moderator this evening is frank gannon a member of the prestigious white house fellows in the nixon administration who later served as special assistant to counselor donald rumsfeld. he's the chief editorial assistant to former president nixon on research and writing of his memoirs during the presidency years in san clemente. and he has the distinction of having seven interviewed the former president for 38 hours on tape in 1983 in those materials reside in the peabody archive. our distinguished speaker this evening is john roy price the road scholar and harvard educated attorney who migrated from 1968 rockefeller campaign to that of nixon. he promptly joined the new nixon administration in 199 working with daniel patrick moynihan and later working with domestic adviser john ehrlichman a special system to the president for urban affairs. he ultimately became head of government relations for chase manhattan bank and present ceo of the federal bank of pittsburgh. a special note jonas joined this evening by his daughter alexandria so welcome to both of you. john's new book "the last liberal republica

the nixon administration indeed to roll up a scandal the complexity and dimension of watergate required the concerted if not coordinated efforts of special prosecutors. federal judges fbi both houses of congress the supreme court the justice and even then even then. nixon would have survived the scandal he would have walked. if not for the secret tapes that he had made of many of his conversations from 1971 to 1973. inside the white house and in his office in the old executive office building nixon had a surreptitious taping system put in place. the existence of those tapes was disclosed in july 1973 during hearings of a senate select committee on watergate. this was not this is a pivotal moment in the investigation in watergate because if you had the president's words as to what he was saying at the time in his meetings with top aides his his white house counsel and others then we have a pretty good idea of what's going on in the watergate. inside the white house woodward & bernstein did not disclose the existence of those tapes. and indeed they were pivotal they were pivotal to unders

he talks about this a lot as a critique of the nixon administration and america in, the post-watergate world. when the prequels 1999 to 2005 were coming out. he was banging the drum really hard about the war on terror and obviously the war on terror starts after the first prequel movie begins 1999. episode one the phantom menace. but it just lined up perfectly. he was warning us about a society where we give in to fear and a state a government that promises to keep us safe at all costs, no matter what. and then we're attacked on 911 and we embark on this war on terror. and george lucas was looking at his movies and talking to people and going, this is what i was trying to warn you about. the movies are also a combination. the jedi religion of taking the best of eastern and western philosophies, particularly the stoic face, the stoic, the stoic philosophy, the christian and then also the dow from the east and looking to eastern philosophers for guides on how to live and the jedi are a synthesis of all of those different philosophies. stephen, why are you at freedom fest? the libertarian

i'm talking a little bit about richard nixon in the environment if you read a lot about what happened during the next administration of many authors seem to find it kind of extraordinary that nixon did this and and they say, oh he just did it for politics or you know, he only did it because people wanted it. well, i kind of hope that our leaders do things because people wanted it but nixon did have a record on the environment that went all the way back to 1962 when he ran for governor of california during that campaign. he proposed unsuccessful campaign. he proposed measures to reduce air pollution to reduce vehicle emissions and to safeguard water quality by protecting watersheds a lot of these ideas were headed their time eight ten years time, so it wasn't something new and then also you know that you heard people say, oh is heart wasn't really any really care about it that much, you know, my answer to that is i think we be judging our presence and our congresses kind of on what they do, you know, maybe he was very focused on ending the war in vietnam on other issues that were at the top of his plate. did he spen

. >> jill, you've had a front row seat at the nixon administration. and often trump's compared to nixon. but i think he's far more egregious in terms of what he's done to the country, to democracy, and the rule of law. what was the mixing tipping point, and have we reached up with donald trump? i think a lot of people are watching this with a sense of frustration that over the last several years, all of the legal machinations that have come against donald trump for what people rightfully believed to have been violations of the law have not materialized in a meaningful, punitive way. >> i think people are upset about that. and want to see some accountability. and won't settle for anything less than that. the differences, now we live in a world with alternative facts. and alternative reality. during watergate, all of the networks at the state facts. everyone agreed on it. it was bipartisan shift. those things are very much missing now. so you do have a group of people who were continue to believe the falsehoods that are being spewed by the republican par

and once it nixon begins his administration gerald ford the minority leader is working with a mixed agenda on capitol hill to help them shape that as well. i 1972 nixon was a historic landslide election. but that needle barely moved. and then, ford realizes his dream of becoming speaker probably is not going to happen. in 1974 he would stand for election once again. but the nixon administration second term. then they returned to grand rapids. history intervenes. ford haven't mentioned watergate during this time but watergate begins in 1972. not for reasons related, but other reasons. president need to exercise a provision of the 25th amendment which was ratified in 1967 the lousy president to nominate a person to fill the vacancy of the vice presidency as a tribute but bipartisanship. while congress has a chance occurrence of voting in late december of 1972 this only 35 members of the house the vote against as much is your get on capitol hill. by december ford is moved from the house of representatives to becoming president of the senate and vice president of the united states. he holds a

it was externally imposed by the nixon administration in the senses to describe this group. they're not quite right -- white, they're not quite black, or asian. there everything all at once. it didn't make sense. they were trying to make sense out of it. it wasn't something we necessarily identified in our selves. we thought it could have been a nice identity to use as the larger organizing principle. but the problem is, that it is rooted in colonialism. it is saying that we are -- we stem from spanish conquest. and it also implicitly excludes people like our brazilian brothers and sisters who were not the targets of spanish conquests. non-spanish-speaking latin american countries. it is a fraud to terminology, one of that we use and have technology that it is problematic -- and use it that we have to acknowledge it is problematic. julian: we have seen the word latinx being used, for folks who do not fit in the gender binary. there is also latina. i want to talk about those terms in a minute. can you give us the definition of what each of these terms means? >> ok. i will try

through their relentless painstaking efforts to bring the truth about the nixon administration to life bob and carl epitomized the founding fathers vision ofthe free press . there could be no such thing as self-governance the founders understood if there were no independent scrutiny of government officials and no way for the americans all those powers to account. and is precisely what the watergate story was about. men in power who thought they were beyondaccountability . bob and carl journalism, their reporting fueled a massive senate investigation that led to 48 criminal prosecutions and richard nixon's registry resignation showing the world our democracy even the most powerful person in the land is not above thelaw . washington post are incredibly proud of the reporters who work every day to uphold this legacy and provide transparency and accountability democracy requires. it is now my pleasure to introduce you to three journalists to represent the best of the washington post, woodward and carl bernstein. >> the story started on a saturday so that means that your shop reporters like

look at the nixon administration and the sale of ambassadorships. that was quid pro quo corruption >> i'm afraid that's all we have time for today. i want to thank everyone in the audience and i want to thank especially ken starr for coming back to the keystone andapolis book festival. the book is "contempt." thank you all very much. have a good afternoon. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] repor. >> thank you, all. welcome, lad

look at the nixon administration and the sale of ambassadorships. that was quid pro quo corruption >> i'm afraid that's all we have time for today. i want to thank everyone in the audience and i want to thank especially ken starr for coming back to the keystone andapolis book festival. the book is "contempt." thank you all very much. have a good afternoon. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> c-span's washington journal every day we're taking your calls live, on the air on the news of the day and we'll discuss policy issues that impact you. coming up sunday morning, we'll look at abortion policy and the 2022 campaign. mother jones washington bureau chief shares his book, american psychosis. how the republican party went crazy. watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern sunday morning on c-span or on c-span's free mobile app. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we're funded by these television companies and more including comcast. >> are you thinking this is the community center? new york city it is way mo

look at the nixon administration and the sale of ambassadorships. that was quid pro quo corruption >> i'm afraid that's all we have time for today. i want to thank everyone in the audience and i want to thank especially ken starr for coming back to the keystone andapolis book festival. the book is "contempt." thank you all very much. have a good afternoon. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> happening wednesday, the coffin carrying queen elizabeth ii goes to windsor hall to line state for four days and four nights for public doing. watch on c-span now, are mobile video app, or online at c-span.org. on c-span, the house returns at 10:00 a.m. for general speeches. in the afternoon, another bill prohibiting ateliers and against federal employees who provide information to congress. on c-span2 the senate is also back at 10:00 a.m. to consider more circuit court judicial nominations. doctors testify on the u.s. response to the monkeypox outbreak for the senate health committee. everything also streams live on the c-span now

sorts of things that courts have blocked off from criminal investigations like this in the nixon administration and in the clinton administration. presidents, even sitting presidents, let alone former presidents, have lost these sorts of battles. >> very, very sensitive moment right now, kaitlan. stay with us. we have more to discuss. i want to bring in cnn's chief political analyst, gloria borger, dave aaronberg, and cnn counterterrorism analyst, phil mudd. dave, let's begin with your reaction to our exclusive new cnn reporting that the former president has been involved in a secret court fight. do you think he will be successful in blocking his former aides from testifying? >> i don't, wolf. and this is really about eric herschmann, who was the break out star of the january 6th committee hearings. he had that salty language and direct advice to john eastman, to jeffrey clark, they needed to hire their own criminal defense lawyers. his testimony is really important, because it could go to criminal intent. because he could show that eastman and clark and perhaps even trump himself were directly

political analyst david gergen, who advised presidents in both parties dating back to the nixon administrationecurity analyst a juliette kayyem. and cnn political commentator, scott jennings, former special assistant to president george w. bush. david, we just heard from former president trump as he labeled the justice department and fbi, quote, vicious monsters. and he also called president biden an enemy of the state. is he making one of the points that president biden made on thursday night? is he making that point for him? >> well, i think -- listen, i think he's playing entirely for donald trump. what we're seeing from trump these days is he's going back to his classic strategy of deflect and delay. and he's using language in these speeches which are really hyper partisan speeches. he's using that to deflect. when you call somebody an enemy of the state, as he has done, that in effect in our country is regarded as treason. that's a charge of treason. normally in our politics, you don't go there. but if you go there, it deflects attention, as he wants to, from biden and from his legal trou

i mean, all of it, if you had to compare it to anything in watergate, it was like how the nixon administrationternal revenue service to go after his enemies after larry o'brien, a bunch of democrats, and kind of like jeffrey berman, what was interesting was it was the people there, the civil servants, the people who had the ability to say, no, i'm not going to do it or somehow avoided doing it, just like jeff berman describes how he did it, that they were able to basically put it off. >> right, and so there's -- it's bittersweet. it's a lot of problems how much trump pushed, and it tells you the plan if they got back in office as far as lawyers are concerned and doj, but it shows you some people who stood up to it. thank you. >> thank you. >>> coming up tonight, bill gates, our special guest on "the beat." stay with us. we also have an update on chief justice roberts. he spoke out and justice cagan is apparently clapping back, next. then i tried the always discreet pads. they fit perfectly in the places they're supposed to. look how much it holds, and it still stays thin! it's the protection w

rate. 3.5%, the number we had last month had been just about matching the lowest since the nixon administrationhe federal reserve? that's the biggest question we have all been asking, really super red hot jobs number would have been concerning for those of us watching the fed and wondering how the fed is going to tame inflation and try to carefully manage a soft landing in this economy. this number shows that jobs growth is still strong, but not quite as strong as it had been in past months. the unemployment rate will continue to watch. let me tell you where the jobs growth was. healthcare, 48,000. retail, 44,000. so you got some categories here showing some really strong jobs growth, john. >> christine romans, stick around, joining us now as well, cnn business correspondent rahel solomon, cnn white house correspondent john harwood. rahel, first to you, jobs reports these days are looked at in different ways. >> absolutely. >> right? it is not just, oh, more jobs, very good for the economy, but what are the numbers that jump out to you? >> i think labor force participation was something i was w

just today he trotted out the age-old soft on crime attack that -- nixon administration tweeting samueld. dennis and lee horton were convicted in the murder and are now paid by john fetterman's campaign. whoa. well, i've got to say, even for republicans we are tack, this is shockingly disingenuous. so, here's the actual story. according to brothers dennis and lee horton, on the world a, 1993, the rope for a joyride when they picked up their friend, a guy named robert lee. for they did not know was that leaf had just murdered samuel alamo and was currently being pursued by the police. they were quickly pulled over and all three men were arrested. now the police involved with a case have been accused of using a whole host of problematic tactics during the investigation. eyewitnesses to the murder changed their story after prosecutors tried to pin the crime on all three of them, the horton's as well. and the district attorney's case file, which was not made available until 2018, quote, -- lethal shooter, and a police note noting leave acknowledged his role, while seeming to clear the horto

joining us now cnn contributor john dean, white house counsel during the nixon administration and starte hearings. both pat cipollone and pat philbin testified to the january 6th select committee and the hearing shows they pushed back on the efforts to overturn the 2020 election and opposed the attorney general to look into false claims of election fraud. how damning could their potential testimony be for the former president? >> well, they have a lot of knowledge. they certainly have knowledge of the scheme to replace the attorney general with a pliant lower level department of justice assistant attorney general. they have knowledge of the fake elector scheme. they have knowledge, i think, of the eastman memo that was used with pence. they have knowledge of the insur e insurrection and what the president was doing that day. they withheld their statements or conversations with trump before the january 6th committee. that may or may not be something they had to testify to in front of the grand jury. the grand jury can resolve these issues very quickly. the threat for the january 6th com

and that eventually, through the following nixon administration, making some of the same mistakes.eventually got out. that's how the north vietnamese at one, they wore down the american resolve inside of the government. is a scenario like that possible here, where the ukrainian forces continue to succeed south really militarily, that they wear down the support structure in russia, which includes the support structure for putin himself. >> yes. but with one big difference. rashid today is a dictatorship, not a democracy. and so it will take a lot longer for that to happen. the analogy that i use is not vietnam, but actually the invasion of afghanistan. that's when he overreached, that's when he went too far, and they were bogged down there for a long time. but the unraveling of the regime took a lot longer. it did not happen overnight. they were there for a decade, and eventually gorbachev, within the beginning of the end of the soviet union, it was a long process. >> as you look at it tonight, with people using the word victory now, in the atlantic. this piece concludes, we must ex

. >> i first knew scalia when he was in the nixon administration and the same was true for chief justiceus friendship with the late justice ruth bader ginsburg began 21 years before ginsburg was nominated, when she was still a law professor at rutgers university. >> i was reading a brief of hers, there is a whole bunch in the brief that i didn't understand. her telephone number was there. and i called her up. and i got an hour long lecture. >> that led to more calls and dinners where they talked about music and theater and fashion. they gossiped, and they leaned on each other as they both cared for dying husbands. ruth was married to marty ginsburg for 56 years, nina to senator floyd haskell for 19 years. >> she knew you weren't looking at her as aurce. ic, y don't ask lngt frie>> h a about their work. otherwise they won't be your friend. >> after haskell's death, nina met a widower, dr. david reines, and ruth bader ginsburg married them in 2000. >> i wasn't too worried about it. so we told my mother. i said, not a rabbi, we got a judge. she said, a judge? i said, but she's jewish. i don

but nixon the administrator of general services, which is a president for a lot of the stuff, indicateshat former president may not exist fully assert executive privilege against review by the very executive branch in whose name the privileges invoked. meaning, the current executive branch who's on the other side from donald trump inserting executive privilege, that does seem to be continued, particularly when we're talking about the classified documents. the nub of the issue, and one would think should prevail on appeal, although the 11th circuit is stacked with trump judges. so who knows? >> i have to say, chris, that was the most bizarre portion of the opinion. the most bizarre -- frankly, argument that was made by trump's team. it's really as if one of my clients wanted their documents back, and i asserted attorney client privilege against my own client. it makes no sense, the whole point of attorney client privilege is to protect the client and it's their own client. so it's all bizarre, i have a hard time seeing that part of the appeal. >> there's a hard deadline. the judge now ha

the last conference of its kind was in 1969 in the nixon administration.d to landmark nutritional legislation, including snap, wic, school breakfasts, school lunch. coming out of that conference, there were 1800 recommendations made to congress, and 1600 of those recommendations were passed into law, giving birth to the nutrition system we have today, including dietary guidelines and things that frame the food system. many of us who care about food and nutrition have been urging various white houses for the last, more than a decade, to have another conference to talk about how we modernize and improve the system. i applaud the biden administration for doing it. it will be wednesday all day, and at minimum it will really draw attention to the issue in a super important way. one of the problems we have - -nobody wants to be unhealthy. ask anybody do you want to eat food that is good for your -- bad for you or eat well? it is one of the few issues that is not controversial! democrats favorite, republicans -- favor it, republicans, independents. we have simply

the last conference of its kind was in 1969 in the nixon administration.d to landmark nutritional legislation, including snap, wic, school breakfasts, school lunch. coming out of that conference, there were 1800 recommendations made to congress, and 1600 of those recommendations were passed into law, giving birth to the nutrition system we have today, including dietary guidelines and things that frame the food system. many of us who care about food and nutrition have been urging various white houses for the last, more than a decade, to have another conference to talk about how we modernize and improve the system. i applaud the biden administration for doing it. it will be wednesday all day, and at minimum it will really draw attention to the issue in a super important way. one of the problems we have - -nobody wants to be unhealthy. ask anybody do you want to eat food that is good for your -- bad for you or eat well? it is one of the few issues that is not controversial! democrats favorite, republicans -- favor it, republicans, independents. we have simply

administration's control on the flow of information has been described as the most aggressive since the nixon administration. and the biden administration isn't proving to be much better. in a free country we need to make sure that the government cannot unmask journalists and their sources without good cause. this bill provides those protections and recognizes the importance of independent journalism to our country. thank you, i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin reserves. the gentlewoman from texas is recognized. ms. jackson lee: it is my pleasure to now yield to the author of the press act who has been persistent in his commitment to civil liberties as an important member of the judiciary committee, and that is to congressman raskin, and that would be five minutes. thank you for your leadership. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. raskin: thank you, mr. speaker and i thank the gentlelady for yielding and for her advocacy for civil liberties and civil rights. and i thank also the floor leader on the minority side for his excellent words on

nixon doubled down on his partnership. when the brazilian president visited washington the administration praised brazil as a staunch ally ande determination to fight at home and throughout the hemisphere. documents declassified only about ten years ago revealed the full extent to which nixon and his counterpart went in affirming their determination to overthrow fidel castro. but especially chile which is of course form some of the backdrop of the ultimately successful coup. and from this relationship sprang the siege of operation condor the hemisphere wide scheme of cooperation among security services that went on to wage a campaign of counterterrorism for years to come. well okay, this is the kind of story that has long infuriated critics of richard nixon and i hasten to add his partner in foreign policy henry kissinger again to nixon was focused on the president a moral approach to foreign policy. his prioritization of stability above all at the expense of a concern with democracy for human rights or even economic development. what counted for nixon in other words was the extent to which a foreign nation served americans

democratic presidential administration since kennedy left office with a better deficit situation than they inherited. every one without exception. and every republican since nixon, every administration, left office with a worse deficit situation than they inherited without exception. and president trump was well on his way to fulfilling that trend before the pandemic. but hypocrisy is not much of an issue. i just wanted to remind people who is fiscally responsible and who isn't. with that i yield one minute to the gentlelady from michigan, distinguished member of the committee on education and labor, and an original co-sponsor of this legislation, ms. stevens. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. stevens: thank you, mr. speaker. in that vain some of us are here to pontificate and others of us are here to solve problems. i rise today for those who have been the victim of this oversight. from the period of 1993 to 2006, americans filed for the consolidation of student loans. not realizing that they may fall prey to an unfortunate situation. necessaryic abuse -- domestic abuse, economic abuse, nonresponsive partner, divorce which plagues 50%

there -- alongside candidate nixon in his home district, and once the exit begins his administration, gerald ford is the minority leader, and is working closely with the white house to advance the nixon agenda on capitol hill, to help him shape that agenda. so then, 1972, nixon wins this historic landslide election. but the needle barely moves for them a pumpkin -- republicans on capitol hill. they have short coattails, to put it in political parlance. then ford realizes that his dream of becoming speaker probably is not going to happen. so he and betty have a talk, they decide, in 1974, he would stand for reelection once again, and then, after helping to see the next administration promote its agenda in his second term, and then in 1976, would retire and return to grand rapids. next slide. history intervenes. ford cars -- i haven't even mentioned watergate during this time. but watergate begins in 1972, and in 1973, nixon's vice president, spiro agnew, has a slowdown, not for reasons related to watergate, but for other reasons. and president nixon gets to exercise a provision of the

are the echoes of nixon's two negotiate with middle east partners to have new thinking, what was the key insight your administration had to make the abraham accords possible? mr. pompeo: thank you, good to be with everyone. there are echoes of nixon, when you heard about people who needed to be in place to make such a thing happen. the understanding that allowed this to break free with something president nixon would have appreciated. the understanding was that we made a decent effort to make life effort the palestinians and clearly demonstrated that were going to reject that and everything else and that us from the central conceit which was, nothing can happen until that is fixed. until somehow the palestinians and israelis come to understanding we knew that wasn't going to happen with abbas in charge in the west bank and hamas in charge of the gaza strip. we were able to convince the other countries that joined the abraham accords to move past that as well, that this was a different time in history, and ending the conflict in making life better for the palestinian people was important. it was changing their core