statistics don't reveal the full picture especially among younger and lower paid workers businessmen john nixon again says taxpayers' money should shift from support to getting people back to work we rely on this. scale of work were it might be somebody coming and washing dishes or. waiting on tables you know that it's our time you know. it's. it's a low income it's quite a bit since the government's putting too much money. to the people who are. without work or supposed to be without work there has been no back up support where the government has given grants to small business but the grants don't really hold when we we need people to work to grow the business and open the economy up so we can't open economy are there and there's no point really. and that brings up tonight that's how the news is looking here so far on r.t. international good to have you company we're back again at the top of. the world is driven by shaped by. the dares thinks. we dare to ask. no team no crowd. no shots. patches. in the well struck both of those 2. points your thirst for action. problem drugs don't always come

history extent reveal the full picture especially among younger and lower paid workers businessmen john nixon again believes there needs to be a change from support to getting people back into the workplace we rely on this. scale of work were it might be somebody coming and washing dishes or. waiting on tables you know that it's a part time you know. it's. it's a low income it's quite a bit since the government's putting too much money. to the people who are without work or supposed to be without work there has been no back up support where the government has given grants to small business but the grants. i don't really go with we we need people to work to grow business and color me up so. the economy you know. there's no point really. national that brings you up so late this afternoon don't forget there was always we've got plenty of stories on our website and you can find that at r.t. dot com. the world is driven by dream shaped and person. thinks. we dare to ask. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to heal some air force base in alaska where is that to say come on i'll

statistics don't reveal the full picture especially among younger and lower paid workers businessmen john nixon again believes that does need to be a change from support to getting people back into the workplace. we rely on this. scale of work were it might be somebody coming and washing dishes or. waiting waiting on tables and you know that it's a. it's a it's a low income it's quite a bit since the government's putting too much money. to the people who are. without work all supposed to be without work there has been no back up support where the government has given grants to small business but the grants don't really go where we we need people to work to grow business and open the economy up so if we can't open economy up in there's no point really. finally this hour the fast food chain burger king is feeling the heat from farmers over and adverse about the impact of cat flatulence on climate change and is part of an effort to change how herds the fed in order to reduce emissions. it's not the cal fox nearly all enteric me thing from cattle is from belching suggesting otherwise chances seriou

statistics don't reveal the full picture especially among younger and lower paid workers businessman john nixon again says taxpayers' money should shift from support to getting people back to work. we rely on this. scale of work were it might be somebody coming and washing dishes or. waiting on tables you know that it's our time you know. it's. it's a low income quite a bit since the government's going to much money. to the people who are. without work or supposed to be without work there has been no back up support where the government has given grants to small business but the grants. i don't really know when we we need people to work to grow business and open the economy up so we can't open economy are in there's no point really. and i'm normally warm winter and early dry spring have contributed to hundreds of wildfires across russia siberia temperatures have reached $38.00 degrees celsius in some areas that's the highest on record and for the 1st time the flames have spread into the arctic circle. the fire has spread very far so we've had to try to catch up with it and we've had to go to di

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first in philadelphia that same day, july 8, a day when colonel john nixon of philadelphia's committee of safety read the broadside from a wooden platform outside the state house. when nixon reached the conclusion, the gathered crowd erupted into repeated huzzahs. then members took down the king's coat of arms and threw them on a bonfire. the celebration continued for hours afterward. as john adams remembered, the city's bells rang all day and almost all night. congress ordered other copies of dunlap's broadside to be sent far and wide, to committees of safety, counsel and state assemblies with the request that it be proclaimed in such a mode as that the people may be universally informed of it. over the following days, these declarations, dozens and dozens of them, were read in churches, public squares, and the troops of the continental army. when one of these declarations was read in baltimore, just up the road from here, a band of jubilant patriots marked the occasion by dragging a dummy of our late king through the town in a cart and then setting it on fire in front of a large crow

think there was a discussion earlier on the earlier panel about nixon's short list for vice president ford. but in 68, according to john each's book about bush, destiny and power, nixon's shortlist for vp was, john tower, george bush, sparrow aga new, and one more, ronald reagan. wouldn't that have been something? now comes 1989. at this point, tower is former senator tower, former chair of the armed services committee of the senate. which names him his old friend who secretary of defense. it comes out that there is concerns about -- his love of women and boos. there was also some sort of conflict of interest investigations well. it was the first time since 1959 that a cabinet officer was not confirmed. the senate at that point was 45 -- republicans 55. democrats, i believe. and the vote went down, 47, 53. that to me, it means, i believe it means two democrats crossed over and voted yes. more republicans voted no, but it was due to the fact that the democrats were in the senate, and in control of the senate. that is why tower did not get through. the larger point to make here though, is george bush feel very strongly t

richard nixon's first attorney general, john mitchell, was the 67th tooernlg attorney general united states, and he became the very first one convicted of a crime and sentenced to prison. the second attorney general of the united states to be convicted of a crime was richard nixon's second attorney general, who pleaded guilty to not testifying truthfully to a senate committee. and after we watched all of that unfold, we had a right to believe that no future attorney general would ever try to get away with not testifying truthfully to a congressional committee. no one who watched what happened to richard nixon's republican attorneys general would ever want to go down that road again. so we thought. then came attorney general william barr. william barr was 24 years old when richard nixon was forced to resign the presidency. and a month after that, william barr started law school. william barr was in law school with dreams of growing up to be the attorney general of the united states when he watched john mitchell get convicted and sent to prison. he kind of watched because he was in law

and part of what he's saying is, okay, america, you voted for john kennedy against my guy richard nixon, i understand that, but it's on you to hold the leaders to the high standard and make sure they're doing the job of monitoring the military industrial complex. make sure they have your best interests at heart. actually it's a cold warrior's message to say, i did it, i'm owning that, but at the same time i want you to be aware that it comes with a burden, a responsibility that he wants to place on the public so they'll keep an eye on this inexperienced guy who is now in the white house. >> question right here. yes? do we have another hand up over here? we'll bring a microphone over here in the green shirt and then i'll come down to you. hi. >> good evening. you took office seven years after the end of world war ii, but he brought in senior officers that worked with him, in appointments like bradley at the veterans administration. how successful were those appointments compared to others he made at secretaryial positions? >> beetle submit came in, he would have liked him to run the cia

that lost in the american south during the civil rights revolution and what john lewis' death reminds us of. it lost with nixon, as you just said. it will lose here and it will lose big. because i think the lesson we learn from this is that actions like trump's only reveal two things. they show cowardice and a lack of principle because leaders like this can't lead. they can't actually persuade people, so they resort to beating people up. and the disrespect for trump is only gong to grow because actions like this show he disrespects himself and americans see it and he can't trust himself to win on the up and up. that's the policy problems. now you want me to get into the legal stuff or do you want me to stop? >> please do, neil. >> okay. so this isn't just a legal problem. it's more than that. this is a rebellion against our deepest constitutional principals. so i don't want you and your viewers to think about this as some technical rule in the rule book or something like this. this is a betrayal of what america is about. so the first thing is that our constitution doesn't generally permit a domestic police for

john f. kennedy and richard nixon, but that was a time i think when the country was -- a lot of americans wereed. i think the reagan president was a different time. it was 20 years later. the country was probably getting a little cynical. they'd have been through watergate and certainly been through vietnam. they weren't as willing -- they, the american people, certainly the press corps -- was not as willing to just swallow, accept whatever it was that the president and the first lady were doing. >> we'll take a call next from michael in mont clare, pennsylvania. michael, you are on. welcome. >> caller: yes, thank you. this was a great show. >> thank you. >> caller: my question is, politically, was there a position or ideology that they sometimes disagreed upon or tha sometimes disagreed upon or that the staff disagreed upon? >> okay. thank you. were there any issues that the reagans did not see eye to eye on? >> well, not that i know of, but the staff, absolutely, and there was open warfare on many issues, the most important issue, iran-contra, dealing with the soviet union, and nancy would p

and so pat nixon and president nixon organized a private visit for the kennedys, which turned out to be a remarkable event for all concerned. both caroline and john., wrote letters afterwards thanking the nixons. and jackie herself wrote a very warm letter. >> so, despite whatever anger they might have had, or she might have had about the 1960 campaign, she was a human first and realized the importance of letting president kennedy's widow and his children come to the white house for that important unveiling. >> well, we have to get into politics in their life story, so we had their early marriage. and during world war ii, richard nixon was on active duty with the navy. and his first run for congress was in 1946. how did he make the foray into politics? >> when he came back, he was still, as you said, on active-duty, and he was contacted by someone from california, and they were looking for somebody to run against jerry voorhis in the 12th congressional district. and so dick talked to pat, and they agree that he would go back out and he would talk to these people. so he went back out, he did a presentation, they said, yes, this is a good thing, an

president ford, but in '68 according to jon meachum's book about bush "destiny and power" nixon's short list for v.p. was john tower, george bush, spiro agnew and one more, ronald reagan. wouldn't that have been something? so now comes 1989, and it is former senator tower and former chair of the senate committee and bush names him, his old friend, to secretary of defense. and it comes out that there's concerns about, as herb parment put it, his love of women and booze. and there was some sort of conflict of interest investigation as well, and it was the first time since 1959 that a cabinet officer was not confirmed. the senate at this time was 45 republicans and 55 democrats, i believe, and the vote went down 47-53. 53 no. so that, to me, means -- i believe that means two democrats crossed over and voted yes, or more republicans voted no. but it was due to the fact that the democrats were in the senate, in control of the senate, and that is why tower did not get through. the larger point to make here, though, is george bush felt very strongly that loyalty goes down as well as up. he was tremendously loyal to

a call from john, and he said i have been asked to put together a team of lawyers for the house judiciary committee to investigate whether there are grounds for impeachment of president nixonand i have a list of people that i have gone over with burke marshall, and you're at the top of the list. if you would like to come to work. and bill said, well, actually, i'm going to run for congress, so i can't. and bill said, who else is on your list? and john said, well, mike conway, rufus cormier, and hillary rodham. he said, well, hillary rodham is standing right here. he passed me the phone, and john asked me if i wanted to go to work in washington for the impeachment inquiry staff. i said yes. i'm very honored to be asked. and so shortly some time after the first of the year, i left my job at the children's defense fund and moved to washington and went to work for john dorr. >> how long did you think it was going to last when you said yes? >> right. i don't know that i thought like i think, you know, when you're really young and just starting out, how long does a job take? i didn't even know what the job was at thatépoint. i had no timetable at all. >> was there any concern

a second about any potential recourse or oversight or what happens now, but first john meacham, trump went where nixon never did. i request what does a historian do to put this into context, to think of a president and to sort of -- how does a historian address this moment in history? this incident in a way that kind of gives it some greater understanding? >> well, you try to take dramamine, that's important, so that's the first step. medication is always essential. history is, in many cases, like an iceberg. there are parts of it you can see, but there's an enormous amount you cannot, and over time you hope you see what was below. and that's certainly true with trump. but what we do see is pretty clear, right. we have a president who would prefer to be a monarch. he is using the powers of the presidency that were installed as a check and a balance to put things out of balance, in fact. and character matters here. sometimes people like me are accused of being too focused on the biographic cal aspects than the broader ones, the institution of the presidency has a force, it's not as important as people

that we have on display here is somewhat prophetic, because she's interviewed vice president nixon and senator johnkennedy, who of course, would be adversaries in the 1960 presidential campaign. and i think all these examples of her early writings, and she did write throughout her life, but i think if her life had been maybe somewhat different, she would have been a writer of some kind, maybe even professionally. and as we know, in her later life, the last part of her life, she was a very prolific editor of books in new york city, working with several different authors on books of several different topics. >> brar parbara perry, let's jut the basic facts of her biography on the table. where was she born, and to whom, and when? >> sure. she was born in the hamptons in 1929, just before the stock market crash, in the summer of that year. her parents were john and janet bouvier. he had been an investment banker, and on wall street, but lost his savings in the stock market crash, but she continued to summer with her grandfather bouvier, she called "grampy jack," and he was the one who introduced her to

my first question is under which president since john kennedy has there been the most change in the white house? >> actually the nixontration was probably the largest number of objects acquired even more than the kennedy administration. mrs. nixon very much require -- admired what miss candidate dead. she wanted to increase the collection, and didn't want credit for. it shouldn't want people to donate as much, because the candidates set the standard for the relying on public understanding. she hired a curator. the man who hired me for my job in subsequent years. they worked very hard and kept a lot of kennedy things in some rooms, change them out in other rooms. all the pieces are permanent and will come back into use from time to time as presidents and first ladies please. >> my second question is on the art collection. it was interesting when talked about the builders and how you paired that building which is more modern with slightly more traditional. as tastes change, and we get further and further away from the modern art period and more into contemporary art, how do you mix in pieces from that time period which

nixon 1972 we forget, that first campaign appearance, first campaign appearance showed up to receive party nomination in summer first campaign appearance was on september 22, when he flew to texas, to appear at john'socrats for nixon he realized that he was more powerful if he was seen as the president, so he -- he spent september, august september o october largely, performing as president on the national stage only occasionally going to campaign trail think about that. we have already had candidates out at rallies richard nixon went to convention first time appeared as a candidate in late september. >> of course, when only three television networks just terrestrial ray your column yesterday in "wall street journal" vice president sitting down with president barack obama in new video, for a social distancing chat accomplishments in office sloois at president trump your reaction. >> you are going to pay attention to -- you are not going to quit trinationally been downed the curve of steadied transmission rates. >> this guy has generated a sense out there that people are waking up to that he ran by deliberately dividing people. >> the president responded on "hannity" last night. >> i wouldn't be the

it was hillary who made a real impression on one of the judges, john door, who later hired her for the impeachment committee on richard nixon. >> they are working together in that prize trial, capturing everything that is to come. one of the fellow law students described it as bill clinton was all to kill a mockingbird and hillary was all chicago lawyer. >> we have a clip from 1994 where hillary clinton talks about how she and bill clinton met. let's watch. >> he was standing out in the hallway, and i just, i don't know. do you know those moments that just click? i was sitting there and i just started staring at him and i began to look at him and i thought i really like the way he looks and i need to get to know him. then he caught my eye and began staring back at me and so here i am in the library not reading and he is surrounded by people talking at him, not talking back. finally, i thought this is ridiculous. i'm in this class with this person. i put my books down and i went up and said, if you are going to keep looking at me, and i'm going to keep looking at you, we ought to at least know each other's names. i am hillar

off was hillary who made a real impression on one of the judges, john doar, who later hired her for the impeachment committeeúpz richard nixonworking today in that prize trial sort of captured everything that was to come in away. where one of the fellow law students described them as bill clinton was all to kill30?w@=r kill a lawyer. >> and we have a clip when hillary clinton talks about how she and bill clinton met. >> he was standing out in the >> he was standing out in the hallway and i just --fux moments just sort of click and i was sitting there and i just started staring at him. and i just began to look at him and i thought, you know, i really like the way he looks. i need to get to know him. and then he caught my eye and began staring back at me so here i am in the library, not reading, here!2á# he is surroun by talking at him not talking back. so finallr:p&lr:púñ i thought t ridiculous. i'm in this class with this person and>zhs so i put my book down and i went up and i said, if you're going to keep looking at me and i'm going to keep looking at you we sought to at least know each other's names, i'll hillary rodham

john f. kennedy library chose to give him the profiles and courage award, specificalliy fo the nixon pardon, he was initially reluctant to go, to go all the way across the country and at his age. he didn't see, in effect, the emotional significance of this and it was mrs. ford who, i think, convinced him, jerry, this is the greatest honor that has been bestowed on you since leaving office. and he said after that, for 20 years everywhere he went people asked him about the pardon and after the profiles and courage award people stopped asking. >> robert is in chicago. you're on the air. hi, robert. >> caller: hi. thank you very much for your time. i understand two presidents, kennedy and hoover, never received an income as president. did mrs. ford receive any kind of income after president ford had passed away? thank you. >> first of all, you're right about both hoover and jfk. in fact, rejecting federal salaries as president. in hoover's case, he never accepted payment for any of his various positions, whether secretary of commerce or the hoover commission or whatever. the question about wheth

nixon tried out eisenhower's favorite rod, and received some pointers on bringing in a big catch. hooking developed many skills, like preparing breakfast for visitors to his vacation retreat. major john eisenhower followed in the footsteps of his father as he left to serve for the united nations forces in korea. his parents, wife and three children, would miss him. interrupting his campaigning, eisenhower visit is 179 acre farm near gettysburg in his pennsylvania. there was a warm welcome for this homespun american from the plains of kansas, whose roots are firmly planted in the rich soil of the midwest. a kansas farmer boy, seeking a position of great responsibility, a role both national and international. the hour of the decision wasn't, hand through the voice of the ballot box, people of america were being articulate. east, last, north, south, the voters turned out in record numbers to choose the man who had guided the nation for the next four years. early returns at republican party headquarters indicated a landslide for eisenhower. the new york times sign in times square shows him far ahead, ike elected. bedlam breaks loose in the republican headquarters. by the greatest popular

john lewis: that's right. it was only there two years with president reagan. and i remember president ford created the only president of the didn't meet with in the white house, was president nixonnt out. rep. john lewis: never invited me. i saw him after he was out at the airport at washington. and he said to me, you're jerry lewis. and i said no mr. president. i am john lewis. i sent jerry a jerry is from california and i'm from georgia. so which chatted for a while at the airport. peter: what was your relation to check with george w. bush. rep. john lewis: it was wonderful. i got along with him. i talked with him. the young bush. i remember seven to one of my staff people. he said honey feel working with an american hero rated the staff person didn't know what to say. but i got to know both of them rated. peter: bill clinton pretty. rep. john lewis: he was a friend. he has a friend. he is a friend. you know he wrote something about march 1. the book and he was just wonderful. peter: congressman john lewis has been a resounding voice in the quest for equality for more than 50 years. and someplace that is sharing his memories with the civil rights movement with america's young

. >> and then to do a piece on john lindsay when he was mayor and also on a piece on me and then said first will become friends later so we borrow nixon into china and in 1872 to spend a lot of time together so we meet six or seven times a year for lunch. to come from a very poor jewish ghetto in boston and then working his way through harvard. and then the chinese question. very high but then have the ideological parting of the ways. >>cspan: what you mean by fellow traveler? >> he tended to think that is probably correct like the late thirties and early forties and shane kai-shek and there was a lot of corruption but his hospitality and it cause that resignation. >>cspan: we are used to you playback the symphony and beethoven is a monument. >> adam smith said the state presumably can do certain things and that's a very short list it's a common defense and to be a custodian of monuments. does the authority that takes dead musicians is like a buck a month or whatever it is. if you push the number three is nothing but classical music. it is certainly marvelous i was trying to manipulate conservative orthodoxy. a monument need that only

john f. kennedy has there been the most change to the white house? >> actually, the nixontration was probably the largest number of objects acquired, even more than the kennedy administration. mrs. nixon very much admired what mrs. kennedy had done and wanted to improve the collection and increase the collection and take very little credit for it. mrs. kennedy had already set the path. she didn't need to go out and ask people to donate as much because mrs. kennedy set the standard for what every first lady could rely on the public understanding. so she hired a curator. the man who hired me for my job in subsequent years. and they worked very hard. and so they kept a lot of kennedy things in some of the rooms and changed out kennedy things in other rooms but all of the pieces are permanently and they will come back into use from time to time as different first ladies and presidents choose from them. >> my second question is on the art collection. it was interesting when you were talking about the builders and how you paired that painting which is more modern with slightly m

court said precisely the same thing in the nixon tapes case when the president was forced to reveal 62 tapes of the oval office of his having conversations with john dean and others supreme court also held with regard to the presidency of william jefferson clinton he had to respond to document requests subpoenas with regard to the pollen jones civil lawsuit and indeed the house of representatives itself as far back as 1974 and i was involved voted an article of impeachment as article 3 against president nixon for what defying a congressional subpoena that he was not above the law so this is not breaking new ground one of the things that nancy pelosi said that i think is quite mis concede is the idea that continuing on in the lower courts that this is going to result in a victory wrong the congress has a lifespan of 2 years every subpoena expires at the end of the issuing congress which means in this case january of 2021 this subpoena there are 3 or 4 against president trump reza counts are all going to expire which means that you all are back at square one there is no way given the slowness of court proceedings that this case is going to meander b

it was hillary who made a real impression on one of the judges, john doar, who later hired her for the impeachment committee on richard nixon>> you know, they're working tooth in that trial sort of captured everything that was to come where one of the fellow law students described them as bill clinton was all "to kill a mockingbird" and hillary was all "chicago lawyer." >> we have a clip from 1994 when hillary clinton talks about how she and bill clinton met. let's watch. >> he was standing out in the hallway, and i just -- i don't know. you know those moments sort of like click, you know? and i was sitting there and i just started staring at him. and i just began to look at him. and i thought, you know, i really like the way he looks. i need to get to know him. he caught my eye and began staring back at me. here i am in the library not reading. here he is surrounding by people talking at him, not talking back. so, finally i thought this is ridiculous. i'm in this class with this person. so, i put my books down and i went up and said, you know, if you're going to keep looking at me and i'm going to keep looking at you, we o

eastern hour, we will have chris cox, president nixon's grandson to talk about his grandfather's legacy and what china is up to today. arthel: congressman johnewis made final triumphant trip over edmund pettus bridge and now on trip to montgomery. joining from selma, alabama steve harrigan. steve: john lewis made final crossing an hour ago and did it in horse-drawn caisson. he was moved to hearse. 55 years ago a much younger man leading a testimony station of 600 people, peaceful protestors who wanted the right to vote, they were set upon by the alabama state troopers, pushed back and beaten with wooden clubs, lewis had skull fractured and beaten again as he tried to get up. among was 8-year-old girl who remembered the events. >> he always liked listen the story of when williams picked me up as i was trying to run home from that march and -- and i looked at jose and i said put me down, you are not running fast enough. steve: caisson at peak of the bridge for 60 seconds, there where lewis would have been able to see stage troopers, he called them sea of blue, beaten by them, today saluted by honor guard of them, putting his own body on the li

john lewis. next, secretary of state mike pompeo talked abut the future of u.s. china relations. this was held at the richard nixon presidential library in california. esidential library in california. this is just over one hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, the honorable michael pompeo. the honorable pete wilson, christopher nixon cox and hugh hewitt. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ good afternoon. i'm christopher nixon cox, grandson of richard nixon and on behalf of my family and the board of directors of the foundation i want to welcome you to another important event and the museum is right behind me here. today we are honored to have secretary of state michael pompeo to have chosen the nixon library to make a major speech about u.s. china relations. like we do so often at the library, we are going to begin the program with a prayer. would you please remain standing and welcome greg laurie, the senior pastor at harvest christian fellowship for an invocation. >> let's pray together. we are thankful to live in this country the united states of america and one thing we treasure so greatly as the freedom we have to pursue life, liber

both cases, chief justice john r roberts, brett kavanaugu, annual gorsuch sided with the liberal justices. roberts wrote -- chief justice roberts cited rulings requiring nixonnto release tapes from his oval and bill clinton to provide evidence in a sexual harassment lawsuit. he relied on i an 1807 trial in which aaron burr subpoenaed thomas jefferson, a move chief justice john marshall deemed legal. roberts wrote -- "200 years ago, a great jurist of our court established that no citizen, not even the president, is categorically above the common duty to produce evidence when called upon in a criminal proceeding. we reaffirm that principle today and hold that the president is neither absolutely immune from state criminal subpoenas seeking his private papers nor entitled to a heightened standard of need." in a separate decision, the court affirmed congress can subpoena records from a president but order to lower court to reconsider the significant separation of powers before such h subpoenas are approved. donald trump lashed out at the rulings. pres. trump: the rulings are basically starting all over again, sending every thing back down to the lower courts and

john, give us a history lesson. is this commutation different than others? >> i think it is. for the reasons even president nixon laid out there. it's as close -- here's a phrase, remember this from the thousand years ago, quid pro quo from a different galaxy. it's clearly a self-protective maneuver. the clemency power in the constitution is absolute. it was meant to be a check and a balance against other branches going too far. but in this case, you have a president who has insisted on the absolutist elements of his job and of his task. and has now used the constitution specifically to protect himself. >> but that's the thing, nick, even if it's the absolutist elements, the president is allowed to do it. so while he may be highly criticized or it stinks to the high heavens, is there anything anyone can do about it? >> well, unfortunately, nobody can do anything about it. but i would argue that this power is limited. it can't be that a president of the united states can grant clemency to somebody who is his own co-conspirator in which he has an obvious conflict of interest. the problem is, no court has ever conf

john avlon explains, we should have seen this coming. >> i keep looking at a coin from a convention it shows lincoln and nixon over the word integrity.ave a political version of the descent of man, but the same concept applies to conservative media, to a cornucopia of cranks and just this over the past few days. a breitbart video gets taken down for spreading misinformation, unproven cures for covid-19, but not before being amplified by the first family, while russian-backed sites are also spreading covid disinfo. sinclair backs off a baseless conspiracy theory about dr. fauci, who's also facing attacks from the trump white house. and of course, the qanon conspiracy theory. >> you know, "q" can do some crazy stuff with the pizza zpuf the way fair stuff, but they've also uncovered a lot of great stuff when it comes to ep zpost and the deep state. >> to be clear, qanon has uncovered no great stuff. but these are a few examples of a deeper problem. the descent of large swaths of conservative media into outright quackery, part of a fear-based feedback loop pushed by president trump. it's a pattern he embraced with the birther conspiracy

years and, of course, the 1960 election brought john kennedy into the white house where he campaigned against eisenhower's vice president, richard nixon private life, back to gettysburg. we're going to go back there again soon, right now. >> and for 19 years mamie eisenhower lived in this house and all of her life, nearly, she had this picture on every dresser in every house she lived in. alyce evans, what is that? >> that's ike's senior picture he gave her while they were dating. it says -- to the dearest and sweetest girl in the entire world. and she always had that on her dresser. >> a pink phone and lots of pink things in the dressing room and now to an explosion of pink, the master bedroom. >> i think the decor in this room is very telling of their lives together. every bedroom they ever lived in mamie painted the walls this color green and decorated in pink. their two favorite colors. i think this is real dedication, real love, a five-star general slept under the pink sheets here. >> the original duvet cover and bedspread. this is where they shared until 1969 when ike died. the breakfast set on the bed. >> mamie, of course, spen

so president nixon organize this visit which is a remarkable event for both caroline and john junior, thanking the next sense and jackie herself for the very warm letter, so despite whatever whether she might have had about the 1916 campaign she realized the importance of letting jackie kennedys went out to come to the white house for that important unveiling. >> that's early marriage, and during world war two, it's amazing, and in 1946, how did you get into politics? when he came back on active duty, he was contacted by someone from california, he was looking for someone to run against joe where he is in the 12th and rational, so we talk to pat and he went back out did a presentation. and they decided to run, that she was pregnant with patricia, now they're back on the east coast, they have to go all the way back across california because they have to start campaigning, so she packs everyone up. eight months pregnant. drives out to california, a month or so after they get back out there she is with patricia and their campaigning. can tell something about her ambition because six hour

nixon appointees were chief burger and harry blackmun. justice appointees, thurgood marshall, kennedy appointees byron white. eisenhower is still on the court, johnarshall ii, william brennan and potter stewart and hugo black and william o. douglas roosevelt appointees made up the nine. the case was heard 13 days after "the new york times" published that first article. there were two hours of oral arguments. and we're going to listen to a little bit. tell me how the legal team was assembled and what the decision was, or the argument. >> the chief counsel for "the new york times" was professor alexander bickel from yale law school. professor bickel under whom i studied at law school was viewed in the language of those days as a conservative academic. he had clerked for jason -- justice frankfurther. he was, as he once put it to me, not a first amendment vo lup tu wary and he was not. and indeed, if there was any criticism of the "times'" lawyers' presentations to the court at every level made then and even now, it was that we didn't talk enough about the first amendment. we talked about the separation of powers, we talked about statutes, we talked