. >> leon jaworski was the replacement special prosecutor.my: so let's turn to yet another clip from "watergate." the film itself is over four hours. health problem with that is you almost can't breathe for the four hours. it is so filled with suspense. they described the tension for the special prosecutor office after the saturday night massacre. this is accompanied by archival footage. explain who henry ruth and james doyle are who speak to the press immediately after the announcement. explain that. >> henry ruth was another deputy special prosecutor and jim doyle 's publicbald cox spokesman. >> raw force has into law. it was the csest thi to a up'et that our country ev experienced. >> i thought it was possible that some of us uld be ararrest. there prident had mounted a coup whatappens ia a coup you arst people, right >> locked out of their o offices, the procucutorsentt upstairso the e brary. >> a connuum the investigation? >>>> i suppose the human emotios take over in this kind of occasion does on think that in a democracy maybehihis wod

leon jaworski got archibald's old job, much to nixon's dismay, carried on with the investigation that cox had started. that information was handed over to congress in a document known as the watergate road map. congress used that evidence collected by the special prosecutors to, themselves, draw up damning articles of impeachment against richard nixon and then it all came to an end, right? nixon, knowing he was not going to survive an impeachment vote, ended up resigning the presidency. but whatever happened to old archibald cox, first watergate prosecutor, the guy fired at the end of the saturday night massacre? turns out after nixon fired him, he landed at a good government organization called common cause. and at common cause, just ten years after nixon resigned , thy did something they've never done before. they issued a public report and sent a letter to every single united states senator, urging for the first time ever that a nominee for a cabinet position be rejected by the senate. common cause had never done something like this before. but they decided this particular nominee

leon jaworski got archibald cox's old job. he, much to nixon's dismay, carried on with the investigation. the evidence that had been produced was ultimately handed over to congress in a document that has become known as the watergate road map. congress used that evidence that was collected by the watergate special prosecutors to themselves draw up really damning articles of impeachment against richard nixon. and then it all came to an end. nixon, knowing that he was not going to survive an impeachment vote, ended up resigning the presidency. but whatever happened to old archibald cox. the first watergate special prosecutor. the guy who was fired at the end of the saturday night massacre? well, turns out after nixon fired him, he landed at a good government organization called common cause. and at common cause, just ten years after nixon resigned in the year 1984, common cause, under the leadership of watergate special prosecutor, archibald cox, they did something they had never done before. they issued a public report and sent

claire, president nixon's attorney, then leon jaworski, special watergate prosecutor to argue his casepes and documents. >> it is a strange notion that the president of the united states is the defendant and the government of the united states is the prosecutor. >> jaworski was even cheered by some of the crowd as he entered the supreme court building. much as a roman gladiator entering the arena to do battle. >> it was a product of this peculiar moment when the u.s. government had to test the constitution to find out what limits there were on presidential power. >> if it came down to the supreme court of the united states making a decision against the president, would he obey or would he put himself in a confrontation with the supreme court? >> i don't know of anyone here or at the white house or anywhere else who knows the answer to that. america's most reliable network. the nation's largest and most reliable network. the best network is even better? best, fastest, best. enough. sprint's doing things differently. they're offering a new 100% total satisfaction guarantee. i mean i thin

he was also an assistant prosecutor during watergate working under archibald cox and leon jaworski. it's amazing sometimes, shep, how it comes full-circle. >> shepard: you learn how to say those names along time ago. they seem to come back. the white house, they discussing an impeachment strategy at all? >> there has been a lot of reporting about that. they seem to be no clear strategy. a lot of it appears to be done simply on an ad hoc basis. one thing i can tell you is that there is a clear amount of tension between the white house press operation and the white house counsel's office. as far as the political pushback, most of it seems to be coming from the president himself, certainly he's been going after the whistle-blower. accusing the whistle-blower of operating off of nothing more than thirdhand information which prompted a rare response from the intelligence community inspector general michael atkinson who had a 4-page statement defending the whistle-blower and saying that he not only has access to thirdhand information but some first-hand information as well, reading from t

prosecutors who pursued the watergate scandal during the nixon administration were archibald cox and leon jaworskig appointed after president nixon initiated the so-called saturday night massacre, when he forced the firing of archibald cox. he had to fire his way through the upper echelons of the justice department, until he'd find someone who would go ahead and fire archibald cox for him. i mean, ultimately, we know how all of that ended,

investigation, you had archibald cox, special prosecutor, right, then he got fired and his successor, leon jaworski. the two of them won a professional secret grand jury investigation into watergate then handed over that secret grand jury material to congress which was then used as the basis for drawing up impeachment articles. in the clinton impeachment, it was good old ken starr who conducted an ostensibly secret but very leaky grand jury investigation. he and his staff then compiled that information into a shiny cover heavy breathing airport novel of a report, which was then handed over to congress and that was used as the basis of drawing up those impeachment proceedings as well. i mean, that's not how this is going. right? when it comes to the impeachment of donald trump. it is going to end up being a very important part of this history that we are now living through that there really were multiple criminal referrals of the president's behavior that were made to the justice department at the outset of this process. reportedly from the top lawyer at the cia, reportedly from the office of the di

prosecutors who pursued the watergate scandal during the nixon administration was archibald cox and leon jaworskiht massacre when he forced the firing of special prosecutor archibald cox, fire his way through the upper echelons of the justice department until he would find someone who would fire archibald cox for him. ultimately we know how that all ended, right?

the whole watergate scandal -- all of that grand jury material collected by archibald cox and leon jaworski, the watergate special prosecutors -- justices agreed that that material collected in the investigation needs to go to congress, because congress needs to decide if this is a basis for impeaching president nixon. and in fact, that grand jury material was packaged up into what's now been called the watergate roadmap, and that watergate roadmap of grand jury material is what the judiciary committee used to draw up the impeachment articles against richard nixon, which ultimately led to his resignation. so, that's the relevant, most-recent precedent here. clear as day. when it came to this special counsel investigation, though, the bob mueller investigation, the justice department under bill barr decided they didn't like that precedent, and they flipped and decided they wouldn't support that kind of position anymore. they would not support the grand jury material collected by special counsel mueller being handed over to congress for potential impeachment the way that happened in watergate

but between archibald cox and leon jaworski the pros securitys to in effect to the phase of the -- prosecutors in effect to the phase of the investigation and that was separate and apart including everything but the missing 19 minutes was delivered to the congress for discussion and development and determination whether impeachment was appropriate. and then articles of impeachment were then brought to the floor of the house where somewhere voted yes and some were voted no. >> would my friend yield further? >> of course. >> again, i understand the history to be exactly as my friend from colorado described it. that's just not what we're purporting to do here today. if the ways and means committee wants to go and gather information to then turn over to the judiciary committee to pursue an impeachment inquiry, they don't need this committee and this resolution to do that. they're out there doing their oversight work as the constitution requires every single day of the week. this resolution purports to do something new, to begin that process, as i read the resolution, all of these other committees