john mitchell. nixon's 1968 campaign manager. that name may ring a bell. will go on to become's nixon's attorney general and one of the coconspirators sentenced to prison for the crimes of watergate. also, bui dem. south vietnam's ambassador to the united states, saigon's man in washington. and then there's richard nixon. by 1968, the perennial republican presidential wannabe had lost his last two elections and he knew that this was his last shot. >> in 1968 he wanted the presidency so bad that he was willing to do whatever was necessary. >> this was twice as big a crowd that we had in 1960, and the result is going to be twice as good as 1960. >> so back on fifth avenue, july 12th. we have three men in a hotel room. a veteran politician plotting his comeback. the man running his political operation. and south vietnam's man in washington. plus one lone woman, anna chennault. >> because i had opportunity to not only talking to leaders but the people. >> nixon knew that anna chennault could establish a relationship between him and the south vietnamese and tha

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we haven't had an attorney general general accused of abusing his position since john mitchell.is a range of things -- excuse me, where barr has blocked the release of the tax returns. the administration's blocking of subpoenas from six committees, the justice department says that's legal. publicly he said the fbi might have spied on the trump campaign. so it's many different ways barr is helping trump -- >> john mitchell went to prison. >> for watergate. >> are they similar in. >> so after watergate, and there was a big empty to try to make the justice department assignment apolitical or less political. they will not be perfect, but they will judge people equally under the law. the attorney general will recuse themselves. janet reno recused herself. alberto gone saltz and jab ashcroft recused themselves for the valerie plame case. the law is -- no one is above the law and the law will be applied equally. the most famous thing with barr is the summary of the mueller report, that said it cleared trump, when it clearly did not. >> the attorney general is appointed by the president

so like the ed meese story is good to remember, the john mitchell story is good to remember, when you look at the justice department under william barr and you think about how bad it could get and how abused the justice department could be, like the justice department has been in pretty bad hands before. and there's been consequences for it. and it's worth keeping that in mind. and you know, in the ed meese case, it turns out to be particularly instructive for us today in 2019, in part because of where all of these folks who were involved in his scandal-ridden tenure in washington, where they all ended up. i mentioned that during meese's disastrous tenure as attorney general, other senior officials resigned when the white house wouldn't remove meese from his position. one of the very high-profile justice department guys to resign, the guy who was the head of the criminal division at the justice department, who stepped down in protest against meese's alleged corruption, his name was william weld. bill weld. where did he end up? well, today in 2019, he's running for president as a repub

taylor from the state department, in addition, his attorney general, john mitchell, went to jail, his 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 out for impeachment, but they aren't defending this terrible threat to national security, in fact, to world security,

how does barr stack up to john mitchell? because suddenly john mitchell doesn't seem like the worst attorney general in u.s. history. he seems like he's probably going to come in second. >> you know, in american legal history, you can either be john marshal or john mitchell, and i think bill barr has chosen his fate here, and so mitchell was long-time friend insofar as nixon had friend, had been his law partner, and municipal bond lawyer, had left the justice department to run the committee to reelect the president. the committee to reelect the president, which, again, in this context looks like a fairly sedate operation was -- at least it was, you know, domestic, you know, they didn't hire russian burglars. i guess if they'd outsourced that would make it worse. mitchell was an architect of the cover-up, and was a former attorney general at that point, but the point remains. what general barr has done is treated the president and his political capacity as his primaryopposed to the interests of justice of the united states. t

because i'm 72 years old and i remember john mitchell, edwin meeks and oliver north and have been able to become rich afterwards and did serious harm to the whole nation. and we have to do something in politics where it doesn't happen. because frankly we have a bunch of concerned citizens but a lot of people have given up on our government. and nice to see the high school students that came here tonight and see what is going on and it's a problem that is almost unbelievable. i never thought i would see the day where the united states of merica was operating concentration camps for refugees. it is critical and very discouraging. [applause] mr. harder: this is very troubling to me. i think that you're right. sin civil is growing about our political system. and people are right to be frustrated. now i'll talk about what i'm trying to do and what i think what everybody else ought to be doing as well. what i'm trying to do is we need to change the law and find ways to work together. and one of my most formative moments is my first day in washington, d.c.,, i was stepping outside my hotel ro

maybe if things go really sideways, john mitchell may indict him. he is the u.s. armrest to the european union. ukraine isn't even european union. last week we got to read his text in which he was desperately trying to keep things out of writing and cover for the president. when confronted with a tax from a career diplomat names bill taylor, quote, i think it's crazy to withhold security systems. it was sondland who went quiet and wrote back with this very laura text message claiming the president's been clear no quid pro quo of any kind. despite what he wrote there, sondland later told ron johnson, yeah, there was a quid pro quo, indicating the release of u.s. aid to ukraine was contingent on an investigation desired by the by donald trump, according to ron johnson himself. so sondland is in the middle of all this and appears to be the point person running this entire operation of the here he is on the day after the infamous phone call between trump and the ukrainian president. >> i actually spoke with president trump just a few minutes before he placed the call.

. >> attorneys general have been indicted in the past, and attorney general john mitchell went to prison for having done stuff for richard nixon that he knew better than to do himself. these guys saying they'll do anything for the president not necessarily will save themselves even if it will help him in the long run. >> we will begin tonight with the breaking news about the state department's inspector general's urgent request tonight to brief house and senate committees about documents related to the state department and ukraine. the inspector general wants to brief several committees, including the senate intelligence committee. we'll be joined by a member of the senate intelligence committee, senator kamala harris, who is now a candidate for president of the united states. she also serves on the senate judiciary committee with republican senator chuck grassley who picked sides today in the battle between donald trump and the whistleblower, and it will surprise you whose side senator grassley is on. but it is not so surprising for people who know senator grassley and who have worked w

they're break-in had been ordered and authorized by the former attorney general of the united states john mitchell, who had resigned as attorney general in order to manage nixon's reelection campaign. amy: called? >> very ironic name, the committee to reelect the president- creep. one could not make that up. chief.so he is creep's >> yes. he and several other high-level people at the committetee to reelect the president acting under constant pressure from nixon and his chief aids started a wide-ranging campaign to investigate and undermine the democrats. in fact, there were multiple operations, some managed through the white house, some managed by personal friends of nixon, some managed by the reelection campaign, to do many different things. there e were infiltrtrators whoe secretly reporting on what democratic candidates were doing. nixon's strongest potential rival in the election was edward muskie. his driver was secretly on the payroll of the nixon campaign and copied and reported documents, records, plans, etc. there were dozens of such operations. dozens. many of which were eventually revea

i'm 72 years old, and i remember john mitchell, oliver north, and all these people who have been able to become rich afterwards and actually did serious harm to the whole nation. and we have to do something in politics where this doesn't happen. frankly, we have a bunch of concerned citizens here, but a lot of people have just given up on our government. and it's great to see these young people who have come from high school today who are interested in politics and what's going on in this country. it's a problem that's almost unbelievable. i never thought i'd see the day where the united states of america was operating concentration camps for refugees or the other things that are going on today. it's criminal and it's very discouraging. >> well, thank you. [ applause ] this is very troubling to me. i think that you're right. cynicism is growing about our political system. and people are right to be frustrated. now, i'll talk a little bit about what i'm trying to do, then i'll talk about what i think everybody else can be doing as well. what i'm trying to do is, yes, we need to change

. >> back during the watergate days at least john mitchell, whatever you thought of him, he went to prisonad the decency to leave the justice department, become nixon's re-election chairman. this guy feels he can use his position as attorney general for total political purposes like going around the world, digging up dirt on, what? his own department? >> this whole thing just reeks of bad faith and part of it as that the attorney general, the same one who tried to distort the mueller report before it came out, he's succeeding in distorting it in a lot of people's minds and now personally eliciting foreign government cooperation with a probe that seems politically motivated, partisan and driven by the white house and seems to have no real basis. instead as you noted there's an inspector general investigation into these events. >> doesn't he have a day job? he's traveling to all these countries, italy, u.k., australia, all around the world digging up dirt basically on his own department because this president. >> he is going around meeting independently with these different foreign intellige

on saturday, there number eight is very likely to be fit to start, according to defence coach john mitchello and was close to returning. england have beaten the wallabies in their last six meetings, but haven't won a world cup knockout game for 12 yea rs. whales world cup knockout game for 12 years. whales will be driven on by the pain of their 2011 world cup semi defeat against france when they took their morning sunday quarterfinal in japan, according took their morning sunday quarterfinal injapan, according to steven jones who quarterfinal injapan, according to stevenjones who missed a conversion as the welsh lost 9—8 in new zealand. the game is best remembered for the then wells captain's well car test red card. forjust the second time in the set world cup. car test red card. forjust the second time in the set world cupm was a tight game, even when you are down to ia. we battle hard, we still could've gone either way. but you know, this is obviously a different group of players. some involve that date, the vast majority weren't. but you look at the recent games against france, and as i

i was thinking this week about john mitchell who was president nixon's attorney general who went to prison for 17 months because of watergate-era abuses exposed through this. he was loyal to nixon to the very end. >> right. >> went to prison himself. otherhimself. other cabinet officials were implicated. right now it seems like both the vice-president and the attorney general and the secretary of state, mike pompeo, your successor at the state department, may themselves have been at least aware, if not participants in what the president is going to be impeached for here. as a former cabinet secretary, do you have advice on the right way to comport yourself in this situation? i mean, they do all seem like they're up to their necks. >> well, i think what many in the nixon white house and administration concluded was the right thing to do was tell the truth. tell the truth. and that would be advice that should be given to anybody caught up in this because it's clear that the president has made a series of decisions to benefit himself and his political fortunate at the expense of other matters

mitchell reports. debate or baseball? john. follow the show online, facebook and twitter. . >> and i think andrea mitchell is for getting she is a new yorker. >> born but not raised. so -- >> just saying. coming up, new testimony in the plooek. we'll be telling you all about the official being grilled today and what he might know. plus new details into the investigation in rudy giuliani and his dealings in ukraine. and we're watching turkey's attack on syria. the white house has a new strategy to stop the fighting. will it work? we'll hear from ali velshi as he speaks to foreign leaders. and we'll be live in

mike mitchell and soon to be state senator larry young and john jeffries and delicate candy, the political godfather and mentor to both elijah and myself ready for nancy speak earlier, about the revered congressman aaron j mitchell. it was wealth, [applause] was both the mitchell, family and the mirthful family of the african-american newspaper, said really moved our communities along. they were nice and directed us on politics on inclusion. a fight for rights civil and political. so elijah we listened and we learned, and we began to get involved when all the way back to the campaign of bert humphrey when neither of us knew what we we're doing except passing out bumper stickers that said vote for company. elijah was being brought along and tutored is i said by the mitchell club and i was being brought along a tutor by the late state senator he was the first black woman in america ever to be elected to state senate. [applause] said despite those organizational allegiances, we became political buddies right away. we we're both the yearly to try to strike out and to change the system that had

john kerry. >> juan: how about mitchell mice obama. what about oprah. maybe hillary is not the ticket., bill clinton. oh yeah, let's get somebody else. remember that was bill clinton that you think was so great. people were saying let's get somebody else. this happens every time. >> dagen: big old democrat my dad would say with a lot of money liberal spin coming out of new york. he doesn't buy it. i will tell you why. because mike bloomberg would have to degrump before he would ever run for president. he has to do a 30 day jerk cleanse. and then michelle obama look at the photos of her. shooting eye to eye at everybody not just donald trump and hillary clinton. she couldn't wait to get away from those people. she is selling out arenas, has the best selling memoir. she is not going anywhere near them. >> greg: hillary is like that person outside your condo waiting for you to get buzzed in so they can come right in behind. [laughter] >> greg: she is going to get right inside the building. >> dana: that is not allowed. >> greg: you don't know the polite well way to tell people. what are y

mitchell reports. debate or baseball? john. follow the show online, facebook and twitter. and here is stefphanie ruhle. >> and i think andrea mitchell is for getting she is a new yorker. >> born but not raised. so -- >> just saying. coming up, new testimony in the plooek. we'll be telling you all about the official being grilled today and what he might know. plus new details into the investigation in rudy giuliani and his dealings in ukraine. and we're watching turkey's attack on syria. the white house has a new strategy to stop the fighting. will it work? we'll hear from ali velshi as he speaks to foreign leaders. and we'll be live in ft. worth, texas where a police officer has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a woman inside her own home. what we are learning about that case ahead. >>> questiwe have new developme the impeachment inquiry into president trump. today another key player in the ukraine story, george kent, is testifying under subpoena on capitol hill. so who is this guy? george kent, deputy assistant secretary of state for european and eurasia a

. >>> coming up, former cia john brennan joins my colleague andrea mitchell, next.oe andrea mitchell, next. ♪ applebee's new pasta and grill combos. choose from up to 12 combinations starting at $9.99. it's been reported that there's a cyberattack on business every 39 seconds. ouch. i don't even want to think about it. comcast business has a solution. we go beyond fast with a cloud-based security system that automatically updates, so you always have the latest protection. phishing. malware. risky sites. it can help block all of that. get fast internet and add comcast business securityedge for just $29.95 a month. it's one less thing for us to worry about. comcast business. beyond fast. >>> "andrea mitchell reports" starts right now. >> you this, ayman. >>> and right now on "andrea mitchell reports," look who's talking. former u.s. ambassador to ukraine answering questions on capitol hill behind closed doors. while rudy giuliani was conducting

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was overshadowed by monday's killings which happened in in mitchell can state where violent turf wars between vava drug cartels a common johneilemann sent us this update from mexico city. so mexico's president and his head of public security came out on the morning of monday and gave a press conference in which they said it's nothing to boast about but we think we might just be getting on top of the murder rate in the country they called it a point of inflection in the homicide rates in the country and they said that what they're doing is continuing to send out the national guard that a newly formed and quite militarized police force out into key hotspots in the country to draw and deal with things and also having social programs that would try and give employment to people to give some hope put it money in the pocket of people who otherwise might be tempted into organized crime so the message was quite positive coming from the top and then the news came out that image 2 a can the state in southwest mexico police officers have been. killed by presumably organized crime in that region now michu a kind is a state in which the

marshall working with the democratic club, headed by clarence mitchell and mike mitchell and a be state senator larry young, and johne. the godfather and mentor to myself was, as you heard nancy speak about the revered congressman, congressman mitchell. [applause] it was both the mitchell family and the mercy family of the africa -- afro-american newspaper that directed us. inclusion. and feet sat at his fate -- and we listened and we learned and we got involved going back to the campaign of hubert humphrey, none of us knowing what we were doing, just passing out bumper stickers that said about for humphrey. he was being brought along by the mitchell club and i was brought along and tutored by the late state senator, who was the first black woman in america ever to be elected to a state senate. [applause] despite those allegiances, we became political buddies right away. we were eager to find a way to strike out and change the system that had maintained discriminatory practices in education, housing, employment and health care, as it worked to deny political power. he was attracted to my grassroots campaign in 1979

john dean testimony. you have the people inside the administration being sent as we know with haldeman and erlichman and mitchell into indictments. then you have of course the tapes. i mean, the tapes were the smoking gun. by that time republicans had to respond to events so the question will be how will these hearings educate the country? how will they make the country understand if this person is above the law what that means? >> doris kearns goodwin has agreed to stay with us over this break. a big question for her on the other side of this break when we come back. >>> the historian doris kearns goodwin has been kind enough to wait around and i lied. i have at least two more questions for you. the qualities in this book which i sincerely hope everyone reads of presidential leadership, what's your answer when you're asked about trump's brand of presidential leadership? >> well, just look at the qualities that my four guys that i studied, lincoln, the two roosevelts, and lbj on civil rights, they shared. humility, empathy, resilience, the ability to create a team around them that could question their assumption

nothing to do with it, but then you have the john dean testimony, you have the people inside the administration being sent, as we know, with alderman and mitchellndictments and then you have, of course, the tapes. i mean, the tapes were the smoking gun. and by that time, republicans had to respond to events. so, the question will be, how will these hearings educate the country? how will they make the country understand, if this person is above the law, what that means. >> doris kearns goodwin has agreed to stay with us over this break. a big question for her on the other side of this break, when we come back. severe ulcerative colitis, are you okay? even when i was there, i never knew when my symptoms would keep us apart. so i talked to my doctor about humira. i learned humira can help get, and keep uc under control when other medications haven't worked well enough. and it helps people achieve control that lasts. so you can experience few or no symptoms. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous

following bill taylor's testimony, john thune, quote, the picture coming out based on the reporting i've seen, i would say it's not a good one. republican congressman mitchell of michigan called it troubling. susan collins called it an important piece of evidence, sir. it's not just democrats that have questions. >> well, i think if you look hard enough you'll find anybody that will say there's -- there are questions. but here's why there are questions. it's because we don't have all the facts. that we don't have any visibility into the line of questions other than what adam schiff decides to release. and i think it's incredibly suspect that he's cherry picking these things. let's bring it into the sunshine. let's take a vote. put members on record. and then let's have this process that's fair, that allows both sides to call their witnesses, cross-examine, and let's give the president an opportunity to defend himself. maybe he can't face his accusers on the whistle-blowers, but he can face the accusations and explain them. but in terms of the direct conversation in the transcript, there is no evidence of quid pro quo. and -- and there's -- and president zel

fast bowler mitchell starc the 29 year old will play for the welsh fire franchise west indies all rounder on dry russell goes to the southern brave whilst the england test match captain john rich will join russia at the trent. but i definitely think it will be stuff that comes out this time which will eventually enhance the longer form as well even if it's technically it is ways of looking at the game differently i think players will naturally get these experiences and carry forward into the formats are they going to. their representatives of the colombian football federation have failed to turn up for mediation talks aimed at a vertical players' strike or last saturday some things protested during games by sitting on the ground or flatly kicking the ball between the protests but just for a few minutes before the games were fully completed or tensions have been simmering for years between the players federation federation and the players over issues including a demand for fewer matches and the lack of a collective health plan the players union say there's been threats that contracts will be ripped up if a strike ahead. for more on this we can go to alice i'm going to get