hello, senator ervin. this is richard nixon.i was so taken aback i said, mister president, hold on. senator ervin wants to get you. i was like, oh my god. i have never publicly told that that i know of. so i have to confess my big boo-boo. but everything worked out. it's funny how each of these speakers tonight has told you that the three branches of government were like a team of beautiful horses working together. now, there were conflicts here and there, of course there were. but it shows that when people decide to be civil to one another, and i was here ten years before watergate occurred. people stayed in washington then. the senators stayed here, jill. they went to parties together. they ate together. we had all sorts of things. and now, what do they do? they come in on tuesday, they leave on thursday. what do they do all they are gone? they raise funds. debra will tell you. it's just never ending, and it is all about the money chase. and so let's be aware of anybody that tells you that money doesn't corrupt politics, they

miss banks had mentioned the bipartisanship on the ervin committee. sam dash was secretly rehearsing -- it was a sham. now, for mr. shepard. could you please comment more on the documents that you found that the prosecutor stole that indicate that they lied about the grand jury tampering, trying to connect president nixon. and they hit exculpatory evidence. these people, these prosecutors should be disbarred. the doj complaint has been filed, and i hope it goes through. thank you very much. >> well that's absolutely true. what has surfaced from these internal documents the prosecutors office -- >> they are available on your website. >> yes they are. i posted all of mine because it still says facts are what matter. >> you've noted that they are for the washington journal segment. so if our viewers want to go find it, they can find it under website. >> yes, they can. if they do, my website forward slash six dash 17. they will get just the documents i'm going to quickly summarize their. there are ones that detail meetings with the judge. the fact of the

[applause] senators sam ervin -- senator sam ervin. [applause] sam dash. [applause] peter rodino. [applause] john door. [applause] archibald cox. [applause] kelly ruth. [applause] james neal. [applause] leon jaworski. [applause] and catherine graham. [applause] may we find those heroes to guide us through the troubling months and years ahead. thank you. [applause] >> of course, richard meant to include senator howard baker. [applause] and he has captured something that's really true, which is, it was a time when there was bipartisanship, there were facts that mattered, all the networks had the same facts. it was an extraordinary time of compromise. democrats and republicans dined together and worked together and got things done. there was unanimous support for the legislation that followed. the trial and the hearings. and we are not they are now. and i think that is what is really so sad, that we don't have those people coming forward now, and we need that. but let's go on with the questions. i want to ask one more question of you, richard. you are not done yet. come on back. one

[cheering and applause] and from naperville, illinois, it's the ervin family.[cheering and applause] everybody's here trying to win theyself a lot of cash, and somebody might have a shot

giancarlo stanton then rode one the other way against ervin.hat's a three run shot number 19 on the air for stanton. that was all the scoring in the game. the yankees get their sweep 5 to 3. the ayes had to seattle for the first of four tomorrow. and the wait was finally over for former stanford and mono vista high school product. mark appel, the one time number one pick of the houston astros made his major league debut tonight for the phillies braves, marcell ozuna to line out after allowing a single lapel, got his first major league strikeout painting , adam duvall. appel wants that baseball has waited a long time for that. then, when phil goslin grounded into a fielder's choice, appel had a shutout inning. one month shy of his 31st birthday worth the waste and check this out time to leave you with on this wednesday night fan in arizona. it's a moment all fans await foul ball right to him. you don't have to fight anybody for that one. it's not hit that hard. oh so close and his buddies i'm not going to ever let him hear the end of that you br

. >> i think that was sam ervin. did you give senator ervin's pocket constitution? >> i gave -- [inaudible] >> this pocket constitution contains another document. it is our basic rights declaring document. it is the declaration of independence. do you declaration that created the united states. i think that the frame is short changed if we view them as having a limited view of rights. >> as a judge, you are required to follow supreme court precedent. you are not able to go off on your own. a subject that will come back to in my second round with you is your view of stare decisis. we both know that in the court you're about to go to, you are not bound by any previous supreme court ruling. as a judge on the circuit court, you are honor bound to follow, to the best of your ability, why do you believe to be the consistent ruling, a ruling consistent with what the supreme court has rolled if it is on all fours or as close as you can approximate it. now, you're going from -- you have had three different roles. advocate, where you were educating, and i know you mean that l

president nixon, carl, one of the enduring memories was from the senate hearings, the late senator sam ervinarings, that famous moment when we heard the actual audio recording inside the white house , would richard nixon have been brought down if that had not happened? it was the so-called smoking gun tape. it is possible he would not have been brought down. we do not know. it is if history. it is important to understand the progression from richard nixon's criminality to donald trump's criminality. they are both criminal presidents of the united states, but then trump went further. he is the first seditious president in our history. how did that happen? he decided he would not abide by the election, the duly constituted free election of joe biden is the president of the united states, and stage a coup to keep joe biden from taking office. the law calls for the election of the president of the united states to take place at 1:00 p.m. on january 6. there was a great effort, conspiracy, extending to the president, to keep that 1:00 p.m. appointment from happening. the object of all of this inc

i would say let's keep our eyes on her, on liz cheney, almost as we kept our eyes on sam ervin, the chairmane watergate committee. but she has another thing going for her, as does the committee. and that is the fact her father was the vice president of the united states, reviled her father by the left, by the democrats. and here she is leading the attack on her own party, which has said, we won't cooperate with this investigation. compare that to the watergate situation where it was republicans who pushed richard nixon out of office. barry goldwater, the great conservative, 1964 nominee of his party. bob woodward and i went to his apartment when we were writing "the final days." goldwater gave himself a big tumbler of whiskey, pulled out his diary from the last days of the nixon white house, read to us how he and the leadership of the senate and the house had gone to nixon and nixon asked, will i convicted in the senate in a trial? goldwater looked at the president and said, mr. president, you have very few votes, and you do not have mine for acquittal. and that next day, richard nixon resig

. >> unlike the well publicized senate inquiry under sam ervin, the cox investigators aren't merely trying to get at the facts, but are trying to decide who if anyone needs arresting. >> the watergate task force was charged with investigating the cover-up case and then prosecuting the case against nixon's highest level associates. >> we occupied some spare offices of the justice department. and of course we were supposed to be very confidential. the issue came up what kind of security do we want? archibald cox said well, why don't you just tell them whatever j. edgar hoover has, that's exactly what we want. >> the cox investigators say they want minimum publicity and maximum security. the permanent police guard uses telephones that are regularly checked for wiretaps and an elaborate system of passes keep journalists well away from offices where documents are kept. >> and the press was of course very interested, as they should be, in getting whatever information they could get. and it was clear that we could not have any leaks, and we didn't. and we could not divulge information inadvertent

. >> the story turned in the summer of 1973 when sam ervin and the watergate committee started hearings. we have a clip of the opening of those hearings. i will follow up after that. let's take a listen. >> we are beginning these hearings today -- the questions that have been raised in -- [inaudible] if the many allegations made this day are true, then the burglars who broke into the national committee at watergate were in effect breaking into the home of every citizen of the united states. if these allegations prove to be true, what they were seeking to steal was not jewels, money, or other property of american citizens, but something much more valuable. their most precious heritage -- the right to vote in a free election. carl, did it become harder or easier for you to report this story once the watergate hearings are underway? had that effect what you guys were doing? >> i don't know that it was a question of harder or easier. i think that in some ways, it became impossible for us to be a little more interpretive in what we were doing. because they were now getting through subpoena p

if you look at someone like sam ervin, who was the leader of the senate investigation and drill downto absolute direct core of what was happening to our country because of the attitude that gave us nixon. he was a democrat who voted with which you nixon the most of anyone in the senate. you cannot tell me there are -- you cannot tell me he was out to get richard nixon, you cannot tell me there are good guys and bad guys and the bad guys were out to get this innocent man who wanted to serve his country. this is a guy with however much keen with deaf pain was caused to him they were caused by things that were present in his career since the beginning and you can even argue, since his childhood. when he wrote a prize-winning essay saying the constitution grants religious freedom, but it does not mean you can practice religion that is damaging to society. this is an authoritarian mindset. if we love our country we try to root out the authoritarian mindset by using rules and law and order and justice. >> how is that going? we will come back to that. i don't want to start any kind of physi

they put two runners on board in the third giancarlo stanton road one the other way against ervin.s a three run shot number 19 on the year for stanton. that was all the scoring in the game. the yankees get their sweep 5 to 3. the ayes had to seattle for the first of four tomorrow. in the world of what have you done for me? lately the warriors will continue to tweak their roster and preparation for the defense of their title. james wiseman is the player of the words continue to hope will develop into someone worthy of his status as the second player taken in the draft two years ago after missing all of this past season because of complications from knee surgery, wiseman is expected to play in the warriors summer league games in las vegas next month. wiseman will not play in the upcoming california classic at chase center. but he is practicing and here's how he feels about that. i couldn't even contain myself in practice today because i was just smiling the whole time. but but, yeah, it's a great prostitution. great journey. i'm just blessed to be here. i'm just blessed to be in the

congress i cannot emphasize enough the importance of the relationship between democratic senator, sam j ervin. and republican howard baker last chairman. okay. welcome to tennessee. they made a pact in the very beginning that this would be a non-person hearing the sole purpose of which was to uncover the truth. it's hard to imagine this happening today. because it required level heads and plain old-fashioned civility. they prove that a congressional committee devoid of malice and political bias. good fulfill expunctional of informing the public and then proposed legislation that would prevent this egregious scandal from ever happening again. they knew that only a well-functioning separation of powers. could ensure democracy in our great country for generations. today we commemorate the 55th anniversity of watergate break-in, which carl bernstein and bob's newspaper called think of minor event about that about that size and the washington post and in my mind the pivotal lynchpin of solving what center urban called a national tragedy. was the committee discovery of a secret tasting taping syste