john dean admitted to it in june 1973. july 1973 the nixon white house admitted there was a taping system in the white house. july 30th the supreme court forced the tapes to be released. and then all this enemies list stuff. all of this stuff that we'd had described to us about them using the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies, it wasn't just an allegation anymore. once the tapes were released we all got to hear it play out on ta tape. you know, curses and all. one example, nixon particularly hated the "los angeles times." the day after the "times" ran an unflattering article in october 1971 about somebody nixon had nominated for a cabinet position, the day after that article ran nixon, we have a tape of it, nixon called up his attorney general, john mitchell, who had been his campaign manager. right? called up john mitchell. and he called him up to not just vent about that l.a. times story he didn't like. he called up the attorney general in order to sic the federal government on the l.a. times, on

commissioner walters comes up to the white house, comes to meet with john dean at that meeting, john dean that understands irs commissioner an envelope. in that envelope is a list of people, hundreds of people, that the president wants investigating and pursued and audited by the irs, this is two months against a race against mcgovern and he hands him a list of george mcgovern's staffers and top donors and says to the commissioner, okay, go get em. and the irs commissioner, this guy johnny walters, despite the fact that he was picked for this job on a recommendation of a guy who knew he would do it, walters says he's shocked by this request by john dean. he walked out of the meeting holding this envelope containing this enemy's list, this list he was ordering him to investigate. you're the head of the irs, investigate this list of people. what did johnny walters do with that list? took it back to the irs, in that sealed envelope, and he locked it up in a safe in his office. he did not act on it at all. he did not follow nixon's orders. and that list just sat there in that safe in the

john dean admitted it in june 1973. and in january admitted there was a taping in the white house and all of this enemies list stuff and all this stuff that had described to us about using the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies. wasn't an allegation anymore. once the tapes were released. it was played out on tape. curses and all. one example, nixon hated "the los angeles times." they ran an article about a cabinet position of nixon. he called up his attorney general, john mitchell, his campaign manager and called him up not to just vent about the story, but called up the attorney general to sic the federal government on the "l.a. times" as an institution and as a person and the publisher's family. go after odis channeler. he uses a racial slur and swears again. >> i want you to direct the most trusted person you have in the immigration service that they are to look overall of the activities of the "los angeles times" and underlined to see whether -- she a wet back. we are going after the chandler

. >> i want to bring in john dean, carrie cordero and maggie haberman. is it possible that juliani is giving this interview and talking about this to get this narrative out there. from a legal standpoint, i have heard several legal analyst say it is not law. but didn't somebody during the ken starr time write a different legal opinion. >> we don't know if rudy giuliani is an accurate representation. if it is correct that in fact the special counsel's office has told them that they are adopting the view in the prevailing justice department. that a sitting president would not be indicted. that might play into what the president might have brought in impeachment counsel recently, if that timing matches up. there are different opinions in independent counsel memoranda. the prevailing rule is that the sitting president cannot be indicted. but there was, you are correct, there was a different memoranda that was written during the time of the starr investigation. all of these memoranda that were written in the justice department were historical. written in the

breaking tonight is michael zeldin, john dean and general michael hayden. general hate yep, first of all, what do you make of -- i mean, interesting that these were recently provided to president trump's lawyers, this list of questions. >> right. >> they have now leaked out to the "new york times." >> tied to our earlier conversation, i talked about our being a fractured society, kind inform a post-truth world. we've got issues of our own and now this just illustrates, anderson, you have a foreign adversary coming in over the top, very skillfully in terms of the russians, taking advantage and worsening the fissures that we already have in our society, and now you've got the special counsel trying to sort this out. number one, what did they do, and he he's made some progress with regard to russian activity, and now how did the russian activity relate to the trump campaign and the trump administration? >> michael zeldin, i'm just wondering from a legal standpoint, as a former prosecutor, i just want to tell you here are some of the questions that the "new yor

back with john dean and max booth. john, kushner's attorney was on with wolfe blitzer today.ally followed their lead and the topics were what were the appropriate topics. you foe that they're being thorough looking at the campaign, and by campaign the issue they're investigating is there's something called clug, whatever that means to momepeop. they're looking to see if there was some sort of undue influence put on, particularly russia. that i have been looking at post-inauguration issues, firing of james comey. >> so if saying mueller was asking the appropriate question this wouldn't be witch hunt then. >> it sounds like he's being very candid and he would be in a position to know exactly what those questions were. so, no, this will not bolster the witch hunt argument at all. >> after the president's former attorney john dowd quit, mueller quote, he called it terroristic. he told the national law review people trusted each other, there were no misunderstanding. it was all conspiracy peddling that we're seeing right now. part of trump and beggiuliani'sw strategy. >> he's out

. >> john dean joins me. along with former new jersey attorney general and cnn's senior political analyst, mark preston. ann, you're talking about a long time business partner of cohen. the taxi sing. he knows a lot of things about michael cohen. >> no question. he's going to be somebody who knows all the business dealings. he'll know where the bodies are buried. so if cohen was engaged in criminal activity, he'll be able to talk the prosecutors through it. so critical. it's a critical thing for the government. >> and you know, to the point that ann's making, john dean, it sounds like look, you don't make deal like this with somebody when they could be facinge inin year sentence unless you think they have something that's not sending them to jail for. they think this guy has something on somebody. right? >> that's right. in fact, the key to me in the reporting was what the judge said to them the day when he was taking his plea. he said do you appreciate what your lawyer has done for you, what he's accomplishe

i want to bring in now john dean. john dean is a cnn contributor and former white house counsel for nixon, president nixon. this is exactly what rude ji giuliani said. he said, "when i heard cohen's retainer of $35,000 -- $135,000 -- or $35,000 i should say, when he was doing no work for the president, i said, that's how he's repaying. that's how he's repaying it." unquote. rudy giuliani said that cohen did no work for the president. why are we learning this now? >> it's baffling. i can't understand first of all where rudy giuliani learned this -- >> can we get that sound bite, too? i want to hear sean's question before and i want to hear the exchange afterwards because it is my recollection that afterwards sean tried to -- my sense is that he was trying to get him off of this topic. okay. but go on, john, sorry about that. >> yeah, the fact is -- the question is where does he get this information from that he seems to know, first of all, the entire arrangement to how it was paid back. this sound like something from t

john dean was in the thick of all of this stuff. he was in the thick of all of this criminality just months before he became this highly cooperating witness right there on tv. >> yeah. i mean, this is -- i think like -- so it's -- like imagine it's don mcgahn sitting there in a committee hearing and he volunteers, you know, you guys haven't asked me about this, but you know that the president personally intervened with the postmaster general to double the shipping rates on amazon because he doesn't like jeff bezos and "the washington post"? do you want me to tell you about that too? and whoever the modern equivalent of sam dash is said, yes, sir, we'd please like that documentation. >> john dean had the same job. thank you, rachel. appreciate it. >>> i just can't take this anymore. i know a lot of you have said that today. i just can't take this anymore. that's what michael cohen said. that's what former trump lawyer michael cohen is telling friends according to a report in "vanity fair" by our first guest, emily jane fox. and one o

john dean, the fact that donald trump has been so public weighing in on this investigation, tweeting a lot. wouldn't ejust a. >> mike: there is a realing ament that be made that his tweets do wave some of thinks potential claims of executive and it's fought really on a political basis more than a legal basis. unlike say, the attorney-client privilege, where there's lot of case law, that doesn't exist with executive privilege. it typically invoked in front of congress. tell dom with the wait any court would look at his tweets and say, well, mr., you've already talked about that, how can you claim privilege? >> john, i apologize for that error. i appreciate both of you. just ahead, special counsel robert mueller now floating the possibility of a presidential subpoena. we'll break down the legal precedent of that. also jurors in the bill cosby trial, pushing back that the argument of the #metoo movement played a role in their decision. you might take something for your heart... or joints. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevage

out front now former white house nixon counsel john dean. thanks for being here. when it comes to the informant, the spy, the conspiracy theory the sky is blue. trey gowdy says he's seen the intelligence and the sky is blue but the white house says we don't care and we think the sky is green and classified information, it otherwise isn't enough for us. what do you do? >> you report what you have in the times and there was an fbi informant involved here. there is a kernel of truth here. they were actually following up on information they had that trump campaign aides were cooperating with russians and there was a counter terrorism investigation into whether russians were meddling in the election. so the president has taken that and twisted it into the suggestion that he doesn't seem to be letting go of despite the fact that trey gowdy has said there's no evidence to suggest that's what happened. the difficulty here for people who are trying to disprove this is that, you know, this is classified information. it's not like there's a report out there for anyone to see

john dean. he has seen these things from the inside. he was white house counsel to president nixon.t does it say the president was even one time closer to sitting down with robert mueller? >> not only his legal team in terms of the personnel has changed and been a revolving door but the strategy has changed. so at one point with a different set of players it sounds like they were negotiating and they were perhaps had one set of constitutional concerns and now maybe there's a different set of constitutional concerns. so the legal strategy, the legal analysis and then the actual approach in dealing with the special counsel's office just constantly seems influx. >> and john, certainly things are not what they were back in january to say the least. a lot has happened since then including the raid on michael cohen's office. what do you think the odds are of the president sitting down to an interview without a fight at this point? >> i think there will be a fight. i don't think its his option either, anderson. i think what we're witnessing is very trumpian. where he is on all sides and al

. >>> outfront, a intelligence officer who briefed the president daily, april ryan, and john dean, president nixon's white house counsel during watergate. john, let me start with you. this whole point, trump's own team wrote these questions based on conversations with the special counsel. they had conversations and then put these questions together. there are 49 of them. why would team trump leak them, do you think? >> well, it may be one of the ways they communicate with the boss. they might have difficulty getting his attention during the normal business hours. they know he does watch this sort of thing on television and react to it. and so they sent him a very clear message here, this is sort of the scope and the outline of the questions you're likely to see. >> so if he won't look at them when they hand it to them, maybe he'll look at the ones that fox news chooses to highlight on their screen. april, the president loves to rail against leaks. actually it's a favorite thing. but obviously not only is his white house the leakiest sieve ever, on other topics, this particular leak really do

>> the trial ended with -- john dean, expose the burglary of my doctors's office earlier, later peopleosed the attempt to incapacitate me, and finally the warrantless wiretapping. when the judge could not find the files for the wiretapping, because they have been kept out of the fbi file, there were in the white house because they were criminal and they did not want to edgar hoover to blackmail nixon with the evidence of this white house ordered crime. without those files, the judge said this offense seasons of justice, a pattern of governmental misconduct. what was more important, the same charges came to confront nixon. the war would not have ended with nixon in office by the way, in 1973 when my final stage of my trial started, the possibility of nixon not finishing his second term -- which you just won in a landslide -- was zero, it was impossible. it was like the berlin wall coming down in 1989 or nelson presidentcoming without a violent revolution. these were impossible events which did occur. i am saying the ending of the war as early as 1975 depended on nixon thing out of offic

alexander butterfield revealing the white house taping which revealed john dean had been telling theth when he accused the president of a cover-up. then later, the attorney general resigning, elliot richardson, rather than fire a special prosecutor. we are back at that issue today. then the second person, say man who had revealed the fbi wiretapping of me, was now the acting attorney general. and he resigned rather than fire the special prosecutor that was the so-called saturday night mathat got the public aroused ad called for another special prosecutor to be named, independent of the white house. we may live through that again very shortly. amy: that is what i want to ask you about. if you see parallels between richard nixon and donald trump? >> trump is almost blatantly talking about nixon's madman asory, the idea that trump, nixon pretended to be, was unbalanced, capable of know,erate actions, you capable of going to war using nuclear weapons. the problem is, it is all too easy to believe that trump is mad in this case. kim jong moon gives -- kim jong-un gives a similar action. i

people like james mccord, john dean.he senate watergate committee begins to act, and two of the key figures, sam ervin and howard baker. ervin, a democrat, conservative. baker from tennessee, one of the up-and-coming stars in the south. it is notable that they are both from the south. the investigations again to -- begin to reveal more, including tapes. the president declares executive privilege. the courts say no. he tries transcripts. that does not work out too well. you have to hear the tapes. he tries redaction's from the tapes. ultimately, congress determines to move towards impeachment, and when that happens nixon chooses , to resign. so on top of the economic turmoil of the 1970's, on top of what has happened in vietnam, you have the scandal of watergate. in essence, you have a nation wondering again what has gone wrong? what has happened with our institutions, economic power, militarily, diplomatically? why is this not working out? spiro agnew had essentially been forced from office, former vice president under n

>> john dean, i know you're familiar with the department of justice and president rudy giuliani talking to dana. what do you make what giuliani's arguing here? >> well, i think he's suggesting that -- well, first of all, he's drawing out and he said you can't indictment me, you can only impeach me. and the department of justice they issued its first opinion, the oun of legal counsel saying no, mr. ing a nun it was renew had had. >> it is not really in his favor because of the president theoretically has no reason he shouldn't down. this is a counterintelligence investigation, as well potential criminal investigation. so they really want him for the i want to echo what was said. i don't know that what rudy giuliani said is what happened. i know that his presentation about what happened. it's worth remembering. when i spoke to him and i'm assuming he had the same regs and but i was one person in the room o said it, a member and said, yes, that's what we're doing. so assuming all of that is true, yes. the red he has a history of being ferle -- if you can't indict, you can't issue a subpoen

i want to bring in john dean.his is what giuliani said, he said when i heard the retainment of $35,000 when he was doing no work for the president, i said that's how he's repaying it, that's how he's repaying it, un quote. rudy giuliani says michael did no work for the president. why are we learning this now? >> it's baffling. i can't understand where giuliani learned this -- >> can we get that sound bite. i want to hear zasean's questio before and the afterwards. go on john, sorry about that. >> yeah, the fact is -- the question is where does he get this information from that he seems to know, first of all, the entire arrangement to how it was paid back. this sound like something from trump, his client and so he's -- to be able to speak this information and not breaching the privilege, he has to have trumps permission to put that out. he did say also that he does things like this for his clients without letting his clients know. well, that's contrary to the rules of ethics in new york state, which is an amazing s

john dean was the nixon white house counsel and josh campbell, a special assistant to james comey whenfbi director. good evening. josh i'm going to start with you. this is rudy giuliani expressing disappointment and frustration with attorney general jeff sessions. here it is. >> i've got to go there and jay sekulow, we've got to go there and prepare him for this silly deposition about a case in which he supposedly colluded with the russians but there's no evidence of that? everybody forgets the basis of the case is dead. sessions should step in and close it. and say enough is enough. >> so josh, he is putting pressure on jeff sessions to step in and close the investigation. do you think that will work? >> i don't. i think this is disgraceful. this is someone who is an attorney general, he was an officer of the court, he was a former government official that was a u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york where all of this is taking place. he was someone rumored to be a cabinet official and now he's attempting to inappropriately influence a u.s. counterintelligence investigatio

our national political reporter, mj lee, patrick healy and former nixon white house couns counsel, john dean. you've been breaking so much of this story. these payment frs novartis and how it was cohen who approached novartis from your reporting and you're learning more about this leadershrelationship and how it together. >> yeah, this is such a fascinating look at how access paid for and bought in washington. as to what we are told, is that cohen after the election aggressively pitched himself to multiple companies trying to say look, i know the president really well and i can give you access. i can give you a better understanding of how this administration can work. so novartis, the pharmaceutical company, struck a deal with michael cohen. a one-year deal. $100,000 a month so that cohen could help them. >> hefty retainer. >> sure is. on health care policy no less. but the twist is that this company apparently had an initial meeting with cohen then decided wait a minute, this guy can't help us that much so we're in the going to work with him. however, they decided to pay out the rest of the

then a year later, i went back to justice, because john dean went to the white house as legal counsel, and a year later began working with my friend tom at the white house on the congressional relations staff. jeff: so you went from justice as a prosecutor to the hill as a staffer, then to the department of congress and congressional -- the department of justice and congressional relations, then to the white house working with tom in the senate. wally: i am pretty much a justice junkie. jeff: you are really a prosecutor. when this was through, you went back to justice as an assistant attorney general. there was lands and natural resources, but not really prosecution, but you are a law and order guy. >> i am a law and order guy. >> we will get to wally being a law and order guy. tom, where were you? tom: working for senator wallace bennett of utah, who had been elected then in his third term. i was on his staff. when president nixon was elected, interestingly enough, a fellow by the name of george romney was running for president at the time. we had to endorse george romney, utah, romn

richard ben-veniste who worked in the special counsel's office back then, and john dean, who was the white house counsel to president nixon. both of them said there's a real concern here that the president is weaponizing the tools of government to undermine the mueller investigation for his own benefit. you know, dean actually said there are echos of watergate here. you know, i think there's a lot of deep, deep concern among institutionalists, and i don't mean this in an establishment way. i just mean people who care about the institutions of our government, about what's going on with president trump right now. >> i've heard some of their analysis. i mean where are they today? you know, if you've talked to them this week, where do they think the president has delivered us with this fake scandal, this manufactured tale of a spy which was never true? there was a counterintelligence investigation under way because there were people in the trump campaign who were so close to russians that they were under surveillance ostensibly to protect the company, to protect the campaign, and they ke

i talked to john dean, who was the white house counsel during the nixon years and he said this all has echos of watergate. >> why do you think they're doing this? is it a fig leaf or a sign things matter and they buckle to push back? >> they do buckle to push back. it's a sign things matter we're not going to be in the room to see the difference between the briefing or the discussion between chairman nunes, gowdy and the justice department -- >> we're not but we're human beings with logical faculties and either these individuals are doing the same thing twice in a highly inefficient manner for very busy people who the white house chief of staff, intelligence fbi director, or they're doing something different in the first meeting than the second meeting. >> the only reason to do this is you want separate conversations with separate content. >> fair. >> mimi. >> this sounds to me like a judge meeting with the defendant alone and then coming out and meeting with both parties, that's not supposed to happen. this doesn't feel like congressional oversight. this feels like, as i said, a subje

i want to bring in now cnn contributor john dean, former nixon white house counsel, also cnn legal analysto both of you. so, where do we start? why don't we start with cnn at&t, cnn is reporting at&t hired cohen for help on the company's proposed merger with time warner, cnn parent company. so, novartis explained it hired cohen for help with u.s. healthcare policy matters, but what about columbus nova? that was a firm with ties to the russian oligarch, virk vikto viktor vekkelberg. >> michael didn't get his story trait about what his services were all about. we don't have all the facts, but it certainly, as brian said, it doesn't smell good and it doesn't look pretty and it certainly suggests some kind of shake down. how this will all turn out, i don't know at this point. but it's ugly. >> yeah. what do you think about this, laura? >> well, you know, we really are seeing the under belly of what it means to pay for play in washington, d.c., and while most people think to themselves, there's got to be laws against this concept of being able to have paid access to decision makers, to elected

john dean, of watergate fame, was on cnn today, so this won't hurt avenatti's credibility at all. >> could've come from a bank employee. could have come from a treasury department employee. i think what is happened is probably going to be an innocent error on his part of it's the wrong michael cohen. i don't think it's going to affect his overall credibility, though, because he's got pretty solid documentation for everything's been doing so far. >> laura: byron. >> the key issue here is apparently he does have some actual information from cohen's bank records. real questions about how he got them. but it also does appear to show some sort of michael: pay for play operation in which these large corporations, novartis, a, paid him tons of money, like $100,000 in a month. >> laura: that would never happen in american politics. for a pal of a president getting money for access. it could be hash it's not illegal unless there was a quid pro quo. >> people have gotten into trouble for. the president's brother and the jimmy carter years. >> laura: obama's pal. obama said i don't know them th

former nixon white house counsel john dean, white house correspondent for american urban radio networks april ryan, and former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york harry sandick. harry, paul manafort obviously is a very important player here. he was the chairman of the president's campaign. he was in that meeting in trump tower. you now have his deputy rick gates and his former son-in-law essentially flipping. so what is the significance of his son-in-law flipping when you talk about -- talking about l.a. and new york, cooperating with mueller, put all in in english, what does it mean to mueller? >> i think what it means is as we get closer to the trial date, in order to try to convince manafort to cooperate with the investigation, they want to appear to manafort like the walls are closing in. so your former business partner gates is going to be testifying against you. now your own former son-in-law. who knows what things he was privy to. when i say who knows, the answer is mueller and these other investigators know. it may well be that the allegations in yohie'

also john dean, who was nixon white house counsel and cnn legal analyst laura coats. the gang is all assembled. welcome. good evening to all. matthew, i'm going to start with you because your new reporting, you have learned that the justice department and the fbi investigating cambridge analytica. what exactly are they looking for? >> this is very early days and it is opaque as these investigations are. what we know is you've got a senior prosecutor who deals in financial fraud who is being questioning former employees and others. they reached out to the banks cambridge analytica did business with. there's also been an fbi agent involved who deals with cyber crimes. people who have spoken with the prosecutors as witnesses and others have said that all they were told was that there was an open investigation on cambridge analytica and associated u.s. persons. who those people are, the prosecutors wouldn't say. we obviously know the company is founded by robert mercer, the very wealthy republican benefactor. his daughter rebecca was on the board. stephen bannon was on th

john dean, who was the white house counsel, actually with the approval of the then director, l. patrick gray, the director of the fbi, sat in on 14 interviews of white house individuals, employees. he also received from the fbi 302 reports, which were interview reports of individuals that the fbi had interviewed in the watergate investigation. >> so what i have to ask you, and viewers will be forgiven for feeling like this is a painting of collapsing that keeps collapsing in on itself, but if what you and john are saying is legally true, then what happened today also have to go into something that mueller investigates? >> it's all part of a pattern that's been going on, a pattern of obstruction. an effort to try and impede the investigation. an effort to try and provide information to donald trump and others in the white house so that they can tailor their stories to whatever it is the evidence is that's out there. that's why this is an obstruction of justice. what they're trying to do is learn what the government knows so that they can then come up with a story that they can pu

or notably there and mueller will fien night it remind me of how former nixon white house counsel john deant but had nothing backing it up until the tapes were there and the transcripts were there, and having the backup because just one account isn't going to be enough. >> this is the piece that we are seeing. this is the meticulous work that robert mueller is doing on probably any number of things that we don't know yet. you have to have the evidence there. and it shows that you can't move forward without that evidence. we don't know what else is coming but it's another example of this very detailed process. >> i thought we had a ban on the word "collusion" on this show. >> only when jeremy bash is here. the point is, we hear so much less about it, because there are fewer washington lawyers representing witnesses this the collusion investigation, to be honest. i don't know if anyone would disagree with that. but it is still the more sensitive line of inquiry for the president, who tweets every day, even if he is talking about trade, no collusion. >> i actually see a political strategy here

also cnn contributor, john dean, who was nixon white house counsel. this is fascinating reporting that you have here, matthew. let's start with your story and i want to read a key part of it. you said, fbi agents sent an informant to talk to two campaign officers after the pair had suspicious contacts linked to russia during the campaign. the and a half plant and american academic who teaches in britain made contact late that summer with one campaign adviser, george papadopoulos, according to people familiar with the matter. he also met repeatedly in the ensuing months with the other side, with the other aide, excuse me, carter paigge, who w also under fbi scrutiny for his ties to russia. so you know the identity of this nach informant? >> we do. and we're not naming the informant, because it -- out of a desire to protect his identity and safety. we don't normally name confidential informants, unless there is some compelling reason to do so, some wrongdoing accused here. and as far as we can see, there was no wrongdoing. the fbi had an open investigat

there is a reason that john dean was the white house lawyer and became the key witness in watergate. i think the recent pardoning of scooter libby by donald trump who had no real investment in the case, a good example of how he is trying to signal to any potential witnesses against him, you know, stick with me, and i'll be loyal to you. that i think is an important factor. you're right to highlight it. i want to go back quickly to this question of how is michael cohen in this access scandal different than other washington access scandals. we always have them. that's true. no question people here buy and sell their influence and proximity to power. what is different about this president? they don't always put the money in the exact same account with which they use to pay hush money to the alleged porn star girlfriend of the president. the degree of shamelessness here. it is interesting we're not talking about the potential russia connection anymore. we have immediately, i think, you know, focusing for understandable reasons now as these corporations reveal and acknowledge the embarras

john dean sat in on the fbi interviews of approximately 14 white house individuals.he whole point behind that was to get what everybody was saying so they could give it to nixon and others so they could come up and concoct their stories so they would know where the pitfalls are and how they could get around what people were saying. >> yeah. >> this was a way to keep tabs on the entire investigation and be able to basically mold their stories around what other people were saying. that's what this is all about. that's why rudy giuliani wants this. i know rudy giuliani. i served with him for six months when he was u.s. attorney. he would never in a million years have ever, ever allowed this kind of information to be given to a defense lawyer. this is total buffoonery right now. it's just another example of this administration trying to obstruct the mueller probe. >> danny, you know, there are two ways to look at it. on the one hand it is a direct attempt to give a heads-up to the defense about the prosecutor's case, even if that means exposing classified data which is n

john dean, who is former nixon white house counsel tweeted the following.on amazon because bezos owns the "washington post" is nixon at his worst. nixon had his aides understand take such dirty work. trump handles abuses himself. >> this "post" piece confirms what other people had reported and myself included back in april that trump wanted to go to war with bezos. this is now the most concrete evidence that he tried to. what i find striking is that question see this president as authoritarian instincts, but so far institutions have constrained him. but the instinct is there and as dean quotpoints out, this is co from the president who wants to use the levers of the state to punish his enemies. >> and you have already tiffany donald trump potentially intervene management time warner merger because he doesn't like cnn or the way cnn reports on him, threatening companies using his twitter handle, levering their stock price up and down depending on what he says about them. we reported last week that you had ceos scrambling after the election to figure out howe

paul is the ceo of johns hopkins medicine. is also the dean of the johns hopkins medical school, a native of queens. he went to undergraduate at mit where he was not only a star student but also captain of the crew team. yes, then went to yale medical school where he also coached the team at yale and when he got his crew were to be hiding he was committed to medicine and he subsequently did his work at columbia university college of physicians and surgeons, and use rheumatologist by training and he was there for many years in the later was recruited to be the head of internal medicine at the university of iowa carver school of medicine and subsequently became the dean of that medical school before he became that of johns hopkins medical school in 2012. his wife is a doctor as well and she is a specialist in gastroenterology. right? okay. very impressive. craig thompson -- i should disclose i'm on the johns hopkins board and i should disclose them also on the sloan kettering board. i'm not the good of a member but i'm a member of the board. dra

school of medicine and subsequently became the dean of that medical school before he became the dean of johns hopkins medical school. well andis a doctor as she is a specialist in gastroenterology. -- i am on the johns hopkins board. i should to close i'm also on the -- on november the board. i'm not a good board member but i am on the board. his father was in the coast guard. he did his undergraduate work at dartmouth where he was an olympic level kayaker. he did his undergraduate work at dartmouth and his medical degree is from the university of pennsylvania. he subsequently trained at harvard and subsequently did work at the university of washington's touches and cancer center, did work at the university of pennsylvania medical school and he became the head of sloan-kettering in . his wife is also in the family business. she is a cancer researcher. very distinguished. kurt neumann. kurt has the distinction of being a member of our club. well andan athlete as was a base for player in high school. [laughter] he made a mistake and went to the university of north carolina but he has atoned for

john mccain would be dean -- the deciding vote. >> he walks back out on the floor.nd almost like a moment out of gladiator where the emperor is like thumbs up, thumbs down, there were gasps. when he put the thumbs down, when he said no, there were gasps in the chamber. it was like, oh, he actually did that. >> nobody should underestimate john mccain's ability to seize advantage of a traumatic moment . he is not uncomfortable on center stage. >> we talked about this. it was not so much a vote against the skinny repeal. it was a vote against the whole screwed up process that is washington. >> for a man like mccain, at this moment allowed him to say, i put my country before my party. >> when i saw the vote and saw the fact that john walked up to the floor and put a thumbs down, i said, that's my friend. that's a hero that i had. >> when you came back from arizona, did you always know that you're going to do it? >> i made a my mind on the -- up my mind on the way back. frankly enough. a, quote, skinny repeal, whatever that means. >> it's not why i came to the senate pic