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
the judges order put a temporary halt on the fbi s criminal investigation, but it weirdly permitted the odni s damage assessment to continue unimpeded. or at least that was the judges intent. but that s not how it works in reality. here is how former cia officer david priess sees that, according to the wall street journal. quote, it is a past difficult and more likely impossible to do a meaningful odni damage assessment while the fbi investigation is stalled. odni needs to know what documents were at mar-a-lago and who may have looked at them, priess said. that information is coming from the investigation by the fbi. the odni assessments operating in a vacuum without information from an active investigation of who had access to those documents. so this complicated ruling from the trump appointed judge could likely hamper not just a criminal investigation into the former president but also the intent to get to the bottom of a potentially deadly serious intelligence failure. joining us n
is to inform a trump going to judge, aileen cannon, to use a special master to review all of the documents taken from mar-a-lago. the judges order put a temporary halt on the fbi s criminal investigation, but it weirdly permitted the odni s damage assessment to continue unimpeded. or at least that was the judges intent. but that s not how it works in reality. here is how former cia officer david priess sees that, according to the wall street journal. quote, it is a past difficult and more likely impossible to do a meaningful odni damage assessment while the fbi investigation is stalled. odni needs to know what documents were at mar-a-lago and who may have looked at them, priess said. that information is coming from the investigation by the fbi. the odni assessments operating in a vacuum without information from an active investigation of who had access to those documents. so this complicated ruling from the trump appointed judge could likely hamper not just a criminal investigation int