like signified the nature of his access to the president. but you know, this relationship work carter down. by the third year of the presidency during the hostage crisis, big was beginning to win the argument. he was the one who is constantly urging cards respond to the crisis he was the one who persuaded carter in the end reluctantly to give a green light to the helicopter rescue mission. which turned out to be a disaster. i think the preordained to be a disaster could never have succeeded. he was in favor of force and it is ironic it is over this you, he finally resigned leaving him

the hundred reaches boiling point — as oval invincibles claim cricket's newest crown. it's tough at the top in carnoustie — with 8 different leaders on day three of the women's open. and manchester city are out of the blocks as jack grealish gets his goal with a thunping win over norwich at the etihad. hello and thanks forjoining us. and after 66 matches, it all comes down to the two games that really matter. the finals of cricket's newest tournament — the hundred. both the men's and women's taking place at lords today — for the latter— an historic day — the first ever domestic women's final at this famous ground. it was southern brave vs oval invincibles — did fortune favour the brave or were the invincibles unstoppable? stuart pollitt reports. going out with a bang. lord's hadn't seen anything like this before.notjust the music and the fireworks. but — after two centuries — the hundred became the first female domestic final held at the home of cricket. the oval invincibles were put in to bat by favourites southern brave who dominated the group stage.

she said that standing on the oval office she kind of whispered to a couple advisors in earshot. at the same time president trump was at the desk on the telephone with vice president pentz. this was after he went out to give his speech before mike pence made his way to the capital to begin peas siding over the joint session of congress and trump was pressuring him on the phone to do what trump thought to be the right thing to use his power to overturn the results and ivanka felt that was wrong and not the right thing. after the phone call ended according to the reporting she went to the private dining room of her father and spoke with him one-on-one to try to persuade him she was obviously not effective there because he proceeded to go out and make the feelings known to the world then in the afternoon he got back to the white house once the rioters broke into the capital and began their siege, ivanka had to be called into the oval office multiple times by the chief of staff meadows to try to get her father into a place where the president would be able to call off his supporters.

it's the hundred eliminators day at the oval. we've already had a thrilling match in the women's competition. birmingham phoenix were chasing 115 for victory but in front of their home crowd, the invincibles were brilliant in the field, bowling phoenix out for 94 and will face southern brave in tpomorrow�*s lord's final. lydia campbell reports. for birmingham phoenix and the oval invincible is, this was not quite cricket to. praying for a chance to play in the first hundred final. phoenix chose the ball first and soon they'd removed the invincible as openers forjust 15 rounds. and after another wickets, the combination soon got things up and running for the invincible is. showing off her versatility before she claimed the first six of this eliminator. claiming her wickets was a big one for phoenix, and they managed to keep the invincible is to just 114. what must be invincible as have been thinking during this countdown? they needed early wickets and they got the first 13 balls in. proving that she is just as handy with a ball

i was shocked you sit for 20 minutes in the oval office by yourself. i have never heard of such a thing. the oval office is a place that usually fairly well protected with monitor. >> you mentioned trump sort of like me, i think he has, i mean, i am a member of the media. that is kind of like a baseline for donald trump, and no matter what he says at these rallies and a much she fights with the media, he knows the utility that they play. like he likes those come to have those relationships. he wants to be talked about. being criticized is better for him than being ignored. i did work for the "wall street journal," a paper that he had a certain amount of respect for and had respected, you know, the reporting i had done on him for a while. i had interviewed him trump tower as a candidate back in 2015 and 2016, so, so we had built a relationship and he had done a number of oval office interviews with the along the way. he was familiar with me and he liked my hair. that was one thing he always, i mean, every single time cop omitted or had a comment i which

too far when some place along the line there would always be a picture of a president standing in the oval office, looking out the window, usually the picture from behind and his words are quoted as a tag for that picture about this is the loneliest place and what a lonely -- and so forth. i don't know about them. i haven't been lonely one minute. [ laughter ] [ applause ] i think both of us have been aware every minute we're here that we're surrounded by you, by others who may not be here in this room today. here in this house, over there in the west wing, just here in washington, all a part of everything we came here to do and it couldn't have been done without you. and we've all shared and i like to think maybe it's kind of close to what happened 200 years ago. we were all revolutionaries and the revolution has been a success. but there just aren't any -- aren't enough words to thank you for all that you've meant to all of us and how hard it is to say good-bye to all of you. but as i say, the only thing we -- that can make it bearable at all is to remember all that you did and how much

the oval office. sit for 20 minutes in the oval office by yourself. >> yeah. >> i have never heard of such a thing. you know, the oval is a place that is usually well protected and monitored. >> i think most -- that's kind of is the baseline for donald trump and no matter what you say at the rallies and how much he might -- fights at the media. he likes to have those relationships. he wants to be talked about, being criticized is better for him than being ignored. you know, i did work for the wall street journal, a paper that he had certain amount of respect for and, you know, had respected, you know, the reporting i don't on him for a while. i interview him in trump tower as candidate in 2015 and 2016 so we had a relationship. he's familiar with me. he liked my hair. that was something that he commented on. a deep compliment from someone like donald trump. he actually called me in april during the pandemic about -- it was about a story about few days earlier, eighth or ninth paragraph in the piece wa

oval invincibles with the trophy. over 17,000 in the crowd for that game. well, could southern brave's men do any better than their women? that was the next question at lord's as we moved on to the next final. paul stirling's approach to batting. that is basically it. birmingham phoenix bowling imran tahir here. he is 42 and his celebration, just like his career, goes on and on and on. now, where has that gone? six. the brave men hit 1a of them to make 168. now phoenix had liam livingstone and there was no way of stopping him. he kept swinging, connecting until tim david looked up and threw and hit and livingstone was run out. oh, no. oh, yes. brave's victory by 32 runs. so it ends this year. there is more to cricket than the hundred, but many this summer grasped it. joe wilson, bbc news, lords. it's time to pop out of the room if you don't want to know today's football results as match of the day and sportscene in scotland follow soon on bbc one. manchester city's £100 million man, jack grealish, scored on his home debut as the premier league champions be

the oval invincibles were put in to bat by favourites southern brave who dominated the group stage. dane van niekerk soon found her range —she top scored with 26. marizanne kapp matched van niekerk�*s score — her late blows lifted the invincibles to 121—6.dani wyatt came out arms whirring to begin the chase. but the invincibles had kapp in hand. wyatt soon walking back — out for a duck. sophia dunkley followed a few balls later and then gaby lewis as well. kapp removing the first three batters. the invincibles score being made to look impossible. fortune favours the brave, so they say, but this was just reckless. maria bouchier run out racing for a quick single. it didn't get any better. m for 6 at one stage and the game over as a contest. the brave or bowled out forjust 73 as kapp finished in style. henge the brave or bowled out for “ust 73 as kapp finished in style. have seen it throughout _ as kapp finished in style. have seen it throughout the _ as kapp finished in style. have seen it throughout the whole _ as kapp finished in style. have seen| it throughout the whol

he invited him into the oval office to share a power bar with him. nicky came to one of my book signings. he's now a sophomore at duke. and told me how much this picture meant to him. and he realizes now the good work that his mom was doing. there was still some lobbying to be done, lots of phone calls. this is in the limo with his legislative director and i think this was the phone call where he realized that they probably had enough votes and he took his lucky charms out of his pocket. i saw that he took his lucky charms out. that morning i was like, okay, this is a good sign. >> let's get this done. >> the bill is passed. [ applause ] >> and he felt on this day that he got something done, that bettered people's lives. than the leading allergy spray at hour one. [ deep inhale ] claritin-d. get more airflow. we did it again. verizon has been named america's most reliable network by rootmetrics. and our customers rated us #1 for network quality in america according to j.d. power. number one in reliability, 16 times in a row. most awarded for network

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in the men's hundred, it was a tale of two english batsmen, as the oval invincibles beat the welsh fire by six wickets. put into bat, ben duckett starred for the fire as he hit 65, as the invincibles were set 122 to win from their 100 balls. and they reached it with seven balls to spare, captain sam billings finishing unbeaten on 40, as his side secured their second win of the tournament. welsh fire's women have got their second win of the hundred. after making 112 with the bat, they restricted the oval invincibles to 100—9 in their innings to secure victory. but spare a thought for umpire sue redfern, who made the headlines for the wrong reasons, as she took a tumble to the turf. thankfully, she was fine and managed to see the funny side of things. that's very much like me. england's cricketers will begin their five—match test series against india on wednesday. but they'll be without ben stokes. england's vice captain is taking an indefinite break to prioritise his mental health. and captainjoe root says that is far more important than anything that happens on the field of play. mo

he was arguably the most accomplished athlete to ever occupy the oval office. as you pointed out, three offers to play professional football. an unnatural just about any sport he picked up. he had bad knees because he played football party in operation on one knee, that an operation on the other knee. he had weaker knees that would occasionally bother him. particularly as the weather changed. he had the unfortunate experience of bumping his head on marine one is he is getting out of it. and then hitting somebody with a golf club, a golf ball to swing the club often at that's going to happen. especially people line the fairways. yes, it was unfair. yes, is part of the turf. ford understood as that. he had a conference at the library museum, humor in the presidency and he invited chevy chase to it. and so it got a nice picture of him tripping chevy chase. [laughter] >> excellent, excellent. don this is been terrific for diner audience has appreciated it. we really added to our presidential library series. before i let you go, i was the hopefully reopening soon we

he flies to washington, walks into the oval office and says i want to see harry, my friend. he is not invited and has -- has no appointment. they say you can go see harry but don't bring up the palestine issue, he does not want to talk about. ari says what are you here for question mark why did you fly across -- harry says what are you here for? why did you fly across the country? he tells him palestine. he says i have been hector and badgered with this issue. i am not dealing with it. he says you and i have been friends for 40 years, i know who you are. i know who your hero is. he points to andrew jackson. he says what would andrew do? you owe it to yourself and me and the jewish people. you have to do it. now truman turns his back to eddie. fingers on the desk, turns around and says all right, you win you --. he is the first foreign leader to recognize the independent state of israel. he said i think the most dramatic moment -- id that is the most dramatic moment of a friend being able to speak to a leader that influenced world history. host: earlier, we spoke about jack k

sure enough a few days later in the oval office he asks what's the status of the gitmo move? that's when the a's got to give in to we cannot let this happen. this would be a public relations nightmare. we can't send 80-year-olds who are sick to this island with a cannot get the best medical care. obviously it was a crazy anecdote and a a crazy story t for yasmeen and i think it was a wake-up call that anything that we hear we should run down. anything about how unbelievable it seemed could have been under consideration and could be something that they might have done. it was that anecdote that helped propel a lot of the reporting. we need to look into everything. we need to believe anything is possible with this group because the president comes up with all kinds of things, , when he heard it on fox news or from a friend in new york, like use having all kinds of ideas whispered in his years and a lot of them made it 30 far down the track. >> stepping back a little bit, i know when reporters write books in general it often comes out of your beat or an article you have written.

there was a brilliant comeback from 0val invincibles in the women's eliminatort at the oval. they beat birmingham phoenix by 20 runs. the invincibles batted first and after losing their openers forjust 15 runs. marizanne kapp steadied the ship — she top scored with 37 as they reached 114 from their 100 balls — so a moderate target but the phoenix made hard work of it, bowled out forjust 94. they'll face southern brave in their final. i don't know how many were here today, _ i don't know how many were here today, but — i don't know how many were here today, but it sounded very but loud. it's going _ today, but it sounded very but loud. it's going to — today, but it sounded very but loud. it's going to be a big day tomorrow. the hundred has conceded everyone's expectations, and i think the women's _ expectations, and i think the women's game will go from straight to straight. i think this is the level— to straight. i think this is the level we _ to straight. i think this is the level we need to keep that now. i think— level we need to keep that now. i think it's —

why did that happen after the oval office meeting? and why after the governor signed did he get flanked by the number two official in the doj. when someone resigns you think for it if you did it at your request? why would he have asked the u.s. attorney to resign? so what happened here? well, today be jay pat gave his side of the sordid to the senate judiciary committee. behind closed doors. the times is katie benner reports that his closed-door testimony lasted more than three hours. the times report that pack told investigators questioning him of the hearing that his resignation had been prompted by justice department officials warning him that president trump intended to fire him for refusing to say the widespread voter fraud had been found in georgia. as the time put said resigning would preempt a public dismissal. pack also told the committee that trump had been dismays death his office had never investigated allegations of fraud in fulton county georgia and not found any evidence to support those allegations. so, weijia pack res

taliban seized the presipresiden ial palace al jazeera broadcast them in afghan's equivalent of the oval office, while the united states scrambled to evacuate, and a glorious end to a 20-year war. >> thanks to richard engel for that report. >>> joe biden is facing sharp criticism over the decision to pull u.s. forces from afghanistan. he consulted with his national security team from camp david as he monitoring the deteriorating situation. here's nbc's monica alba >> reporter: as afghanistan falls to taliban control, the biden administration stands by its plan to leave. >> that is the hard decision the president made >> reporter: secretary of state antony blinken insist thing's not much more the united states can do >> it's up to the afghan government, it's up to the taliban to decide the way forward for the country. >> reporter: now conceding the taliban's advances have been far faster than even he forecasted in june. >> i don't think it's going to be something that happens from a friday to a monday >> reporter: placing blame on the afghan security forces >> tragically, they have not be

hoping he would forget about it and never bring it up again and sure enough a few days later in the oval office, what is the status of this move? that's when the agent said we cannot let this happen, this would be a public relations nightmare, we can't send 80 -year-olds who are sick to where they can't get to rest best medical care, it was a crazy anecdote and crazy story, i think it was a wake-up call that anything we hear, we should run down, no matter how unbelievable it seemed, it could have been under consideration could be something they might have done so it was that anecdote that helped propel the reporting the book, we need to look into everything, believe anything is possible with this group because the president comes up with all kinds of things whether you here on fox news or a friend in new york, he is having all kinds of ideas whispered in his ear and a lot of them made it hard on the track. >> stepping back a little bit, i know when reporters write books in general, it comes out of an article you've written and there's nothing new about parachuting in to an environment im

. >> i'm checking my phone because i know reporters have now entered the oval office where those two leaders are meeting right now and these are the notes that they've just received, and the president among other things telling reporters in the room that evacuation efforts in afg remain a worthy mission. he again noted and acknowledged the bravery and the sacrifice of those 13 american service members who lost their lives and close to 20 others who were wounded in yesterday's attack there. he described again that sense that losing a son or daughter is like being sucked into a black hole as he recounted the personal experience in the loss of his son beau in years past, and he noted the mission there remains dangerous right now and that is one of the key issues that the white house is grappling with. they recognize that there has been a lot of criticism about the handling and execution of this withdrawal, but they believe that americans supported the idea that the war had to end and eventually this would be a blip on the radar, wouldn't be the primary issue americans focused on and tha

eastern, on the presidency, a 1988 oval office conversation between president ronald reagan and the bbc's godfrey hodgson on restoring the u.s. economy, u.s.-soviet rerelations and iran-contra and at 4:40 p.m., as the u.s. continues to withdraw from afghanistan, we look back nearly 40 years at the country's history with two u.s. information agency films. afghanistan: 1982, the struggle for freedom continues, which chronicles the aftermath of the soviet invasion of afghanistan. and afghanistan, a new generation, on the challenges facing afghan children who grew up as refugees in pakistan. then former cia officer dwayne evans talks about his book about his tour of duty in southern afghanistan. shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. book tv features leading authors discussing their latest nonfiction books. on sunday, at 12:45 eastern, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell shares what's on his reading list. then at 2:00 p.m. eastern, author discussions on afghanistan, including wesley morgan with his book "the hardest place: the american military adrift in afghanistan's pech valley." nati

the oval. this is about 15 minutes. >> is a delight to have the prime minister here. i know you'll want to know what has happened this morning. let me begin by acknowledging the bravery and sacrifice that our military makes every single day. the loss of americans and marines, sailors and army personnel, it was tragic as i said yesterday. the prime minister and i have talked about it as he is a military man, gone to war, lost a friend. losing a son, a daughter, husband, wife is like being sucked into a big black hole in the middle of your chest and i don't think there is any way out. my heart goes out to all of those who we have lost. the mission they perform is dangerous. now, it comes with a significant loss of american personnel. they continue to evacuate folks out of that region out of the airport. they evacuated more than 12,000 additional people out of the airport in the last 24 hours. i met with my commanders this morning. i got a detailed briefing about yesterday's attacks and the measures they are taking to protect our forces and we will complete the mission.

he flies to washington, walks into the oval office and says i want to see harry, my friend. he is not invited and has -- has no appointment. the appointment secretary says you can go see harry but don't bring up the palestine issue, he does not want to talk about. he walks in and makes small talk and harry says what are you here for? why did you fly across -- harry -- why did you fly across the country? he tells him palestine. he says i have been hector and badgered with this issue. i am not dealing with it. i'm tired of this issue, go away. he says you and i have been friends for 40 years, i know who you are. i know who your hero is. he points to andrew jackson. he says what would andrew do? what are the values of andrew jackson? you owe it to yourself and me and the jewish people. you have to do it. now truman turns his back to eddie. fingers on the desk, turns around and says all right, you win you --. i will see him. two months later he is the first , foreign leader to recognize the independent state of israel. it is i think the most dramatic moment of a friend being abl

the two leaders spoke to reporters in the oval office. this is so about 15 minutes. >> is a delight to have the prime minister here. i know you'll want to know what has happened this morning. let me begin by acknowledging the bravery and sacrifice that our military makes every single day. the loss of americans and marines, sailors and army personnel, it was tragic as i said yesterday. the prime minister and i have talked about it as he is a military man, gone to war, lost a friend. losing a son, a daughter, husband, wife is like being sucked into a big black hole in the middle of your chest and i don't think there is any way out. my heart goes out to all of those who we have lost. the mission they perform is dangerous. now, it comes with a significant loss of american personnel. they continue to evacuate folks out of that region out of the airport. they evacuated more than 12,000 additional people out of the airport in the last 24 hours. i met with my commanders this morning. i got a detailed briefing about yesterday's attacks and the mea

i think president trump was worried i was going to give birth in the oval. i know for the rest of my life and i look back at the pictures of what we did, being so pregnant is such a beautiful moment because it showed my femininity and it showed my strength of still being in the room. whenever i put on my navy uniform, whenever i'm in the reserves, i can't wait for my daughter's old enough to understand what that means to be a female, to be in uniform. i don't see my femininity is a weakness. i find it my strength. >> kayleigh: totally agree. i loved being pregnant on air force one, very special moment with your beautiful baby in the oval. likewise for my daughter. the bigger problem i have, we are four females on this panel fearing saying it's a nondefensive -- and nonoffensive term. but it's a male saying that we should be offended, the four of us. >> dan: when i was at the cia learned four linkages, three of which don't make any distinction whatsoever between male and female. russian does. there were quite a few times and it was a little bit confusing when

too far, when someplace along the line there would always be a picture of a president standing in the oval office and looking at the window, usually the picture from behind, and he's standing there and that is words are quoted as a tag for that picture about this is the loneliest place, lonely and so forth. i don't know about them, i haven't been lonely one minute. (laughter) (applause) i think both of us have been aware every minute we are here that we are surrounded by you, by others who may not be here in this room today, but here in this house over there in the west wing, or just here in washington. all a part of everything that we came here to do and it couldn't have been done without you. and we have all shared and i like to think it is maybe kind of close to what happened 200 years ago. we were all revolutionaries and the revolution has been a success, but there aren't just enough words to thank you for all that you've meant to all of us and our how hard it is to say goodbye to all of you. but as i say, the only thing that makes it bearable at all is to remember all that you did and

far when someplace along the line there would always be a picture of the president standing in the oval office looking out the window, usually the picture from behind, and he's standing there and then his words are quoted as a tag for that picture about this is the loneliest place and so forth. i don't know about them. i haven't been lonely one minute. [ applause ] i think both of us have been aware every minute we're here that we're surrounded by you, by others who may not be here in this room today, but here in this house but over there in the west wing, just here in washington, all a part of everything we came here to do, and it couldn't have been done without you, and we've all shared and i like to think maybe it's kind of close to what happened 200 years ago. we were all revolutionaries, and the revolution has been a success, but there just aren't any -- aren't enough words to thank you for all that you've meant to all of us and how hard it is to say good-bye to all of you, but as i say, the only thing that can make bearable at all is to remember all that you did and how much of a

now he is in the oval office. you have to picture this. he is surrounded mainly by nixon's people, nixon's loyalists as his own advisors. that presents some real problems. within days of his taking office on august 9th of 1974, journalists start swamping ford with questions about what are his intentions, is he thinking of pardoning richard nixon? not exactly what he was looking forward to in the first days on the job as president. on one hand, ford knew it was crazy to even consider pardoning nixon. the country had been ripped apart by watergate. by this point, nixon was perceived as a first rate villain, even by many republican leaders. one of ford's top advisors told bob hartman, told me that he advised ford categorically not to do it. he said, you will be eaten alive in the press. your political future if you decide to run for president on your own in 1976 will be shot to hell if you pardon nixon. on the other hand, this is hopefully what you can see from this chapter is that ford had a strong sense of what he thought he should do. he i

they spoke to reporters in the oval. this is about 15 minutes. >> is a delight to have the prime minister here. i know you'll want to know what has happened this morning. let me begin by acknowledging the bravery and sacrifice that our military makes every single day. the loss of americans and marines, sailors and army personnel, it was tragic as i said yesterday. the prime minister and i have talked about it as he is a military man, gone to war, lost a friend. losing a son, a daughter, husband, wife is like being sucked into a big black hole in the middle of your chest and i don't think there is any way out. my heart goes out to all of those who we have lost. the mission they perform is dangerous. now, it comes with a significant loss of american personnel. they continue to evacuate folks out of that region out of the airport. they evacuated more than 12,000 additional people out of the airport in the last 24 hours. i met with my commanders this morning. i got a detailed briefing about yesterday's attacks and the measur

and the president remains in the oval office, and the obvious considerations are the remarks and working with the team to draft the remarks and how the explain this to the country, and think about what we have heard from the remarks of since july 8th infamous east room event where he talked about the plans for withdrawal, and then the president was predicting this would not look like saigon, and we would not she the chaos from the withdrawal from vietnam, and then over the course of the last week, the president has been saying that there is a sort of the acceptable level of chaos, and the understandable level of chaos, which is the rapid collapse of the afghan government now, and the unacceptable loss of american life, but it is one that officials had been warning about increasingly of the last two days and providing updates of the accelerating pace of evacuating they were quietly racing the alarm, and concern of the possibility of the terrorist threat that remained on the ground, and clearly those intelligent reports very concerned about were reallied. but they are stressing no formal a

and then sure enough a few days later in the oval office, he said what is the status of this move and that is when the aides at a given we cannot let this happen this will be a public relations nightmare we can't send an 80 -year-old were sick to this island where they can't get the best adequate care greeting obviously it was a anecdote in a crazy story but i think that so i call and anything that we here, we should run by him. anything the matter hunt hunt and how unbelievable could've been under consideration can be something they might've done. and so i think it was that anecdote that help propel a lot of this book and we need to look into everything and we need to believe anything is possible with this group. because the president comes up with all kinds of things. when the year and on "fox news" or from a friend in new york like he was having all kinds of ideas whispered in his ear and a lot of them had a made up pretty far down the track. >> is having back a little bit. i know when the heart and reporters write a book in general, and there was an article that you printed. and t

went to the oval office he said yes, i want them open and i want them now. this was like last year. the data was always there. schools need to be open. claims reported from a schools lunches, a lot of kids depend on. the president was unmistakable and then you have joe biden kat telling teachers union friday, jen psaki was asked, can you name one parent group you are working with at the cdc she could not name one because the parents and the child not come first, the teachers union does the president trump always put the american people and children of the country first. it was put to hear from him with that segment, dan. dan: and sure was. tom, we asked about the crisis, you could hear his answer. >> we have the safest secure border in the history of our country and now by far the worst. hundreds of thousands of people are pouring into our country on a monthly basis and we are talking about millions of people. the incense millions. he knows where they're coming from. look what's coming into our country. dan: forgot thoughts on back? >> the greatest part of his legacy, starting with

and in early august when trumphalls birx and fauci and some others into the oval office. says to birx every time you open your mouth i'm depressed and fauci i spend half of my day answering questions about tony fauci and i'm the president. and here we go. obsessed with a guy who wouldn't go away and he couldn't fire him. and they're kind of like weird dance that they continued throughout the year was something that really drove the president crazy to the point right before the election the president said kind of promised to fire him and he ended up becoming so obsessed with trying to turn around the results that he never got to it. >> silver lining. >> and one question, in your book you recount the fight between the c.d.c. and the office of management and budget, trying to weigh in on the c.d.c.'s guidelinesment and -- guidelines. and they're looking at what c.d.c.ing means for restaurants and in this example the social distance caves to the pressure. and i think most people actually, i understood that the c.d.c. to be apolitical agency and really its super power came fro

now he is in the oval office. you have to picture this. he is surrounded mainly by nixon's people, nixon's loyalists as his own advisors. that presents some real problems. within days of his taking office on august 9th of 1974, journalists start swamping ford with questions about what are his intentions, is he thinking of pardoning richard nixon? not exactly what he was looking forward to in the first days on the job as president. on one hand, ford knew it was crazy to even consider pardoning nixon. the country had been ripped apart by watergate. by this point, nixon was perceived as a first rate villain, even by many republican leaders. one of ford's top advisors told me that he advised ford categorically not to do it. he said, you will be eaten alive in the press. your political future if you decide to run for president on your own in 1976 will be shot to hell if you pardon nixon. on the other hand, this is hopefully what you can see from this chapter is that ford had a strong sense of what he thought he should do. he is a man who grew u