doug haig was contacted one day after geerts found a box of ammunition with his a dress on it. we spoke with haig, he told me he had no idea what stephen paddock was going to do when he met him just a few weeks before the massacre. doug haig said he sold stephen paddock 720 rounds of ammunition from his home business. >> he told me exactly what he wanted. i handed him a box with the ammunition in it and he paid me and he left. >> reporter: the rounds he sold are called tracer ammunition, bullets that leave a individualable trail. >> he said he was going to put on a light show. i can't remember if he said for or with his friends. that's what he said. >> reporter: but they say haig may have conspired with stephen paddock to commit murt with a deadly weapon. haig strongly denies that. >> i felt they were hoping they could find a connection between myself and paddock that would go back and showing i supplied him with most of his ammunition, possibly firearms. they're not going to find it. i talked to the guy three times. >> it's unclear if haig is still a rn person of interest but

mireya villareal spoke with haig for an interview that you'll see only on cbs mrng mng.d morning. >> good morning. doug haig was contacted just one day after the shooting when investigators found an amazon box with his address on it inside stephen paddock's las vegas hotel room. when we spoke with haig he told me he had no idea what stevphen paddock was planning to do when he met him just a few weeks before the massacre. >> i couldn't detect anything wrong with this guy. >> reporter: doug haig says he sold stephen paddock 720 rounds of ammunition from his home business. >> he told me exactly what he wanted. i handed him a box with the ammunition in it. and he paid me. and he left. >> reporter: the rounds he sold are called tracer ammunition. bullets that leave a visible trail when fired. >> he said he was going to go put on a light show. and i can't remember whether he said for or with his friends. but that's what he did say. >> reporter: but newly released search warrant records filed last fall by the las vegas metropolitan police department say haig may have conspired

it included the name of douglas haig outside his home in arizona.ds show haig owned a company called specialized military ammunition, which is now closed. haig's girlfriend marilou danley was earlier a person of interest. fema is planning to cut off aid today. nine u.s. representatives from florida joined the state's two senators in urging the trump administration to keep distributing water and food. hurricane maria devastated the island four months ago. about 35% of puerto rico's pop ligs still has no power. >>> "people" magazine says "glee" star mark salling was found dead by suicide a month before his sentencing on child porn charges. they discovered his body hanging from a tree yesterday in a las vegas riverbed area. salling pleaded guilty last month to child porn. he was expected to serve up to seven years in prison. >>> the "washington post" reports the dea is issuing a new crackdown on pharmacies and opioid overprescribers. a surge of dea agents and investigators will focus on pharmacies and subscribers. session says the dea will examine data

douglas haig was revealed when a judge's staff failed to properly redact his name from documents. haig says that he sold ammunition to the vegas shooter the first and only time they met. >>> o.j. simpson has scored another legal victory. a judge in los angeles has denied a request by fred goldman to force simpson to hand over cash he makes from signing autographs. goldman wanted that money seized to help pay simpson's $70 million wrongful death judgment. but the judge ruled goldman cannot identify who is paying simpson. >>> tough times for one of america's most iconic brands. harley-davidson is closing its factory in kansas city amid slumping sales. about 800 workers will lose their jobs. it comes as the company announces plans to build an all electric motorcycle by 2020. >>> all right. when we come back, the big name nfl quarterback being traded. >>> and also ahead, from soy to almond, which nondairy milk is the healthiest. >>> and what stormy daniels told jimmy kimmel about her reported affair with donald trump. donald trump. rheumatiod arthritis. before you and your rheumatolog

. >> when i picked the phone up it was al haig. he said he wanted me to fire cox and i said i'm not going to do it. >> ruckleshouse refused in a moment of constitution of drama to obey a presidential order to fire the special watergate prosecutor. >> first the attorney general to say i'm not going to do that and then resign and then the next person who is the deputy attorney general, bill ruckleshouse, one of the great people in the nixon administration, one of the most ethical men i have ever known, he, too, was not willing to do it. >> so the deputy attorney general, ruckleshouse, also resigned. >> well, there will be an announcement out of the white house later on. >> there will be? does it have to do with the resignation of the attorney general? >> it might. you will have to get it from them. >> al haig said, well, your commander in chief has ordered you do this. i don't know what that added to the discussion. he said, well, who else is around? i said, bob bork is here. he was the number three guy in the department. bork was th

. >> i picked the phone up and it was al haig. he said he wanted me to fire cox.ing to do it. >> ruckleshouse refused in a moment of constitutional drama to obey a presidential order to fire the special watergate prosecutor. >> first the attorney general to his great credit just saying i'm not going to do that and then resign, and then the next person, who is the deputy attorney general, bill ruckleshouse, one of the great people in the nixon administration, one of the most ethical men i've ever known, he too was not willing to do it. >> so the deputy attorney general, ruckleshouse, also resigned. >> there will be an announcement out of the white house later on. i can't say a thing. >> there will be? does it have to do with the resignation of the attorney general? >> well, it might. but you'll have to get it from them. >> al haig said, well, your commander in chief is ordering you to do this. i don't know what that added to the discussion. but he said, well, who else is around? i said, well, bob bork is here. he was the number three guy in the department. bork was

. >>> meanwhile, in a separate development the trump administration is making a move to ban haigs from getting seasonal working visas citing concerns about fraud and abuse. people from belize and so samoa are also being targeted. >>> bannon could return to capitol hill as early as today. he was also hit with a congressional subpoena for refusing to answer questions about his time while working for president trump. >>> the white house confirms bannon's attorney consulted with the administration as he was being questioned but insists they have nothing to hide. and the website axios reports he had conversations with reince priebus and sean spicer about donald trump jr.'s meeting with the rugs in trump tower. >>> we have new details about a 25-year-old american identified as an isis commander. his mother confirms to a philadelphia tv station her son traveled to syria to join isis. he appeared in a propaganda video last may calling for lone wolf attacks in the u.s. his mother says he, quote, hated people at the mosque he attended in new jersey but she says he never talked about terrorism be

judiciary committee early in the congress in 1975 to further investigate whether or not the chief of haig, had goner to the president and offered a deal to president nixon that he would resign and president ford would pardon him. that was never really proven. there were a number of people who made that argument. there were some members of the felt it was4 who important to put the issue behind us and move on with the issues that were before the country. >> our guest is john lawrence. he is the other of a new book coming out in march titled, "the '74."of patricia, your next, in milwaukee. patricia: good afternoon. , so ifa long question you bear with me. are the ultra-elite writing our laws and if so, are we looking at a future of oligarchy controlling in our decisions of laws and oversights, placing party before country? the reason i ask that is because and thet of wealth social responsibility is. for example, in 1977, 60% of the income was in control of the ultra-wealthy. now, it is even higher. are we looking at a partisan party for the future? i know there is always hope in things as fa

. >> you've built a fairly strong case for the identity of alexander haig. >> do you have any idea who opinion a collection of people. >> how the secret of deep throat lasts for so long and the answer is neither of us told our ex-wives. >> during our filming woodward casually mentioned that the actor hal holbrook's portrayal of deep throat was pretty close to the whole thing. so when i asked him who the man was, he just smiled. >> other guesses over the years -- nixon campaign aide john sears and fbi official mark felt. >> i never leaked any information. i didn't give anybody any documents. and i'm getting pretty fed up with the whole thing. >> mark felt certainly caught some people's attention. he was the number 2 man in the fbi. and he looked the part. >> no. no. i am not deep throat. and the only thing i can say is that i wouldn't be ashamed to be. >> three decades later bob woodward went to visit mark felt. the elderly man was living with his daughter on a quiet street in a suburb of san francisco. coincidentally named redford place. >> i was talking to a friend of mine, and for so

wandering the halls, talking to the oil portraits and drinking heavily at the height of watergate, al haig and james's lessons are, the defense secretary made sure the nuclear codes were safe. those are the kinds of things that john kelly, whether you like them or not, has to think about. i think he would be well advised to pick up the phone and talk to leon penn on a and jim nick and previousbaker chiefs of staff because he has a very difficult challenge. writer,ris is a documentary writer. he is a past producer of cbs news and is prime time on abc. he is the author of the gatekeepers: how the chief of staff define every presidency. in chapter nine, between bad and worse you speak about president obama's for chiefs of staff. but you begin with rahm emanuel. he was in for a relatively short . of time but had a lot to a comput. tell us about his experience. it was such an odd couple. emanuel,obama and rahm who we know is a character. i think manual was a pretty good choice for president obama. of aber, this was a moment real crisis. we were on the verge of a great depression. credit was fro

. >> you've built a fairly strong case for the identity of alexander haig. >> do you have any idea who throat is in my opinion a collection of people. >> how the secret of deep throat lasts for so long and the answer is neither of us told our ex-wives. >> during our filming woodward casually mentioned that the actor hal holbrook's portrayal of deep throat was pretty close to the whole thing. so when i asked him who the man was, he just smiled. >> other guesses over the years -- nixon campaign aide john sears and fbi official mark felt. >> i never leaked any information. i didn't give anybody any documents. and i'm getting pretty fed up with the whole thing. >> mark felt certainly caught some people's attention. he was the number 2 man in the fbi. and he looked the part. >> no. no. i am not deep throat. and the only thing i can say is that i wouldn't be ashamed to be. >> three decades later bob woodward went to visit mark felt. the elderly man was living with his daughter on a quiet street in a suburb of san francisco. coincidentally named redford place. >> i was talking to a friend of

. >> it was in dramatic context because nixon had a chief of staff, alexander haig, who went to elliottson, the attorney general, and said you have to fire archibald cox, this is an order from your commander in chief. and he said i'm sorry we have different views of the public interest. he resigned rather than fire archibald cox. we haven't yet seen that kind of profile and courage. although as you were saying, rachel, some of what you were saying about don mcgahn looks good. >> if he's staking himself against don hague, i'd want to be the don mcgahn character. >> things we never expected to see. and hope not to. >> right. hope we wake up and it's not happening. micha micha micha michael beschloss joining us at the very last minute here. i enjoy you being here on short notice. thank you for being here. >> be well. >> that does it for us tonight. i had a whole other show. i will save it for you. maybe. see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> come on over and do your whole other show. just hand it to me. i'll just read it. rachel, among the things

alexander haig, the chief of staff for nixon's white house, told archibald cox, the special prosecutor who began looking into questions about money given to nixon to refurbish his home in california, and he said that if he continued in that, the president would discharge cox. so it's the same thing over again. >> michael, i want you to respond to reports this week, including from nbc news, that don mcgahn, the president's counsel, asked for some pressure to be applied -- or applied some pressure himself, rather, on attorney general jeff sessions, trying to convince him not to recuse himself from the russia investigation. help us understand the gravity of that. >> it's tremendously important and very serious, because the justice department is supposed to be independent of the presidency. as a matter of fact, the idea of having a compliant justice department has its roots in watergate as well. before the special counsel was appointed, special prosecutor cox, in april of 1973, the attorney general himself, and henry peter soernsion the head of the criminal division, gave private briefings

. >> i knew he was haiging out with mr. hernandez. >> watching mr.. >> i'm not sure you'll ever see another guy that could do what he could do. >> he signs a $40 million contract with the patriots. has got it made. >> this is probably one of the best days of my field, aaron was just charismatic. if you'd see aaron, he was always cracking a joke. >> to me a great guy, love of my life, father of my child. >> he had a secret life. >> his passing away was one of the most damaging points in his light. he went the other way. >> aaron hernandez was pulled out of his home in handcuffs this morning charged with murder. >> this has got to be a mistake. >> involved with murder? i could see that. i know he fooled a lot of people into thinking he was a great guy. me, i'm one of them. >> guilty of murder in the first degree. >> i was devastated completely devastated. my whole world changed. he's all i know. >> you hears stories from the fall from grace and this might be one of the most tragic of all time. >> this is where the clock ran out for aaron hernandez. he

judiciary committee early in the congress in 1975 to further investigate whether or not the chief of haig, had goner to the president and offered a deal to president nixon that he would resign and president ford would pardon him. that was never really proven. there were a number of people who made that argument. there were some members of the felt it was4 who important to put the issue behind us and move on with the issues that were before the country. >> our guest is john lawrence. he is the other of a new book coming out in march titled, "the '74."of patricia, your next, in milwaukee. patricia: good afternoon. , so ifa long question you bear with me. are the ultra-elite writing our laws and if so, are we looking at a future of oligarchy controlling in our decisions of laws and oversights, placing party before country? the reason i ask that is because and thet of wealth social responsibility is. for example, in 1977, 60% of the income was in control of the ultra-wealthy. now, it is even higher. are we looking at a partisan party for the future? i know there is always hope in things as fa