the white house. she was so passionate about art that she even proposed the edition of a new wing on the white house to house an art gallery. unfortunately this never happened, but i think it's so interesting to imagine what it would be like if an entire wing of the white house was a gallery next slide. now in particular mrs. harrison loved watercolors china paintings and florals. she even helped to design the harrison white house china service this photograph shows a tea set painted by mrs. harrison featuring orchids, which were her favorite flower mrs. harrison would often go to the white house conservatory a large indoor garden where orchids were grown and get her inspiration while sitting and enjoying the flowers next slide. now here you can see a mahogany box which held mrs. harrison's watercolor supplies. it's in the collection of the benjamin harrison presidential site. and on the right is a sketch of her proposed white house expansion as you can see, it's quite palatial and it was too expensiv

i needed the white house with that. but i'll add just a little bit because i've answered your question that it was there was nothing not not an iota of truth to their portrayal in the crown. but um, there was a sort of a dramatic event during the dance bob mcnamara linda remembers this bob mcnamara then secretary of defense was twirling around the room christine ford wife of henry ford. it was a beautiful actually gorgeous woman low-cut white gown and and as he was twirling her around she had a wardrobe malfunction and people oh, but you know corrected it right quickly, but you can imagine that was a bitter of the evening. later dinner. i was not seated at the table with the president, but she wasn't of course and there was kurt douglas and happy rockefeller, but the summary answer was none of that portrayed in the crown was accurate. well, let me just add that. quite a few of the social aids dancing with mrs. ford and it's all i saved her. i pulled, you know help with up so but i mean it has been a story over 50 years

the white house has been in touch with colonial throughout the past few days. the president has been briefed regularly. it will be interesting. the president's response is designed to piggyback on what we heard, which is that the white house is on top of this. this has been so much of the approach from this white house since replacing president trump in january. think back to what president-elect biden was saying in december when we learned first about the solarwinds hack. he blamed president trump for, as he put it, taking his eye off the ball, for allowing the nation's guard to be let down in the face of the cyber hacking that we have been seeing increasingly over time. that's one reason why the administration has been naming the first national cyber director, a newly created position focused on cyber. they want to make the point, reassure americans that they have been on top of this. while taking steps to deal with issues like gas prices. the department of transportation relaxing some of the freight guidelines to allow more fuel to be transported on the road

that he wants to make another run for the white house. and it is really nancy who is telling him you've got to do this? this is your moment. when they arrive in washington you talk about describe them as if he were teflon. she's velcro. and given the fact that she learned lessons in sacramento and had gone through a rough period and then found a way to get involved in issues and rehabilitate yourself. why did she have such a difficult time in washington dc? why did the lessons not transfer? this is the great conundrum about nancy reagan. she is. so skillful, so shrewd so attuned. to her husband's image and yet she is just absolutely clueless when it comes to her own. and so they get to washington. united states is in the middle of what would become the worst recession since the great depression. and nancy reagan decides that this is the moment to collect a lot of private donations to refurbish the white house and to to buy a very expensive new set of thousand dollar a place setting white house china and they announced it on the very day t

the president's view and view of senior leaders in the white house is that our role as the white house, as the federal government, as the president of the united states is to play a constructive role in diplomacy, to use our role, our relationships around the world, to have intensive, quiet discussions with leaders in the region that we have long-standing relationships with. we share an objective of de-escalating the situation on the ground. bringing an end to the conflict. that's an objective we share with members of congress who have different points of view and are, of course, we support their ability to have different points of view. but we are approaching it through the prism of how we feel we can come to a most effective outcome. reporter: over the weekend there were reports that the israelis had shared intelligence with the united states regarding what was going on in that tower that was blowing up. secretary of state this morning said he didn't see it. has the president seen it? can you confirm that the israelis shared that intelligence with the united states? jen: this would b

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the white house, at one point, -- at $1.7 trillion. can they come closer or will republicans hold firm to their plan? guest: what i am hearing is that a final number could probably be a $1.3 trillion package, $1.5 trillion package, and that is if there is some wiggle room on the part of the white house on the corporate tax rate proposal. perhaps they don't go all the way to 28%, 25%, or something like that. that is something the white house says they are willing to negotiate. also, if the white house is able to compromise or maybe scaled down what the republicans call this human infrastructure component of their package, that will facilitate movement on the negotiations. again, for emphasis, republicans do want to get an infrastructure package done. this is why they move the ball on their side to a $1 trillion deal. if they can reach agreement on how to pay for it, if they address the fuel tax within the highway trust fund that pays for our surface transportation programs nationwide, some sort of agreement on climate change policies an

house counsel represents the white house, and he didn't represent trump but the office of presidency, and now you have don mcgahn going to testify before the house. >> well, i think that the precedent is a good one because these are public servants and so long as the questioning is not going to get into material that is covered by executive privilege, public servants have a responsibility to report what they are doing when asked by oversight committees in congress. i think this is the way democracy is going to and should work. i think we'll see more of that in this administration. i think that the story overnight about the department of justice releasing in part doj memo under attorney general barr, and also fighting to keep part of it under seal shows the apolitical nature of the current administration, meaning they are willing to -- part of this for the sake of executive privilege should apply whether it's a democratic or republican administration. i see them putting their money where their mouths are in terms of not putting politics over what the law should be. >> what does it mea

but is there a huge split inside the white house? maybe a minor. yes, joe biden wants a deal, but his staff are trying to make things work as well, and at the end of the day, they negotiate on his behalf. >> they sure do. hans nichols, thank you very much. really appreciate it. as we are heading into this weekend, the white house, according to my reporting and my reporting from democrats on the hill seem to be talking to an audience of one. and that is senator joe manchin who may hold the fate of all of this on his shoulders because they can't move it forward with 50 votes without him. thank you all for getting up way too early with us on this tuesday morning. don't go anywhere. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is tuesday, may 25th. along with joe, willie and me, we have member of the "new york times" editorial board, mara gay, and president of the council on foreign relations, richard haas. good to have you all onboard this morning. today marks the one-year anniversary of the murder of george floyd

i asked for white house about that today. since this was something that the governor of the states, said he didn't want to, this is not the case of federal officials trying to snake something pass the state level officials? >> secretary psaki: i am confirming here that tennessee is near the middle of the country, and some kids have to travel through there to get to their destination. we have been very clear that our objective is to treat these kids humanely. >> peter: that kind of talk is not satisfactory to republican lawmakers who represent tennessee in congress, who want more answers, because they feel like their rights, as a state, have been violated. >> it's a violation of tennessee's tenth amendment rights. no one was notified, not your state, your federal, your local officials. no one knew this was happening. >> peter: they know about it now, and it's a part of the official white house record. we expect that record -- and a south korean president moon and president biden will have a joint press conference scheduled for

is the the white house open again? can you talk about the considerations that went into these events over the last couple of days and is this the new norm going forward? jen: i can confirm we are a warm and fuzzy crew and liked to hug around here, but we were waiting for that to be allowed by cdc guidelines, which we certainly abide by. so we are, as many organizations and companies are, working to implement these guidelines at the white house. and so what you have seen over the last couple of days our efforts to do exactly that. and that includes welcoming back and having a full briefing room very soon. it includes having more events with more people. and certainly continuing to open the white house up, the people 's house up to the american public. go ahead. reporter: back to israel for a moment. one of the other examples is this pressure from lawmakers over the $135 million pending sales of guided missiles to israel. the president said he is committed to replenishing the iron dome. committed to making sure that but

i want to bring in my colleague to the white house, nbc's chief white house correspondent kristen welker, david farrenholt covers trump for "the washington post" and the one who broke this stare, legal affairs columnist for politico and joyce vance is former u.s. attorney and professor at the university of alabama school of law. dared, let me start with you because it's your reporting here. it wasn't unexpected, but it's certainly significant. talk to us about what exactly this means, this empaneling of a special grand jury? >> well, it means as you said earlier, that the d.a. is shifting the focus of the investigation from gathering evidence, vacuuming up evidence of donald trump to put it together and make a case that one person or set of persons committed a crime. it's not going to be a quick process and that's the next step. over the next six months the d.a. will go to the grand jury and show them more evidence, probably more evidence than a regular jury would see, that somebody or maybe more than one somebody committed a crime. >> kristen, we've heard a lot from the former president

house white house years. he was a new jersey native, but he was raised in new york. he was the governor of new york. after he left the white house for the second and final time, how did the family decide how they're where they're going to live. >> well the story that's kind of interesting, is that she said that because they couldn't go out and look for property on their own they had agents going out and looking for them. finally the story is that they both came down for breakfast and one of them said to the other, i have an idea about where we should look, the other one said yes i do too. then the electorally both at the same times at princeton. so cleveland contacted the president of princeton university, they found the property they purchased. >> what was their life like there? >> it was probably the best from the time they got married. they were a real family unit, they got very active in princeton university. as i mentioned earlier frances cotton vault in the growing number of women who graduated from col

is that something the white house would be open -- an approach the white house would be open to? >> again, i know there will be a range of ideas and proposals that will come forward from senator capito, from other republicans and other democrats as well. the president's bottom line, as you have heard me say a few times before, is he does not want to raise taxes on people making less than $400,000 a year. we certainly in that scenario would need to assess whether these funds are needed and not take them away from fighting the pandemic that we continue to battle every day. go ahead. >> reporter: thank you, jen. a couple of topics, quickly. first, house republicans are claiming that they have significant circumstantial evidence that covid-19 originated in a lab. has the white house seen any circumstantial evidence that it did not originate in a lab? >> i think first i would caution you against disproving a negative there, which is never the responsible approach in our view, when it comes to getting to the bottom of the root causes of a pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands

what should the next move of this white house be? >> he should pull out all stops diplomatically, he should be leaning on our allies and the u.n. to stand with israel in this what i believe is an unprovoked attack on israel. not by the palestinians, by iran. the second thing is, he should be shipping all the warheads that he can to israel right now to go into this iron dome system that you just showed that is taking out these rockets and missiles coming in to israel. thirdly he should find out what else they want. this idea of $730 million of military sales is good. that's a good thing. by the way you know that that started under donald trump and the president could have -- president biden could have stopped it. it started under donald trump. he needs to have his own strategy now and find out what they need and pull out all stops to bring this is to an end. >> sandra: based on the criticism from some on the far left, do you believe the commander-in-chief will take into consideration that criticism, will politics play a part in what h

does the white house not believe that is possible? >> it is a great question i just don't want to answer and i know we typically have a briefing with our health and medical team on tuesdays. you may have to wait for the next one or the next time one of the doctors is on television to talk about the definition. what our objective is is to vaccinate as much of the population as quickly as we can. the definition of what that will mean for communities, with that will mean for going back to normal, we look forward to applying that. believe me, we all want to take the masks off inside and return back to normal and we understand the frustration of the public, but we will leave the definition to health and medical experts. >> the administration is claiming to phase out mass vaccine sites in favor of focusing on community health centers. is it not effective to be using the mass vaccination sites anymore? >> it is more effective in some places than others. we announced a couple of new mass vaccination sites last thursday or friday. there are so

talks between the white house and a group of six senate republicans. in that proposal, the white house, as you noted earlier, comes down from the top line of $2.25 trillion to $1.7 trillion. they also make a number -- four specific key concessions, at least in the view of the white house. one is moving -- one key issue as it relates to r&d, supply chain, the key element of the president's american jobs plan out of the discussion entirely. also comes down on the top line number the president presented on broadband, trying to match up where republicans were on the broadband side of things and also reduces the president's top line as it pertains to roads, bridges and other major projects, coming down closer to where republicans were on their $568 billion proposal. it's key to note from the top line, i've been talking to some republican aides on capitol hill who were involved in this discussion, they made it clear they were not happy with what the white house put on the table today. i think the interesting question going forward, they've had two meetings t

she became so identified with the white house and how to run the white house and how to present the white house that she was someone that several subsequent first ladies. consulted sure. and our last question because this has come up in a number of programs. so should we talk about the presidential libraries first ladies materials? so before the national archives and i i might challenge i'd say before the presidential libraries where where does one find first lady the actual primary source materials. well my library to give ohio in can't know ohio is gaining more actual research materials. it's a relatively new institution. and i think there is definitely a push to acquire more document holdings there. unfortunately some of the early first ladies, you know, their papers have been scattered hither hither and yawn some were sold, you know at auction to private holders, so i'm going to turn that back around on the national archives and say time there is a garage sale of first ladies documents out there patrick. you need to be first in line. i'll have to talk to the arguments the united. it's

joe biden will have people at the white house next week. i have to imagine that things are going to go a little quicker now. yamiche: dan, i want to come to you. how is all this traveling that president biden is doing, how might it help things along? jake says things need to happen fast. dan: it helps at the margins but the question is going -- is going to be, is there room for real comp mice between the president and the senate republicans. i'm told there'll be a meeting next thursday at the white house with senator shelly moore capito. i think the white house at that point will begin to see whether -- how serious republicans are about really giving ground and then how serious he is about meeting them closer to where they might want to be. so i think until we -- i would say a week from today, we may have a much better idea of whether what i would call a hard infrastructure bill which is just to say the kind of roads, bridges, that sort of thing, is possible. at that point if it's not possible he has to make a decision about what to do yami

yamiche: president biden is speaking right now the white house. he is laying out is the fact there will be a cease-fire starting in two hours. officials stressed president biden was engaged increasingly pointed diplomatic talks behind the scenes. no grandstanng. but he was stressing to prime minister benjamin netanyahu expected a de-escalation and a cease-fire needed to happen. he saw over the week the language from the white house changed. he was still saying israel had the right to defend itself but this needs to stop and israel had major military objectives that they were able to protect their people and now they have to have peace. they were saying president biden played a major role and there were over 80 engagements. also with all sorts of white house officials at all levels talking to their counterparts in israel. amna: we also know the president has been under pressure from his own party. people like senator bernie sanders. saying the u.s. needs to do more to protect the human rights of the occupied palestinians. what has that done, if any

that's a big question for the white house. they held emergency meetings on this all weekend long, not only trying to deal with those questions and answers but does this potentially disrupt the supply chain in the u.s. we will see the homeland security adviser come out with a briefing in a few minutes to address this and address what their ongoing efforts are. >> we'll circle back to that briefing live when that happens. kaitlan collins, appreciate the live report from the white house, this cyberattack complicating an important and carefully scripted week this week for president biden. the first white house meeting of congressional leader, on thursday, sessions with lawmakers on the $4 trillion worth of proposals the president is getting through congress, here to share the reporting and insights, literally here to share their reporting and insights, cnn's manu raju, and nice to see you, haven't done in a while. three people at a table. i'm grateful. this is why you get a vaccine, you get to see your friends again. good thing. m

we do want to cross over to the white house. we see ben crump accompanied by members of the floyd family, coming outside of the west wing of the white house. let's hear. >> i'm attorney ben crump along with attorney chris stewart, attorney tony ramenucci and we have present with us the family of george floyd and some of their dear friends. we have rodney floyd, we have philonise floyd. we have terrence floyd. we have brandon williams. obviously, we have this little angel, her mother roxy is here with gianni. we have dominique, we have dominique and william who are close personal friends as well present here. briefly, the brothers will address you, the president and the vice president met with the family for over an hour. and they're going to tell you some things that hammed in that meeting. i know the president was very personal because he got to know this family over the years. and he wanted to check on them, on today of all days to see how they were doing. to reiterate that they are still doing everything to make sure that his

michelle obama moved into the white house four years after president lyndon b. johnson shepherded the civil rights act of 1964 to law. seven different predecessors had moved into the executive residence with its slave servants. next on the presidency. a look at how first ladies from martha washington, to michelle obama, interacted with the racial politics of their times. and the long history dating back to abigail adams of their efforts to promote civil rights for all. the national archives foundation hosted this event and provided the video. let's jump right in. we've got a lot to hear about an important topic of first ladies, but also something that we don't talk a lot about which is the role in engaging around civil rights and injustice issues. so let me talk a little about who our speakers are today and we will jump right in. an executive in residence in american university at washington d.c.. she directs the first lady initiative. she snow to many of you as she was the second term chief of staff or laura bush. she served in the white house and the departmen

the white house. one was at an entrance near the ellipse on the southern part of the white house, southern grounds of the white house. the other was another entrance on or near the white house grounds. this was very close to the white house. these incidents occurred last november. one of them was right after election day. the other was a little later. as you mentioned, one of those officials required immediate medical attention. the other one had some headaches and some sleepless nights, but again, the fact that these struck so close to the white house, we spoke to a former secret service agent, who said this really is a signal by whoever may have been responsible for this that they can strike close to the white house. and that is what is indeed so ominous. we can't call this an attack just yet, but sources are telling us this is very consistent with some of the attacks that did occur against u.s. diplomats and intelligence personnel in places like moscow, china, havana, cuba, that have been going on

certainly, the politics was something the white house was well aware of here. chris: guy, i think it's fair to say that president biden stood pretty firmly behind israel throughout this conflict. whether it was the squad, whether it was senator menendez, senator bernie sanders, you had talk of apartheid, of racism and war crimes. what do you make of that? >> yeah, chris, i learned to your interview in the last segment very carefully, and i hope that the ambassador is right about america remaining steadfastly pro-israel across the board, and he said he looked at some polling. there's a new poll out from ugov that shows when they ask democrats which side they sympathize more with, more democrats say palestinians than israelis. i think that is an extraordinary sea change that we're seeing in the democratic party, and i think some of the old guard remains pro-israel but the up and coming element. to progressive left, they have cast in their lot with the palestinians, and i think in some cases amplify what amount to hamas talking points. i think it's frightening to

house in the middle of a blizzard to have dinner, two couples upstairs in the white house it sounded like a social invitation george shultz was new in his tenure he had only been secretary of state for ten months, he didn't really know the reagans all that well and he had just gotten back from a long trip overseas that included a stop in china and dinner progresses the reagan's, both of them start peppering him with questions about the chinese leaders and do they have a bottom line and do they have a sense of humor and what makes them tick and beyond that they start talking about the soviet union and away from the hardliners in the typical national security council meetings begins to realize something about ronald reagan which is that this man has never had a conversation with the big-time communist leader that he is dying to have one and he has really thought about this a lot, he's very confident in his own abilities of the negotiator but then scholz realizes something else which is that this dinner invitation was not the social invitation that nancy reagan had wanted to get him alo

white house press secretary jen psaki was joined by two white house national security advisers to talk about the recent ransom or attack on the colonial pipeline. other topics that covered include the reason violence in israel, coronavirus vaccinations and calls for police reform. [background noises] 's mikhail everyone. happy monday. today we are joined by homeland security advisor deputy national security advisor doctor liss sherbet randall deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies. i know you all know who they are more to skip the introduction so we have more time for questions. we have very limited time will take as many as possible. with that alternative to liz. >> it is great to be with you today. thank you jen. i have an update from the colonial pipeline on what the ayden menstruation is doing to provide assistant to the whole government effort. on friday evening may 7 colonial pipeline reported its highflying system have been >> to ransom our cyber attack. clone it chose to shut down its pipeline, operations as a precautionary measure. and ensure the

the head of the -- ahead of the white house on this. many states, red and blue, largely red, have stopped wearing masks and other things. but when you take stock of this moment, it is a huge moment. this is what joe biden won the presidency on. this is what sparked the beginning of his presidency and how this decision goes will determine what the remainder of his presidency is going to be. it certainly sets the stage for the rest of his economic agenda which is built entirely on the inequities that really came to the fore because of this global pandemic. so i think it is not just taking off the masks, it is so much more than that. but it's a bit of a risky move. when i've been talking to white house officials, i said why did it come so fast? they've been cautious bev-- but people at the white house did not expect when they walked in the building yesterday to be able to walk out not wearing masks. and they said finally the pressure was clear in those hearings on capitol hill, senator susan collins really aggressively questioning the cdc

jasmine wright live from the white house. the tone here pretty clear, talking about but not demanding a ceasefire. >> reporter: that's exactly right. listen, president biden is walking a fine line in his response, but we are starting to see slight changes in the language as pressure mounts within his own party for him to do more. president biden as you said, supported a ceasefire, didn't explicitly call for one, but that use of ceasefire, that word is notable because it's the first time the white house has used it in a readout between him and a call between israeli prime minister netanyahu. his third in just six days. we see him inching towards slightly pressuring netanyahu to come to the table to try to find some end to this violence. not only is it a shift between the rhetoric of the white house in the last week but it was even a shift just on monday as earlier in the day white house press secretary jen psaki seemed to suggest that instead of calling for a public ceasefire, it was more beneficial for the white house to work

and what is the white house doing equivocating, as morgan said. over to you. >> emily: that's exactly right and that somehow is feeding into the narrative that israel is somehow "provoked" and "deserve" the wrath of hamas. i'd like to seat my time to morgan and have her explain the intersection and difference between hamas as a terrorist organization versus israel which is a state and why we are receiving such a different narrative, such a mixed message from, for example, so many congress members like rashida tlaib and alexandria ocasio-cortez somehow equating the two is one in the same, as equal players on the international front, morgan? >> morgan: the bottom line is that hamas is a designated terrorist organization from the state department and israel is our ally. somehow we were supposedly questioning our alliances are not working well with our allies which was hogwash and that is what we are actually potentially seeing here. there was a strong statement by nancy pelosi and others in the democrat party, i will give her credit for that but when

he never had been in the oval office, never been in the white house before. and i spent one weekend with hubert humphrey because i found out just before he died, and while he had serious cancer, that he had never been permitted to go to camp david. >> that's right. >> and so i invited him to go and i had a speech to make on the west coast, and came back and picked him up in minneapolis and went and spent the weekend at camp david. just me and him and his medical doctors, as a matter of fact. and he unburdened to me that weekend things that i'm sure he never had said publicly, never have since then and that was the deprivation he experienced as vice president. >> right. >> and the exclusion from any role of an authorityive nature, executive nature, and he was deprived of taking news reporters overseas with him. and he had to get all the press releases from overseas trips approved by the president before it could be issued. and he was never involved in any serious discussion that lind done johnson had with any foreign leader. and he was row stricted severely on

we have had a lot of good dialogue with the white house. we are trying to get to the goal of reaching a bipartisan infrastructure agreement. we believe this counter wrapper -- offer delivers on what president biden told us in the oval office. that is to try to reach somewhere near $1 trillion over an eight year time. we have achieved that goal with this counter offer. we have done something i think has stayed true to what our beliefs are when we started this endeavor. speaking to core physical infrastructure. what is the definition of infrastructure. we have stayed within the boundaries of our original plan. that is what the american people think of when they think of infrastructure. that is what we do, too. there are couple bits of news since the meeting. we have passed a bipartisan water infrastructure passage for $35. with chairman carper. bipartisan. we have it 89-2, got a vote in the senate floor. that is one of the pieces we have agreement on in terms of infrastructure. yesterday, we passed a $316 trillion surface transportation bill.

i think it's time for the white house physician and the biden white house to come out and say if there's a reason why he's wearing a mask and not being consistent with the cdc guidance? are they just not being transparent with the american people? something is not adding up in all of this. >> john: it could be message compromised. there's no evidence the president has any kind of medical condition like that give that bellamy switch gears and talk about immigration for a second. alexandria ocasio-cortez and 34 other democrats are citing racial reckoning to oppose emigrations and custom enforcement prioritizing the removal of immigrants who have aggravated felonies on their record, or who are members of gangs. how does reducing the priority for deportation of those individuals make this country any safer? >> it doesn't bear the minority groups are the ones that suffer the most from violent criminals and gangs. they are preying predominately on their own ethnic groups. people who come here illegally, or legally add want to trying make a better life. but the gangs and the violent felons need

house and white house officials acknowledge that, but they are making clear they are reaching out, trying to do their best to ratchet back the situation. take a listen. >> since last week he has directed his team to engage intensively with senior israeli and palestinian officials as well as leaders throughout the middle east. his team is communicating a clear and consistent message in support of deescalation and that is our primary focus. >> reporter: now, one of those officials, white house press secretary jen psaki referencing national security adviser jake sullivan speaking to his counterpart in israel, also speaking to several other officials in the region trying to figure out if there are pathways to if not put an end to the violence as it continues to escalate, at least try to deescalate things over the course of the next several days. so far, though, no clear pathway forward to that end, still waiting for one clear statement or public statement from president joe biden, at least on camera public statement at this point this time. one thing we did learn on tuesday was that president

today -- how is the white house tracking vaccinations, beyond, for the folks, how is the white house tracking who is and who is not vaccinated? jen: what the guidance provided was information so people could take steps to attack themselves, -- protect themselves, either to get vaccinated, which every american over the age of 12 is eligible, or to mask up if they are not yet vaccinated. so the steps we are taking. that means every individual in the white house, members of the press corps, can do exactly that. either get vaccinated or wear a mask. the honor system is really about, i don't even like that term because i think it's confusing. i don't think you are intending to do that, but the real question is how do people who are not yet vaccinated protect themselves? because people who are vaccinated, what the cdc guidance is saying is that if you are vaccinated, you are protected. if you are not vaccinated, the guidance is you should wear a mask. reporter: you are not going to verified this individual -- verify this individual -- i am not wearing a mask. i just want to clarify. a quic

the white house. will this get the white house to clean up their messaging? >> i certainly hope so because right now their message something far beyond mixed. it is just nonexistent. people don't know what to think from what the white house is saying. one day you turn on the tv you hear one thing. the next day you hear something else. the messaging from the white house has been horrible. the messaging from the cdc has been bad. as we found out they have been influenced by groups like the teachers union. edward: here in georgia, i want to ask you quickly about the gas pipelines. are you concerned about this? is this what we're looking at with the green new deal? >> it is what we're looking at with the green new deal. finally we get realization of how important pipelines are. even the administration has admitted yes it is important. this is a problem, a big problem. oh, yeah? if it's a big problem why did you suspend and deny the keystone xl pipeline? makes no sense whatsoever. you understand now the im

. >>> the biden white house says it's tirelessly pushing for an end to the violence. negotiator aaron david miller is among those who say biden's lack of urgency and indifference is troubling, the former state department hand tweets. the longer this goes on the greater danger on either side that could spur more death and destruction. let's get straight to phil massingly. you know the pressure from the diplomats, veteran diplomats say why isn't the president more out front, you heard in the span of a minute there three israeli tank firings of artillery across the border. what is the white house answer when you ask what is the president doing and should it be more? >> the answer is don't pay attention to what you're seeing publicly, what we're doing is mostly behind the scenes, i don't know that that's enough, it hasn't been enough for many from some veteran diplomats and some democrats on capitol hill, asking the president to be more out front, asking the president in some cases, with some more progressive democrats to be more robust in his condemnations of israel, som

house lawn and got inside the white house, got inside the east room of the white house while carrying a knife. they tried very hard to keep the armed with a knife part of that from becoming known. its story of the agent on the obama presidential detail, an agent well-known enough to the president that he used to greet him by his first name every time he saw him, agent who killed himself after it was revealed that he had had an undeclared relationship with a foreign national. after he died, an investigation revealed that he had actually had tons of those relationships with many different women from many different countries. in fact, he led a whole second life that he was keeping secret from his family, which of course is an astonishing blackmail risk. again, he was on the personal protective detail for president obama. under president trump, there was the guy who hopped the fence and then spent 17 minutes wandering around inside the white house complex, including walking up to the east front of the white house and jiggling a door handle. it turns out he had two cans of mace in his back

that's with the white house would say. but they also know that the longer things go, the harder it becomes. we have a 50/50 senate and they have a narrow margin in the house. you want to get some of these big things through and they realize it takes a certain degree of energy and they don't want to lose it this summer. so there is a sort of time clock taking even if the white house would prefer that we don't pay attention to it. >> a topic you and i have discussed before and that's the floyd family. the last thing they could have predicted. the last thing in the world that they wanted was to be thrust in the national spotlight and yet i think everyone agrees that they have carried themselves so admirably and that that role. they've also developed an interesting relationship with the president. they arrived at the white house to mark this grim anniversary tomorrow. talk about how that has come along over the past few months. >> will president biden has really been in touch with his family multiple times and they feel as tho

>> i haven't had direct contact with the white house to explain that situation. we signed the letter led by jon ossoff of georgia because we felt it imperative to stop the fighting on both sides. firing rockets into israel by hamas is an act of war. the israelis are retaliating. they have to be very conscious of collateral damage and limit that to the least possible, but i think at this point we just have to stop the fighting, and that's going to -- i believe the administration is determined that their best role is at this juncture behind the scenes rather than up front leading the effort. >> well, i mean, there's no cease-fire so i don't know how they think it's working. >> the white house hasn't explicitly condemned the bombing of that high rise in gaza that housed the associated press and al jazeera bureaus. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said multiple hamas targets were in the building and he suggested that israel shared evidence for that claim with that state though secretary of state blinken has not personally seen it. have you seen the evidence

about the white house reaction to this and how it's going to affect relationships between the white house and republicans? >> alcindor: well, judy, standing out again, what we saw today was thous ter of liz cheney. what makes this day stand out today is house leader kevin mccarthy came to the white house today and he didn't want to own up to the idea that liz cheney was beingoused from her leadership position because she wouldn't embrace the false conspiracy theory, that the election was rigged. when the question was put to hi how is this going to impact the ability for democrats and republicans to work together? >> i don't think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election. i think this is a all over with. we are sitting here with the president today. so from that point of view i don't think that's a problem. >> alcindor: in fact of course we know that dpormer president trump is every single day questioning the legitimacy of president biden. that's why liz cheney was ousted, she would not back what former prlt is doing when i requested, how this is going to af