out in the streets. it's pretty intense stuff. we have some incredible footage coming up in just a second. in terms of where this came from, i mean, as far as i can see, we've covered the russia stuff a lot in this show, right? star i can see there are really only two bright through lines for this president. in what has otherwise been an incoherent, hard-to-follow, mishmash ideology from him. there are really only two things that are clear as a bell and never changing. one of them is really unprecedented, which is the president's strange, continued and unerring insistence about saying nice things about russia and excusing their behavior. that's weird. the other thing that's consistent and coherent and unswerving is vehement antipathy

he got nailed for it because of the task force that was set up under the watergate prosecutor to look at that specific thing. what started with a check for $400,000 and a supposedly triumphant homecoming republican convention for an insecure president. that discrete stand alone scandal, unrelated to the watergate cover-up. that itt scandal, making that antitrust case go away in exchange for money, that separate distinct scandal got vacuumed up in the investigation and resulted in a guilty plea