elliott richardson has quit, saying he cannot carry out mr. nixon's instructions. richardson's deputy, has been fired. he refused in the moment of constitutional drama to obey a presidential order to fire the special watergate prosecutor. and half an hour after the special watergate prosecutor had been fired, agents of the fbi acting at the direction of the white house sealed off the offices of the special prosecutor, the offices of the attorney general and the offices of the deputy attorney general. >> six fbi agents present, impeding our operations now. >> all this adds up to a totally unprecedented situation, a grave and profound crisis in which the president has said himself against his own attorney general and the department of justice. >> nixon ended up summoning his solicitor general, a right wing former yale law professor, robert bork, to the white house. he was sworn in as acting attorney general and carried out the president's order to fire cox. the saturday night massacre represented a traumatic suspenseful and unprecedented constitutional crisis. it als

>> dr elliott, to answer the question her mother posed, you treated abby.ow did she get so sick is this. >> abby had a form of resistance staph infection causing septic shock. it acts quickly, grows quickly and releases poisons that affects the heart and lungs. she had an inokayuation from playing sport, from the -- ipp okayuation from the skin into the bloodstream. >> she's still struggling? >> she is still struggling. very long story short - she had to have a lung transplant to effect a change from other resistent negative bacteria acquired in hospital. >> i want to read a quote from dr john rex, vice president of clinical research referring to the problems with anti- - with resistent bacteria: again, i think most people don't understand why we don't have a pipeline of new antibiotics coming out. can you address that? >> sure. i think very clearly we have a golden age of antibiotic s in the 50s and 60s many dozens were discovered. if something stopped working new ones came along and we overused it, which led to the tide of resistance we are seeing. the ec

in june when prosecutors told elliott that they had a sworn testimony that the vice president had received bribes and was handed several envelopes in the basement of the white house. could toerything we break the witnesses down. the most solid bribery cases i had ever seen. the witnesses not only broke down, they produced other witnesses that would say the same thing. had as the we president became increasingly under the gun is that we would be sitting in a courtroom trying the vice president of the united states and through the doors would burst somebody else saying leave your hand up, you're the next president of the united states. [laughter] it was symbolic, but it concerned us a lot. >> one of the issues that swirled around at this time was national security. if he was forced a turnover the tapes, it could jeopardize the country's national security. you talk about this in your book. how serious was that concern for national security? , yom kippur came in the middle of the watergate crisis. it was being handled pretty much by henry kissinger. he used it as a reason for cox to back off.

elliott, hang on. look, everything's gonna be all right if we just-- if we just hang together.ogether? hang-- are you insane? after what you did to titus? just don't focus on the negative. focus on this. i'm calling my lawyer and cutting a deal. you're on your own, kris. good luck. i wiped the disk. you're right. you did. mr. kalinosky said the data was just random numbers. gibberish. oops. jane, rigsby's on the phone. oh. okay. excuse me. i'll take it in your office. miss makkena, i can't arrest you today, but i will... soon. how many names? four. ernest matthewson, mitchell livingston washburn, miguel vavario, and jay roth. roth. it's from the german rot. means "red." when did she see him? uh... about five and a half months ago. do you have the file? no. there is no file. what do you mean? well, i searched the whole office. it's not here. i got the department secretary to check the archived files at the university. there's no file there, either. it's gone. he took it. i'm sorry, jane. oh, it's all right, rigsby. thanks for everything. we'll see you when you get back. (clicks

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josh elliott, abc news, new york. >>> don't forget we're always there at abcnews.com, "nightline" latersee you right back here again tomorrow night. good night. >>> bay area transit and a bart strike. tonight the union and their walk out plan. >> the peninsula tonight underground gas line has been ordered closed by a judge. >> the question causing qilt a stir. should san francisco close parks at night? it's the only major city that doesn't. >> spreading impact of the government shut down more workers are temporarily without a job. >> countdown to the end of the cooling off. closer to a deal we have late word there may not be a strike on friday. good evening, everyone, i'm carolyn johnson. >> the 60 day cooling off ends on thursday night at midnight z the governor has no power to stop another walkout as before. fwhu just the past hour union leader as announced they're not giving 72 hour notice of a earlier bart management revealed it's made a first new offer on wages since august. and that if there is a strike it has no immediate plans to use replacement train operators. laura anthony is

elliott, hang on. look, everything's gonna be all right if we just-- if we just hang together.together? hang-- are you insane? after what you did to titus? just don't focus on the negative. focus on this. i'm calling my lawyer and cutting a deal. you're on your own, kris. good luck. i wiped the disk. you're right. you did. mr. kalinosky said the data was just random numbers. gibberish. oops. jane, rigsby's on the phone. oh. okay. excuse me. i'll take it in your office. miss makkena, i can't arrest you today, but i will... soon. how many names? four. ernest matthewson, mitchell livingston washburn, miguel vavario, and jay roth. roth. it's from the german rot. means "red." when did she see him? uh... about five and a half months ago. do you have the file? no. there is no file. what do you mean? well, i searched the whole office. it's not here. i got the department secretary to check the archived files at the university. there's no file there, either. it's gone. he took it. i'm sorry, jane. oh, it's all right, rigsby. thanks for everything. we'll see you when you get back. (clicks

. >> when and why did elliott richardson and you decide to resign, rather than fire cox? >> watching that press conference, in the attorney general's office at the justice department. we had discussed this sort of pleadingly before. the day before this press conference, elliott and his assistants were discussing what the likely outcome of the white house's response to the special prosecutor's request would be. it seemed that the likelihood then was that the president would ask elliott and me to discharge cox. we said what are you going to do if you ask that? they looked at me and said what are you want to do? i said i don't think there is any set of conditions under which it is possible to discharge cox. it didn't seem a hard decision to me. elliott and i had testified in being confirmed before the senate that we would only discharge cox for extraordinary impropriety. the phrase was used in our testimony. not only had he not, in all of the dealings with both of them, had any extraordinary impropriety, he had pursued his duties in the most appropriate way possible. there w

he doesn't know what elliott is going to do but he no elliott has been useless so far. is determined to jump in a boat. he takes for men and takes his flag and jumps into his cutter and has himself rode over to the niagara. they have two role like hell and the british have shifted fire to the boat in everyone gets soaked gets over to that niagara and gets on board. we don't know what is said to me and he elliott that elliott does take the boat because perry volunteer to take the boat and round up the lagging gunboats, the smaller vessels that were strung out behind. then takes the niagara and orders even more sales set and orders another downwind turn. this time is going to cut the british line. at this time the officer in detroit is not the captain. the captain is downloaded but the junior officers seized the niagara starting to sail towards them and he tries to maneuver where turn the ship's downwind to keep his rod site bearings to prevent from being -- and when he does so clean charlotte which was their second largest vessel together with the detroit area to clean c

still funny. >> the combination one-two punch of mayer and elliott. >> jimmy: middle of a tour.me when it is over. not worth answering. >> jimmy: when did it start? >> fourth of july. >> jimmy: until you are in your 50s. you had a throat problem, serious throat problem. >> a very serious not threatening but very serious situation. where it's always strange when you tell people, i haven't been on, i haven't been sing in three years. i didn't hear about that. you hear how important you are. three years of your life have gone by. lives out in the woods, getting a beard. you are like i'm back. oh, you're here. i had no idea. i assumed i want to go see you last summer. it was very strange. it its just an assumption. >> jimmy: what do they do to your throat? just rest? >> no, we tried rest. we tried -- didn't work. surgery. that didn't work. so, imagine coming off surgery this is going to do it. doesn't do it. then i met a great doctor. he said well what we do is inject botox into your vocal chord. i said great idea. when do we schedule? i said right here, right now you. are going to

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elliott trusted him. they were both new englanders. it was almost at the same time he was appointed. completely deaf in one ear. you can't possibly handle this without me. i have four months of experience as a public defender. [laughter] that is what i told him. that was it. and startednt down there. >> you became one of his closest advisers. house becamete suspicious of cox. grind a political ax to and wanted to condemn the president. >> archibald cox was surefooted when it came to the law. when it came to the judgment of .ow to proceed he was less so in the optics of the situation. how would it look if he invited the kennedys to the swearing-in. out that it be pointed it was in conflict with its own investigation? that heard him with the press and the public at first. but it was something he knew from day one. only to conduct the investigation scrupulously. to take things to convince the press and the public that he was doing just that. he was available to explain what he was doing and why. but neither he nor the staff dribbled out j

elliott trusted him. they were both new englanders. it was almost at the same time he was appointed. he went completely deaf in one ear. you can't possibly handle this without me. i have four months of experience as a public defender. [laughter] that is what i told him. that was it. all three went down and started there. >> you became one of his closest advisers. the nixon white house became suspicious of cox. he had a political ax to grind and wanted to condemn the president. >> archibald cox was surefooted when it came to the law. when it came to the judgment of how to proceed. he was less so in the optics of the situation. how would it look if he invited the kennedys to the swearing-in. or should it be pointed out that it was in conflict with its own investigation? that heard him with the press and the public at first. but it was something he knew from day one. he needed not only to conduct the investigation scrupulously. he needed to take things to convince the press and the public that he was doing just that. he was available to e

joining me now, richard haass, karen elliott house, retired as the publisher of the "wall street journal where she'd also been foreign editor and diplomatic correspondent. brett stevens is the pulitzer prize winning foreign affairs column i colu come imnist. let me ask you. is what we're witnessing with france and germany and ya zil, you know, every country -- >> mexico. >> is this sort of an inevitable consequence of america being this global superpower? is there anything we could have given that snowden happened, and we had this data dump, is there anything one could do about it? >> well, i think you could ask some of our allies to drop the clawed brains, shock-shock routine. i think most people in senior reaches of government have understood that governments spy on both enemies and allies alike. and sometimes they do so with -- for mutual benefits. i mean, the french have security concerns about jihadists in their territory. the germans do, too. muhammad atta came from hamburg. there are reasons the national security agency would be monitoring or covering metadata for calls placed. th

. >> elliott gould, jason ritter, julie white, it just goes on and on. he was mixing the sound, and the woman running the sound department there says, i have never seen so many talented people in front of and behind the camera come together for a script because they believe in it. he wrote such an incredible you build it it will come kind of moment, and it shows. tavis: it's a good movie, and leland survived the a kick out of the bedroom for 20 days. -- 21 days. that is our show for tonight. we will see you tomorrow. inc. for watching, and as always, keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for a conversation with jessica lange about the new season of "american horrors ven.": co that's next time. we will see you then. ♪ >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> be more. pbs.

here's abc's josh elliott. >> hall of fame center died at the able of 50 after years on the field. >>ike webster one of the best to play his position died in 2002 after suffering for years with dementia and depression. disorders that can be associated with repeated head trauma. >> he had heart disease and brain damage. >> after his death, webster would be the first nfl player diagnosed with the neurological disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy or cet. one of the nation's leading neuro pathologists has studied the brains of 46 former nfl players. she spoke with the brothers and pbs's front line about her findings. >> we have an enormously high hit rate. that would be extraordinary with any other disease to be able to pull in that many cases just that were suspected. so i think the incidents and pref lens have to be higher than people realize. >> to her it may be the ginnings of an epidemic. >> i think it will be a shockingly high percentage. i'm really wondering where this stops. i'm really wondering if every single football player doesn't have this. >> reporter: while the evidenc

top shelf on bryan elliott, it is in and the sharks are winners again. 6-2 the final. >>> 49ers welcome back marioing ham. manningham, a good move for this team who needs help at wide receiver. >>> two lcs games to update you on. red sox winners over the tigers. they lead the series, 2-1. and the cardinals over the dodgers. they're one win away from a world series berth. >>> okay. are they the best in the business? finalists for the clafrs 2014 were announced tonight. this was the rock and roll hall of fame. here's a look at so. names. n nirvana, hall and oates and linda ronstadt. these are expected to be announced in december. >>> still want to give you an update on the breaking news. no strike. bart and the unions are still at the bargaining table. the trains will be running tomorrow. less than an hour ago the federal mediator came out to announce that they are still talking. you can get on that train tomorrow. >> have some patience. [ male announcer ] progresso is so passionate about its new tomato florentine soup, it took a little time to get it just right. [ ding ] at first, it was

elliott rosette posted this video on youtube. it's not clear what started the confrontation or if the fan is facing any charges. >>> a man who was attacked by a great white shark while surfing in humble county said it came out of nowhere. it attacked him on sunday morning. jay scribner was paddling waiting for a wave when a 9 foot great white suddenly took a bite from his upper thigh and his board. look at the bite marks. scribner's friends began paddling in. >> i remember swinging at the shark and i missed. the shark turned and swam away. my mind was doing strange things. my mind was thinking, wow, that shark is so healthy and beautiful. >> once on shore scribner's friends wrapped his leg and kept him warm until emergency crews arrived. the bite required 30 stitches. >> fortunate man. it could have been a lot worse out there. >> yeah, that's for sure. >> all right. >> sounds like a horrible accident. >> yeah, it does. time for a check on the weather. >> yes, absolutely. we're going to be experiencing some cooler weather. i think

brody, with so much of my lessons were chuck cook, davis love, peter costa, elliott, mclean, i dread every single, ernest jones back in the early 1900s came back from the war with no right leg and was just starting to notice off his left leg, in he was a golf pro before he went to war and lost his left, he only had a left leg so if i lost any of my legs i would rather lose my right leg if i am a right-handed player but i like having both because being able to create force inbetween two points on the ground is where i may differ from keeping the weight on the forward foot but i think that when you look at what, you know, what andy or mackerel -- it is most of it is mac's stuff and andy created some of his stuff on top of it. what is a better way to get a beginning againer, beginner into a game, from going from impact, having their hands forward, keep their arms extended and keep their weight moving forward? i think that it is probably the best way to teach beginners. is it necessary at a pro level? probably not. is it athletic enough? maybe not. but i have great respect for anyone mak

elliott trusted him. they were both new englanders. he had lost his hearing, archie did, in at least one year all most of the same time that he was appointed. anythingk he ever said about that, but he went completely deaf in one ear. i went to see him and said you , can't possibly handle this without me. i have had four months [laughter] of experience as a public defender. that is what i told him. no, that was it. all three went down and started there. >> you became one of his closest advisers. the nixon white house became suspicious of cox. was cox someone who seems to have a political ax to grind and wanted to condemn -- and wanted to bring down the president? >> archibald cox was surefooted when it came to the law. when it came to the judgment of what was important and how to proceed. he was less so in the optics of the situation. how would it look if he invited the kennedys to the swearing-in. or should he point out to the senate watergate committee that it was in conflict with his own investigation? press andhim with the the publi

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he doesn't know what elliott is going to do, but he knows elliott has been pretty useless so far. perry is determined to jump in the boat that he still is pulling alongside. he takes form in, his flag and has himself rode over to the niagara. they have to roll like hell because the british have shifted far to the boats and a buddy gets soaked from a splash of nearby mrs. he get gives over to the niagar, gets on board. we don't know what gets said but elliott does take the boat and volunteers to take the boat and go back and round up the lagging gunboats, the smaller vessels that hav had been strung out be. perry then takes the niagara, orders more sail set in a another downwind turn. this time he'll cut the british line and go in front. and at this time the officer of the detroit is not the captain. the captain is downwind. he tries to maneuver, turn the ship down wind to keep his broadside bearing to prevent from being -- when he doesn't, queen charlotte, the second largest vessel that had been pounding on the lawrence, together with the detroit, the queen charlotte comes up. she

let's discuss what's going on with two guests, democratic congress map elliott engel of new york andrd from the president and kathleen sebelius. let me play a couple clips. >> so there is no excuse for. and i take full responsibility for making sure it gets fixed asap. >> so let me say directly to these americans, you deserve better. i apologize. i'm accountable to you for fixing these problems. >> congressman, so you accept her apology, are you willing to work with her to fix the repair of obama care? >> well, as you know, i've called for her resignation along with 32 other colleagues. i really have to stand by ny th. this could have been prevented. she says she's accountable, but she also points figurers at a lot of the private contractors. it was her responsible to be sure they were in line to begin with. >> but you've worked with government contractors. a lot of times they screw it up. >> yes, but she's in charge. the ceo has to make sure it gets done. >> so you still want her out. >> yes. >> what do you say? >> i don't think she should resign. i'm less concerned with her resigni

their efforts to find a missing woman in the moon at national monument sixty nine year old jordin elliott basically was last seen on september twenty first however many park employees were forced to take a furlough as a result of the shutdown at least ten rangers are working despite the four low to try to help find this woman though they don't know if they're going to be paid now the toll this shutdown is taking on the public is growing with each passing day but still we are no closer to a spending deal artie's sam sachs brings us the latest from the district of dysfunction the government shutdown is now in day three congress is not any closer to striking a deal to end of course a meeting at the white house last night between president obama and congressional leaders failed to yield any sort of deal and this morning senate majority leader harry reid took to the floor and said this about republicans on the other side of the capitol republican should come to their senses realize more than wondered why and why and. the longer this republican government shutdown percent of the harder will be

politicalng-pong with battles with -- to a buffet to help people like elliott, working for the departmentagriculture. >> i am living nearly paycheck to paycheck. i have a little bit of savings but it will be tough. a normal day i will have 10 or 12 people on the line and right now as you can see the whole place is empty. >> the effect go beyond the nations capital. with 800,000 off, that is greater than the workforce of several companies combined. >> they are not going to have money to spend in those communities. are already filing for unemployment benefits. offices in dcn maryland are reporting upticks in applications. team coverage of the shutdown and the impact on you continues online. see what is getting shut down as the process continues and the top 20 things to know about a and onwn on wbal-tv.com our mobile app. >> the suspect arrested in last night's bomb scare at jacksonville international airport has a bail hearing >> where the judge said the bail bar and what officials found when they searched the man. >> a deadly crash in tennessee shut down a major interstate and we are heari

he told josh elliott a short time after that he had never seen the video of his accident and never wantscause it can hamper his recovery. >>> finally, you have to check this out. we have seen kayakers attack some of the rapids. but a drainage ditch. in british columbia. clocking speeds of 34 miles an hour. and then, whack, and that's got to be the world's biggest slip and slide. let's see that again. who knew that concrete is such a great conveyor for a kayaker. >> i would put that in a bad idea file. >> a little too dangerous. i don't think our insurance covers those kind of stories. >> matt gutman, thank you. >>> new clues of maddy mccann, she disappeared six years ago, scotland yard has launched a major new effort. and abc's muhammad lila is on the story. >> reporter: on vacation when your little girl simply van ishs. new life into the investigation over the disappearance of madeleine mccann. investigators are now me tick clously combing through cell phone records. here's how it all works. the cell phone records show when phone calls were being made. what they don't show what people o

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he believes this is the best time to settle, though no talks are taking place. >> i understand elliott'srts. the property rejected what was an interlocutory petition for cert. their true petition wound up being filed -- >> in other words the spoupreme court could revisit this and take it on? >> in my opinion they will take it on. if i were elliott and i were the hold-outs, i'm at my peak in efficacy today of trying to force a settlement because down the road, a year down the road you have no idea how the supreme court will react. there are matters of law, there are matters of the foreign sovereign immunities act. there are many reasons why this would change -- if argentina beats it, we'll also win. >> back to you, carl. >> thank you so much. when we come back, nicky rising more than 10% in the last three months. will that momentum continue? we'll get a live discussion with a investor when we return after the break. with fidelity's options platform, we've completely integrated every step of the process, making it easier to try filters and strategies... to get a list of equity options... e

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