only nixon could do that. only nixon, because no one doubted his hostility to communism, and because no one love of freedom. iny nixon could end the war vietnam and start strategic arms stocks and treaties with russia. after he performed these foreign policy miracles, he was performing breakthrough domestic actions on a political level. he was creating and made real 80 the southern strategy, which the southern states into the gop camp. this was something no one that could happen, but the haters were dead wrong. they also desegregated thousands, not hundreds of thousands of school districts. when he took office after brown versus board of education, desegregation was very much up in the air. by the time he left office, there was no more segregation. he created the philadelphia plan, the first federal plan to have requirements for minority contracts and workers, and by far brought a bigger piece of towardght a bigger step the american pie to the african-american and hispanic workers. he wanted to leave a healthy

nixon. he shocked the world by traveling to china to meet mao zedong. you make peace with china by showing the russians they could not win the cold war, and thus made possible the end of the cold war and the end of the is union.t he crafted the strategic arms first limitation treaty with russia, one no one thought possible during the height of the missal rage. only nixon could do that. only nixon, because no one doubted his hostility to communism, and no one doubted his resolve. he played politics with the survival of freedom. nixon used to say over and over, and only he could go to china and end the war in vietnam and start strategic arms, toxin treaties with russia. after he performed these foreign policy miracles, he was doing breakthrough domestic actions. on a political level, nexen with withage learning -- nixon unwilling help from the created and made a southern strategy, which rocked the southern states into the gop cap. this was something no one that could happen, but the haters wou

only nixon could do that. only nixon, because no one doubted his hostility to communism, and no one doubted his resolve. nixon used to say over and over, and only he could go to china and end the war in vietnam and start strategic arms socks and treaties with russia. these foreignrmed policy miracles, he was performing breakthrough domestic actions on a political level. and made real 80 southern strategy, -- a southern strategy, which rocked the southern states into the gop cap. this was something no one that could happen, but the heaters are saying this was -- the haters were to run. they also desegregated thousands, not have -- hundreds, thousands, of school districts. after brown office versus board of education, the segregation's were very ill -- very so much up in the air. by the time he left office, there was no more segregation. he created the philadelphia plan, the first federal plan to haveher wireless or -- requirements for minority contracts and workers, and by four -- by far brought a bigger to the

president nixon on august 9, 1974. former president nixon: thank you. you're here to say good night to us. we don't have a good word for it in english. the best is we will see you again. we think that when someone dear to us dies, we think that when we lose an election, we think that when we suffer a defeat that all has ended. not true. it's only a beginning, always. the young must know it. the old must know it. the greatness comes not when things go always good for you, the greatness comes when you are tested. when you take some knocks, some disappointments. when sadness comes. only if you've been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. and so, we leave with high hopes, in good spirit, with deep humility. and with gratefulness in our hearts. i can only say to each and every one of you, not only will we always remember you, not only will we always be grateful to you, you will always be in our hearts and you will be in our prayers. thank you very much. hugh: you with the military aid to the president.

nixon and i. -- dismisses mrs. nixon and i. she and i got in the car and went to where we were staying. she reached over and grabbed my hand and squeezed it. hugh: when you went to oxford there was a moment became afterwards when he went with jonathan aiken to the british parliament and you met the conservative party leader. tell the audience about that and if that made the trip a success and began to reintroduce the president to the future world leaders. ken: maggie thatcher was soon to be prime minister obviously. i think she made a great impression on him and he made a great impression on her. there was one other twist about the speech at the oxford union. before we went there, he assigned me the names of all the well-known american officeholders who had been rhodes scholars. i provided the list. while he was there, i want to tell you that many of the same folks who have been in this room who have been rhodes scholars ended up in significant positions in the united states. one is a supreme court justice. one is the speaker o

he insisted didn't say from richard nixon. it said love, richard nixon.it's kind of like the fake news we are getting today. to the meetingck with chairman mao, jack has a wonderful story about that. one that is a particular favorite of mine. jack: president wanted to make sure he saw chairman mao in 1976. i was rather anxious for this to happen. fortuitously, the first night the foreign minister came to my room, which was adjacent to the nixon's room. he said chairman now would like to see president and misses next in. i started to put on my jacket. i would into the room and told the president. he was ready to go. seeould also like to brennan. why me? we respect loyalty very much. when president nixon came in 1972, he had a staff of 80 and now he has a staff of one. chairman mao wants to meet you. [applause] introductions, president nixon dismissed misses next in and i. she and i got in the car and went to where we were saying. -- staying. hugh: there was a moment became afterwards when he went with jonathan aiken to the british parliament and you met th

nixon was a deep reader. nixon didn't like to talk to people. he preferred to read and would retire to his study and read deeply everything winston churchill every wrote and deeper. political philosophies. his private library shows him underlining and circling like a graduate student. he had a deep intellectual interest in the world and talked to henry kissenger about it. if you listen to the nixon tapes, some of the time nixon is ranting and being anti-seanti-s and scary and other times he is thinking deeply about the solutions. i just don't see donald trump doing that. >> joe -- >> most people are pretty sure trump hasn't read the book he supposedly wrote. [laughter] >> there is that. >> speaking of books, in 2006, you wrote a book" it can happen here" -- >> we are well passed that with the trump administration. >> there are people who brought that book up to me to sign at the festival and looked at it and thought, you know, we are well past that. that book is about -- it was to draw parallels on what was happening under george w bush and his

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the many parallels that came in, nixon and trump is another nixon deserves a fresh look in the contextay's political landscape. in his new book, richard nixon, "the life" showcases nixon's long career, exploiting how his perseverance helped propel him to the white house, his personal insecurities led to his downfall. i am welcoming you. i have to tell you, it's an amazing piece of work. what do you think? i think i've always not been a nixon hater. you remind too much of my dad, out of world war ii. the first in the family. i sympathize with this upward struggle, but i never, after years of watching him, i don't believe him. i think he was imitating somebody else. >>> he imitated eisenhower with his voice. he imitated other people. i didn't think there was a richard nixon. >> jack kennedy said that, you know, i have it easy, i can be myself. nixon has to be thinking who he is all the time. he has this grievous person amendment t. original title for the book is richard nixon and american tragedy. it is a shakespearian tragedy. >> from the beginning when he smeared his first congressiona

this is nixon watergate. bad or sick guy. later that day friend christopher ruddy, the ceo of news max and a mar-a-lago member ran into the president after a round of golf. >> i would describe him as not being a happy camper. he was pretty upset. i hadn't seen him this -- with this level of anger about something in a long time. and he again reiterated what he said in the tweets. this is watergate level stuff. this is mccarthyism. it was very bad. >> okay. the president's phrasing in his tweet just found out, we should be clear here. i think initially led journalists to believe he may have gotten briefed on new information. in fact, the coverage suggesting there might be something to that wiretap claim. but it soon became clear where that claim first originated, with right wing talk radio host mark levin. >> there is a much bigger scandal here. we have a prior administration. barack obama and his surrogates who were supporting hillary clinton and their party, the democratic party who were using the instrumentaliies of the fede

. >> i need the nixon sound bite. there are comparisons in the way -- and i think carl bernstein and john dean were saying this, the way this particular administration treats press, very much like the nixon administration, especially in the weeks before something was found with watergate. bernstein will tell you, it's not just a smoking gun. it's a drip, drip, drip. listen to richard nixon in 1973. >> i have never heard or seen such outrageous, vicious sort of reporting in 27 years of public life. don't get the impression that you rouse my anger. >> i have that impression. >> one can only be angry with those he respects. >> doesn't ring of familiarity? >> not really, don. again, if there were facts here that had been presented and said x, y and z happened and is the president tied to that. don't have anything so far. continue to go down this road and put crowd over our president without any facts of collusion or -- >> should it continue to be investigated? >> yes. people should know. there's finality in this. if there

hey, dude, do you know why nixon was on the cover so many times? laughter ] "they're going to make so many documentaries about me. i'll bet i even pass charles manson." [ laughter ]

i think nixon would tell him, first of all, to improve his own staff. nixon had a very good staff. things efficiently and quickly. the biggest thing that i think a lot of americans looking at trump are right now, is he competent? is his staff competent? can they do the job after all these reversals in the first -- >> but did nixon have anybody around him that could go say, no, stop? >> that could say no to him? >> yeah. >> no. >> all of them? >> especially kissinger. it was always, mr. president, you're a wonderful man. yeah, that was a constant flattery because that's what nixon wanted. >> that's not exactly what kissinger would say when he was out of nixon's company, was it? >> no, no. one thing about henry kissinger is he wrote an amazing memoir. he's a fantastic writer. >> i cannot wait to dig into this. thank you so much. greatly appreciate it. nice party last night. >> yes, joel and lisa benenson. i got to meet tina brown and sir evans and it was a great time. >> very good. the book is "richard nixon: the life." john farrell, thank you so much. greatly appreciate it. >>> stil

that's how the mistakes were made at the nixon white house.ember warning erlich very early that i had no criminal law experience, and he brushed it aside. it was one of the early mistakes we made. so i think that's what they need to be doing. >> let me mention one similarity between watergate, and i don't want to go too far with it -- >> quick for me, carl. >> the nature of some of these people. flynn, stone, others who are off the reservation, who are not considered very solid folks. they're a little bit like hunt and liddi, the watergate burglars. i'm not going to say criminally like them but in terms of people being who have a reputation for not quite thinking in a very straight line. >> all right. >> we've got a similarity here. >> dean and bernstein, it's 1974 all over again. >> no. it is not. >> it's interesting to be talking to you guys. >> do not go there, do not go there. >> thank you, gentlemen. carl bernstein, we'll see you a little bit later on. >>> when we come back, what paul manafort told me when i talked to him during the campa

look what happened to richard nixon. years watergate. >> on your own. jum in. >> only witch the two sh the tw the time and effort into finding out who is it leaking the classified information which is the real crime. >> i have something to say about that. people who scream the loudest about the leaking are the leakers. >> that's it. >> and their staffers are also the leakers. it really makes me laugh when these people start screaming and yelling about laerkz. had fbi people come to my house about confirmation hearing and wanted me to tell them information. no. this is all confidential. are you kidding? where do we get our information? from guys like you. it's ridiculous. >> when i hear about the leakers, someone who tweeted yesterday, paraphrasing, the house is on fire, the president is running around with a box of matches, and the republicans are up on the hill saying who called the fire department. >> we know that people leak classified information. zero proof and nothing put forward of any collusion. >> matt? >> i would use a different analogy don. i

this is nixon/watergate." wait, you said this was mccarthyism. now it's nixon-watergate?ick your historical analogy! "this is the pearl harbor of hindenburg great depression d-days! finale of lost." ( applause ) and he must have been proud of this tweet because it's the first one he ever signed: "bad-- or sick-- guy!" ( laughter ) couldn't have said it better myself, sir. ( laughter ) this is a serious allegation and you know that trump takes it seriously because his next tweet was: "arnold schwarzenegger isn't voluntarily leaving the apprentice, he was fired by his bad-- pathetic-- ratings, not by me. sad end to great show." that's right, first he alleges a scandal worse than watergate, then he immediately goes after schwarzenegger. it's like if deep throat told woodward and bernstein "nixon is a criminal. oh, and the $6 million man isn't real, it's all done with slow motion." ( laughter ) those are his real legs! it's not a machine! now, the obama people say they never wiretapped trump. here's former obama press secretary josh earnest. >> this may come as some surprise

and nixon really had nothing to do with that.ing that with the cover-up, which he seems to have a little more understanding of. and maybe he is projects himself into that very situation. it's a curious way he does. when hillary recused him of being a putin puppet, he turned around and accused her of being a putin puppet. he labels whatever fits him. >> you mentioned the cover-up. you are saying he doesn't understand watergate. do you think he doesn't understand how wiretaps work and fisa warrants and that sort of thing? >> i'm not sure he does. and nixon did authorize a number of wiretaps. >> but they changed that in the '70s, right? >> that's when the law changed shortly before the watergate buggings or attempted buggings. and nixon had called for surv surveillance of some 17 people. newsmen, a number of people on the nsc staff. and one of his own speech writers. nixon did issue directions to the fbi to wiretap. >> douglas, is the cover-up worse than the crime? >> definitely. h.r. haldeman used to talk about the drip, drip, drip

today, president nixon is visiting china.irst american statesman to have settled on chinese soil since chairman mao came to power in 19119. —— winston lord. chairman mao came to power in 19119. -- winston lord. many of us were a little disappointed in the arrival arrangements. this was a huge geological event and we navy thought there would be big crowds and in fa ct there would be big crowds and in fact there were a few people. —— naively. we then realised this was keeping in line with the fact we have been enemies for years and you could not turn a page immediately. and so these two great countries, the most powerful nation on earth visits the most populous nation on earth. i was special assistant to a henry kissinger, the national security adviser, and i was in charge of orchestrating and putting together the thick briefing books we re together the thick briefing books were the president for his trip to china. my first impressions that beijing was that it was a very bleak, rather depressing place. it was very drab. everybo

this is nixon watergate, bad or sick guy. who better to ask about watergate? make of the president's charge? >> well, i think it's way off base. it shows, first of all, that trump may not even understand watergate, he seems to be conflicting the act of the wiretapping, which never happened -- in fact, it was a bungled effort, they went in to try to repair a bungled bug, and nixon had nothing to do with that, he's confusing that with the cover-up, which he seems to have a little more understanding of. and maybe he's projecting himself into that situation. hillary accused him of being a putin puppet, he accused her of being putin's puppet. he does this sort of thing with tagging the other, with whatever label seems to fit him. >> a couple things there, you mentioned the cover-up, you're saying he doesn't understand watergate, do you think he doesn't understand when he says the president wiretapped the former president wiretapped him, he doesn't understand how wiretaps work, and fisa warrant and that sort of thing? >> i'm not sure he does. and nixon did authorize

kissinger -- we had henry kissinger in the white house with nixon in the middle of the night, nixon drunk staring at portraits of former presidents and talking to them. kissinger communicating to the outside world, communicating to the major media, i got everything under control, in effect. and to a great extent, "the new york times," "washington post," outlets like that, believe in that, accepting that. there's no one -- is there anyone, i should say, in the trump white house who could possibly play that kissingerian role to the outside world, to a "new york times," to a "washington post," say don't worry, here's how it's being stabilized inside? >> i think the answer's no. >> right. >>heple who have that kind of access are people who have virtually no experience of doing this kind of job. and to the extent that they have experience or some sense of wherewithal, there are people who like the disruption, like the chaos, people like steve bannon -- >> it's all they know. >> it's all they know and actually what they want. no, i don't think there's anything like that and at least, i mean, by

and i want to go back to what it was like before nixon. was there controversy around presidential taxes, around questions of self-dealing and presidential financial disclosure before nixon that we should see as materially informing these kinds of see it informing these kinds of decisions kobe bryant. >> and those scandals and not the president and people around him were wheeling and dealing and some of them got into big legal trouble over that. in donald trump's case, we got something unusual and you and i said many times before, first president who never had military or government experience, this is someone whose career in recent years have been opaque. >> we have house commission that's going to be opening soon. time is interesting as well. >> michael beschlosh is joining us on short notice tonight. thank you for your time. >> thank you, rachel. >> super interesting. >> chris hayes to your last point of the house of intelligence committee looking of potential russia ties, obviously, the big unanswered question in those investigation, di

is this nixon/watergate? >> this is not nixon/watergate. there's no evidence, never has been, i'm not exactly a nixon apologist, that nixon ordered a wiretap of his opponents during the campaign. all of his wiretaps were done through the department of justice, through the fbi, where he actually did order them. they were later removed. i think trump is confused, kind of projecting on himself the cover-up. that's really what's going on here, is they're not confessing what they're doing. they're using misinformation to deflect attention and this is nothing like watergate in the initial act of where there was a bungled eort to wiretap but, rather, where there's a sious effort and successful effort to cover up. >> john, correct me if i'm wrong on this, but during watergate the public appetite for watergate stories was not necessarily so high at the time until it came out there were tapes and real evidence that the president was acting inappropriately. do you believe we're living in a markedly different time, in 2017, where the public -- maybe no

. > american history tv comedy talk about nixon's post-presidency. they discussed their roles in the nixon/frost interviews, the writing of his memoir, and his return to public life. we also hear about nixon's relationship with ronald reagan during the 1980 presidential campaign and has lasting impact on american politics. this is just over an hour and

i'm the president of the richard nixon foundation and i welcome you to the nixon library on this sunny day. today, we celebrate what would've been president nixon's 154th birthday.

stein, a former speechwriter for president richard nixon and gerald ford, reflects on nixon's time in the white house. he discusses the service -- 37 presidents energy policies as well as his initiatives and israel and southeast asia. he speculates on what nixon might think of our current political landscape. the richard nixon presidential library and museum posted this event. it is about 50 minutes. william baribault: good afternoon. i'm the president of the richard foundation to richard nixon foundation and i welcome you to

hehard nixon said that when and ian fleming sat down and chatted about james bond, fleming told nixon that bill harvey was an inspiration for the james bond character. if you cannot trust richard nixon, who can you trust? [laughter] and of course ted shaklee. he was the chief of station in saigon during a lot of the yet no more. he will become a central figure in the operation mongoose plan. before he went to vietnam he was a chief of station in another place. someplace that may surprise you. a will talk about that in second. there are straightforward attempts at castro's life. i want to get that out of the way before we get to the more elaborate ones. there were some, let's go and just shoot the dude. one keep it simple theory, was a man named felix rodriguez. anyone heard of him? the guy in the back is like yes. he is still alive and lives in miami today. he went in before the bay of pigs. he was a part of an infiltration team. after the bay of pigs fiasco, many of the men who were on that mission were invited to join, not only the u.s. military, but also were recruited in the cia.

. >> ben stein, former speechwriters for richard nixon at gerald ford reflects on the past time in the white house, his energy policies, and initiatives in israel and southeast asia. nixon left israel defense in a way that no other president has. >> for a complete schedule, go to c-span.org. all weekend american history tv is featuring san jose, california. recentlyities or staff visited many sites showcasing its history. san jose is california cost third-largest city and the 10th largest city in america. learn more about san jose all weekend here on american history tv. good morning. i'm bill worthington, it onto here at the computer history museum in mountain view, california. i was a programmer for the 1401. back in the timeframe we are looking at, in the 1930's, 19 is 1950's, -- 1940's, each hole representing a piece of information whether a 01, 2, -- 0, 1, 2, 3. or it could be alphabetic information. this is the means of storing information, it was the key for every business in the 1930's, 1940's, 1950's. when i started working for a bank on the east coast where they were in need

in 1941 and i will end with nixon. it was a relatively brief period in which we see a slow but steady trickle of executive orders around the question of civil rights and this tracks through a period of legislation on civil rights. and the other thing i want to emphasize here is that when we are thinking this builds directly off of what andy was saying, when we're thinking about the president's of scope authority with regard to executive orders on civil rights, these are rooted in areas that fall under the executive branch purview. we see an interesting dynamic where presidents are very confined. they cannot issue an executive order that makes civil rights the law of the land. congress has to do that. but at the same time, presidents are able to work through areas that are in the scope of the federal government already and in the scope of the executive branch, specifically the military, federal government contracting and hiring, and housing policies in order to set, get the ball rolling and set the stage for congression

the inappropriate use of tax information by the nixon information. it violates the very tax protections that this committee is meant to create. >> i would not agree with that interpretation. 61-63f came about after nixon was in the white house. -- before nixon was in the white house. >> would you be surprised that that was not my statement? that was a statement of your colleague mr. levin when he made that explicit argument i will not yield. >> you are afraid of my answer. >> the language is explicit and unambiguous. he may have his moment when he has his moment. i give my time back. >> you may have the last word. >> earlier this month, on an amendment that i offered, the committee offered for a second time along party lines to continue covering up president trump's tax returns. it is apparent that this will be the third time i think the committee has barely struck out on this issue. every president with rare exception for years, for decades has provided this information and while we have a fundamental disagreement about what these tax returns might

but that led directly to nixon's resignation.testimony led to the revelation that nixon taped the secret conversations. >> exactly the right lane to put those in. poindexter didn't implicate reagan. reagan survived narrowly around contra. >> he could be asking that question tonight about mike flynn. >> exactly. michael beschloss, nbc presidential historian. thank you, as always. much more ahead. >>> my question is, first, why did he think he can get away with it this time? this is not new for the russians. they've done this for a long time across the europe. why now? mr. watts? >> i think this answer is very simple and it's what no one is saying in this room, part of the reason active measures worked in the u.s. election is the commander in chief used it against his opponents. on 14 august 2016, his campaign chairman after a debunked -- >> when you say "his"? >> paul manafort cited the story as a terrorist attack on cnn and he used it as a talking point on 11 october, president trump stood on a stage and cited what appears to be

title actually comes from nixon. comes from nixon's acceptance speech of the 1968 republican convention. it was nixon's law and order speech. but in that speech he warned against black america becoming a colony within a nation. in his new book, chris takes that argument and turns it completely inside-out. argues that in many ways that is exactly what happened but not the way nixon meant it. and chris argues that this did happen in large part because of how the law has been used to impose order. quoting from chris, "the terrifying truth is that we as a people have created the colony through democratic means. we have voted to subdue our fellow citizens. we have rushed to the polls to elect people promising to bar others from enjoying the fruits of liberty. a majority of americans have put a minority under lock and key." it is a terrifying, fascinating, well-told short, interesting book. unlike "twilight of the elites," though, this one does not necessarily offer us a plan for getting out of it. joining us now, the host

in 1970, richard nixon rescinded kennedy's order. president gerald ford famously signed an executive order barring cia political assassinations, but you could thisr -- you could argue has not stopped a subsequent presidents from seeking to target foreign leaders such as gaddafi and saddam hussein during military actions. his second day of office, president barack obama issued two executive orders whose fate underscores the contingent nature of executive orders pertaining to national security. one obama orders successfully revoked a 2007 bush order pertaining to the geneva conventions. obama then with the stroke of a pen had made a substantive national security decision. a second order signs the very same day, though, called for guantanamo bay detention facility to be closed within a year of the signing. congress blocked the order, which was unusual, but it obviously did happen in this instance. of course, the prison is still open. to conclude, white house aide paul who served under bill clinton once said that executive orders can be

nixon had a criminal presidency.re now in terms of every day, a fact free environment with a president who recklessly puts out this stuff with no basis in truth is new territory, it's dangerous, and we gotta see where it goes. >> you're saying this is more lies than any administration you can recall? >> in a systematic way, nixon lied to cover up a criminal conspiracy of which he was an integral part. what we are seeing here is, a president, a character with a long list of lying before he even came into the political process, during the campaign, since he got to the white house, it's been a fact free environment, the likes of which i have never seen in -- i've been in journalism 55 years, 57 years, actually, i've never seen anything like it, i doubt that anyone else has. >> sean spicer says that all of this was widely reported activity, which is untrue, it was not. they often point to this new york times report, that says nothing about trump tower being wiret wiretapped. if anything, it was a surveillance that was di

. >>> still ahead, former nixon white house counsel joins me and why he says it's past time to have a grand jury investigation into possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia. >>> and sesame street versus trump in tonight's thing 1 and thing 2. >>> thing 1 tonight, since president trump released his budget axing funding for public broadcasting, there's been no shortage about big bird's future. pbs airs for those households and if airing reruns, this episode could pop into rotation. >> now, will sesame street just become a footnote in america's history? >> if we don't do something about mr. trump, we will be history. >> long before mr. trump called to eliminate pbs, he was featured on pbs and that's thing 2 in 60 seconds.le you l e, does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment? if you have moderate to severe psoriasis, you can embrace the chance of completely clear skin with taltz. taltz is proven to give you a chance at completely clear skin. with taltz, up to 90% of patients had a significant improvement of their psoriasis plaques. in fact, 4 out of 10 even a

the people who heard it thought nixon one.f you look at the role of the moderator, you sitting in the back. they had a panel of reporters who were not even facing the camera. the candidates were absolutely at the center of this. when introduced the reporters they had to crane their necks to turn around. very awkward. but now the moderators are equal to the candidates. they probably have as much time as the candidate to do, and i think that's a troubling thing. but that's another way it's a change. the political part is one part but the other is the celebrity culture that the moderators think that they are as important as the candidates are. and the first debates like lincoln-douglas, those debates, there were no moderators. do with the clock. they just spoke for an hour, an hour and half and in the next week got to speak. now it so much different. i think there's going to be some changes next time around. i think the country also gets to the point where they feel this, there's probably too many of these debates. it was quite a

back when richard nixon was president. >>> another upset. michigan wolverines. coach has to cool them down with the super soaker. they stunned louisville. continuing a run fit for a movie script. wolverines have won six in a row since the plane slid off the runway before the big ten tournament. they will get the oregon ducks in the sweet 16. kentucky ended wichita state's season. the shockers coach of gregg marsha marshall, lynn marshall let her passion get the better of her. security visited her three times for misbehaving. she was asked to leave the court area after the game. wichita state declined to comment saying they were not aware of the incidents. i have to say, i'm with you, lynn. i understand your pain and frustration when i woke up and realized my duke blue devils who

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consider both johnson and nixon presidencies as lying presidencies?homas: nixon is the easiest one. he lied obviously about watergate. in retrospect, i think the fact that nixon was so obviously lying, i regard that as almost a virtue. when you sign on television saying things that proved to be false, you would see him sweaty and so forth. it didn't take any great insight to know he was lined even before the evidence came out. with lyndon johnson, there were so many things. gulf ofs into this tonkin resolution, turned up to have been set by something that was completely overblown in order to give him power over the war. at a crucial time in that war, after the tet offensive, the media all said that this uprising of communist guerrillas in south vietnam would show that our policies have failed and that the commonest of one. it happened that later evidence from commonest leaders themselves was that the american troops had wiped out the vietcong guerrillas and they were never a serious force thereafter. what came through the media was had the vietcong gu

because -- 6103 f came long before nixon -- >> mr. means. >> would you be surprised if that was not mine statement? that was the statement of your colleague, mr. leaven during the period of time when he made that explicit argument during the learner circuit. >> would you yield? >> i will not yield. the language is explicit and unambiguous. he can have his moment when he has his moment. i give my time back. >> strike the last word. >> earlier this month on an amendment that i offered, the committee voted for a second time along party lines to continue covering up president trump's tax returns and it's apparent from the comments made today that this will be the third time i think committee has clearly struck out on this issue. every president with rare exception for years, decades, has provided this information and while we have a fundamental disagreement about what these tax returns might show and why they should be shown to the american people, i think one thing we should be able to agree on unanimously, we have never in the history o

i saw it happen with richard nixon. i remember with richard nixon people would say, well -- there's one more thing, then -- then there was one more thing. they'd say well i'm still with him. but one more thing and they kept doing that. finally reach the point and say okay, that's it. but a lot of one more had things with trump and you know, the base. >> there was with nixon but eventually reach. >> but ever be like a snap judgment type of a thing or sort of a change of policies or broken promise? or -- do we really have much of a sense of how that might process? >> i don't have a sense of it because everything is so scrambled because of the sense of people and i think rightly . that there's a lot of corruption. >> yeah. >> because of that i don't know that they're willing to trust somebody else. and they do, i think, they do event being pushed like their stories on tv about how much money is cost for -- to protect the trump children. what do they want? they want trump children to be murdered? i've traveled with the chil