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

. >> 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

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

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

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

did the white house drop the ball on this? jen psaki: well, first, we share david shipman's frustration that he wasn't confirmed. we felt that he was absolutely qualified, uniquely qualified in many ways as someone who had worked both at atf and also for a number of gun safety of for gun safety organization over time. there's only one. but we also knew, and we are clear eyed about nominating anyone, even anyone has qualified as him. there's only been one qualified one confirmed atf director in history because of republican obstructionism. we moved historically. quickly. there was a whole team of multiple people behind him. we engaged with members of the senate, including the president, engaged with members of the senate about his nomination. we were committed to getting it through. unfortunately, we didn't have the votes to do exactly that. we also have been engaged with him about working to find a job in the administration. that's something that we are eager to do if there's alignment on that. but we believe in his qualificat

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

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i've got the chapter on the western white house. a lot of those photos, it was tough because there's a lot of favorites. >> before we wrap up here i wanted to ask you a couple of questions related to the collection. you decided to place your collection withus and why did you decide to place your collection here ? >> when don carlton proposed the idea i didn't have to think about it. i was like yes, there's a a home for my photos. but most importantly it's not just a place for it to sit and collect dust. it sounds like there would be a living archive for people to come in and study the photos. that's what really interests me. tsit's a working, living type of archive. and then also to be included with so many great photographers that i idolized through the years. and now i'm part of that group so i'm very blessed to be in the company. >> when you as a photographer take a step back and look at this collection as a whole, what do you think the value is of the collection? what is the history? >> it gives it a whole. and it's very importa

and the president would probably come back to the white house. i picked up the phone and called the social secretary, kathy fenton, is that obviously there will not be a picnic. it will be suspended are totally canceled. i am going to take action to clear things now why don't you start doing whatever you need to do including getting hold of the people who are supposed to come in a couple of hours and to stay put we don't need extra people here now. she said i think i agree with you that the deputy chief of staff is in new york. he was doing a mission there to look at the presidents visit later in the month for the when. she said i need to get a hold of joe to make sure we have this nail down that obviously it will not happen. i knew i needed to get the picnic tables out because it only takes the president and i would have to get back from florida i didn't have much time with 160 picnic tables on the south ground as well as all of the other things and they were covering the area where the helicopter normally lands. i started making calls to the na

park across from the white house about 200 yards from the white house residence. the secret service pushed most people all the way back to the other side of the park. trying to avoid -- in the last five minutes, people have come running out of the white house and old executive office building. there was a white jet circling overhead. you generally don't see planes in the area over the white house. that's restricted air space. no reason to believe that this jet was there for any fe nars you purpose, but the secret service was concerned, pointing up at the jet in the sky. >> that was the day that tested and changed about everything. the legendary white house reporter ann compton was in that classroom. the plane went back to washington, and i'm grateful she's in the studio with us today. i want to go back to the beginning. you're on what you think is a routine trip. president bush is in a class room, talking to children in walks the white house chief of staff. >> it stunned me. no one interrupts the president, even in front of a classroom of second graders. i wrote d

because of course i'm gonna have it will buried at the white house. we have to have an archaeologists over the grounds. >> the problem, as you can go visit the grave sites. except dave is that the vice presidents residence. and i'm sure we know where the site is. and if we are ever are invited back, we will go visit. >> does he have a little headstone? >> no, we thought that was too showy. >> a little too showy. >> he has won our hearts. apropos, one of the interesting things to me was how important both the vice president's residence on the white house are to the political and policy business of the government. and both the cheneys and the bushes were enormously good it uprooting a lot of people formerly and more importantly, informally. and, you know the it's a little problematic for staff because if you're going to have 20 members of congress down, you have to have some staff there to sort of jolly them up and they will come down with a list of things they want to have down and it's easier for them to give it to you, then to give the president. but

what's the mood like inside the white house? and any idea who else the president might be meeting with? >> well, it's clear from the white house's posture here that they understand what's at stake here in the next 48 hours with the president's agenda. the white house press secretary yesterday not shying away from it. using a term the president likes to use calling it an inflection point for the administration. now, when you saw those remarks from speaker pelosi just a short time ago, you heard her refer to cedric richmond, a senior white house adviser, also a former member of the house democratic caucus who was in the meeting today trying to help corral democrats, using some baseball metaphors to encourage team unity. richmond should be mentioned. it was the star starting pitcher for the house democratic baseball team. tonight is the congressional baseball game between democrats and republicans at national park. what i think pelosi was signaling, they don't need a starter. they need president biden to be the closer at this point

the white house says it's banning horses at the border. is that just a surface-level fix for what's happening? this is a mess down there. >> it is a mess. i think it's an important component of this policy. the images were horrific. they don't belong in 2021 and they didn't belong centuries ago when we might have been more used to unfortunately seeing them. i think, though, the steps they are taking are important. most importantly probably is getting people into shelters, getting them out from underneath the bridge, 15,000 people living in those conditions under a bridge is not what we want to see. quite frankly, we have to go through the adjudication process of i would presume tens of thousands of people or at least thousands of people seeking some level of asylum. so, look, there's a whole practical policy that has to get put back together, the asylum process came basically to a screeching halt under the trump administration. immigration courts are overloaded. it takes months if not longer to get a case heard. there's a lot of practical

members of the white house press pool lodgeed an official complaint with the white house after that. ed o'keefe tweeted his complaints two days in a row tweeting yesterday. johnson took three questions, white house aides shouted down u.s. attempts to ask questions. on monday he said the markets are sliding, the french are furious, unprecedented wave of mostly haitian immigrants at the southern border, twice today the president walked by and didn't take questions. so it's not just a feeling, it is reality. he doesn't want to talk. >> he doesn't. i think it was yesterday. >> harris: or being kept from it. he has even said they told me i can't do this or i can't do that. >> jen psaki told cnn not long ago. we often tell him not to take questions. if you are competent in your argument she was asked when will the president take questions on all the things you mentioned in terms of fda, booster shots and a strike that killed seven children. i will refer you back to last week when the president took questions. are you kidding me? it was before the things happened. she said it was a straight

the white house said no, keep it open. the tense sass said we will keep it shut inside of texas on state ground. homeland security watchdog that said biden's border policies are putting border officials, migrants and citizens in danger. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. elizabeth: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. we begin tonight with breaking news. special council john durham announced that grand jury indicted a prominent lawyer for the clinton campaign. perkins lawyer. he is expected to make his first court appearance tomorrow. this is about the debunked claim that trump computers were talking regularly with russia's bank. the oligarchs. msnbc, nbc, cnn home. s ran with it as if it was fact. the fbi found out early on in 2017 that the trump computer was pushing trump hotel marketing information, hotel marketing information. joining us now, congressman ken buck of house judiciary, former u.s. attorney guy lewis. first to you, congressman. great to have you both on.

kelly o'donnell is at the white house. here with me on set at the pentagon is helene cooper, pentagon correspondent for the "new york times" and nbc news presidential historian. 24 hours before the ceremonies are set to begin, ron, what are you seeing and hearing? >> reporter: so many people have remarked how it's a beautiful day here, blue skies, a bit of fall in the air, just like it was 20 years ago and all of that is just fueling the memories, painful memories of what happened here and a short while, they'll open up this area, ground zero, the sacred place to the public, and they expect that thousands of people to come to pay their respects, of course family members who lost loved ones, first responders, people from abroad, people from all over the country to take part in what's going to be perhaps the largest gathering here ever. we'll have the traditional ceremony that begins at 8:46 tomorrow, with a moment of silence and then the reading of the names of those lost which will last for about four hours or so. today pe

when you become an official white house photographer is it during a club? >> there's so much work involved in doing the job that you don't get a chance to come up for air. you are kind of in this bubble and you will see your colleagues looking out the window. from my experience, there was so much work involved and focus on the job that until i got out, you realize how special the job was even more so. but yes it is great to be in such a tightknit club, because not a lot of photographers have done this. >> we did a talk with you together and you have been on the other side. what is the difference between what you were doing as a member of the ap and official white house photographer? >> very different. i think as a journalist, working for the media, you are there, you are on assignment and your focus is to illustrate what's presented in front of you, or if you do have access to a behind-the-scenes moment, you record it and put it out there, but it's limited. when you are an official photographer, it's like a whole another world, a whole another universe wher

and communications within the white house on that day. that includes call logs on meetings. back with us, bob woodward and robert costa, co-authors of the new book "peril." the biden white house is moving to release information on former president trump to january 6 congressional investigators. can you tell us what they were doing that day based on the book? >> well, a lot was going on. there was an intensity in this period of november, december and january. what's interesting is this discussion in the biden white house about releasing this material. former president trump is likely to assert executive privilege, and one of the things that happens in history, one president will say, particularly from another party, oh, let's get out the dirt from the former president, and then the lawyers will come in and say, mr. president, if you do that, then there is going to be another president who will come in, and if it serves the moment, either politically or in terms of the evidence, will release what goes on in secret in your white house, and o

it souths its connections to the white house. that is what it is about. >> top people in government, come out, make a big load of money and in a position to make deals, award contracts. you have to rely on the inspectors general. we have2 inspectors general. we have 13,500 people go behind it. if congress doesn't ask the right question or push them, the gao, you don't get an answer out of it. i do personally work with the government accountability institute. these are type of things, who benefits financially from war, those types of questions. who benefits financially from a covid pandemic. those are legitimate questions that the public should see because sunlight is the best disinfectant. we'll see how open and transparent they want to be. the biden-harris administration said they would be the most open and transparent administration ever, eight months into it, we aren't doing so well. elizabeth: we hear you. pine island as we talked about, they're not shy about leveraging their cushy relationships with the powerful and politica

. >>> we have some breaking news right now from the white house. we have been expecting some kind of update on covid. well, it turns out, it is an update to the international travel policy. kelly o'donnell is at the white house with the details for us. kelly, what can you tell us? >> reporter: good morning, chris. this is a significant development, one that will affect international travelers. the white house is saying that come early november, as they get the systems in place, fully vaccinated individuals, foreign nationals from anywhere in the world will be permitted to visit the united states via air travel if they have full vaccination and do a test for covid. that effectively would end what has been a long ban that has separated families and employees from businesses for many countries that have been prohibited from having travelers come to the u.s. for fear of the spread of the disease. so this is a significant change that will be implemented in early november. the cdc will decide which

the white house many white house agenda the biden agenda not in trouble. but here's to the border for now, dhs director getzlaf. your reaction to the president saying because bernie sanders now looks like we want the biden is saying progressive's fight back. hold hostage democrats infrastructure plan, we want three and a half trillion spent on first and snap the president's reaction say president obama say open borders? listen joe, as a practical matter open borders is unsustainable. take those two things on. >> absolutely and i think president obama is correct and something for trump administration recognized that even the obama administration is you can't have an open borders policy not expect to have thousands and hundreds of thousands of individuals to the border each and every day but for whatever reason the biden administration continues down the path of the open border policy, a radical change in position from previous administration and the colossal failure at the end of the day bus by any measurable statistics you will cap simply is not working, t

. >>> and the white house outreach to nikki minaj. what she's saying and what she's not saying and why that matters to people. >>> some republicans calling for general milley to step down after this new trump-era reporting came out. what does gop congressman adam kinzinger think? we'll ask him about that and more on the show. >>> leighann caldwell is outside the capitol. latest on security preps. what's being done. how confident officials are and what they think they can expect on this saturday rally. >> reporter: hey, hallie. capitol police are taking no chances for what's going to take place on saturday. they have put up this fence overnight. this goes around the perimeter of the capitol. in addition, we have these concrete barricades who were put up to make sure the fence does not topple over. in addition, there's these new high-security cameras that do facial recognition. capitol police officer just told me these cameras are straight from afghanistan, that they came here for capitol police. this is new equipment for them. now all

so that is not yet cause for concern for this white house. they do still see president biden as the best chance to be able to bridge that gap between the moderate and progressive factions. there have been no major breakthroughs including yesterday after that meeting between the president and senator kyrsten sinema and you saw the statement from joe manchin that makes it clear that a wide berth still exists between the warring factions of the democratic party. where does that leave us? president biden is going to need to try to find a way. regardless of what happens today, whether or not there actually is an infrastructure vote on the floor, whether it happens and fails, or whether it is simply pulled before that vote can even happen, the white house does not see today as the end of the road. they believe that there are days, perhaps even weeks ahead of ongoing negotiations to be able to get to this, and i know we said this so many times this week, but ultimately the white house sees these two bills as so important to the president's agenda, t

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

this white house does have the current white house, the stitting white house counsel has the power, some members of the committee argue, to overrule any potential objections that the president might take here. we've already seen him claim executive privilege but something else we revealed today is that the select committee has sort of come to a consensus arguing that trump no longer enjoys the protection of executive privilege so they have been encouraging the white house actively pushing them to put aside the institutional concerns, look back at former precedents like in 1977, the supreme court ruling in nixon versus the general services and move forward with the investigation by providing some of the documents which they think are really key to putting together a comprehensive, historic record of what exactly happened during the insurrection and what the president was doing, which is still a big unanswered question. >> it is indeed. gloria borger if the biden white house did that it would surprise a lot of people because usually joe biden is an institutionalist and traditionally quite

you talk to white house officials. they are frustrated that the political and turf battles have spilled into the public. this muddled the understanding about the necessity of boosters. what they weren't is regretful about laying out that time line. they believe the data they have looked at and made clear boosters would be needed at some point and they wanted to make sure they were ready to operationalize that process when the approvals game. this has been complicated over the last couple of weeks. officials maintain that they are glad they laid out that process. they believe boosters will be necessary at one point or another, possibly as soon as next week. >> this is not something i envisioned asking you or anyone. but what is going on with the white house and nicki minaj about covid? >> i didn't ever envision myself on your show talking about nicki mi minaj's cousin's friend's swollen nnether regions. she tweeted something that alleged some side effect to a vaccine that every medical professional that we have spoken t

looks like the white house may say yes to that. we'll investigate with sean duffy, this story, who is the unnamed mystery silicon valley executive who is so powerful could call multiple companies and their internet data base searches to let hillary clinton against trump with a false russia story that even robert mueller wouldn't touch. jake sullivan was in on that hillary clinton story way back when. we'll dig into it next on "the evening edit." >> it is circular like i said. the clinton campaign it was important to them to be able to say wait a minute, the fbi is looking at this. let's go walter! after you. walter, twelve o' clock. get em boy! [cows mooing] that is incredible. it's the multi-flex tailgate. it can be a step, it can even become a workspace. i meant the cat. what's so great about him? he doesn't have a workspace. the chevy silverado with the available multi-flex tailgate. find new adventures. find new roads. chevrolet. liberty mutual customizes car insurance the so you only pay forh the availabwhat you need.tailgate.

, senate, and the white house. on a democratic agenda that we ran onto really change people's lives and opportunities. that is what the build back better agenda is. the president delivered on his word when he said this is my agenda. if we don't deliver on that, then we will have a problem next year in the elections. if we show people that government matters, that democracies matter, that people's lives matter, that it's not just about big pharma and big corporations that are lobbying against all of these things but it's actually about a government that cares about whether you can get college, whether you can get pre-k child care, health care, whether we can take on the wildfires or floods burning and rushing through the country, these are the things people want to see us do. if we don't do those things, garrett, then we will lose next year. so that's why i think the president said he's not worried. because this is the agenda that he promised, and we will deliver on it. we are this close. so i believe we will. and w

leaders as well as senate leaders and the white house. what they do not have at this current moment is unity among their members, right? what exactly are you going to do to pay for this bill? what is the appropriate tax rate going to be? who is going to be affected by tax increases? those are still details that likely will need to be worked out. we may get more details over the next couple of days, but remember, we don't have paper in hand right now saying exactly what every rate is going to be and we don't have any guarantee that every single democrat is going to be for whatever the white house, the senate, and house leadership has actually agreed to at this point. i think that's an important thing to clarify that, yes, schumer says the white house and the speaker as well as himself, they've all agreed that this bill needs to be paid for. a lot of democrats, a lot of moderates, also think this bill needs to be paid for but exactly how you do it, not just putting on the table a menu of options, will be really key and more important to get

the white house corrected him and said was 98%. either way those stranded americans face and certain future under the rule of the taliban who scooped up us weapons and aircraft paid for by us taxpayers left behind. >> he called is an extraordinary success but 12 marines and one sailor did the did not need to die is not a success. hundreds of americans left behind, thousands more condemned to death under the taliban is not a success. this is a fiasco and a humiliating failure. >> reporter: a large bipartisan group of lawmakers is attempting to award the congressional gold medal to those 13 us service members were killed and that terror attack. last week. jillian: thank you. todd: as washington wakes up a dark cloud figuratively and literally hangs over the white house after the president double down that no one could have known the afghan army would collapse. jillian: the administration attempts damage control. >> reporter: president biden defendant how the evacuations were handled despite hundreds of americans and thousands of afgh

this story clearly got away from the white house, first of all. they thought they had really pulled off a big coup here in working this deal with australia in concert with the british and i'll get to that in a second. and they either didn't foresee the degree to which france would be angry or they figured they could just manage that later. and it's really blown up in their face. now, what happened is that to date the u.s. has only shared this highly sensitive nuclear propulsion technology for submarines with its closest naval ally britain. and that was largely aimed at the soviet union. and that's a decade old's agreement. this agreement with the same kind of technology in the pacific in the hands of australia in a direct challenge to china. so that's the main reason that china is upset about this. they see it for what it is, which is a complete and challenge to chinese naval power in the pacific by somebody other than the united states. right now there is a daily cat and mouse between u.s. and chinese ships across the south china sea and else whe

biden white house is taking detailss to show what they were doing. all documents and communication within the white house, end quote, on that day. that includes meetings. we have with us bob woodward and robert costa, co-auco-authors o "peril." the fact that they are releasing information or considering it, that's incredibly significant. we were talking about what the president and his allies were doing. can you just walk us through what, according to your reporting, they were doing on that day based on the book? >> well, a lot was going on. there was intensity in this period of november, december and january. what's interesting is this discussion in the biden white house about releasing this material. former president trump is likely to assert executive privilege. one of the things that happens in history, one president will say, particularly from another party, let's get out the dirt from the former president. then the lawyers will come in and say, mr. president, if you do that, then there's going to be another president who will come in and if it

ari fleischer, for white house press secretary, spent the entire day with president bush. take us through those first moments, you were there for every minute of it. >> the motorcade pulled up to the electrical i got a page saying a plane hit the world trade center. i thought accident, small plane, 30 seconds before andy card whispered in the president's right here i was leaning against the left wall of the room 20 feet from the president's left shoulder and got a second page and the second page told me a second plane hit the second tower and i knew it that moment it was terrorism. started to brace and get ready for everything i would have to unfold as the united states defend itself. laura: the president had to be whisked away for national security reasons. to the extent you can tell us what happened please do tell us what happened shortly thereafter. >> the secret service did not think we were under immediate threat otherwise they wouldn't have left to go to the gym at the school where he addressed the nation, talked about the terrorist attack on our country and we quick

and, you know, the white house is fully engaged. the president canceled his trip to chicago today to stay here to do this. so we have a lot of deadlines coming up this week. first and foremost, we are going to keep the government open. that is our, you know, basic responsibility and there is no way that democrats are going to let the republicans shut down our government because we know how critical it is for people, especially during this time of economic crisis. second, we have a debt ceiling that we have to get done in the next few weeks. the house is going to bring back a clean bill and send it back to the senate. and we cannot stand by with this dereliction of responsibility from the gop. we will get this done with democratic votes if they move out of our way. so we are going to keep pushing because we know how critical this is. we have quotes from kevin mccarthy, from mitch mcconnell on the importance of paying your past debt. 97% of this bill is the debt that comes from the trump administration. we know we have to pay that bil

house or on wednesday at the white house and talking specifically about wanting to be in nato, and why are they not involved in nato yet? that's also not going to happen because the factors, nato countries don't one ukraine right now, because it's a red line with russia. so ukraine's asking for an awful lot, they're getting military assistance. they're getting humanitarian assistance, but they're not going to get the nor string to pipeline stopped and they're not going to get inclusion into nato. certainly not any time soon. boom bus been swan. thank you so much for following the story today. thank. so by an administration says it is officially done with nation building, while the term is often used by politicians who are looking to garner public support. it typically refers to situations where the u. s. fuel of the country with billions of dollars in foreign aid and hopes of fostering what they refer to as a free democratic society by supporting the leaders of their choice. according to the data compiled by the nonprofit organization open the books, the u. s. spent nearly $30000000000

white house staffers getting boosters as well? jen: the c.d.c. just released this information, or these recommendations as guidance on friday. there hasn't been a determination made. i will note since you gave me the opportunity, it's pretty clear, one of the reasons the president conveyed this as well, exactly what this means. people 65 years and older, they can look at their vaccine cards, if it's been more than six months and they had the pfizer shot, they should get another shot. long-term care residents and staff, people who are 18 years and older, have underlying medical conditions, including asthma, diabetes, obesity, others, those who work and live in high-risk scettings including health care workers, teachers, grocery store workers who had the pfizer shot. look at your vaccine card. if it's been more than six months go get a shot. reporter: the decision about a white house medical -- jen: we follow c.d.c. guidelines. give the guidelines just came out on friday, we are still making a determination about how it would be applied. reporter:

cecilia vega live at the white house. cecilia, thank you. >>> and the president, as you know, cecilia, also answering a question today about the growing concern at the u.s. border in texas. and the department of homeland security is now launching an investigation into those disturbing images of some border agents on horseback. images the white house called horrific. tonight, the response from the union representing those agents and abc's kenneth moton now from texas. >> reporter: tonight, as federal authorities work to ramp up mass deportations, the biden administration struggling to contain the surge on the texas border. roughly 8,000 men, women and children, mostly haitian, in encampments under that del rio bridge. thousands have already been sent pack to their home countries by the u.s. but tonight, this has become a political battle, too. today republican governor greg abbott on the ground. the biden administration believes that they can process those remaining migrants by the end of the week. do you believe that? >>

leader schumer, senator schumer you heard say the white house, the senate, the white house, they've all reached an agreement on a framework for pay-for with the multitrillion dollar budget bill. speaker pelosi drilled into the stakes around the debt ceiling calling not addressing ate potential catastrophe. she called republican refusal appalling. she said she's confident they'll be able to keep the government open. it's a step forward. let's also keep in mind the broader context here. before pelosi spoke garrett haake, he put the politics of all of it this way. democratic priorities keep running into the brutal buzz saw reality of a 50/50 senate with republicans united. police reform talks over gun law talks, over. voting rights going nowhere. social infrastructure, prekars. mccaskill pinned it down like this. >> in the process, it looks awful and stupid to america and the republicans are banking on the fact that the democrats are going to take more of the blame than they are, because they're in charge. and it looks like a bunch of idiots running around right now. >> that political grid

has the white house responded to this tonight? >> don, utter silence from the white house. utter silence from the president on this. the pentagon did explain this really abrupt reversal. calling it a tragic and horrible mistake. the top commander in afghanistan, general mackenzie, talking about this. the defense secretary, as well. really saying -- apologizing for this drone strike. they thought that this was isis-k back on august 29th. it was so chaotic, of course. you know, the immediate withdrawal there. but turns out, it was a -- an afghan man who worked for a u.s. aid group. and his family. loading water into his toyota. the u.s. intelligence followed him around for eight hours or so by surveillance. and they -- it was the last missile struck in afghanistan, and killed ten civilians. so the pentagon apologized but, don, tonight, of course, the commander in chief, the white house has not said a word. >> jeff zeleny, we'll be waiting for word. jeff zeleny at the white house for us this evening. jeff, thank you very much. >>> so, we expected a rollout of booster shots for

the white house is disagreeing with the jct's analysis. there's some analysis to back up the white house's claim that some taxes are getting cut from the middle taxes. the tax policy center has their own analysis out. they said the bill's individual income, payroll and estate taxes provisions would cut taxes on average for households. however, including all major provisions including corporate income and excite tax increases, 58% of all households would pay more. so today the white house is agreeing there's no such thing as a free lunch but disagreeing at the end of the day who will pick up the tab. neil? >> very interesting. hillary, thanks for that. hillary vaughn. we're just getting this in from bernie sanders who is not to keen on the go-ahead vote scheduled for thursday on the infrastructure only package. the $1 trillion or so bipartisan efforts. without it being attached to far bigger spending commitments, let's be clear in the bill is passed on its on on thursday, this will be in violation of the agreement that was reached in the de

what can be done to help out at the border right now from the white house. >> of the white house had any sense, i'm not sure that they do because were seeing incompetence at a level that i never would've dreamed that we would see out of it administration, one crisis after the other, what they need to do is solicit help from the state of texas they have got to bring people in there to help them and former secretary chad wolf is exactly right they have policies that they could be following and were proven to work when he was serving as dhs secretary and they simply shut those at the biden administration, we are seeing the results, overwhelming numbers these are not just folks from central america and mexico, then from haiti, africa, all over there is 10000 people down there going back and forth in this commander-in-chief that we have i don't think we can afford to keep this guy he's given us an economic crisis, an energy crisis the national security crisis, afghanistan and now back at the border it's worse than it has been in the last nine months and it's been bad the whole time we wen

the white house needs to release the transcript. they don't need to release it in a classified setting, they need to release it in an unclassified sitting with minimal number of redactions. this is serious. this is more than insubordination. as a people we decided we want to maintain a wall between our commander-in-chief who must be a civilian is duly elected, a wall between the president and the military.we and there is a reason for that. don't look at myanmar or ginny right now. laura: i want your reaction to this comment by the spokesman at the pentagon. >> when the chairman, the secretary, they interact, their counterparts, it is a function of the job, they have to do that. every single interaction written down and send in a memo, probably not.nd laura: they want us to believe there are no records, no notes kept of millie's conversations with china and other foreign countries, if the intelligence community was brought in on this we know they make transcript of these calls, with our most serious adversary, two top level officials

nick nick said the white house read her tweet and invited her to the white house to talk about it. but then the white house just said, nah, we said we would do a phone call to answer nicki minaj's questions, we never invited her ore over and that response from the white house pissed nicki off. >> nicki minaj defending claims she was invited to the white house to discuss her concerns about the covid 19 vaccine. >> my imagine took to instagram saying he would never lie about the invite. >> do y'all think i would go on the internet and lie about being invited to the (~bleep~)ing white house? like, what? do you guys see what is happening right now? oh, my goodness! if they assassinate me and assassinate my character and make me look crazy or stupid, guess what? no one else will ever ask questions again. don't you see what's happening? >> trevor: i'm not lying, guys. my cousin's friend told me i was invited to the white house! look, i'll be honest with you, i can see both sides of this thing. i mean, it would be kind of weird for the white house to invite nicki minaj for that tweet. usu

our senior white house correspondent phil mattingly is joining us. phil, progressives, clearly they are digging in, so what's next for the white house? >> look, i think this is reality. when you talk to white house officials, wolf, they knew this was coming at some point. there's a recognition that over the course of the last eight or nine months to some degree, progressives particularly in the house have been good soldiers on legislative negotiations, on the covid relief package or the infrastructure bill, the bipartisan proposal that many progressives made clear they weren't happy with and the white house and congressional leaders said you'll get the $3.5 trillion and economic climate package. that's where your priorities will go. that is what's up in the air right now. this was always going to be an extraordinary complex needle to thread, and white house officials i've been talking to not just the last several days but last several days have acknowledged that fact but they have also made clear that they believe there is a way to find the sweet spo