in the navy set up its consolidated position authority that was put under nr, john richardson. ardson, in many people's viewpoints, was one of the most ethical people in the navy. -- a nukeget to be a by definition is a person who follows the rules. it's a pretty imposing position. brian: he was put into this position because of this? chris: he was nr. they were already investigating test cheating scandals in the submarine service. the navy felt it had confidence in him. he was the chief adjudicator of the cda. the ethics part of this investigation, the post criminal investigation, now it navy ethics probe, was richardson's .ailiwick the previous was retiring, this could potentially come under the fat leonard investigation.apparently, because you can't confirm any -- there's no statement issued that so and so was in an investigation and you found nothing. nobody gets a clean bill of health. the only thing they find out is if they caught you. everything is assumed or it appears so, more people heard this. about mike mullen, chief of naval operations, and left to become chairman o

accompanying the vice president are the honorable sean stackly, acting secretary of the navy, admiral john richardson, chief of naval operations. lieutenant john robert walsh, deputy commandant. vice president pence: president trump and i will not rest, we will not relent until we rebuild our military, restore the arsenal of democracy and ensure that our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marine, coast guard have all the resources that you need to accomplish your mission and come home safe. that is our pledge to each of you. jonathan: first-time president typically delivers that president but president trump is at the g7 summit in italy. nancy: the conflict is the last stop of the first foreign trip. stephanie ramos reports he spent the day meeting with the powerful leaders. stephanie: president trump is rounding out his first in italy. this is the president's first g7 smi terrorism. >> this week the united kingdom offered one of the worst terrorist attacks in our history. it's at moments such as this that we are reminded of the fundamental interns -- importance of the unique group of nation. stephanie the p

let's just say right away, that guy you just saw, admiral john richardson, chief of naval operations,t is the reason that title is attached to that guy, because of the fat leonard gdma investigation. otherwise, he would have an entirely different job, the head of naval nuclear reactors, which is what he was groomed for. the whole backend of his career. it is a dual headed job. it has an energy department function as well. it oversees all nuclear reactors. all the equipment. it is a unique job. it is a six year term. it is a sunset term. in other words, that's it, you retire after that. it's the only six-year term in the navy. it's unique. richardson was already nr when this broke publicly. the navy set up its consolidated disposition authority that was richardson, in many people's. viewpoints, was one of the most ethical people in the navy. you don't get to be a "nuke" by definition is a person who follows the rules. the head nuke, nr, it's a pretty imposing position. brian: was he put into this position because of this? mr. cavas: he was nr. they were already investigating a couple t

unfortunate language by john and give it to everybody accepted it, so archibald cox said, no, we're not going to do it. we're going to subpoena all of these tapes. and richardsonriday night, i said al, is ellio aboard? he said, yes, the next day, elliot wasn't a board, and i sent nixon a memo, and i said you're going to have to fire elliott. and he said come on over. and i was in the oval office, lou. and i was sitting there, and he talked for an hour about it. the russians and all of that was going on. henry was in moscow. and nixon said after he said he's going to fire. he said if i have to go down to a gs7, i'm going to do it. and so he said you better go this way because elliott's coming through the door. so i went this way and there was elliott. saying, hi, elliott, how are you doing? and looked like he was leading to execution, which is sort of what he was doing isn't that i think the metaphor would have been apt. >> i think elliott bet on the future, he's betting on nixon's not the future. lou: yeah, well, turned out to be that. and alexander once again in control. at that point, you needed a turnstile in that white house. >> well, you're right. we lost