house. >> you read father john had a brother who died the white house so it's close by telling the story because it was a real tragedy, i believe during a reelection campaign rated. >> yes, the brothers were 19 years apart excuse me 19 months apart and they are playing tennis, has found. calvin jr. developed a blister on his foot and that was treated but it became infected and the infection started to spread through his body and they had no antibiotics at the time to treat that so a week after getting a blister, he died in a hospital of texas. he was 16 years old. >> what you know about how that impacted the presidential family. >> i believe that i put a lot of pressure on john. he was then seen as the only remaining child and i think a lot of stress and pressure was put on him to be a model. i do know that it was a realize the president and that he blamed himself a lot because if he had not maybe been in that position, maybe his son would be alive. grace was a real driving in terms of saving the family and helping them to move on. she wrote a poem about calvin's death. it was called the

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todd: friday november 5th, mixed messaging, the white house rushing to clarify president biden's comments, the plaintiff dish out massive payments to some illegal immigrants, the president's press team says he is fine with the justice department cutting those checks. >> they will end up without a job after the holiday thanks to the president's new private-sector vaccine mandates. how states are mobilizing to fight back. >> josh halley with an indictment and his investigation into the origins of a trump russia probe, this time it is the primary source of the steel dossier. carley: you are watching "fox and friends first". todd: we begin with another presidential flip-flop, biden's comments on paying migrant families at odds with his own white house. >> you live as the administration attempts to clear up the mixed messages. >> reporter: not sure it is clear up or cleanup on aisle 5 situation, the white house is correcting president biden's cash payments to illegal migrants. >> your administration is planning to pay illegal immigrants were separated from their families at the border up to 45

voters think about what impacts them and the white house and the white house's emotion. number two, when the president, to your point, says things about afghanistan will not be xyz way or the economy will get better, or on july 4th, this is our independence day from the virus. voters can tell when it doesn't go that way. it's that simple. >> part of it is can you fix it? the silver lining is there are a lot of economists who think the economy is about to kick in. they've said that a lot, though, but there is the opportunity that republicans have a roaring economy next year. it is possible that covid starts to go down. but if you look at the numbers now of how midterm elections work, on this day in 2009, barack obama was 53%. at 53% he still lost virginia and he still lost new jersey. earlier in the year he was at 42% and he lost the house of representatives. he is where obama was on midterm election day in 2009. he needs to turn that around or the democrats are looking at a trap door. >> something he has never been is toxic. there is not very many he wants to campaign wi

today the white house is facing a critical question. how do you convince everyday americans the economy is strong and the country moving in the right direction when most of them just aren't feeling it? right now everything from gas to groceries is cost more, a lot more. the u.s. is experiencing the sharpest level of inflation in 30 years. the president acknowledging it and vowing to tackle it. >> many people remain unsettled about the economy. and we all know why. they see higher prices. they go to the store online or they go to the store or go online, and they can't always find what they want and when they want it. we're tracking these issues and trying to figure out how to tackle them head on. >> but there are top ceos wondering if the president really does get it and whether his administration has the frame of reference to get it. one anonymous ceo told politico's ben white, i don't think the administration is on top of it at all. that person went on to say, how many people inside this white house really know what inflation is or how

monica alba at the white house. monica, thank you. >>> let me move to garrett on capitol hill brings us to the bring back better piece of the agenda. joe manchin linked inflation to his concerns about this bill. there is certainly plenty of evidence that suggests this wouldn't actually have much of an impact on the problems we're dealing with today. but that doesn't change joe manchin's mind. where are we? how concerned are democrats that this could set back their ability to get an agreement here perhaps now weeks or even months? >> well, the good news for democrats is that joe manchin's concerns about inflation have been his concerns for months now. this is not surprising. it caught no one off guard yesterday when manchin tweeted about his concerns seeing these numbers. his -- he has said to anyone who will listen for quite some time that inflation has been his primary concern in advancing this package it's a big part of the reason it's $1.75 trillion package instead of $3.5 trillion package. there's some argument

phil mattingly at the white house, thanks so much. biden's headache is a downright migraine for millions of americans especially in the heartland where heating bills could double this year. cnn's in des moines, iowa. what are iowans telling you about how the rising prices have impacted their daily lives? >> reporter: the number one issue we are hearing from iowans is this rising energy crisis they are facing to heat their homes. one gentleman told us instead of turning the furnace on these last couple nights as it has been chillier here he's actually decided to just light the fireplace, put more blankets on and more clothes during the day. and rising food costs. we ran into a gentleman at the supermarket who said he was there to just simply peruse the aisles but when he realized the cost of bacon was up 20% in the last year he grabbed it in bulk and is putting it in the freezer to save it couple and save a couple cents on the dollar. here is how he described the rising costs across the board. >> we're all hard working, middle class fo

capitol can access former president trump's white house records. mr. trump quickly filed an appeal that could end up before the supreme court. >> if somebody is hollering this hard and loud, i am to assume that undoubtedly you have something to hide. >> reporter: in a 39-page ruling, judge tanya chutkan wrote that mr. trump's position appears to be premised on the notion that his executive power exists in perpetuity. but presidents are not kings, and plaintiff is not president. mr. trump's spokesperson said, "this is a battle to defend executive privilege for presidents past, present, and future." [ chants ] the bipartisan committee is looking into the actions by the trump white house leading up to and during the deadly riot. >> we're getting information from all sorts of sources. so no one individual is going to be able to frustrate our capacity to proceed. >> reporter: ten new subpoenas were sent out yesterday to high-ranking staff of the trump administration including ones to former white house press secretary kaleigh mcenany and senior adviser stev

looking forward the white house said that its focus is passing the legislation. what are other strategic steps or new steps the white house is going to take to try to address some of the concerns that were clearly raised by vote efers in virginia and new jersey and other states around the country or does it feel that passing those two are sufficient to make up some of it? karine: i think what the president was trying to say is voters were tired of the inaction they were seeing and want us to get things done. i think that's what he's trying to say. the president agrees which is why he has been calling for congress to vote on these pieces of his economic policy. but i do want to say one more thing is that, you know, we all know that no election determines the outcome of future elections. that the mid-terms will be determined by voters in 2020, in 2022 and this one election is determined by votes for the 2021. and the mid terms are still a year away. and a lot could happen over the next weeks and months which is what we're focused on. this is why we're trying to get

and i'm told that they have told the white house about that. the optics are not on the side of kamala harris to stand in a stance of strength. >> i also feel like they hide her quite a bit. >> they do. >> why isn't she out doing interviews. she's just not -- for as much as kirsten said the spotlight's on her quite a bit. >> i don't think she is. she should be crisscrossing america right now helping the president educate people on the infrastructure bill. but what doesn't help is the president himself when he was talking about the passage of the infrastructure bill at the time that he was getting ready to sign, he says, this lady right here, she is the vice president of the united states, she's not just the lady. she is the second in command. when al gore used to say when he was vice president, she is your co-worker. so it's time for her to step up because the time is winding down. >> well, i think -- look, i hope that the white house is watching and that they're listening to what april is saying because it's something that they need to be conce

>> are we trusting the white house? i trust the white house to be accurate in its assessment. in addition, cbo score funded infrastructure bill actually adds to our overall deficit. it doesn't take away from it the way the build back better act does. and we've passed hundreds of bills. hundreds out of the house without the cbo score, and finally, there are lobbyists who are trying to gut and kill the build back better act. so to your point of delayed tactic, we will see if it stays where it is right now, 1.75, or if it continues to be gutted. remember, it came to us at $3.5 trillion. we worked it in the house at $3.5 trillion, and then it started to be cut because fossil fuel companies and pharmaceutical companies don't want to be held accountable. the build back better act makes sure all the things get done as we move toward a more equitable democracy. >> congressman, i'm sure you saw earlier this week senator manchin expressed some real concerns about inflation, the new inflation numbers. the highest in some 30 years. essentially signaling he is skeptical about passing anoth

we're talking about jake sullivan, the national security adviser at the white house to president biden. he's not mentioned by name in one of durham's indictments but according to several of our sources, he's the foreign policy adviser mentioned in one of the indictments specifically the indictment of clinton campaign attorney michael sussmann. he was charged in september or two months ago in september. he's the former clinton campaign attorney charged with lying to the fbi about alleged connections between donald trump and the kremlin. his information did not pan out. the indictment alleged an unnamed campaign lawyer that was in contact with a clinton foreign policy adviser. the adviser was jake sullivan, the president's national security adviser. according to the indictment, the two were in touch in september 2016. there's no indication that sullivan is a target of the durham probe. however we're told that he did receive some information from that unnamed campaign lawyer. tomorrow igor denchenko will be in cord. his diamond mentioned pr executive one. we know that is a clinton confida

trump white house records. u.s. judge tanya chuck is denying trump's request to block access to those documents. judge decided an earlier court ruling on subpoenas writing that the president is not king and added, the plaintiff's not president. national archives, as you know, is set to turn over the first batch of trump's records to this house select committee investigating the insurrection, riding at the capitol. they are expected to do that by this friday. they are almost by definition, all things that trump doesn't want the committee to see. trump has filed an appeal tonight to the d.c. circuit court, that didn't take long. this case is likely to end up at the supreme court. today, the house committee issued even more subpoenas to trump allies. this latest round of requests for documents and testimonies comes just a day after they targeted six other trump allies. today subpoenas went up to ten former trump administration officials including some of the most prominent members of his inner circle. former press secr

>> get those members of the white house out there. there are so many different messengers in that white house. i mean so many smart communicators. they are so many people in that white house who should be out there. put mayor pete on fox news. get them out there. explain what they are doing. show the legislating they're doing. >> thanks to both of you, it is a pleasure to have you both on tonight. molly john fast and eugene robinson. thanks to both of you. that's tonight's last word, don't forget to watch my show velshi saturday and sunday from eight to 10 am eastern. the 11th hour, with brian williams starts now. williams starts now. well good evening once again day 314 of the biden administration, as our country braces for yet another new variant in the nearly two year old pandemic. now the stutter for disease control is strengthening its recommendations for boosters, now saying, all adults. they should get a booster shot, period. more on that just ahead. more on -- also this evening, this week that will bring us to december, will b

liz: who's in charge of the white house? the "wall street journal" reports in detail how on its own the white house creates the worse border crisis in history. secondary mayorkas making up policy on the fly after progressive activists are complaining if they're talking about a story that basically when the dhs secretary signed off on deporting hundreds of patients in august the far left complained and flip-flopped and set the loophole, they arrived in july and qualify for our welcome policy the progressives are complaining and making chaos of the border, what you say? >> it's the worst we've ever seen it like you said. having special interests controlling what the white house or the department does is bad for all of us. it puts more risk in the hands of agents and officers, people in border communities and how men at large. if you encourage people to come to the border because they get relief in the united states, they are going to call home sent for families and relatives to join them here in the united states. that is the

is the white house correct? >> the american people are understanding something the white house desperately wishes they didn't, looking at this fairly and objectively we come out from an unprecedented shutdown, pandemic, there was $4 trillion pumped into the economy just before biden took office. there is going to be a transitory of inflationary events in the immediate aftermath of this that is to be expected. what the american people understand the policies are exacerbated. for example raising energy cost the keystone pipeline. again renewing on foreign energy. openly encouraging energy prices to increase. is not just gas, plastic takes energy to produce anything prices are going up consumer and businesses understand that and further bidding and exacerbating this. for the borrowing with the build back better or the 2 trillion-dollar march of this year by the democrats. yet more money chasing the same amount of goods. where is this money going to come from is the fed going to. it, either way interest rates and co

so i think that's what the white house knows. that even though this vote is going to happen today, they know that there is still a very long road ahead to actually getting this part, this second part of the president's economic agenda passed. >> what you're seeing on your screen there is the ranking member of the house ways and means committee kevin brady. you saw richey neal from massachusetts, they're the ones dealing with procedural matters now on this vote. we do expect to see house speaker nancy pelosi deliver what will be the final speech in support of the build back better agenda and who knows what else she might say in regards to kevin mccarthy and what else we saw last night. stand by for that. in the meantime, also some news on the president getting his annual physical shortly, just a day before his birthday. >> reporter: yes, this is pretty routine for the president, of course, to get a physical, but he will be going to walter reed today, the white house has been talking about this for months saying he would get this d

they are asking the white house to take care. to ask you consider all tools available to lower gasoline prices. they hope to consider these tools and others to make gasoline more affordable for al americans. officials are always trying to balance ways to be replaced supplying 55 percent of the statewide propane needs. they want this to go away entirely in the shutdown could mean about 45 percent less crud in pennsylvania. listen to what we just heard in the briefing. >> what is the best possible outcome for whatever happens with this reduced output? >> we hope to engage constructively in these negotiations as canada has a close ally in the energy trade. these discussions between the two countries should be viewed as anything more than that and certainly not an indicator that we are going to shut anything down it is something we do not plan to do as it relates to the current pipeline. >> as of yesterday gas prices were pretty high on average. propane is up 54 percent. natural gas up 30 percent. they did not have an answer on when

our white house team. simply to say that the white house has been in touch with the wisconsin governor's office and state officials throughout the week and as recently as today in anticipation of the potential for protests in kenosha. this is according to a white house official. ellison, if we still have you, just on this point, as we're hearing now from the white house, we heard a little bit as we played at the top of the show from president biden, saying very briefly that he respects the jury system. we also heard the defense attorney for kyle rittenhouse prior to that blast, frankly, president biden for some of his comments that he's made about the trial. ellison, listen, things look pretty okay there, right? but let's not overstate where we are. i know the wisconsin governor has sent hundreds of national guard troops to the area just in case things got tense. but talk about the atmosphere? >> so the governor of the state put some 500 members of the national guard on standby outside kenosha in the event

she was married in the white house. the beautiful gown, susan, was founded by george cleveland who is actually at this event. he's the grandson of grover. his sister anne and also marian cleveland cohen, they found the actual dress that actually exist, the wedding dress that actually exist in the white house collection at the first ladies smithsonian. a powerful display and how elegant she was and people certainly, you know, learned from history from that. >> but there was an enormous age difference between the two. >> absolutely. >> how does the family process that piece of information. >> you know, i think it was a love story that was kindled by francis' father, he was a dear friend of grover and i think upon his death, i think grover felt the need make sure that frances was taken care of and he was a lot older by stretch of 25 to 30 years but i think, you know, at that time she trusted him. i think he was the guardian for many, many years. even prior to mr. fulsome's death and i think she had complete trust and they

bolten: you call the white house operator. tara: and then they walk over to the room and knock on his door? mr. lew: all the time. mr. bolten: i also had to wake up the president a few times. he is a heavy sleeper. [laughter] he is really focused and intentional about his sleeping. he still goes to bed at 9:30 and is up at 5:15 without an alarm clock. so you did not do that lightly, but i did a few times. sometimes involving a disaster or national security situation. more times than any of us would like to admit it would have involved one of his daughters, or at the time, in college -- who were at the time in college. i didn't get grief from the president about that kind of stuff. if a member of the congressional leadership or a cabinet officer said that they wanted to see the president and i didn't think that it was a good idea i would not debate it with the president . i would tell them. i don't think this is worthy of the president's time. i will put the request through if you insist, but i'm telling you now that i will tel

this is obviously a former white house chief of staff. what do you make of the legal advice he apparently is getting? >> i'm sure that his legal advice is very sound, but it's also the legal advice that he's asking for. because it's clear that meadows doesn't want to testify, wants to find a way to avoid testifying and perhaps jon's book provides the key to that, because it may well be that mark meadows has testimony he would have to give if he were truthful that he simply cannot afford to give because it portrays him in just too negative of a light in a central figure in putting forward the insurrection. if not, the plot to try to avoid certifying the biden election. meadows has a choice to make here. he may well decide he's so protected by the white house that he's ready to run the risk of noncompliance with the congressional subpoena. the problem that he has,s and coverage covers him, even though the conduct he's decided on is a campaign of serious privilege may not cloak him. trump is a former president, he's not the current president

out, she didn'tse literay ride it out but no longer in the white house, no longer in the white house. the last man standing, i hadn't thought about that. this is from rj i can. the republican party has tried to doctor fauci as a bogeyman to motivate voters, how much damage do you think this does in the coronavirus response? >> i think it does a lot of damage. he's the president's chief medical advisor. still on tv all the time trying to tell theti country what to do but i thinkl you can see the damage his approval ratings were high last year end youma can see ratings taking a dip because the conspiracy theories about him eight toward him was confined last year part of the republican party become way more widespread. tucker carlson on his show calls for him to be criminally investigate over what, i'm not sure. at the rally over the weekend, marjorie taylor queen, trying to lock him up, it's gotten really bad. it's kind of unbelievable how much they fixated on him all because he was inconsistent on masks like more than a year ago now. i think it did a lot of damage because he is one of

the briefing room at the white house. we are waiting to hear from principal deputy defense secretary as there's news coming out specifically on the fight against covid. the white house this morning has stamped a january 4th deadline on big companies to push their employees to be vaccinated. this comes from an executive order signed by president biden back in september ordering businesses with at least 100 employees to make sure everybody is vaccinated or else be tested every week. if those companies don't do it, they're looking at big fines. then in the uk, this first of its kind anti-viral pill is getting the green light to be used in mild to moderate cases of the virus. british regulators say that drug could reduce hospitalizations and deaths by as much as 50%. i want to bring in monica alba along with infectious diseases physician and msnbc medical contributor. as we wait for kareem jean pierre to answer some of the many questions on this, talk about the game plan for companies and for the white house to see this deadl

the white house were early. i spoke to rudy brody, who is the chief executive officer of annotated environment holding. he says the coordinated move will bring some level of civility to oil prices basically. but is it a bite and decision to start releasing from b s. b, r is a very good move and it is one of the strongest moves to dump an inflation a threat if her i'll pick bloss and the, the saudis will not, or would not willing to increase their production resident binding had the 3 choices. ah, one is to ask you as share in the street to start austin there production, this is one to use some of the strategic petroleum body. her reserves that are i don't 714715 1000000 headers. so what they have released now is around 7. and if this is accompanied by india, china, korea, that there's going to give a major stability to the oil, pride ices, and will and give the level of all a prices to an economical, sustainable weight. specially after what we have seen in the cover time. in the world news, ethiopia, the prime m

any sense, i keep asking the folks to cover this white house, of how the biden white house is reacting to today's development for one, and how closely they are covering the committee activities? >> sure, publicly they're not saying a whole lot, because they want to have a fire wall between the white house and the department of justice. as you recall, a few weeks ago, biden was asked on the white house south lawn what he thought should happen to steve bannon, he suggested they should be criminally prosecuted. later the white house had to walk that back, that was just a presidents personal opinion, he certainly wasn't trying to steer the doj anywhere. -- of course, they are pleased to see those, because there is real fear here that congress would almost lose her ability as a critical branch of government, if they don't have any teeth, that's why they're pleased that bannon got cited. and now the department of justice follows through on these charges. which they believe is good, not to get to the bottom of what happened on january six, but half send a message to others that this can't hap

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the white house, i have reached out. i have not heard back for what they're going to say about that moment caught on camera, but that's one of those things that will certainly be captured, criticized by some and noticed by others, it is one of those things whenever you're in public those moments are seen and scrutinized. regardless of all of the circumstances and the reasoning behind it, the president has certainly -- he flew this morning from italy to scotland and has a busy schedule. so we're following the substance of what's happening here as well. the president urging leaders to get on board with action, especially those countries that have not taken official steps. the president also hoping that his domestic agenda back home, which has more than a half trillion dollars of climate related spending will be codified soon by congress as he urges leaders to step up as well. >> and kelly o., just want to note i remember back in the day when ronald reagan with the cameras rolling and a very, very busy schedule going from c

in a statement issued by the white house about an hour ago, the white house said today's announcement reflects the president's commitment to do everything in his power to bring down costs for the american people and continue our strong economic recovery. but as we have said in the past, no president democrat, republican or otherwise has the power to broadly affect the price of a fungible commodity like oil. certainly not compared to the power of supply and demand. oil prices were already down a bit. gas prices usually followed but it takes a while. as economists say up like a rocket and down like a feather. >>> tech stocks got shellacked yesterday. particularly companies that were new to the markets like rivian and roblox. wall street largely pleased with monday's white house announcement. the president would renominate jay powell as the head of the federal reserve. also getting good news as far as the supply chain and store shelves and part of the credit goes to you. stores like walmart say they're able to keep shelves stocked as the supply chain loosens up a bit. shipping is going w

liberal democrat rob portman on the white house lawn yesterday. when i was sitting in for you yesterday, pete buttigieg made the same argument to me that the infrastructure bill could alleviate the bottlenecks that have led to the rise in consumer products but if you start saying bbb is the solution to a consumer problem, raising things it's not designed to deliver on something like that, at least not any time soon. >> yeah, just seems like a risky thing. if you're going to convince people to jump on what is a politically risky thing to do, and you're doing that, boy, that's tough. garrett, very quickly, we've got another house democratic retirement, and somebody who's, you know, got a lot of sway inside that conference. jackie spear. she was a big-time staffer before she even became an elected member. those that are familiar with the infamous massacre of the -- jones massacre. >> guyana. >> she is a survivor of that. but that's a big psychological blow, is it not? >> i think it probably is, likewise with john yard mouth. you have members from saf

until i moved into the white house. i already had secret service protection back and be cut is of the sla i did and my mother didn't which was a strange phenomenon. but the most exciting part of it was moving into a place i had male bathroom and did not have to share with my brothers. [laughter] >> the secret service protection must of been a real shock to your everyday life. >> it was. but i grew up with three older brothers it's like having your brothers around nonstop. we worked with the secret service and i was had a good relationship with them. yes i did disappear once on them that everyone needs to do it to see if you can. it was fine. i still stay in touch with my secret service agents. they were great friends and they know a lot of secrets i don't want out. >> we are recording this at the presidential site summit by the white house historical association. how much of your life is devoted to your family experience. >> not as much as most people would think so having three brothers to break that then who will do w

that's something white house officials are focused on. you've seen a very real concern and publicly raising this concern about the fact that there seems to be some consolidation in energy consumption -- production, excuse me -- that hasn't matched the actual price drop, hasn't matched what consumer are seeing at the pump. you saw the white house, the president sign a letter, asking looking into potential price gouging, anti-competitive behavior they put it on the part of gas producers. also opec is a big part of this. the white house by acting with china, india, japan, korea, some of the other major energy consumers, they're also sort of sending a shout across the bow at opec, the president urge tods do more but reluctant to do so. >> china cooperation is a part of the story we should continue to pay attention to especially. mike memoli, thank you. >>> turning to congress. joining me illinois democratic congressman brad schneider. what do you think about the move by the white house on this strategic petroleum reserve? a worthwhile step on

from both sides of the white house. she's not being used, right? that seems to be what the folks in her corner are saying. and then the folks from the west wing in your story seem to be saying her people aren't focused. there's no follow through. what do you think? about what their gripes are here. >> a lot of times when you see the vice president, you see her acting as a dutiful number two. it is something that sources told us from the beginning of her administration. even the transition that she was modeling her vice presidency after then vice president biden's relationship with obama. being the number two. we saw her often at the side of the president at these meetings and at these speeches really standing behind after introducing him. that playbook has changed. we have seen her shrink from the public eye. and i think that is one of the problems that a lot of folks in her camp are having. she is not being visible after having a couple different stumbles. she is not being supported by the would you say. on the other side, we have the west wing. >

house operating costs some of the white house has said it's tightening its belt and is not replacing employees that have left. obviously the communications department is one of them. but there are a whole host of offices that are dealing with it. they're hoping to alleviate it once the new funding is passed hopefully by congress early next month. but this is not unusual in terms of the departures. what is they haven't been able to hire anyone to replace them. communications is important as they try to sell the infrastructure story bill. as you mentioned, 2024 is a concern with a 79-year-old president that the democrats are trying to sort through. they want to have deference to the president. he's signaled both privately and publicly he's running for re-election, but dhaunlt stop the parlor game. right now preliminary plants are under way to make sure he and the party are in a position should he choose to run in 2022. that does not stop the chatter, what does it look like for an 82-year-old to run for re-election. >> tyler pager, thank you for being here. >>> we're going to dive into

house, these groups that were working outside of the white house, the trump campaign, these other groups stopped steal, other organizations that could perhaps build this case of a coordinated effort to try to drum up all of this angst across the country related to the election that then served as the precursor to what p happened on january 6th. clark did show up to be interviewed by the january 6th select committee but once in the room he doesn't answer questions. he couldn't because of executive privilege and attorney client privilege, a lot of legal experts believe those claims probably don't have a lot of merit. the committee is taking the step and will move quickly with a business meeting. it could be voted on the house floor as soon as thursday and will be in the hands of the department of justice. >> i want to ask you moving this forward more because we're waiting to hear ryan from the national archives and have to turnover the records from the white house. tomorrow the appeals court will hear the former president's case so what do you expect there? >> yes, so this is a key step in

house to picket the white house in 1917. they're the ones that really made this space around the white house such an important place for political protest. and so 100 years later, just over 100 years later it remains that day today. if you've ever been to washington, d.c. you've probably seen someone outside the white house protesting something. and it's because of these, you know, famous protests, these famous images of these famous protests that we've gotten at the place outside of the white house is so important to our political movement. another image that is probably across your news media consumption over the past couple of years are images of women wearing white, particularly leading political figures. this is a group from the state of the union address all wearing white. and they're wearing white to recall the suffragists in particular. actually the suffragists were white as we saw. they wore white at a lot of their parades and processions, and they did it for two reasons. one was to emphasize their morality, their v

this is the white house trying to go on a tour. he will be in detroit tomorrow trying to convince americans, look at what we did for you. i think we're going to see more tweets like that. >> and coming right off your point, peter, a question that doesn't call for a judgment on your part but rather the democrats you're talking to by way of your daily reporting, is there still a messaging deficit? if you live in kingsburg, new jersey or iowa, are you any closer to knowing what you are going to get? i guess we know that new hampshire is getting a bridge and ohio is getting a bridge. but is there still that deficit? >> well, they're not going to accomplish this just in one or two days after the bill signing, right? this is going to, for them, have to be a sustained effort to sell this program to the public. now, they start off with an advantage, which is the public is generally for it. the last abc washington post poll showed that 63% of americans supported it. they want new bridges and they want their ports and airports and broadband.

what can the white house do to fight inflation? cnn's chief business correspondent christine romans. >> you come to me with a diss of adele? >> no, all her songs are about splits. >>> presidential approval numbers are falling and prices for just about everything else rising the white house is now on inflation watch. >> inflation is high right now and it is affecting consumers in their pocketbook and also in their outlook for the economy but those concerns underscore why it's so important that we move forward on the build back better legislation, this legislation that the house is going to consider this week. this will go at the cost americans face. >> the idea there investments in working families would lower their housing, child care and health care bills insulating americans from inflation. the fed is the official inflation fighter but the white house does have a few other tools, too. they could cut tariffs on chinese imports imposed by the trump administration, they could cut more steel and aluminum tariffs and tap the strategic

it was a joke in the white house. and you know, the president used to say to us, you know who's in charge of the hatch act? it's me. go ahead, say whatever you want to say. i want to also say that i think this makes the 2022 elections more vital than ever because i have a feeling, knowing them like i do, he's going to tell everyone to stall and that if the house takes over with his rubber stamp candidates that he want to get in, the special committee will then go away. that's kind of what i foresee happening. but that's not to take away from what is, you know, what the select committee has done. i'm very, very glad that they've done that, and i'm glad the doj decided to do what they did with bannon. >> and stephanie, let's remind people again what steve bannon said just one day before the january 6th insurrection. let's talk about that. >> all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. just understand this. all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. it's not going to happen like you think it's going to happen, okay. it's

meanwhile, more former white house officials subpoenaed, including the former white house press secretary that said she had prove the election was fraudulent. miller spoke to fox last night where the fox anchor concluded miller would not honor the subpoena. >> that's just one more -- >> you are not going to be showing up to testify in front of the so-called select committee -- >> i don't even have the documents, laura. >> the national archives is expected to turn the information over to the select committee on friday. you will remember, thursday, tomorrow, is veterans day, so the archives are going to be closed. >> that's right, so there's a chance trump's lawyers could use the delay to block the disclosure? >> no doubt about it. they asked the documents to be sealed while they appealed. >> we will wait and see. thank you so much, scott. >>> it's 6:06 right now. our most read story here on nbcbayarea.com, san francisco district attorney will have to split his time between fighting crime and fighting off a recall effort. there was a certified petition for a recall measure that will take pl

guys. >> manu, thank you, let's go down to the white house. phil, what's the reaction from the white house to the demand for the cbr score vote. >> they have been similar to democratic leaders in the sense they have been scrambling throughout really the course of the last 24 hours, trying to address what those moderates, that group of five moderates is asking for here, in fact, guys, the white house economic team put together their own preliminary budget that they circulated to all house democrats last night. obviously it isn't a cbo score, but it was modeled in a way to make it as close to a cbo like score as possible, hoping that would be enough to perhaps check the box that the moderates have made clear they need checked in order to move forward. the president's top negotiators, on capitol hill throughout the morning meeting with these members, meeting with the speaker's team, trying to figure out a path forward, and i think it underscores the urgency after so many blown deadlines that today was supposed to be the day. today could have been

people elected democrats to take the majority in the house and the senate and the white house. and yet, even a year into that unified power here in washington, the system has not changed. and that's got to be a point of frustration for a lot of americans. >> it makes you go back to the president's comment a couple of weeks ago in a cn town hall where he was asked by somebody as well, what about police reform? what about voting rights and these issues? he said look, i'm concerned about that. but i've been focusing on infrastructure and my social spending package. the other issues have been sidelined. and that is going to be brought up. yamiche: and the other case that we're watching closely is that in brunswick, georgia, the trial of three men accused of killing amaud arbery. mcmichael testified that he shot arbery a black man in self defense. >> he had my gun. he struck me. it was obvious -- it was obvious that he was attacking me. that if he would have got the shotgun from me, then it was a life or death situation. and i'm going to have to -- to stop him from doing this. so i

the white house sees a turning point and democrats, well, they better hope that's right. a cnn poll releasing right now finds a majority disapprove of the president's job performance and nearly six in ten americans say the president is not focusing enough on the country's biggest problem. plus, the biggest question in the world. are we close to the end of the covid pandemic? today word pfizer wants the okay to offer vaccine boosters to all adults. >>> and former president obama visits the global climate summit and throws some shade at donald trump. >> we've got our contentious battle. it's one of the things about democracy it turns out you don't always get your way. my successor maybe wasn't as interested in climate science as i was it turns out, but there are a lot of people in the u.s. government who care about this deeply and work really hard and are invested. >> we begin the hour though with the current president and the giant turnaround challenges he faces between now and the mid-term elections exactly one year from today. our brand new cnn poll releasing right now s

is this a messaging problem for the white house? >> yes, it is. even more worrisome, 70% of ind pen kedents, 70% of independent say he's done little or nothing. it goes to this issue set where they're trying to work on build back better, this massive reconciliation bill and the public generally sort of approves of a lot of the different proposals individually but in terms of the entire massive package, $2 trillion or so, the public isn't really paying attention to that because they're worried about inflation. they see it. a few months ago it was inflation stories about rental cars. now it is transitory. it has transitioned inflation into baking, a loaf of bread, milk, real life -- and gas prices pushing up near $4. so that's where the public is and so the public isn't really focused on their agenda right now, and that's where you see the poll results suggesting he's done little or nothing. >> and it's having a horrible effect on his approval rating. this new poll that says approval rating is 41%. his approval's 53%. this is the strong point coming

is the white house considering that end is there anything the white house is doing about this? sec. psaki: because of the rescue plan, we have cut childhood hunger in half over the last year. when we look at that build back better agenda passing, the impact it will have on lowering childcare and lowering eldercare, the cost of elder care, the cost of health care, these are all costs on families that impact what they are able to afford in their daily lives. certainly, impact on military families as a military family himself, the president and dr. biden, that is heartbreaking. they continue to fight to do more to nature that there are not hungry families, whether they are military or not in the country. in terms of the summit, i have no plans to preview. >> to help military families overcome having a hard time, but is there a difference in the senate version. sec. psaki: the senate version would basically have a housing allowance is income which allows access to a lot of things in low income families. they are no longer qualifying with the needs allowance or or the military families n

we begin with the white house. the t president is set to sign the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law today. carley: it comes amid plummeting approval numbers and the spending bill remains in peril over fears it will drive inflation higher. lauren blanchard joins us from washington with the latest. >> reporter: good morning, todd and carley. president biden will surround himself with democrats, republicans, governors and mayors today for a signing ceremony at the white house. the hope is to prove they can move the economy forward with the bipartisan infrastructure bill. a new poll shows the people may feel differently. asked whether or not they a approve of biden's job as president, 41% you approve, 53 disapprove. when it comes to the economy, only 39% say they view his handling of the economy in a positive way, 55 say they have a negative view. what could be extremely troubling for the president's party, which currently holds a slim majority in the house, 51% of the registered voters asked said they would v

in talking with white house officials, i'm told that the u.s. currently does sequencing of about 80,000 samples per week, and that's more than any other country. so they believe that kind of level of scientific surveillance of available data about samples that are being tested gives the u.s. a good chance to know what's out there, and the u.s. is looking at ways to communicate from the federal government to the health departments in different communities around the country, obviously working with governors and states, and all of that to try to make sure they have good information. the president will also be getting briefed daily on covid, the delta as well as this new variant, to make sure he's got more information coming in to make any adjustments as we go along. hallie? >> that's a good point. kelly o'donnell, thank you. matt, let me go to you. we know these travel bans are in place in south africa, the u.s. and other points. other countries are putting in travel bans as well. but south african officials, even the w.h.o., was saying, putting t