the secretary of state in the nixon administration as well as the national security adviser in the nixonon. this comes on a day when the president was meeting with the russian foreign minister. so with all of this talk of the saturday night massacre -- >> all right, jeff. certainly a very important point. i am so sorry to interrupt you. we have some breaking news right now. the foreign minister of russia sergey lavrov talking at the russian embassy. >> on the whole territory of the syrian republic and this step will help us to come to the political solution on the basis of the resolution of the united nations security council. we agreed to continue work into gaza whereas the united states is present as observer and also in the framework of the geneva process, it should be renewed. i believe that all of the participants of those talks were constructive and put in the opposition groups and they also discussed the promise with the international immunity basis and when we are together with the united states can play decisive and we mentioned the situation in afghanistan, and the situation wi

california where former speech writer and senior advisor to president nixon will shed light on the nixon administration at the richard nixon presidential library in museum. on wednesday, off to the mcarthur memorial, where peter eisner will recall how filipinos survived the japanese occupation during world war ii. and we will be in denver to hear the discussion on how 14 inmates received wrongful convictions. the american spirit coming up on thursday as well and that evening we are headed down to the tulsa historical society for best selling historian recount of the ill faded junior of the dawner party. and friday we are back in the nation's capitol to hear david callahan report on how the wealthy are using philanthropic adventures are using -- used to promote the future. >> as a candidate, trump got a lot of mileage out of taking the side of the smaller folk and that might be workers who lost jobs or companies that are on the smaller side and can't complete with the big global interests as president we see a shift in that to somewhat more traditional conservative positions which are in favor of global

. >> i ascended -- i attended a talk from nixon's administration and he was saying there was a loyalty being torn in and he felt like he was swearing to nixon to pledge aliege -- allegiance to the country. how do you think nixon was able to establish that loyalty? george allen was famous it is a common contact and making the other team the bad guys. that was one thing nixon did. he had a much much longer honeymoon with the press and the public than trump is having. his money moon lasted six or seven months and was given leeway and people were patient and wanted to see what they could do about vietnam. he didn't turn paranoid until the fall of '69 when students got on the campus and began the protest the war. the protesters couldn't get in and burn the warehouse and they begin the paranoia and you hear it over and over. he had six or seven months. on that day, david kaut -- david was right. >> thank you so far. i am wondering and speaking of lessons of a failed presidency in the hopes that now we will have a successful presidency. what lessons in terms of isolating groups nixon did in h

the nixon administration eventually collapsed. the president resigned on the verge of being impeached in part because someone inside the government kept leaking information to "the washington post," to bob woodward and carl bernstein. 48 members of the nixon administration were convicted of crimes. nixon's attorney general went to prison. his white house counsel went to prison. and leaks to "the washington post" are part of what kept the momentum going in the watergate investigation. and the leak to "the washington post" that was condemned by republican senators today is obviously what got michael flynn fired. sally yates testified under oath today that she was not the source of that leak. so the source of the leak to "the washington post" might on the one hand be guilty of a crime for leaking classified information. and on the other hand, is the anonymous hero who has taken a chance so that america can know the truth. >> without the free press telling us a lot of what went on, michael flynn might still be sitting in the white hou

how does this rate compareing it to the experience of the clinton and nixon administration. are we at that level? >> we are well beyond what the clinton administration was. no one thought that bill clinton would leave office, even though there was impeachment proceedings. he was not going to proceed in the senate. a lot of people thought it was overreached to go after him that way. there are similarities to the nixon experience that i think only get more obvious as time goes on. that is the deepening crisis in the white house itself. senator corker, the senator from tennessee said this week that the administration was in a downward spiral. that got a lot steeper today. we haven't seen this since the nixon administration. the white house itself lost control of the narrative. they are no longer able to tell their story because it's so drowned out by the cascade of leaks and things the president has said or done that he shouldn't have done. he would have been wiser not to have done. look at today while they were in the air going t saudi arabia, that long flight, they are landing

a lot of people wonder, did other administrations record? we know nixon's history as we just discussed and past administrations as well that came before. that the presidents also had recordings. >> the lesson was -- because recordings are discoverable, because they -- it's easy to subpoena them. and they are -- they are public records now, they were not in 1973. -- >> what do you mean by that banana republic comment that you made? >> well, look -- i mean, because the president fired the head of our domestic intelligence and criminal service. and could not really explain. in fact, first the white house could -- the white house gets one explanation and then the president himself overturns that. so people wonder why was one of the most important members of the u.s. intelligence committee fired? they wonder why the u.s. couldn't keep a single story. they have the fact that you have a russian investigation. comey is not in charge of it t supervised the entire bureau, and then the president visits the russian visitors, allowing them to tweet -- sort of a victory

nixon a great sympathy for native americans and there's -- with simulation which his administration reverse. they're still pictures of richard nixon hanging on the wall in the west. we talked to one of the students was from china and we asked her where nixon's place was and she said well he is number two in your list of presidents. after who? after george washington use the second best president. he is slowly climbing up. nixon has jumped up from the bottom and is somewhere in the low 20s. he will probably stay there because of watergate. i think he will stay there because of the character he was. >> it's impossible for biographer not to develop evidence -- >> we both wrote a same column who in the end of the presidency -- >> you could probably make a very good argument that nixon was no worse than franklin roosevelt, except that franklin roosevelt pulled it off. the job that roosevelt had to do all of the agencies with the three letters he knew might not work maybe they would work. to prepare the american people to battle with a total battles in world war ii to great expediency, great powe

looking at comparing the trump bin nixon administration i really don't think that establishes any justice it think it is a lot worse. in a bucket said james buchanan administration thatn has been known as the worse facidency we ever had. and to take into account the foreign policy that the presidential cabinet in with that political corruption but to be say about the buchanan it administration so i know that is dark and morbid the there is a silver lining to read question. and with the quantum leap forward when it elected abraham lincoln. leap and i'm also a real leader is at the same time candidly as a foreigner in the end ofs this part is kind of hard. >>host: we got the question. >>guest: we're only slightly more of 100 days. into finding out of this plays out. so that chaos internally to be fixed to some extent they now have a conventional decision making process and then people who are concerned about donald trump getting rid of the fbi director and then to raise concerns with that agency that is investigating and that there understand all of these concerns and to see that constituti

we've had administrations that have had scan disals before but the nixon administration by the time thendal hit, they had very qualified administration. but with this administration they have had time to staff up and therefore they do not have people in the jobs to do the normal work of administration and at this point who's going to want to go into those jobs? no one is going to want to go into those yob jobs. we are looking at an administration that is going to be porl served running the country. >> woodr i heard paul ryan giving a talk last night and he says this is alt white noise, we're going to focus on the business of the country, get health care done and get tax reform done later this year. >> tax reform is, guess about the infrastructure bill, we are approaching memorial day judy, if there isn't a health care bill out of the senate then that's on life support. paul ryan, a lovely man, you are running in 2018 and now it's nothing but a number on donald trump. you wouldn't have a legislative program to go back and talk about. i cannot overstate, how unbelievable, literally, this

here is one part where she made a reference to the nixon administration, along with a not so subtle veiled swipe at you-know-who. >> we were furious about the past presidential election of a man whose presidency would eventually end in disgrace with his impeachment for obstruction of justice. after firing the person running the investigation into him at the department of justice. of course, today has some important differences. the advance of technology, the impact of the inrnet, our fragmented media landscape make it easier than ever to splinter ourselves into echo chambers. leaders willing to exploit fear and skepticism have tools at their disposal that were unimaginable when i graduated. >> one person is a fan of her address. former president bill clinton just tweeted, what a great speech. hillary clinton will never stop believing in and fighting for truth and reason. joining me now is joel bennettson, former speech strategist for hillary clinton's campaign. amber phillips, a political reporter with the "washington post" and nbc news senior politics editor mark murray. quite a team to t

and 10 minutes later, he welcomed former nixon administration official. what was henry kissinger doing in the oval office? we want to welcome our viewers from the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> breaking news tonight, new details are emerging about president trump's stunning ousting of the fb i director james comey. white house is struggling to justify the sudden firing of the man leading the russian investigation as democrats voice outrage and call for an independent council to be named. the president is accusing democrats of hypocrisy and says flatly that comey wasn't doing a good job even though the white house said last week that comey had the president's confidence. also, sources are now telling cnn that just days ago, comey asked the justice department for more resources for the investigation into russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election and ties to the trump campaign. the sources say comey made the request to the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who the white house says recomm

how does this rate comparing it to the experience of the clinton and nixon administration. are we at that level? >> we are well beyond what the clinton administration was. no one thought that bill clinton would leave office, even though there was impeachment proceedings. he was not going to proceed in the senate. a lot of people thought it was overreached to go after him that way. there are similarities to the nixon experience that i think only get more obvious as time goes on. that is the deepening crisis in the white house itself. senator corker, the senator from tennessee said this week that the administration was in a downward spiral. that got a lot steeper today. we haven't seen this since the nixon administration. the white house itself lost control of the narrative. they are no longer able to tell their story because it's so drowned out by the cascade of leaks and things the president has said or done that he shouldn't have done. he would have been wiser not to have done. look at today while they were in the air going to saudi arabia, that long flight, they are landin

. >> do republicans come reluctantly in the nixon administration? >> yes, then it broke as evidence and documents came out, as pages came out, made a big difference, and nixon's support in the country fell apart. >> and it was a coverup. >> it was a coverup. the fact -- i think there's something that even transcends it, don, we're in a remarkable moment to have three bomb shells in a row in a space of a few days as you said. the comey firing, the sharing of high, high level intelligence with the russians, of all people, and then evidence the president tried to interfere in the investigation. this is a presidency that from this -- this presidency seems to be falling apart, and many people are asking, where does this go from here? where does this end? how do we stabilize washington and get the country back on track because i think a lot of people are very disoriented by this, very upset by it, and there's some people who think on the conservative side, all the media, you know, we're blowing this out of proportion. other people think we've had a preside

the president keeps creating the parallels to the nixon administration. become a living, breathing threat to democracy with everything he does. it is unconventional. unorthodox and unamerican. he himself led to the possibility of drawing the parallels with richard nixon when he evoked the possibility he could be taping conversations with james comey and others. he cannot help himself, but this is deeply troubling to democracy. we will get to the bottom of it one way or the other. >> so this, i want to play for everybody. another moment from the recent interview that the president has made. take a listen. >> he made a recommendation. regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it. in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. >> so he thinks it is a made up story. wants to see it go away. is that an admission of what his intent was in getting rid of james comey and back to obstruction of justice. how do you not listen to

look, this has echos of the nixon administration. e's a nixonian tone increasingly enveloping this. because keep in mind, it wasn't so much the crimes, the war crimes that president nixon and those around him committed, it was the attempted cover-up that spelled the end for richard nixon. now, what we have here is clearly a cover-up. it may not be a cover-up for anything very important, on the other hand, the question of whether a hostile power got deeply involved in american presidential politics is clearly much bigger than anything that happened in watergate which only dealt with domestic crimes, if you will, but this is about the cover-up. president trump and those around him have something to hide. it may not be something criminal. you have to ask yourself what is it they're trying to hide? because they're in a desperate cover-up mode at the moment. there's a question of absolutely obstruction of justice. you know, don, i think it's worth remembering that we have carved in stone in our buildings in washington around the country "e

this is for something per lick it up. 48 members of the nixon administration between of things that the president wanted them to do and things they tried to help the president with after the president had already crossed legal lines and this president is going to ask people to do things that they should not do. tomorrow and in the feature end of may may have already done so. this is happening ten times faster. >> then -- it took him az his plumbers three-and-a-half years to braem into the dnc. >> the washington already did that. you're the last selection. >> it took three-and-a-half months, not three-and-a-half years to get to the point where he's obstructing justice and there he is, no question that firing jim comey and intimidating him is obstruction calling off the ap. aiding intelligence, he had no right to leak. that is an abusive power. and as far as beyond lawyering up. it's too late. there are going to be special committees in congress and there will certainly be, if not, before after the 2018 elections. motion of impeachment of this president. >> professor, i would assume you w

the supreme court on behalf of the "new york times" in the pentagon papers case during the nixon administration and has been back in court many times since defending reporters and editors. it's nice to see you, sir. thank you for joining us. you start the book with a fascinating look at our nation's forefathers. 1787, the first amendment, they went back and forth on the phrasing. originally, they talked about the people's right and eventually it shifted to what congress couldn't do. why does the nuance matter? floyd: it matters because the language we wound up with -- exactly what you're saying - "congress shall make no law." congress later became the president also and the states also. but it became clear a ban, a bar, a limitation on government, which is the stuff of law. the first amendment is a law. it is not a poem, not aspirational, not just a hope for the future. if you phrase it the other way, if you say people shouldn't be denied their rights, it sounds as if what you are saying -- wouldn't that be a good idea? so they deliberately made it stronger, by making it narrower. "congress sha

here's his perspective. >> nixon and clinton. >> yes. >> i was in the nixon administration, as you know impeachment i thought i would never see another one. i think we're in impeachment territory for the first time. ? really? >> i think the obstruction of justice was the number one charge against nixon that brought him down. >> so, doug, give us your historical perspective on how you think, where we are today and how it compares? >> well, we always have to remember richard nixon ran a full term. he had successes. the famous trip to china. he was president when neil armstrong went to the moon. he created the environmental protection agency. nixon had a legacy. in '72 he won the biggest landslide in american history and then boom watergate fell upon him. in this case we have donald trump almost from day one of his administration being besieged by this massive russia-gate problem since there's no other problem, we want to say if there is collusion with russia. but it's terrible. he just doesn't seem to know how to get away from it. he's made so many errors in tweets, statements. he now is

the whole nixon administration is saying, why don't we stay one day longer? who wants to be the last american to die in vietnam? that becomes that. if i can get back to eisenhower, it is overlooked by a lot of scholars and strategists that when kennedy was talking with eisenhower before they went to the inauguration, eisenhower only raised one issue with the incoming president. and that was laos. he said the key to southeast asia was laos. communist forces were on the move inside laos. kennedy then meets in early 1961, my dad was involved in all this, to figure out what to do about laos. the joint chiefs say we cannot go into laos. the only option they put on the table for kennedy is two u.s. divisions. the joint chief says, from the north side, there are no roads and there, no airports. you cannot supply two u.s. divisions three meals a day and weapons. kennedy said we cannot go in, we have to cut a deal. we have to cut a deal, neutralize laos. the north vietnamese do not honor. they start moving into laos to do their infiltration into the south. and we need

president nixon got a special prosecutor assigned to investigate his administration five years into his presidency. a presidency that survived only one more year because of that special prosecutor who sent 48 members of the nixon administration to prison. a month after president nixon resigned, he was pardon by his successor, president jerry ford. ronald reagan faced a special prosecutor six years into the reagan presidency in the iran/contra. bill clinton got his special counsel exactly two years into his presidency. that special prosecutor worked for four years and more. and four years after he appointed, the work of that special prosecutor led to bill clinton's impeachment in the house of representatives followed by his acquittal in a trial in the united states senate, presided over by the chief justice of the united states. as called for by the constitution. i'm bringing back all these scenarios to you so that you can imagine one of these versions playing out with different names. in 2017. or 2018. george w. bush got his special prosecutor three years into his presidency. donald tru

a lot of people have been comparing the trump and nixon administration, and while i think that is somewhat accurate, i do not think it does us any justice. i think it would do is a much morer service if we drew a historical parallel with the administration which is historically renowned as the worst presidency we have ever had. fact ofnto account the foreign policy and the state department that is almost toothless and a presidential cabinet that has a multibillion-dollar net worth, it has provided for a environment of political corruption at the highest levels. the same things could've been said about the buchanan administration. this may sound hyperbolic, but proliferation of slavery and the civil war. the really is a silver lining to this. here's the reason for my question. corruption --e our country had a quantum leap forward in his conscience when it elected abraham lincoln. i am kind of excited and curious to see what our quantum leap forward is going to be. i am also nervous about what will happen at the same time. i'm trista hear from you. candidly, as a foreigner from the outside -

>> well, we're all looking at the nixon administration for the parallels because that's how we have to go to find investigations of this level of seriousness about matters that are so crucial to the functioning of the democracy. oddly, we skip over the clinton administration where the last impeachment was because the underlying events were so relatively unserious to the actual conduct of this democracy. and so we go back to the nixon era, and we look at how all of that happened. a lot of references tonight to the saturday night massacre. michael beschloss is going to talk about that. and this is different, but the echos are all there. the shapes are all there. so that's what we've been looking at from the start of the scandal investigations around the trump transition, around the trump campaign. it's always had the feeling of 1973-1974. that's the feeling it's had whenever we've come to these moments. >> lawrence, didn't mean to keep you. thank you for sticking around. we will continue now what has become kind of rolling, breaking news coverage into the evening. lawrence o'donnell, tha

watergate, to the saturday night massacre when other justice officials were let go by the nixon administration during watergate to equal what we are seeing here right now. whether or not we ultimately learn that this had something to do with what the fbi has been looking into russia, whether it has something to do with hillary clinton, this we do know, it is unprecedented for a president of the united states to fire an fbi director. so watch the reasons we ultimately are able to unearth about what led up to this, this moment in history is singular. there have objection to the form been a dozen fbi directors. jim comey is now a former one and he's coming up well short of that ten-year mark. by the way, just to peruse the letter here, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein he cites michael mu casey a former attorney even, because it seems like what i'm getting from these documents is they're saying that comey has come from both sides and really when you think about it when that first announcement came out in october that he was investigating hillary clinton's campaign, on the right they were all

echos of fred thompson questioning butterfield about the nixon administration's recording devices ine oval office. it's just extraordinary. >> rose: h he went a tweet out saying james comey better hope there are no conversations -- tape of the conversations before he starts leaking to the press. that sounds like a threat. >> i don't know how you could interpret that but if someone at the briefing asks the press secretary why did he threaten comey, sean spicer. wait a minute, that was not a threat. i don't know how you can see it as anything but a threat. the other question i have, charlie, is if he's saying comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversation, if he's suggesting there may be tapes of the conversations, well, this was a meeting, a dinner at the white house. who would be recording that if it weren't the president?Ñi you know, thisñr clearly suggess the president is taping his conversations. like you said, there's precedent for that, but we haven't seen that we know of, the white house recordings of presidential conversations, routine recordings of the conversations

the united states and within the washington beltway, if you like, who have memories of the nixon administrationand some of those are saying that we are looking, potentially, if these stories pan out, and it's still a big "if", potentially at "impeachment territory", as one put it tonight. well, the white house was in damage control earlier over accusations that president trump shared classified information with russian officials last week. the white house said it was wholly appropriate for the president to share information about the threat from the islamic state group with the russian foreign minister and ambassador. our north america editor jon sopel reports. this meeting with the russian foreign minister and ambassador was already controversial enough, coming a day after the sacking of the fbi director, who had been investigating the trump campaign's links to moscow. now it is being claimed that, during the meeting, the president shared the most highly classified information with his guests, so sensitive that america's allies, like britain, knew nothing about it. as the white house once agai

but in 1973, the nixon administration was sort of through bebe rebozo, a pal of nixon's -- they wereng the licenses of two of 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 washington post company, was selling for $80 million in the market. so, the washington post company, which was 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. and it was ridiculous. you had a business that unquestionably was worth four or five times what it was selling for, and nixon wasn't going to put them out of business. david: when you are doing these analyses, then and now, do you have computers that help you? or how did you actually read all -- do you get printed materials to read about "the washington post," and how do you do it today? mr. buffett: well, pretty much the same way, except there are fewer opportunities now. but i met bob woodward and he just came out with "a

it can be a nixon administration misusing the government. it can be left leaning groups lobbying lowest learner and to approvals of nonprofit applications. or it can be at the fec where people file complaints challenging the political activities of their opponents. so you must have a balanced organization to receive complaints at the rate of 3 to 1 against one side fairly and without bias. now, as for guilt by association under the broad doctrine of coordination, larry, at some point we were accused by our liberal colleagues of dismissing about -- i'm -- i don't have the numbers in front of me. this was about a year ago. dismissing 30 coordination cases. in other words, in the new era where expenditures are free for incorporated organizations and coordination remains as the doctrine that keeps corporate expenditures illegal if they're coordinated because then you have an illegal corporate contribution, people were criticized us for not enforcing strenuously enough. well, i scratched my head and we pulled up the approximately 30 cases where t

there are certain parallels that have been taken by this administration and what the nixon administratione iran—contra scandal, which i was involved in, too. the issue for me in terms of the potential abuse of process or the covering up of presidential staff activity is of concern. for example, president trump has fired three of the top investigators looking into the russian connection. three of his closest advisers have failed to disclose that they had any connection, any conferences with the russians. that would include the attorney general, it would include mr kushner and also includes general flynn, so those three individuals all fields to acknowledge they had met with russians —— all of them failed to acknowledge they had met with russians. there is nothing wrong with setting up a separate channel to communicate with the russians. the problem is, there is so russians. the problem is, there is so much doubt hanging over what the russian influence has been. we know, oui’ russian influence has been. we know, our intelligence agencies have certified, they have tried to influence and atta

comparisons to the nixon administration and watergate. [video clip] >> in less than four months, this president has pushed our country to the edge of constitutional crises. a crisis that seems more complex and more threatening than the nixon'sted by president order to fire the special prosecutor investigate watergate. first, i think we can easily dismiss president trump's transparent pretext for dismissing fbi director comey. hesident trump claims removed the fbi director because of his unfair treatment of secretary clinton. this does not pass the test. we know it is not true. president trump celebrated andctor comey's mistakes handling the email investigation. he encouraged leaks from the fbi and pressed director comey to release more embarrassing evidence. he praised comey after his misguided letter to congress last october. was now, the president compelled to fire the director. only six months after it occurred. claim, if itable wasn't so sad, it would be laughable. the truth is the resident removed the sitting fbi director amidst one

i began my career in the nixon administration and there were several special prosecutors since then.ey general has. but i have watched these things drag on for too long and go in too many directions. this administration has to get ready to deal with this side bar and still run the government. e president has to set up special operation. bring in lawyers to deal with this. then he has got to get back to straighten out his white house staff and get on with the major agenda he promised the american people he would do. lou: this president asserted and documented he has done nothing wrong time after time. there has been 8 months of investigation by the f.b.i. and the statements of james comey himself that there is no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign, the transition or the white house and the russians, for crying out loud. how did we get here? ed: i think it's the drum beat of the press. at the end of the day, it may be six months, hopefully no longer than that -- lou: why does it take so long. ed: the judiciou jew -- the judl process always does. i hope the president will

circuit who was a member of the ford and nixon administrations wrote in "the wall street journal," quote: who the hell does mr. comey think he is? a legal clark kent emerge anything tights to save the country. [laughter] and i think it's a very apt phrase. comey, i think, took it upon himself to do what he thought was best for the country, not what was best for the rule of law and for the agency he headed. and i think that in no small part is why trump terminated him today. charles: once again for the audience just tuning in, president trump has terminated director comey after the suggestion from the attorney general and the deputy attorney general. perhaps they all thought he was maybe a legal clark kent as well. we'll be right back. think your large cap equity fund has exposure to energy infrastructure mlps? think again. it's time to shake up your lineup. the alerian mlp etf can diversify your equity portfolio and add potential income. bring amlp into the game. before investing, consider the fund's investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses. read the prospectus carefully at al

he started to defend the nixon administration so that when the vietnam war came to its terrible climax he was part of, of some of the people blamed for it. later, for watergate, he did not denounce early in. >> as i read your book, i thought of really graham as a foreshadowing it's almost novelistic, he's a foreshadowing of what happens after him. he was one personal larger-than-life figure by the late 1970s you have an entire organized movement to make a marriage happened between conservative evangelicalism and fundamentalism and the republican party. which we know as the christian right. a lot of us saw back on the tv, pat robertson, dj kennedy, larger-than-life characters. talk about the birth of the christian right and its trajectory? >> i think it was preceded by an upsurge of fundamentalism in the south. it was the second upsurge and it was the first upsurge in the south. it happened at virtually the same moment in industrialization and urbanization and the first one happened in the north. as we all know, that creates cultural disruptions of all kinds. people are coming into the

recalling the time when president nixon's administration was in turmoil. while clearly alluding to the current administration. >> we were furious about the past presidential election, of a man whose presidency would eventually end in disgrace with his impeachment for obstruction of justice. >> reporter: donald junior pounce on his father's former opponent. responding on twitter, posting, the irony of hillary claiming nixon was impeached he wasn't, but neglecting that the fact that bill actually was impeached is priceless. >> reporter: clinton's unexpected loss in 2016 was intertwined with advice for the class of 2017, telling them to be bold, try, fail and hold on to your values. >> that was way too easy for donald junior to pounce on. stephanie, thank you. >>> we're following breaking news this morning, regarding airlines. >> there's word of an air traffic problem that's affecting travel around the globe. abc's linzie janis with more. >> reporter: this news breaking right now. here's what we know so far -- british airways has suffered a systemwide, global