president nixon or richard nixon ran on a campaign of law and order. drugs was part of that in terms of the social disruption that was going on in 1968. but drugs during that campaign meant l.s.d. and marijuana. it did not mean heroin. it had to do with the social chaos that was associated with the drug problem during that campaign. then when nixon ran against the crime he called washington -- the crime capital of the nation, and he focused on crime in washington, d.c. as an example country that the he was going to take care of. when he came in he had an agenda, lots of things on his mind. washington, d.c. was not the highest of his priority. but a group of business people including katharine graham and eric bennett williams met with gibson. he said you ran about this being the crime capital of the country. you are accountable for crime in this city starting january 20th, 1969. and we are going to hold a press conference every single month about crime in washington and it is now your problem to do something about that. that refocused nixon on washingto

nixon didn't quite change though. he would write a secret memorandum to the president on his trip on some issue and then of course he would leak it to the press and it would be in the papers. he had the interviews, the famous interviews with david frost, which were not as portrayed in frost nixon, you can look it up. i take that part pretty well. he did not confess. they just left out a few words that were inconvenient to the story. he then began to get bored in san clemente, moved to new york, where he had been before after he had lost the california governorship, when he lost the presidency in 1960 when everybody thought he is gone but he's never gone. i wish that he were back now because he is so much fun and so interesting. in any event, he moved to new york and he and pat nixon -- she was thrilled to be out of politics, at last. she hated it. and they brought a brownstone. they were vetoed at the co-ops, of course. he decided he would have a newes of dinners with the york publishers and bankers and the council on

president nixon or richard nixon ran on a campaign of law and order. drugs was part of that in terms of the social disruption that was going on in 1968. but drugs during that campaign meant l.s.d. and marijuana. it did not mean heroin. it had to do with the social chaos that was associated with the drug problem during that campaign. then when nixon ran against the crime -- he called washington the crime capital of the nation, and he focused on crime in washington, d.c. as an example of disorder in the country that he was going to take care of. when he came in he had an agenda, lots of things on his mind. washington, d.c. was not the highest of his priority. but a group of business people including katharine graham and eric bennett williams met with nixon and said you ran about this being the crime capital of the country. you are accountable for crime in this city starting january 20th, 1969. and we are going to hold a press conference every single month about crime in washington and it is now your problem to do something about that. that refocused nixo

nixon -- president nixon's attorney general. the en kind of stuck with that role. he embraced it because at the time that was his only job. he did not see anything beyond that. so he was considered endlessly calculating. there was another story from the inauguration of johnson, the morning of he and ted drive from his house past arlington national cemetery, they stop, the brothers pray, they go onto the inauguration, they don't stay for any of the balls, bobby comes home by himself and he passes arlington again, stops again, he stops, praise, this time there is a journalist and photographer there. the photographer snapped a photo, it was in the newspaper the next day. the republican senator, named, told these journalists we are a very hard-boiled crowd we notice things like that. what they were saying was bobby was using him as a photo off. he would never do that. if anyone really knew him they knew he would not do that. >> jules, in your book you describe how the journalists on the train but bobby had a song about ruthlessness -- in a sense they were teasing him a

nixon's alone, not his party's. >> i think nixon was resolute. now i am liberated. now i am never going to have to run again. now i am going to be whom i wish to be. >> the united states has resumed full-scale bombing of north vietnam, including the hanoi haiphong area. the north vietnamese said american planes carried out heavy attacks around those cities tonight and that hanoi's armed forces shot down a large number of planes and captured several pilots. >> first lieutenant, navigator b-52. >> nixon wanted the communists to think he was crazy in the hopes that that would drive them back to the bargaining table. >> a lot of the civilian areas were hit apparently. >> civilian areas must have been hit, and i don't want to say that it was not a very painful thing to have to do. >> when 8,500-pound bombs go off one plane, that's the closest thing to a nuclear weapon. >> the response to the christmas bombing was such an outrage. here is this small, third-world country that the united states is bombing back to the stone age. >> the word from the president is military pre

he considered nixon a friend and verylt very lied to, betrayed by nixon. nixon had the choice between resignation and impeachment. he chose resignation. now, ford finds himself in a period of eight months going from congressperson to vice president and now president of the united states. to give you an idea of just how fast this had happened, ok. when president ford became vice president, he had kept his phone number in the white pages of the alexandria phonebook. because he believed if people need to get a hold of me, they have got to be able to get my phone number. now all of a sudden he is president of the united states, his phone number is still listed, and his aides told him, you have got to get a unlisted phone number. which he did. that gives you an idea of just how fast all of this happen. here enters ford, a popular president. approval rating around 75%. the person to use ford's own words, to paraphrase forward, -- the person who is going to , end america's nightmare. he gave the impression that he was an average joe. he raised an average american

there are questions whether nixon is involved. nixon is denying any involvement. ford believes him that he is dash cam, even if the evidence is becoming overwhelming. ford begins to distance himself, but he still believes nixon was not involved. ford believed him. that was until the evidence came out, the smoking gun tape which demonstrated nixon had been involved in a conspiracy to obstruct justice. it was painful for ford. he considered nixon a friend and he felt very light too, very betrayed by nixon. nixon had the choice between resignation and impeachment. he chose resignation. now, ford finds himself in a period of eight months going from congressperson to vice president and now president of the united states. to give you an idea of just how fast this had happened, ok. when president ford became vice president, he had kept his phone number in the white pages of the alexandria phonebook. he believed if people need to get a hold of me, they have got to have my phone number. now all of a sudden he is president of the united states, his phone number is still lis

he believes nixon could not get a fair trial, he had heard nixon was very sickly, he believed nixon had suffered enough, and ford said he was tired of being asked about whether he would pardon nixon, would nixon go to trial, and he wants to get the country focused on important issues. the way he felt he could do that was bipartisan former president. the formerning president. the anger was intense. some people charging there was a conspiracy by which nixon resigned in return for a promise to pardon him. the anger was so intense that as one aide later said, the pardon destroyed ford's image. lot ford had to talk about. the u.s. withdrawal from vietnam. u.s. ship when the was seized by cambodia for a brief time, the crew taken hostage. promoting arms control with the soviet union, the middle east peace process, an economic recession, the new york city financial crisis, all of these have been dealt with by other presidential scholars. there are other issues ideal with that have not been covered. with the had to deal environmental movement. and a growing interest among americans to give more

. >> this is exactly what nixon dreamt of. and we could see a situation where the president is able to get a lot more things done and is able to survive challenges and criticism and opposition by, you know, the opposition party, in a way that nixon was never able to do, so -- in a way, richard nixon has won. >> yeah, and i have to ask you about this piece of trivia. richard nixon created the office of communications director. a lot of fun for you to tell the audience who that was. >> it was a guy named herb klein, who had been nixon's press secretary in 1960 when he ran for president and lost. and nixon thought that klein was not tough enough and so he actually kicked him upstairs by creating this term, you know, this title, director of communications, and he didn't do too much. the irony is that that job has become a lot more important. now, bill shine has a slightly different title, but i think what we're going to see with bill shine is, not only optics and this is how you stage a rally for president trump, but these -- this

there's nixon, wallace is still in, but nixon and johnson, nixon and humphrey, it's not clear, the polls are neck and neck. it's not very clear who's going to win. it's not clear to internal observers, and it's not clear to people who are looking at it from elsewhere either. so while all of this discord is going on at home, in paris over the course of 1968 there have been a series of talks attempting to negotiate a peace in vietnam. and the johnson administration is, you now, this is what -- know, this is what johnson set out to do. he was going to focus on bringing an end to the war. and by the end of october he's quite close to getting there. he is -- there's a willingness, the north vietnamese are recognizing that the election is close. it looks like nixon might win. and if nixon wins, then he's going to have a more hard line and less willingness to immediately stop the american bombing of north vietnam which was the main thing the north vietnamese wanted. it was in the north vietnamese interest to negotiate with the south vietnamese and the americans. but then strangely at the last m

let's talk about nixon's dream and bill shine in the white house. >> if nixon came back, he would say i wish i had been able to have something like fox news. when roger ailes suggested the idea, wasn't so much a network at that point because there wasn't really cable. it was called at one point gop tv or white house tv. there would be interviews with nixon's staff, interviews with the president and this stuff would be flown by airplane. if you can see think of nixon with watergate, he might not have survived that scandal but he might have been able to hold a little longer. you can imagine nixon having a friendly network like fox saying, archibald cox is a bad man. he is surrounded by people who love john kennedy and therefore hate nixon. obstruction of justice is not that bad. you can just imagine it. because nixon did not have that, and he had what he thought of as three hostile networks, he did not survive. >> one would imagine roger stone, it was probably his thought that had they had that messaging and communications, they could have had survived it and it would have been more pow

to nixon, it makes sense. i will go after the supply lines that feed the communist war effort in the south. the thing is, nixon is supposed to be the war, and now he is invading two other countries. that did not sit too well with some people in the u.s.. nixon recognizes that moscow and beijing are giving hanoi the guns. he also goes to the soviets and chinese asking for their help in ending the war. it will bear some dividends. as he is doing this, he bombs on a scale johnson never did. when johnson announced he was not going to run for second term, he also curtailed the bombing of north vietnam. in 1968 just before the election, he suspended all bombing of north vietnam. life in northern vietnam kind of goes back to normal. 1969-1971, people are happy. nixon talks to the russians and chinese, he starts bombing the heck out of north vietnam. political pressure, military pressure. many of these initiatives are very unpopular. they are extremely unpopular. but, i would argue they worked. in 1973, nixon will get

nixon. you tell mrs. nixon she will approve it no reporter from the "washington post" is ever to be in the white house again. and no photographer either. >> um-hum. >> no photographer. is that clear. >> yes, sir. >> none ever to be in. that is a total order. and if necessary, i'll fire you. do you understand. >> i do understand. >> okay. all right. good. >> okay. thank you. >> and now here we are four decades later. >> right, not a very nice man. and that's just the tip of the iceberg. he literally would push certain media institutions away and not give them access. he tried to get the fbi to leak all kinds of damaging information about specific reporters about whether they were homosexuals. he even intimidated them and even intimidated news stations with the f.c.c. licenses. it was an all out war. for a while it worked backup that's what people forget. until 72 the press did back away from reporting too aggressively on him. and it's only after '72 the press ramps up coverage. but this isn't a comparison

troop strength in vietnam under nixon. gradual decline. but nixon wants these with honor. he knows he is not going to win the war, but he has to do something so that it doesn't look like the americans surrendered. he knows he is going to lose vietnam and he can live with that, that he cannot afford to lose the cold war. vietnam wants to exit in a dignified manner, that's why it takes four years. ofon's strategy to get out vietnam is the same charles de gaulle used to get out of algeria. nixon basically copies trust the goal, who took four years to get france -- copies charles de gaulle, who took four years to get france out of algeria. this is the upper left-hand --ner picture, kissinger duan's bff. they are the ones talking secretly. there are three pictures of them and then a picture of me when i had promised and a life full of hope and dreams. they have been getting crushed. [laughter] prof. asselin: any idea who the old guy is? the little guy with the glasses and all of these pictures. you see him? that guy with the translator. the interpreter. had ansecret talks, each

surely after nixon goes to china, nixon goes to moscow. ok? his hope of those guys squeezing the north this not pay off as much as he things, but it does help change some of the strategic dynamic. there are going to be troop withdrawals because? >> [talking over each other] prof. faulkner: that is what the people one, ok? that is what is feeling the anti-war sentiment. soon after taking office, nixon says, guess what, no center and december -- november and december dropped calls, we will not call them up. draft calls, we will not call them up. it is based on birthdates, not whether you are in college, if your number comes up, you go. that gives him more breathing space. right? but you're also going to do peace talks, but what is the different way nixon talks? >> you want peace talks ok, i will balmy for a series of days and you will come back to the table. prof. faulkner: that will ultimately help win the war for us, but if you are the north, what do you become accustomed to when dealing with the united states? >> sanctuary. prof. faulkner: sa

faulkner: shortly after nixon goes to china, nixon goes to moscow. guys squeezingse the north this not pay off as much as he thinks but it does change some of the strategic dynamic. there will be troop withdrawals because? other]king over each prof. faulkner: that's what the people want. soon after taking office, nixon says, guess what, no center and december -- november and december dropped calls, we will not call them up. draft calls, we will not call them up. is based on birthdates, not whether you are in college, if your number comes up, you go. that gives him more breathing space. what about the weight nixon talks? -- the way and talks? -- youwant peace talks don't want peace talks, i will bomb you, and then you will come back to the peace table. prof. faulkner: that will ultimately help win the war for us, but if you're the north, what do become accustomed to? >> sanctuary. prof. faulkner: you know there are places the americans won't go, until they do. in 1970, we have an incursion into cambodia. that is not an invasion, invasions are bad. we

susan: you mentioned president nixon. another character in our story. what should some people know about his relationship with the press as we get into this case? ted: floyd knows much more about this than i do. everybody who lived during that time or has studied it, knows that president nixon was not a fan of the press. and vice versa. they -- he did not like the press because they have been critical of him. they portrayed him in ways he did not like. he was concerned about his vulnerability to the press. this was a hostile, difficult, and tortured relationship that he already had with the press. something like this comes along and he sees that they are publishing secret information and that might be something else next. he is going to react to do what ever he can to stop it. susan: i will ask you to give people a sense of what the new york times and washington post, the two petitioners were like in 1971. very different media landscape than what we experience today. floyd: there were newspapers then, and only newspapers and three television networks. t

and nixon did everything sort of wrong. by the end of his political career, judgment almost completely escaped him. choosing gerald ford on the theory no one would be willing to make that man a president. oops. he referred to him as insurance policy, turns out insurance of something quite different and other respects, sabotaging relationships with the press, digging in rather than admitting wrongdoing, fighting to the end, destroying relationships with his own party. nixon at the end, though not at the beginning did everything wrong, and a sign of how power can corrupt, but power can reveal, and in that circumstance, nixon's pretensions to absolute power and the manner he responded to the impeachment investigation was itself evidence of the fact he should have been removed. and this is a point we emphasize in chapter three, we talk about the risks of impeaching too early, that the manner in which the president responding to accusations of wrongdoing are the manner in which trump responds to the mueller investigation in cong

nixon ultimately got to. he was able to follow through to appoint conservative judges, pledge to dismantle the legacy of the warren court. by the time nixon took office, so much more came out. may 1969, fortas left the court so nixon got to pick fortas' replacement. he got to replace earl warren as chief. he said he'll resign and it would take effect as soon as he had a successor. well, nixon got to pick a successor. with that, richard nixon took the liberal earl warren court and made it abruptly right almost over night, all because of the efforts of heading it off in 1968 got botched so badly. lbj screwed it up and george wallace in a way got his wish. there is a lot about the trump era and american politics and republican politics that's totally unprecedented. the concerns of the supreme court right now and what would happen next. the controversial fight over the new vacant court seat that's now the new background of this year's midterms election. this is not one of those unprecedented things. we have lived

nixon got to pick a successor. with that, richard nixon took the liberal earl warren court and made it shift abruptly right almost overnight all because the effort to try to head that off in 1968 got botched so badly. lbj screwed it up and george wallace, in a way, got his wish. there is a lot about the trump era in american politics and republican politics totally unprecedented. the concern about the supreme court now and what called happen next. the controversy at fight over the newly vacated court seat the new background for midterm elections, this is not a trump unprecedented things. this is the sort of thing that happened before, we lived through this before, warts and all. this is one of those things that happens again 50 years later. how the players handle it this time we will see. presumably everybody in the country will be working on it one way or another over these next incredibly crucial four months. >>> last summer, congresswoman zoe lofgren is on the house judiciary committee. she's the third ranking d

nixon took u.s. v nixon took away the power of the president to control information in the executive branch by holding up the courts had power toer to president to disclose information in response to a subpoena sought by a subordinate executive branch official. maybe the tension of the time led to an erroneous decision. that's a transcript from 1999. a transcript of an interview with brett kavanaugh who was then a hair in private practice. he is now president trump's nominee to fill the vacancy on the supreme court that would be created by the retirement of justice anthony kennedy. that cancer krimt turned up in a bunch of documents that turned up ahead of his supreme court confirmation hearings. now that we know this about our next supreme court nominee, now that it is right there in black and white, maybe u.s. v nixon was wrongly decided, what are the odds that questions whether a president has to comply with the law, comply with court orders, what are the odds that it might come before the court a

nixon got to pick a successor. with that, richard nixon took the liberal earl warren court and made it shift abruptly right almost overnight all because the effort to try to head that off in 1968 got botched so badly. lbj screwed it up and george wallace, in a way, got his wish. there is a lot about the trump era in american politics and republican politics totally unprecedented. the concern about the supreme court now and what called happen next. the controversy at fight over the newly vacated court seat the new background for midterm elections, this is not a trump unprecedented things. this is the sort of thing that happened before, we lived through this before, warts and all. this is one of those things that happens again 50 years later. how the players handle it this time we will see. presumably everybody in the country will be working on it one way or another over these next incredibly crucial four months. ster. now you can quit cable. switch to directv and now get a $100 reward card. more for your quitting ca

same for nixon. it's revered as a case that was correctly decided. >> this transcript that has just been put forth as part of the documentation around judge kavanaugh's confirmation for the supreme court, this was not him refusing to answer a question about whether or not u.s. v nixon was appropriate precedent or whether or not he agreed with that. this was not dodging the question or avoiding saying what his opinion was on it. this was him volunteering that he thought nixon was a bad case. are there other people in mainstream judicial circle who is make that same argument? >> to be fair, i think it's not really clear whether he was throwing this out as an argument for the round table he was participating in or whether it was his own view. it was consistent with his ju s jurisprudence and would be unique. >> there is enough controversy around his nomination around there being a nomination for the supreme court given what happened with the scalia vacancy in 2016. i think it's hard to predict what's go

this was nixon's plan. and humphrey was trying to work behind the scenes as many of you may know which came apart because of nixon's underhanded role there. but there was a sense that, yes, it was time to end the war. even the roepz women say -- republican women were saying they wanted nixon to end the war. by '68 people were hoping it was going to end soon. >> there's the argument that given that the two leading candidates at that point, humphrey, and nixon, were both promising to end the war in some way, that the more dominant issue, and this is what worried nixon because george wallace was running, was the situation at home and what became known as law and order. and concern over the city's, you know, violence in the cities, but also crime. it was in '68 lyndon johnson was trying to push a crime, a new crime bill through congress to address that concern because there was some feeling that they had ceded that issue to the republicans or george wallace. and so i think there was agreement on vietnam to the

they have a picture of president nixon says nixon is the one. these are the original ones for the campaign i got a big bag of about 3 pounds of them today and one of them said to me where did you get all the campaign buttons and i said when i was a kid i would've thought where all the headquarters where and get my mom to drive me around. i went to the nixon office and they told me help yourself. she said that is a lot of campaign buttons it looks like it might have been the headquarters entire supply. i said i think it was. and she said that is so sweet of campaign workers to give the little boy old campaign buttons and i said i didn't say they gave them to me the statute of limitations is there any way if you didn't get one, please do. we are associated with gavels so i thought it would be appropriate to bring one to this order. this is a special gavel from my collection. to preside over the iconic 1968 democratic national convention in chicago. this was the gavel used that combination of hubert humphrey as the man that challenged richard nixon

nixon campaign in 1968, and the nixon white house after that had two enemies, the anti-war left and black people. we knew that we could not make it illegal to be either against the war or blacks, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt the communities. so this idea of waging a war on abt anti-war activists and waginging a war gaiagainst the people whoe somehow suspicious elements of society becomes a broader language of war that was not just oversea, but very much in the midst of this, and just to the break-in that you referenced in the media in 1971, and the stealing of the fbi documents, and i was struck in looking at those that you sent along that the fbi according to the documents were 40% of the case files that were seized were dealing with surveillance of political organizations, primarily left wing and anti-war groups andparison only 25% of the files concentrateed on bank robberies, and so anti-war activists were a bigger problem than bank robbies and if the we can talk about that

nickels, nixon. ed nixon. >> jolson. jones. jordan. jost. >> if we could only get somebody that worked for finance to talk. i can't believe. >> what about the bookkeeper? >> the bookkeeper that worked for both stans and sloan. >> i've called her twice. there's been no answer. >> i say we should start again. >> abbott, addison, augusto, alberts, aldus, alsand row, boyle, bren ebromley, jost, nasmith, narrow, necessary, nickels. teeny, sandstrom. skroes, skully. >> skully. we've been there twice. >> wilcox, winthrow, windsor. >> what do you have? >> people aren't talking, harry. it's the way they're not talking that's unnatural. >> we've been up all night and went over all the quotes of people slamming doors in our face. >> you want to hear some real news? >> that gao report in which you placed so much faith, it's been postponed until after tonight's renomination. he was going call from the stans. >> he's going to bury the report until after the renomination? >> the indictment will stop the five burglars, hunt and liddy. and that's the e

richard nixon. yes of course and i think they made a film about that and here's a tweet from zero heads craziness becoming strategic nato leaders in panic mode ahead of trump visit of course trump is over there visiting as we speak and if the people are well it's hard to tell who's crazy or trump or the protesters but nevertheless here's a quote we used to roll our eyes at trump's policies but now we're seeing the craziness becoming strategic its senior e.u. diplomat told reuters we now have to seek out all kinds of partners to further our goals so this comes after his. you know quite a memorable speech in front of a big crowd in america where as i dissing nato and calling them free loaders and bases. and saying what's wrong with being friends with china and russia before the election i said trump was a change agent right so that is a nice way to say he's crazy and he's going to go into any situation and just over turn the table and say let's start from scratch was exactly what is needed for the uni

it's kind of a symmetry to china entering the w t o under was it under nixon so what clinton but they entered the global economy under nixon right when as i said in the front the madman policy began right it would be nice bookend to kind of the centuries that we dominated in this country and now we're going to be dominating the twenty first century because we've got the bigger not we've got the bigger sika we've got the guy who's going to genuinely push the button china don't play well

nixon. you teleconny don't tell mrs. nixon because she'll approve it. no reporter from the "washington post" is ever to be in the white house again, and no photographer either. no photographer, is that clear? >> yes, sir. >> none ever to be in. that is a total order. if necessary, i'll fire you. do you understand? >> i do understand. >> okay. all right. good. thank you. > love those tapes. ziegler was the press secretary at the time. i think the kerr fluff full over that was party with his daughter. not something earth shaking. >> it's no compliment to the trump administration to be compared to the nixon administration. >> they were willing to have the press go to a briefing or event. >> nixon said terrible things about the press. usually, they were said in private. it's rare you would heard anything like what you heard on that tape said in public. in private he fumed on a regular basis. i've seen other presidents do that. they almost all want to overthrow the sullivan case, protection against libel. they don't take it public. in nixon's case, i was on

against the united states won't turn nixon by the way and the court basically said listen. we're here to just sit back and say this is a political question this is up to you separation of powers we're just here for the beer we're told will oversee this but this is your uses your show they said well what happens if they do something wrong what if they interpret the constitution incorrectly oh ok maybe we'll do that but the bottom line is and go back on the line that gerald ford said was if the majority of the house issues an article of impeachment for anything it's what ever they say and if the peral of the votes to convict because remember people always want to talk about impeachment impeachment just means to charge conviction is what you mean conviction is just like me arresting you and guiding you you want somebody to go to prison you want somebody to be thrown out that's the senate part that's that conviction so people never even get the whole impeachment the because to them impeachment means their removal just means that charging so i've got news for you to a great book

nixon? >> i love the new video that you have. i got to see that at dinner and she had an awful lot of firsts. i think what i learned from the video tonight is that she is someone who took the office of second lady and then first lady and made it her own and i think that is something i learned in the first short time that i've been first lady that you are there for the little amount of time. so many times when we are traveling around the country you're visiting military families were children's hospitals or a lot of our veterans that we are involved with just to have a second lady take the time to spend time with them means so much. it's not so much caring or pat nixon or joe biden. it's that role while you're in the position to take the time out and spend time with people. there were so many great clips of that and she did it for the right reasons. she had a heart for people and she cared about people and that is definitely something that i want to emulate. >> is there a sequel in the works is a nice follow-up to that? >> we hope

downfall. 1975, ity published in covers the nixon administration from september, 1973 to august, 1974. the book was reissued 40 years later with an afterword covering nixon's time after he was forced to resign. politicsrecorded at and prose bookstore in washington, d.c. in 4014. it is about one hour.

in a 1999 round table discussion, brett kavanaugh said, quote, but maybe nixon was wrongly decided. heresy though it is to say so. nixon take away the power of the president to control information in the executive branch by holding that the courts had power and jurisdiction to order the president to disclose information in response to a subpoena sought by a subordinate executive branch official. that was a huge step with implications to this day that most people did not appreciate sufficiently. maybe the tension of the time led to an erroneous decision. but as the appreciated press reports, brett kavanaugh had a more favorable assessment of the nixon case in a 2016 law review article in which he wrote, whether it was marbry or nixon, some of the greatest moments have been when judges stood up to the other branches were not cowed and enforced the law. that takes backbone or what some call judicial engagement. joining us now, former assistant watergate special prosecutor and former chief of staff to vice presidents joe biden and al gore and a former aid to president obama. also the fo

against the united states won't turn nixon by the way and the court basically said listen. we're here to just sit back and say this is a political question this is up to you separation of powers we're just here for the beer we're the world over see this but this is your uses your show they said well what happens if they do something wrong what if they interpret the constitution incorrectly oh ok maybe we'll do that but the bottom line is and go back on the line that gerald ford said was if the majority of the house issues an article of impeachment for anything it's what ever they say and if the peral of the votes to convict because remember people always want to talk about impeachment impeachment just means to charge convection is what you mean conviction is just like me arresting you indicting you you want somebody to go to prison you want somebody to be thrown out that the senate party that's that conviction so people never even get the whole impeachment the biggest of them impeachment means their removal it just means that charging so i've got news for you to a great boo

nixon, i happen to value mr. nixon as a president and worked for him in the white house, i worked for mr. johnson, mix son and ford in the -- nixon and ford in the white house. in a summit in 1972, nixon signed three treaties. the first was to be a star treaty which basically froze some numbers but didn't make meal reductions the second treaty was the anti bo listic missile treaty. the first meshes i met were bombing the hell out of my neighborhood because i was a british child hostage in germany. it came to me, the next americans i met including my own father who i scaped and came back as an american soldier and deliberating, that would have to be very, very much aware of preventing them from using it and the military and they're cheating. the russians cheated on almost everything they did. certainly in arms control. when we reexamined in the springal 81 and 2 and through 82, what to do with a russian asymmetric challenge. look at the chart on the wall there. it presented 25 years where the russians. it violated

richard nixon. yes of course and i think they made a film about that and here's a tweet from zero heads craziness becoming strategic nato leaders in panic mode ahead of trump visit of course trump is over there visiting as we speak and the people are well it's hard to tell who's crazy or trump or the protesters but nevertheless here's a quote we used to roll our eyes at trump's policies but now we are seeing the craziness becoming strategic its senior e.u. diplomat told reuters we now have to seek out all kinds of partners to further our goals so this comes after his. you know quite a memorable speech in front of a big crowd in america where as i dissing nato and calling them freeloaders and bases. and saying what's wrong with being friends with china and russia before the election i said trump was a change agent right so that is a nice way to say he's crazy and he's going to go into any situation and just over turn the table and say let's start from scratch was exactly what is needed for the united

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nixon saying nixon is the one. these are original campaign buttons from the 1968 campaign. i have a bag of 3 pounds of them today so they could pass them out to all of you. when i was a kid i would plot out where all the headquarters were, to drive me around, tenure mcavoy, go into all the courtesans ask. and told me help yourself. and the 3 pound bag of them and she said wow, that is a lot of campaign buttons. looks like the entire supply, i think it was. she said that is so sweet of richard nixon's campaign records to give a boy all the campaign buttons. i didn't say they gave them to them but the statute of limitations has passed. if you didn't get one please do. we in the law are associated with that. it is appropriate to bring a gavel to this meeting to order. this is a special gavel from my collection. this is a gavel used by a member of the house of representatives and the majority leader, the speaker of the house to preside over the iconic 1968 democratic national convention, this was the gavel used, banged down by hubert humphrey who challenged for the presidency.

people who had been appointed by richard nixon. they decided that the rule of law was more important than a president and they said the president had to comply with the grand jury subpoena and turn documents over to the grand jury. >> stoeven, let's talk about th interpretations of what a president has to do with respect to criminal or other investigations. having been part of the ken star investigation, what's the legal thought? >> well, if there's a subpoena for a criminal case that the president would have to turn over the tapes. and the client versus jones tells us at least in a civil case the president would have to make himself available with due deference to the fact that he is an incredibly busy man. so the wisdom i think is that the president is subject to judicial process as a general matter, but the president can raise executive privilege in the right circumstance and what the court says is that's a sliding scale, and the president will get much more derch in the issues of national security and in the issue of diplomatic

nixon cause she'll approve it. no reporter from "the washington post" is ever to be in the white house again and no photographer either. that is total order and if necessary i'll fire you. do you understand? >> i do understand. >> okay. all right. good. thank you. >> i think the kerfuffle over that was reporting of his daughter at a party -- >> i can't remember exactly. >> it was not something earth shaking. >> it's no compliment to the trump administration to be compared to nixon. >> at least they were willing to have "the washington post" go to a briefing or event which katelyn collins wasn't able to -- >> usually they were said in private. it's rare you would hear like what we just heard on that tape said in public. i think all presidents do that. they almost all want to overthrow the case, which is protection against libel. but they don't take it public. and in nixon's case i was on staff and i can tell you frequently what you did is let him blow off, tell you to do these horrible things and he didn't>> blow up

richard nixon. yes of course and i think they made a film about that and here's a tweet from zero heads craziness becoming strategic nato leaders in panic mode ahead of trump visit of course trump is over there visiting as we speak and the people are well it's hard to tell who's crazy or trump or the protesters but nevertheless here's a quote we used to roll our eyes at trump's policies but now we are seeing the craziness becoming strategic its senior e.u. diplomat told reuters we now have to seek out all kinds of partners to further our goals so this comes after his. you know quite a memorable speech in front of a big crowd in america where as i dissing nato and calling them free loaders and basically. saying what's wrong with being friends with china and russia before the election i said trump was a change agent right so that is a nice way to say he's crazy and he's going to go into any situation and just over turn the table and say let's start from scratch was exactly what is needed for the unite

nixon snow the croke handling of the watergate scandal and its fall out the impeachment process is found in article two section four of the us constitution and according to history dot com the process includes the filing of formal charges with which at the federal level is performed by the u.s. house of representatives and the resulting trial which is an got to conducted by the u.s. senate during which the chief of chief justice of the u.s. supreme court acts as judge since the first accusations of alleged russian interference in twenty so in the twenty sixteen u.s. election in favor of donald trump there have been calls from the neo liberal left and the russian or russia hawks on the right for the impeachment of president trump especially after his firing of former f.b.i. director james comey but one prominent legal voice has spoken out against these calls for him cheech meant famed lawyer and harvard law professor alan dershowitz and his latest book the case against impeaching trump dershowitz uses his knowledge of constitutional law to argue against both his political colleagues and f

nixon in the tapes, i discovered this in the tapes out there. okay, watergate was broken by the republicans. let's have the democrats break into our headquarters, make it up. >> and donald trump is a lot more of a simpleton than nixon was. and he is looking for anything to muddle up the environment and not put blame at his own feet. the way he has been acting has hurt republicans in swing districts and we are seeing more and more proof in the polling that the democrats are off to at least take back the house with 23 seats and maybe go as high as 40. >> it is not because of the help over there. >> donald trump is creating this bad problem. >> did you notice the echoing of this guy, trump trying to cover his rear end by saying oh, i can show that putin is helping the democrats this fall. with no evidence. >> so many similars between the nixon watergate and what is happening now. only now i think is much more threatening because at least the people who were involved in the crimes were americans. this one is a foreign adversary of ours and that make

. >> host: talk about trump and nixon. >> guest: i love this chapter, thank you. since the whole russian investigation started people brought up watergate which are comparisons there. then he brought it up. >> guest: which is crazy. they say this is the biggest which have since watergate. unlike, there was not a a witcn watergate. it was the president. nixon was not the hero in that story. >> host: right. >> guest: but what is fascinating is the same things that of the trump done a bad path led nixon down the bad path, and that is hostility towards the press and paranoia about government leaks. watergate started when nixon had his men start breaking in to offices to find it was leaking the pentagon papers. that wasn't even on his watch but he was upset about it. once they preached that, they started breaking, they broke into watergate and i was in the third breaking because the broken twice. they got away with it, but once faceting is not how many people went along with it. the similarities between nixon and trump and how they can't can inspire people to go along

versus nixon said, you have to make a pretty strong showing. you have to remember, leon jaworski was in a strong position to make a showing that the tapes had to be turned over. there's a case from 1997, that's the law in d.c. now, which says in order to overcome a valid claim of executive privilege, a special council has to show that the evidence he seeks is important. and that essentially he can't get it from anybody else. >> okay. >> so that's an area of law that's right, you know, that's -- it's pretty clear, the president has to give way to a criminal investigation if the prosecutor can say here's why we need this, and we can't get it anywhere else. >> that's the case that rudy giuliani has been making in the media, right? similar to what the president's lawyers have been saying, at least rudy giuliani. i have to ask you. quickly if you can, i'm out of time, i have so get to so many other things. when i said the bigger question is, do you think that was the reason or one of the reasons this president pick e eed kavan because he believes th

did was different he was i mean this is a different story but yet again if they wanted to impeach nixon because of his hair they could have done it but it was interesting stuff and i would recommend check out own version which is book always a pleasure to have you on laurel of one all media thank you so much indeed thank you. there often times in life where it seems like something is impossible to accomplish sometimes we need to take a break from the drudgery and the anxiousness of our political climate to look at the stories that remind us of the incredible power of human wealth and human will is certainly a great feat in the life of eric why in my the first blind rock climber to scale the tallest peak in every continent including mount everest. meyer was diagnosed around the age of four of the rare eye disease known as threat no schizos which causes the detachment and on raveling of the retinas from the optic nerves leaving him completely blind by age thirteen he began to rock climbing at a young age shortly after going blind in years as his hands against the rocks like sighted people

nixon said, you have got to make a pretty strong showing. you got to remember, leon juwarski was in an excellent possession to make a strong showing that the tapes had to be, the tapes had to be turned over. there is a case, don, from 1997, the d.c. circuit, the law in d.c. now which says, in order to overcome a valid claim of executive privilege, a special counsel has the to show that the evidence he seeks is important and that essentially he can't get it from anybody else. >> okay. >> so that is an area of law that is ripe. pretty clear, the president has to give way to a criminal investigation if the prosecutor can say, here's why we need this. and we can't get it anywhere else. >> why, that's kind of the case that rudy giuliani has been making in the media, right. similar to what the president's lawyers have been saying. all right, at least rudy giuliani. i've got to ask you -- quickly if you can, i am out of time. i got to get to so man other things. when i said the bigger question is, do you think that was, the reason, or one of the re

versus nixon may have been wrongly decided. you'll remember that decision led the supreme court to order president nixon to hand over tape recordings to a federal court. and ever since it has been referenced as one of the major cases that limits executive power. kavanagh's views on executive privilege are being carefully looked at as he makes his way through the confirmation process. joining me mao to talk about there and everything else that went on this past week, democratic senator from connecticut and member of the judiciary committee, senator richard blumenthal. senator, thank you so much for being with us tonight. i want to start right there with this revelation from these documents that the judiciary committee has found about kavanagh's comments on the u.s. versus nixon case. do you think that should be applicable in his confirmation hearing? >> it is of profound importance to these confirmation hearings. the reason is very simply that u.s. versus nixon not only stands for the basic principle that the president must prov