here, you know, as jim lehrer said earlier the system worked. but the system would not have worked had not the president taped himself and had not we been able to obtain the tapes because the court ruled in our favor saying that no man is above the law or the grand jury was entitled to the evidence. in fact, the senate was denied the tapes. their attempt to get the tapes failed. the courts however, said that the watergate special prosecutors office working with the grand jury was entitled to get the tapes. >> did that drive the decision to name him as an unindicted co-conspirator? >> the decision was rather convoluted to name richard nixon as an unindicted co-conspirator. the furor of the tapes as fred said i think began to change public opinion and public opinion then shifted dramatically once richard nixon fired archibald cox a special prosecutor who was promised to have the security of getting an investigation unless he engaged in misconduct. quite clearly there was no misconduct. he was following the evidence and yet he was fired in the satu

federal government and jim lehrer a long term it is a bad debt benj that when the party is really over and europe went to fall to have happen when a bottom is been reached you're saying that already of spending in the u.s. it's going to run out of drugs in the u.s. is not going to be able to borrow and continue its debt binge any longer that will be the day of reckoning it sounds like in your view we're going to have. believe it there i could talk to you all day we're going to continue this conversation thank you so much that was been salo lire founder and president of the as p.g. group. was a good interview was interesting let's wrap up with your feedback though because we've talked about a lot of interesting things this week and you had a lot to say so earlier we spoke to robert proctor that was earlier in the week he is the founder of elliot wave international and he is a deep lation it he laid out his analysis for deflation in a comment like by several viewers on you tube kev riley seven said it can't be deflation if my grocery bill is up forty percent the past year and a half. i k

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colin powell -- at the four major nightly newscasts, abc "world news tonight" and the cbs news with jim lehrer93 interviews done about the war, only three were with aechbt anti-war leaders. that is an extreme media beating the drums for war. and that's why it's one thing for the government to allege things that are lie. but does the media practice a conveyor belt for those lies? i also think that for today, if we go to the ground troops, it was not only by the government, it was about the media accomplices. we apologize and it also gave rise to a lot of alternatives, kind of the progressive blogosphere, a rose in the wake of that really intensified daily columns and things like that. but the conservatives tell themselves the exact same story, literally the exact same story about the election of barack obama in 2008. >> because the media produced it for them. >> it's the dan rather story, i remember at the time, ed gillespie going on tv, and saying what did john kerry know and when did he know it. and making this really explicit, not quite a dog whistle, hey, fellow conservatives, remember how