nixon. >> thank you very much. ♪ ♪ >> he's advanced by people who intend to vote for nixon because he has more experience than kennedy, particularly in foreign affairs. ♪ ♪ >> based on the record crowds, and they have been record crowds, press, please note, bigger than any that anybody has ever had. ♪ ♪ >> this isn't a test of looks, it's a test of what you've got upstairs. >> a can or two, please, right here. >> what am i seeing? what do you want me to do, this? >> good to see you. >> good to see you. >> mr. nixon arrived at the studios first. >> it doesn't show. am ion this side? >> i think he's supposed to stand here. in other words, you say we now have questions, gentlemen, then we move over here, right? >> right. >> good? >> but the master tactician made one major tactical mistake. >> david, will you hit the one-minute button please? and the cut, please. >> you want to cut quickly? >> we figure when you see 30 seconds -- >> all right. thanksmrs. murphy. unitedhealthcare, hi, i need help getting an appointment with my podiatrist. how's wednesday at 2? i can't. dog agility.

everybody was advising nixon to drop it. that it would kill his career. >> but somehow i had a feeling. i said there's something about that fellow that doesn't ring true. >> it is the intention of the committee on un-american activities to pursue this investigation until we put the spotlight on those high officials in the state department who are responsible for selling this country down the river. >> i am holding in my hand a microfilm of the most confidential highly secret state department documents. this microfilm was made for the purpose of transmitting these documents in reduced form to the soviet union. >> we knew that we had there the hard evidence that we had lacked before. and this involved espionage. that was what eventually brought hiss's indictment and his conviction of perjury. >> alger hiss, one-time high government official, will lose all civil rights after a year in pris prison. >> got a great deal of political mileage out of the conviction of alger hiss. had a great deal to do with his future career. >> i'm

richard nixon needs those votes. this is the moment when the republican party starts to reach out to what was traditionally a democratic working base. it was a base of white ethnics that had been part of the new deal coalition in the 1930's. we tend to think of working-class whites as being democrats. they are only democrats for about 30 years. nixon understands that democrats want security. we talked earlier, social security, different programs. people want security. they are defenders of the new deal social safety net. there aren't wallace republicans -- democrats, old democrats from the democratic coalition. those people want to keep the new deal. they are not interested in republican economics as they are being described. a syndicated columnist later says his definition of american conservatives -- americans are conservatives, what they want to preserve is the new deal. what do they want in this new deal? he is not there anymore, wallace 's american independent party calls for increases in national healthcare, an

he didn't think it would be nixon. nixon had other people to do these things. he made it clear to the chain of command that unless you hear the voice of the president of the united states, you may not move troops. that is how nervous the pentagon was that richard nixon would hang on to power. after the supreme court unanimously found that the president had to turn over the tapes, richard nixon did not want to obey the supreme court. it took 7 hours. we don't really know how he was prevailed upon. i write in the big that al hague defected to the union at that point. president nixon did not want to obey the supreme court. because we have a separation of powers, there are opportunities for the president to say no. fortunately, president nixon saw the writing on the wall and left. who knows what this president would do in a similar situation? >> these gentlemen need to get through the room to where they are signing books. if you would just stay in your seats until they have exited the auditorium, please. gentlemen, thanks so much. [applause] >> it is an honor and a

the nixon thing was different. nixon was, in fact, the model for what they did. when the house judiciary committee, decided they were going to pursue articles of impeachment, they literally took the nixon ones and pasted language into their own. the house judiciary committee chairman in the watergate era was a man named rodino who used his name for a password for the computer when they were drafting the articles of impeachment in 1998. that's what you typed into the computer to get them, so they were very consciously modeling what they were doing on nixon's. the problem is, they are trying to fit a square peg into a circular hole or vice versa, whatever, and they were trying to fit a different set of facts into what made watergate unique, and, in doing so, they tripped themselves up, because then they set the standard that high and the question is, could you meet that standard? is everything short of watergate not impeachable or not? that was a question they couldn't answer, to the satisfaction of the country, in effect. so, you're right. watergate was a very liv

nixon is still holding onto the lead in the electoral board. >> in maryland, nixon jumped ahead in the lead. >> missouri has flopped over to the nixon column. >> kennedy has a slight lead in texas. this will be important. >> this turns into a seesaw battle in quite a few of the states all night long. >> the vote has now reached roughly 14 million. >> kennedy in the lead by about a million. >> the board shows kennedy ahead, very close still. >> we just heard from los angeles from vice president nixon's election night headquarters his aides say he remains confident of victory. >> i have a philosophy that this country is a country of destiny. i happen to believe that through the years our people in some way know how to select the man for president that the times need and that the country needs. >> a hundred hands go up in a peace sign. >> great presidents have really articulated what people felt at the time. and it was because they were representative of the tide of the times that they were president. >> mr. president, mr. vice president, you almost convinced me there for a moment. >> joh

over president nixon's veto. the one thing every president since nixon has in common is they have interpreted the war powers act as an unconstitutional infringement on executive policy. the paris peace agreement was negotiated i henry kissinger, unsurprisingly. it left the north vietnamese and viet cong troops. to address the basic issue of the war they had gotten into in the first place. this was whether vietnam would be one country or two countries. that question is addressed in the spring of 1975 when it north vietnam launches a military assault on the north -- excuse me against the south and the americans failed to intervene. 1975 americans glued to their television sets watched as north vietnamese tanks rolled into saigon and as american helicopters and from the americans united states embassy in south vietnam. if you have seen those images, they are really retching because they have people getting onto the helicopters and people desperately trying to get on also. the final cost of the war in vietnam can be

nixon figures out what he's doing and so almost immediately after nixon wins the election, he nixon issues a public statement inviting him earl warren to remain in place for the remainder of the term. basically saying he doesn't want to recess appointment. johnson concedes that the game is up he calls warren, and complain about the situation, this like his conversation with abe fortas, it was quite an improper call. because basically we have johnson and warren trying to come up with this game to replace the. at this conversation is from november 1968 and this is the last time that lbj thinks of the possibility of a supreme court nominee. >> well the press will be asking us what right does nixon have to save this will end january 20, that does, have we committed that we will not name anyone or leave them in a bad shape but goldberg will what we said the goldberg was this, i told people to talk to him and i don't think he can get confirmed and i think it would be tragic for his like. that be, if there were evidence that i was wrong, i would certainly want to preserve it the court if i could.

in 1972, nixon won re-election by a historic landslide. >> i richard nixon solemnly swear -- >> the watergate story was still growing. just weeks after the election, inside the oval office, richard nixon declared war on the press. sounds familiar? >> you are the enemy of the people. >> i call the fake news the enemy of the people. there are other reminders of the president. donald trump directs particular anger at certain news organizations. >> cnn which is so bad or pathetic. they are the fake, fake, disgusting news. nixon went after the washington post, who bern steen led the watergate coverage. >> i want no reporters from the washington post to ever be in the white house, is that clear in none, that's a total order and if necessary, i will fire you. do you understand? >> i do understand. >> nixon hated the press. because it was digging into the very story he was desperate to hide. that the white house was deeply involved in the watergate cover up. his campaign seemed to work early in his second term. nixon's approval ratings soared. but then came the first crack in the white house's defens

. >> he says to nixon i'm really interested in foreign policy and nixon gives him the u.n. job. >> george and barbara move to a glamorous new address. the ambassador suite in the waldorf historia hotel. >> lots of stories about how cool it was. >> the relief for me is really great to know my family is so happy after a tough defeat in november. >> when he gets to the u.n. he realizes how much he loves foreign policy. >> he was intrigued by the need to do business. he found he was pretty good at it. >> my grandfather developed so many friendships in that early phase in the 70s that he would have for the rest of his life and frankly benefit our country. >> it was the very beginning of george bush's mastery of foreign policy. after two years at the united nations george is hungry for something greater. >> george bush is referred to as the star of the family. bush knows that he's been ticketed, that's he's been chosen. >> i think he would want to go beyond that. he had his eyes set on becoming president. but his father and mother encouraged him to be ambitious on the inside. his

what you see is a chasm between nixon and the nixon on tv. is there always a huge gap between the manicured professional face of the presidency and the real person? >> fascinating question. it gets to an issue with nixon that you often hear which is, well, sure, watergate. sure, he was forced to resign. he was just doing things all presidents and politicians do. i hope that the takeaway from studying the nixon era isn't a cynical takeaway. if that's true, that means every single one of our presidents is a crook. the difference is some get caught and others don't. what i think -- i hope the viewers will see, first of all, that they can make up their own mind. this is nixon talking to them. there is no screen, no filter. unfiltered, unplugged. they'll come to understand the panoply of deeds that led republicans and democrats to decide this man has to leave the office of the president. >> here for yourself, along those lines. you also learn from nixon prewatergate. what do we learn from nixon about prior to 1972? >> one of the things that you wa

you worked with president nixon. in this series, we hear a lot of nixon in his own words, in candid moments, without a filter. does it paint an accurate picture of him as a person and as a politician? >> i think it's a very accurate picture. i like the fact that it was original footage. it doesn't look like it's been in any way enhanced and you feel like you're there. it's what we actually looked at, at the time. and given the four hours, you really get a you see the good points and the bad points. >> you and your partner broke the watergate story that led to the end of nixon's presidency. when did you realize this was connected to the white house? >> very early. there was a secret fund, a secret fund that was maintained by nixon's top campaign advisers that we found out about eight weeks after the break in had been controlled by people very close to nixon ask in his campaign. and once we knew that, even though there were denials all around, it was evident that there were connections to the white house. it was imposs

the nixon defense collapsed. >> nixon was actually engineering the cover-up with his top aide. that is obstruction of justice. >> the realization that the president has lied to you must be soul crushing. or enraging. maybe both. >> oh, my god. he lied to me. bad enough he lied to the country. but he lied to me. and it's an incredibly sad moment for bush because he reveres his country and the presidency as its highest office. he. >> the following day george attends the president's cabinet meeting. >> normally the cabinet applauds the president. no applause this day. >> those around the table are looking at him with anger. looking at him with disdain. >> and nixon starts talk about the greatest crisis that our country is facing. the economy. >> and the cabinet looks at him, what the hell is he talking about? >> one by one they begin to tell the president that there is a very severe problem. >> nixon looks at bush across the cabinet room table and he mouths the word "george." and it's a very difficult moment for bush. on the one hand, nixon has helped him. he's helped nurture his

v nixon july of 1974, 8-0. there was one who recused himself, which was william rehnquist, who had served in the nixon justice department. so if donald trump has been advised that this can go up through the courts and it will go to a supreme court to which he has appointed kavanaugh and gorsuch, his two appointments might defend him in the end, i think he better look back at nixon and realize that history rhymes. >> in terms of the white house rolling this out explicitly, that's the other part of this that strikes me here. we are not at a point where there is a specific document that a lot of people believe may be a smoking gun. >> right. >> that they're trying to pry out of the white house and the white house knows how damning it's going to be. this isn't exactly the same kind of standoff, the specific standoff they had over those white house tapes. we had testimony as to what was on the tapes. >> and we all wanted to hear the tapes. >> everybody. this is the white house in advance broadly asserting that they

it's primarily nixon talking to all of you. it's both the public nixon and the private nixon. so what i think will happen is many people will actually be learning more about richard nixon and getting an understanding of why he dominated our political imagination for nearly half a century. >> because i think when people hear the word nixon, their minds automatically go to watergate. you're here to share with us there is so much more to his political career. >> well, it's a four-part series, and it's not a four-part series about watergate. the team used oral histories that were made for the first nixon foundation in the 1970s by people who went to school with richard nixon, who remember him as a boy. so this is about his growing up in california. it's also about his early political career. it's as complete a package as possible given the vintage video, the films, and the tapes we have available. you will hear richard nixon a lot. and i am sure that much of what you hear you've never heard before. >> what are the parallels that you see of nixon and the trump administration? >> we

we think of nixon as the man -- nixon came to master the medium of television. we see evidence of that. and then, of course, we see nixon and hear nixon speak with great fury about groups of americans, about the press and to speak with the callus disregard for vietnamese life. we hear this because he recorded himself. >> those are in private and you hear that discourse today very much in private. >> be sure to tune in for the premiere of "tricky dick" this sunday at 9:00 eastern time only on cnn. >> that looks fascinating. >>> the drama building in the senate. how many republican senators will actually join their democratic colleagues to rebuke the president's national emergency declaration? we are all over it. stay with cnn. ♪ ♪ do you love me? ♪ ♪ i can really move ♪ ♪ do you love me? ♪ i'm in the groove ♪ now do you love me? ♪ do you love me ♪ now that i can dance? ♪ watch me now! ♪ work, work, ah work it out baby ♪ applebee's 3 course meal starting at $11.99. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. a lot will happen in your life

most people saw that nixon's what you don't do in politics. trump is a child of nixon. he saw nixon as the guy who not only won in 1968 and beat the liberals but won in 1972 in the biggest landslide in american history over george mcgovern. so i promise you when you look at 2020 donald trump's again looking at how nixon did it in 1972 because he doesn't have a historical mind, trump, but he does have a memory of his own lifetime and he wants to turn the democratic party to a hard left candidate like mcgovern was and use issues like abortion or, you know, women's rights, demonize the "me too" movement and civil rights. very much taking a page oust nixon playbook. >> and i think actually trump is worse than nixon because nixon had compensating virtues that he was a foreign policy virtuoso and in domestic policy he was actually fairly liberal. i mean, he started the epa. he started osha. he did a lot of good things. and with trump it's hard to see what are the countervailing virtues for all of this villainy, which is in plain sight. >> yeah. well, i've got to tell you guys

nixon grew up poor, trumpn wealthy. nixon served in the military, trump got a deferral. nixon was undeniably wrapped up in the watergate affair and he resigned. trump, so far there has been no insfutable truth he has broken any law, nor that he will walk away from the white house. tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> be sure to tune in tonight for the cnn original series, tricky dick, exploring the rise and fall of richard nixon with never-before-seen footage. it airs at 9:00 eastern and pacific here on cnn. we'll be right back. e card... you'll earn unlimited double miles on every purchase, every day... not just "airline purchases". think about all the double miles you could be earning... (loud) holy moley that's a lot of miles!!! shhhhh! ♪ what's in your wallet? shhhhh! with the most lobster dishes lobsterfesof the yearred lobster like lobster lover's dream and new ultimate lobsterfest surf and turf. so come lobsterfest today! and now for a limited time, get ten percent off red lobster to go. [laughter] ♪ ♪ "i'm okay." ♪ ♪ so how are you enjoying your it's just l

this as nixon, carter, nixon, ford and now carter are going to this monumental problem. it is a gordian knot. meg: yeah, and not to give it away. it's history. bill: spoiler alert. meg: nothing good is going to come, nothing good is going to come of jimmy carter's very sincere effort to try to grapple with the energy crisis. so jimmy carter comes into office in january 1977 and you might all remember one of the sort of iconic moments is when he gets out of the limousine and he's going to walk to capitol hill to the white house. bill: it is freezing that day. meg: you just told my line. bill: i'm sorry. let's go back. what was one of the iconic moments? meg: what was amazing about this moment is that it is one of the coldest days and all of washington's history. the country was suffering from this deep-freeze. suffering, so it , this really miami unusual historic weather. and here he is shedding his overcoat and walking, and it is a problem, the energy crisis is a problem from day one. and it is not long before he appears on tv. this is the moment he wears the cardigan sw

the nixon story is interesting because nixon pushed republicans over the edge. by his misconduct. announcer: learn more about the history of presidential impeachment sunday at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern on the presidency. you are watching american history tv only on c-span3. announcer: next, claire potter, history professor at the new school. she talks about the 1969 stonewall riots. and the rise of the gay-rights movement. she describes the uprising and reflects on the legacy of stonewall inn now a national monument in new york city. we recorded this 18 minute interview in chicago at the american historical association meeting. steve: claire potter is someone who studies and teaches history at the new school and writes about it. let's talk about the stonewall riots. in the 50th anniversary is 1969. coming up this june. what happened? prof. potter: stonewall riots. well, one night, when the patrons of stonewall inn, who were on the margins of the gay community, not the people we think of now as being at the center of gay, lesbian and transgender politics. but rather prostitute

>> there is actually a great twitter account as someone who poses as nixon, dick nixon. he does a good job of capturing his voice. what we see in that account as historians and what he would do, nixon would do here today. have somewhat of a fighter instinct that we see in trump. he would be more restrained. nixon was careful about what he said so we have all of these examples of nixon flying off the handle and using colorful language, attacking opponents. it's behind the scenes. instead, with trump it's all right out there in the public sphere. >> if you could go back to the 1990s, start of social media, do you think the pioneers of, you know, social media and technology really understood where they were heading? >> no, i don't think so. i don't think they thought about it that much. there is a real movement in the mid-1990s where they see the internet is going to be this free and open space and self-regulate, self-govern. it won't impact the real world. place. be a separate i don't think they saw the real impact it would have on day-to-day life, the way in which it woul

nixon grew up poor, trump wealthy. nixon served in the navy, trump got a deferral. nixon was a career politician, trump not. of course, nixon was undeniably wrapped up in the watergate affair and he resigned. trump, so far, there's been no indisputable proof that he has broken any law, nor that he will walk away from the white house. tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> "tricky dick" premiers sunday at 9:00 p.m. tweet the show @the lead. our coverage continues right now. thanks for watching. xxx. >>> rebuking the president. the president is vowing a veto. >>> mueller support. extraordinary show of support for the special counsel robert mueller as the house votes, get this, 420-0 to urge the justice department to make the mueller report public. >>> beto believe it. another democrat squeezes into the 2020 race as former congressman beto o'rourke announces his presi

nixon saw enemies everywhere in the shadows when they weren't there. >> you brought up richard nixon so i just want to play a clip now. this is from a new cnn original series. it's called "tricky dick." >> i don't give a damn what the story is. >> richard m. nixon has lied repeatedly. >> no reporter from "the washington post" should ever be in the white house again. do you understand? the tougher it gets, the cooler i get. i have what it takes. >> defeat nixon now. defeat nixon now. >> i want to say this to the television because the people have to know whether their president's a crook. well, i'm not a crook. let others wallow in watergate. we're going to do our job. i'm going to kick their ass. >> no one's going to package me. no one's going to make me put on an act for television. i'm not going to engage in any gimmicks or stunts, where any silly hats. if people looking at me say that's a new nixon, well all i can say is maybe you didn't know the old nixon. >> in looking at that i just wonder if the folks in this administration realize that history's being written in every moment

that says it all about the nixon administration. later, presidents referred to vietnam with explicit lessons -- without explicit lessons learned to apply to their administrations and the wars they got into. reagan did call the war a noble cause. he said this in front of the veterans of foreign wars convention. a very safe place to say that. george h w bush said that with the win in the gulf war, we finally kicked the vietnam syndrome. this particular picture is probably during ronald reagan's time. it is interesting to see in the photograph that nixon is here because by this time obviously he had resigned in disgrace but brought back. maybe it was ronald reagan telling one of his notorious jokes. now to the military. here we have the secretary of defense robert mcnamara, in the middle is colin powell. at the end is david petraes. robert mcnamara served as secretary of defense under john kennedy from 1961 until november of 1963. he continued with lyndon johnson until february, 1968. after that service. mcnamara served as president of

nixon served in the navy and trump got a medical deferral. nixon was a career politician. trump, not. of course, nixon was undeniably wrapped up in the watergate affair and he resigned. trump, so far there has been no indisputable proof he has broken any law, nor that he will walk away from the white house. tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> be sure to watch "tricky dick" that premieres tonight at 9:00 eastern here on cnn. >>> if you want to pencil in a winner in your bracket, i'm told you should pick duke. >> don't go by what we say but what he says. >> coy is here. >> we are never quite right. >> yes. they have the best player in all of college basketball, zion williamson who is a megastart since high school and a million instagram followers in high school and 3 million now and only 18. you can argue his name is well known as more than known 95% of players in the nba already. still all of that and this kid is humble. zion led duke to a 73-63 win over florida state in the acc championship last night. just three games back after injuring his knee, he was unstoppable averagin

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it changes the politics of the situation for richard nixon. >> most demanded impeaching nixon. >> nixon was forced to appoint a new special prosecutor and as the months went on, he was forced to turnover the tapes. white house council john dean's system turned out to be entirely accurate. >> they were going to cost a million dollars over the next two years. >> it was clear, nixon's defenses were beginning to crumble. >> would you consider the crimes to be impeachable if they did apply to you? >> well, i have also quit beating my wife. >> the meeting will come to order. >> in july of 1974 in a packed hearing room, the committee began to debate removing the president. >> make no mistake about it, this is a turning point. whatever we decide. >> the committee chairman was a democratic liberal from new jersey. he was new to the job. some doubted whether he could handle it. >> a highly partisan prosecution if ever there was one. >> many were angry and still improvab improvable. for republicans, impeaching their president was political suicide so they kept holding out for more evidence. >> the

nixon grew up poor, trump wealthy and nixon served in the navy and trump got a medical defestival. nixon was a career politician. trump, not. and of course, nixen was undeniably wrapped up in the water gate affair and he resigned. trump so far, there has been no in disputable proof that he has broken any law, nor that he will walk away from the white house. tom foreman, cnn, washington. >>> and be sure to watch "tricky dick" premiering tomorrow night 9:00 eastern, only on cnn. thanks for being with me today. i'm fredricka whitfield. the news continues with ana cabrera after this. um ah, i'll look into it. lisa jones! hey carl, what are you charging me for online equity trades? laughs/umm.. and do i get my fees back if i'm not happy? like a satisfaction guarantee? ugh. schwab! oh right, i'm calling schwab. thanks, carl! (click). wait, lisa! lisa... are you getting low costs backed by a satisfaction guarantee? if not, talk to schwab. a modern approach to wealth management. when cravings hit, hit back. choose glucerna, with slow release carbs to help manage blood sugar, and start maki

earlier today i was talking about him and someone was asking about nixon versus trump, and i said nixon was so much more gentlemanly. lawrence, would you ever think of using the word gentlemanly in connection with richard nixon? that's what this has all come to. but, you know, the line that you were using from the tape of this day in 1973, those are things that donald trump could have said. and you have to imagine that they may be things that he is saying in private during the next couple of weeks because, as you well know and have talked about, elijah cummings and others are saying that the things that the house democrats are asking for from the trump white house, they are stonewalling. >> david corn, collusion is not a legal term. there is no crime called collusion, but the president loves saying "no collusion." you today are saying yes, collusion. >> i'm saying we got caught in a trap of focusing whether there was criminal collusion, whatever that might be, as the only standard by which to judge trump in the trump scandal. but if you actually look at what we know already without the

the old nixon. >> joining us now, the author of the book "the nixon tapes," douglas brinkley. it's really incredible to hear nixon in his own words. when you listen to all of this archival material, what stands out to you about his character as a person and as a politician? >> what really stands out, wolf, were the clips you just played, that i'm a tough guy, i'm going to get you bastards, i'm going to bottom the bejesus out of them. he wants to usurp power by using harsh and forceful language. there's also in the tapes nixon the strategist. there's no doubt about it when he's talking about russia or the cold war day taunt or the 1972 break to china and you think what a stateperson, but the overall impression is he's trying to bully advisers or anyone around him when it's at a private moment. if the boy scouts come in the office, he puts on the smiley nixon, but most of the tapes are unvarnished. >> you wrote about the tapes and they turned out to be the smoking gun. when you look at the scandal that president trump is navigating right now, what precedent have those tapes set?

they did not try to bring an indictment against president nixon. what they did is present the factual record. which was a 62-page document. it was essentially a guide, a lot of people called it a road map to the hundreds of documents and multiple tape recordings that grand jury obtained and reviewed and come to see as relevant to the president's potential criminal actions. they packed up all that evidence. they wrote up this terse document summarizing that evidence, giving congress the information they thought congress would need to be able to make a decision about what to do next. there were no recommendations as to what congress should do. there were no conclusions drawn as to whether or not the president had committed crimes. it was just the facts. just the factual record. and in the end, congress did decide to use that road map of evidence collected by the grand jury as the basis for their impeachment articles against richard nixon first and foremost on the basis of his alleged obstruction of justice. and while grand jury information really is

versus trump and i said, nixon was so much more gentlemenly. bough ever think of using the word gentlemenly in connection with richard nixon? the line you were using for the tape this day in 1973, those are things donald trump could have said as you know, and have talked about, elijah cummings and others are saying that the things that the house democrats are asking for from the trump white house, they are stonewalling. >> david corn collusion is not a legal term, there's no crime called collusion but the president loves saying no collusion. you today are saying yes collusion. >> i'm saying that what mueller -- we got caught in a trap of focusing on whether there was criminal collusion. whatever that might be, as the only standard by which to judge trump and the trump scandal. if you look at what we know already. without the mueller report, the mueller indictments, what we know is that trump while he was campaigning for president, he was including to do a business deal and he went to putin's own often to get help and he lied about that he had n

and the nixon tapes, that was one of the most closely held secrets in the nixon white house, a member of the senate watergate committee staff basically guessed that perhaps nixon was taping his private conversations and asked a serving white house aid alexander butterfield, that's the traditional way very different from what we're seeing with the documents from the trump white house. >> to take it further, if donald trump, the president of the united states ordered the security clearances to be granted over the objections of national security, national security staff, grant testified in the whisky ring scandal. there is a president for a president of the united states giving testimony to a special prosecutor no less. >> sure. >> could you see he has to do that. >> gerald ford testified before the house saying that there was no deal leading to the nixon pardon. he did that to the fall of 1974. there sure is. some of these old traditions, executive privilege is a tradition. it's not something that's in the contusion. >> yeah. and lastly, is there an person that has so much debt looking

in nixon's case you had two special prosecutors going after nixon, you had the senate watergate committee going after him in 1973, judiciary committee talking impeachment in 1974. comparatively it was sort of a linear process. in this case this has gone all sorts of different ways that were very different from the nixon case and to some extent reflects how different life is in the united states from 2019 from 1974. and even more than that, donald trump a very different president from richard nixon. and in nixon's case, he was never accused of consorting with a foreign power. that's something very different. >> what do you think is different from our politics today? you mentioned the watergate hearings. we know it was the senate republicans in richard nixon's own party who ultimately were the reason why he lost the support he needed to stay in office. what's different from those republicans then or our body of politics and willingness to go along with this? >> in nixon's case he was always dealing with a hostile congress. the dems had both houses. so he felt he could not miss a trick. as w

i mean, stonewall is nixon stuff p pi pip. i mean, the idea that he's advised all these people around his father, oh, just don't go along with these calls. is eric talking for the old man or is he out of the action? >> i think it's hard to see whether or not he's talking to his father, but what i can say is the behavior of eric trump mirrors the behavior of the white house. i've been talking to officials all week, and what they tell me is the white house is going to do what they legally have to do. the key word there, they're waiting for there to be a subpoena. the officials i've been talking to tell me that the president and people in the white house have been gearing up since the democrats took back control of the house. >> yamiche, i've got to interrupt. this is too wild. this is too wild. so the president of the united states is writing out checks to cover up a relationship he had with a -- whatever, adult film hero or whatever the hell she was. and he's doing this and that's called executive -- that has to do with the nat

so the distance between the real nixon and the televised nixon was huge. and so the american public felt really deeply betrayed by him when they figured out who he was. donald trump has never pretended to embrace the norms of the presidency. and so the distance between what could be the behind-the-scenes trump and the tweeter trump, well, the twitter trump might not actually be that great. which might lead to less of a sense of betrayal. and that sense of betrayal in 1974 helped spell the doom for the nixon administration. >> not following the norms you could argue is one of the reasons? people voted for him. they didn't want the norms to be followed. michael caputo, thank you. kirsten powers. tim naftali, fascinating. is there an alarming new global political era at least partly attributable to president trump that in effect says anything goes? that's what "new york times" columnist tom friedman thinks. i'll talk to him next. ron! soh really? going on at schwab. thank you clients? well jd power did just rank them highest in investor satisfaction with full

of nixon, it's nixon who pushes washington and many americans over a psychological dge and he does that when he fires cox. hen he forces the justice department to fire archibald cox and the attorney general says no, the deputy attorney general and this yale scholar, way,t bourque, who, by the he didn't want to do it either ut he felt that the president had the authority, in article 2, to do it and he fired archibald that raised the question of president nixon's legitimacy. just for partisans. that's the key part of the story that interested me, because, you know, we've done a lot of writing about nixon, and when jeff asked us, you know, to do book together, the story i wanted to understand, because of moment we political live in, is, was everybody 1974?san in and why was it that republicans nixon?ainst richard and that's the story, that's what interest me, because we all can we wonder sometimes, be bipartisan, and the nixon is interesting because nixon pushed republicans over by his misconduct. >> learn more about the history presidential impeachment sunday at 8:00 p.m. and midnight pre