when richard nixon started speaking, i felt like i was in a class again.erupted and just people were angry. >> when nixon announced the invasion of cambodia, i was in my apartment on west summit street with my roommates and some of our friends. as soon as he made that announcement, we were very upset, very angry. people started cursing. and we started talking seriously. we were very angry because six days earlier we had attended the funeral of the brother of one of our roommates here in kent. he was killed in vietnam. 19 years old. we made a vow at that cemetery, that at our next opportunity we'd take our own powerful anti-war actions in kent to send a message to president nixon to stop the war. dear sun, meet your biggest competitor: philips slimstyle led bulb. beautiful quality light with a slim design, at a slim price. feel like a knot. how can i ease this pain? (man) when i can't go, it's like bricks piling up. i wish i could find some relief. (announcer) ask your doctor about linzess-- a once-daily capsule for adults with ibs with constipation or chro

that's a criticism you'll hear of jay nixon. but, again, there may be a lot of self-preservation in that. missouri, as i suggested, and as you suggested as well, is much more southern in its approach to politics than it is industrial midwest or in north of the state border. >> and as you point out, that was a choice. that outlook was a choice and it has been a fascinating transformation to watch dave helling, reporter with the "kansas city star." appreciate your reporting. >> you bet. >>> there was an event at the u.s. capitol, inside the u.s. capitol, tonight, available live streaming, on a place you would not expect to be allowed to live stream events from the u.s. capitol. this story has not been anywhere today. i find it absolutely astonishing and that's next. ♪ what is this place? where are we? this is where we bring together reliably fast internet and the best in entertainment. we call it the x1 entertainment operating system. it looks like the future! we must have encountered a temporal vortex. further analytics are neces

and then, as with nixon, nixon was getting us out of the war in vietnam. he had been on a real high. things started to go south as did things for the obama administration with this attack coming up on september 11th of all nights, a night when there should have been somebody on watch, you know expecting this kindkind of thing. >> i go back to the point, an american ambassador who is our representative and a great american and three other people trying to come to his aid were murdered, were murdered. you basically don't, nixon shouldn't have tried to cover up a third-rate burglary. this was murder of one of our ambassadors. american public had right to know all the detail. we still don't know all the detail. to certain extent bless clinton will on us try to run for president, needs to get this behind it and get it out as quickly as possible. our intelligence sources are all over the place. i think our country ways misled and i think deliberately misled. jon: joe, i'm sorry, charles krauthamer talking about cover-ups, called it a cover-up of a cover-up. i wa

nixon, the attacks on the war in vietnam.n the war in vietnam were correct. it was a meat grinder. we shouldn't have been there. my father served there and he said if you were a young man, you would be demonstrating against it, too. the media was right in that sense but they started any pretense of neutrality in the '60s and became an extremely partisan force. as i say, anti-republican, anti-war in vietnam, anti-business. and it stayed that way with one obvious notable exception since then. >> i assume you're talking about me. the show tonight also talks about the role of the famous first televised debate between nixon and kennedy in 1960. >> yeah. >> how big of an impact do you think that had on the role in politics in television continuing from 1960 forward? >> a huge, huge impact. because for those of us who were listening on the radio, it sure seemed as though nixon won. nixon looked so much worse than kennedy, that made a huge impression. the visual really took over as opposed to the audio and kennedy looked so great and

you heard that from eisenhower, from nixon. to some extent, from the first president bush in the second half of his administration and, of course, from president obama and his advisers. for them it's clearly necessary after a period of excess. and for a time they're strongly supported. retrenchment presidents tend to get reelected. what is hardest for them to to see, and this is the fourth thing i'd note, call to your attention about retrenchment, is to explain as they set out a policy for the long haul how to respond to new challenges that appear. they suddenly hear criticism that they're not doing enough. that was characteristic of the '50s, of the '70s, a little bit in the '90s and then, of course, today. retrenchment presidents find it very hard to understand why they're losing support. they're frustrated by the demand of critics to do more, ask they try to paint -- and they try to paint them as extremists, tools of special interest, misguided nostalgics. when, in fact, they're losing control of the center. very characteris

served in the nixon administration during the first term.i'm always pleased to come back and visit this part of the world in he reminded of a very important time in our haste to and i was happy to be a part of his administration. we are here tonight -- i probably should explain on the net while we are here together. the fact is i was born in lincoln, to an land was

but nixon and carter thought that time was at an end. and that is when we really began to get the solar energy beginning and the ethanol subsidies coming in with daniel's midland becoming one of the biggest recipients of federal subsidies to put together the ethanol business. carter and nixon say the amount of fuel we have is dwinding. it is finite. whereas the crops are renewable. sol solar energy is good. in west texas there are areas where experiment is done but with the decline in fuel we need to shift over. it is okay if we have high prices for oil because it is going to dwindle down to nothing and that will keep the dwindling from being dramatic. we will shift over into the green energy and be a better country for it. nixon and carter sold that bill and we bought it except for reagan. and reagan's line was there is more oil in alaska than saudi arabia. we need to control the price fixing in the oil industry and free it up. people said it was terrible. but in the early 1980's, the development of fracking is perfected and right about

nixon -- carter and nixon in their speeches say the amount of fuel that we have in the amount of potential fuel is deadly dwindling. it's finite whereas these crops are renewable. solar energy, it's all renewable and it's good. in west texas there are areas where experiments can be done where they may be competitive. so this is good but with the decline in the amount of fuel we need to shift. when you have government doing this and it's okay if we have these high prices for oil because it's going to dwindle down to nothing anyway and that will keep the dwindling from being so dramatic. we will shift over into these alternate fuels into green energy and we will be a better country for it. nixon and carter sold a bill of goods and we bought it except for president reagan. his famous line was there is more oil in alaska than there is in saudi arabia. his starting .. is we need to de-control all the price-fixing going on in the oil industry. free it up and see what happens. a lot of people are saying it's terrible it will decline but we have discovered in the early 1980s the development of fra

nixon, would you like to comment on that statement?comment. >> if you're live and there is a camera right here on television, there is really no place to hide. once you see a guy sweating when asked the question are you sure he is a leader for you? >> that is the question before the american people and only you can decide what you want, what you want this country to be, 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. >> gentlemen, 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 front of political craftsmanship. you could structure a message appropriately. you could have a huge impact. if you could not, you were toast. >> i would like to give a real welcome to the senator from massachusetts, mr. john kennedy. >> may i ask you so that i don't look too naive, a tough question off the bat? >> whether i'm a democrat or republican? >> people recognized televis

so a president wouldn't be facing impeachment as nixon did

only a few journalists had a front row seat to richard nixon's demise.ook "washington journal, reporting watergate and richard nixon's downfall" was an attempt to look at it from 30,000 feet and years away. i'm joined by one the pioneers in journalism, elizabeth drew. >> i'm delighted to be here. >> you said your editor said to you, you were on the front lines covering this story and your editor said to you write this book as if -- so that it olds up in 40 years and now here you are rereleasing it then. so what was the challenge and what was the attempt you made to make your book feel as though it had some distance? >> i didn't have to. i just wrote it. i wrote it, i was there, i was telling the story as it unfolded and it was actually my great mentor, john gardner, who said to me after william sean, the legendary editor, i said we might be changing vice presidents and presidents. this was a way out there thought. i was like that lady from delaware wear, i was a witch. i sensed things. and john gardner said this can't be recaptured. write it 40 years fro

so a president wouldn't be facing impeachment as nixon did if he did all of those things. i was not allowed even then, even before that ruling by the judge, to give -- to answer the question, why did i copy the p pentagon papers? i was not able to put out a defense at all in fact under those terms. it was ruled as irrelevant that motive is not relevancy and therefore i could say nothing about the fact that these secrets had been improperly withheld all of this time. and revealing them now caused no harm. i couldn't say any evidence to that effect and neither has anyone else prosecuted under these terms since. that's such as tom drake and others, that's what snowden would be facing. he would be facing a jail cell from the time he step off the plane here, the plane that john kerry offered him. he would be stepping into handcuffs and he would probably never get out unless the he is

this is what the nixon foundation says. the president recognized that the only way to recognize the crisis and push out communist influence was to provide american arms for the israelis in order to defeat russian arms. nixon gave it the greater sense of urgency. he says you get this stuff to israel now, now. why doesn't the current president say get that stuff to ukraine. now? >> because i don't think the current president understands the international power of politics that are involved here, and that's what it is, moc politique is what the germans would say, language it a they would understand and so do the russians. we're engaged in a war of rhetoric. russians and ukrainians are becoming very close of becoming engaged in a real military conflict, and it's like we're on a different planet. >> quickly, your prediction? >> well, i think putin doesn't see any obstacles to continuing the pressure. i think he believes he can destabilize these upcoming elections and maybe he can get more. >> all right. those elections may 25th.

nixon invented before, sponsored by the nixon library when i had other books to write, to publish. and now we wanted to have an opportunity for lynne to present yours. it's a superb book about our nation's fourth president, and the plan is i will ask your questions and she will respond. at the end of the period of time we'll open it up, take some questions from the audience as well. with that let me begin by asking why madison? what made you decide james madison needed another biography? >> before you get the august am so grateful to date for joining on this book tour. i started referring to them as my arm to -- arm candy. [laughter] i've known i was interested in medicine for a very long time. i had the privilege of serving on the bison to the commission for the constitution in 1987. it was then i first began to understand how magnificent madison's accomplishments were and yet how little recognized he was in terms of what he had accomplished in his political life. it wasn't until five years ago i became serious about writing a book, and it has been a labor of love. i only hope tha

we are delighted to be back here tonight we have the opportunity to visit the nixon library on a numbercations in to serve the nixon administration during the first term and i am always pleased to come back to visit this part of the world to be reminded of the important time in our history. but i was happy to be a part of the administration. we should explain why we are here together. i was born in lincoln nebraska and she was born in casper wyoming. 1954 when i was 13 years old my dad moved the family to caspar wyoming. he had a choice between there or montana. we grew up together and i took her out when she was 16 and we will celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary. [applause] butted dad picked montana instead of wyoming of course, i never would have mary lynn she would have married someone else and she said then he would have been vice president of the united states. [laughter] [applause] >> i don't recall that was one of the jokes. >> now i am freelancing. we are here to talk specifically about a magnificent book she has written about james madison with great reviews and we are on th

you would not have had a ronald reagan and i don't think about a nixon either.body gets two votes. and again the big states and small states. the small states are worried that the big states will always elect the president. so to sway their concern the deal was made that you could only cast one vote and one of those two votes was for someone from your own state and the other had to be cast for somebody from another state. then they started worrying, and you have all played this kind of game, you want that one vote for your own guy in your own state to be important, you throw away the second vote. you know you expend it on jim who doesn't have a chance. to prevent that we are getting to the answer they invented the vice presidency. the idea was the person who got the second highest number of votes would become vice president. and that seemed like a pretty good idea. then they started worrying what was he going to do? and you know, it is so interesting to see how it builds up. they decided he needed a job and they would make him president of the senate. by the end

this was richard nixon.should look to the nation threatened to provide the manpower for its defense. did it strike you as nixonian that which president obama said at west point sf. >> a great piece of history. the nixon doctrine was. yeah, i think there are antecedents. i think the real issue is on specifics. i would say on ukraine, the administration is doing well. also on iran. i would say on syria, they are not doing so well. and the same with libya and egypt. i would see that level. as you say at the broad level of philosophy, mr. obama is not an outliar. >> had the president done that which he set out to do six months ago, it would have been at odds with the nixon doctrine. >> you have to interpret the doctrines. what critics have been saying about syria, we should have been aiding the insurgents from 2012 when virtually all of mr. obama's national security team advised him to do that. he was reluctant. he wanted to keep america out of it. he thought that assad would fall anyway or lead a peace effort w

rockefeller was vice president in 1976, ran against the ford wing, the nixon wing of the party.e said we need new leadership, leadership unfettered by old ties and told relationships. and old relationships. the tea party is unfettered by old ties and old relationships. and so i think if we welcome the tea party in with these other groups that reagan, you know, launched us on in the lathe '70s, early '80s, we've got a very, very strong and winning coalition. the kind of part of what i just said there was kind of a criticism of some of the republican conservative leaders, and i think that too many conservative leaders -- not those in this room here, of course, but too many of our friends became an arm, they became an appendage of the republican party. and they lost their independence. as conservatives, we need more organizations, more money, more candidates, more publications. but the number one thing that we need in my opinion above everything else is new leadership. and leadership that's unfeterred to the republican party. and along that line i'm a big advocate of something that

just like nixon? it's a level of the distortion and hysteria that can't survive scrutiny. and the right wing knows it. watch what happened when the ranking democrat started to speak. >> thank you. recognize the ranking member. >> thank you very much. more than three years ago, a wave of political change -- >> all right, we have senator john mccain with us and we only know he's here for a couple more minutes. >> they cut away. they didn't have time for what the democrat was saying. but they did find time to repeat republicans' most extreme charges. >> you know, as you mentioned, the nixon administration and your service in it, it strikes me that there are some parallels here. >> we now know that the white house had a conspiracy. >> that's a felony. >> a felony? all day today, the scandal machine cranked out vile attacks and outlandish accusations. and some of the worst came from elected republicans. >> ben rhodes who we now see is -- used to be the spokesperson for the nsc, obviously was the political hack. >> the irs targeting to affect the outcome of an election is crimin

president nixon in 1972. low and behold that is the administration where we begin to get a lot of serious work for up all subsidy it be that political connection, in that case government making the decision, the political connections are there and in this energy case we may well be in good shape with the oil production and not have to deal with a lot of these alternate fuels that are still competitive in some ways, may still be able to be developed under certain circumstances and as entrepreneurs improved and we get better and better technology , who knows. in 100 years there may be ways to make wind power and solar power work better. windmills have been terrible, people get subsidies to put them on the property, they kill birds , a destroyer acres and acres of land because you cannot farm in those areas. negligible benefit. and so this has been an ongoing tragedy. >> host: yes, i remember, i think it was oval its wagon plant in tennessee which has one of the largest solar arrays in the united states. and whe

and instead we get the first of four kennedy nixon debates.ny ways that tells us two things about 60s television. >> it certainly and everyone knows how tv chaked the way all of us i guess exist as a result of what happened in those years in the 60s. thanks very much. be sure to watch it live. 9:00 p.m. pacific, "the sixties". "newsroom wi "newsroom" with brooke baldwin starts right now. >> we begin with veteran affairs and some news we have today. he now according to the white house may be on thin ice. now you have this growing list of senate democrats already having him in hot water.

i don't know if it's from when nixon ran in 1968 or 1972 but it is the real thing, nixons for vets. it's a nice reminder for me that every president wants to look like they're doing right by veterans. for example, you don't think of the white house is doing photo ops in 1924 but that's a photo op of president coolidge greeting civil war veterans. president george w. bush has kept a fairly low public profile since leaving office in 2009. he has done some speeches for money but when president george w. bush does events it's more often than not having to do with veterans who were wounded. he did not attend the 9/11 memorial today in manhattan. it's always interesting see presidents together but it was striking that president obama and president clinton, that skips a presidency, namely the one who was president when 9/11 happened. he did not go to the opening. he instead sent a statement. president obama today was there and he gave a speech. he gave a very emotional speech about the attacks of september 11th and about heros who helped people that day and veterans who have fought in the

jeb magruder, who was deputy director of president nixon's re-election campaign, served seven months1972 break-in at democratic party headquarters and the cover-up. after prison, he became a minister. he died of complications from a stroke. he was 79. barbara walters once interviewed magruder. she interviewed nixon, too, every president after him, and countless other newsmakers and celebrities. today, after a half-century on television, walters called it a career as she stepped down from the show she created, "the view." walters opened the door for generations of women in broadcast journalism. and she was surrounded by many of them, from connie chung to oprah winfrey. >> how proud when i see all the young women who are making and reporting the news. if i did anything to help that happen, that's my legacy. >> alfonsi: barbara walters is 84. she's retiring but maybe not forever. >> maybe instead of good-bye, i should say see you later. >> alfonsi: and we would be happy to see you again. well, the odds were heavily against gina, but cherylyn was betting on her to win. on her to win. ugh

>> a long time, my experience in washington was part of the nixon administration, richard nixon didn'tuct the burglary, but he certainly was involved and created a tone and was involved in a cover up. my sense is i'm not blaming the president. but political people in this white house and there's way too many of them basically are always thinking about campaigns and that clear is what they were doing here. >> and this was in the middle of a campaign after all. this was a month, month a half before the election and i think pat is right, the national security advisers, certainly his deputy twoontd insulate the president from blame. they chose that approach rather than being more candid. >> i know it's interesting and i know our viewers know this. when they hear you, doug, say that, does this make you pessimistic where we are with our washington leaders in general and you sound like you are not too happy with your own party? >> well, i'm not. i speak more and foremost as an american rather than as a partisan. i think that's very important. when you look at the tragedy unfolding slowly but

she rocked. >> here a very relaxed richard nixon. he was nowhere near as relaxed and nor was i when i interviewed him after watergate. >> why don't we get serious. >> because i think people are still -- i am serious. people are interested in you. they're trying to understand you and i'm sorry that you find these questions unserious. we have a different idea perhaps of what serious is. >> i saved my hardest question for the very end. >> are you sorry you didn't burn the tapes? >> yes, i think so, because they were private conversations, subject to misinterpretation as we have all seen. >> reporter: the world leaders and the leading men, barbara revealing her crush. >> i had the biggest crush on clint eastwood. he began to flirt, and i fell apart. >> you would drive me nuts and i would drive you crazy because i would be saying, but, you know, didn't you or haven't you? >> we can try and see if it worked out. >> we'll start with this interview. if this is okay, maybe we'll do another interview. i think we'll stop and reload. >> it takes

this there's this curious kind of expost facto defense of nixon going on here.u look at that whole list that you just gave, none of those scandals have panned out the way they'd hoped. and they keep move pong but the other thick that we can take heart from is if the affordable care act weren't working, the word we would be hearing now would not be benghazi but obama care. and ever since the affordable care act started working, they were looking for someone else and benghazi is the old stand by. >> and they'll keep looking. e.j. dionne thank you so much for your time to evening. >> good to be with you. straight ahead, chris christie's top spokesman under oath today in the bridgegate scandal. we'll tell you what he revealed about what the governor knew and when he knew it. ♪ [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. ♪ she can print amazing things, right from her computer. [ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] she makes trains that are friends with trees. ♪ my mom works at ge. ♪ my mom works at ge. and i get a lot in return with ink pl

the national level we have bigger fish to friday and we need to focus on that. >> jay nixon was almostntly state workers released a list of concealed gun permits, he's under fire, he's a democratic governor, the state has swung far to the right. is what going to happen here? this statement that he thought the bill was extreme, seems to suggest he's going to veto it. >> this is a battle about extreme. we see republicans focus on this 20-week abortion ban, trying to get back from the magic of 20 years ago that lost democrat seats. each side is trying to portray each other as extreme. it's a credit to the kind of pressure that being put on. i want to address what former chairman steel said, states need to decide this. the only thing allowing women in mississippi and texas and alabama and wisconsin, where all of the laws have been passed allowing them to exercise constitutional rights is the supreme court, the federal government pushing back on access to contraception and birth control -- sorry, to abortion. if you -- it's great to talk about states' rights but there's a saying that your r

richard nixon's tape recordings. the days of the private cone of silence with your girlfriend are gone. >> no, there ain't no code of silence. >> let's talk about what we're really focusing and not little he said/she said. racially antagonistic, hostile language, is there a new zero tolerance in the way we're going to cover these stories and the way the public's going to react to them? >> you know, way back in the past, there was a whole lot of tolerance, right, stuff was said in the open. for a while now, it has been socially nonacceptable to say, i think black people are inferior. i don't like black people, i think they smell bad, that sort of -- >> when was that okay? >> ugly racism. well, it was never okay with me. >> may have been okay where you grew up in south carolina, it may have been okay in the back room somewhere. >> exactly, exactly. but now there is no back room. and so when society is confronted, when we are all confronted with, you know, irrefutable proof that, here, this is what this person thinks be

darrell issa is comparing president obama with president nixon. but the freakout once again doesn't square with reality. here's what got things going. rhodes refers to a prep call with susan rice ahead of her appearances on those five sunday talk shows the weekend after the tragedy. rhodes calls one of the goals for the interview should be, quote, underscore that these protests are rooted in an internet video and not a broader failure of policy. how is that different from what we now know actually happened? according to the bipartisan senate intelligence committee report from earlier this year, in fact, from january, some intelligence shows the attacks were likely put together in short order. following that day's violent protests in cairo against an inflammatory video. what's more, the first draft of the cia's talking points for susan rice participants an even clearer picture. we believe based on clearly available information that the attacks in benghazi were inspired by the protests at the u.s. embassy in cairo. michael steele and david corn join

nixon was a bit more like jfk which a lot of people wouldn't say.but from the standpoint of coming you know, this collaboration, he didn't want any part of that. two points during the presidency for example, though he did suggest that david rohde or shoulrohde ofownershiprohde ofoy secretary and walter rivkin should ask them to become treasury secretary, they said no. but also you can ask them personally. lbj would get on the phone and have an invitation, they would be buddy buddy and he just didn't do that. they had gotten together and that we can take the policy from here and they actually pushed nixon and people in the cabinets to get off the gold standard which happened in the beginning of nixon's presidency and all sorts of other things but now they started making demands without feeling that they needed to give anything in return. and there is a lot of stuff on the book that event evolves into the middle east oil an middle el sorts of other things that came out of that disappointmen does . >> host: was it your sense that the bankers felt i hav

nixon was a bit more like jfk which a lot of people wouldn't say. but from the standpoint of this collaboration he didn't want any part of that. two points during his presidency, for example, though, he did suggest that david rock -- rockefeller should be treasury secretary, and he said no. they're busy expanding, and he didn't did them personally. lbj would get on the phone, invite them to the white house, be buddy, buddy, how is your daughter. and he didn't do that. and they had gotten together and figure out we can take policy from here and they actually pushed nixon and people in his cabinet to get off the gold standard, which happened in the beginning of nixon's presidency and all sorts of other things that now they started making demands without feeling they needed to give anything in return, and i could -- there's a lot of stuff on the books that then deinvolved into middle east oil and other thing that came out of that disalignment. >> host: got it. so, was it your sense at that point in time that the bankers felt, you know what? actually ha

. >> nixon and similar defenses watergate and now benghazi. the question tonight is why is it so hard to get the truth in america? >> what's your evidence that the republicans are racist? >> i never said that and. >> you said the republican base is animated by racism. answer the question you are a paid political official. >> what should we think about democrats in congress calling republican party racist. jesse watters put that question to two of the offenders. also ahead, bernie goldberg on why there are so few republican journalists and i am angry about how the airlines are treating you. caution. you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. ♪ ♪ hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. what happened while i was away? that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. well, the benghazi situation is fairly clear. it's now apparent the obama administration tried to mislead americans about what happened to ambassador christopher stephens and three her men killed by terrorists in libya. even though a

. 160, nixon and clinton around 100. lbj was the highest. ronald reagan cited an hundred 50 times. 850 times. one of my favorite examples and president obama does not cite the founders very often. he doesn't. i've checked. and there was a -- he gave a fourth of july statement just a few years ago where he referred to the founders as men of property and wealth. but ronald reagan would refer to them in this glowing language. here's the 1964 time for choosing speech. alexander hamilton warned us a nation that can produce grace it was prepared as a master and deserves one. admittedly there is a risk in any course that we followed. should they have told him to live in slavery rather than in the wilderness? should christ have refused the cross? should the patriots bridge to the shop around the world? are we to believe that all of the murders in history died in vain? and herincurious ronald reagan g it is a time for choosing. step up and accept the risk and fight for freedom. he also loved the words of thomas payne who said tha

i started in politics 40 years ago in the nixon administration.burglary but he covered up a burglary. in this particular case, highly ranking people made every effort to not tell the truth to the american people. that will be detriment one more time. >> why didn't they release this me memo? they wouldn't be in this mess. >> why now the select committee? shouldn't this have happened -- let's take a short break. >>> then, the one thing to watch for in the week ahead from our panel on "sunday morning futures." back in a moment. u met. u met. but your erectile dysfunction - it could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medications, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sexual activity. do not take alis if you take nitrates for chest pain,

he planted that idea in nixon's head. want to show you something. >> oh my gosh nests. >> -- oh, my goodness. >> these are my your lobes. i put them with a little glue. >> that is good. >> something like that. it gives me an extra -- >> they just hang there. [laughter] >> it is like i am wearing heavy earrings. would you like to try them on? >> this is the phone? >> remember these? rotary dial. >> we have hats. >> 20 different actors. 38 different characters. people have taken on and off. wigs. it is a madhouse during a show. >> johnson wore a cowboy hat only time. cowboyooked right in a hat. but is a dangerous thing for a president to wear a hat. remember michael dukakis? wearing a helmet? he lost the election right there. >> this cup -- this doesn't belong. >> i remember candidate obama was given a somewhere. ombrero. that is an election killer right there. >> have you done theater before this -- when was the last time? >> i did two plays in between the end of malcolm in the middle and the beginning of breaking bad. >>

harkens to president nixon saying he is not a crook at the height of the watergate scandal. a very difficult press conference for many to accept because they wanted to see more action taken immediately. not more reports, not more investigations but some serious steps to move this in the right direction. >> you know i just have -- to compare richard nixon saying i'm not a crook to barack obama today talking about the va, i can't sit here about commenting how absurd that is. the truth is the president has a management style that rankles, republicans, independents and democrats. sebelius was kept on and americans look back and say maybe that was the right move. it was a botched effort to roll that health care plan out and the website but because the president stuck with her probably expedited the curative effect there. we don't know about shinseki. this is a problem that goes back decades and decades. not a problem of the obama administration. >> very harsh about the bush administration and its actions with the veterans administration. it's surprising so little has been done in

i'll give you richard nixon as the primary result, one of his articles of impeachment, of course, was the misuse of the irs. eric holder does not want this to go any further than it is, because it could lead to the white house like the benghazi e-mail, and the administration is not going to allow that to happen if it can help it. >> leslie, do you think that the president -- this could lead to the president and eric holder doesn't want to get that far? >> no. i don't believe that at all. i know that cal and others want to believe that. you know, the reason that the gop is mad at issa, and i can't believe i'm actually going to defend issa for a moment here in california. this is frightening. but he doesn't have a smoking gun, because he can't find a smoking gun, because there is no smoking gun. the irs has done what congress asked them to do, and what they required them to do. when we look at the actual information that came out, the language to target, quite frankly, was more toward progressive groups, like a.c.o.r.n. and medical marijuana facilities. were tea party groups targeted mo

>> to me, the equivalent of what was discovered with the nixon tapes. >> it's watergate, it's orwellianan't give enough of this fake scandal. we've seen this phony scandal machine before. a.c.o.r.n., fast and furious, the irs, republicans don't have a real agenda, so they're desperate to gin up a scandal, any scandal. because they don't have a positive agenda. joining me now are jo madison and bill press. thank you for being here. >> hi, reverend al. >> do republicans really think the american people don't know what's going on here? >> that's what they think, but they think incorrectly. an to add to the -- what you said, this congress led by republicans, particularly in the house of representatives supported the senate if i'm not mistaken, they have passed fewer legislative bills. then in other words, make law than any congress since world war ii. or the beginning of world war ii. >> today, big news, the president held after joint press conference with the chancellor of germany. big news, big news for everyone except fox. they cut away from it. watch. >> all right, we were waiting for o

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