obstruction of justice, and i think they had decided he was going to be the sacrificial lamb. >> john deanalized this ship is going down he jumped. >> this morning, without the president's approval, dean issued a statement in which, among other things, he declared "some may hope or think i will become a scapegoat in the watergate case. anyone who believes this," dean added, "does not know me, know the true facts, nor understand our system of justice." >> do you have information implicating president nixon in a cover-up? >> i have no comment this morning. i'm sorry. >> we started having secret conversations with john dean. he was disclosing this sprawling conspiracy, to put it mildly. >> when i broke rank and started dealing with the prosecutors in early april, i had the naive belief that by breaking rank, they would do likewise. >> john dean kept upping the ante. i want immunity. okay, i'll tell you this. as we were leaving, i just remember this. he said, john has something to tell you. and dean told us that this same group had broken into the office of ellsberg's psychiatrist. he says, oh

that the president has today requested and accepted the resignation of john dean from his position ofood evening. in recent months, members of my administration and officials of the committee for the re-election of the president, including some of my closest friends and most trusted aides, have been charged with involvement in what has come to be known as the watergate affair. in any organization, the man at the top must bear the responsibility. that responsibility, therefore, belongs here in this office. i accept it. and i pledge to you tonight from this office that i will do everything in my power to ensure that the guilty are brought to justice and that such abuses are purged from our political processes in the years to come, long after i have left this office. ♪ >> i don't think that he has anything to do with it. i really don't. >> well, i don't blame the president. i think his associates fooled him quite a bit. >> many more things are bothering america than watergate, like the high price of meat, you know, and the high cost of living. >> as of now, we do not know many of the det

i slightly disagree with david on the john dean point only to the dreelg degree that john dean testified to first person conversations that he had with the president. pruch has been very careful to work through intermediaries and we haven't flushed out those conversations yet. but -- but this was incredibly -- incredibly damning testimony. and i think the worse it gets the more his supporters are going to argue process because any can't argue on the substance of the case. >> abbey i want to play something else the president said -- or yesterday i should point out. let's listen. >> this is all about a letter that was perfect. you never hear the letter anymore. it was about whistle-blowers. you never hear what happened to the whistle-blower? they're gone because they've been discredited. what happened to the informant? and where is the ig? the whistle-blower gave a false account. >> i mean, this is just -- he is making -- he literally just makes stuff up. i mean. >> first of all it's a call not a letter. >> well, first of all, the idea no one is talking about the perfect letter anymore. th

jim acosta, thank you for all of that and i still have john dean with us, but jamie gangel, go to you. john said it, jim made the point. said it top of the show this isn't normal. almost like the white house is trying to normalize really bad behavior. just because they stand up there whether the president on the south lawn or acting chief of staff standing in the briefing room saying, yeah, it happened. whatever, get over it. so what? doesn't make it okay. >> no. to your point, every week we say it's getting worse. every day. i mean, this week has been crazy, but i think today is, it's not just that it's not normal. it is stunning. >> yeah. >> even in trump world we have reached a whole new level. just to put it in some political context. we had a meeting yesterday where the president did have a meltdown by all accounts. i just was texting with a republican source who had watched the mulvaney press availability and said this is a total daisaster. not long ago nancy pelosi was quoted saying the president was self-impeaching. when you talk to senior republican leaders, they are really c

john dean. our first gayle ong is live in union city where the town hall just wrapped up this evening, gayle, what have you learned. >>well, mickey definitely interesting guest tonight and it was actually a many constituents first time attending a town hall like this in union city, many of them telling me they are on board with the impeachment process of president donald trump we do have video of the town hall earlier of rap, eric swalwell and john dean. town hall was held james logan high school gymnasium as many know john dean was also nixon's white house counsel, many people in the gym or raise their hands when asked if anyone was around for the watergate scandal. dean of course shared his experience about watergate. raf eric's well though answered questions from constituents tonight about the impeachment process, this town hall comes days after whistleblower complaint from inside the administration about trump's interaction with ukraine the wraps says he's been 2 we did speak to reps well. j

jen psaki, john dean and jeff toobin. starting, especially given ambassador sondland's testimony. he has either seemed to have forgotten about a lot of things that occurred. there was a bunch of stuff he said he didn't remember, or he was flat out not telling the truth. someone here is not being accurate. >> right. and clearly at this point, it appears that ambassador sondland is on one side of this in terms of his story line and everybody else who has testified is on the other. >> and it just so happens that ambassador sondland is a trump supporter, donor to the president and that's how he got the job of ambassador. he's not actually a career diplomat. >> that's true. foreign service officers, career diplomats and we're seeing this with bill taylor, they take meticulous notes and see it as part of their job to protect the institution and also stand between political movements, political appointees and bad actions. this is obviously a terrible case of that, and the national security of the united states. that's what we're

we could hear and see john dean. i've got no video to show the folks in our audience tonight of what went on today. it's an acute problem for the democrats who have thus far not proven adept at storytelling, witness the mueller report, but we'll get to that later on in the broadcast. what we know from today we learned from your team, broke the story of the opening statement. tell our audience in your own words what kind of story ambassador taylor told today. >> well, brian, ambassador taylor gave democrats a kind of a step-by-step road map to what they should be looking at and how he as a career public servant became disillusioned over the summer with what he what he saw around him in ukraine. recall that he took this job under -- somewhat under duress at the midwest of mike pompeo at the end of may after the sitting ambassador, who is a friend of bill taylor's, had been ousted in what taylor thought was completely, you know, awful circumstances and told pompeo so. and pompeo said i want you to go, i want you to be t

white house counsel john dean's testimony turned out to be entirely accurate. >> how much money do youuld say these people are going to cost a million dollars over the next two years. >> you could get a million dares, and you could get it in cash. i know where it could be gotten. >> it was clear nixon's defenses were beginning to crumble. >> would you consider the crimes to be impeachable if they did apply to you? >> well, i've also quit beating my wife. >> the meeting will come to order. >> in july of 1974, in a packed hearing room, the house judiciary committee began to debate removing the president. >> make no mistake about it. this is a turning point whatever we decide. >> committee chairman peter row dino was a democratic machine liberal from newark, new jersey. he was new to the job. some doubted whether he could handle it. >> a highly partisan prosecution if ever there was one. >> many nixon loyalists were angry and still immovable. for republicans, impeaching their president was tantamount to political suicide. so they kept holding out for more evidence. >> the weight of eviden

joining me now is john dean, michael isikoff. michael is the author of "russian roulette: the inside story of putin's war on america and the election of donald trump." max boot is here as well. max is the author of "the corrosion of conservatism: why i left the right". gentlemen, good to see all of you. thank you so much for joining us. john, i'm going to start with you. rudy giuliani has been subpoenaed by congress to produce documents. he says he's giving it appropriate consideration. do you think he's going to comply? how do you expect this to play out? >> i think he'll follow trump's wishes, and i think they'd probably like his telephone for openers, which he won't -- he'll probably not give that up. but he may give some of the text messages that he's been flashing around on television, and who knows what other documents he has. he seems to not be the kind of attorney who writes lengthy memoranda to his client but rather communicates with him through fox news. >> max, democrats are warning giuliani and the president about try

and we'll hear more of him. >> is he john dean?you know, he doesn't have the -- he didn't have direct conversations with the president. that's the difference. >> and that is a big difference. >> yes it is. >> you had kfrgconversations wi nixon. >> thank god were recorded. >> and, you know, another thing that you hear republicans saying and complaining about is, this whistle-blower, we need to -- how can this whistle-blower's identity be protected. we need to know what we're dealing with. the president has said i demand knowing who my accuser is. >> i'm sure you have thoughts of that because you had to -- you required federal protection during some of this time. you got death threats, and we see that all the time now. >> it's true. and the whistle-blower should be protected. that's a post-watergate law. i think 1989 before they got around to the whistle-blower law. it's been very effective. it creates very unique problems for lawyers who have attorney/client privilege, whether they can turn around and be whistle-blowers. but that's

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joining us, someone who knows what that's like, john dean, also joining us, chief political analyst gloria borger and van van jones. jennife i want to start with the subpoena that has gone to the white house from these committees. what does that change? >> it's actually very important because people may remember that ever since the democrats have taken over the house of representatives, they've sent a lot of subpoenas to the white house, many of which have not been responded to, have not had the information or testimony supplied. and the democrats have gone to court. and those cases are as court cases tend to be on a slow boat to nowhere. i mean, they are really not -- nothing is much happening. this is different because it's quite clear, as you said with congressman carson, that if the president refuses to honor these subpoenas, they are simply not going to go to court. they are going to add another article of impeachment just as there was an article of impeachment against richard nixon that the house judiciary committee passed in 1974 on the ground that he is not cooperating with congres

let's discuss now, get some perspective from john dean. john, good to see you.ou for coming on. >> thank you, don. >> you saw the president on the defense, right, in that rambling cabinet meeting today. he's attacking the whistle-blower and democrats and on and on and on. did you see the same sort of behavior from nixon? >> not really. nixon was always pretty organized and articulate in public. in private, however, on the tapes, as long as that machine was still hooked in, you would see this kind of just kind of confused monologues and self-pity sort of thing that trump is very open about. so that's the big difference between trump and nixon is one was behind doors dealing with these kinds of situations and not doing it well. trump is not doing it well in public. >> house republicans in one case, justin amash, who is a former republican, they're  speaking out. i want you to listen to what they had to say tonight to cnn. watch this. >> i think it's fine to have the inquiry. i haven't heard anything yet that would tell me that we should impeach the president of t

would be premature and it seems to me we already know the answer and the question should be. >> john deanrom here? >> somewhere between the end of the year and the 2020 election. i can't predict exactly when it's going to come down. i think the house will move obviously with some dispatch and whether there will ever be a senate trial is up for grabs still. i think a crafted, a well-crafted articles of impeachment that do pass the house could put a lot of members on the senate on the spot. >> well, and it's also very interesting. i will say that you're saying the end of the year between the end of the year and the actual election itself as many would hope that this is all done before that. thank you also very much. thank you all for joining us. our special with the 2020 town hall begins now. ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >>> good evening and welcome to the cnn democratic presidential town hall equality in america. i want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world from the novo in los angeles. i'm dana bash. it has been 50 years since the riots had stonewalled and the ri

so, jill, about a week ago or so the analogy to john dean.nd said that basically the whistle-blower was the with. they had similar functions in the watergate scandal versus this scandal. and now we don't just have a whistle-blower, even though some republicans on the hill are still trying to, like, say, we've got to see the whistle-blower, we've got to know who that person is before we go forward. we don't just have the whistle-blower or the tapes or john dean. but we've got essentially the equivalent of hald man, erlichmann, coleson, hunt, all basically the ekwifbment of them going up to capitol hill in front of the senate watergate committee and give testimony attacking, criticizing undermining richard nixon. i've never seen anything quite like this where it's just one piece of devastating evidence. but all the president's men, not the mick mulvaneys of the world, but a lot of them are effectively turning against the president before our eyes. >> john, you are completely correct. but i think i see this as something that's built from somethi

john dean, this republican party, republicans in the house specifically, the ones who illegally stormed the scif earlier this week, i don't know if they're going to be swayed by the logic of a federal court judge, do new. >> they better not go down and storm the courthouse. they won't have the same result. they won't go home that night. you know, i'm hopeful that there is some action taken in the house to reprimand those members who really broke the rules blatantly. that is not conduct becoming a member of congress, and i can't believe that the speaker is not going to address that at some point, and she's not going to tolerate it. >> john dean, elliot williams, david gergen, thank you very much. >>> still to come tonight, john bolton's attorneys are talking with house investigators about a possible deposition. we'll speak with one member of the house oversight committee about the state of the impeachment inquiry. >>> and also the eulogy of congressman elijah cummings and president obama's maybe not so subtle hit on president trump. >> you're not a sucker to have integrity and to treat o

season. >> gloria, how worried should be the white house be about john bolton -- >> did you say john deanr john bolton? >> he may be called to make a statement. >> look, i think in many ways john bolton holds the keys to the kingdom here. and i don't know if he'll testify in public. my guess is he might. and it could be his revenge on donald trump. but while he wasn't on the fateful phone call with president zelensky and asking questions why wasn't he on the call but he could give the insider view of ukraine policy. and how the national security team viewed what ought to be done in ukraine. and how the freelancer rudy giuliani in tandem with the president reviewed ought to be done in ukraine. we know that bolton is anti-putin, anti-russia and this must have driven him crazy. and look at the time line. it may be nothing. but bolton was fired or resigned on september 10th. and the ukraine aid money was released on september 11th. now i don't know that there is any relationship but i think that question ought to be asked to him. and don't forget, he was also the guy who called it a drug deal

john dean, mia love, max boot. good evening to one and all., before we get to kevin mcaleenan, i was thinking about the stories we've had tonight and this week. has there been this much scandal -- i can't remember this much scandal in an entire eight-year administration in presidencies in recent history. am i wrong? >> i think you're dead right, don. this is just stunning. i mean this is not an administration. this is a criminal conspiracy, and it's a particularly inept criminal conspiracy. this is like what would happen if the three stooges were breaking bad. they cannot conceal their crimes, and they just come tumbling out all the time. i mean if there's any strategy here -- and it's really hard for me to see any. but if there is one, trump's strategy seems to be to commit so much impeachable conduct, the house cannot keep up. this week alone, more scandals than any administration i can think of in four to eight years. >> so then what is the -- is there any -- i don't know. is there any incentive for anyone to stay there in this administrati

john dean, always good to talk to you.>> 17 former watergate special prosecutors, speaking of watergate, speaking out today, saying president trump should be impeached. i'll speak with one of them next. [ slurping ] must be hot out there, huh? not especially. -[ slurping continues ] -what you drinking? gasoline. right, but i mean, what's in the cup? gasoline. [ slurping ] for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. >>> 17 former watergate special prosecutors offering a stark assessment of president trump today. their op-ed titled, "we investigated the watergate scandal. we believe trump should be impeached." one of those prosecutors joined me now. how did it come together, putting the op-ed out there today? >> i think it's because we've all been talking. we have our reunions and that was sort of the start of it. the counsel to our office was really the initiator of this whole idea. but i think it's something we'd all been discussing over a period of time and i think the one event that really, i think, has taken u

. >> reporter: the congressman was joined by john dean who believes there is enough evidence for impeachment. san francisco gop chairman say cans the president did nothing wrong. they say can this is only galvanizing republican support for mr. trump. >> something the democrats have had their eyes set on. >> reporter: dennis is running for congress in 2020. he said this inquiry will only hurt democrats. people stressed the need for americans. >> i think we're at a constitutional crisis and i believe everybody has to be informed and they need to listen and hear and believe. >> reporter: it was announceed today president trump's campaign and the rnc raised $125 million in the 3rd quarter. many said it was important to hear about the inquiry from their representative. >> san francisco lawmakers are fine tuning ballot maker. officials and medical professionals say can the mental health crisis has become many from the streets to jail, emergency rooms, psychiatric care and back on the streets. it's something one nurse said she's seen first hand. >> sometimes you see there are clients that are just

john dean. to discuss the impeachment inquiry. we were there and has the story. >> i think that this president is going to make nixon look like a choir boy. >> he would know. water gate whistleblower was nixons white counsel eventually testifying against his boss before congress. >> cover ups just don't work. >> we're in a cover up. >> dean sat down with swalwell for a town hall discussion. about the impeachment inquiry into president trump. >> there's strong evidence he's broken a number of laws. extorting another country with your taxpayer dollars. to me doing nothing will make his behavior worse. >> on the house judiciary and intelligence committee. last week he grilled the acting director of national intelligence about the whistleblower complaint. and the phone call with the at the center of it. in which trump asked the ukrainian president to investigate his political rival joe biden. he remains determined tuesday night. reaction after tuesday's town hall was divided down party lines. >> how do you think republicans will respo

john dean knew a heck of a lot, right, at the center? he was the ground central zero at ground central for all the information going through the white house. he knew everything. so when he spilled, there was just a torrent that came out and that's how we learned through alex how there was a taping system and that was the undoing. >> joe biden wrote an op ed this weekend in which he said the president was quote frantically pushing flat out lies, debunk conspiracy theories and smears against me and my family. at the same time his 2020 rivals are questioning the optics of a vice president having a son serving on a foreign board. take a listen. >> if you're elected president, would you allow the son or daughter to serve on the board? >> probably not. the problem we have again with this issue is that it's a distraction from the fact. that look, as far as i'm concerned, leave joe biden alone. just leave him alone. >> i would not allow a family member, anyone in my cabinet to have a family member to work in a position like that. >> no, i wouldn

former federal prosecution jeffrey toobin and former nixon white house counsel and cnn contributor john dean, giuliani certainly knows what goes into an investigation from the southern district. should he be concerned? >> he should be very concerned. i mean this is such a weird situation that the former u.s. attorney in the southern district is now being investigated by the southern district. however, i do think it's important to point out that no one has accused him of any crime, and the two associates of his who were indicted last week, they are charged with essentially illegal campaign contributions. there's no evidence as far as i'm aware that giuliani has engaged in any sort of campaign contribution work. what he probably has to be more concerned about is the issue of failure to register as a lobbyist and all the work in connection with ukraine, whether that is a violation of the law. but he hasn't been charged with anything, and he may never be. >> john, first of all, i understand it is your birthday, so happy birthday. it's also the birthday of one of our top producers, kirk mcdonald,

to the point here in the beginning which was in the days of nixon and watergate it was, you know, john dean said i remember because he had a photographic memory and he said i remember all these things nixon said. but when we got the tapes of the june 23rd phone call, they used the cia to cover for the fbi to get the fbi off the case, it was established that dean was right. then you move onto the tape. now we have the white house released memo of the conversation with the ukrainian president. we don't need the whistleblower and now trump is chasing after this whistle man or woman. it's sick. it's also weird because that's not the issue anymore, mr. president. >> well, june 23rd becomes july 25th. it's the same dynamic. i think what we're seeing trump recognize is this scandal, this betrayal is too big for him to take on, so he has to per sawnify it, boil it down to a single individual, someone whose affiliations he can attack, someone he can undermine just the way he did with christopher steele, with bob mueller, with the prosecutors. we all know this is not about a person. this is about our

>> john dean, what's your reaction? [ laughter ] >> i was quite amazed at the metaphor he decided to use in the oval office, but you know, trump has been doing this since the outset of his presidency and when i read some biographies on him he's been doing this his entire life, ever since his mother caught him in the cookie jar. this is his tactic and this is his response. he doesn't -- he can control it to some degree, but some degree he can't, so it's hard to say whether it's strategic and tactical or whether it's just his emotional reaction, but that's what we're seeing. we're seeing the real donald trump and the impeachment proceeding is showing him for who he is, as is often said about the presidency and it's a place where it will show both your strengths and your weaknesses, and we're seeing that there are more weaknesses in donald trump than there are strengths. >> talk about generational shift. john, the kinds of things that president trump says on television in the oval office before the cameras are the kinds of

you would just have john dean's word against richard nixon. when it is a word of a staffer who is facing imprisonment versus the president, the american people choose the president. i think nixon would have ended his term. >> let's talk about what happens when an extrovert and it extroverts job finds himself facing impeach meant. [laughter] it point has been made that was 80 years before the first impeachment, another century before the second, what do we make of the fact between it was -- that it was 25 years between nixon and bill clinton's? people that were involved in the previous impeachment now engaged in the same issue. the nixon case was involved in johnson's. the first lady herself served on this house of the judiciary committee. she drafted memos and was involved in personal research. , sam of the other figures from the watergate prosecution toomes the ethic counseled kenneth starr who is pursuing president clinton. members of congress who had served in 1974 were still there in 1998 and 1999. this is not a distant memory for them. th

branding the probe as a coupon twitter. 0 by his side one of the original watergate whistleblowers, john dean, richard nixon's former white house council shared his blunt opinion, at times he compared nixon to president trump on how they handled situations. trump has has confessed to urging ukraine the president of investigating an opponent. >> nothing will make his behavior worse. >> the darkest richard nixon i could see in the rose garden with donald trump in the way he handles situations. nixon would never engage in. >> representatives wall well return to washington. >>> the former dallas police officer n r enpossible life in prison. >> 31-year-old amber geiger spent her first night behind bars accused. >> we unanimously find the defendant amber geiger guilty of murder as charged in the indictment. >> the former dallas police officer was convicted of murdering her neighbor, john more than a year ago, shot and killed him after she entered his apartment thinking it was her own. >> this community waited on pins and needles to decide whether or not someone could be held guilty for killing an u

i don't think republicans want to pin all of their hopes for john bolton to be a john dean kind of figure and that's what they did with bob mueller expecting him to forward their case and it didn't really happen that way. >> bianna, do you think he could turn out to be a john dean-type figure in this? >> of course, he is a key witness the democrats want to hear from. and you hear from all of these witnesses the past few weeks who have expressed his own alarm at the president's policy and giuliani's role throughout all of this. but at the same time, we always not media seem to find out when he disagreed with the president vis-a-vis iran or north korea policy, and that information tended to be leaked, and you heard about divisions between him and the president when it came to foreign policy with regard to those two hot spots around the world. one thing we didn't hear from and what republicans can ask them point-blank, if you were so alarmed, how come you didn't speak out or resign earlier? and there had been any reports prior to the whistle-blowers of bolton having any disagreements with th

the whistleblower john dean shared his perspective. >> he makes nixon look like a choir boy. >> reporter: dean testified about how white house aids and nixon himself broke the law. he says he's listened to hundreds of hours of nixon's tapes and knows his dark side. >> the darkest richard nixon i can see in the rose garden with donald trump in the way he handles situations. but nixon would never engage. >> reporter: tonight dean sat beside representative eric swallwell, who said trump confessed to urging ukraine to investigate his rival joe biden and the impeachment investigation must move forward. >> doing nothing will make his behavior worse. >> reporter: president trump continued to lash out at the white house whistleblower on twitter saying why aren't we entitled to learn everything abt the whistleblower he tweeted? on capitol hill, members of congress are now preparing for a last minute briefing by the state department's inspector general who's expected to share documents related to the state department and ukraine. >> you're seeing the independence of your inspectors general at work

at a townhall meeting in california, democrats gathered to hear john dean, the whistleblower who helpedo bring down richard nixon.br >> this president is making riard nixon look like a choir boy. aleem: the idea of dald trump's impeachment appears to be galvanizissroots democrats. >> calling another world leadern asking them to interfere disloyal, it is untic, it makes me worried and angry for our democracy. people here today, my neighborsh and friends, we really want to see impeachment move forward. >> you have to wonder why the o leftist dems are pushingrd to impeach. the media forgets that they have been screaming for impeaelment since thtion -- aleem: but t impeachment issue seems to be energizing those on the right as well. this is a meeting of trump supporters in beverly hills angry about the impeachment inquiry. >> i think most people don't think it is absolutely an attack on donald trump. it is really an ak on the people who voted for donald trump. eeikind of od because its not authentic and at the end of y i love my country and i would like impeachment to be reserved for serio

at a townhall meeting inia califodemocrats gathered tor john dean, the whistleblower who helped to bringown richard nixon. >> this president is making richard nixon look like a choir boy. trp's impeachment appears to be galnizing grassroots democrats. >> calling another world leader and asking them to interfere with our electio it is disloyal, it is unpatriotic, it makes me worried and angry for oudemocracy. >> for me and all the other people here today, my neighbors and friends, we really want to see impeachment moveorward. >> you have to wonder why the leftist dems are pushing so hard me impeach. tha forgets that they have been screaming for impeachment since the election -- aleem: but t impeachment issue seems to bergizing those on the right as well. this is a meeting of trump supporters in beverly hills angry about the impeachment inquiry. >> i think most peop't think it is absolutely an attack on donald trump. it is really an attk on the people who voted for donald trump. i feekind of sad because it i not authentic and at the end of the y i love my country and would like impeachment

do i have to remind you of john dean. this is pathetic and writing the rules for us, the rules committee had to write the rules for the judiciary committee because they didn't trust them enough to do that. i ask you as members of the media, how can the american people trust this judiciary committee that the speaker doesn't trust enough to handle an impeachment inquiry. i do have one thing for mr. schiff. if he wants to be a special counsel, here's my challenge to mr. schiff, you want to be ken star, be ken star. be the first witness and take every question that is asked of u starting with your own involvement with the whistleblower. folks, this ain't over. get ready. the cloud that is dropping will be dropping on their heads because process matters and substance will win out in the end and this president hasn't anything to worry about on substance. i yield back. [applause] >> congress will go back to their districts for a week. tomorrow will be november 1, one year before voters cast a vote not just for congress but for p

congressman swalwell was formed by former nixon white house counsel and watergate prosecution witness john dean who said he believes there is enough evidence for impeachment. >>> alex padilla, california secretary of state, said the state will appeal a federal judge ordered to block a law that forces presidential candidates to release their personal income tax returns. that law is meant to apply to all candidates beginning in 2020 including president trump's who has refused to release his tax returns. a judge yesterday finalized a ruling that block the new california law and said it likely violates the u.s. constitution. according to a recent poll by uc berkeley, 67% of those surveyed said they support the tax returns law . >>> a new report says facebook ceo mark zuckerberg promised to fight to the efforts to break up facebook. the burj posted audio of zuckerberg telling employees in july that it would challenge any such effort by the government. he specifically mentioned democratic presidential candidate elizabeth warren. warren responded yesterday on twitter saying , quote, imagine facebook a

john dean of this scandal to come forward, and it may already be the whistle-blower.uld be mr. taylor from the state department, in addition, his attorney general, john mitchell, went to jail, his chief of staff went to jail, mr. haldeman. his chief domestic adviser went to jail. there were a big cast of characters that went to jail because they committed crimes, and they did it because he set a tone that it was all okay. i am above the law, and whatever i do cannot be criminal. we have clear evidence that donald trump, abetted by william barr, is in exactly the same position of i'm invincible, i can do anything. he has publicly stated that i have total authority to do whatever i want, and that was the audition memo that attorney general barr wrote to get the job. so, we're in really a big fix here because the government has become completely lawless, and they must be held accountable. that is essential. and i believe, like representative hogan, that facts matter. and i believe that even the most loyal republicans who are now standing silent -- they may not be coming

>>had a guest john dean former watergate prosecution witness and nixon white house counsel someone's follow calls living proof who can take down the president in a model at we spoke to them before the meeting. >>hundreds of hours. next and then all and circumstances. i saw the dark side of it. i saw some people in the office brought out that dark side. i can see in the rose garden, with donald trump and the way he handle situations. >>follow a democrat says he's been investigating trump for more than 2 years and believes he can convince more republicans to support the impeachment process. i think it's the simplicity of act here in that we have a confession. the president he's pleaded guilty and i think in many ways the biggest question where the country will be what is the sentence. >>representative eric swalwell will be going back to washington dc today. he says there's a number of witnesses coming forward for depositions in the meantime we expect to learn more about the whistleblower investigation on friday, reporting in union city gayle ong kron 4 news. >>coming up next on the kro

john dean, richard nixon white house counsel during watergate will talk about the issue. it is tonight at 6:30 at james logan high school in union city. >>> today two of president trump's asylum policies will be heard at the ninth circuit appeals court in san francisco. judges are considering a policy that requires some migrants to wait in mexico for the duration of the immigration proceedings along with the policy barring migrants who illegally cross the border from seeking asylum. >>> turning to our microclimate weather alert, a live look at san rafael. nice outside right now. chilly start to our day. we are in the first day of october sot means fall. >> and the start of the new water year. >> oh, that is right, too. keeping track of that. but the warm-up will continue this weekend. >> it will continue. and we're going back to summer into the next few days. here is a live look outside from the cupertino hills. just a beautiful tuesday morning. and it also feels really nice. actually feels like fall as we go into the lunch hour. we're going to start the warm-up from here

flying the flag fall john dean is president but will the show support be repeated at the ballot box and wayne rooney's time in the u.s. comes to an end in sus tracing fashion details coming up in school. tropical storm nestore went through yesterday this part of florida the panhandle and up through georgia as well it did have a storm surge about a meter and a half this is near mexico beach but they were down which is probably where the tornadoes are thrown off or one of the outer bands of rain this is just west of tampa this middle part of the the printer of florida was hit by a series of tornadoes because of the strength of the temperature contrast however all it's gone through now the cat is gone it left you are not much rain thankfully but $100.00 millimeters that was daytona beach rather less near mexico beach if you remember it was mexico beach to have the 4.3 meter storm surge a year ago so was not looking forward to 2 was a got away lightly but it wasn't anything like as bad as the storm hasn't finished i can't call it a tropical storm anymore now it's a significant depression ru

. >> i mean, he's john dean. didn't mean to beon dean of our day, but he's got the glasses, he's got everything. >> you say this is pants pooping, let me tell you ha this. >> oh, it is. >> there's so much on the record that my theory is there's so much on the record that you just had to go there. mulvaney later walked back his statement. >> too late. >> how do you walk that back? >> i shot somebody on fifth avenue, middle of fifth avenue. no i didn't. see, it doesn't work. you admitted it. >> claiming there was no quid pro quo while blaming the media for misconstruing his -- >> hold on. let's play that again, alex, because -- you know, the fake news media, can't stand the fake news media. >> here we go again. >> let's just let him confess to you instead of the fake news media twisting his words. >> want to make sure we get this right. >> let's do this again. >> he also mentioned to me in the past that the corruption related to the dnc server, absolutely, no question about that. but that's it. that's why we held u