enter mississippi. reporter: however, soon after arriving in mississippi, three volunteers, two white, one black, left the group to investigate a church burning. schwerner, chaney, and goodman, two white jewish kids and a black kid from mississippi did not come back by the appointed check time. three civil rights workers that disappeared in mississippi still have not been heard from. people are calling reporters, saying they re missing civil rights workers in mississippi. that was one of the reasons that allowed for this real convergence of press interests that went right up into the white house. mrs. schwerner, i have talked to the governor there and he is making all the facilities in the state available in the search. it became the dominant story of the summer. did mr. schwerner ever tell you in his own words why he came down here? he wanted to find what he could do about an intolerable situation. reporter: very quickly, the
investigate a church burning. schwerner, chaney, and goodman, two white jewish kids and a black kid from mississippi did not come back by the appointed check time. three civil rights workers that disappeared in mississippi still have not been heard from. people are calling reporters, saying they re missing civil rights workers in mississippi. that was one of the reasons that allowed for this real convergence of press interests that went right up into the white house. mrs. schwerner, i have talked to the governor there and he is making all the facilities in the state available in the search. it became the dominant story of the summer. did mr. schwerner ever tell you in his own words why he came down here? he wanted to findhahe could do about an intolerable situation. reporter: very quickly, the media focused on rita schwerner, the telegenic wife of missing activist michael schwerner. the people in this country have had enough. they went all over rita.
reporter: however, soon after arriving in mississippi, three volunteers, two white, one black, left the group to investigate a church burning. schwerner, chaney, and goodman, two white jewish kids and a black kid from mississippi did not come back by the appointed check time. three civil rights workers that disappeared in mississippi still have not been heard from. people are calling reporters, saying they re missing civil rights workers in mississippi. that was one of the reasons that allowed for this real convergence of press interests that went right up into the white house. mrs. schwerner, i have talked to the governor there and he is making all the facilities in the state available in the search. it became the dominant story of the summer. did mr. schwerner ever tell you in his own words why he came down here? he wanted to find what he could do about an intolerable situation. reporter: very quickly, the
statement directed at the white house and president believe that the memo was misleading and should not be released. cnn political reporter rebecca is with us. rebecca, walk us through this latest development here about david sorensen, the speechwriter who has now been accused of d domestic violence and is now out at the white house. reporter: the white house announced yesterday he was resigning the position, he left the white house or was on the cusp of leaving the white house. they noted in their statement they made this decision before they received any press questions, any press interests in his case, they wanted to make the point, of course, they take these allegations very seriously, they weren t waiting to act, trying to rebut some of the criticism they received in
moments before the press conference is set to begin so because it looks like we are owe an a little bit of a delay we haven t seen that just yet. you might be noticing the bobs heads at the bottom of the screen, people walking in, you go is are good, very nicely ducking out of our way, just members of the media, american and german media getting settled, getting into their seats here as everybody continues to make their way into the east room. obviously a ton of press interests here. you can see people seated in the room, so we are waiting for the president obviously for the german chancellor. they have in a meeting in the oval office. you probably saw a little bit of that pool spray, apparently the president was asked if nato was a topic of conversation. he said we ve talked about a lot of things, as chancellor merkel said in german it was good to sort of be in touch and i m paraphrasing here. so the anticipation s building i would say. you can see i think it s a sound check if i m li