house or work on restoration of the white house. there's a whole series of first ladies and presidents prior to that. absolutely. well, i was just going to say nancy. what a remarkable discovery during the the process of preparing this presentation. and so i guess quickly. i'll ask the other two of you. you know, you are tremendous scholars of these first ladies. is there anything you learned that was was new to you as you looked at them as preservationists? well, i actually last night was looking for some more information on john carl warnicki the architect from the west coast who worked with mrs. kennedy by virtue of his friendship. first of all with president kennedy, and so there's a really brilliant lecture given by a stanford architectural history professor last year about john carl warnicki, and he spends a fair amount of time talking about this relationship with miss kennedy, but i learned a lot about this concept of contextualization and i i knew that that he was famous for being able to preserve historically while building

when you came up with our idea for the one about the white house -- >> white house down. >> white house down. where did you get the idea from and how long did it take you to write that? >> i actually adapted a book by richard clark called against all enemies which he was the counterterrorism czar under president clinton. i was fascinated by the idea of what would happen in a crisis. and much like the sort of being of designated survivor in our film, it's bombing of the capitol, but it's a diversion. that film didn't end up getting made, but i really loved the world and wanted to explore it, but i love big summer popcorn movies. i try to blend the two of them. >> everything you write doesn't get made? >> no. >> i thought everything in hollywood gets made. >> god bless you, sir. from your lips. no, absolutely. i didn't end up getting -- >> white house down, you wrote it what year? >> i wrote it in 2012? i wrote it on speck -- >> speck means you're not getting paid. >> speck means i'm absolutely not getting paid. about a week before i finished it, i read online that a movie called olympus

. >> filmmakers and former white house officials describe the work on productions depicting white house and the presidency. the discussion hosted by the white house historical association was recorded at the john f. kennedy center for the performing arts and washington d.c.. >> good evening, i hope you've been enjoying tonight's program. it's fascinating and there's more to come. a year ago, i was honored when fred ryan, the chair of our board asked me to chair the white house historical associations board committee for this important four-day summit. i want to thank the members of our committee, martha, mike mockery and stop and a historian advisor for their year long commitment and their numeral contributions to the planning of the senate. with a tremendous that for the white house -- and leadership, we've convened more than 100 presidential sites, as well as leading experts in a wide array of fields and interest at the presidential site representatives told us that they wanted to hear from. i want to thank our good friend, david rubenstein for mild writing a fascinating conversation

house the white house historical association paid tribute to the irish immigrant at hobin's washington dc grave site. next on the presidency we hear from among others the irish ambassador to the united states who spoke about his countrymen the white house historical association hosted this event and provided the video. well, good afternoon again, and thank you all for coming on this. thankfully overcast but not rainy day. we appreciate you being here with us. ambassador archbishop president general van buren the grand master of the grand lodge of the district of columbia our dear friends from the royal hibernians or the ancient hibernians hi, my name is stuart mclaurin and i'm the president of the white house historical association. and it's my privilege to welcome you here for this special occasion today. this is going to be a brief ceremony commemorating james hoban. whose work is simply referred to today? as the white house to be in our program with an invocation we are honored to have the distinguished papal nuncio representing the holy see to the united states of america his excel

we revisit first lady jackie kennedy's televised white house tour from 1962 and her extensive white house restoration of the executive mansion this 2012 presentation at the john f kennedy presidential library museum marked the 50th anniversary of her televised tour, which was watched by millions and later awarded an honorary emmy. this video was was courtesy of the kennedy library. good evening and welcome everyone. i'm tom putnam director of the john f kennedy presidential library and museum and on behalf of atomic knott executive director of the kennedy library foundation members of our foundations board of directors and all of my library and foundation colleagues. i thank you for joining us this evening. let me first acknowledge the generous underwriters of the kennedy library forums lead sponsor bank of america boston capital the lowell institute raytheon the boston foundation and our media partners wbur and the boston globe. we considered having this form last night on the actual 50th anniversary of mrs. kennedy's tour. but did not want to make any of you choose have to choose betwee

so i had a lot of contact with the white house, and particularlyh the white house counsel's office. w one thing i want to say and we've kind of glided over this, but i want to make it clear. when i said at the outset, thati enforcement issues were really in the hands of the department of justice and i included civil in those, i did not include civil litigation in the ordinary course. judge mukasey has talked about disagreements with the white house over civil litigation. my view was and is a position in the supreme court or the courts of appeals on key issues of policy are totally appropriate for the white house to weigh in on. i don't know if we have a disagreement there, but i wanted to tease out that issue because i think it is an important prerogative of a president to say, i don't think we should be challenging this law, or i do, or i think we should be weighig in on this, on this legal issue which has these policy implications. soen i would distinguish betwee the enforcement matters and the other -- and the other civil cases.iv >> i think that's a fair point. from my perspecti

the white house is also known as the people's house for the white house grounds or the people's grounds and if you start to think about it that way it isn't so far removed from a typical suburban home. typically suburban homes mine a more formal lfront lawn. that would be the north grounds of the white house with the portico facing pennsylvania avenue and the more private formal backyard on the larger south grounds looking toward the washingtonun monument. that's pretty much what happens at the white house today. >> let's get to the issue of just how sacrosanct are the white house grounds. are they untouchable and you are an historian and i'm a journalist and neither one of us is a politician but first lady's especially in the modern era they wouldn't go around changing things. there was a resistance to that. >> they are is pretty think it's fair to say people had an opinion about melania trump's recent rose garden renovation but there's a history of that site which i briefly enumerated that describes the rose garden itself in the history of the white house grounds which go on for two c

gwendolyn dubois shaw to white house history live. she is the national portrait gallery seniors dorian and director of history, research and scholarly programs. appointed in 2019, she is the first woman and the first african american, to hold that position. before joining the national portrait gallery, she was an associate professor of the history of art, at the university of pennsylvania. her work has focused on race, gender sexuality and class in the united states, latin america and the caribbean. in addition to the first lady's exhibit, that we will be talking about this evening, she has curated many exhibitions, and including 200 years of african american art at the university of pennsylvania at philadelphia art. the mauve clear art museum in new jersey as well. she received her ph.d. and art history from stanford university. if you'd like to ask doctor shaw the question, please write in the comments section of this life easy. we will get to as many questions as possible at the end of our program. gwendolyn dubois shaw we look for

she banned hard liquor from the white house. she banned dancing from the white house gambling. she refused to go to the theater. she would not go out on sundays and and in the last panel in the q&a, we heard a kind of discussion of the terminology that we use to describe these women and and it's so meaningful in the case of sarah polk because sarah always wanted to be known as mrs polk. that was the title that she went by and i titled my biography of her lady first because she wanted to be known as a lady with all the connotations that i had in the 19th century. first and so when she became first lady the american public elevated her and loved her because she seemed like them. there were a lot of religious christians in the country and she seemed to personify their values. this is something that she played up as first lady. she dressed very plainly. she didn't wear jewelry which you know worked for people it made her seem like an average american and it was in keeping with the ethos of the political party that both she and her husband belong to which was the jacksonian democrat

white house press secretary dismisses that threat. we'll break it down next. ♪♪ >> they had no plan how to withdraw americans. american citizens are to draw interpreters out, special immigrant visa holders. ♪♪ let's welcome back to the show, house foreign affairs congressman greg sue b. your take on this? we've got growing rising leaks against the president coming out of the white house. reporting thehe pentagon is basically saying the state department and home and security were to slow, lack of urgency and evacuating americans out of afghanistan for the two agencies are now pointing finger at the president of the white house saying he was too slow. the leaks keep coming. yourur reaction? >> i think you're going to see that continue to happen as nobody wants to take responsible before the court in afghanistan so of course you will finger-pointing but at the end of the day present biden committed chief military, the state department was inof charge of the operations on the ground in afghanistan so the department of defense was

he's in the white house. stephanopoulos was no more talks about how much he dislikes and but in the end, he noticed clinton the in the force had results. sometimes the president recognizes benefits, fostering little bit of chaos to get the. >> thank you. i think you have given a good sense of what is in the book. there's certainly reason to go out and buy the book. i'm going to do two things. first, i want to remind you the audience, we will come to you later for questions. submit your question on facebook, or the youtube chat function or twitter. you have all sorts of work in this area. first, some thoughts on the book and then if you want to share some of your experiences in the trump or reagan experiences. >> i'd like to thank you all of the center for going this book event in the work you across the political divide to bring us together and talk about these policy issues. this is a great demonstration of what you did and believe in. republicans in the white house interacting in a scholarly way. that being

when you came up with your idea for the one about the white house. >> white house down, yeah. >> where did you get the idea from, how long did it take to write that? >> i got the idea, i adapted a book by richard clark called against all enemies. he was a kepa terrorist who was under president clipped in -- clinton. the first chapter of the book was on september 11th, i was fascinated by the idea of what would happen in a crisis. much like the beginning of designated survivor, in our film it is the bombing of the capital but as a diversion. i wanted to make something, i want to explore it. i also loved -- i tried to blend the two. >> everything you're right does not make? made >> no. >> i thought everything you wrote made sense. >> god bless you, sir. from your lips. absolutely. it did not end up getting made. >> white house down, you wrote it wet year? >> i wrote it in 2012. i did not ray any -- 's i rode on spec. >> that means you are not getting paid? >> it means exactly i'm not getting paid. a week before i have finished, it i read online that a movie called olympics has fallen was

sometimes they'd even moved out of the white house the clevelands moved out of the white house for a while to get more privacy for their kids, but the roosevelt's sort of said, we're here look at us and of course the the rambunctious children with their i mean they got so much attention and of course we must remember that it was during that the roosevelt administration that the west wing was built. so if you look at pictures of the white house upstairs born 1900 for example in the in the period of mckinley you wonder how on that second floor they could have the family living and also the office of the president, you know, there were telephones around there were jumbled desks. it was impossible for the roosevelt family to move in there and live with among the telephones. so it was during that period that the west wing was built and then the second floor the white house what we now think of as the residential quarters where you have to be invited up you don't get shown that on the public tour. that developed and the roosevelt's very much are a part of that. eleanor roosevelt is often c

and, another new white house narrative. try to downplay biden's vaccine mandates after a string of court losses. we've got it. also crime hiding biden's approval numbers as even more defund the police cities to go into reverse amid a rising crime wave. things have gotten so dangerous in los angeles, for example the head of the police union there, he is now warning people, stay away. plus president biden tries to downplay the worst crisis that poisoned his poll numbers, his botched exit of afghanistan. we're going to show you the misleading words that are being used now. and to the border crisis, border czar, vice president kamala harris is now pushing the private sector to come to the rescue but we've got the white house not clear on who exactly the vice president is talking to south of the border. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit," it starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. let's get you updated on the tornado death toll. it is mounti

once it moved to the white house grounds, you could smell the white house easter egg roll before he can see it. >> if they did not find some of the eggs and hard-boiled eggs were left, that created a problem. >> that was the problem. and it was something that even happened in the 20th century. there was one year in the nixon administration where they decided to use a lot more real eggs and a few got misplaced shall we say for it while and that was the last time he did that. >> why did president hayes and his family decide they wanted to take over this tradition? >> the president was out on his daily walk and some schoolchildren covered him and said we have no place to roll our eggs now. he said that is odd. why don't you just come back with me and you can roll eggs on the white house grounds? a couple hundred children did that first year in 1878. >> as time goes by coming to -- time goes by, you tell this in your story -- first of all, who did the illustrations? >> john hutton. >> what were you elaborately -- collaboratively trying to achieve with this? >> what we were trying to do is h

i know it drove the white house crazy. what happens if the cbo says it doesn't add up to the spending in the bipartisan framework? anita dunn: the bipartisan group of united states senators put together and they feel comfortable, is going to be enough to pay for this. let me point out infrastructure and a lot of the expenditures are traditional investments. if you are company, you would be taking this off of your annual books and been it into your capital budget. these are long-term investments. they are not stimulus. the ones that were agreed upon and the context of the larger plan. i think the group of senators and the president felt confident. ryan lizza: let's talk a little bit about the bill. there's a big difference right now between what the president has proposed and what the senate budget committee led by bernie sanders is writing. probably the biggest difference is over the medicare provisions that sanders wants to put in. both an expansion of prescription drugs reform and reducing the eligibility age of medicare

once it moved to the white house grounds, you could suddenly smell the white house easter egg roll before you could see it. >> if they did not find all the eggs and they were left to rot, that would create a problem. >> it did. it was something that even happened in the 20th century. there was one year in the nixon administration where they decided to use a lot more real eggs. a few got misplaced, shall we say, for a while and that was the last time they did that. >> 1876 was rutherford hays. why did his family and him decide to take over the tradition? >> the president was out on his daily walk. some school children encountered him and said we have no place to store our eggs now. he said that is odd. why don't you just come back with me and you can roll eggs on the white house grounds. a couple hundred children did that first year in 1878. >> then as time goes by, you tell this in your story -- first of all, it's also accompanied by illustrations. who did the illustrations? >> john hagen, an absolutely genius art historian. >> what were you trying to achieve with this? >> what we were tr

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

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

phil mattingly at the white house, thank you. we'll have more on that coming up but right now the fbi director's testimony about the capitol insurrection. jazz ka schneider is covering that for us. they had tough questions for the fbi director. >> reporter: those senators definitely showed frustrations here. but director chris wray said the fbi warned in three separate ways all while wray stressed domestic terrorism is growing for sometime and the threat is not subsiding. >> that attack, that siege was criminal behavior plain and simple and behavior that we the fbi view as domestic terrorism. >> reporter: in the first congressional testimony since the attack, fbi director wray appointed by former president trump put a dagger in the conspiracy theories pushed by some trump supporters of what happened that day. >> is there any evidence that the january 6th riot here, the insurrection organized by people simply posing as supporters of president trump's? >> we have not seen any evidence of that, certainly at -- >> is there any eviden

white house relations? >> i think we have a nice transition as we talk about civil matters because one of the functions of attorney general is obviously controlling criminal prosecution and enforcement matters, also defending the u.s. another statutory function of attorney general is providing legal advice within the executive branch about what the legal position would be an ultimately supervised by the president takes care that the laws are faithfully executed. for a long time now attorney general advice giving function has been delegated to assistant attorney general legal counsel so in that literacy informally and through formal opinions provide authoritative legal advice about various government actions and other questions that would emerge mostly outside of court proceedings. that also includes executive orders which we must review and sign off on before they are issued as well as other presidential decisions, some of which national security context, some of which is a variety of other context so with

house advisor or white house employee. he does say in some of these documents that he has a dot.gov e-mail address. he's got an e-mail address that cites him in the executive office of the president. is it not clear that he was officially attached to the white house and to the trump administration? >> no, it's not entirely clear. it's possible he was put on the government payroll, but we just don't know at this point. he's using private e-mail to conduct government business outside of the rules. but perhaps he was put on the government payroll at some point and we just don't know that. there are a lot of mysterious facts here that need to be cleared up, and we should be able to get to the bottom of that. i mean, it's kind of an affinity to what we're going through in the january 6 select committee. basically, there are lots of people who declare themselves to be public servants, people trying to render service to the country, and they should continue to render service to the country by turning over all information that the

a lot of the food that was cooked at the white house mess was cooked by navy chefs, not the white house kitchen staff. yes. >> thank you very much for speaking today. was there any elaborate meals that stood out while you were investigating in your book that you just said wow, that sounds delicious? and one more thing. was there ever a case in which someone had an allergic reaction to something that was eaten among the dignitaries? >> yes. the first example i would say is the state dinner that was cooked for nelson mandela. that was actually created by an african american chef named patrick clark who was offered the white house executive jeff job under president clinton. patrick clark was a well-known african american chef in new york. tavern on the green. audio on. but he turned it down because it was too much of a pay cut. yes. he was making six figures well into the six figures, as a cook at the adams hotel across the street from the white house. but at that time the white house executive chef's salary was 58,000. so it is a definite drop off from the private sector. he had several k

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white house grounds. they've been very carefully installed over the years so as to not impinge upon historic character of the grounds, damage any of the significant tree plantings and really to not interfere with views to and from the white house. sort of the iconic shots to of the exterior of the building. so i don't think anybody would consider it an eyesore. >> do you know who, which first lady used the pool more than anybody else? >> i believe it was barbara bush. >> it was barbara bush, who loved to swim. and i think she had to be very careful when she wore her white terry cloth bathrobe, he got by without anybody seeing her. [laughter] i remember old pictures of the white house showing they had a greenhouse or a conservatoriesome. >> yeah. so the -- conservatory? >> yeah. so the greenhouses and the conservatory are both 9th century -- 19th century aspects of the white house and the white house grounds. the conservatory was a private space rather for the president and first lady, their invited guests

house, into the white house. so we're going to wait and see if we are, perhaps, going to get a glimpse of the vice president and the second gentleman. right now, they are holding in place, as we listen to the howard university drum line, which is quite festive, i must add, just down the way. it's really wonderful. and so we're -- of course, that's her alma mater, the vice president's alma mater. we are waiting to see at this point in time as we are looking down pennsylvania avenue here towards her motorcade. i will also mention that there is a truck of press that is tracking her in order to get some good views of the president and the vice president. they have been followed by open bed trucks with large contingents of press on them. you're looking now at a shot of the howard university marching band and what we sort of saw before for the president was this grand entrance for the university of delaware marching band. we're waiting to see if that's what we see with the vice president coming this way. hopefully, eri

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house portrait which the white house framed and loaned to us. and then moving out, this beautiful portrait of barbara bush. and there's a -- you know, a little spaniel there next to her. one of the things that i loved about this portrait was that in the frame, you'll have to take my word for it, with this -- with this image because it's very small. but in the corners of the frame are little books, little open books. and i think this is really poignant because of course mrs. bush, barbara bush, you know 30 years ago she founded the barbara bush family literacy foundation. and it's just fantastic that that's, you know, in a way her love of books and the importance of literacy to her is marked right there on the frame of her portrait. so i'll end with this, which is our website, which i'd encourage you to go to. this is a free standing website that's associated with the exhibition, first ladies.si.edu, and we have all of the portraits that are in the exhibition plus some of the hundreds of portraits that we have of first ladies that are not on view

all right, white house myth number two. white house tunnels. in fact, we were just talking about this before class. the existence of tunnels. who use them. why did they use them? one of the stories is there were tunnels under the white house that a lot for a quick escape. that one could actually get to the potomac river and that dolly madison used it, that abraham lincoln had an escape tunnel. unfortunately, these are not true. we know that james hagen, the architect of the white house, did build several sewer systems. my guess is dolly madison probably would not have climbed through the sewer. she would not have wanted to travel that way. and these were installed for running water, but there were really not any full sized tunnels anyone could've used. this is the octagon house. this is where the medicines lived for about six months after the burning. it's just down the street from the white house. during the civil war, general winfield scott did suggest the possibility of adding a tunnel between the white house and the treasury building. here'

house and to the white house council's office. obviously, the nomination of u.s. attorneys and marshals is something that should have a lot of responsibility in the justice department because both the marshals and the u.s. attorneys are part of the justice department even though those are presidential nominees. and on pardons, again, you know, in my administration, there was no pardon given without a -- when i was there, without a recommendation from the pardon attorney who reported to me and through me to the -- to the white house. but those are -- those things change between administrations. so others may have a different experience. >> i mean, i think a lot of that depends upon the personalities involved and the relationships that folks at doj have with the president and then the president and the white house council and senior staff want to organize some of these functions and so definitely judges have changed over time. pardons certainly in the trump administration, in a different way from other recent administrations. and th

from the trump white house felt? >> i i haven't spent that much time in the biden white house but i got some more questions about this. i will say i think it's hard, it's just as hard to cover trump as it is to cover biden. people think in a way like covering trump is kind of this easy pickings, there's so many things, details to learn and things to collect but the problem with covering trump was that so much of it wasn't reliable or coming from reliable narrators here. i mentioned my kind of long newspaper career, whether it was any of these county commission meeting for school board meetings or state legislative committee hearings, like never have been anywhere except the trump white house where eight people could go into a meeting and 12 versions of that what happened in that meeting emerged afterwards. to understand what is happening behind the scenes you needed to talk to almost everybody who was in the room to have an understanding of what happened. there were so many rivalries, so many, i mean trump came up in

i worked in the ford white house at that time. and i knew the white house. i knew the white house structure. i guess better than anybody else. who was there at the moment and so i was drafted into this effort. jim baker stayed away from washington for the majority of the time left at edm used to run the transition, but we had a small team that worked towards the planning and it was just by chance, and i guess i knew knew the structure and new where new the offices that i would be put in charge of the planning for the white house piece of it. about this i'm sorry. i didn't hear your question stuart. this chris. i was gonna ask chris the same question. yeah this come to drop in your lab. well in april of 2008 i was then senator obama's legislative director. he was off on the campaign trail trying to win. he was in the middle of a heated primary contest against hillary clinton, but he had the foresight to realize that this was going to be the first post nine eleven transition and since i had been with him from his first day in the senate, i actually am a law sc

. >> gary walters former chief usher at the white house. what was your job? >> i was initially a uniform division officer of the secret service for the first five years as at the white house but then i was an assistant usher from 1976 until 1986. and when the former chief usher retired i was appointed as the chief usher by president and mrs. reagan. >> host: 's responsibilities for the white house and for the first families, what were they? which of the responsibilities of the chief usher were three fold. first of all, to take care of the first family at the white house for the second was to keep the activities of the presidency, those events that take place in and on the grounds. and thirdly, it was to maintain the house for the american people. we are open for tours monday through saturday. : : : >> to try to take some of the reading burdens when the first family wanted their meals and what they wanted them and the house was taking care of that was the greatest challenge to meet the needs of the family and do it unobtrusively. >> we started in the white hou

i think it makes us a better white house. the president is somebody who was a single parent for five years. a very dedicated parent and grandparent. there is no one who was more supportive of women than joe biden when it comes to being in the workforce. ryan lizza: one other question. speaking of careers, you sort of took this job a little bit reluctantly. you had to be talked into it. you are ready to go back to your firm. what is the status of your career in the white house? are you sticking around? are you leaving? this is about the point in time where you suggested you might hang up your hat. anita dunn: i am here as an temporary employee. i believe when the president asked you to come serve, you have a responsibility to serve. this was not my intention to be at the botnets at the white house for a longer stent. -- this was not my intention, to be at the white house for a longer stent. i would say pretty soon. ryan lizza: days or weeks? anita dunn: stay tuned. ryan lizza: weeks or months? anita dunn: it's temporary. take

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

he comes with a parade to the white house and they review the white house. and then the evening events and that's when we see the inaugural balls. there can be one ball, five balls, or 14 balls. president clinton in 1993 had 14, that is the record at the present time. frequently there are six or seven and it depends on the president and their resources available, it depends sometimes on the weather as to what they're going to be able to do. it's up to them, the nature, the timing, and the expanse of these. they can have them be very elaborate or fairly simple. >>> you're watching american history tv created by america's cable television companies and we're brought to you by these companies that provide american history tv to viewers as a public service. >>> so you're on the property of dr. howard hankins. it is an industrial recycling area and he owned as much as 600 acres here and has partitioned off a couple hundred to the near by golf course. and this is a small sliver of what is remaining

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

how is the white house feeling? ashley: again, they would argue they have a long list of accomplishments and they sort of think they've accomplished the things and there is an inherent lag time until results kick in. and they're hoping it kicks in well before the summer for midterms. yamiche: when i talk to white house sources, they definitely feel they have accomplishments to talk about. but they feel pressure from critics. thank you for all your reporting and two in monday to the pbs newshour, one of the nation's top scientists reflects on his legacy as he steps down from leading the national institutes of health. and before we go, my heart goes out to the communities hit by the tornadoes and storms. the destruction is devastating. i hope those impacted get all the help they need. we will continue our conversation about the impact of the deadly storms and the challenges facing president biden on the "washington week" extra. find it on our website, facebook, and youtube. thank you for joining us. i'm yamiche alcind

they did not particularly care about coming to the white house. they cared about getting on a tv show. >> we have a question right here. yes. >> [indiscernible] there's so much going on on so many different levels. how did you coordinate [indiscernible] jeremy: i drank a lot. [laughter] i actually had advised my predecessor, you should have a big bulletin board that tells every event of every day. we would have from 390 to 410 events every year. it was never spaced out the way you would want it to be, so it was keeping and i and knowing -- it was very difficult, so i would tell my staff, we are so busy going from one event to another, don't forget to enjoy the history of it. when there is a metal of honor or medal of freedom, this is an historic moment. this is something you are not going to see most likely in your post-white house lives, but it's difficult because you are going from one to another to another. i actually changed some of the staff when i got there. there. there was turnover. having a great staff -- i really hired people that had be

white house job. dr. hatfill appears surprised by this. he calls the email unexpected. as far as we can tell he was never officially hired by the white house in a formal capacity. he continues to refer to himself as an unpaid volunteer. what was all that about? we can also show more evidence tonight, at least to us by the committee, of not only dr. hatfill pushing the theory that hydroxychloroquine was a miracle cure for covid but that that quack advice was received by several levels of government, after the fda warned everybody to stay far, far away from high -- hydroxychloroquin here's dr. hatfill writing to the white house. he said to himself that trump has been grossly misadvised on the proper pandemic response to covid. he said both dr. anthony fauci and dr. hahn, the head of the fda, need to be fired immediately, and then he offers his advice on what the president and the country should do instead, which includes, naturally, drum roll, please, quote, the outpatient and proef lactic use of hydrox

by task the white house and go to the media. it is funny hearing that now after watching trump being on the media all the time. i was a big step at that time. social media has completely changed how we work. there's no doubt about it. i do think the next president and the president after that, probably not going to be doing things the way president trump does which is announcing policy changes on twitter that his staff doesn't even know about, that is more of a president trump personality than anything else, i don't think that will happen but sure, i do think it plays a huge role both for the white house getting the message out, doing something from social media and not through a formal traditional announcement, however that is in a press release or in the briefing room for whatever that could be something but it also changes how reporters cover things. it is so incredibly competitive, always has been now your competing against people's tweets, who can tweak faster? it's not something that was anticipated before so it has change