wrapping up his first term in office with a tradition that goes back decades, hosting the previous president for the unveiling of his official presidential portrait. on that day, in may of 2012. obama made this statement about the point of these portraits, as an enduring member of the presidents temporary time in office serving the people. now the white house is many things at once. it is a working office. it is a living museum. it is an enduring symbol of our democracy. but at the end of the day, when the visitors go home and the lights go down, a few of us are blessed with the tremendous honor to actually live here. i think it is fair to say that every president is acutely aware that we are just temporary residence. we are renters here. we are charged with the upkeep and tell our lease runs out. but we also leave a police of ourself in this place. we are renters here. charged with the upkeep until our lease runs out. in 2012, we did not know how precious those remarks wer
things at once. it is a working office. it is a living museum. it is an enduring symbol of our democracy. but at the end of the day, when the visitors go home and the lights go down, a few of us are blessed with the tremendous honor to actually live here. i think it is fair to say that every president is acutely aware that we are just temporary residence. we are renters here. we are charged with the upkeep and tell our lease runs out. but we also leave a police of ourself in this place. we are renters here. charged with the upkeep until our lease runs out. in 2012, we did not know how precious those remarks were. there was no president biden fighting for the soul of this nation. there was no president trump fighting to stay in office, no insurrectionists storming the capitol. no top secret classified records taken from the white house and stored in a florida closet. none of that had happened yet. in fact, we wouldn t see an official white house portrait unveiling again for an
during today s event, the former president echoed the point he made back in 2012, that presidents are renters at the white house, and that their time there is temporary. i ve always described the presidency as ays relay race, y take the baton from someone, you run your leg as hard and as well as you can, and then you hand it off to someone else. knowing that your work will be incomplete. the portraits hanging in the white house chronicle theit runners in thatth race. each of us tasked with trying to bring the country we love closer toy its highest aspirations. now the reason this event was heldth today and not during trump s term in office, the reason it hasp been a decade since we ve seen one of these unveilings is because for the first time in u.s. history, the incumbent president refused to honor his predecessor with this rite of passage. trump never scheduled the ceremony and given the content, it might have been awkward for trump given his intention of not leaving t
roe v. wade. but republicans have the momentum, with voters saying inflation is still issue number one. plus, why the stakes are so high in the arizona governor s race. what i m seeing now is a movement of people who are ready to save our republic. it s not just about democrats or republicans, it s a choice between sanity and chaos. and how much longer will donald trump wait to announce a 2024 run? in order to make our country safe, successful, and glorious again, i will probably have to do it again. inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters, now. hello and welcome to inside politics. i m abby phillip. we are just over two weeks abuy from one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime. millions of voters are streaming to the polls, so we want to take a look at the state of play in the house, senate, and the governor s mansions across the country. while control of the senate still remains a jump ball, the latest poll shows vo
where in florida it will make landfall. we have team coverage. we begin with meteorologist with that brand-new forecast. adam. seeing it still continue to work its way across portions of the caribbean. we are running over very warm water. within the next 24 hours, that will allow us to really intensify the waters getting in the upper 80s, close to 90 degrees. that fuels these storms. a tropical storm becoming a much stronger, eventually, hurricane. by the time we get to tuesday afternoon overnight you will be passing very warm water. continuing to intensify. by wednesday evening, 125 mile-per-hour wind. category three hurricane. just shy of a category four. getting closer to the florida panhandle, that is the time we would be talking about landfall if it makes it that far. i will show you more in just a moment. this is one potential model. as the system continues to move to the north, we notice it becoming more of a defined eye wall. even if it does not make landfall, it w