Tv documents americas story and on sundays book tv brings you the latest nonfiction books and authors. Funding for cspan2 come from these Television Companies and more including natco. Metco along with these Television Companies support cspan2 as a public service. Welcome i am Elizabeth Christian i am ceo of Elizabeth Christian Public Relations and advice chair of the lbj foundation. On behalf of the lbj foundation in the obj library it is my pleasure to welcome you here tonight for an evening with, tonight we are really lucky to have carol, she has just written a book about the secret service and a good friend evan smith, ceo and founder of the Texas Tribune is going to be interviewing her tonight about this. What we know lady bird and Lyndon Johnson had the highest possible estate for the secret service, Dwight Eisenhower found him calling them soldiers without uniform. The last couple of decades the reputation of the secret service was taking a beating. Im hoping that carol can real
To south america, will get to that and i want to ask you what about that story struck a chord . Obviously not everything you write for the paper that it has a book in mind. The secret service story, when i was drawn into this in 2012 he was the two sides of the coin. These are patriots who we all think are ethe elite of the elite or at least thats a hollywood impression but are now super fit, sunglasses, but as i did more and more reporting i found out there was a lot of seriously concerning facts. They are willing to take a bullet for the president but a lot of times they were dodging the bullet a lot of times they were covering up, not the secrets of the president but their own mishaps, their own misconduct. Host someone i was h thinking about was the immediate environment we are in today the carol leonnigs of the world tell laus everything so we donthave to worry. We see both the visible part of the iceberg and submerged part but in times past when there were not carol leonnigs and
I dont have the number. I think the east wing could probably get you an answer. Ill make sure i put out that number. Theyre working on final numbers. Theyre starting Ticket Distribution so i should be able to get you a number. Sean, you said last month that the white house was reviewing the policy on visitor laws. Right. Will the white house voluntarily release those visitor logs . I think we should have an answer on our policy very shortly on that. Okay. Then a question on syria. Secretary tillerson said this morning that it was the United States hope that Bashar Al Assad would not be part of syrias future, it is up to the people of syria to make that determination. At the same time, the question is now whether the white houses position that assad is a bad actor and it would be ideal if he would go, or whether the white house thinks that the atrocities that hes committed are absolutely unacceptable and he must go, period. As i mentioned yesterday, i dont see a peaceful, stable syria i
White house Officials Say when it comes to the staff of the president , they wanted to make sure this was the kind of weekend he could enjoy with his family, his wife and children. And give that brek, that opportunity to the Top White House staff. But he does have his Deputy National security adviser k. T. Mcfarland at maralago to go ahead and give him any briefings. They were watching overnight to see if there was any kind of activity, and that did not happen, so, you know, they are certainly kind of theyre not standing down but not as much tension. We havent seen the president tweet either. Some people expected maybe he might do that over the weekend. Well still see. But the one thing that we are keeping our eye on is the Vice President , Vice President mike pence. What he is doing on his trip to the asiapacific region. Hes going to be visiting several nations, including japan, indonesia and australia, but his first trip is going to be critical, his first stop being south korea, and
Place . And tweet stormy. Porn star Stormy Daniels launches a tweet storm, firing back at critics questioning her motives and insulting her career. Daniels says she never claimed to be a victim. What about the other women whose cases against President Trump have working their way through the courts . We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Were following multiple breaking stories this hour, including new details of the topics special Counsel Robert Mueller wants to ask President Trump about as part of the russia investigation. Sources are now telling cnn that there are four areas of interest to muellers team. Senator Richard Blumenthal of the Judiciary Committee, hes here. Hes standing by to talk about the breaking news, along with our experts and analysts. First, lets get straight to our senior white house correspondent, Pamela Browne. Pamela, tell our viewers what the