we couldn't find too much on archibald. but that was a very old card.?" and i said, "well, i'll see if i can find out." >> are you thinking to yourself, "i really have something valuable here"? >> yes, i did. >> especially after steve spots on the internet an 1865 brooklyn atlantics card. it had gone for $92,000 at auction in 2013. florence's card is five years older and may be even more valuable. >> i used to wonder, "why do people jump up and down when something exciting happens?" and here i was doing that. >> pushing 101, flo's mother, mildred, isn't quite jumping up and down. but if she can help pay off the addition flo built for her, she's definitely up for some moneyball. florence, who has no children to pass the card on to, is game as well. that's when steve strommer suggests contacting an auction house. on your behalf? >> yes. he made the connection. >> i was just, you know, doing my job, just trying to facilitate getting this card in the right hands. >> strommer takes the photo home, scans it, and sends it to chris ivy, who specializes in sport

he told archibald cox to lay off about these white house tapes and archibald cox looked the president in he eye and would not do that. no, i'm not going to lay off. and so president nixon told the attorney general to fire archibald cox and the attorney general said no and resigned. and so then nixon told the deputy attorney general to fire archibald cox and the deputy attorney general, he, too, said, no, and he resigned. eventually, he had to get the solicitor general to fire archibald cox, and that became known as the saturday night massacre. but archibald cox, yeah, he did get fired. ultimately, he did get fired but you know what? he got the president fired, too. he is the reason those damning tapes eventually had to be released. and nixon's presidency was over less than three days after those tapes came out. so fire the investigators? sure. nixon proved you can do that. but nixon also proved the consequences of doing that in the end for a president who has something to hide from those investigators. today president trump fired the director of the fbi, james comey. and we will have

this ends weeks of suspense, alabama kind of knew that all eyes were on them for the senate john archibald says this result is first and foremost a message from alabama to women. he said all are listed for women and victims and compassion. is a lot of pride in the alabama press today.

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pilots like captain dana archibald whose career nearly crashed in the 1990s when he missed the flight >> i just stopped showing up for work. >> tell your boss you have the flu. >> i would tell him every story in the book. because i am an alcoholic. tell him anything they wanted to hear. >> in another era, addicted pilots would be fired or forced to keep their addictions a secret. the faa says, that's all changed. >> what we didn't want. what we don't want to this day are pilots, who side something that could present a risk. >> of course, addiction isn't just a pilot's problem. millions of americans are struggling with it. most who need treatment, aren't in it. and relapse its common. but for airline pie lolots thos rules don't seem to apply. >> the treatment, that's stabilization. >> correct. >> the doctor who ran an addiction treatment center in south miami, says the airline pilots he treated were more likely to get sober, and stay that way. >> so, a member of the general public is three times more likely to have a relapse? >> than a pilot. >> correct. >> why? they don't have the sys

archibald, it's great to have you with us tonight.or your time. >> thank you, rachel. >> what was the rally like tonight? what was the mood like? i understand there was a good crowd but also some protesters? >> there's some protesters who cleared out and were allowed to walk away. it was in a barn in south alabama where sweet home alabama played continually for a while. but there was a ruckus crowd, much of what you would expect when steve bannon came in. he got a lot of applause. >> steve bannon obviously runs breitbart website, he was very closely associated with the president's electoral victory and with the trump white house. is he considered to be a powerful figure in alabama? a lot of people have been trying to game out at the national level whether it makes a difference that the president has now explicitly endorsed roy moore. do bannon and/or the president have enough sway to make a difference potentially in the vote? >> i think they do. i think steve bannon is pretty popular and he was certainly here honestly sometimes he see

i don't know i've would be alive. >> dean archibald is a full time. 737 captain with major airline.g out of miami. and the lyle prouse story ends far differently than he could have hoped. after his arrest, he was a broken man on the verge of suicide. >> i lost the will to live. and i thought i was too tough for that. >> how close do you think you came to -- to taking your own life? >> within an eyelash. i was not, i was not -- romancing the idea. or considering the idea. i was an an eyelash of executing the idea. >> but after he got out of prison he was placed into the hims program. and in 1993, against all odd, he was rehired by northwest airlines. five years later, lyle prouse retired honorably as the the captain of a 747. >> i got to live out more miracles than anybody i know. >> what other miracles? >> that i flew again. >> that my wife stayed with me. my kids still loved me. that i got sober. that i didn't die like my parents did. i just came back from a pilot reunion in northwest. and i get an e-mail from one of the gals, she said, she said, you are a very loved and respected

cox -- fired archibald cox. has also laid some breadcrumbs on the ground for other prosecutors, state and local ones to pick up and continue his investigation is he is not leading it, ultimately. >> up next, how a famous lawyer became infatuated with hollywood and found himself working for harvey weinstein. >> and a crowdfunding site that runs on hate. >> this is bloomberg businessweek. ♪ ♪ >> woke him back to bloomberg's this week. -- welcome back to bloomberg businessweek. >> you can also listen to us on sirius and in boston, washington, d c and the bay area. >> and in london and asia on the bloomberg radio plus app. in the featured section we have , a profile of a litigators ambition. >> and what let him into the orbit of harvey weinstein. >> people know this sort of famous courtroom litigator and champion of democratic ideals. he represented al gore during the 2000 presidential sort of recount. -- florida recount. he also famously represented the government antitrust case against microsoft. he is had all of

and my head popped up and i came around. >> reporter: brett archibald was on a dream surfing charge,ng his boat sail away into the darkness. >> i have goosebumps reliving it. i lifted my head and realized, you're never going to catch a boat. and knew it was over. >> reporter: earlier that evening, brett and his friends had gotten severe food poisoning. leaning over the rail to be sick, brett lost his foo a no one had seen him fall. brett knew he would never survive. >> i knew it. there was no shadow of doubt. >> reporter: but death did not come quickly. as the hours' passed, brett did the calculations. it would be seven hours before his friends realized he was missing. and just as long for them to come back. so, he began to talk to god. >> the first conversations are very anger-driven. i scream. i can't even use the profanities that i used in that ocean. and they evolved to reassessing my life. i reflected, i hadn't been a good person. i thought i was a great father and husband. but when i was faced with reality, i hadn't been. >> reporter: thinking of his wife and children, brett co

. >> brett archibald.. no one saw him fall. he would have to find the courage to survive almost 29 hours of treading water, not knowing if he would ever be rescued. >> i was in a dream. i was tumbling in a washington machine with a bunch of bubbles around me. and my head popped up and i came around. >> reporter: brett archibald was on a dream surfing charge, when he found himself overboard, overnight, in the middle of the indian ocean, watching his boat sail away into the darkness. >> i have goosebumps reliving it. i lifted my head and realized, you're never going to catch a boat. and knew it was over. >> reporter: earlier that evening, brett and his friends had gotten severe food poisoning. leaning over the rail to be sick, brett lost his footing and fell into the water. no one had seen him fall. brett knew he would never survive. >> i knew it. there was no shadow of doubt. >> reporter: but death did not come quickly. as the hours' passed, brett did the calculations. it would be seven hours before his fri

we've got john archibald, come a columnist from aol.com, tamron keith, host of the npr politics podcast, and carol lee, nbc national political reporter joining me here onset. guys, thank you for being here. let's blast through the winners and losers here and what we're watching for today. john, i want to start with you because you have written now about the #metoo movement and what this election means for them. >> right. you know, last night as things were getting close, i had to write two columns ready. and the column i wrote about roy moore winning was the most depressing thing i had seen because it essentially said what this says to women in alabama who have been abused, who have been assaulted, who have been harassed, who finally had a moment where they feel like they can open up and talk about it. or basically are being told they don't want to hear you. but, on the other hand, a doug jones win gives people hope. and it's quite a different statement. and there's a lot of relief from people here. >> i want to bring in tamara and carol on this. one of the pieces we are watching come i

for the latest, joe archibald, columnist for the alabama media group. and the host of the most? listened to radio news program in alabama. john, thank you.hp÷ay first, what do you smell tonight? that's my favorite question politically, what do you smell? you know what i mean. >> i smell a tight one. i don't know what's going to happen. it's getting intense out there. the exit polling is really interesting. this one's going to go down to the wire. i tell you what i've never seen anything like it in my 30 years of doing this stuff. >> let me go to you, when you see the exit polls that say frump, 48/48, what's that tell you about tonight, anything? onnie first. >> could you repeat that, chris? >> when you see an exit poll that shows president trump's job support in alabama, among those who voted today, at 48-48, what does that tell you about who's going to win tonight? anything? >> it tells me this race is, as we say, tight as a tick, chris. >> how tight is a tick? hah! i don't know any ticks. how tight are they? when it's bitten into you? i guess that's what you mean. >> i don't k

this ends weeks of suspense, alabama kind of knew that all eyes were on them for the senate john archibalds this result is first and foremost a message from alabama to women. he said all are listed for women and victims and compassion. is a lot of pride in the alabama press today. this cartoon from the same paper which did ultimately endorsed doug jones. is an image of doug jones on the message we are not roy moore. lots of pride for alabama. genie: this is being talked about all across the country. papers many left-wing are really rubbing this loss in the face of roy moore. not the most mature front page, but it is kind of funny. the new york daily news today say screw you and the horse you rode in on. ,nd roy moore rode his horse sassy come into the polling station yesterday. josesw york times calls when a triumph for decency and common sense in the state that seemed at risk of abandoning both very. the paper says they see this win is a message of rebuke to president trump, and many left-wing papers saying it bodes well for next years midterm election and democrats could win full control

andrea bastiani archibald says the conversation was driven by the increasing number of stories of sexual misconduct allegations by high profile men. recently, girl scouts posted an article on its parenting advice page outlining the importance of setting physical boundaries, liying telling your child that she owes someone a hug, either just because she hasn't seen this person in a while, or because they gave her a gift, can set the stage for her ioestioning whether she owes another person any type of physical affection. for people who might look at that and go, it's just a hug... >> yes, it's not a big deal. and it's not a one-to-one. i think some people take things pry literally. girls have the decision-making inwer around how they demonstrate affection. >> when i came out with it, in the right time. >> reporter: dr. lakeesha walrond was nine when she says her stepfather started molesting her. it went on for two years. she's the author of a new children's book called "my body ie special." ba's a story about a little girl named eva who learns that no one should touch her private parts, an

. >> carl, bob mentioned the saturday night massacre when archibald cox was fired in 1973, do you trustministration is not going to do this? they assure that the president won't go that far, do you believe it? >> there is no reason to believe almost anything donald trump says because what we flow know that the president of the united states is characterized by the lying of the president of the united states. it does mean that we see him covering up events but not necessarily criminally covering up events. and where this is going defiptidefi definitively we don't know. he has expressed the desire to fire mueller, the desire to pardon people under investigation. his lawyers are telling him what he wants to hear. that's what i'm told by lawyers in the white house. they are telling him what he wants to hear to keep him and to go off and fire mueller in a rage they have an out of control cliep client. he is out of control especially when it comes to this investigation. >> and carl mentioned covering up. i want you to listen to what diane feinstein said earlier this month. >> i think what we

since the spring and summer of 1916, british forces under archibald murray held in line that cut across the oasis of northeastern sinai. this was at the top of the map there. this line was deeply entrenched, and it was supplied by miles of will way and water pipes that have been constructed by the egyptian labor corps. in the with mesopotamia back, robertson gave murray the go-ahead and advance into ottoman palestine. in cutting murray loose, robertson was following, to his chagrin, the orders of liberal prime minister lloyd george. whose government has replaced their government in 1916. lloyd george was distressed at the costly stalemate in france. and he called for a decisive victory in the middle east. one that would rally the british people behind his government, and add to his popularity. he was very much like his liberal, victorian era predecessor william gladstone. ,like gladstone, lloyd george held the unspeakable turk in contempt then he looked forward to the day when britain might feast on the ottoman carcass. and would've been content with the reform that would destroy the ot

night massacre, in which president nixon fired special particular art special -- special prosecutor archibaldso he has also laid some breadcrumbs on the ground for other prosecutors, state and local ones to pick up and continue his investigation is -- if he ends up not leaving it ultimately. julia: up next, how a famous lawyer became infatuated with hollywood and found himself working for harvey weinstein. carol: and a crowdfunding site that runs on hate. julia: this is bloomberg businessweek. ♪ ♪ julia: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." i'm julie chatterley. carol: i'm carol massar. you can listen to us on sirius xm channel 119. ame 11 30 in new york. 161 in boston. 90 91 fm in washington, d.c.. and the bay area. julia: and in london and asia on the bloomberg radio plus app. in the features section, a profile of david boys hollywood ambition. carol: and what let him into the orbit of harvey weinstein. >> people know this sort of famous courtroom litigator and champion of democratic ideals. he represented al gore during the 2000 presidential sort of -- florida recount. he also famousl

make absolutely the same parallel as watergate where richard nixon in obstructing justice prior to archibalds leading the watergate investigation. i can see no difference between those two events. and not only does congress have to be galvanized against it, but the american people have to understand that if it happens, it is a signal blow to our democracy in the form of government that we cherish. it is of the utmost importance that we take that seriously. >> what makes you think we could be headed that direction right now, that there will be another saturday night massacre? >> womeell, we have seen presid trump come up to the line before being urged by some of his supporters to dispense with the mueller investigation. he already fired comey for reasons which are now getting more and more clear to protect general flynn who has now pleaded guilty. and we will in short order i believe hear what general flynn has to say about some of the motivations for what has gone on behind the scenes. and the president taking the extraordinary step of telling the director of the fbi you ought to go easy on

since richard nixon tried to do the same thing over watergate, by firing the special prosecutor archibald cox. with each revelation of how close mueller is getting to trump and his inner circle and i think he's very close, the likelihood increases, but, again, i tell you, i think donald trump brings the whole white house crashing down if he does this. i don't think even a lot of republicans can defend him blocking the investigation by firing mueller. >> actually, listen to this, listen to what some conservatives have been saying over the last week and especially this one, this is from fox news. listen to this. >> president trump won in spite of the republican establishment being against him, the democrats being against him, the elite media against him, and the fbi and the justice department were against him, and still he prevailed, still the american people said we don't care about -- we're making that guy our next president, we're putting him in the oval office. to me, that's the real story here. in spite of all that, he still won because the american people were so fed up with this kind

it echoes watergate, it echoes what president nixon did with archibald cox. rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who would have to be the one to do any firing, has already said he sees no grounds for firing whatsoever. in effect he's telling the white house, if you want to fire the special counsel, you'll have to fire me too, which is certainly possible. you have a cascade effect that could in fact cause even republicans on the hill to be quite concerned. they have said in the past that firing robert mueller is a red line for them. and whether they would do something about it or not, i don't know. but it would be a big political risk for the president. >> matt, that tweet i just read is not from abby hoffman, that's from walter shaub, a guy who has devoted his life to ethics in government. and he is far from alone. >> right. you're seeing a lot of concern about a firing that could take place. i think you would see a massive backlash to it. you can't discount the political winds, though, at the moment. after seeing what happened in virginia, after seein

that would thrust this country into a constitutional crisis the way nixon did when he fired archibaldate, it would be on its face, evidence of obstruction of justice. we would have a you know really really serious constitutional problem in this country. it used to be unthinkable that it would happen. now they are developing lame pre techs like bob mueller did the right thing by firing or sidelining some people on the investigation who had some indiscreet, you know, tweetings about fought liking trump as if that should discredit everything they're doing. mueller responded properly, you have republicans on the hill calling for his head, the president and those republicans are calling the fbi a disgrace, with i is a dangerous thing to do in this country. so we're in uncharted and dangerous waters. >> kevin, i'm going to ask you to respond to that. because i have another question for you. but what do you think the likelihood is of these being the last few weeks of bob pulmonaryer's tenure heading up this investigation? >> reporter: i don't think any of us know. it's all rumor and conjectu

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. >> carl, bob mentioned the famous, infamous, saturday night massacre when archibald cox, the special do you trust that the administration is not going to do this? they assure that the president won't go that far and fire bob mueller, do you believe it? >> there's no reason to believe almost anything donald trump says. because what we know is that the president of the united states and his presidency is characterized above all else by the lying of the president of the united states. that doesn't mean that lying by the president is a crime. it does mean that we see him covering up events but not necessarily criminally covering up events. and where this is going definitively we don't know. but there are many times he has expressed, i'm told by people in the white house, the desire to fire mueller. the desire to pardon people under investigation, including his family. and one of the things that is going on now is, that his lawyers are telling him what he wants to hear. and that is what i'm told by lawyers in the white house. they are telling him what he wants to hear to keep him from act

. >> joining me now, john archibald, columnist for the birmingham news and aol.com.ve in confidence of roy moore's chances in the polls on december 12th that moore can win the race, much more in doubt a week or two ago. is that the sense on the ground down there? that this race changed a little bit in moore's direction? >> yes, i think that's a true statement and that mitch mcconnell's comments indicate the same thing a realization nationally. what a lot of people were saying local locally for a long time. that roy moore is likely going to win the race regardless of the allegations and that dawning is appears nationally. >> what do you think moved this a little bit? when the allegations first hit, a bit of a delayed reaction but polls showing a small lead for democrat doug jones. looks like more recent polls show it moving back in moore's direction. is this a case of shock wears off with time? gravity reasserts itself? some are saying it's the scandals involving democrats in washington. conyers, franken. maybe that's changed the psychology of votevoters? do you have

later when they fired archibald cox, he was biased according to the president because he wouldn't agreeseek the white house tapes. there's enormous pressure on the president when there's a congressional investigation, especially when there's a special prosecutor in the case of the nixon impeachment, it was the work of the special prosecutor and the senate judiciary committee that led to the evidence to cause the evidentiary committee to impeach the president. the judiciary committee almost did nothing. and coming back to "the new york times" article today, the same isolation reflect in that article and enormous pressure on the president for not only himself and his campaign and relatives are under investigation. same thing to occurred with president nixon. he was isolated, fixated on watergate, and i think the parallels are very strong. >> and we'll get to more on that, michael, shortly. i want to go to "the wall street journal's" reporting and they are saying here, just in part, some of the president's associates say they want the white house to set up a classic war room to respond to

interfere with mueller's investigation has to be seen as abuse of power, and he walks himself down the archibald cox getting fired, richard nixon. to shimon's question, a new prosecutor is appointed, it is not like it goes away. >> remember when the president famously said, i relieved the pressure, i fired comey. >> right. >> not really. it didn't work out well. >> you wonder if comey would have done what mueller is doing now. >> i wonder if trump is capable of learning that lesson, firing comey, taking dramatic steps? don't underestimate trump's ability -- >> have to read up on your history of the saturday night massacre. >> right. >> can we return to one quick thing shimon raised, which is this question is this implicates foreign policy. we have talked about this before, which is there is this thing called the logan act which makes it a crime for a private citizen to interfere in the foreign relations of countries. that is exactly what happened here if you take the indictment, the information on its face. they intervened with egypt and with russia with respect to a foreign policy dispute betwe

national correspondent steve kornacki here with me, and an investigative reporter for al.com, and john archibald, columnist for the birmingham news. halle, let's start with you. the president wants the voters of alabama to go out and vote for him. getting into it with kirsten gillibrand. i hate to ask, but is there a strategy here? >> we know there is a strategy unfolding the last eight to ten hours here, senator gillibrand calling on president trump to resign, after the allegations coming up before and after he was elected, coming up again. that is what happened. she was not the only one who called on the president to do this. you had three or four other male senators calling on donald trump to step down, you're looking at this graphic, i would look at senator hirono only came out this afternoon to call out the president. the president took aim tweeting essentially that she was a lightweight, a flunky of chuck schumer's. and what seemed to be a seemingly potential suggested implication or insinuation said she came to his office begging for contributions and would do anything for them. that brin

during the nixon era claimed that richard nixon was without authority to fire the special prosecutor, archibald cox and nobody during that time claimed that that firing constituted obstruction of justice in a criminal context. you can argue about whether or not that's an abuse of power, abuse of process. that was the basis of an article of impeachment for obstruction, and i think john dean is correct, you know, that would be something that congress, if it saw fit to do so, could consider in connection with president trump as to whether those actions, abuse of process, the firing of the fbi director, would constitute impeachment, an impeachable offense. >> i'm glad you mentioned the congress because the senate, which is part of congress, the entire institution. the intel chair, richard burr, says he doesn't agree with the theory that the president cannot be indicted for obstruction of justice. whether he can be or not, that's whether he can be charged, has that been tested in the courts or is this more about an impeachable offense rather than -- is that a real concern? >> it has not been tested.

so what everybody's complaining about -- this is the exact same attack that was made on archibald coxtergate special prosecutor during the thichlen era. they said the same thing, cox had been the solicitor general, had been appointed by john f. kennedy and all they could say was he was a democrat, he was appointing a bunch of democrats to investigate republicans. it was the same kind of drum beat that you would hear but i can tell you from first hand experience, this was a totally proper and impartial investigation and politics played no part in it and there is no indication that politics is playing any part in this mueller investigation. >> what's the conversation that goes on between mueller and this now removed fbi agent? that agent's got to know that if you're on an investigation you can't send texts like that. it doesn't make sense. why did this even happen? >> it's just poor judgment. sometimes you hire people to do a job and they just don't exhibit the right judgment, just like james comey didn't exhibit the right judgment when he made all the statements about hillary clinton's

i can now cross to birmingham, alabama and speak tojohn archibald, who is a columnist for the largestg with us. my pleasure. how much of a shock is this result, given roy moore's baggage, shall we say? it should be a shock, given the fact he has been kicked out of office twice for failing to abide by the higher courts, and he had these allegations against him. but al 0bama is such a republican state that it was touch and go down to the wire. really it had to be a perfect storm of a lot of events for doug jones to win, and it has really kind of shaken this place. was there a level of complacency on the part of the local republicans who picked roy moore, they think this place hasn't gone democrat the 25 years, he will win, no matter what? maybe to a point. the level of scrutiny here is something i have never seen before in 30 years of covering politics and no one else i know how to, either. but roy moore frankly ran the laziest campaign i have ever seen, he presumed he would win because you can't lose as a republican in alabama, and doug jones, his opponent, ran a very energetic campaig

invoking the critical watergate analogy, the saturday night miss car -- massacre with the firing of archibald cox and others who refused to cover up for the president's crimes and misdeeds. thank you for your legislation hat would try to empower the special counsel not to be fired without a court's say-so, at least. so to build another check and balance. thank you also for invoking what's also taking place in washington right now, this massive assault on the american middle class through this tax -- so-called tax cut bill which tax scam, which would raise taxes for tens of millions of americans while transmitting billions of dollars up the income and wealth ladder and ever since we've arrived here, the whole government has felt like a money making operation for a person a family a small group of billionaires in the cabinet a handful of people in the country like the koch brothers and the mersers. and we cannot allow either this assault on the basic middle class economics of the country to go through, or this assault on the constitution and the rule of law which we reasons sod vividly yesterda