johnson thought he had was not really there. >> timothy you say that nixon's interference in the peace talks set the tone for his administrationhave donald trump's set tone for his? >> we'll see about donald trump. but i'm convinced that only way to understand watergate is understand that richard nixon took the tools that cia would use overseas in covert action and applied them at home. and that matter, the piece he gave us was covert action done at home and nixon continued to do that in his presidency and our intelligence community knew he had done it. wary of getting caught and i think increased the secretiveness of his administration. >> here's what john dee in the nixon white house said. this new info shows nixon was more than a serial liar but evil. actions may have cost some 30,000 lives. is that fair to say? >> we can't make that claim. don't know how important it is. jack's book, i've read it and wrote a blurb for it. it's incredible. but don't know if could have been a peace there. william bundy working for the johnson administration for negotiations said we're not sure whether that matters that much. but there is an

nixon. but don't know if could have been a peace there. william bundy working for the johnson administrationor negotiations said we're not sure whether that matters that much. but there is an argument to be made it's criminal activity what nixon did. really is. >> add something to that. i believe that the south vietnamese government blackmailed richard nixon in 1972, and the reason why we did not have the peace that would have happened in october of '72, was that richard nixon knew the south vietnamese would blow the secret of what he'd done in '68. so the peace that could have happened in october of '72 doesn't happen until after he's re-elected in january of '73. so the war lasted three months longer and american p.o.w.s were in jail three months longer because of the chenault affair. hold on a second. i got to ask this up. the logan act forbids private citizens from negotiating with foreign governments having a dispute with the u.s. when donald trump spoke to leaders around the world, did he violate the law? >> it is a law that's on the books. it resulted in one indictment that was droppe

at 36, he's the oldest player to win a major since the nixon administration. >> i am happy. i would've been happy to lose too. there is no or -- no draw, but if there was going to be one, i would accept a draw tonight and share it.[ cheering and applause ]. >>> tiger woods missed the cut in his first pga event in 17 months in san diego. quite a big fish for cbs to miss out. patrick rogers looking for his first pga tour win. his pitch hit the tree and the bogey knocked him out of contention. that opened the door for another young gotten. watch the lead on 18 with a 60 foot putt.>> he is smart to get behind it too.>> reporter: at 22, he beats phil nicholson's record as the youngest champion of the tournament. >>> last night in the celebrity game, justin bieber checked into late for chris to say sorry. today, coaching the pacific division. then it is joe doing his thing. metropolitan coming away with a win and a $100 million prize.>>> scoring 43 and a blowout last night. he will miss tonight's game in portland with the stomach flu. carmelo anthony can only watch as the hawks we

but in 1973 the nixon administration, through a pal of nixon's, they were challenging the licenses of of the four television stations. so the stock went from 37 down to 16. at 16, there were about 5 million shares. that was for $80 million. no debt to speak of. so the washington post company, intrinsically worth $400 million or $500 million was selling for $80 million. it was ridiculous. you have a business unquestionably worth five times what it was selling for, and mr. nixon was not going to put them out of business. david: when you are doing these analyses, then and now, do you have computers that help you? in those days, how did you read about the washington post, and how do you do it today? mr. buffett: same way, but fewer opportunities now. i met bob woodward and he came up with all the presidents men. all of a sudden, at 30 years of age he was getting quite wealthy. we had lunch at the madison hotel and he said, what do i do with the money? i said, investing is about assigning yourself the right story. i said, imagine if ben bradley said to you, what is the washington post comp

but in 1973, the nixon administration through a pal of nixon's, they were challenging the licenses off the florida television stations that the post owned. so the stock went from 37 down to 16. now at 16, there were about 5 million shares outstanding, so the whole washington post company was selling for $80 million, and no debt to speak of. so the washington post company, intrinsically worth $400 million or $500 million was selling for $80 million in the market. we bought most of our stock at about the equivalent of $100 million in the market. it was ridiculous. you had a business that unquestionably was worth four or five times what it was selling for, and mr. nixon was not going to put them out of business. david: when you are doing these analyses, then and now, do you have computers that help you? how did you actually read all those materials to read about the washington post, and how do you do it today? mr. buffett: pretty much the same way, except there are fewer opportunities now. i met bob woodward and he came up with all the presidents men. all of a sudden, at 30 years of age,

panel i titled it comes from a quote i don't know if you remember bill ruckelshaus in the nixon administration and his wife was also a policymaker and a woman of some influence. she said it occurred to me when i was 13 wearing white gloves and mary jane's going t to a dancing school but no one should have to dance backward all their lives and of course i was thinking about hillary clinton. and we will get to hillary clinton. i want to start with a little journalism first. you started in the early 70s and said you didn't have to break down the walls of the newsrooms. when you started covering the connecticut statehouse in the early years that had to have been the years when he became governor and she was in a peculiar way she didn't bond with the women at the capitol with the fact she was there tried to make everybody more conscious. there are several occasions i would cover the personal legislators for them never been interviewed before. several say i'm very nervous about this and i'm not sure i'm allowed to say this right now and i kept thinking this is one of the barriers and breaking down.

he was in the nixon administration, and his wife was a policymaker and woman of some fluids. it occurred to me when i was 13 and going to getting school that -- dancing school, and what you have to dance backward all their lives. speaking about hillary clinton -- >> i knew we would get to hillary clinton. >> host: i want to start with journalism, you started in the early 70s, you have said you did not have to break down the walls, and a few years ahead of you have taken their backs's coronation style lands gotten in, started covering the connecticut state house. had to be mostly men. >> guest: she was sort of an and peculiar way, she didn't bond in the capital. the fact that she was there, did make a little more conscious. we are allowed to say four letter word which >> host: you are encouraged. >> guest: several occasions, i had them all. and personal legislators for them. they were interviewed, say fuck a lot and i'm not sure i'm allowed to say this and i can thinking this is one of the barriers i am breaking down and feel comfortable. it was never -- it was also humble, no

we worked on that in the nixon administration and the democratr killed it.o he has an awful lot of work ahead of him. can he eliminate radical islam? not anytime soon. but the fact he's calling it radical islam and terrorism is a step in the right direction. judge jeanine: you are a very optimistic man, ben stein. >> you are funny. judge jeanine: there is -- i have got to tell you, it wasn't a short speech. i looked up a lot of the speeches. his was about 14 minute. a lot of them are 15, 20 or 14. bush, clinton. but what was eloquent to me, when you say it wasn't eloquent. to me it's eloquent when you talk about the importance of god and america first. >> he president talk about god. judge jeanine: then why is it less eloquent? >> t there was no eloquent memorable phrase is make america first. it's a phrase that comes from charles lindbergh. i don't know why he chose that phrase. judge jeanine: who should be first? should we give up and say america should be second? >> absolutely not. i didn't even remotely say that, judge. judge jeanine: youyi said it's n e

carl bernstein, having dealt with watergate and people are comparing this to watergate and nixon administration and his contentious relationship with the media, is this different to you? are you concerned about this administration in that comparison? >> first say that watergate and events of trump and underlying facts are different events. but when you talk about the press, in watergate the basic response of the president of the united states to what we were reporting in watergate was to make the conduct of the press, "the washington post," the issue in watergate instead of the conduct of the president and his men. exactly happening here. making the issue that conduct of the press, cnn and other news organizations often, make conduct of the press the issue rather than the conduct of the president-elect and men and women around him. that is a really important parallel because it is a way of trying to move and deceive the country about what the real questions are here. it's not conduct of the press. we need to know about the underlying issues of mr. trump's businesses. that's really what all of t

>>> the fallout over the president's order is being compared to a historic day during the nixon administration. president trump decided to fire acting attorney general sal sally yates. it appears to be the most serious rebellion since the so-called saturday night massacre back in 1973 when both the attorney general and department attorney general resigned instead of following president nixon's orders to fire the watergate special prosecutor. >>> what happens tonight after the president announces his pick for the high court? first, the senate committee will hold televised hearings and vote on whether to advance that nominee to the full senate. democrats say they are likely to filibuster that nominee, which means the republicans would need 60 senators to vote to end that filibuster. so they'd have to get some democrats on board or the domination could stall. unless, of course, republicans simply change the rules. if majority leader mitch mcconnell decides to go that route, he would need 50 votes to create the rule change. ironically it was the democrats who instituted this so-called nuclear opti

his first since 2012 and at 36 becomes the oldest player to win a major since the nixon administration. >> i am happy for you. i would have been happy to lose, too, to be honest. the comeback was perfect as it was. tennis is a tough sport. no draws. i would of been happy to get a draw and share it. really. >> a class act indeed. tiger pissed the cut at his first pga. quite a big fish for cbs to miss out on. now. rogers looking for the first tour win. time for the lead on 14. the pitch hit the tree. the boat knocked him out of contention. that opened the door for another young gun. coming out of a 1-shot lead on 18. this is a 16 foot putt for aoeg e. having to help read it this. >> so smart -- for eagle having to help read it this way. now, hollywood in los angeles. last night in the celebrity game, justin bieber was checked in the glass. too late for chris to say "sorry." [ laughter ] for you fans at home, yes. the b. yes. now, coaching the division. burns, easy backhand. now, he is doing his thing in the net. second goal for the sharks captain and the $1 million. >>> now, curry looked

generally the career appointees, some of them have served since the nixon administration. clearly they served in republican and democratic administrations. they say listen, stay on for a few months until they are confirmed. case in point, patrick kennedy when the push administration came in, he was assistant secretary for administration and they asked him to stay on until his successor was confirmed and that was six months. it's not just the management department, but other officials that were told their service were no longer needed. for instance, the secretary and act under the secretary for arms control tom countryman was on the way to a conference in rome when he was told to turn around, your services are no longer apart. it's clear that the trump administration wants to start fresh. the problem is all this decades and decades of institutional knowledge walking out the door. they will be hard pressed to find those officials that know the inner workings of the state department the way these people do. >> thanks very much. it does get to a point raised about mexico. essen

conference, he did it in the room, a very small room, but it is an important room that since the nixon administration -- am i right -- has been where president and their spokes people come and frankly take it from the press corp. and the fact that he made such a point of talking about the essential free press have to be in the building -- because of the talk about moving them across the way to the executive office building and saying that we, the press, are not to be sick fafan sickfans, and this is a guy as you said who did not always have the greatest relationship with the press and really angered many people in the press corp. because of what you were talking about says a lots about how important it is and we said it and will say it again, a free press and adversarial press is to the core of our democracy. >> and john, he also called on a reporter with an lgbt publication and gave an articulation of how happy h is on that front. >> the fact that he called on diverse publications -- that was a signal as well. and the trump campaign within its right to say hey, what about breitbart news, what's the

i can recall a hostile relationship at the end of the nixon administration -- >> that's where i was goingbut at the start of an administration. >> no, this is peculiar. [laughter] paul: and it presents peculiar problems. >> that's right. face it, donald trump is a double-barreled issue for the press, they don't like him personally or i'd lodge corral -- ideologically. my advice would be take the briefing off of live tv -- paul: this is white house -- >> i'd tell the white house that, yeah, take the briefing off of live tv, let it be embargoed so you can use clips after it's over, but don't make it a tv show in and of itself. paul: wouldn't that hurt the white house in the sense they get that advantage of getting the white house spokesman getting the white house argument out? what's the advantage of that from the white house point of view? >> because i think it's too hot, and it's raising the briefing to a level where it's a performance art. it's how can the press secretary fight, how can reporters fight, and tv reporters know they're going to be covered live, boy, do they turn up the heat

the nixon administration wasn't interested in being able to move strategically, but i think as you said, bob, absolutely right it came from nixon and kissinger's head, not from a staff or institutional procedure. >> yes? >> to the earlier point that they should be able to correlate from a different agency and present to the president, if you could briefly give us an example of when that process worked well when it was well executed from the beginning towards that you. >> i will give you an example of there is a good book on this, by the way on how we got to today. after he truly disastrous by two administrations figuring out what to do with bosnia tony led a process where he asked different agencies to come up with their best ideas about how to resolve it and state department effort and defense department effort and madeleine albright was at the un. those different efforts were put together and in a series of meetings in a series of discussion with the president over a number of days that led to a strategy for trying to get the issue resolved one way or the other and the one where the o

mark made the comparison to the nixon administration. a lot of people comparing 1973 when the attorney general resigned rather than investigate the lead investigator for water gate. >> others tried to make that comparison too. to do so would be foolish. nobody remembers it. very few people on the air right now really understand with trump was doing or understand the phenomenon of trump and are reacting as if it's candidate trump going back a year and a half. americans have moved on. the world has changed. this attorney general is definitely the most politicized attorney general office we've seen in american history. much worse than richard nixon ever dreamed of. the attorney has taken partisan positions and really needs a serious cleaning house. this is just an example of some of the festering things that take place in the administration under obama. >> you think she should resign? >> she's fighting. >> she should have hung on as long as she could have to fight this what i see as an unconstitutional executive order. it was rushed through

know, there are a lot of comparisons being drawn now between the trump administration and the nixon administration, especially when it comes to nixon directing the attorney general to investigate the prosecutor for watergate, and the attorney general resigning. there are similarities. >> there certainly is a sense of betrayal here. trump goes out of his way to give this woman who is -- you know, a liberal who was appointed, brought in by obama, a chance to be an acting attorney general. as soon as she has a chance to try to attack and make him look bad and to misdirect the justices that are sworn to follow the president's lead, she does so. and of course she has to get fired. what we don't understand and the media is missing is that trump is not surprising anybody. he clearly said what he was going to do. he's setting an agendas. he's up front, transparent about it. the left is going crazy. they can't understand why they're losing their power and their way of life and the control that they've had. they don't understand the rest of america supports trump. he's a disrupter. he wasn't elected to be a

nixon administration was impressive agencies being able to move -- it came from nixon and kissing jers- notify from staff. not from institution procedures. >> to bob's earlier comment, policy from different agencies present it to the present if you can give example of when that process worked well. what was policy you feel was executed both from the beginning toward the end. >> this good book on this by the way, on how we got to date, so after it truly disaster, tony lead process where he asked different agencies to come up with their best idea how to resolve it, it was state department effort and defense effort mem yor it was nsc effort and those different efforts were put together in a series of meetings and series of discussion with the department over a number of days that lead to a strategy for trying to get the issues resolved one way or the another and the one way or the either through negotiation or through with drawing the un troops and lifting the arms embargo and striking air power. using the military means in order to get the process going. that lead to date and then lead t

. >> i want to bring you in, i know you know about the -- this happened during the nixon administration, similarly, i think, the person stepped down, but this time, what do you think, do you think that she needed to go? >> there's a big difference, the saturday night massacre was really about firing the attorney general when nixon was the target of an investigation and was actively obstructing justice. i think the president is within his rights here to fire the attorney general, that he has that ability. and it's not wise that he did. but what's really happened here is, that the president and his presidency is in chaos. and it's apparent to all but his most serious defenders and those who are his greatest defenders and advocates. but for republicans on capitol hill, who i'm talking to, who are doubting his abilities. doubting even his stability under pressure, this is an extraordinary series of events. we now have hundreds of thousands of people who have been going into the streets as a result of this. we have a former president, his predecessor who is encouraging people to go into the

the nixon administration was exceptional.e came from the senate and kissinger's head from the staff or institutional procedure. >> i work at the boston consulting group. the earlier .. about the national security adviser should be able to collate a policy from different agencies and presented to the president and implemented. could you briefly give us an example of when that process worked well. what was a policy that you feel those executed from the beginning toward the end. >> there's a good book on this by the way, on how we got -- so after a truly disastrous with two demonstration trying to do with bosnia, tony let a process where where he has to from agencies to come up with their best ideas about how to resolve it state department effort was a madame albright effort in an nsc effort. those efforts were put together in a series of meetings and discussions with the president over a number of days that led to a strategy to try to get the issue resolved one way or another. one way or another was either through negotiation o

you compare that to 67 members of the nixon administration eventually indicted. even carter, a good, erect man had a little bit of -- i think one person. this administration has gone out with no scandal, no person indicted. he carries us well around the world. he travels well. his family, beautiful family, an adoring family. i think he's a president who made us incredibly proud. he's the first african-american president. incredible pressure on him to be perfect, to not make any mistakes personally and he didn't. and i think he made black america immensely proud. when i got out of media, i did work on that campaign. it's one of the proudest things i've ever done, to play even a tiny part in helping to make this happen. i think we can be proud of it. no other western democracy has elected an ethnic minority to be their president. we did it. >> as the motorcade picks up a little speed, it's going to head by the new trump hotel in the old post office building. a lot of washingtonians who want to get a glimpse of this, this is all about getting them up to capitol hill,

president nixon's order to fire the special prosecutor archibald cox investigating crimes in the nixon administration and an investigation that had already led to the indictment of nixon's first attorney general, john mitchell. the pace of resistance and defiance to the president by judges and the attorney general now was much, much faster than it was in the nixon presidency. elliot richardson resigned on that saturday night when he refused the president's -- to execute the president's order. the acting attorney general who carried out the president's order to fire archibald cox the next day, the newspapers call ld it the saturday night massacre. there is in the history of the presidency no worse sign for the future of a presidency than an attorney general defying the president. so the nixon presidency lasted only ten months after elliot richardson refused to carry out president nixon's order. sally kulian yates was confirmed by the senate as deputy attorney general in the spring of 2015 and one week, one week before that, ann marie donnely had her confirmation hearing for a federal judgeship, usuall

it happened under the nixon administration. >> i wonder this.et me ask you about the bubble effect. i have always wondered about the bubble effect on a president, on a campaign, which is you are surrounded by people who tell you all the time how great are you are. you are doing great. if you didn't do so hot, you may be able to do that better but you nailed x. you think that, then, warps the view of press coverage from the prism of the west wing? >> you know -- >> funny you mention that, chuck. one of the first pieces of advice i give candidates, i have done this consistently, is to tell them not to read their own clips. not to watch cable. don't read the newspapers. don't read your own clips. if you need to know something, let the staff tell you about it. because candidates can get obsessed with thisind of thing very easily. part of it is because candates are human beings. they want reporters to like them, okay. they want reporters to say, yes, that was a great speech. when they read negative stuff they spend a huge amount of time obsessing abo

>> my father represented john lennon when he took on the nixon administration. i happened to have represented melania trump and i represent some of the trump organizations. but this is a major of principle. despite the president's sincerity and wanting to vet and create more processes, it's to the courts. and more importantly, i'm an immigration professor. the plenary power here of immigration that's vested in congress, congress has to step up. hopefully, the deafening silence we've seen for decades will not resume on monday morning. >> michael, will this get to the supreme court? >> absolutely. you want to know something, i think it's going to get worse before it gets better. the moral compass of america is made on immigration. how can we turn our backs on these individuals. worse, on a weekend, i have couples now that are split. professionals. >> we have to end with this, you said you have worked with the trump family fore, what can you tell me about that, vis-a-vis what he's doing on immigration? >> mrs. trump is an immigrant herself who travailed and respect

the the nixon administration thought about filing charges against jane fonda for her trip to vietnam. process perot even when he was trying to get missing servicemen back after the vietnam war ended, and, obviously, nothing has ever come from any of this. now, as we see from george logan -- who had nothing but the best of intentions -- having good intentions is absolutely no protection from being accused of treason which is very much an accusation he faced from the federalists in congress. they denounced him on the senate floor, basically, as a traitor. he's actually not the only person who found his way into my book for trying to make peace. the other was a man named nicholas tryst. now, tryst did not betray his country or government so much as he betrayed his president which, of course, under the british was kind of one and the same, and there actually is no question he betrayed his president. he was quite open about this. but whether he was doing this in the best interest of his country is a completely other matter. in 1847 we were in the middle of a war with mexico, and at that po

nothing new really saw it all the time in the clinton administration with ron ziegler and the nixon administration was famous for doing as well but i think brett president trump's press secretary have laid down a marker that anytime they see something they do not like they are going to aggressively counter it as they did throughout part of the day. >> emea future with the top leaders in the intelligence community james clapper and john brennan but today president trump's see the standing ovation from staff at the cia. right back at you said the president as he praised the women and men on the frontlines of intelligence gathering and analysis. >> i believe that it's going to be one of the most important groups in this country in making us safe, toward making us winners again. >> he was in sharp contrast to earlier statements by the pier to colin to question the quality of american intelligence. the president blames the media for that perception. >> i am with you a thousand%. the press made it sound like i had a few with the intelligence community. i just want to let you know it is exactly the oppos

this is sort of the ken --akin to some of the pardon such a place in richard nixon's administration. basically, cartwright did this at the pleasure of the white house, so to speak, so he is part of the official leaks program as so many other unindicted people are in the white house. big contrast to how they treat conscience of motivated whistleblowers. amy: ncy hollander, what this means for future whistleblowers? >> i think it is very important for future whistleblowers to see how chelsea was treated and mistreated. and none of that is going to go away, but at least the president has reduced her sentence. that we have always been concerned and chelsea has been concerned that future whistleblowers will be afraid to come out and step forward. chelsea will be out there doing service to her community, and she can't wait to do that. amy: nancy hollander, appellate attorney for chelsea manning. chase strangio, staff attorney at the aclu. strangio represents chelsea manning in a lawsuit against the pentagon. jeremy scahill, i hope you'll stay with us, to talk about the confirmation hearing

. >> could, hark bs back to saturday night massacre during nixon administration where he kept firingior justice department officials until he found someone who would fire the special prosecutor. so i think with he could see that with sally yates being fired and see if there's anyone in the upper echelons of the justice department right now who is willing to actually reverse this directive. or capitol hill expedite jeff sessions as quickly as possible. >> sally yates senior justice department official, depp difficult general under if the president fires her, does he have to go down to the number three person? >> yeah, the justice department has a hierarchy chart and they take over when there's no one above them. eventually he'll run out of people to fire if it's true that the justice department is opposed to defending this ban in court. and then the question becomes will the trump administration be able to get senator sessions confirmed or will the executive order now create a reason for senators to actually reset that nomination and to reopen the hearing? >> what do you think is goin

bernstein got a couple stories wrong, bringing down the nixon administration, something about what was actually said at a grand jury, what they thought was going to be said, you know what i mean? >> yeah. >> so mistakes are made even when there's a 9 o%, the 95% probability that you're right. assumptions are sometimes made. cnm made an assessment this was handed to trump. it wasn't done that way. it was given through the office. your thoughts. >> what's so damaging about this whole episode is it allows trump to sort of as katy mentioned, gives him an opening to score a political point which is the media is somehow biased or out to get him. i think it's especially important in the trump -- incoming trump administration that the media is a fierce crusader for what is true and what we can prove and that is why buzzfeed airing an unverified dossier is so damaging because we don't know if it's true and trump thrives in a culture where we don't really know whathe facts are. he can just sayn the one hand or on the other, and the media needs to say, no, there are things that are true, there ar

but i do think back to -- you think about during the nixon administration, think about richard nixon, some holdup in the white house watching these massive anti-war rallies happening. you can't wall yourself off from it. donald trump could just mainline fox news today and try to absorb himself in only adulation of this has inaugural and pretend it's not happening. it's hard to believe that someone who's on social media as much as he isn't going to realize this is happening. that means he's going to react. what if donald trump compounds having attacked john lewis with attacking this? >> well, here's what i will say. i think there should be a call to action, right? when it comes to, after this march. and the call to action, i believe, should be, you guys should go and run. folks should go out there and run for office. that's one way to really send a message. if you think back to 2009, 2010, with the tea party and how they got started, right, it was based on racism, let's be clear there, and what they ended up doing is they started running. they started running in 2010 during the midterm

you mentioned the nixon administration. just give some examples where unpredictability is good. ms. albright: first of all, i teach, i teach a course, i say foreign policy's just trying to get some country do what you want. that's all it is. so what are the tools. my course is called the national security toolbox. we look at, there are not a lot of tools in that toolbox, frankly, even for the most powerful country in the world. there's diplomacy, bilateral and multi lateral. there are the economic tools, the carrots which are trade and aid, and sanctions and embargoes which are the sticks. then the threat of the use of force, the use of force, law enforcement and intelligence. that's it. so one of the aspects about bilateral diplomacy for instance is that it sometimes pays -- president nixon was unpredictable at times in terms of how he dealt with the russians. i think that consistent unpredictability is dangerous because countries really do need to know what the behavior of the most powerful country in the world is so that they can set up their national interests and foreign policy

we saw that in the nixon administration but there could clearly be a circumstance in which there's such a relationship breech that an attorney general wouldn't be an effective member of presence administration. maybe the executive -- chief executive could even be correct and the attorney general could be wrong. if the attorney general's duty is to give the best judgment that the attorney general can give and therefore if it's rejected on a very fundamental area, then that causes great concern. maybe in another area of less importance, you could afford to disagree. but i just think that that result should be very rare, has not happened very often in the history of this country. i only know of one and therefore the reason is that usually the chief executive's and i would expect with president trump that when confronted or advised that certain policies are not accept hable would accept that advice. i'm confident that he would but you raise a hypothetical and i've given you my thoughts about it -- if the assistant attorney general from olc was coming to you and saying i've been asked to try

exact parallel to the assassination of the nexen administration, but rings that to mind -- nixon administrationthat to mind and raises the stakes for the president to get nominees confirmed. francine: what do we understand about the president's psychology, does he demand loyalty above all else? michael: no one really knows what he is thinking, but that is the story people are telling. some of the things he is asking people to do, say go out until some falsehood to the press, maybe a loyalty test. the interesting thing about jeff sessions, the attorney general nominee, he was on the judiciary committee when sally yates was confirmed. we have a quote from him we are he asked her whether she would follow the law. views thef the president wants to execute are unlawful should the deputy attorney general say no? yes, thees said attorney general should stand up. tom: mike, you beautifully triangulate. sorry, i cut you off. mark: the attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the administration. tom: this is sort of like the saturday night, judging to sell, and all of that. lle and all of

we have seen the nixon and administration, we have seen other ministrations the sort of fight. it will come to a head, but if they tried to kick the white house press corps out of the white house that has been there for generations, good luck. >> and it's less about, i would think just from a legal standpoint, less about her additionality and more about really what we have been called to do as journalists per the constitution. >> eboni: that is complete we true, and when we talk about free press and access, where are we headed in terms of the true freedom of our press and where it is going to go and what it is going to look like under president trump's and administration? i agree with exactly what chris is saying, you cannot deny that excess, it has to be there. we can argue, and look, i don't disagree. i think the press has been very flattering to president obama. i contested is more than ideological, i think there's something deeper. i think you probably wouldn't have meant as flattering to hillary clinton as they were to even barack obama, so i don't think it's just partisan

the trump administration is in the situation where they are rightly or wrongly, this is harkening back in the saturday night discussion to the saturday night massacre under richard nixonhere he fired folks in the department of justice for refusing to fire a prosecutor investigating him. this is a different story because you have an a obama holdover. if the trump administration waited until after jeff sessions was sworn in as the attorney general, presumably they could have avoided this entire thing and all the comparisons that will come today to the nixon administration and that situation. chuck schumer, the democrat from new york already called this the monday night massacre. you can imagine democrats will pounce on what they see as a political opportunity. >> the echo chamber, people will be talking to each other. it would be so easily solved with you're fired. the attorney general serves -- we give a lot of power to the executive branch. the other case to be made, if you weren't seeing the obstruction, four or five cabinet members in. we know what's going on, fine, they can do that. that's the only reason she was left there. probably a mistake to leave her there in

that i also remember that the largest protest against the war in vietnam took place under the nixon administration forced to leave office, so there are -- amy: one by a landslide in 1972, out by the summer of 1974. angela: exactly. first of all, we have to guarantee that if trump lasts the next four years, he will be only a one-term president. i think that has to be on everyone's agenda. amy: didn't he already come up with his campaign slogan for 2020? great." rica heela: yeah, , that's trtrue, did, but we have our slogans and we have our goals, and we have to figure out how to transform this into an air of radical activism, so it means the activism has to happen at every level. i was saying last night that now 460 more days before the .ext inauguration let us guarantee that on every single one of those dadays, thee will be a significant act of collective resistance. it means that we also have to recognize the intersection analogy of our struggles. we talk about intersection analogy a lot, but we have to recognize the interconnectedness of our struggles, and we have to be willing -- those of us wh