i ask unanimous consent that the article by mr. nixon in "the new york times" be placed in the record alongside my remarks. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: according to the times which review internal budget guidance from the o.m.b., the trump administration would cut or delay funding for border surveillance. they'd cut or delay funding for radar technology, patrol boats, and maybe most crucially customs officers, all to ask taxpayers to pay for the wall. funding to upgrade surveillance aircraft extremely effective at stopping illegal crossings at the border, particularly drugs, denied. funding to hire new customs officers denied. funding for video surveillance with infrared cameras in areas with high incidence of border crossings cut to, quote, offset the costs of presidential priorities. unquote. what an absurd proposition. security experts have testified for decades that effective border security includes a variety of technologies and resources, drones, infrared sensors, customs and border patrol agents, officer

. >> i think mr. nixon is an effective leader of his party. i hope he would grant me the same. question before us is which point of view and which party do we want to lead the united states. >> mr. nixon, would you like to comment on that statement? >> i have no comment. >> if you are live on television and there is a camera right here, there is really no place to hide. once you see a guy sweating when asked a question, are you sure he is the leader for you? >> that's the question before the american people, and only you can decide what you want. what you want this country to bee, what you want to do with the future. i think we're ready to move. >> if you saw it on television, clearly kennedy had won that debate. >> gentleman, thank you very much for permitting us to present the next president of the united states on this unique program. >> it was the beginning of a new form of political craftsmanship. you could structure the message appropriately for the tv camera you could have a huge impact. and if you couldn't, you were toast. >> i'd like you to give a real tonight welcome

iii has told senators and prosecute prosecutors disclosed aspects of the watergate cover-up with mr. nixon or in mr. nixon's presence on at least 35 occasions between january and april of this year according to reliable sources. look at this there were reliable sources back then and people trusted them. you continued to work at the white house while you were cooperating. what was that like? >> well, i was very open with my colleagues when i broke rank and told them i was going to hire a lawyer. i had actually suggested within 48 hours of the break-in at watergate that we hire an experienced criminal lawyer. and my -- one of my superiors john erlgman waved it away. saying no no we don't need that at all. that was one of the early mistakes we made. whoa i did hire a lawyer is when they were asking me to lie, to issue a false and bogus report based on a statement the president had made that nobody presently employed in his administration had anything to do with the watergate break-in. well that's true that he weren't involved with break-in per se. but there was a lot they were involved in and

he calls mrs. nixon. he says, what is going on over there. has he been drinking? should we send a doctor over question mark you don't call generals to launch an attack. we have to separate a couple of different scenarios. one is one where there is an if that istack and, right, there are thousands of people watching radar screens and satellite feeds and real-time intel reports. tens of thousands in many countries doing this. timing actions is important. inis only in the context which many eyes go over this information. that a contrast to the store at georgia about nixon. the president without the consensus of thousands decided start a war. if we have a time like that, it yes.nciful to say i just think it is unlikely and i take a point about the precautionary principle, but i am unconvinced it is constitutional. i think it discuss at touche in the and i think it is wise in two different ways. you and i may just disagree on a faith in the system and i agree with you that, most of the time, is going to work well, but i would like to formalize the proper delivered of p

a counterpart of an american exhibition to be opened in moscow by esther next and -- nixon -- by mr. nixon. legitimately impressive achievements exploited to the utmost here. >> not long after that the noted state sent their national exhibition to moscow which was a huge hit. keepsake where various things were handed out to the visitors and this is a little polaroid keepsake. the american exhibition covered various topics including computer technology, automobile technology and kitchen technology. we have heard a lot about the kitchen debates. >> clearly what is going on during these exhibitions is this idea of which industry is better, capitalism or communism? in moscow big things was an american kitchen. you have the translators working with president next and and nikita khrushchev. nixon escortsent premier accretion of -- premier khrushchev. the official opening of the american exposition. to showcasing the high standard of life in our country, but on this occasion, traditional diplomacy goes by is eclipsed itself by a crackling exchange between nick's and and khrushchev. -- by nixon an

. >> and you see mr. nixonhen he tried to tackle a similar challenge in his state of the union. >> i believe the time has come to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end. one year of watergate is enough. >> rev, he, like this president felt like he should decide how long an investigation goes. >> and i think that was something that did not help nixon and if mr. trump tries that tonight, it will not help him. i think that one of the things, how do you handle the presidency? many people are going to look at tonight, whether or not he has grown into the presidency, and if he comes with something like that, which really dispels the function of justice departments and investigations. it shows then adequacy of his learning curve in the first year. >> if this president talks about law and order as the president tends to do, there will be ashes in his mouth after something like this. it will be pretty interesting because a year ago, crime was way down, decades low, and he said it'

the show is a counterpart of an american exhibition to be opened in moscow next month by mr. nixon. in the elaborate cultural exchange, full-scale models of sputnik are among the things russia is proudest of. legitimately impressive achievements exploited to the utmost here. >> not long after that, the united states sent their national exhibition to moscow which was a huge hit. over 2 million russian visitors came to the exhibition. this is a keepsake. various things were handed out to the visitors and this is a little polaroid keepsake. and the american exhibition covered various topics including polaroid technology, automobile technology, and of course kitchen technology. we have heard a lot about the kitchen debates. >> indeed. >> do you want to talk more about the kitchen debates? >> clearly what is going on during these exhibitions is this idea of which industry is better, capitalism or communism? in terms of technology. in of the big features moscow was an american kitchen. you have the translators working with president nixon -- i am sorry, vice president and and nikita khrus

he calls mrs. nixon. he says, what is going on over there. has he been drinking? should we send a doctor over? you don't call generals to launch an attack. we have to separate a couple of different scenarios. one is one where there is an imminent attack and, if that is right, there are thousands of people watching radar screens and satellite feeds and real-time intel reports. i am not minimizing the number are maximizing it. tens of thousands in many countries doing this. if an attack is made on us or thatllies, many will know and want to alert us to that. in that case, timely action is important. it is only in the context in which many eyes go over this information. that a contrast to the store at -- the story i just told you about nixon. the president without the consensus of thousands decided for some absurd reason to start a war. if we have a time like that, it is fanciful to say yes. absolutely, you get. i did not know we were even angry at taiwan, but if you say so. i just think it is unlikely and i take a point about the precautionary principle, but i am un

mr. nixon's landslide tonight. >> according to our cbs news estimate, president nixon has been re-elected headquarters at the shoreham hotel in washington. >> i've never known a national election when i would be able to go to bed earlier than tonight. [ cheers and applause ] >> and please repeat after me. i, richard nixon, do solemnly swear. >> i, richard nixon, do solemnly swear. >> that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> looking back at the early watergate reports, it's hard to believe that nixon was completely unscathed. >> to the best of my ability. >> and will to the best of my ability. >> imagine a president getting away with that unfolding scandal in today's political environment. >> preserve and protect the constitution of the united states. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> woodward and bernstein went back to their desks, put their heads down, and continued to grind away at the story. >> i knew that i was going to be judged, the paper was going to be judged on this story. and therefore, you know, i think you could get away with not b

became the heroes by saying nobody including the president of the united states is above the law mr. nixonapes and cooperate with the special prosecutor. and we have yet to hear from republican leaders and say mr. trump, we are not going to tether our party to your lying and that is the most consistent element. the most consistent thing trump has done is to fight for the russian investigation to go away. loud and consistent and tried to undermine it at every single turn. >> i want to continue with our panel in just a moment. a lot to discuss. take a quick break. we'll be right back. new year, new phones for the family. join t-mobile, and when you buy one of the latest samsung galaxy phones get a samsung galaxy s8 free. yahoooo! ahoooo! plus, unlimited family plans come with netflix included. spectacular! so, you can watch all your netflix favorites on your new samsung phones. whoa! join the un-carrier and get a samsung galaxy s8 free. all on america's best unlimited network. i thought i was managing my moderate to severe crohn's disease. then i realized something was missing... me. my symp

mr. nixon's goal is to convince people despite watergate he's in command of his office and can govern this nation effectively. >> mr. speaker, mr. president, my distinguished colleagues and our guests, i would like to add a personal note to an issue that has been of great concern to americans over the past year. i refer, of course, to the investigations of the so-called watergate affair. as you know, i have provided to the special prosecutor voluntarily a great deal of material. i believe that i have provided all thamaterial that he needs to conclude his investigations and proceed to prosecute the guilty and to clear the innocent. i believe the time has come to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end. one year of watergate is enough. [ applause ] >> one year of watergate is enough. proclaimed richard nixon to sustained applause. that was january 30, 1974. by august of that year, seven months later, he resigned from office. turns out one year of watergate wasn't nearly enough. tomorrow will be 44 years exactly from that speech and president trump will

mr. nixon's landslide tonight. >> according to our cbs news estimate, president nixon has been re-electedthe republican headquarters at the shoreham hotel in washington. >> i've never known a national election when i would be able to go to bed earlier than tonight. [ cheers and applause ] >> and please repeat after me. i, richard nixon, do solemnly swear. >> i, richard nixon, do solemnly swear. >> that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> looking back at the early watergate reports, it's hard to believe that nixon was completely unscathed. >> to the best of my ability. >> and will to the best of my ability. >> imagine a president getting away with that unfolding scandal in today's political environment. >> preserve and protect the constitution of the united states. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> woodward and bernstein went back to their desks, put their heads down, and continued to grind away at the story. >> i knew that i was going to be judged, the paper was going to be judged on this story. and therefore, you know, i think you could get a

heroes of watergate by saying, nobody, including the president of the united states is above the law, mr. nixon tapes, you must cooperate with the special prosecutor. and that's the big difference. and we have yet to hear from republican leaders and say mr. trump, we are not going to tether our party to your lying. and that's the most consistent element, the most consistent thing trump has done in office is to fight for the russian investigation to be made to go away, one way or another. it's been loud, it's been consistent, he's tried to undermine it at every single turn and now it appears that there's a serious obstruction case that the special prosecutor might be building. >> i want to continue with our panel, but we have to take a quick break. we'll be right back. we'll fok...im. ok? you don't always use your smartphone to read the latest posting. aw, a girl lost her dog. oh! hey... wait a minute. you don't always use your smartphone to friend someone. hi. i think i found your dog... but when it matters most, you count on tracfone to keep you connected, for less. murphy! (dog barking) aww.

mr. nixon's tenure in the white house. >> you have this president who is bitterly resentful of what had happened to him in his political career overlaid with a shakespearean level of paranoia. he was willing to engage in extraordinary acts to preserve his power. >> all presidents are human beings. i assume they will have faults and flaws. i assume they will make mistakes. i assume that once they are caught in their mistakes because of who they are and the kind of people they are, they will try to cover up those mistakes. >> i was in the east room of the white house when he made that very bittersweet, very poignant, very maudlin speech with his family gathered around him. >> i look around here and see so many in this staff that, you know, i should have been by your offices and shaking hands and would have loved to have talked to you and found out how to run the world. everybody wants to tell the president what to do. and, boy, he needs to be told many times. but i just haven't had the time. >> he is not looking into the camera. he's kind of staring off and going into this stream of consciousness

he calls mrs. nixon. he says, what in the hell is going on over there? has he been drinking? should we send a doctor over? he does not call the generals to launch an attack. we have to separate two very different scenarios. one one is one in which there really is an imminent attack. and if that is right, there are thousands of people monitoring. they are watching radar screens, watching satellite feeds, watching real-time intel reports. minimizing the number. i am maximizing it. there are thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, in many countries doing this. if an attack is made on us or our allies, many people will know it and alert us to that. in that case, timely action is important. but it is only in the context in have gone overy this information. that is in contrast with the party story i told about president nixon. that the president, on a whim, without the consensus of thousands of people, suddenly decides, for some absurd reason, to start a war. if we had time like that, that i think it is quite fanciful to say that along chain of command will say yes, sir, absolutely.

mr. nixon's tenure in the white house. >> you have this president who is bitterly resentful of what had happened career overlaid with a shakespearean level of paranoia. he was willing to engage in extraordinary acts to preserve his power. >> all presidents are human beings. i assume they will have faults and flaws. i assume they will make mistakes. i assume that once they are caught in their mistakes because of who they are and the kind of people they are, they will try to cover up those mistakes. >> i was in the east room of the white house when he made the very bittersweet, very poignant, maudlin speech with his family gathered around him. >> i look around here and i see so many in this staff that, you know, i should have been by your offices and shaking hands and would have loved to have talked to you and found out how to run the world. everybody wants to tell the president what to do. and boy, he needs to be told many times. but i just haven't had the time. >> he is not looking into the camera. he's kind of staring off and going into this stream of consciousness about his mother, who was a s

mr. nixon's instructions. richardson's deputy has been fired. he refused in a moment of constitutional drama to obey an order to fire the special watergate prosecutor. in my career as a correspondent, i never thought i would be announcing these things. >> i never thought i would be announcing these things. that was john chancellor in 1973. the night richard nixon fired the man in charge of the investigation. this was the front page of the "new york times", nixon discharges cox for defiance, apologize accomplishes watergate task force. >> here is the thing, it turns out his task force didn't stop investigating watergate. it actually kept going even after cox was let go. the night of the saturday night massacre, the special prosecutors' team trekked down to the office to make sure their documents and evidence were secure. the fbi sealed up the space to make sure nothing was tampered with and then the investigation just kept going. soon the investigation got a boss. before he took it he made sure it would not happen to him. >> he accepted the prose

>> mr. nixon was the most reasonable person in the world and an extreme intellectual. if the history books are fair to him, which is a very, very long shot, they'll agree he's a big intellectual, where president trump is the least intellectual since maybe andrew johnson. it's going to be very hard to tell him that he doesn't know anything. this is a man who is a great man in many ways, but doesn't think there's anything he doesn't know and he doesn't know better than anybody else. >> given what you just said about how little in your estimation he's done on national defense, what is still appealing to you about president trump? >> i like the fact that he stands up for america and i like the fact that he doesn't get pushed around by the media. bear in mind i am in the media. i don't know how old you are, but i've been working in the media since i was a cub reporter at "the washington post" about 50-some years ago, and i like the fact he does not get whipped around and have himself pushed into a corner by the media and that he stands up for himself. and i like the fact he

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that's one of the most famous quotes we have of mr. nixon about many. not the use of profanity, not that he had a withering perception or view of these countries. why do we want more people from these places and having to do with immigration, but bringing people and say we have a welcoming arms to americans we went to be legal, safe, a crackdown can be thought order security as far as those remarks made in the meeting, it would be a shame if democrats use that to block needed reform. >> what you think the impact is on the agenda moving forward? the government could shut down, facing a spending bill that has to get done by this friday. democrats want something for the dreamers, for the daca individuals in the spending bill in asia people like congressman lewis m. not going to vote for a spending bill in the spending bill has to have those democratic votes. >> is in the business community is worried about his midterm elections. >> sewer republicans by the way. a one vote majority right there in the senate with a lot of house seats up for grabs and they're

he challenged nixon's firing in court just three days after the massacre. >> tomorrow we will file in federal district court a complaint challenging the removal of mr. cox from his position as special prosecutor and the attempted abolition of the office of special prosecutor by acting attorney general robert bourque under the command of richard nixon. >> his argument there is what don mcgahn surely had on his mind, a president ordering the firing of a prosecutor investigating the president may be the first word on the matter, but in our democracy, the last word goes to the courts. >> the american people are confronted with a man who has consciously authorized crimes condoned crimes, committed crimes, covered up crimes and now has overthrown the legal arrangement which was working to prosecute these crimes fairly and with due process of law. what this and most decisive obstruction of justice by richard nixon means is that every citizen in this land must strive to reclaim the rule of law which this tyrant has been destroying month by month, strand by strand. our founders did not oust king geor george, iii in order for us to suffer king richard. >> ki

and at least part of it is expected to be on the state of richard nixon, as well. >> mr. president and my distinguished colleagues and our guests, i would like to add a personal word with regard to an issue that has been of great concern to all americans over the past year. i refer, of course, to the investigations of the so-called watergate affair. as you know, i have provided to the special prosecutor voluntarily a great deal of material. i believe that i have provided all the material that he needs to conclude his investigations and to proceed to prosecute the guilty and to clear the innocent. i believe the time has come to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end. one year of watergate is enough. >> 44 years ago today, richard nixon delivered his final state of the union address. and all these years later, the headlines are eerily similar. the appointment of a special prosecutor, special counsel, in this case. officials forced out of their post, charges filed against people close to the president. so are we on a slow roll toward a

mr. trump's and egypt's president. perspective from nixon white house counsel, john dean.analyst, jeffrey toobin. florida international university's elizabeth foley. according to the report from the "times," papadopoulos seemed to be more than a coffee boy or insignificant campaign volunteer as the president and his allies previously said. >> that's right. the story suggests that this conversation was the root of the investigation and this is how fbi investigations start. if it started with the steele dossier, that would have been appropriate, too. the idea that you need some official source to start an investigation is just false, but -- but the "times" story, as you say, if it checks out, basically puts the lie to everything that the president has said about the origins of this investigation, and we now know this is an investigation that has led to two guilty pleas, pending indictment against two senior officials and, you know, we'll see where it goes, but, i mean, this story establishes that this investigation began in a way completely separate from the way that the pre

and nixon felt very betrayed by them, but it was the right thing to do. we ought to be appreciative of mrstepping in here with president trump and telling him you can't do this without causing a firestorm, and i will resign that was helpful. he stopped a saturday night massacre in the trump white house. >> tim, the irony of the backlash against nixon was that ultimately another special prosecutor was appointed who was just as tenacious. do you think that in that case, had president trump fired mueller, or should he still go ahead and do that, that the reaction would be the same? >> i mean, as david remembers, the public was aghast at this. this was -- you know, it's very hard to remember what it was like before the saturday night massacre. because president -- no president had ever done this before. but you didn't just have the firing of this missile of high level members of the justice department. you also had the fbi going and sealing the special prosecutor's offices. and so there was a sense for a couple of days that not only was nixon getting rid of the person at the top, he was getti

first richard nixon in 1974 gave his speech under the cloud of watergate. >> mr. distinguished colleagues and our guests, i would like to add a personal word with regard to an issue that has been of great concern to all americans over the past year. i refer, of course, to the investigations of the so-called watergate affair. i believe the time has come to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end. one year of watergate is enough. [ applause ] >> nixon also promised he wouldn't quit. six months later he resigned in disgrace. the other example, bill clinton. his speech in 1998 came just days after he denied having an affair with monica lewinsky, a denial which eventually led to his impeachment. but unlike nixon, clinton avoided the subject entirely. we're back with our panel. carl, i was going to make a joke about what it was like to cover nixon, but i won't. we can do that because we're old friends. but you were there for that speech. >> that along with many other state of the union addresses. >> how many? >> i think about 30. t

mr. clinton: no. i got a break, in a way. i think about in the house, the democrats did well in 1974 because president nixon resigned. ainst a congressman who was one of his father's best friends. he had an 85% approval rating, and 99% name recognition. mr. bush: that is called suicide. [laughter] mr. clinton: i was zero and he beat me 51-48. by about three points. it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. we wound up being friends too. but this district we ran in had the highest amount of gasoline use per registered vehicle in america because it was all on hilly roads. and it was so rural. and you had to do stuff people don't do anymore. your television ads did not amount to anything if you did not do retail campaigning. and i learned 75% of what i know about politics in that first race. david: at the time hillary came down to help you with the campaign. did you think she was going to stay down in arkansas and marry you? because you know, arkansas was not considered, in her world, the place that was the center of the universe exactly. [laughter] mr. clinton: i did not, no. look, i had it one step at a t

mr. president, president bush couldn't do it, president obama couldn't do it. you could be nixon to china on immigration. this isn't something the nashville city council or state can solve, you can do it and i think his comments yesterday were an important part of presidential leadership to solve a problem. >> harris: it so interesting to me when you talk about the president's role in all of this. as you put together this bipartisan group, have you called specifically on the president, give us your thoughts and your vision. >> i welcome the president's comments. i met with the secretary of homeland security department to this weekend said please give us your recommendations, please provide technical advice. we want the president's advice. we want to pass a bill with at least 70 votes so the president will sign it and if he signs it the house will be more likely to pass it. so yes we want the president's advice. >> harris: tell me about these 30 senators, the bipartisan group you put together. i understand your leadership is senator durbin and senator cornyn. talk to me about the

mr. comey. what's your reaction, tim? >> when people are under stress and weep saw this when richard nixon was under stress, the public line he'll take is the line he thinks is the easiest to defend. in the watergate period, what they kept pushing was the president had no foreknowledge of the break-in. a lot of the other president's abuses of power they couldn't defend. but what they did was they figured out something for which there was no evidence. richard nixon did not know before the break-in at the watergate. it may be that this defense that this current president is following is about something he knows he didn't do and no one could prove. the other things, whether it's money laundering, whether it's obstruction of justice, the things that he may well have done, he's not talking about. so we've seen this before. i'm not saying it's the same story or it's going to have the same outcome. but the nixon white house focused on certainly they knew they could defend successfully. and everything else they tried to either deny or not talk about. >> and just stay focused on what they wanted. so about this issue with the "new y

mr. shaub as i asked before. do you think mcgahn is pulling a john dean here? john cooperated with the investigators during the nixondministration, by the way, when they were looking into the watergate cover-up. >> well it sure sounded from that excerpt like john dean thinks that. you know, it's funny because i had john dean in mind when i wrote that tweet. i don't know history well enough to have any clue what was going through john dean's head at the time. but you heard him just now talking to you make the point that this is a very dangerous situation and that pretty much any attorney would know that this is the bare minimum that you have to do. and i like john dean's point that you don't go pinning a medal on somebody for doing what's merely required. if that's the case, i would like to somebody to pin a medal on me for taking the trash out or doing the dishes after breakfast. >> very good point. do you think that this matters that it was -- happened months ago and nothing came of it? do you think it matters? >> well, you know, you've heard some of trump's white house folks. i think scaramucci was on earlier. by

mr. president, here's a solution to an important issue. you can be nixon to china on the immigration issue. you said you want to do that. do it. but first here's a specific solution we can do. and as far as the house of representatives, we can't say that speaker ryan, now, mr. speaker, before we do anything in the senate we want you to write the bill and approve it and send us this, that and the other. we can have a discussion with him but that's not the way the system works. we should do what the senate can do, and we should do it with respect to the house. we should show them what we're doing. we should talk to them about it. nothing wrong with that. we should consult with the president of the united states. we want his signature. we want the house's approval. but the main thing for us to do is to do what we can do. how does that happen? in the current circumstances i think there's one obvious way to do that, and i suggested it to the majority leader, senator mcconnell, earlier. he didn't do that a couple of weeks ago. i suggested look, we've got a tough

mr. president why did you fire robert mueller? why did you want to fire robert mueller? >> fake news, folks. "new york times" fake story. >> in the nixon era that's what they called a nondenial denial. joining us with his first reaction to the public reaction is the author of the best selling book in the world right now, michael wolff, the author of the "new york times" best-seller "fire and fury," inside the trump white house. thank you for coming back. >> thank you for having me. >> your book is filled with versions of the president complaining about the special prosecutor, making references to wanting to fire the special prosecutor. the special prosecutor has talked to reince priebus, the special prosecutor is going to talk to steve bannon, who you spent a lot of time talking to. the special prosecutor has been talking to many of your sources in this book. has the special prosecutor reached out to you to talk to you about either the firing of the special prosecutor or any other elements of this story? >> he has not. >> and if the special prosecutor does want to interview you, would you cooperate with that? >> good question, and i do

mr. ruddy of his desire at the time. but there are safeguards built in but we go back to the saturday night massacre with richard nixon enduringteps ultimately for that to be executed, but it could be the same kind of thing we would have this time. >> cordes: turn to immigration and ed, now that the white house has finally laid out its stance, notwithstanding marc short saying it's been out there for months. does it give conservatives cover to support a dreamer bill that they know is going to anger a significant segment of their base? >> if the changes in family-based legal migration are part of the final package and get the 25-30 billion in border security, yeah. but if not, they will stand against it. i think what this plan from the white house which is being released monday shows now is that the debate over whether or not legalize or provide legal protection to people who are protected by daca is basically over. just an issue of how many. what the president going all the way to $1.8 million that settles it the fact that chuck schumer went to the house a little more than a week ago, sat with the president basically agreed on

every president since nixon has shown their taxes, and i think the people have a right to know. >> mrur decision on daca, mr. president? >> thank you very much. >> a decision on daca? >> sometime today or over the weekend we'll have a decision. >> should d.r.e.a.m.ers be worried? >> we love the d.r.e.a.m.ers. we love everybody. thank you very much. >> i want to talk to you about the 800,000 americans who may soon be at risk of deportation. the d.r.e.a.m.ers. undocumented immigrants who came to this country as children under the age of 16. for many of whom america is the only country they know. this tuesday donald trump is expected to announce whether he'll end the obama era program allowing these d.r.e.a.m.ers to remain in the u.s., a program known as deferred action for childhood arrival or daca for short. i want to put up for our audience so you understand how you qualify for daca because donald trump has made this sort of distinction, we only want to deport people who are, quote, criminal. you have to have come to the u.s. before your 16th birthday. you have to be under the age of

history of the nixon impeachment and other big investigations, you know, the obstruction issues frequently become an easier thing to prove than the underlying offense. secondly, spicer, mr. spicer and mr. priebus would certainly be critical witnesses about what the president's intent appeared to be at the time. and intent is pretty critical here. whether or not he was, in fact, attempting to interfere with the investigation, stop the investigation, and if that's what the firing of the fbi director, director comey, was all about. so, would you expect they would be subpoenaed? you could well. certainly, we know that -- >> why wouldn't they have been already, given they are so close to the top? >> i was about to say, they probably already have. we believe some of their notes already are in the possession of the -- of the prosecution team, and that would make sense, because their notes were basically property of the white house, and so we know there's been a broad collection of all of the white house records related to this. and if those records end up backing up director comey's testimony, that tells you here who's most likely to be telling the truth. >> okay. then, michae

nixon that sort of began the ends for him. this paragraph also pertains. barbara, i want your reaction to it. another option that mr. trump considered in cushions with his advisers was dismissing the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and elevating the number three official rachel brand overseeing mr. mueller. what do you think about the possibility how would that work if you would to remove rosenstein? >> you want me to answer that question. >> please, thanks. >> i think that would have similar political ramifications. rob rosen sign is a career respected deputy attorney general. he's been a u.s. attorney in both republican and democratic administrations. to remove him in that scenario without any just cause i think would cause a lot of alarm and panic. i don't know that it would be any better than firing robert mueller because it would suggest you're trying to elevate someone who obviously might be more sympathetic to your views in overseeing the investigation. so i think that too would be a disaster for president trump. >> swen, talk about the mood in the white house with respect to this investigation because

mr. korda is editor-in-chief emeritus of simon & schuster. he began his career assistant editor. five decade he worked with a wide range of authors, including presidents carter, reagan, nixon, charles de gaulle, henry kissinger, david mccullough, tennessee williams, and last but not least, among the many, laurence olivier. which he could do whole program on laurence olivier. britain, churchhill, dunkirk, defeat into victory which is why we're all here tonight. before i begin, if you have a cell phone or electronic beeper, device, earns please turn it off. please join me in welcoming the wonderful. michael korda. thankk you. [applause] >> good evening. want to make sure that i am not the one whose cell phone rings. [laughter] i'm so used to speaking here when it proceeds a film, that i find myself constantly looking up at the screen expecting something is going to happen there. but, nothing t is. why dunkirk now? i'm sure you are wondering, as i dom. i saw christopher nolan's stunning film "dunkirk" at 3:00 in the afternoon on a weekday in red hook, new york, a small town between pleasant valley and expecting the theater to be empty. instead it was packed. ias was lucky to

mr. speaker. >> i hope his lawyers will talk him out of it. >> they may not have that choice because there's a supreme court precedent that goes back to nixon and the tapes and bill clinton testifying. they really don't have that choice. you're the lawyer, i'm not. >> yeah, so i think you have president trump doesn't agree to a voluntary interview. i think bob mueller will go to a grand jury and get a subpoena. this is not like an optional activity. he is going to have to answer questions as part of this investigati investigation, as other presidents have in other investigations. it's only a perjury trap if you commit perjury. if he goes in there and tells the truth, you know, he's not going to commit perjury. i think the problem is that there are a lot of lies stacked up. and how he'll pick his way through that minefield of lies, that is the challenge for him, but it's a bed of his own making. >> and they're not high-priced lawyers. these are justice department lawyers. these are public servants who have done and have been doing the due diligence that you would expect. the only high-priced lawyers are the ones that will be coming in with d

mr. napolitano. i think it would be a big mistake actually for president trump to raise executive privilege. it's not clear actually that he has a claim. this is a same claim. same thing that nixon did. one lesson you have if you work on scandals is do the opposite what nixon did. he went to court to refuse to turn over the watergate tape and he lost. if president trump were to try the same, under supreme court case law, he would lose. he doesn't have a right to keep presidential conversations secret from bon fide federal investigation. trump can fire mueller. he's allowed to fire mueller if he thinks he's going too far. the investigation will continue. best thing, welcome questioning, try to have it done as soon as possible so you get the probe wrapped up. president trump can return to fighting about infrastructure and immigration reform. >> john you're an interesting fella. i got just a couple more questions. i have to. what terms should the president and his attorneys agree to in terms of answering the questions by mueller? >> mueller is a very experienced prosecutor. he was head of the fbi himself. he was attorney out here in san francisco. he is not going to want to let any

nixon tapes come to mind. it was a long time between when mr.ed the existence of the tapes during the urban committee hearings and when they came out, but come out they did. and in this case, if this memo exists and if this memo is so flagrantly an exercise in cherry picking, there's something to be said for letting it out and demonstrating that it was cherry picked and examining the motives of those who did the cherry picking. pat moynihan, who wrote a whole book on secrecy, said the thing about secrecy is it's a regulation. most regulations tell us what we cannot do, secrecy tells us what we cannot know and this seems to be a case where we're reaching the point where there's a certain level of speculation that can only be quenched by looking at the document in the bright light of day. >> perhaps that is the case, noah rothman, but it seems these republicans keep making the same mistake that newt gingrich made become during the so-called gingrich revolution. he was always great with the first move, he never had a seconds move, though. he never

mr. daniel ellsberg. [applause] >> tonight he is in conversation with rick perlstein, journalist and author who politico called the chronicler of the american conservative movement because of his books, before the storm, nixon land, and under the bridge. please welcome tonight daniel ellsberg and rick perlstein. thank you all. [applause] >> thank you, carey. it's truly an honor to be at this glorious new ornament, chicago's literary culture. and america's literary culture. of course it's an honor to be here with one of my heroes, daniel ellsberg. it's an honor to have him here because win the events that he writes about in this book began, when he basically squirreled away thousands and thousands of pages of documents about america's nuclear command and control system in tandem with releasing thousands of pages of documents about the lies that america told in order to create and sustain the vietnam war, he expected to spend the rest of his life in jail. he knew this and he proceeded, nonetheless, in our interests and in the world's interest. so before we do anything else i think we should acknowledge the courage, the vision and the sacrifices of this man, daniel ellsberg. [applause] >> he is not in jail. he

mr. daniel elsburg. [applause] tonight he's in conversation with rick, journalist and author who political call the chronicaller of the american conservative movement because of his books before the storm, nixon land and under the bridge. please welcome tonight, danielle elsburg and rick. thank you all. [applause] >> thank you kiry it's great to be here at america's literary culture and, of course, it's mice to be here with one of my heros daniel elsburg honor to have him here because when the events that he writes about many this book begin, when he basically squirreled away thousands and thousands of pages of documents about america's nuclear command and control system in tan dem releasing thousands of pages of documents about the lies of that america told medical in order to created sustain the vietnam war. he expected to spend the rest of his life in jail. he knew this, and he proceeded nonetheless in our interest and in the world's interest. so before we do anything else, i think we should acknowledge the courage, the vision, and the sacrifice of this man daniel elsburg. [applause] >> he's in jail east here and he's writing a book the book he's written is exquisite extraordinarily well c