michael cox does not go to florida housing. michael cox does not go to the fbi.michael cox says nothing and accepts the money. >> sullivan: you spent the next several years taking the money. and a lot of people are going to wonder why you did that. why did you take it? >> i convinced myself that this was okay and that i was building amazing projects in the community. i went from fighting monsters to becoming a monster. >> sullivan: i tried to reach the other partners in these developments. hi, mr. boggio... but none would talk. i wanted to ask them about where that $34 million went. some of it was tracked back to boggio's personal accounts. one was called caesar and cleopatra. >> caesar and cleopatra, those are the names of his two dogs. over $12 million flowed through that one account. >> sullivan: through that account that was named after his dogs. >> correct. correct. >> sullivan: other kickbacks to boggio, greer and cox came through a cut-out called sshh construction. >> this is a fake construction company; they set up sshh construction. >> sullivan: it's lit

michael, you're a little off on timing. the break in was june of '72. firing of coxi am talking about watergate versus the russian probe. >> the initial event in watergate was a third rate burglary if you will. right now the russians clearly hacked according to intelligence. donald trump, the president has a valid point. there's a cloud been sitting over his head that he could conspire with putin or russian agents to hack the dnc and to hack po did he say at that, work with wikileaks to win the election and that he succeeded in a series of felonies, alleged series of felonies. as far as i know, there's no justification for the. we found no collusion. i understand the president's rage that comey or someone won't stand up and say look, not going to tell you where we're investigatings, found no collusion between the president of the united states or his closest aides in hacking and si s disseminating that material. why can't they tell us that? >> if investigations were concluded, came to that point. >> michael, this is the problem. why cannot the fbi in ten months canno

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lee, and ar which i balanced cox, conscience of a nation, president of duquesne university and professor of law. why do we have special prosecutors, special counsel? >> michael, going all the way back to the watergate investigation, the whole idea is when there's evidence of potential criminal wrongdoing at the top of the executive pyramid, you want the most neutral objective person to look at it so there can be no doubt in the minds of the american public. it is about reassuring the american public that the american system of justice works properly. you must get the most neutral person so you know that this investigation is not tied to politics, so that people can have confidence in the ultimate result. >> nixon and trump both fired individuals investigating their administrations. is the comparison really that simple? >> it is in the sense that president nixon fired ar which i balanced cox whose biography i wrote after the whole watergate cover up boiled to crescendo, cox subpoenaed these eight critical recordings from the white house and nixon wouldn't give them to him, federal courts ordered him to, he defied and fired cox. we reached a point of culminati

but as michael beschloss was saying, there was a lot of pressure on nixon after he fired special prosecutor ash muchibald cox hire another special prosecutor and turned over a bunch of the tapes which were the issue here, those tapes contained a lot of incriminating information then that gave that accelerated the independent investigation by leon jaw orski and eventually there were more tapes in the supreme court forced nixon to turn those over and that ended the reign. the circumstances also in fairness are quite different. by the time special prosecutor cox was fired, there had been four days of public testimony by nixon's counsel john dean, devastating testimony saying that nixon was leading the cover-up. there was also the disclosure of the secret taping system, which told everyone involved, hey, there's a way to get evidence to establish what really happened. in the case of the russian investigation, there are lots of questions that are going to need to be answered, big question here is -- and it's right to focus on the senate, can they step up here and conduct an inquiry that is bipartisan, aggressive,