halderman. nixon later wrote about that moment halderman is describing there. did in that moment in that single encounter with the family of the man who was the last recorded combat casualty of vietnam. >>> on friday, this past friday, the current commander in chief announced he is doubling the number of u.s. service members in iraq. president obama authorized another 1500 troops for deployment as part of the mission against isis. the pentagon said those additional 1500 troops will not be sent until congress votes to send them and funds their deployment. whatever you think about u.s. troops being back in iraq in this military strategy for fighting isis militants in iraq and syria, president obama has determined this decision will not remain his alone. it is never supposed to be a president's decision alone. it's supposed to be congress' call when we go to war. now the additional troops at least, this doubling of the deployment back into iraq is an oip question. the military says that's what they want. that's what the president says he wants but it's on hold whi

halderman was not communicating. no one was asking the. they take these they take these tapes at face value and read them out of context and when they finally surface is toward the end of his presidency but he has set up a defense saying, i knew nothing about watergate until john been told me of march 21 of 1973, and here three, and here we are now back on june 23 of 72, and there are conversations that appear that he is trying to get the f ei to kill the entire investigation. that is not what he is talking about. he is talking about having the fbi's a out of something they have no business investigating, which is investigating, which is campaign finance, if not national security. it is a legitimate worry. given by his staunchest supporters in the impeachment committee finally throw in the towel and say this is beyond all we are willing to defend. not that there were not other smoking guns that same week. in fact, there were other worse conversations but that was the one that surfaced when it surfaced and ended his presidency when it did b