and it's not just the white house. we should point out that there are some senior members on capitol hill who are having those same conversations. and in terms of the aid that you're asking about, it's very broad. but specifically, we can tell you most recently in 2021 was $337000000.00. that was to assist the transitional government. now, of course, given the fact that many of those officials are now under house arrest, there really is a question about the future of that aid. we should also point out very quickly that the united states help sudan when it came to talking to the i a map about 50000000000 in debt relief and another 2400000000 in funding. so the united states not happy at what has occurred and really reevaluating the relationship in light of the events that have transpired. okay, thank you so much. kimberly hallett reporting from the white house. let's continue the discussion on the u. s. and so don's relationship going forward and speak to william laurens, who's a former diplomatic co author of after the

what would you advise this white house to do or say? >> i won't give advice to the white house. i'll say this. the republican party is broken. this is what they want investigated but they don't want to investigate the insurrection that happened on january 6. they don't want to investigate the effort to overthrow the government. they don't want to hold steve bannon accountable. >> harris: i will let you guys go become and forth. >> think about what is being said here. during an entire trump administration we had democrat after democrat who wanted to investigate the lease on the hotel that the trumps owned downtown which of course was completely compliant. every business deal they wanted to look into. every one of them. they still -- you still have a manhattan d.a. that wants to look into the former president's financial dealings and yet where are those democrats now? and in every congressional campaign and every meeting interview for democrats who called for investigation for the trump family financials should be asked why aren't you saying the same thing on the biden administrat

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

what can he do from the white house as powerful as the white house is? >> there is certain things he can do on the margin. they have brokered a deal to be open 24/7 joining the port of long beach. those are two of the major ports in the united states. he is urging truckers, people to basically to drive more trucks to get these goods once they're unloaded. he is unveiling that fed exand ups are going to increase their hours. people the recipients of the goods are going to make themselves so more available. there had are ships coming from abroad, he can draw attention to the issue, but there is a number of things that are very much out of his control. >> let's talk about where the president's agenda stands that is also a little out of control in terms of coming up with some resolution between progressives in the house and senate and the two senators as well as moderates in the house. >> if the president is looking for congress for that approval rating boost, he may be looking for quite some time. it's clear that congressional negotiators are not nearly as

>>> and the white house tells u.s. governors to get ready to vaccinate kids by november the deadline. that is now just weeks away. >>> welcome to "meet the press" daily. i'm chuck todd. every day we try to tell you what's urgent in american politics today. but big picture time. there's kind of a fog or dare i say malaise over washington, the pandemic, supply chain issues, toxic politics, the return of trump. there's simply a slog of urgent issues facing the white house and congress, and there's no easy answers. and by the way control of congress is up for grabs in just a year. the pandemic has killed more than 700,000 americans and daily life remains marred with fights over mandates, vaccine resistance, a parade of grim milestones and on and on. and thank tuesday the pandemic we have an economic slog that continues as well. we could expect job numbers, an inflation issue that's really probably being triggered more so by the big thing, supply chain bottlenecks. the president today is meeting with advisers and business l

the white house says trust is on this. they warn of a national drug crisis as drug cartels are ramp it up at the border. we have new reports out of central america. the u.s. could see a stunning number of migrants all at once. you won't believe the number. we've got it. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: okay. welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. now the white house is scrambling to try and fight rising gas prices. they're up a big 48% versus last year. are you feeling it at the pump? it is the highest in seven years. now democrats do face losing control of congress next year. the white house is now talking about tapping the strategic petroleum reserve. that is an unusual move for this. edward lawrence sat white house with more. edward, good to see you. reporter: well, liz the problem can be seen at an accelerating rate at the gas pump also in our wallets. overnight the gallon of gas, the average gallon increased two cents to $3.24 per gallon. thatthat is

but it is obviously -- you know, not ideal for the white house by any means. he is coming off of the -- the president is coming off a major foreign-policy tobacco. a couple of them actually. in afghanistan with the withdrawal that was so chaotic, and of course with the dustup with france, in which the country's ambassador was actually recalled. so he really needs this domestic to show tow that -- domnesti hat the party can govern well. he was also known as the foreign policy kind of kingmaker. the most experienced foreign policy president of the last couple decades. with regard to his abilities here at home and how he can strike deals here, that's obviously going to be key to the demo -- the democrats success in 2022. as garrett mentioned, with time running out to accomplish all of these things want to do on gun reform come on immigration -- gun reform, immigration, voting rights, this is going to be one of the staj torhe thironggrssives in te biden agenda can accomplish before the midterms. >> and garrett, where's the gop and all of this? if you can, explain

. >> we are talking to you at the white house with a residential site here in washington dc and you're here because you work with the organization but also to presidents and tell me your family story. >> glover cleveland was a 22nd and 24th united states presidents and i'm related to them on my father side, the paternal side, to william mckinley in the great great nephew of william mckinley in the great great get grandson of glover cleveland. >> side of the families get together. >> and have a chance because my parents. the two became one and interestingly, - >> were your parents aware of their lineage when they married. >> no had no clue in my father was long time for history professor so over the course of time, at the breakfast table we talked about the presidential politics and we talked about presidential descendents i learned so many stories about both families from those conversations that have them predict. >> they are very different printed so let's start with family names you bear, so would he want people to know about them and you study some of his legacy in his life and wha

>> well, you know, when i was in the white house and out of the white house, i try to separate the jobs numbers from what the president is doing. because the white house is not in control of the economy. i've been saying, as you know, jake, from the beginning, the overwhelming thing that drives how the economy is doing and how the job market performs is what is happening with the virus. the virus really is the boss in the half of this year, we started getting great control over the spread of the virus. and you saw the economy come booming back. really at a speed that was virtually unparalleled and now that you've had a resurgence of the virus, i think that part of what president biden said is exactly right. you see the job numbers start to deteriorate, you're going to see the rebound of the economy slow down, that is likely to show up in the next gdp numbers. and we've got to get control of the spread of that virus. the good news is unlike a regular recession, people have money. they want to go out and spend. you got to get safe conditions. but if we get those safe conditions, i think e

for an update for things from the white house, the white house end of pennsylvania avenue, we are joined by bloomberg's justin sink, white house correspondent, good morning. guest: thanks so much for having me. host: we were just hearing about the house, potential meeting of democrats. what do we expect from the white house today in terms of the negotiations over the budget reconciliation measure? guest: the white house is sort of just kind of a bump in the road. they still think they can make progress and move forward. i would expect the same cadre of aides led by domestic policy advisor susan rice, brian, the national economic director, steve, senior advisor to the president will be on capitol hill today meeting with whether it's joe manchin or kristen sinema, whoever they need to get to the table to iron out this deal. kind of get the sense from the white house that they are at least trying to portray this. it's still possibly in line to both put together a framework package and get the vote that they want on the infrastructure bill. as we saw last night, as much optimism she might ha

how does the white house explain the calculus made in this speech? >> a framework is certainly not a deal and lawmakers have made that clear ever since the president visited house democrats this morning. first saying they wanted to see a text, then saying they wanted to make sure they had assurances of course of the two critical moderate senators who have been at the center of the negotiations, senator manchin and senator sinema. the president was projecting confidence before he left the white house today talking about the negotiating that they've been doing on this which he of course noted had gone on for hours and hours over months and months and saying that this is an agreement where no one is getting everything they want but essentially making the argument that everyone is getting something. what the president announced in the framework from the white house is far from complete because there were several parts not in the white house framework, things democrats have said they'd like to have in there. so the question of how it ultimately ends up wh

cnn has obtained a letter from the white house counsel that reveals that the biden white house counsel has determined that steve bannon has no claim to executive privilege. now, in reporting on this and speaking to experts, i was told there was a chance that perhaps there would be a carve-out for some conversations that bannon may have had with trump. but here the white house counsel says no, president biden has determined that based on what the committee is investigating in the interest of the united states, he has no claim to privilege here and that he must comply with the subpoena. now, bannon has previously told the committee he is not going to comply unless ordered by a court. now, the committee has rejected that argument. and tomorrow night, they are scheduled to move ahead with a vote to refer him for criminal contempt. >> all right. paula reid, appreciate it. more now from the white house, cnn's kaitlan collins is there for us tonight. so what is the reaction from the white house tonight about this lawsuit? >> they are standing by their decision to say they are not going to wav

so right judgment by the white house, not an inevitable one. a lot of white houses might decide we're going to protect executive prerogative in the future. we don't want this to be used to seek records of ours later. they understand the importance here. >> when do you think realistically you'll start getting the trump era white house documents? >> i was particularly pleased the white house said this need to be provided in a timely way to congress. i have no doubt the trump administration will continue to try to fight it, they may try to litigate over it, but i think we can expect the courts to move quickly. here where you have the current president of the united states in alignment with the congress in a bipartisan request for this information, that will undoubtedly outweight any interest by the former president to cover up his culpability. >> you have been outspoke in in recent days in going after the top republican leadership in the house of representatives, kevin mccarthy, the minority leader. you say he and other republicans, you accuse the

have white house or congressman over to the white house today? and the person laughed and just said, the president will do whatever the speaker asks. basically at this point in time, understanding she knows her caucus and the track record is unparalleled in terms of getting things across the finish line. his decision to go forward with the trip up to capitol hill today will not be made without the speaker saying that's what was needed. that's what she wanted. and what the president wants to accomplish or what we get the sense is that the president wants to accomplish today is with that very empowered progressive portion of the caucus, with the moderates who want a very specific thing on this infrastructure proposal is to try to take things out of arcane negotiations over very micro issues and more into the bigger elements of what can be accomplished holding a extraordinarily bare majority in the house. literally no margin for error in the senate and a democrat in the white house to actually do the things many of them have wanted to do for decades

deadline: white house starts right now. hi, everyone, we come on the air after developments on capitol hill that will have great consequences for the priden presidency. president biden right now on capitol hill meeting with dpemts as negotiations are -- with democrats as negotiations are underway over just about every important piece of president biden's domestic agenda. it is his first ever personal appearance before the democratic caucus. nancy pelosi said there will be a vote today on president biden's signature proposal, the social infrastructure bill. progressives signalled they would block the vote and the bill if there was

what is the white house's reaction? >> reporter: well, the white house is saying very clearly that the fight is not over yet, but it is despite the fact the president just did not pull this off yesterday, despite all of his efforts. remember, this is a man that ran as having the unique ability to bring together the different factions of the parties. the progressives, the moderates, even republicans to bring change to the american people. to bring legislation that impacts their lives. but when he was put to the test yesterday, he now faces this important and really large setback on his agenda as you said. it begs the question of where does the white house go? what does the president do? because, remember, this setback came after president biden put a lot of time, equity into trying to get this done. from white house, oval office meetings to going to congressional baseball game, to his own white house officials, you know, making hundreds of engagements, they said, with lawmakers over time to then camping out at house spea

is there more the white house can do? jen: one of the big steps we to is to announce a mandate for businesses with 100 or more employees, which in that step would be osha regulations on how that would be implemented. a number of companies have already put their own mandates or requirements in place and we have seen a great deal of success across the board on this front. where companies have been able to, united airlines for example, ensured there was greater certainty. employees knew they were working with people who were vaccinated. there are fewer people out sick with covid. fewer people with worse impacts than that. one of the big steps we have taken and announced is to put in place these requirements for businesses. hopefully that will create more certainty. there is no question to your point that fear of covid, fear of work environments that people are not sure if they are safe or not is a conservator -- contributor. >> one more on immigration. it was said two months ago that the administration would need to restart

white house. people trapsing down to the white house to perhaps meet with president biden, but ultimately, it's going to be up to president bide ton get his party together and we'll see if he's able to do that. >> well, what's that effort going to look like here? we know now the president is going to travel this week to try to promote this plan. what is he doing in public and perhaps more importantly, what's he doing behind the scenes to get everyone on board and move this package forward? >> yeah. well, i, too, could have gone to the moon with lee ann for two weeks and come back and been in the same position where i could say the same thing as what's happening two weeks ago. more presidential travel. the white house has announced a trip to scranton, pennsylvania. of course, scranton a significant place for the president. not just sort of a tack-on trip. there's a lot of meaning that hometown. last week he was in connecticut at a child care facility. the week before that he was in michigan trying

of the david science center for white house history. the white house historical association is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with a mission to educate americans about that rich and diverse history of the white house and the people who live and work there. our guest this evening is michael he is a retired rear admiral from the navy civil engineer corps. he served in a variety of assignments around the world and is 29 year military career. including as commander of camp david. after retirement thousand ten, michael jordan private industry is a chief executive officer of the building information technology company headquartered in his hometown of pittsburgh, pennsylvania. in october 2017, he published his first book inside camp david the private world of the presidential retreat. mike travels often speaking about the book has been covered by the wall street journal, the today show c-span and many other print radio television outlets. after our conversation, mike will be taking questions from our live audience. please be your questi

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but at the same time, the white house press secretary and saki saying that this is a white house looking for solutions and planning to use every tool. it's tube tool box. in order to address these shortages, they'll need all those tools. thank you very much for the update. kimberly help get there for us. live e apps have the white house may mile. there are also growing concerns over food shortages in the u. k. after an impass of the country's largest commercial port, england's porto flexes felix store rather handles 36 percent of the countries imports. but a shortage of drivers has prompted some companies to divert their shipments. u. k has had trouble with his post pandemic, economic recovery with low fuel and food supplies. police in cause of our have scaffold with ethnic serbs during operation to crack down on smuggling rights were held in 4 areas where police use t guess. as it says, 3 stones and other objects they blocked the main road of north metro with trunk because of the declared independence from serbia in 2008. but large communities of ethnic serbs still live with him because

listen, the white house is pushing the democratic leadership for a victory before the white house goes to rome and to glasgow on a hardship assignment next week. but i am skeptical, really skeptical this will happen. i think infrastructure vote, this is two pieces, infrastructure and social spending. could get one next week, but i'm skeptical of both because i'm a skeptic. yamiche: i'm happy you are here because the capitol hill reporters have all the information. i want to ask you one other question, jake. how does your reporting square with this? president said yesterday when you're president of the united states, you have 50 democrats in the senate. everyone of them is president. what does that say about where the powerbrokers are? >> every single democrat has veto power over the president's agenda and have been saying this since the beginning. you have to work with government you have not the government you want to beat the government joe biden once is somethg that can pass everything. it's a very fractured democratic caucus among moderates and progressives and all range of progres

final word on the white house claiming they inherited trump white house but they go on leave for vacation. >> they inherited the most secure border in american history. right now there 2 million illegal apprehensions of the border in one year, shattering records left and right. the difference between an outburst before his they are here to stay because the biden administration shut down ice and they want them here to later go through them. liz: thank you so much, appreciate it. i'm elizabeth mcdonald from you been watching the evening on foxbusiness. have a good evening, thank you for watching we hope you join us again tomorrow night. ♪♪ kennedy: q. week, welcome to it. i hate to say i told you so but what did you think would happen when you have the federal government to power-hungry data's i told you so. and i love saying it. a new poll shows how frustrated people have grown the scope of government, 52% of respondents say uncle sam is doing too much and businesses individuals should be taking the wheel. i love when you talk dirty. a year ago, 54% said t

watch this. >> we're about to head over to the white house. what is the one thing you'd like to tell lawmakers that must be in this reconciliation bill? what do you think is the most important thing? >> well, there are many things that are very important. climate change is very high on my list, and it's high on president biden's list. there are policies to address, climate change, and the infrastructure package and in reconciliation, and certainly a range of policies that will address the needs of families and children to make sure that children have the investments and the opportunities that they need to thrive. there is a lot in this package, and i want to say an agreement reached that will take advantage of an opportunity we have to have healthier economic growth and healthier family life. >> anything you think we could wait on? >> you know, i'm not going to negotiate about that here. this is for members of congress to sort through and see where they can get. i feel very hopeful that we will get a good reconciliation package. >> this week?

even since this morning aides at the white house were tampering down expectation at the white house tonight. saying if there wasn't one tonight in their opinion, don, it wasn't the end of the world. >> i'm trying to remember the last time we were doing this, kaitlan. i think the last time was probably for the insurrection, when we were waiting for them to certify the insurrection we were up this late at 10:00 stationed at the white house and the capitol. and the time before that i believe it was when the president and first lady tested positive for covid. >> don, we have had some very late nights together here on this show. i know you wanted me to come back. that's why this is going on. >> remember you and i were here late the night of the big health care vote and the affordable care act, the john mccain thumbs down bill. that was like 3:00 in the morning. you probably don't want us to jinx us, so let's hope it doesn't come to that tonight. >> when we're here this late that means there's always suspense, always drama and breaking news we're reporting. i want you two to standby because i wan

of the white house and back to the leadership back in the hill. everyone is going after everyone. i think they talked about this is a big reset. biden coming up there friday. they need a reset. now, they have to get this done in october. they have to get an agreement. they're not going to finish the reconciliation bill in october. that's not going to happen. they will be lucky to get it done by thanksgiving. they have to have an agreement if they're going to have one because the longer it stays out there, the worse it gets for them. so they're going to try this week to get a top line number. they're going to try to get a deal between the house and senate that everyone can live with and senators mansion and cinema can live with and they're going to try to go from there. it's really incredibly toxic right now. i had a chief of staffer, moderate, the house democrat, the white house legislative affairs operation, they don't know what they're doing. so there is a big problem there. there is a lot of big problems. >> so i want to do two things. i want t

i took three different jobs at once at the white house. three senior roles. press secretary, communications director for the west wing and the east wing so the argument can be made that i wasted taxpayers' money and i saved taxpayers easily $500,000. however, when i took the job with the president as his press secretary, we discussed it and he said i still don't want briefings done. he had stopped them six months before and he felt that the press were too mean, too nasty. he would do it himself and felt he could be his own best spokesperson which is something i said all the time. my job was to work behind the scenes to work with print people and to work with more long lead stories when possible. >> of the major events you witnessed, i'm going to boil it down to two. the malpractice at the handling of the pandemic and the big lie. which do you think will end up being the most dangerous in the long run, remembering that the mishandling of the pandemic actually cost american lives? >> absolutely. that's a really good question. i think that human life can't be co

test vote is happening, the white house is focused on infrastructure. the president is in scranton to deliver a speech there. >> geoff, thank you for having me. this will ultimately come down to whether the 50 democratic members of the senate value the protection of democracy over the strom thurmond filibuster. this is a step towards that ultimate clash. and i think it's an easy call. the protection of democracy is far more important than the protection of a filibuster that has by and large been used historically to block the advancement of civil rights and the protection of constitutional rights. secondly, geoff, on the substance, it's important to talk about the substance, 70% of americans in the 2020 election voted in a way other than going into the voting precinct on election day. what this bill to say is protect a state's ability and protects the voters' ability, i should say, to preserve those options. vote by mail, no-excuse absentee, early voting, which have become popular and preferred amongst the american people, and, quite cancandidly, makes

tenure as white house employee ended in 2017. to the extent any privileges could apply to bannon's conversations with the former president and white house staff after the conclusion of his tenure, president biden has already determined that an assertion of public interest is not justified. with respect to certain subjects. president biden's determination that an assertion of privilege applies to your client's deposition testimony and to any documents your client may possess concerning either subject. the white house seems to be saying and correct me if i'm wrong, executive privilege isn't a thing for bannon, who's now a podcaster, and but the insurrectionist so serious that we wouldn't honor it even if it might be? is that where they're heading? >> i think that's absolutely correct. they're making the point that executive privilege doesn't exist and it's game over there. that's really all they need to say. but they're taking this second step, this theme we've heard before that the insurrection is such a standout event in merch hi

the white house can do that. i just think this one didn't work because of the tiny little desk. >> harris: why would you want to do that? when i've been on the road to iowa for town halls and do we want to try to hide certain -- people know that we are using a prompter part of the time and they know when we're not quite frankly. and i think it's cool for people to see exactly what's going on. why not show us that transparency? is it ugly or something that i don't know about? >> they aren't confident in joe biden anymore and hide the props. if a president is known for being fast on his feet, able. you hide them when the criticism. his staff is overzealous in protecting him which makes you wonder what aren't we seeing behind the scenes if they worry about letting biden show up spontaneously. it is backfiring. >> harris: do you think this feeds at all into the low approval numbers? >> absolutely. look at how low his leadership numbers were there. all of this adds up to a presidency that's in trouble and unpopular. >

how much is the white house to blame here? >> look they passed a 1.9 trillion american rescue plan that was supposed to put people back to work and it actually did the opposite t actually disincentivized work and production. that is part of the problem we're seeing here. there are a number of causes but a big part is labor shortage. that was the result of the president and the democrats wanting to pay people more to stay home than to come to work and produce and so you have lack of warehouse workers, lack truck drivers an you're seeing a major issue here. the other thing is the supply chain that we rely on so many other countries, that we're not manufacturing here in the united states, he said he wants to build in america but we're not seeing any steps to go in that direction. i think that the is the other thing we're seeing here. that is shedding a light the way we're relying on china and other countries particularly when it comes to toys. most of these toys are manufactured in china. it sheds light on the need to bring our s

and white house press secretary jen psaki echoed that argument as well. take a listen. >> there are moments throughout history where presidents and white houses have asserted executive privilege. we will continue to evaluate those on a case-by-case basis. we are investigating a dark day. that context is important here, too. >> now psaki would not say what kind of documents this would include, whether it was phone records or visitor logs, but it's also worth noting that this decision applies to an initial set of documents submitted to the biden white house and former president trump's attorneys in early september. the white house has said they are reviewing other documents and that decisions will be made on a case-by-case basis, but this all sets up a possible legal fight between the biden white house and the former president. many legal experts argue that the decisions over executive privilege sit with the current president, not the former, but it's totally expected the former president will try to fight this. but bottom line with the biden white house, w

joining us from the white house is my colleague nbc news white house correspondent monica alba. monica, we don't know what we don't know about the private conversations among the white house and progressives and moderates. but we do know that the white house has dramatically downsized their ambitions. and yet there seems to be still no deal in hand. what's the state of play, what are white house officials telling you today? >> reporter: exactly, geoff. it's not just the price tag that's shrinking here, it's also the amount of time left to try to get something done, which the white house is keenly aware of. and they have been in a very behind the scenes mode yesterday and today with these flurry of meetings and calls ahead of tonight, the president participating in a town hall where he's going to be pressed on all these kinds of questions. he, i'm told by white house officials, is still going to strike this note as the always optimist, he still believes something can get done here. but we're talking about things that were complete pillars of his programs and this agenda now being

in all the meetings this week between white house staff and the president with lawmakers, was the white house explicitly telling progressives to hold their ground on not having the vote or not voting for this until the second part and was the white house also saying to the moderates, keep pushing for a timeline in order to get to that point we got to yesterday? jen: we're negotiating against ourselves? [laughter] reporter: what were you actually telling -- you know, continuing on the path? jen: no, karen, it's a good question. i know there's some reporting out there. i can assure you there's no moment in time where any senior of this white house was arguing for anyone to vote against a piece of the president's agenda. what's also true is we have been in communicating with such a broad range of members in across the caucus that often we know where different parts of the caucus stand. so we have been in many ways liaisons as long with leadership to say this is where this group stands and conveying so we can help reach a unifying point and get across the finish line. the vast majority of t

he's done a lot that the white house can do. he's had kyrsten sinema and joe manchin over in the oval office multiple times for one-on-one meetings. he's held caucus meetings. he has tried to broker some kind of compromise. and yet here we are. so at this point the white house is weighing just finally like blowing the whistle and saying this is the top line number, you guys need to pass something now, not everyone is going to be happy, but that's the breaks. >> right. there was certainly some frustration from house democrats, people who the moderates say are calling for the president on the record to take a more aggressive stance here, saying he was doing too much listening, not enough outreach. sinema's office said yesterday she had been in contact with the white house frequently over the last few days, and yet the two of them, the arizona and west virginia senators, are still holding out. how does this end? how does the white house thread the need well those two and not alienate all the progressives in the house? >> one thing

does the white house feel like he closed the deal? >> well, geoff, at this stage i think the way the president is looking at it is something of an air traffic controller, he's trying to bring this in for a landing. at the start of his remarks today remember said "i think," then he corrected himself, "i know we have a framework here." there's still some i's to dot and t's to cross. but it's been five hours since the white house laid out the details of this framework, it hasn't fallen apart yet. there was always a point in this process where the president was going to have to call time, to say the time for negotiations are largely over and it's time to bring this to conclusion. there were two deadlines the white house consistently said was not a factor that have proven to be very much a factor. the first is the elections next tuesday in virginia as well as new jersey. democrats across the country are tired of hearing about the sausage-making and eager to see this process come to a conclusion. the big feature of what the president was sa

how does the white house view that balancing act? >> reporter: well, i think that it you highlight one of the challenges. first of all, the president is trying to do this full-court press. how does he sell a plan, garrett, when he doesn't know what the details are in this it plan? when they are still being hashed out. nonetheless, hes going to pennsylvania tomorrow. that's his hometown. he is going to try to make the case according to white house officials that his build back better plan will help working class people like those in it scranton with whom had he grew up. that is a part of his broader approach to try to turn up the heat on members of his own party to get some actual progress. the question is will it work. sometimes these trips have mixed results. what does yield, typically, real results is this behind the scenes rangeling that happens in realtime. as you say, that's going to need to happen with senator sinema. he needs to know what she will and won't accept. it's also worth noting he's on the road on thursday in baltimo

i'm in very close touch with the white house. they are obviously really working hard to, with the senators, and i'm keeping in touch with my caucus obviously to make sure i know what the temperature is of everybody and we're doing everything we can to get quickly to an agreement. listen, we are going to pass these two things. you all know capitol hill. it is a strange place. things -- i've only been here four and a half years. i still find it strange. things only happen here when there is urgency and, you know, some reason for people to be at the table. we've seen more progress in the last 48 hours than we have seen in a long time on reconciliation, on the build back better act. >> what about manchin and sinema? are you talking to them? >> i'm not -- i'd be happy to but right now those negotiations are with the white house. >> you said that things only get done on capitol hill when there is a sense of urgency, a deadline. we all know that is how it happens. when it comes to this there really isn't one. there is no deadline. this

his firing came down from the white house. i told him he could call any time. we're not going to join any lawsuits not substantiated by any evidence. at the time rich told me i wouldn't be surprised if the president called me correctly. i said, the president can call me all he wants. the answer's not going to change, and that was the end of the conversation. question, you indicated that rich donaghue thought that the plan that jeff clark was interested in pushing forward was bat bleep crazy, but did it strike you as unusual that the acting head of the civil justice department would want to reach out to you to discuss voting or election matters. answer, i thought that was strange and highly irregular. question, and you said that rich donaghue indicated that the president might try to call you himself directly. have you ever had any situation where someone at main justice told you the president might contact you directly for an issue? answer, i have not. question, in your experience, would that be unusual for any attorney to hea

what i saw at the trump white house. stephanie, thank you for coming on, i'm curious, for starters why did we never hear from you? why did you never call a briefing because as members of the public are fond of saying, police officers or members of congress, or the occasional white house press except retiree, we paid your salary, we put food on your table. >> absolutely, thank you for having me. a couple of things there. i took three different jobs at once, at the white house. three senior roles, i was press secretary, communications director for the west wing and the east wing. so the argument can definitely be made that i was wasted taxpayer money, but i actually save taxpayer money easily half 1 million dollars. however, when i took the job with the president as, a specks press secretary, we discussed it. he said, i still don't want briefings done. he had already stopped them, sarah sanders six months before. he did not want me to do them, he felt that the press were too mean, too nasty, that he would just do it himsel

but the white house, the biden white house, is not buying that argument. cnn has obtained a letter from the white house deputy counsel, and it states that the biden administration will not support any attempt by panbannon to ref cooperation. >> last night, donald trump did what he usually does when in a tight spot. he sued. he sued the january 6th committee and national archives in a bid to keep documents secret. the committee says trump is trying to stall. the white house is taking it one step further, accusing trump of abusing the office of the presidency and attempting to subvert a peaceful transfer of power. now, the national archives is scheduled to turn over documents early next month unless the courts intervene. i want to bring in cnn correspondent and "early start" anchor laura jarrett. laura, a big day. what can we expect? >> john, a big day indeed. later today, the january 6th committee will finally get to flex its muscle and send a message to witnesses who try to defy congressional subpoenas. lawmakers are tackling perhaps their easiest witness

in part, because the biden white house has waved it. but also because steve bannon was not an employee of the white house at that point. he was just a private citizen. that's a point they made last night. i imagine it's one the committee members are going to continue to make as we move forward. but the important thing to keep in mind here is once this lands at the feet of the department of justice which you expect it will tomorrow after the full house votes to refer it over, then the doj gets to decide whether or not they're going to prosecute. two things that will stem from that. first, the gears of justice sometimes move slowly. this is on a timeline. the committee wants this to happen as soon as possible so they can get the information they need, and also have the time to do something with it. to actually investigate what happened on january 6th. the other piece of this, though, is setting the precedent in the post trump era. you and i covered over the last four years the ways that trump allies and administration officials had a tend

the biden white house stopped that this is pushback from the supreme court against the white house, what do you say? >> i did a bit of a happy dance when i heard the news and i immediately called all border patrol agents and personally told them what was going on in case they haven't heard the news and they were ecstatic. just in our sector, the busiest sector we have along the southwest border of the ninth we have, that had enough appropriations that could authorize to build 120 miles, only 21 miles were needed. a multiplier and means the agents working day in day out, they have the structures. liz: for the white house follow through? the states are doing it so we'll stay on that. you are terrific, we'll have you back on again soon. you've been watching the evening edit on fox business. thank you so much for watching, hope you have a good evening and join us again tomorrow night. ♪♪ >> welcome to the show from o'brien laundrie needs to surrender and parents need to come clean about what they know. that's not according to gabby petito's family but brian's own sister who spoke about t

the white house clarified that as well today, too. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot tells us where things stand tonight. >> has the u.s. taken one step closer in being involved in a clash between china and the island of taiwan. president biden appeared to last night. >> i don't want a co-war with china. i just want to make china understand that we are not going to step back. we are not going to change any of our views. >> are you saying that the united states would come to tijuana's defense. taiwan's defense. >> yes we have a commitment to do that. >> seen chinese military aircraft enter their region cited u.s. rock solid support. china was also quick to react. >> we urge the u.s. to be cautious with its words and actions on the taiwan issue. and not to send any wrong signals. >> america's taiwan relations act is purposefully vegas vaguee u.s. shall make available to taiwan service was in such quantity as may be necessary to enable taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capacity. experts say tampering with a stra

to i want to go to the white house right now. kaitlyn what's the white house's position? >> they don't love it, but the president is going to sign it if it gets passed through congress. that is something they made clear since yesterday. they believe what ryan said there, this only prolongs the fight they are having between democrats and republicans over the best way to handle this and how to raise the debt ceiling and it is something they are going to continue to arguing about unless they come up with a solution in the next several weeks and the time that they are buying themselves with this short-term solution. but the white house has said despite the fact, wolf, that they don't fully love the way that this situation is playing out, president biden is going to sign this short-term bill to raise the debt ceiling once it actually gets passed through congress, and so of course that hasn't happened yet. it may not even happen until tomorrow. we will likely hear from president biden when this happens, whether or not that's a written statement from the president or he actually

his firing came down from the white house. he was told to resign after the president told senior justice department officials, how mad he was that none of the bs voting claims he wanted to make about george were being backed up by his office. he wanted this federal prosecutor, he won in the u.s. justice department, federal prosecutors office, in places like georgia, to say there was massive, criminal election fraud, that was under active investigation, and the election results were somehow suspect to potentially criminal. bjp would not say that. and so he had to go. now we know. today the judiciary committee in the senate, released with their calling an interim report. it's a staff report that's about 50 pages long. they release that alongside about 900 pages, of documents and transcripts, that have turned up in their investigation so far into the justice department getting involved in efforts by former president trump to overturn the results of the presidential election. to stay in power despite him losing the election. that'

>> white house press secretary jen psaki today dismissed suggestions that the white house was frustrated at the pace of talks come up with the administration is increasing pressure to conclude the spending bill soon. there's a saying about houseguests and fish, there is worry the bill has sat out in the congressional sun too long without resolution and house speaker nancy pelosi feels the same. >> our chairman are sharpening their pencils as to how we come down with a number. speaker pelosi wants to approve the bill by the end of the month, senate majority leader chuck schumer joined that chorus today. president biden would like some climate victories in place before he goes to scotland later this month for a big environmental conference, but chasms remain as to what is in the bill, and what can pass. bret. >> bret: yeah, and chad, you've got moderates that they just put the infrastructure bill on the house floor, like terry mcauliffe and mark warner. they'd like that before that election. >> that's right, and there is concern if they don't get this done by the end of the month and, say,

certainly when i got into the white house, you do get heady with power. i don't know that he took advantage of me in that regard. i think that was my own weakness there. i wish i would have been a bit stronger. >> i've heard from several former trump staffers, some of whom share your concerns about him, but say every decision you made was always in the best interest of yourself, whether it was to stick in order to get a good job in the white house or now to do a tell-all when you need to make money. what do you say to that criticism? >> well, two things. if there are people who are sharing my same concerns, i wish they would speak up because right now looking back i don't think is what's as important in terms of personalities and who did what, why. i would disagree with that wholeheartedly. when i was in the white house, i lost a lot of friends and a lot of family, and i think i lost a little bit of my own moral compass. now leaving, yes, i got paid to write a book, but you cannot put a price tag on what is happening to me now. the right is mad at me. the