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

. >> who do you think is running the white house? >> i have no idea. [laughter] what people are speculating in the conversations. a. >> i don't think they know.theys on heavily and there's a lot of speculation not only among people in arkansas but i think that's true when i talked to my senate colleagues the question that's out there right now. >> they are passing some historic legislation that president biden himself has been deeply involved in the negotiations of. >> it is a rocky road we will have too see how it turns out. virginia is going to make a big difference in that with the closenessra of the race i think the country is more summer center-right and some are centerleft but they are not as far left as what is coming out of the white house right now and because of that convinced the tendencies and all of the money we have been spending so we have to wait and see how it winds up debate i don't think america is ready for the cradle to grave national spending and taxing. i think it's probably been taken off because of the capital gains and the lan

later this afternoon i will join president biden and other members of congress at the white house. the president will sign into law the largest investment in our nation's infrastructure since eisenhower administration. despite all odds he's done so with bipartisan support. we'll take on the challenging and past reconciliation bills and appropriations bills. when i return to the senate, you are will tell the other members of the senate what a privilege it has been, being a senator in the history of our country. will i tell them how humbled i am by the support i received from my fellow vermonters. having been on the ballot on vermont 24 times. actually between states attorney and senate, 24 times, general leakses. how proud i was to see my name on that ballot. i will tell my fellow senators i will not be on the ballot next year. will i not run for re-election. i wanted to announce that here at home just a few yards from where i grew up in montpelier. representing you and washington has been the greatest honor. i'm humbled and always will be by your support. i'm confident in what the

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he had this open, not a great premium in the early nixon white house. he was a wind of change and we've put together to show position of somebody who had been campaigning for kennedy the week he was killed and ends up as nixon's domestic policy so there's a short line in which william introduces the then democrat moynahan and we butted up a very short excerpt on the phone conversation, this would give you an idea of the nixon moynahan dynamic, the relationship and interplay between these two minds because they were intellectuals working on that. >> 's assistant to the president and the last time he was at a rally very appropriately scheduled on halloween night. [laughter] was predicting the end of nixon the following week. >> good morning mr. president. >> where are your products. >> i am going to give today and give them a little help. >> all right. i am delivering tonight at 7:30 p.m. right in the middle of it but it's brief. is your retention time that long? >> i never -- >> don't admit it. >> i just tell you the new yorker is running three long asec

alice got married at the white house. but she was older than -- there was really two kids living in the white house, and that was ethel and quentin and they were there all the time. it was a zoo. a zoo of animals and kids. and tr loved having them coming into the office -- meetings in the office and they would run in and they would interrupt secretaries of stays in order to try to tell their dad about some bug that they found on the white house lawn. >> humanizing, isn't it? and alice married a man who became speaker of the house and so many of us have used the line, if you can't say something nice about somebody, come sit right here next to me. here's another question. roosevelt was the most prolific of presidents who were authors. which of his books is the most significant of his writings? >> that's a good question. and there's no easy answer because he wrote probably 50 books not all original monographs, compilations and things like that. one book stands out to me and that's called the winning of the west which is a th

the white house is starting to be concerned about this. the president talked about lifting wages. they have signed on and endorsed his economic agenda. his infrastructure bill has some of that in there. they have short-term questions about all the inflationary concerns. caroline: it sounded like he was making a case for transitory inflation. he was trying to push back against the. we are in the midst of the hustle. is it likely he will get this? >> it is a great question. it makes it harder. it was that inflationary pressure. too much spending right now. the economy is running too hot. senator manchin came out today and said it is not transitory. those are words to whitehorse -- white house doesn't want to use. transitory is a temporary word. senator manchin over the summer was talking about a strategic pause. i wonder if it is going to slow down what is happening in washington. it will be a big day for the administration. that second part of the agenda. there will be a lot of hurdles. caroline: the focus as to who will produce all of these chips that we need here the united state

apparently the white house was involved in the decision in some degree. >> you were there and when first you sized those teammates of yours, i wonder what your first reactions were to the group. >> i wanted to know where these guys came from. several of them have been involved in the preliminary selection process so i was genuinely familiar with that background. glenn of course i had known before and because of our navy connections so i knew there was a lot of talent and i knew that it was going to be a tough flight to win the prize. >> between the seven of you. >> it was an interesting situation. because as i said i was friendly with several of them and on the other hand, realizing that i wasn't competing with these guys so there was always a sense of caution i suppose particularly about technical things. in the bar of course everything changed, but in talking about technical things it was always a sense of maybe a little bit of reservation not being totally frank with each other because there was a very strong sense of competition. >> let's try to go back over those competitions. >> it

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the white house has approached the economy. >> what do you say to some critics who say the white house is too focused on long-term investments and not enough on short-term, right now relief for americans? >> he's focused like a laser o those issues. part of the problem is we have not invested in building our infrastructure so we have more resilient ports, roads, and bridges around america. >> what could be the impact of passing the build back better act? with the white house, and only brain these, but with the president says needs to happen. >> i spoke to white house officials about this today and what their concerns are alike. they bieve based on their economic analysis that the inflationary concerns are temporary, a temporary result of the pandemic and supply chain issues, and they will be resolved in a few months. they want to build back better act to get past so a long-term investment can lower the cost of things like childcare and health care, and other things to offset any continued inflation or any continued expenses americans are still having to pay because of that. they are ho

. >> well, thank you for visiting with us during this white house >> i think fdr used this place as a place to bring these world leaders up but tend to let their guards down and focused on system of the major issues that they're here to talk about. springwood is really the same way. when you talk intoed the buildings, you didn't come in as king or queen, prime minister, first lady whatever your title was, you came in as a friend and coming into somebody's home as a friend is much different than walking into their place of business assay colleague. going into the white house with fdr and talking about major world events would be much different than coming to this secluded porch where, you know, they were no photographers wait to go take a picture of the handshake. it was a place where he could open with his guest and showing him sitting in his wheelchair layed it all out there. he's there showing off the fact that i'm not hiding anything from you and i think guests received that in such a way that they were willing to not hide anything from him and the way they used this place really f

and two, the things that the white house announced would have been useful three or four weeks before that announcement was made, but the problem had already moved on. so what's happening is it gets reported in the media and then the politicians hear about it and then they take action. those actions would have helped a month ago but not today. today's problem is we need the chassis, the thing that containers sit on, we need truck drivers, and we need the ports to get unclogged so those goods can flow to you and me on store shelves. >> the consumer -- for a long time businesses like yours have been the just in time supplies. maybe we as consumers ought to take an adjustment on that too, i ought to be thinking about what i want for valentine's day or easter not a couple of days before the holiday itself, i ought to be thinking long term, not about christmas but about valentine's day or easter or whatnot. >> you're absolutely right. our supply chain, if you think of this pipe into the country, it was running about 95% capacity. and so there was a little room for error. but what's happene

so this is coming from the white house. and most democrats aren't being consulted. not just with agriculture but the entire package. this really is unique. because of that you don't get good legislation. you get unintended consequences which i think we'll see in the future, which will not help them at all. jackie: before we run out of time i wanted to ask you one more question. we have a big election tomorrow in new jersey and virginia. i'm wondering if he glenn youngkinn does win tomorrow what do you think it means for the republican party heading into 2022? mr. boozman: i think we have to be careful because that doesn't mean that people will be voting for republicans. it will be voting -- they'll be rejecting what the democrats are trying to do right now. so republicans need to get ready. they need to have good solutions to the problems that we are facing. they need to present that to the public so that they'll be voting for us rather than against the administration what's happening right now. but this will be a big bell weather. i think we all agree. as a result

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

the white house staff simply came to admire truman he is's grasp of history. truman said if a man is aacquainted with what other people experienced at its best is it will be easier for him to go through a similar experience. it is ignorance that causes most mistakes. the man who sits here ought to know his american history at least. his wealth of knowledge was a great strength. when he said he would have liked to have a history teach per. he was asked rather teach it than make it? truman responded yes qb i think so it would be not nearly so much trouble. from his years of reading truman was also posed by demagogues and big on theory. among these including the ku klux klan. truman knew that as president he couldn't sit i'dly by and do nothing in the face of the glaring injustices occurring in the south. in response to a letter from home advising him to take it easy on kivrl rights. truman spoded the main difficulty with the south that is that they are living 80 years before behind the times and the sooner they come out it the better it will be for the country.

what he think now when you consider that he could run again in an occupant in the white house and where is the leave you. >> you are absolutely right and is to tell a joke during the 2016th of republican primary about why donald trump would never win and i said there were two reasons, the first is the republicans are not the crazy, the second was democrats are not that lucky. will turns out they were that crazy we wereaz not that lucky. but i would've never imagined that someone with his record of philandering and everythingth else, would be the nominee of the republican party let alone become the rope in the presence of the united states but he did and i think part of why he was successful in that campaign, is that he recognize millions of americans were struggling who worked their whole lives and had nothing to say nothing to save at the end of their career and they will have to work until you drop their kids had steps from college and no jobs at college and they were promising to bring everything that had been a candidate in the primary bernie sanders, promising revolution, he was no

>> were fighting, a whole lot of us, congressman presley in the house of them pushing the white house very, very hard on this issue. we think it is the right thing to do. we are making good progress. prox parliamentary rules against the immigration provision, choosing the democrats in the senate should vote to overturn her decision? do you have the votes? >> we are working right now, very hard to take immigration issues to the parliamentarian. i'm not going to comment what will happen after words. but we hope she will see things in the weight we want them too. we feel very strongly that we have to do things about immigration, the dreamers and so many others and all of the other workers. >> have a score to bring question. >> you have to have a cbo score to go into, let me go over the timing. so first, there is the scrub. the privilege scrub. you cannot do that until he whole bill is ready in the house. they have to pass the whole bill. that takes about a week it's a 2000 page bill. while we already have some text of i think seven committees, the vast majority is in committees that have

the white house says it's not because there's an option. a federal court judge has paused the rule from going into effect. it was supposed to take effect in january. the u.s. government has 5:00 p.m. tomorrow to file a response. >> stay tuned. >>e will. thanks so much. the united states reopens borders to international visitors tomorrow as long as travelers are fully vaccinated. it's the first time since covid restrictions closed crossings nearly 20 months ago. carter is at lax tonight. good evening. >> good evening. u.s. airports are facing and preparing for big crowds tomorrow alone united airlines is anticipating more than 30,000 in bound international travelers. and it's not just by air. our land borders are expected to be crowded as well. >> excitement and relief for thousands of people on both side of the u.s. canada border. starting monday, after being shut down for 600 days, the world's longest land border will be open to the vaccinated. >> how much of your business relies on people from canada? >> 40%. >> montana bar owner is welco

next we continue our look at white house weddings. president richard nixon's daughter tricia married edward cox on june 12, 1971 in the first rose garden wedding. the naval photographic center produced this film. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

but we have a bill signing at the white house in just a few minutes by president biden. this is a big deal. we passed a bill that petroleump couldn't pass with a republican congress and without a republican congress. president biden and this congress passed it. it's going to mean road repairs, bridge repairs, airport additions. bridge observations and repairs. ports in our country will be improved. broadband will be extended. the electric grid will be improved. people get access. this is what used to be bipartisan. people working together to get the infrastructure of our country that moves goods to ports, goods to people, makes our country tick. helps business, puts jobs together. this is an important bill. the democratic congress with 13 republicans passed it. a great day to celebrate. america is on the move again. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman i

alice got married at the white house. it was really two kids living in the white house and that was ethel and quinton. and they were there all the time. the rest of them were in and out. but it was a zoo of animals and kids. and t.r. loved having them come into office meetings, meetings in the office. they would run in and interrupt secretaries of state to try and tell their dad about some bug they found. >> humanizing, isn't it? and alice roosevelt married the man who became speaker of the house and so many of us women have used her line, if you can't say something nice about somebody, come sit right here next to me. this is jeffrey from florida. roosevelt was the most prolific of presidents who were authors. which of his books is the most significant? >> that's a good question and there's no easy answer because he wrote probably 50 books. compilations and things like that. one book stands out and that's "the winning of the west." which is a three-part series of books. what's interesting about it is roosevelt laze out wh

[video clip] >> i continue my negotiations with president biden, the white house and my colleagues on this next proposed piece of legislation which could have important impacts in arizona. as i am focusing on that negotiation i am keeping a couple things in mind. one, ensuring any spending is targeted, so that it is efficient and effective, and it is respectful of the fact that arizonans want to keep more dollars in their pockets and given the inflation that we are seeing a need to take out -- they need to keep dollars in their pockets. second, i want to ensure that any action that we take is fiscally responsible. so we are not taking any kind of tax increases that reduce american competitiveness or hurt our business' abilities to get ahead. [end video clip] host: two topics, what is your reaction? guest: i think it is encouraging if those are her two issues that she wants to make sure are met, to take the first one for targeted spending and her concerns around inflation. this bill offers a -- every american family with children tax cuts by continuing the child tax credit, and that is

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

when across the land take, as the us themes with his own surgeon, immigration, the white house house makes the case president with that issue in the spotlight will tell you how it went just after this. ah, ah ah ah mm. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race who is on offense, bearing dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time. time to sit down and talk with ah ah la again now amid the ongoing migration crisis in the united states, joe biden has hasty talks with the leaders of mexico and canada. it was the 1st trial that through summit, between those at lee, this, of those countries in 5 years, although it hasn't really produced any major bright trace matters, sir, happened. so he was a caravan of about $3000.00 migrants, mostly from central american haiti have set off from southern mexico and heads towards the us border. meanwhile, mexican authorities had discovered more than 400 people secretly traveling into laurie trailers.

i told a bunchor of stories whei first left the white house when they were sitting in the roosevelt room right after signing this executive order on the keystone xl pipeline and he stops in the middle of this thing like we are going to use u.s. steel for this and just stops. we are doing this and he goes no, stop we are not doing this because we will make sure we have u.s. steel. it took common sense to say we were told over and over again. it is a free-trade agreement and there is nothing we can do about it. why are the wisconsin dairy farmers getting screwed we are going to tear it up and redo it ands he goes i don't care. when you think about it, why wouldn't we have done that? in a deal with the two closest trading partners and that screwed up our own workers it was a different world. but why not modernize it and get to the mentality in washington is what was signed and covered over there. when we talk about it he recognized and appreciated and we need to get back the understanding for the disaffected of republican. it's not how it works. tweets don't hurt you or make it better if we

typically the party of not the white house has a better night in the midterms. they have headwinds of their own making come of the landscape, and historica all kind of conspiring against the fate of the political winds for joe biden. can he turn the momentum? good job numbers today would've been helpful before the election. if that's something that can help turn the corner, that may be useful for the president. but there are real lessons for the biden white house to be learned from this election. will they listen and will they change some of the strategy, on how they talk about some of these issues? that's what we ll be watching. >> that's a critical question. i also question the president wednesday about how democrats plan to counter the culture war strategy used successfully by the gop. >> what your message for democratic voters, especially black voters, who need republicans running on race, education, lying about critical race theory, worried that democrats don't have an effective would've pushed back on that -- an effective way to push back on that? >> speak

i council inside the donald trump white house?— white house? i don't because the motivation _ white house? i don't because the motivation for _ white house? i don't because the motivation forjoining - white house? i don't because the motivation forjoining the| the motivation forjoining the administration back in 2017 when the russian intelligence services at the direction of the kremlin interfered in the presidential election that was the 2017, 2016 presidential election. as we all know, that created chaos and us politics and became a massive domestic prices and a certainly felt as someone who would serve before and the government, as national intelligence officerfor and the government, as national intelligence officer for russia backin intelligence officer for russia back in 2006 to 2009 under both the bush and obama administrations. but something had to be done and part of my motivation was to do something of the national security front desk concerned about what the russians had done and i would do it again, for sure. ultimately, your working

the white house covid-19 response gordon nader -- coordinator talked about that. [video clip] >> on osha, the team has been working to >> we'll leave this program here. you can watch the rest of it on our website c-span.org. we'll take you live now to a conversation with arkansas senator john boozman on the 2022 midterm elections. this is hosted by "the washington post." >> good afternoon, welcome to "washington post" live. i'm jackie, author of the congressional correspondent for "the washington post." my guest today is senator john boozman, sooner senator from arkansas. dean of arkansas delegation. he's here to discuss the status of the biden economic agenda, what republican senators want. but first begin with food production. senator, welcome. thanks so much for joining us today. post live. senator boozman: thank you so much for having me. it's a pleasure. >> all eyes are on the cargo ships anchored off of california. talk about the supply chain issues we are seeing. specifically with regards to trucking. you are supportive of legislation to help train addition

in fact come in during his is time at the white house. so this is a remarkable period of changing he seems to be really the first modern president because he understands that capturing the imagination of the american people is really a pr exercise and he needs to reach out to them in order to get congress to do something or in order to you know, extend american power throughout the world. so roosevelt is a revolutionary figure for the white house. not just because he names it but because he reshapes the office itself. well, we're going to take some questions like from i see them coming in from a lot of the people watching. but first we have another. special bit of insight from one of the brightest stars that i know at the white house historical association. it's senior historian, dr. matthew costello, and he's going to talk just for a moment about the remarkable influence that teddy roosevelt had on the white house itself. good evening. my name is dr. matthew costello, and i vice president of the david m reubenstein national center for wh

the white house chief strategist for criminal contempt of congress. two counts. one refusing to appear for a deposition and refusing to hand over documents. >> the insurrection says the bannon indictment should send a message to other witnesses. ignore subpoenas at your own peril. wanting to know more about before, during riots. during the podcast, he offered a preview of things to come. >> all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. >> just understand this, all hell is going to break loose. it is not going to happen the way you think it will happen. it will be quite extraordinarily different. all i can say is strap in. the war room a posey, you have made this happen. tomorrow is game day. >> you can bet there are questions about what he knew. examining the legal and political implications of the indictment. >> beginning with part of the team that broke the story. could you start with the indictment and how we got to this point? >> this got real for bannon yesterday. if convicted, he could face jail time. he has been charged with two counts of contempt of congress

, the senate and the white house, are continuing to fight and not deliver on what the president said he wanted to do when he was elected to office eric, very interesting to get your thoughts. eric ham, a political unless there for us in washington. thank he. thank you. the political crisis in ethiopia is deepening as 9 factions form an alliance against the government. they want to bring down the prime minister abbey attitude and say they will do it by force if necessary. the un security council is calling for a peaceful resolution. macanna reports. far from the fields of conflict, ethiopian opposition groups gather in washington, dc. 9 political and militant group signed an agreement to work together with the expressed intention of removing the ethiopian government by negotiation or force it to appear as been doing this. has been carried out a systematic resume in the country, almost like our apartheid in south africa. but this is a time where we need to recognize every human being in the country. the government has dismissed the alliance as a publicity stunt. but it comes at a time

on thursday, the white house deputy press secretary with asked about the decision from opec plus . as you remember, we engage with relevant opec plus members. a few months ago, as well as urging a compromise solution to allow proposed production increases to move forward, which they did, but more can be done. now is the time for majority country producers to stabilize energy prices and ensure high prices do not hamstring the current global economic recovery. and joining us, our discusses kirk edwards, the former chair of the permian basin petroleum association crick. i'm going to get to the white house here in just a few minutes, but i want to start with this opec decision and we got to get to the why. what is the rationale behind the refusal of opec plus to increase production as prices continue to rise? first of all, thank you for having read again, look forward to visiting the on this, but you know to me, opec, seeing all the commodities. ready across the world, they see still you're seeing coal, you're seeing the refrigerator is everything going up and cries, and so all the gas

. ♪ ♪ >> next, the white house covid-19 response team gives an upright -- an update on efforts to vaccinate children. >> good morning. thanks for joining us. today, i will begin with a progress report. we are making important progress in our fight against the virus. vaccinations, testing, and ensuring our response is equitable and reaches the hardest hit communities and those most at risk. on vaccinations, or program for kids five through 11 is hitting for strength, with 20,000 trusted and convenient locations coming online. this includes pediatricians, pharmacies, children's hospitals , community health centers, rural clinics, and school-based clinics. while our program is just fully up and running this week, by the end of the day today, we estimate that over 900,000 kids five through 11 will have already gotten their first shot. through pharmacies alone, 700,000 additional appointments are already on the calendar. parents and families across the country are breathing giant size of release. we are just getting started. we will continue to work with governors, local leaders, health care pro

that was sent to the white house to discuss robert patel of civil rights attorney and radio. ed martin publisher pro america workforce dot com. thanks for joining me, robert and ed going to be ok are, and i'm gonna start with you on this letter with his latest c, f, b. i is denying they were actually liking information on the most outspoken parents and not investigating them thread that the i said they were doing it. so why are parents right now? well look at this point, i think most americans would say it's a trust, i'd say verify and trust. i don't think anybody trust the f b i after the record, they've had in the last few years. so that's number one. but number 2, we have conflicting moments. merrick garland has said one thing done. another he said there was no targeting. then there's proof, at least in time there's targeting. what's outrageous right now is it's the same people that were in charge in the obama era. susan rice, the obama white house that was targeting people, tea party groups through the i r s. now we have the d o, j targeting parents. and here's the messag

in remarks at the white house, he called on americans to get vaccinated and receive booster shots. because -- >> good morning, folks. hope you all had a happy thanksgiving and were able to get together with your family and friends. it was great to see so many family getting together this thanksgiving after being apart last year, and with much to be grateful for as a nation. when i was elected i said i would always be honest with you. so today i want to take a few moments to talk about the new covid variant. first identified last week in southern africa. it's called the omicron and it is come to their credit the scientific community in south africa quickly notified the world of the emergence of this new variant. this kind of transparency is to be encouraged and applauded as it increases our ability to respond quickly to any new threats, and that's exactly what we did. that very day the world health organization identified the new variant, i took immediate steps to restrict travel from countries in southern africa. but while we have travel restrictions can slow the speed of omicron,