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
the florida property. for context, here s what the post says about what the documents found are typically handled. some of the seized documents u.s. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. only the president, some members of his cabinet or near-cabinet level officials to know details of these special access programs and details of such classified operations require special clearances on a need to know basis and not just top secret clearance. records that deal with such programs are kept under lock and key almost always in a secret, compartmentalized facility with a designated control officer on keep careful tabs on their location, but despite the fact that these documents are normally, typically out of reach, totally inaccessible to all, but a teeny, tiny handful of top government officials and kept in the most highly secure facilities that the u.s. government has ever created, these documents were sitting
turn in a mystery, a body and a car have been found west of reno, nevada. the body is keily, a volunteer dive group says. hello and welcome, everyone. sandra smith in new york. john: good to have you back. john roberts in washington. pacer county sheriff s office has not confirmed the identify, we expect an update on the investigation an hour from announcement keily rodni has been missing since the 6th of august, vanished from a graduation party near a reservoir with other teens. sandra: police have been treating it as a possible abduction and followed up on 2,000 leads and the fbi joining the search, along with hundreds of investigators. john: claudia is in sausalito, california with the latest. search and rescue group with the popular youtube channel is credited with finding a car that other dive teams somehow missed. that s right, john. adventures with purpose is a volunteer dive team that helps find missing people. they joined the search for keily rodni on friday
pence faced to refuse to count lawful electoral votes. earlier on morning joe, january 6th committee member adam schiff previewed the hearing and the seriousness of the committee s work. you can expect to see stuff you haven t seen before interwoven with things you have, but to tell the story in, i hope, a compelling way. our democracy today is more vulnerable than it was on january 6th because the lie that brought about that violence continues to to proliferate around the country. also on capitol hill, the gun deal framework just got a big en ment from republican leader, mitch mcconnell. ahead i will talk to democratic senator debbie stabenow whose own mental health legislation is now part of that framework deal. do you remember 1994? pulp fiction was in theaters. the sign by ace of base was the number one son. now, the fed is raising interest levels to rates not seen since that year. how that affects you and everything you buy, from gas to groceries in moments.