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 the "l.a. times" as an institution, on the publisher of the "l.a. times" as a person and on the publisher of the "l.a. times's" family. go after the l.a. times, go after otis chandler, go after the ochandler family. and we've got it on tape. and fair warning, it's nixon so, the president uses both a racial slur in this tape and he swears again. >> i want you to direct the most trusted person you have in the immigration service, that they are to look over all of the activities of the los angeles times. all, underlined. to see whether they are violating the wetback thing. otis chandler, i want him checked with regard to his gardener. i understand he's a wetback. we're going after the chandlers, everyone individually and collectively, their income tax. they're starting this week. every one of those sons of bitches. is that clear? >> yes, sir. >> understand. do it. gi

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 chandlers every one of them. is that clear? >> yes, sir. >> do it and give me a report. >> very well sir. >> we will sic the immigration authorities on the publisher on "the l.a. times" and sic the irs on the publisher and chandler and on every one of the son's -- the whole family. go after them by means of the income tax. we have one of those -- is that clear? do it give me a report, yes, sir. we'll report back sir. richard nixon was not impeached. he resigned when the supreme court ordered the release of the white house tapes

nixon called up his attorney general john mitchell to not just vent about that "l.a. times" story he didn't like, he called the attorney general in order to sic the federal government on the "l.a. times" as an institution, the publisher and the publisher's family. go after the "l.a. times" and the chandler family. and we have it on tape. fair warning, it's nixon so the president uses both a racial slur in this tape and he swears again. >> i want you to direct the most trusted person you have in the immigration service that they are to look over all the activities of the "los angeles times," all, underlined, to see whether they are violating the wetback thing, otis chandler, i want him checked with regard to his gardener. he's a wetback. we're going after the chain of command ler-- chandlers. >> very well, sir, yes, sir, we will sic immigration authorities on the publisher of the "l.a. times" and on the "l.a. times" as a company for the wetback thing, very well, sir. we will sic the irs, mr. chain of commander, and every one of those sons of -- the whole family. go aft

i think it exceeds even what happened in john mitchell's department of justice when he was the attorney general. so i just can't imagine how far we've gone and how little the resistance was. the people in the justice department should have said take us to court. absolutely. >> you're saying -- you're saying, and we're looking at these images again and we'll put them back up on the screen, because these are the images that got them busted today. the man you're seeing there, emmet flood, is not the tv lawyer rudy giuliani, he is the actual day-to-day criminal defense attorney for the president and he is not on the list tonight. this is very important. he was basically hidden from view. but because we don't have still an open society and open press, he was caught by these photographs. you're saying tonight in your view, john, that this is part of what you view as meddling that is worse than nixon? >> yes, i do think so. and i understand it from the reports, and you correct me if i'm wrong, the chief of staff for the president was also present. what is that about? i think that the combinati

. >> in the center you have hoover and john mitchell. mixing, we tried to get a live news coverage, but it did not cut right. nixon signs the bill and hands says,ll to mitchell and there, i have given you the tools, now go to work. what was so surprising to me on this event, i had only been on the substance side of the domestic counsel for a month, when the president leaves the white house to go somewhere, there are hundreds of people involved. just getting him from the white house to the department of security,volves advance, and dignitaries. it is a real procedure. event, and of the course, the great hall is filled with members of congress and attorneys, department of justice prosecutors, so let's go on to the second one. the second one, for wally, has to do with the supreme court. in his firstque, term, he filled a four vacancies on the supreme court. this is the end of that. wally? >> they cut me out of this picture. >> they did. >> i was off to the right as we are looking at it. rehnquist was nominated to the supreme court, it's cre

legal jeopardy, why i just, it's like putting pat paulson in as your attorney general instead of john mitchell in 1973, how do you like that reference, meachum? >> it's very good. we could do a. mitchell palmer later. we could play attorney general jeopardy. >> i'm not a lawyer, you are. but i have a sense that it's never a good day when your lawyer has his office raided by special counsel who used to run the fbi. i'm just a simple country guy. but i just don't think that's actually a good thing to happen. i think this is what rumsfeld used to call a known unknown. think all of this is an interesting way is kind of the taking of the rupert murdoch culture, to washington, where if, "the new york post" kind of volume and if i may leveling of nuance, actually is now running the government. so you know is this "goodfellas" meets c-span? is that rudy and trump? it kind of is. they're just doing what they do. what do they fall back on? on a roy cohn strategy of fight fight fight. and it reality is doesn't really matter. because the reality is what's in the paper or what's on the screen. at this part

he had john mitchell on board, the a.g. but the president of the united states richard nixon, he came out with this term. he said he did not like the idea of forced integration. nobody's talking about forced integration. we're talking about the law of the land. you take an oath, defend the constitution, all the laws et cetera. so i was out of hud. hud was a very -- it was an agency in transition. i'm not going to say it was a racist agency, but culturally it was a racist agency. [ laughter ] hud build tt the ghettos of america. my ex-wife now, she grew up in public housing. and i know a lot of great people, physicians, attorneys that came out of public housing. so the housing -- >> just so you know, i came out of public housing. >> i'm setting you up, bro. i know that. i know that. and i think because of that experience, you have the empathy of what you need to turn the whole system around. hud -- i'm looking at the regulations and they talked about in the fha regs, maintaining neighborhood stability, which no black folk, o

richard nixon and john mitchell, mitchell went to jail.e president doesn't have that because of this. was the recusal proper, absolutely. in my view the recusal was required but it should have been accompanied by a resignation, you decide, mr. president, i recuse or resign or he should have said, i think this russian thing is bologna, you know it's bologna but it's going to be -- the justice department is preoccupied by it. i'm going to be a witness, i can't be the attorney general. stuart: why doesn't he fire him? >> i don't know. you're asking the wrong person. i wish you could ask the president. i wish i had chosen another lawyer, that is about as devastating as i want you to resign as can be. new york times reported that jeff sessions resigned twice, the president refused across both betters and sent them back to the justice department. stuart: we don't know why he's not fired. president trump just tweeted will be giving a full pardon to danesh dsouza, conservative. >> yes. stuart: convicted of what? >> convicted of campaign finance vi

. >> in fact that happened because john mitchell was the attorney general at this point and was sharingrmation with the white house but that was the last time we know of that this kind of breach occurred between the justice department and the chief executive and this is the chief executive who is the subject of an investigation. >> let's go to north korea. richard haass, give me your insights on where we are the next day and i will just tell you i may not be as negative as you or others on this. i'm glad that this summit that was hastily put together when donald trump was trying to get his affair with a porn star off the front page of the paper, i'm glad this summit has been pushed back and i'm not so sure that we are in a weaker position. we know where china stands, we know where south korea stands. we know where we stand, perhaps if we move forward, we move forward with china around the table, south korea around the table and japan around the table which makes more sense than donald trump and kim jong-un sitting around the table from each other. >> the idea that this was a false start

mitchell reports." >> the mccain smear. senator john mccain's daughter just now responding to cruel remarks about her father by a trump aide. >> i don't understand what kind of environment you're working in when that would be acceptable and then you can come to work the next day and still have a job. that's all i have to say about it. >> going it alone. former president george w. bush without naming donald trump warning against america's retreat from the world on global issues. >> very important for our fellow citizens to remember these words from winston churchill "america is indispensable for the world and the dangers of isolation loom." >>> and mergers and accusations, at&t saying today it was a big mistake to hire michael cohen for advice on their pending merger with time warner. despite president trump again claiming he is draining the swamp. [ crowd chanting "drain the swamp." ] >>> good day, i'm ran dree ya mit -- andrea mitchell in washington where family members are speaking out about outrage outs comments about john mccain. tr

. >> andrea mitchell reporting there. now johns known for developing friendships across the aisle and working on immigration reform with ted kennedy and a few days ago with joe biden. kennedy and john mccain are both fighting the same brain cancer. >>> silicon valley is extreme in wealth. >> and sometimes generosity gets overlooked. b -- but st. louis a few days ago andrew an his 5-year-old daughter were living out of a van but now proud owners of a tiny house. mark brock purchased the tomorrow for the hall brights and let them park it on his property in bolder creek. before they were sleeping oef-- sleeping in a cold, dark van and now they have a place to sleep and all of the creature comforts. >> i've never had somebody put their neck out like this before. and it just -- it brings hope. it just brings hope to you. >> and truthfully we're all one step away from homelessness. any lost my job or got a terminal illness, if i had an addiction, whether it is prescription or not, i would be homeless also. >> he is the chief strategic o

mitchell has more. >> reporter: fighting for his life, senator john mccain is opening up.vering what could be a farewell address in his new book, the restless wave. >> i don't know how much longer i'll be here. maybe i'll have another five years. maybe with the advances of oncology, they'll find new treatments for my cancer that will extend my life. maybe i'll be gone before you hear this. >> reporter: contemplating his life in politics, mccain pulls no punches, taking on presidents both past and present. saying he's not sure what to make of president trump's convictions. writing that the way the president speaks about refugees is appalling. battling brain cancer, mccain also laments the current political climate. >> before i leave i'd like to see our politics begin to return to the purposes and practices that distinguish our history from the history of other nations. i'd like to see us recover our sense that we are more alike than different. >> reporter: long viewed as a political maverick, senator mccain has spent his career reaching across the aisle, unwilling to be con

mitchell reports." >> the mccain smear. senator johnst now responding to cruel remarks about her father by a trump aide. >> i don't understand what kind of environment you're working in when that would be acceptable and then you can come to work the next day and still have a job. that's all i have to say about it. >> going it alone. former president george w. bush without naming donald trump warning against america's retreat from the world on global issues. >> very important for our fellow

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1850s, in the 1790s, when john adams found the act, enabling him to deport people in closing down newspapers he didn't like. woodrow wilson, backing down on 400 newspapers. mitchell palmer, a raid on an alleged anarchist. there have been these moments. at some point, we have gotten out of them. some combination of the presidency, the congress, the court, the press, and the people have determined the shape of a given era, and that's what we are trying to do now. >> in these dark moments, you highlight, was there ever a president unredeemable? >> andrew johnson is pretty close. i hate to say that as a tennesseean. but he opposed significant civil rights legislation. he opposed the 14th and 15th amendments. congress and the forces of the day overcame that. the andrew johnson, whatever you think about the justice or injustice, his views on fulfilling the racial verdict of the civil war, i think, i'm not in the business of redeeming or condemning, but i suspect you'll have a hard time. >> you have a lot of praise in the book for franklin roosevelt during the times that he faced these dark moments. but he didn't rise to the occasion at times and you mentioned specifica

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mitchell. stability,ghts for reacting to efforts by the central bank to strengthen the currency, but the fundamentals are the issue. and we are at an economic forum where john is getting ready to moderate a panel with three heads of government, president france and abef of japan. ."lcome to "bloomberg daybreak julia chatterley is here. you have done the st. petersburg forum twice now. julia: really excited that we have this. david: special program today. >> was give you a look at the markets. who ever said that this is the right strategy. they got it wrong this month. we are up for the s&p. lost a bit of ground yesterday. david: and now for the first take, we are joined by brooke and vince, who does our live blog on foreign exchange and all things markets. a lot of news about north korea yesterday. president trump sent a letter to kim jong-un, saying we are not doing the summit, but then overnight they said we are not very angry, we would like to meet with you. let's put up a chart. it shows what the s&p has done. you see the yellow circle. paula deen -- plummeting on the news. but this is not lower than when the president announced auto shares. it has been

mitchell. stability,ghts for reacting to efforts by the central bank to strengthen the currency, but the fundamentals are the issue. and we are at an economic forum where johne a panel with three heads of government, president france and abef of japan. ."lcome to "bloomberg daybreak julia chatterley is here. you have done the st. petersburg forum twice now. julia: really excited that we have this. david: special program today. >> was give you a look at the markets. who ever said that this is the