haldeman and yours truly, we're obstructing justice.obody was thinking about the criminal law. we were thinking more about the politics of it all. >> all of the burglars stay quiet. nobody else is indicted, which is exactly what the white house's strategy was. >> the strategy was containment. if it doesn't get widespread coverage in the country as a whole, then we'll be able to handle this. >> this is about the government. this is about credibility. this is about bugging. this is about deception. this is about the white house. and this is how you stop it. with your vote. >> while senator mcgovern is out campaigning tirelessly, trying to get his message across to the people, president nixon is sitting in the white house and carrying out his presidential duties and leaving the hard campaigning to vice president agnew. >> people want to trust the king. people don't want to believe this about their president. >> pennsylvania decisively important state for the democrats drawn tonight to the republicans. kansas, connecticut, texas, michigan,

>> i don't think. >> the judicial proceeding. >> mckeever understands what it is doing, haldeman was a -- with digital proceeding. - a host of questions and a 3 paragraph order citing the standard whether that was affirmative about the correct meaning of rule 16 and the reason not to conclude that is a profound constitutional concern permitted by the reading of the rules. the plaintext of the rule, conditions being imposed on parties to ask for grand jury information. they do not deny this, could not be applied to the house where the petitioner wouldn't be subject to next with the textual power of rule 16. it makes part of the statute constitutionally in operable and you say that's not the regular statute. the second concern it creates is the one we are about to be put in, the particular need of standard that requires the court to find a gatekeeper. it makes sense if what is happening. >> is that standard change of impeachment. in past instances, watergate, clinton, there was concern of parsing, everything they found they turned to the house. why shouldn't the history of how grand ju

are interested may have to eventually make an ultimate choice between believing john dean or bob haldeman. that's the way it looks to me, at least, at 3:00 or so in the morning. feel free to disagree. >> jim lehrer, founding anchor of the news hour on pbs, gone at the age of 85. we're back with more of that live news coverage right after this. >>> well, we're back and let's amend our usual greeting by saying good morning once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. we are now past midnight into friday here on the east coast, and so begins day 1,100 of the trump administration. 284 scant days to go until the 2020 presidential election. and in about 13 hours, there's another number, house managers will begin their third and final day of opening oral arguments in this senate impeachment trial. day two, as you know if you've been watching, focused on the

senators and the rest of us may have to entual make an ultimate choice between believing john de or bob haldemanat it looks to me at 3:00 in the moing. jeffrey: jim and robinke t with me about it on the 40th anniversary. >> we broadcast it live during the daytime while it happen and then w complete -- and then we repeated it. itas a double hits. a huge commitment for public broadcastingan to make. d the reason they made it was because the premise was the presidency was at stake. jeffrey: some 70,000 letters poured in praising the team and its work. jim and his o words picks up e story of what happened next. >> we began in october, 1975. >> good evening, new york's governor hugh carey said today -- >>e and months later bece mcneil lehrer report. >> it used to be just two basic ways to buy a house -- in those days, we dealt with one story for a half-hour. >> we expanded to a one-hour program. >>ap that transitionned in 1983. >> t soviet union said yes, we shot down the korean airline jeffrey: 12 years later, robin mcneil retired and we becamehe "newshour with jim lehrer." jeffrey: he interviewed m

hr haldeman, president nixon's former chief of staff was subpoenaed and testified. alexander butterfield, the white house official who revealed the existence of the tapes testified publicly before the senate. and so did several others. donald trump's complete and total obstruction makes richard nixon look like a choir boy. two other presidents have been tried before the senate. how did they conduct themselves? william jefferson clinton, andrew johnson, did not block any witnesses from participating in the senate trial. donald trump by contrast refuses to permit relevant witnesses to this very day. many white house aides participated by congress, even before the commencement of formal impeachment proceedings. during various investigations in the mid-1990s the house and senate heard from 2 dozen white house aides including the white house counsel, the former chief of staff and multiple senior advisers for president clinton. president clinton himself gave testimony on camera and under oath. he allowed his most senior advisers in multiple chiefs of staff and white house

haldeman was subpoenaed and testified. alexander butterfield, revealed the existence of the tapes, testified publicly before the senate and so did several others. president trump's complete and total obstruction makes richard nixon look a choir boy. two other presidents have been tried before the senate. how did they conduct themselves? william jefferson clinton and andrew johnson did not block any witnesses from participating in the senate trial. president trump, by contrast, refuses to permit relevant witnesses from testifying to this very day. many of president clinton's white house aides testified in front of congress, even before the commencement of formal impeachment proceedings. during various investigations in the mid 1990s, the house and senate heard from more than two dozen white house aides, including the white house counsel, the former chief of staff and multiple senior advisers to president clinton. president clinton himself gave testimony on camera and under oath. he also allowed his most senior advisers, inc

who are interested may have to eventual make an ultimate choice between believingjon dean orb bob haldeman. that's the way it looks to me, at least, at i 3:00 or sn the morning. feel free to disagree. >> reporter: jim and bin talked with me about it on the 40th anniversary. >> remember, we broadcast i live during the daytime as it happened and then copletely repeated it gavel to gavel, so it was a double hit tere, and that was a huge commitment for public broadcasting to make, tnd the reashey made it was because this premise that prthe idency of the united states was at stake. >> reporter: some 70,000 letters poured in, praising the team and its work. jim, in his own words, picks up t.e story of what happened nex >> we began live in october 1975, as the rober macneil reports. >> good evening. said today --vernor hugh cary ths laterer: and mon became the macneil-lehrer report >> jim? used to be just two basic wys to buy a house -- >> in those daydealt with one story for half an hour. >> expanded from the present half hour to a comprehensive one-hour program.ti >> that tran to the macneil-le

haldeman, president nixon's former chief of staff was subpoenaed and testify.lexander butterfield, the white house official who revealed the existence of the tapes, testified publicly. and so did several others. president trump's complete and total obstruction makes richard nixon look like a choir boy. two other presidents have been tried before the senate. how did they conduct themselves? william jefferson clinton and andrew johnson did not block any witnesses from participating in the senate trial. president trump, by contrast, refuses to permit relevant witnesses from testifying to this very day. many of president clinton's white house aides testified in front of congress. even before the commencement of formal impeachment proceedings. during various investigations in the mid-1990s, the house and senate heard from more than two dozen white house aides, including the white house counsel. the former chief of staff, and multiple senior advisors to president clinton. president clinton himself gave testimony on camera and under oath. he also allowed his most seni

here with nixon with dean and haldeman. >>> that turned out to be a false cover-up defense and then asrand injujuri is he wer were convened, he tried to formalize this. consider where the arguments can go in history. they went back to siting executive privilege in court. >>> what you see there in the nixon history is the temptation to use things, be it executive privilege, national security privilege, attorney-client privilege, all things that do have real contours but aren't supposed to be use to cover up crimes and did temptation inside the white house that can exist to do so. two days before the public hearings "the new york times" wrote that nixon was invoking national security about vietnam and over watergate to silence domestic opposition. or take some of the best reporting we have from legendary journalist bob woodward about that period. in his book he wrote about how henry kissinger began reaching in the dark final days for a broader argument against impeachment, that impeachment, the process, the removal of the president itself was a threat to american strength on the global s

haldeman executive assistant to the president alexander butterfield. edition nixon produced many documents in response to congressional subpoenas including notes from the president. as the house judiciary committee explained at the time 69 officials had been subjected to impeachment investigations the route american history yet in that quote with the possible exception of one minor official who invoked the privilege against self-incrimination not one of them challenge the power of the committee conducting an investigation to compel the production of evidence if deemed necessary. president nixon's production of records was incomplete however with the very important respect. it not produced tape recordings of key oval office conversations in response the house judiciary committee approved an article of impeachment against the president for obstruction of congress. 24 years later the house undertook impeachment proceedings against president clinton. consistent with precedent and unlike president trump he pledged to cooperate fully with impeachment investi

haldeman executive assistant to the president alexander butterfield. edition nixon produced many documents in response to congressional subpoenas including notes from the president. as the house judiciary committee explained at the time 69 officials had been subjected to impeachment investigations the route american history yet in that quote with the possible exception of one minor official who invoked the privilege against self-incrimination not one of them challenge the power of the committee conducting an investigation to compel the production of evidence if deemed necessary. president nixon's production of records was incomplete however with the very important respect. it not produced tape recordings of key oval office conversations in response the house judiciary committee approved an article of impeachment against the president for obstruction of congress. 24 years later the house undertook impeachment proceedings against president clinton. consistent with precedent and unlike president trump he pledged to cooperate fully with impeachment investi

are interested may have to eventually make an ultimate choice between believing john dean or bob haldemant looks at least to me at 3:00 or so in the morning. feel free to disagree. >> jim lehrer, founding anchor of the news hour on pbs, gone at the age of 85. we're back with more of that live news coverage right after this. it's red lobster's new three-course shrimp feast for $14.99. choose soup or salad. one of seven delicious entrées - like new hawaiian-style garlic shrimp. and, get a sweet dessert. three courses. one amazing price. so come in today. as your broker, i've solved it. is complicated. that's great, carl. but we need something better. that's easily adjustable has no penalties or advisory fee. and we can monitor to see that we're on track. like schwab intelligent income. schwab! introducing schwab intelligent income. a simple, modern way to pay yourself from your portfolio. oh, that's cool... i mean, we don't have that. schwab. a modern approach to wealth management. audrey's on it. eating right and staying active? on it! audrey thinks she's doing all she can to manage her ty

what we found, most recently studied by alex haldeman's group in michigan, is that voters don't appearreliably confirm that their marks match what their intent was. -- thata significant raises significant concerns. >> i understand that. like 7% of the people that people in that -- that report. those appear to make a significant, not sufficient, but significant difference in how well they're verified. what can we do? >> interventions aren't perfect, but at least they can increase ,he ability for voters to check and it is simply a matter that the instruction is given to voters, whether they are given a personal reminder to check the ballot selection. those appear to make a significant, not sufficient, but significant difference in how well they're verified. >> dr. gilbert, do you have anything to add? >> yes, i have a lot to add. [laughter] so, to start, these studies -- i want to make the record clear. the studies are saying people did not verify their ballot. i didn't say they could not verify their ballot. i would recommend going to the michigan study. notice that in the michigan stud

what we found, most recently studied by alex haldeman's group in michigan, voters don't appear to reliablyonfirm their marks match what their intent was. that raises significant concerns. >> i understand. it's like 7% of the people whether given a personal reminder to check their ballot selections. those appear to make a significant, not sufficient, but significant difference in how well they're verified. >> dr. gilbert, do you have anything to add? >> yes, i have a lot to add. so, to start, these studies -- i want to make the record clear. the studies are saying people did not verify their ballot. i didn't say they could not verify their ballot. i would recommend going to the michigan study. notice in the michigan study, said, remind the voter to review their ballot. >> it goes up to like 70% to remind them. >> try this. would you please verify your ballot selections were not changed? rather than review your ballot. let's try that. the ballot marking device, there were 16 million voters who voted with a disability in 2016. what was the margin of victory? less than 3 million votes? so if w

what we found, most recently studied by alex haldeman's group in michigan, voters don't appear to reliably confirm their marks match what their intent was. that raises significant concerns. >> i understand. it's like 7% of the people whether given a personal reminder to check -- he's blocking devices ought to be available to those who need them for disability purposes, between now and when that is achieved, what do we do? >> the best thing we can do is voter education. the michigan paper has some concrete suggestions on interventions that are not perfect, but they can at least increase the ability for voters to check and you know, it's simply a matter of instructions given the, voters whether they will get a personal reminder to check their balls elections but they appear to make a significant difference another verified. >> anything to add? >> yes, i have a lot ahead. so, to start, these studies -- i want to make the record clear. the studies are saying people did not verify their ballot. it didn't say they could not verify their ballot. i would recommend going to the michigan study. noti

he has -- he takes haldeman's advice, go to the cia, tell them it's the whole bay of pigs thing sxep were already protecting the establishment, nixon said. so he was going to use that to hide behind. he was a her mitt crab. he was going to hide behind the protection that he saw that's always been protecting the swells like kennedy. so they were using classification, i know this is so hot they won't let me see it. so if i say this will bring out the bay of pigs stuff they'll work with me. well, it ended up, to make the point i made here earlier, it didn't work. the fbi stayed on the case. it didn't work. >> but to me the nixon example, which is as -- always looms over all of this, i think it's easy to sort of lose sight of nixon and watergate occasioned a reconceptualization of the independence of the department of justice, of what the president could and could not do. the sort of deep state secret state through the church committee. and after that, that period of time, was sort of the lowest ebb of presidential power in the ford administration. that's where the sort of trauma for dic