so magruder mccord is not willing to put up with us. so he writes to the judge judge sirika and says perjury was committed in this trial. in fact the orders for the break-in went much higher up. it wasn't just these burglars who decided of their own accord to break in. there were orders came from higher up. particularly magruder so that triggers a whole. long episode of one of nixon's aids running for cover, you know one x nixon aid accusing the other and nixon himself had a very colorful expression for this he said you know, the my aids are going to start -- on each other and then they're going to start -- on the president. excuse my language, but it's actually nixon's language. um, so this book describes what's happened how this happens how in a magruders? the fingering of magruder leads to john dean becoming very worried about his future and john dean turning traitor on nixon and cooperating with the prosecutors. you know, i've called it's like a sort of. in shakespeare you have or in greek tragedy you have hubris. and then you have

something happens that is the trigger for this unraveling and the trigger is this guy called james mccord was one of the supervisors, a former fbi guy. and he been arrested because he had connections to the burglary. but he was sitting in the dc jail which i describe in my book as the most unpleasant place you can imagine particularly back in the early 70s. sand he's thinking to himself why am i going to, is an upstanding he considers himself an upstanding number of the community and he's not very far from here, could have been one of your neighbors. he thinks why should i go to jail when this schmuck mcgruder is getting off scott free and what's more the washington post is writing us flattering profile about him. he was writing the inaugural festivities at that time. so mcgruder, mccord is not wanting to put up with it so he writes to the judge and says perjury was committed in this trial. in fact the orders from the break in went much higher up. it wasn't just the burglars who decided of their own accord to break-in. orders came from higher up particularly mcgruder. so that triggers a w

also joining us is mary mccord, former acting assistant attorney general at the justice department. she supervised the counter intelligence unit that has been leading the trump documents investigation. andrew weissmann, so there is donald trump attacking jack smith, by whom he obviously knows nothing. and of course, also attacking you about whom he knows a least what in what you say on this program, and you are part of the mueller investigation investigating his conduct at the time. what do you make of donald trump's written statement today? >> well, with donald trump, one of the things that you have learned through history and you know is a posture is all of this is never about the actual facts. it is always about invective and activists and media spin. if you are's defense lawyer you are, having palpitations because of some of that media spin that he engages in. so the statement the you read from at the outset of the program completely belies the defense of the documents were planted. since he saying i openly in a tory asleep took them there. to me though, it is still consistent w

i'm the thing edition soon. special mccord and this medical for a number i wasn't working with. i mean, if you could bring us with it, if it is a summary of some of the process, you know what you mean? let's give you religion. look like this. why didn't lose or am i going to trust a funeral assistance? doesn't notices or is it just for john doesn't use i'm not sure. really nice. thank you. miranda, would you on me when i wasn't as soon as i me to mention julia bale savings for them. little know postpone or the. mm hm. mm mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah . ah. nato's you complain. proxy war against russia all spiraled out of control. after it was erroneous, lee reported brush fired a missile pin to pull the zalinski regime in its many western backers, couldn't believe their good fortune. finally, there was just a vacation to start a hot war against russia. alas, cooler heads prevailed with we informed the world community plant is at risk of a new killer accident. russia warns of a potential nuclear catastrophe in europe. that is output ology power plant. again, come down

judy: mary mccord analyzing for us this verdict in the case of stewart rhodes.hank you so much. mary: it's my pleasure. ♪ judy: in the day's other news, universities in beijing and other chinese universities sent students home after weekend protests against covid restrictions and against the country's communist leaders. that move came as beijing police were out in force, hunting those who took part in the demonstrations and trying to stop any new protests. the foreign ministry defended those actions. >> [speaking mandarin] >> china is a country governed by the rule of law and the various freedoms enjoy by chinese citizens are fully guaranteed. at the sameime, any rights and freedoms must be exercised within the framework of the law. judy: protests -- the protests were china's largest since tiananmen sare in beijing in 1989 a new pentagon report estimates that china is rapidly building its nuclear arsenal a closing the gap with the u.s. the report says beijing has more than 400 nuclear warheads and could nearly quadruple that number by 2035. the u.s. currently ha

ah, you mccord which is one of the big carissa. also, we're having activities in philadelphia london have all the chances to the be a big guy mining allegation, critical raw materials for car batteries are plentiful in finland. many mines have not yet been explored. meaning the deposits throughout northern europe could even be enough to make europe's e car industry less dependent on chinese exporters. we saw that graph earlier showing just how much demand for lithium ion battery is, is expected to rise in the coming decade. but what if there were an alternative cleaner way of storing renewable energy? the porter bina to presents from promising ideas. we all know that the future of energy is in renewables. they were the world's cheapest source of power in 2020. this is good news, but we've got a small problem. how do we store all of it? it's not sunny all the time, nor is it windy, 247. so we need a way to keep reserves. the dominant battery solution for renewables has been lithium ion, but mining pollutes exploit people and the bat

williams we're getting is the way you jordan this postings with up also from we blank officer bus at the mccord was board. number off the woollen rush, control people, summer brown. you brought in the 3 child global curve. those will cripples normal. christian americans that killed 90 both in tribes. when the 1415 millions african slaves through america, follow the north. 50 millions, q. all dead is bad christmas. this is for growth. this is a concept of what i call rushing guilty. they want to be russians over the head generation to generation, to feel guilty and apologized for leaders hundreds of years ago that did not do anything even close to the evils that western leaders themselves have done. when marissa phobia began to flare up, andrew was a university student. he studied russia, his friends didn't understand why waste time on a week country with no say, everything changed on august the 8th, 2008. a georgia, democracies under threat member, george w bush went crazy and mccain, of course, going crazy. my country and so different things to run aggression. russian troops in georgia. so obv

have biden mccord and all sheila, at least asked zelinski to repatriate that sense of millions. he's hiding in tax havens to the pandora people's revelations. of course not, it makes all of this even more shameful. veteran, greek diplomat, leon 8 as chris and popular, says europeans angle as paying to higher price for the conflicts will likely trigger political changes. what the secretary general of nato said, it doesn't make sense. i mean, why should we, the europe, the people of the west suffer? just because it's a, just because of the governments of the west want to create a difficult situation with, with the russia and to call and to make a war against russia. i mean, we see that demonstrations that are taking place in europe and these demonstrations are going to affect the governments. we will see government changes in the european union, any nato countries. and only by the fact that these, that these sanctions were adopted by the european union without even examining what the effect they would have on the european people. it shows that these were, that these were measures

correspondence upon seamen t as in washington, i don't think stefan belongs to this. jen z group, i think is mccord the generation x. yeah. come off. yeah, that's what happens. we're getting older so far, but let, let's talk about the young people here. we saw what 8000000 of them are now eligible to vote for the very 1st time. in theory, this could be enough to swing the outcome. it's a very tight raises, but the question we have to ask, which we ask every election will of these young people, will they turn out and vote yes, miss $1000000.00 crescent here, even from the perspective of an old person like me. because you know those 18 and 19 year olds, they showed up as a huge block this time around, even in pre registration and registration to be eligible to vote. right. and pop free or early voting numbers do not show that they are actually showing up in droves. and that has what party concerns the most democrats. why is that? because they need those younger voters, and these are not just the 18 and 19 year olds, but the 18 to 29 year olds, upholstered the politicians, the parties. and of course,

for instance, french president emmanuel mccord, branded the attacks a war crime which cannot go unpunished. and state secretary blink and in particular said that the russians joined photography. they gained civilians. however, russia is representative to the un slammed what he called west and double standards . think he had a blockade of crimea on the dumbass was ignored, as well as the west accuses russia, have targeting in for the doctor in ukraine. it is itself accused of hypocrisy over its own military interventions. in the past ortiz marina calls the river explains once again the u. s. a slime in russia for something the americans themselves have done on a regular basis. let's take a look at their own appall and tactic. shall we? me. the 1999 natal on salt against yugoslavia, the targeting of civilian infrastructure, the bombing of radio television, serbia, the use of cluster bombs and even depleted uranium legitimate target nova. when i go in and roll it is even if and we'll wait a minute, you have to let me finish and then go ahead. no. but what, what i said was we would give them t

it was not the park a certain day, the killed woman, honda de mccord is donny. it was the u. s. mitigating with the drone strike. and on that same day, if you recall in pakistan, a helicopter was shot down in a wicker, which for generals died in that attack. and the americans claimed that we missed fine. hit that helicopter, and then we hit on republic work orders on. now, the store that we have to understand is that the americans took out the top leader inside the ttp. where is it? pakistan spoke that we should pay the price for you or where you're at that the drone was not little like a sunny soil. soldiers did not come from pakistani soil. why are you waging war against us? well, thank you so much for coming on the program and sharing your expertise with us and giving us a sense of what occurred today with those at people that in pakistan at thank you very much side college mohammed in the pakistani capitalist on the bottom. okay, rushes ambassador to international organizations and been has more v e u for turning to expensive u. s. gas imports, instead of buying cheaper s

have biden mccord and all sheila, at least asked zelinski to repatriate. that's hands of millions. he's hiding in tax havens. she, the pandora people's revelations, of course not. it makes all of this even more shameful. oh, this all comes are some western law enforcement agencies of warrant of arms smuggling in europe, where weapons applied to ukraine or anything up in the hands of criminals with care as widely seen as a hub for illegal arms trafficking. even before the conflict began. veteran greek diplomat, leon 8, as chris on popular says your opinions angle as paying to higher price for the conflict will likely to make a political changes. what the secretary general of nato said. it doesn't make sense. i mean, why should we, the people of the west suffer just because, um, just because of the governments of the west want to create a difficult situation with, with the russia and to, and to make a war against russia. i mean, we see the demonstrations that are taking place in europe and these demonstrations are going to affect the governments. we will see government changes in the

behind him that something happens that is the trigger for this unraveling in the trigger is james mccord of the supervisors of the burglary a former cia guy and he had been arrested because he had the answers to the berkeleyche which could be prov. he's thinking to himself, he's an upstandingim citizen consided himself an upstanding member of the community. he could have been one of your neighbors and he thinks to himself why should i go to jail when magruder is getting off scott free. he was was running the a knock grove festivities at that time. so the court is not willing to put up with it and the judge said perjury was committed in this trial and ordered some of the much higher up's we decided of their own accord to break-in. particularly magruder so that triggers the whole long episode of one of nixon's aides running for cover and one nixon aide accusing the other and nixon himself had a very colorful expression for this. he said might aides are going to start testing onhe each other ad then they are going to startt pressing on the president. excuse my language. so this book describ

no one was a kid named jim mccord with his boss out near the eel. the stay your same cleaners, numbers you, steve, all a sudden any kids got dory. oh, cousin wouldn't look, cheer, swan worship oceans. we built a deserted ear that no dual feature keep her home each year. so give, let's is remarried. so was no, no, no big witness. me or yeah. normally most you know that which this you mean it's and mr. yeah, brittany. yeah. we're, we just wanted me. those other faces, dra love diluted. there's no mosquitoes of them again. you the, your visual, but then you were our like them, william the really ah part of the cities this week cuz the scram tickets julian lee. but you all know the good name, golden middle clematis to look at keith too. i got to see me or jim parker and he's like, another artist no to you shall. we should have spoken to lucy nor kish leah jakita paint. feel young for you to the voted. but her what you well i remember what did i say? yeah. and they bullied and did, you might use some of my sure she took some leisure and you could grab yo

you have a former vp, mccord gets a little, even know, look at a couple of a new one. a how do you see him put him? are you good to hear a, a good way to see him today. hey, i just wanted to do in a stock as you give a whole i'm calling to see are all here like are is a people monotony on your vehicle? a shop of italy and are you? we are in the part of deals and navy's young case. now that i know what it is, then we'll know ms. i heard you have been the bellagio age, a little group. and salazar, you know, anything is diane embry marriage. anyone. i mean a little hard. you are getting can bowman mendez loss olivia and gauge is treyana play. it is starting. i love salute. i. you've already moved on monday, but we will be there. see how it is not there. people who trusted me. lab look at it, but they can see it, but he has that they element of identity management with i like this novelist as plus i say don't over again. are you going on? he or she don't deal young in humans while on a scale. i didn't get any more than the nibble legacy getting all that british young mark,

early fourth quarter mccord arrow up top to a light show. 35 yards.l eligible. the upset and l.a., could be the last trip to the coliseum. the trojans moved to the big ten in two years. 10 yard scores seven to nothing, caleb williams short pass to michael jackson iii, there he goes. cal did keep trying, jack plummer took it wide open. 47 yards, but they fall, dropping the fifth straight game. stanford hosting washington state. women's basketball team in the house. anderson grove road dives in. after review, at the pylon. that is a touchdown, 21 to nothing. stanford had four fumbles in the first half. jason hicks picks it up. 28-7 cougars. they have lost six of seven conference games for the first time since 2006. astros and phillies, game six of the world series. another chance to win his first manager title, bottom six down one to nothing. lasted dead center, three to one. top of the ninth, ryan pressly on the mound. out the right side, tucker makes the catch. astros win, taking the series 4-2. dusty has his ring as a manager. >> they told me in spri

for more on what this means for the republican party, i'm joined by mary mccord. she is the director of the institute for constitutional advocacy and protection, and a former justice department official. and stuarttevens. he is a former republican consultant, now at the lincoln project and a new pro-democracy media platform, resolute square. thank you both for joining newshour. publican senators were asked by reporters about the dinner and a number of them said it was inappropriate, that it was wrong. there is no place for white supremacy in the republican party. separately former vice president mike pence said trump should apologize. what is your assessment of the republican response so far? >> this has to be taken in context of what has happened to the republican party which in my view is a complete moral collapse unlike any we have seen in america with a major political party. this happened in florida. the governor of florida ron desantis as far as i know has yet to assert that joe biden won a legal and fair election. we talk about election deniers, we focus on

reporter: mary mccord and stuart stevens, thank you for your time. ♪ judy: lawmakers are back in thee liday weekend and have a long list of issues they need to tackle before the end of the year which includes key votes on new party leadership and as well as top priority such as funding the government. we dive into the politics of all of this and am joined by amy walter of the cook political report with amy walter and tameraeith of npr. and it is so good to see both of you on this monday. welcome. but i do want to start frankly with the conversation we just heard between lara and our guests. you heard what they are saying, that republicans not denouncing former president trump are trying to appeal to the base. what does this get them? >> and i will say that as members of congress have returned to capitol hill and particular senators, they are being asked about it and many of them said, i would not have had dinner with those people and donald trump should not have had dinner with those people but donald trump himself has not disavowed the dinner or his guests saying he did not know som

joining us now, mary mccord, former top official in the justice department national security divisionyou with, us mary. let's start with jack smith, for a moment. he will oversee both investigations, even though they are not technically related. some may question, whether that is a significant caseload. those two sprawling investigations. does that make sense to you, or were you surprised by that decision? >> i think that merrick garland, and their first investigation is whether they will be unlawful interference is the transfer of presidential power, or the certification of votes in the 2020 election. that is the investigation that may have driven this decision more than the mar-a-lago investigation. that one, inherently, more political by nature. we are talking about investigating a former president, while running for president, against the incumbent president, who ran against him the last time. in terms of the extraordinary circumstances, particularly created when president trump announced former president trump would be running, they are part of what drove this. so, i think, once

also joining us, mary mccord, former top official in the justice department's national security division. pete strzok is back. he's the former fbi counterintelligence agent. and joist advance is here, former u.s. attorney, now law professor at the university of alabama, as well as an msnbc legal analyst, katie benner, much of what we know, we know from your reporting, take us through how this came to pass today. >> keep in mind, when merrick garland became attorney general last year, he was very loathe to appoint a special counsel. there was outside pressure to do so, of course, including from some of the panelists we see here today, but he really believed and i think does still believe that the justice department can investigate a former president. and that that is something that's well within its abilities, if they follow the rule of law. however, part of the calculation was that donald trump stopped being a former president and he became a presidential candidate who would be going toe-to-toe with merrick garland's own boss, joe biden, president joe biden, and the appearance of the con

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. >> our first guest is mary mccord. she serves as the executive director. she also served as a former acting assistant attorney general for national security from 2016 to 2017. talk about your institute and what it does in the space of elections. guest: we stood at five years ago. we litigate across a broad variety of areas but we have really moved into a lot of litigation related to protecting our debit attic processes and protecting -- democratic processes and protecting against political violence. particularly after charlottesville and racial justice protests in 2020 after new mexico. we are currently looking at that as part of a scheme for electors to meet his cast ballots for donald trump even though he was not the winner. in the course of doing this and also based on my own past as a federal prosecutor and national security at doj, we have gotten involved working with private researchers and public officials. >> we are leaving this to hear life from -- here live from current and former state officials. this is hosted by the center for american progres

you had david mccord there. you would have won most likely, even though fetterman, man, can we have that ad? i'd love to start the top of the hour with the fetterman ad. did you see this fetterman ad about him talking about the stroke and being knocked down and pulled back up? >> a good ad. a really good ad. >> chris math use talked about bobby kennedy where you hang the lantern on your problem. charge toward it. >> for all the concern about that debate, and he did struggle in the debate, and that's just a statement of fact, i think people gave him credit for saying this is what i'm going through, but i'm showing up for the debate. it may not go as well as i want it to, but here it is. >> and when oz stepped in it, telling women to show up about the tax assessor's office to apply for an abortion? that was insane when he said local officials and an abortion. >> you never know what will come out on a debate. oz was focusing rightly on the fact that fetterman had trouble communicating and it was a painful experienc

or bernard smith is at mccord headquarters in west jerusalem and bernard, deb benjamin netanyahu was always promising an almighty come back. it looks like the numbers are edging in his direction. nestle, it looks like baby is back after 16 years. in opposition, a 16 months. i beg your pardon and opposition plotting his return. benjamin netanyahu seems to have pulled off his political resurrection. it's early days. these numbers are not confirmed yet, but 61 or maybe 62 seats will give him just that narrow victory and allow him to go back into governments as prime minister. i really significant outcome in this election which had a high turn out bb and bay benjamin. no, no, no who b b as is cold here. has been really pushing to get people to turn out to vote. but most people in israel had already made the minds, but bob netanyahu, there was no way of persuading people to vote one where they other the boats. they were after, with the people who hadn't voted previously. and netanyahu was campaigning hard. several stops a day to get out the boat from people who present vote. he thought as

you're a mccord, a democrat. but i'll you. we missed people who could work together for the good of the state and the country and we need people in both parties who are willing to tell the truth, deal with the truth, and move this state in this country forward. we desperately need that. i did try to get haslam to run for the senate seat, but he was a little concerned about the the primary and but i learned my politics, my dad and from howard baker and i, i think that that was a good thing. i was it was good for tennessee and good for america. i think i think we've i think we've stopped. thank you, gentlemen. we appreciate everyone being here with us live and on c-span. thank you for sharing your books and your time with us. appreciate it.

joining us is mary mccord, former top official in the national security division.o, pete strauch and brandon van brack is back. to my knowledge, none of you have worked on presidential campaigns nor are you secretly moonlighting as pollsters. that's for the reason that trump as a political story is boring. we have done it before. trump as a national security threat feels underappreciated. i wonder if we could start in the reporting about how we as a domestic consumers of news separated russia's conduct around 2016 from the ultimate foreign policy aims, which i guess the reporting puts it back in the right order, that they had bigger ais and pleasing trump was the means to do that. talk about whether those endure as he throws his hat in the ring again. >> i this -- i think they do. my colleagues here that you have today on this panel, all are very well aware of the goals of putin. the goals of our adversaries not just russia but others as well, which is always to really muck things up and get involved in our own democracy. weakness in the u.s. is strength to som adv

>>omg up this morning, the look at threats of voter vience and voter him him a dacian with mary mccord from the institute of election teity. then we talk about georgia 2022 with greg blstein and professor matthew gunning. washington journal starts now. host: welcome to washington journal for the first of november. college admissions was at the center of two cases in front of the supreme court. the result of the course decision could dramatically change how enrollment policies are used in higher education. in our first hour, when it comes to the use of affirmative action we want to ask you to tell us what you think and as far as it is still needed when admitting people in the college. (202) 748-8000 is for yes, (202) 748-8001 is a number for no if it isn't. you can text us at (202) 748-8003. you can post on facebook at facebook.com/cspan or on twitter at http://twitter.com/cspanwj. the headline from bloomberg reporting on the actions out of the supreme court. conservatives seek to in affirmative action in college admissions. kimberly robertson who covers the supreme court for bloomberg

. >> in my good friend dave mccord fix i would've supported dr.nents race who would've been a far stronger candidate in this race, probably up there giving a speech tonight. instead of john fetterman. a lot of people are gonna ask questions about, can you lay -- this loss at the feet of the former president? people gonna ask that tomorrow in the day after, and the day after in pennsylvania. >> you lost a governor, a governor's mansion in pence senate race in pennsylvania tonight. i know republicans across the commonwealth are pretty upset right now. >> this is a bad night for him. for donald trump. >> before we bury donald trump, i think we should praise john fetterman. because it is very hard to do what he did. in that this guy was almost, he was a death's door. he had a serious stroke. he might have been here tonight alive at all, and he decided to get in there and to fight for it. and i thought it was a terrible idea for him to do that today. but that's the kind of guy that he is, he didn't want to back down from that challenge. and i criticize

. >> our first guest is mary mccord. she serves as the executive director. she also served as a former acting assistant attorney general for national security from 2016 to 2017. talk about your institute and what it does in the space of elections. guest:

>> our first guest is mary mccord. she served us from acting assistant attorney general for national security from 2016 through attorney 17. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. institute, particularly what it does in the space of elections and protections during elections. we really are a constitutional impact litigation. we litigate fraud in a variety of areas that we have really moved into a lot of litigation related to protecting processes and protecting against political violence. we've also litigated -- for example, we are currently litigating in wisconsin against the frederick electors, that scheme for electors to meet and cast their ballots for donald trump even though he was not the winner in send those ballots to washington, d.c. to be counted on january 6. and in the course of doing that, and also based on my own national security experience, we've also gotten involved working with present researchers and republic officials and community members to help really kind of put the word out about