who counts as white has changed throughout history but to be counted as white is socially recognized carries a host of economic and social privileges of white dominance that estimates by 2020 that median white households will have 86 time the wealth as the median african-american household white families will have 68 times by 2020 that is less than two years. the racial gap is widening white men in politics representing 31 percent but they hold 65 percent of all offices. whether politics or economics to see white dominance isn't just about the kkk but the association of whiteness and economic and political privileges. >>host: but i feel that i work hard and i earn what i get. >> exactly. they also have to deal with the burden of racism so one of the things they write about is racial denial the denial of racism and the fact is even if you are working class in this country even if you are poor there is a way because of the history of systemic racism for you to get out of generational poverty than people of color we can look at the homestead ac act, whites build wealth through hundreds

the white house. has cuffi's long floorrod the white house floor." alluding to the black guests at the new year's reception, columbus, ohio, paper snidely said "a negro major in full uniform was put off the street cars in washington and made to walk. let him go to the white house for consolation, there he will be received as one gentleman receives another." three weeks later, that african-american major took up took upnder t. augusta, that newspaper's sarcastic challenge and went to the white house. dr. augusta was the director of hospital.an's along with his assistant, protege,and dr. anderson abbott, also black. he attended a white house aception where, according to baltimore newspaper, they were kindly received. dr. abbott recalled that the commissioner of public buildings, benjamin brown french, greeted them. that is, he greeted him and with all the urbanity imaginable, and president.hem to the upon catching sight of major augusta, lincoln grasped his hand. greetings,hanged robert lincoln, who had

you americans, he told green, remember he thought he was white, you force white supremacy and dominate when you can with financial force. the captain saw the two things, white supremacy and financial force, as interrelated. though more self-consciously radical than green, the ideas resonated with greens own leaf that jim crow -- on belief that jim crow kept down poor whites as much as black people. stating it more materially, the belgian captain argued that the american government, through law and economics, had made free slaves out of african-americans in order to control the wage scale of the white layman. when the dubious green asked him how he knew so much about american law and labor, the captain replied he had lived there for six years. he had toiled as a machinist in indiana and instill mills in consulting and counted himself a proud member of industrial workers of the world. working on docs in france, green had found himself a wobbly. france supplied a haven for black soldiers bruised by jim crow, and a field of encounter for african-americans serious about the world beyond tex

aspiring reporters, the best way to cover the white house is not to cover the white house. it is talking to congress, the state department, the pentagon, to former officials, to foreign governments. anita lobbyists. :olivier: "outside" advisors. i want to emphasize that be best way to do that is not to pry information from the white house. you're always looking for overlap of information. not an overlap in keeping that information secret. you are reaching out to these other sources of information in washington, d.c. >> margaret? margaret: what i don't like and what i think is dangerous about the anti-media rhetoric is that it makes it difficult for us to go to a briefing or whatever, i think it has an undermining effect on american democracy. i think it endangers working journalists in this country and overseas. that is what concerns me about it, not that it makes our day-to-day lives uncomfortable. if you are in washington and paying attention, you know that president trump's relationship with the media is more complicated than an enemy. you are constantly getting called i

>> yeah, so, when we talk about white supremacy -- white supremacy is an ideology that says white is normative, and there's a value judgment there. so white is normative and better than everything else. >> isn't white supremacy more of a call-out for violent racism? >> no, so, that's interesting, is that the way people think about white supremacy is normally rooted in things like lynching and enslavement. that is, like, how people think about it, but white supremacy shows up in a host of other insidious ways. so you think about -- funding for school systems is a great example. like, some kids aren't worth an investment, and some kids are certainly worth an investment, and that is about saying that, like, there's a set of people who just are worth more than other people. >> do you think that most people define it the way you define it? >> no, i don't know if, like, it is one thing. you are talking about the way that it manifests, which is different than the way we define it. so we live in a world where there are a host of things -- like band-aids are "skin tone" and don't look like my

house or a lot of republicans that support the white house were afraid that the white house was not preparing at all for what they have now. and in talking to past people that have gone through this in the past, so this is people that went through it with the george w. bush administration and the obama administration, when congress changed hands and it was the opposite party, they learned a lot of lessons of things that they should do. hire more staff would be the number one thing. the white house, as you know, is already understaffed so they needed to hire more staff and staff that would be separate from everyone else, that would just be dealing with the investigations. you heard some people say that they wished that emmet flood who worked in the george w. bush administration would work and some were laboring for the president to choose this because he knew about this. he is still at the white house and dealing with the russia investigation, but the investigations are far greater than the russia investigation. telling staff that they would have to hire their own attorneys as oppose

they have worked in the white house and have gone on to advise white house hollywood studios and so we hope you will enjoy this special evening and now i would like to introduce our partner in this who does so much to bring everyday history to life and has been instrumental in the success of this and probably having one of her more difficulties of the kennedy center but please join me in welcoming the president of the kennedy center, deborah rutter. [ applause ] >> good evening and welcome. when stuart mclaurin called me to share with the fact that this summit was going to take lace to invite us to participate, i was overjoyed, because so many of us don't even know or understand we are the living memorial to john f. kennedy. my guess is in this room you all know that. but we love being involved in experiences like this and this summit. that said, i know many of you came farther than virginia or maryland or down the street and the saying is you only have one chance to make a first impression. and i just really want to say this is a hot place to spend time. we have been working on the ch

i've always said the best way to cover the white house is not to cover the white house. it's talking to congress. talking to the state department. talking to the pentagon. talking to former officials. it's talking to foreign governments. >> lobbyists. >> yes, lobbyists. quote unquote outside advisors. right? as we talk about the briefing, i want to emphasize the best way to pry information is not to pry it out of the white house. you're always looking for overlap of information and not an overlap in keeping the information secret. you're reaching out to all these other sources. >> what i don't like and what i think is dangerous about the anti-media rhetoric is not that it makes it difficult for us to go to a briefing or whatever. i think it has an undermining effect on american democracy and i think it endangers some working journalists in this country, but especially overseas. that's what it concerns me about it. if you're in washington and paying attention you know president trump's relationship with the media is certainly more complicated than an enemy where you're th

lincoln used to drive goats down a corridor in the white house. amy carter roller skated in the east room. alice roosevelt gambled, partied and was even seen wearing a live snake. this led her father teddy roosevelt to say i can be president of the united states or i can control alice. i cannot possibly do both. many presidential descendants have gone on to great things, two presidential children have later become presidents themselves. other children of presidents and their children have made contributions to american life representing a wide variety of fields including educators and entertainers, activities and artists. steve ford even became a national villian as the boyfriend who broke meg ryan's heart in "when harry met sally." we've been honored to have over 40 descendents of american presidents join us. the unique representatives are from james monroe to george w. bush. and amazingly, it's going to be here in a few minutes, but we'll be a few degrees removed from the tenth president of the united states john tyler. he served from 1841 to 18

white, we were hoping all day egg white at the time. and you know what? they never came up. i said man, i used a different word. but i mean honestly, here the guests are going to come because a souffli that size needs over an hour to bake. at least. so, and the dinner at the white house takes maybe a little bit less than an hour already. so i said okay let's throw those away, we washed the bull we start all over. we start again. they don't come up again! now the clock is ticking and you know at the white house, when they come for dessert, you cannot say i need another 10 minutes. you cannot do that! the only word that they want to hear is speak up, now. so, we were cutting eggs again, wash the bowls when i heard, i was still working in the kitchen with the main ship spirit i heard the new chef and the assistantship told him about the mayonnaise that they made on that machine that morning. you know how many drop of oil it take to mess up in a great? 2 drops, one drop, forget it. and i didn't see it, i wasn't there when they did it, so al

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i didn't know who they were when i was in the white house. but when the break-in occurred, i said, oh, no, because i knew at once instinctively it was our guys. >> g. gordon liddy, ex-fbi, ex-treasury, ex-justice, ex-white house consultant, and e. howard hunt jr., ex-cia, ex-bay of pigs planner, ex-white house consultant. >> we didn't think they measured up. it was closer to the typical gang that couldn't shoot straight. >> earl silva read the names of 60 government witnesses. the list included only one low ranking white house lawyer and several former employees of the committee to re-elect the president. >> if you don't know richard nixon's psychology, you don't know his background, you could never understand why the white house reacted to watergate the way it does. >> from day one, there was a great sense that we were under siege. and we were not deceiving ourselves that the press did not like us. both houses of congress did not like nixon. i mean, that is the truth. and the question is how you deal with it. >> he tries to build a little li

the white jesus. people see him, lacks and -- black and white, as a white person. those two questions. would you answer them? host: we will get a response. guest: thank you for your questions. i will start with a question about religion. you are absolutely right. religion, not just in this country but we will focus on the united states, religion is tightly connected to the maintenance of white supremacy, and for a very simple reason. those europeans and their descendents who came to this lands, and still native dispossessed indigenous people, -- kidnapped africans they enslaved and exploitative labor. one of the things they did was to draw on religion and their religion, christianity, to justify the religion, christiano justify the dehumanization of people they said who were racially inferior, so , the people who are already in church now and will be going to church later today and who may not know enough about the history of the use of christianity to justify racial oppression in this country. again, i want to be clear, christianity is not the only religion that h

front lines of trump's white house. what's the difference covering president trump and some of the other presidents that you've covered? >> there's a huge difference. the biggest difference with the other presidents i've covered the last 3 even though they did not agree was, there was respect, we understood that we had to work with one another, with this administration w -- with this administration this president looks at us as the enemy and when we tell the truth and tell the facts, he believes we are the opposition, he believes that we have an agenda, we are one of the pillars of the foundation of this nation, what the founding fathers put in place. it's just -- it's awkward, painful deadly time compared to prior administration's that i've covered. >> what's a typical day at the white house? >> most days there's no briefing. you wait for him to speak, you wait for him to take your question or not take your question. it's a different day. it's a very different day. the dynamic has changed. we are losing ground when it

white people across the board, white men, women. all different incomes. there was talk after he was elected of the working class, but he was supported by rich white people, middle-class and working class. that is indicative of the extent to which the psychic conversion or internal transformation i am calling for doesn't exist. it hasn't happened. there are individual white people who are exceptions, and there is a basis for coalition politics. there is support amongst the segments for black lives matter. that is important and needs to be built on. in general there isn't sufficient support in the white community for the kinds of policies and programs we would need to advance a worthwhile kind of racial integration. part of the reason why it is important to maintain what might seem like utopian ideals is because otherwise we are essentially resigning ourselves to the world we inhabit right now. if it is unjust, that means we are accepting the endless continuation of injustice. we have to be realistic when it means to reshape the imagi

now, this is philip white in kentucky. the junior vice commander was always african-american, because they made up a fairly substantial population in -- proportion in that state. man.s an extraordinary -- he was ancame a african-american sailor and became a lawyer. he was very well-known. now, while encampments may have been integrated, it is said, they had all black posts. this is the evidence that white veterans did not treat them as the same, but they treated them instead as second-class citizens. it is true, white veterans created their own posts. i found about 220 across the country. in virginia, there are 16 black posts, including that steadman post in petersburg. but this is important. it must be understood that african-americans chartered these groups. they were not created as separate organizations for black veterans. it was not the same as black schools meant to segregate black children. instead, i found these organizations were vital in african-american communities. they were charitable organizations, fraternal

from the white house. what kind of person should the president have in that position? as i was saying earlier, you had a former military guy. he didn't last there very long. you had a political operative. he didn't last very long. >> that's right. it's understandable that nick ayers didn't want to be appointed to what is now for lack of a better word chief dog catcher. it's a difficult position to be chief of staff in the trump administration. typically the role of chief of staff is one to solve problems, mitigate disputes, make sure that you are solving the obstacles for the president before they get to the president's desk. in this environment where the trump administration is going to be brought in for hearings left and right and there are going to be investigations into improprieties, it makes sense that nick ayers might say this is not the position for me as a 36-year-old who although has cut his teeth in washington and is a savvy political consultant, this is for lack of a better word or another phra

an incredible addition to the white house. that being said i think the president is looking for somebody that believes in what we are doing and in the policies we spend every single day all day working to enact and working to implement and who can lead his team over the next two years as we move into 2020, and a political environment we anticipate going into the presidential election year. >> host: is there a feeling the general kelly didn't always believe in the president's agenda or wasn't at times politically attuned enough? >> guest: there is no question whether or not general kelly supported the president's policies, they are going to disagree but if you can't have a chief of staff you disagree with they will not be effective. that is one of the things the president looks for, somebody who can say they don't agree with how things they may go but they do that behind closed doors when you have disagreements. at the end of the day the only person elected to office was donald trump and mike pence, the vice president but those

breaking it down for us ellison barber at the white house. >> the white house released two statements yesterday down playing the significance of the memos. white house press secretary sara sanders says that it says nothing about the president and less about collusion and devoted almost entirely to lobbying related issues. on mr. cohen, sanders says the filing tells us nothing of value that wasn't already known. she says cohen has repeatedly lied. the president's personal attorney rudy guiliani tells the memos are a complete exoneration of the president and guiliani says he and the rest of the president's outside legal counsel are happy about the memos and guiliani's view proves the special counsel has nothing on the president. some legal experts disagree. >> i wouldn't be celebrating if, if i was at the white house. it's clear that they have implicated the president in the two-campaign finance violations that cohen pled guilty to and will be sentenced on. they have the president basically directing cohen to commit these offenses. so, you know, these are two felonies that this guy pled

that turned into white supremacist, that turned into white power, then white pride, now white nationalists. they've gone from calling themselves racists to racialists. it's trying to bring their language closer and closer to something that mostly white americans who don't identify as racist can suddenly think some of these ideas maybe are closer to some things that i could potentially believe. which is a really scary thing. even scarier, they've been very effective in those talking points. i think, you know, it'd be tempting to think of white nationalism or this kind of racism in our country as something that is propagated and furthered by a small number of extremists. the truth is polls consistently show that about 30-40% of white people believe they experience more discrimination than people of color or jews. that is wildly off base by every statistical measure that we have. but the fact that so many people have this false sense of grievance is something that white nationalists and other people in these positions try to play toward to bring them more and more toward their side of being m

this white house is chaotic, it's in turmoil. this is another example of the incompetence over there. >> and congresswoman, in regards to the news of the past 24 hours as we've been talking about, are you hearing about any talks of impeachment or how effective or likely would a conviction be given that senate will have the 53 republicans? >> what is taking place now are the investigations, which are exposing the facts and i'm confident that we will do exactly what needs to be done and follow the facts where they lead. this must be a bipartisan effort. no one, once again, is above the law and the constitution has impeachment as a process if, in fact, the president has been found guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. right now it's important to make sure that the mueller investigation moves forward and that republicans cooperate with democrats as we move forward in january to conduct investigations. i must say that american people are entrusting us to do this, but they're concerned about the cost of their prescription drugs, they

the war on whites is real. normalized. >> the government is nothing compared to the jewish menace. >> and destroying lives. >> there are people who will say once a nazi, always a nazi, and that you can't change who you are. >> but i know change is possible. from the age of 14 to 22, i helped build america's first neo-nazi skinhead organization. i believed diversity was a code word for white genocide. that jews controlled the media. immigrants were raping our women. and i was going to save the world. recruiting vulnerable kids and transforming them into violent extremists like me. but now, instead of pulling people into hate, i'm guiding them out. >> ein folk, ein reich, ein fuhrer. >> i'm not willing to let it happen to anybody else. >> the first thing i would like to say about the american flag is i don't salute the american flag because two stars stand for nonwhite states. >> with me today, chris pi piccolini, 19 years old, director of the northern skinheads. >> we're fighting for a great cause which is the w

and this is the old, elite, white south. at the historic society, this is kept by a prominent lawyer in town and a politician who was also involved in the school district, and he actually kept in his files a chronology of the battles over integration. so you can read -- and this is from the viewpoint of the white power structure, what they were trying to do as they were successively, you know, more aggressive efforts within the federal government and in the courts, of course, to force desegregation. and what the story tells of you look at this record and other records is a story of a power structure of a school district that was slow walking. when they could, they would absolutely say no. and when it was clear that the federal government and the court were going to force the issue, they would work as slowly as possible. and in the 1970's, the department of justice filed suit against the tyler independent school district in tyler federal courts. the case went to a judge who had not been on the bench that long, who was from on

you have the white house shutdown. you have the white house. you have the senate. you have the house of representatives. you have the votes. you should pass it. >> i can't get it passed in the house if it is not going to pass in the senate. i don't want to waste time. >> the fact is you can get it started that way. >> the house we can get past easily. we do. the problem is the senate. we need ten democrats to vote. they won't vote. >> laura: pelosi challenge the president and republicans in the house. they might call her bluff. house republicans said late today they will try to pass a $5 billion funding bill for the wall. this would be a stunning rebuke of nancy pelosi. my question is would a shutdown put pressure on schumer to cough up the democratic votes needed to avoid a filibuster? for answers we are joined by house majority whip steve scalise and former acting head of i.c.e. and fox news contributor tom homan. congressman, was this part of a coordinated plan? was it planned out or was that the president shooting from the hip on his own instincts? >> this is t

as white. being counted as white and being socially recognized as white carries with it a host of economic privileges, social privileges and conversations you have had about economics. .. >> so the racial wealth gap is widening. we can look at white men in politics. white men represent about 31% of our population, but they hold about 65% of all elected offices. so we can look at these, whether it's politics, economics, right? and see that white dominance is not just about the kkk, it's about that too, but it's also about the association between whiteness and economic and political privileges. >> host: but the pushback could be i feel like i work hard. >> guest: yeah. >> host: and that i've earned whatever i get. >> guest: exactly that, right? we could get people of color. people of color work hard, but they then have to deal with the burdens of racism. so one of the thicks i write about -- things i write about in the book is the denial of racism. and the fact is even if you are working class wh

he tweeted he will leave the white house at the end of the year. the president also tweeted i'm in the process of interviewing some really great people for the position of white house chief of staff. fake news has been saying with certainty it was nick ayers, a spectacular person who will always be with our maga agenda. i will be making a decision soon. current candidates include mark meadows, white house budget director mick mulvaney, david bossy, steve mnuchin, matthew whittaker and new york yankees president randy levine. >> interesting. >> joining us from washington, white house reporter for politico gabby orr. good to see you. >> i think we're beginning to see a clearer picture about what happened during the 2016 campaign of donald trump. and that is that there were several overtures made from russian officials, people with close ties to russian intelligence to members of president trump's campaign, oftentimes top aides and senior advisors on the campaign and those that are really in that inner circle and that very few of these overtures were

television reporters at the white house were on the rise. and they needed good pictures and sound. >> i'll be covering the president and his advisers as they have never been covered before. >> the media-savvy reagan administration understood that and remodelled the briefing room to help create better pictures. >> the old doctor's waiting room look gave way to theater seating. quality studio lighting, better microphones. >> there were also now lots of cables, which allowed tv to go live when needed, which was often. >> we became a deadline every minute. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. >> all this meant, when reagan came into the briefing room, the networks could easily take it live. >> has it damaged your reputation, mr. president? >> anything you want to say to him? >> which advisers like david gergen sometimes thought was too much of a good thing. >> reagan was under a lot of pressure to come out and give a press briefing. we wanted to get the news out but we didn't want him out there for an hour taking question

johnson and her committee held their last meeting by the warm fire of the white house ballroom. her five yearsd as first lady has traveled over 100,000 miles, promoting beautification and improved quality in american life. there is no reason one first lady should be entertaining china while another has a particular interest. if our plants freeze, another first lady has to water them. our president's wife would always have the freedom to do what comes naturally. i have no doubt this would serve the public good. i wish the very best to pat's .nixon i know she will make a fine first lady. she has much to look forward to, and i know you will have exciting years ahead as you make and cover the new first family. ♪ she was accompanied her travels by a core of news women who she came to describe as hard-working, a lasting and sentimental. in december the women's national press club honored their favorite traveling companion, as they presented mrs. johnson with the eleanor roosevelt candlestick award. ♪ theexas during the month, president and mrs. johnson traveled to el paso for a me

you americans seek white supremacy. they saw white supremacy and financial force as interrelated. though more financially stable than green, his idea resonated with his own belief that jim crow kept down poor whites as much as it did black people. stating it more materially, the belgian captain argued that the american government, through law and economics, had made free slaves out of african-americans in order to control the wage scale of the white layman. when a dubious green asked him how he knew so much about law and labor, he said, i've been living here for six years. he called himself a proud worker of the industrial world. working on the docks in france, green had found himself a wobbly dechatta. a field of koirencounter for african-americans curious about the world beyond texas or tennessee. they exposed stevedores to more than just heartache. likewise, african-americans, rarld ms of their frustration, heads of labor battalion since policing to keep them from frrmt. it also teamed with life. colonial troops, chinese laborers and see. and in cosmopolitan marseilles, black s

house but the trump lead white house is approach to the region has it fanned the flames of divisions that are feeling and that time was that. some partners in the region thought that they have something like a blanco shekh that they could do whatever they want and when we discussed with them and we said look we are of the same opinion like the state department the u.s. the answer to us we only that's interesting but we're only listening to the white house you wouldn't mind telling me which partners that was that told you that we're talking saudi arabia let's call a spade a spade i don't want to blame and want to finger point if you we want to come to solutions i think it's not a good idea to blame somebody i mean i saw it was mr gergen it with me i don't want to do it in the other way in the same way we are not to blame but just for viewers to understand what was this a process where you found yourself in the middle of trying to deescalate a situation which saudi arabia or that side of the blockade felt they getting different signals directly from the white house and therefore look t

house and the white house's credibility from the white house. both are under siege today. there's very little trust in the press and there's very little trust among some jen way in the information that's coming from the white house. i certainly remember when i was at the white house and when i was bureau chief at cnn, if the president said something or a press secretary would say something that was mistaken or a misstatement there was an effort to quickly correct the record. i remember marlin fitswater would walk around with his big cigar that he wouldn't light and he would actually walk through the press office and say, what i said or what the president said, let me just tweak that. there was a very good relationship there and he got a lot of credit for that. but we are not at that place now. i mean -- and now there is a very particular and personal and some would say grandstanding environment around this. where do you see this question of credibility now in terms of, again, plugging this into all the technology that we've got and the cameras a

it's celebrated by alt-white supremacists and white nationalists. it's a symbol of resentment towards this nation's racial progress over the last 70 years. again, just to sort of bring it home for all of you, on this friday night, i mentioned earlier that i'm 64. president trump is 72. we're about the same age, eight years' difference. nothing grand in terms of the scale of difference in age. but the progress in race relations that i have been describing to you earlier, especially the formation of that black middle class and the heightened black political voice, is the story of my lifetime. my dad's education, his housing, his jobs, were all limited by the color of his skin. my dad was born in 1902 and then here i am, born 1954, and if my dad came back to life in 2018 and he saw that i live in an integrated neighborhood, he would say son, that's a different world. and fe sif he saw my daughter's georgetown law degree, he would say wait a minute, georgetown doesn't accept black students, not in the '60s. i would say no, dad, they accept black student

they were trying to erase any symbol of white identity in america. white history. both sides think they were right. both sides had points. valid points they were trying to make. >> somebody died because of the actions and the rally. it doesn't matter to me who has side they're on. innocent people shouldn't die. >> this might come across the wrong way. to certain people. i think if we were separated we wouldn't have these issues. throw everyone together and blend them together and say get along. obviously that's not working the people want want to be living together in harmony and unity, should be allowed to do that. the people who don't should be allowed to do their thing as well. >> what would you do if given the choice? >> i can't really say. that's something i have to think about. if i had to make a split second decision on it, i would go with the separatist. >> gabe can't imagine a world where different races coexist. because hees never allowed himself to be a part of one. to help him escape his twisted world view. i know where i have to go. i know exactly who

there is no black and white. >> there is little black and white in this case. particularly when you factor in the conduct of the f.b.i. agents who told flynn you don't have to have a lawyer, we don't want to involve white house counsel because that might involve the justice department. there may have been a good reason -- >> bill: prosecutors are saying with your cooperation we recommend 0 to 6 months of jail time. what is he cooperating on or about? >> we don't know. to the extent the judge has been advised of that, that's been redacted from any document that we've seen. we aren't going to know until time passes. usually a defendant who has cooperated is sentenced when his cooperation is already known after he has testified or after the case has been brought. here he is being sentenced beforehand. >> bill: does flynn talk today? michael cohen talked before the judge last week. does flynn speak or does he talk when he leaves the courtroom if he is sentenced to know time? >> he has to be addressed by the court and given the opportunity to speak before sentence i

that they had already cut a deal with the white house for a clean cr and the white house backed out on that so why would they trust the white house at this stage? they have also been insistent they're not going to include any additional funding for a border wall or even border security, to that point. so it's not exactly clear what this conversation is all about. but if you're hoping that the government doesn't shut down, i would imagine most people are hoping it doesn't shut down, the fact that they're even talking is a good sign that was something we hadn't seen happen much in the last 48 hours. pam? >> and if the government does shut down, which it's all up in the air right now, ryan, is there a plan b? i mean, what's next? >> reporter: i guess there really isn't a plan b, pam, in terms of legislation. to a certain extent, they're right back at the drawing board. do they attempt yet another run-through with a clean continuing resolution? the president has said under no circumstances is he going to sign that again. they essentially do have to come up with some sort of a deal between

the white house cannot look and say no collusion. what this document tells us is there is evidence of collusion. we just don't know who, when, and where. >> and wesley, quickly, we talked about congressional republicans. where do you see congressional democrats going -- obviously a lot of investigations on the horizon as they take over the house. >> certainly. there's unquestionably going to be interest from congressional democrats and further probing of these kind of conversations. i think there's a split in thinking among some congressional democrats, do they try to pick up this mantle quickly, do they wait and see what comes from bob mueller before they begin asking questions. as we enter a new congressional session, what is the role of the now democrat-controlled house in overseeing this president, both his behavior during the campaign, as well as during the presidency. >> all right. page pate and wellesley lowery, thank you very much. stay with us. we'll be coming back to you. >>> james comey, former fbi director whose firing by

and tonight, nick mull veiny is your new acting white house chief of staff with one former white house official telling bloomberg nothing shows how hard it is to get people in this administration than this, and we're only getting started on a friday night. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york on a friday night. day 694 of the trump administration, and again tonight we're following important very manies on multiple fronts. we learned omb director mick mulvaney is taking over as chief of staff. the president's former perm lawyer michael cohen is speak speaking out on national television saying donald trump knew the hush money payments made just before the 2016 election were wrong. also today, robert mueller's team rejected former national security adviser michael flynn's suggestion that he should have been warned about the consequences of lying to the feds, lying to the fbi. in response to flynn's sentencing memo filed tuesday, prosecutors said there was nothing about the way the interview was conducted in early 2017 that will caused flynn to lie about

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kaitlyn is live at the white house. the president and nick ayers, their deal fell apart, but they have a task the president gave the man we thought would take the job before he said no, thank you. >> the president had given him instructions for what had he wanted it to look like. one thing thing and he wanted a thorough review of how it operates. president trump wants it to be more politically focused. come january when the newly empowered democrats have the power that they will force his secretaries to testify. they have controversial policy decisions and president trump wanted to make sure the west wing is ready for that and they are focused moving forward. that was one of the biggest complains is that he did not feel the retired general was shrewd enough to handle that. he didn't know what it would look like. nick ayers would not take the job since he wanted to do it on an interim basis. we are talking to sources who say this is something president trump is going to want and whoever his next chief of staff is. when p

house, of president trump and the white house. if you -- you know, the chief of staff, that sort of changes i think so this, there would be another special election in north carolina. in the house, if you are not in the majority you have very limited say and sway and influence. i think that's just -- it's still a diminished party overall and the freedom caucus is less relevant. >> questions from the audience. again, please state your name and affiliation. anyone? yes, right here in the front. >> hi. [ inaudible question ] i was wondering who you thought might be the deficit hawks? or who is going to be talking about the deficit, if anyone. that's a good question. who is going to be watching taxpayer money? besides lowey and the democratic on the appropriations committee? >> that's a good question. >> you know, i think the fact that we are kind of like scratching our chins here suggests it is not going to be a main issue when washington -- trump has said i am a deficit -- i am a debt guy, the king of debt. he doesn't seem to be int

and the crime occurred in the white house. which is a sacred space and it was by a three-star general in whom we ought to have the highest standards. and so i can understand why he was angry. should have not said treason. treason is not anywhere in the ballpark. >> the bar is very high. >> i'm just asking questions, man. >> but just to be a lawyer -- the only crime defined in the constitution. >> punishable by death. >> anybody criticizing the government in britain was accused of treason. to commit war against the united states or provide aid and comfort to the enemy. turkey, russia, they may be countries we have complex relationships with, but we're not at war with them. >> i'm glad the judge zoned in that it is disgraceful that flynn was acting as an unregistered agent for turkey during the campaign. that is a big deal. and i don't think people -- that gets emphasized enough. we get caught up in the lying. but he was acting as an agent of turkey during the campaign, writing op-eds, and just, you know, freelancing on this --

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soldiers and had taken satisfaction in parading his white girlfriend in front of white american soldiers. nonetheless he realized that the irony of fighting combat had altered profamily his relationship to america. he tells a story in his memoirs of being in the hospital after having been wounded and getting so angry with a red cross nurse who refuses to treat him because she put him in the back of the line even though the white soldiers had come in later that he throws a book towards her in anger. the anger generated by his experience overwhelmed him and kept him from functioning and so what he says if he was fighting two wars at once. his own, and woodrow wilson's, and he's not sure which war did more damage. he also chose to stay in europe after the war's end, he survived a speculating on currency for about five years and traveled around europe because he hated white americans so much that he couldn't go home until he purged himself of that hatred. he was released from the pines that held local patriots and pragmatic loyalists. for many of the black exiles who left the u.s., paris cam

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>> the white water controversy. >> political turbulence over white water. >> white water became a massive, spiraling investigation. that led prosecutors to a sex scandal. >> the ayes have it. >>s the s therthere it is. >> william jefferson clinton is impeached. >> that became the second american impeachment in history. how on earth did that little corner of arkansas -- >> i hereby deliver these articles of impeachment. >> -- explode into a constitutional showdown. >> it was that two-bit real estate deal and yet somehow one thing leads to another and we are on the house floor, debating whether the president of the united states should be removed from office. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman, miss lewinsky. >> when we think of the clinton impeachment, we think of a certain white house intern. but before there was monica, there were the mcdougals, jim and susan. clinton might never have been impeached if not for them. it was jim mcdougal who had convinced the clintons to invest in white water. and they had over financial ties, as well. so when jim and susan landed in legal

why was there no reaction from the white house? no public or apparently or even private recognition within the white house of the seriousness of what they had just been told about the national security adviser. once "the washington post" broke the news of how the justice department had issued this warning to the white house, once they broke the news about what flynn was suspected of doing and what the national security emergency was about flynn, once "the washington post" went public with it and flynn therefore finally had to step down, why then did president trump ask james comey, the director of the fbi at the time, to please go easy on flynn. hope you can let this go. why did he do that? it's also been reported that the president additionally asked the national -- the director of national intelligence dan coats if he too could please intercede with the fbi to somehow make them go easy on mike flynn, not go after mike flynn. why did the president intercede to do that on flynn's behalf, given what we had all just learned about fly