back to "hannity," the out outgoing press secretary, he is the original insurgent, author of "nixon's white house wars" patrick j. buchanan. you work in the nixon administration. the reagan administration, do you ever see it this bad? the media list of abusive bias, correct, i've never seen it this bad? >> first i thought sean spicer was very gracious in his departure. but to let me tell you, this is as bad as it was in thehe final days of watergate with richard nixon. though tremendous hostility of the press, the media, any of those press conference looking like things were in the forum, and i think the real problem here is that the president senses that the 80 you are the enemy, and i think the media if you watch all three networks and the major networks of the press,

he served as a speechwriter and advisor to president nixon and joins us to discuss his book, nixon's white houseat buchanan, in the acknowledgment of your new book on your time with richard nixon, you write, this memoir and the history of the nixon presidency is actually the last to be

nixon family. served in the white house as assistant to rose woods bow by was with the foundation and nixon library from before its opening in 1990 until she retired in 2007. she remains assistant treasure of the nixon foundation board. their combined knowledge of richgd are and pat nixon and career and combine locality and dedication and intelligence and their integrity have guided inspired generation of their colleagues and friends. and delighted that mark and louie are with us today lowe and marx. [applause] now, the reason we're here today to welcome in the new book, the white house wars. "the new york times" has already recommends the book -- it that we should purchase and read and it describes pat as one of the most consequence conservatives to the past century and we call on nixon white house colleague and long time friend dan -- a native california joined 1968 campaign while in new york at columbia university law school. as soon as he graduated he joined nixon administration as a staff assistant and then as a speech writer and special assistant to the president. ken joined former president

>> watergate didn't lead from -- didn't come from the nixon white house and i don't think there was any the burglary had nothing to do with richard nixon at the time that it occurred. if he had kept distance between himself and that whole episode, he didn't know about that in advance, i'm persuaded. i never heard anybody come forward with any evidence that he did. if he had kept distance between himself and that episode and just said, you know, those guys did it, they're going to have to take their punishment, that is what could have saved richard nixon, i'm persuaded. a little quick surgery. but he was the compulsive minutia man. he had to get involved. he had to dabble in this -- in this conspiratorial spy stuff. and he pulled it all into his office. >> what is the dumbest thing you did? >> the dumbest thing i did was not to go to him when i realized this and say, look, if you don't go out there and make this clean, i'm going to go to the press room and tell them everything i know about this and walk out of here. >> do you think you would have had the courage to do that? >> well, obvi

. >>> former nixon white house aide pat buchanan. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon and welcome to the new nixon library. i am the president of the richard nixon foundation. we are honored to have several council members here today and a special member joining us today, shelley buchanan. [applause]

>>> former nixon white house aide pat buchanan. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon and welcome to the new nixon library. i am the president of the richard nixon foundation. we are honored to have several council members here today and a special member joining us today, shelley buchanan. [applause] shelley started working for richard nixon before pat. has that ever been pointed out? we look forward to it. thank you for the support that enables us to promulgate the legacy and encourage civics and citizenship in our community. i hope everyone here today can consider being a council member. i would like to introduce several people were the enemy might because this is almost a family reunion and you can tell when i complete how many alumni from the administration and people that were close to the president during his career are here today as a very special group. first served for h. r. haldeman. [applause] a member of the board of directors from the foundation we certainly appreciate the service and focus on advancing the legacy

nixon family. margin served in the white house as the assistant to rosewood though he was with the foundation the next library before its opening in 1990 until she retired in 2007. a treasure of the nixon foundation board work their combined knowledge of richard and pat nixon in their careers, combined loyalty and dedication, intelligence and integrity have guided and inspired generations of their colleagues and friends. we are delighted that they are with us today. [applause]. >> now, the reason we are here today to welcome pat buchanan and his new book, "nixon's white house wars". the "new york times" has already recommended the book that we should purchase and read and it describes pads as one of the most consequential conservatives of the past half-century work to introduce pat we called on his nixon white house colleague and a longtime friend, kenneth khachigian. he joined in 1968 campaign while in new york at: the university law school and the since he graduated he joined the nixon administration as a staff assistant and then as a speechwriter and special assistant to the president. had joined t

servedmnist pat buchanan as a speechwriter and senior advisor to president nixon and discusses his book "mixes white house ward -- nixon's white house wars." >> i wrote him a memo saying that i think you ought to keep the dean tapes, the conversations with dean. i do not think that would be that damaging to us. keep the tape with the president and the foreign policy stuff, the stuff you need and should take. take the rest out and burn it and shut down the special prosecutor's office now before this thing grows into a monster. i do not know it at the time, but makes an had called in -- to entertainled in this idea that he should burn the tapes. they said it would be obstruction of justice. i didn't recommend burning the tapes. secondly they were his property. executive privilege existed and everybody knew it. if you got rid of it and said in effect, impeachment be dammed, i think he would've moved right through it. president nixon said in his memoirs that if he had burn the tapes, as i urged him to do, he would've >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> talk about the special forces attachments in b

he was a white house speaker writer fog president nixon. he protest the groundbreaking nixon health care message to congress in 1974. thank you. [applause] identity at like to recognize frank yanna. a white house fellow who became a special assistant to the president. he co-led the design and construction of the new nixon library which has received two national awards already and hopefully a third next month in new york. frank currently acts as spender adviser to the richard nixon foundation. frank? [applause] >> then i make a reference to the union. two other very special individuals i want you to meet and honor. they both joined the staff of senator richard nixon in 1951, working with nixon roz's loyal and loving permanent sect, rose parry -- rosemary woods. he served in the white house that assistant to rose wood though he was with the foundation and the nixon library before its opening in 1990, until she retired in 2007. she remains assistant treasurer of the nixon foundation board. their combined knowledge of richard and pat nixon and t

white house tried to subvert the criminal justice system. try to get the fbi to earn -- burn documents. he said the nixon white house was corrupt through and through. mr. hamilton: it was corrupt, and we know that launched in the nixon white house where the plumbers who attempted all caps of break-ins, but there were -- attempted all types of break-ins, including daniel ellsberg's psychiatrist office. but there were other plans for the brookings institute and things like that. of course, they tried unsuccessfully to break into watergate. that was the break-in that actually got them caught, but i think it revealed that many people in the white house -- they were all in on the cover-up, and that is quite amazing as we look back. ms. stahl: you were telling me about patrick gray at the fbi because the white house tried to get the fbi to come into the cover-up. mr. weicker: the nixon people tried to take him over to do their dirty work, and this was an especially poignant scenario. he was a man who was a submarine commander in the u.s. navy, and he had gone on one dangerous mission after another and excelled

were foolish and they got caught. >> no one in the white house staff, no one in this administration, was involved in this very bizarre incident. >> nixon said, this is being investigated by the congress, by the fbi, but even more importantly, i've had my own white house counsel john dean conduct an investigation, and he's reported to me that nobody presently employed in this administration had anything to do with this. well, this is the first i heard of my investigation, and my reaction is, wow. at whole foods market, we believe in food that's naturally beautiful, fresh and nutritious. so there are no artificial colors, no artificial flavors, no artificial preservatives in any of the food we sell. we believe in real food. whole foods market. now you drive 300to be fmiles to watch this. yes, nice pop toss! flag dancing? we've been there. and with free hot breakfast and a warm welcome, we'll be there for you. hampton by hilton. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ you might not ever just stand there, looking at it. you may never even sit in the back seat. yeah, but maybe you should. ♪ (laughter) ♪ it's so... quiet. is it, too qui?it's awful. yeah. feel at home,

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what that is about is, what it was like as a young conservative in the nixon white house, trying to do battle for your beliefs, and the opposition you faced. ,rankly, how nixon operated held the whole thing together until watergate collapsed him. brian: you mentioned agnew. the des moines speech. before we go there, what role did it play? mr. buchanan: toward the end of his first year, the massive demonstrations with the mobilizations were being held on monument grounds and it was "time" and, "newsweek" were saying richard nixon's presidency is in danger of being woken. a liberal columnist wrote that, the breaking of a president. i wrote the president a memo saying, you have to stand up. when we have to keep those kids over there fighting and dying in vietnam. nixon gave his famous great silent majority speech in 1969, smashing triumph. 70% of the country backed him , but thatod with him night after the speech finished, the networks trashed it. most americans got their news from the world from these three networks and nixon was angry and had told me to write letters and telegrams. he s

joying me now senior advise tore three american presidents, pat buchanan, his latest thought, nixon's white house wars. patrick, i made a list. here's what the last week has looked like for the white house. spicer, out. attorney general, beleaguered. the transgender ban announced by tweet. scaramucci goes goodfellas, health care failed. here's what it brings to mind. you're doing a good job, heck of a job, brownie. was getting rid of priebus the right move in the face of all of that? >> i think priebus went out in class and i do think it was time to remove him. let me disagree sharply with your dissertation there, mike. >> please. >> what john mccain did this week was to deliver a historic and humiliating below to the republican president and party and conservative movement. he himself committed himself to repeal of obamacare. he came up there and voted the other way. and now, he's left his party high and dry and inflicted defeat upon it. now, he's getting the floor from the michael smerconishes of the world and all of the folks in this city who agree flat republican party is wrong, the president

he served as a speechwriter and advisor to president nixon and joins us to discuss his book, nixon's white house wars. brian: pat buchanan, in the acknowledgment of your new book on your time with richard nixon, you write, this memoir and the history of the nixon presidency is actually the last to be written a confidant who served in the white house from his first two final day over four decades ago. how many others are left? mr. buchanan: i'm sure it there are some, like a joint chief and others, who have not written memoirs yet, but i'm not sure they are going to. in terms of written memoir, this is probably the last of someone who was right there and it knew it from the beginning. brian: what did you put in this book that you never talked about before? mr. buchanan: the origins of the agnew speech, the memos on that. there were a number of notes in my files of that i dug out. there is a description of how i almost defected on the china trip, i was so unhappy with it. there is also the end of it, where you put in that quote by john osborne, he said he had seen shelley and me on inauguration da

he served as a speechwriter and advisor to president nixon and joins us to discuss his book, nixon's white housears. brian: pat buchanan, in the acknowledgment of your new book on your time with richard nixon, you write, this memoir and the history of the nixon presidency is actually the last to be written a confidant who served in the white house from his first two final day over four decades ago. how many others are left? mr. buchanan: i'm sure it there are some, like a joint chief and others, who have not written memoirs yet, but i'm not sure they are going to.

eastern and author talks about his book nixon white house wars. >> they were going to break and as they had broken johnson. nixon if you can approvalt had a 58% and 19% disapproval. astonishing. nixon had been written off as the biggest loser in politics. roxanne gay, discusses her life and body and the novel hunger. >> you see a the story ofi tell my body today, without apology. this is my fat body and this is what it was like to be in this world in this body. >> for more on the schedule go to book tv.org. this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, tonight at 8:00 eastern, lectures in history. university of washington professor compares the 1950's beats and beatniks to the hippies of the 1960's. >> the beats were in the great depression, world war ii. the hippies were the optimistic children of the baby boom generation and the postwar consumer boom. 30 years ago, oliver north appeared before the house and senate select committee's investigating the iran-contra affair. >> american people ought not to be led to believe by the way you are asking the question, that we deceive the amer

nixon swore him in. i told the senator about having been at the white house on the separation of power subcommittee. nixon invited us down there. then he suddenly went over and got in the car and started talking to himself. i mentioned this to someone, i said, senator, he got into the car and talk to himself. ervin has had a battle with richard nixon for almost five years. was an imperial presidency. personal, he did not trust the man. ms. stahl: right from the beginning. in those days, we had a middle. we had conservative democrats and liberal republicans, and the country had a middle. we have lost that. i don't know that you can really do what you all did if there is not a middle. does anybody want to comment on that? mr. weicker: well, you've got to talk to each other in the first place. i don't think the rivalry or the partisanship was any less when i was in the united states senate, but -- and this is a big but -- when the bell rang and it was the end of the day, you used to go off together, republican and democrat, and that's where the business was done. you talked, in other words, and did the

the east room of the white house was the scene of an emotional meeting between the president, his cabinet and the aides who have stayed with him during all of these years of mr. nixon'sbitterly resentful of what had happened to him in his political career overlaid with a seahawks -- shakespearean level of paranoia. he was willing to engage in extraordinary acts to preserve his power. >> all presidents are human beings. i assume they will have faults and flaws. i assume they will make mistakes. i assume that once they are caught in their mistakes because of who they are and the kind of people they are, they will try to cover up those mistakes. >> i was in the east room of the white house when he made the very bittersweet, very poignant, very maudlin speech with his family gathered around him. >> i look around here and see so many in this staff that, you know, i should have been by your offices and shaking hands and would have loved to have talked to you and found out how to run the world. everybody wants to tell the president what to do. and, boy, he needs to be told many times. but i just haven't had the time. >> he is not looking into the camera. he's kind of starin

eastern, pat buchanan talks about his book "nixon's white house wars," on his time as senior adviser to president richard nixon. >> they were going to break nixon as they broke lyndon johnson, but at the end of that -- 1969,0 year, richard nixon was that 68% approval. astonishing. here was nixon seven years he has been written off as the biggest loser in american politics. and a sunday, ses, professor and novelist roxane gay discusses her memoir. >> you see a woman on the cover of her book standing in her formally fat pants and she is like, i did it. i thought, i cannot write that book yet, and i write -- i want to write that book. why don't i tell the story of my body today without apology, just explanation? this is what it is like to be in this body. >> for more on this week's schedule, go to book tv.org. >> president trump trip to the g 20 seven in poland, where he held a joint news conference in warsaw with the polish president eared he answered questions regarding the possibility of future u.s. military intervention in north korea. this is 25 minutes. >> the presence of united st

or you are in nixon's white house when he's asking rockefeller the only question that matters to him when it's all over was basically, did the black sleeve this? was this all about the blacks? rockefeller says well, indeed it was. and he's okay with the carnage as long as it was led by the blacks are about the blacks. i know some of the survivors have not been able to read the full book. it's too much.uestions >> i want to ask a few more questions and then how people start to come down if there interested in asking questions.r you said this book started out as a silver its history. can you talk about how -- will talk more about how we think about the story in terms of the trajectory of mass incarceration, but talk about it as part of the history of struggles against white supremacy and racial inequality and civil rights history.s a ci do you still think of it as a civil-rights story? >> i do. there's no question that everyone inside of attica, both black and white and brown, ju understood that this is not just about incarcerating people come about racial subjugation. you cannot under

he served as a speechwriter and senior adviser to president nixon and discusses the book nixon's white house wars, the battles that made and broke a president and broke america forever. >> i wrote a memo saying that you're going to have to have dean testify. you have to keep the tapes for dean. i did not think they would be that damaging to us. and keep the foreign policy stuff. the stuff you need you really should keep, and i said take the rest out and burn it and shut down the special prosecutor's office now before this thing grows into a monster. i did not know it at the time, haguexon had called in and fred desired and entertained the idea that he should bring the tapes, and they said it would be obstruction of justice. firstly, i did not recommend burning subpoenaed tapes. second, they were his property. it was just executive privilege. if he simply got rid of them, it was a fait accompli, i think he would have moved right through it. and president nixon said in his memoirs if he had burned the tapes, as i had urged him to do, that he would have survived, and i think that is right. >> t

white house ? >> it happened in american history. the chaos during the nixon white house. they turn to alexander haig, a four-star general. people turn to these generals because they understand how to run a system. and to do it with discipline. john kelly has a reputation of doing that more about him, is he was an aide to someone like leon panetta and other people. he was a liaison to congress as a marine corps officer. he knows washington dc he will be a good selection. you have to get along with the boss. >> a strong chief of staff is so important for an administration. especially a new administration. for those who do not know, what exactly does the chief of staff do ? >> a total gatekeeper. what happens at a white house is everybody wants to get in. everybody wants face time with the president 70 have to select priorities. who is priority that day ? you have to select a message for the day. you have to work on certain things that you and the president have agreed on. you keep extraneous stuff out of the office, while the president is working. key phone calls. if all yo

eastern pat buchanan talks about his book "nixon white house wars". >> they were going to break nixonas they had broken lyndon johnson, but at the end of the year, 1969, richard nixon if you can believe it was at 60 approval in the gallup poll and 19% disapproval, astonishing here was next in seven before and had been written as the biggest loser in american politics. >> senate 10:00 p.m. eastern professor and novelist roxane gay discusses her life, her body and its impact on her life in her memoir "hunger". >> you see a woman in her phat pants and she's like i did it and i just thought i can't write that book yet and i want to write that book, so why don't i tell the story of my body today without apology. just explanation of this is my fat body and this is what it's like to be in this world in this body. >> for more on this weekend schedule, go to book tv.org.

or you're at the house of one of the hostage families as they're waiting word or you're in nixon's white house when he's asking rockefeller the only question that matters to him when all of this is over which is basically, did the blacks leave this, was this all about the blacks, and rockefeller says, well, indeed, mr. president, it was. he's basically okay with the carnage as long as it was led by the blacks or about the blacks. so people remained -- i know that some of the survivors have not been able to read the full book. it's just too much. >> so i'm going to ask one or two more questions and i'm going to start people coming down if they're interested in asking questions of heather. so the first question i have is, can you -- you said this book started out as part of civiles rights history and i'm wonder if you could talk a little bit about how -- i think we will talk more about how we think about this story in terms sort of the trajectory of mass incarceration, but i would like you to talk about it as part of the history struggles against white supremacy and racial inequality and sort of

nixon being the republicans' responsibility. you used that word responsibility, in that they gave him their nomination. they made him their candidate. they put him in the white houseerything that nixon was up to and being investigated for, it would be the responsibility of republicans to make sure he was properly investigated. that responsibility would once again fall to republicans since they control the house and the senate. >> yes. let's look at where mr. trump and the republican party are in their close relationship to one another. on august 15th, there's a senate primary in alabama. the man appointed, senator strange, appointed to the seat vacated by mr. sessions, has a primary opponent named mo brooks, who is a tea party, ted cruz-supporting conservative. a pac run by -- run on behalf of majority leader mitch mcconnell is running severe ads against mo brooks, faulting him for being insufficiently loyal to donald trump during the primary and associating him in this ad with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. that's how far in the republicans are at this point in their senate leadership in supporting mr. trump. mr. trump meanwhile has evidently been, or at least h

former nixon white house counsel and cnn contributor, john dean, and cnn political analyst and politico's white house correspondent. your reaction first to this breaking news. more people in this room than had been previously disclosed. >> well, right, it just goes to show you that there's a lot of evidence to gather here as the special counsel tries to figure this out. it's another set of witnesses that may have information that's important to the investigation. you know, i think you don't look at one meeting existing solely in a vacuum. i think you have to look at the entire arc of behavior. but certainly the more people are in the room, the more likely you are to get a clear sense of what was and wasn't said in that meeting. >> john dean, we still have a lot to learn about the individual and why he was there, rinat akhmetshin, a russian-american lobbyist, but bottom line here, the white house, the trump family, they still haven't been totally transparent about this meeting. what could that mean, legally? >> well, first of all, it's striking that they haven't learn bid now to release as

this week defending his attempts to normalize relations with russia, joining us now author of nixon's white houseatrick buchanan. there is a great irony here this week, the russians are so bad, you can't talk to them, but as soon as two russians startt saying anything bad about trump, they are the most credible people on earth and we need to listen. that was before tonight when we learned the democrats were also targeted by them, what are your thoughts on all this? >> my thoughts are the president of the united states is correct and wanting to deal with russia and effective rapprochement with russia, they got six or 7,000 nuclear weapons, he's a tough customer. he's an autocratic, he's not pope francis but he's not joseph stalin and he's not brezhnev, he hasn't done massive crimes of soviet union did. american presidents have tried ever since trumansi to get alonh with soviet leaders and know we have a russian leader who's not a communist and i think we have to try to get along with him. i commend the presidents. >> sean: he's former kgb, nobody likes what he didn't ukraine or crimea or these oth

eastern pat bucanyon talks about his book nixon's white house wars on his time as the former speech writer and senior advisor to richard nixon: .... i want to write that book. why don't i tell the story about my body today? without apology, just explanation. this is my fat body. and it is what it is like to be in this world in this body.>> work more on this weekend schedule good to booktv.org. >> up next on "after words" new america president and ceo anne-marie slaughter examines the intersection of technology and foreign affairs in her book "the chessboard & the web: strategies of connection in a networked world". she's interviewed by denis mcdonough former white house chief of staff in the obama administration and visiting senior fellow of the carnegie endowment for national t

hostage circle or in the house of one of the hostage families as they await word or you are in nixon's white house when he is asking rockefeller the only question that matters to him when this is over, which was basically did the blacks lead to this, was this all about the blacks and rockefeller said indeed mr. president, it was. he's basically okay with the carnage as long as it was led by the plaques are about the blacks and so people remained i mean i know that some of the survivors have not been able to read the full book. it's just too much. >> so, i will ask one or two questions and have people come down if they're interested in asking questions, so the first question i have is you said this book in some way started out as part of a civil rights history and i'm wondering if you can talk a bit about, i mean, i think we will talk more about how we think about this story in terms of the trajectory of mass incarceration, but i like you to talk about it as part of the history of struggles against white supremacy and racial inequality and civil rights history. do you still think of it as a civil r

this is the same thing that happened with the nixon white house and the people on top.exactly the same way. that despite what advice they got from lawyers they all went into grand juries, testified in grand juries, testified before congress. and if you look at the statements that kushner made and the statement that don junior made what you can ee is a very clever setup. whereby don junior is taking the fall. he had no choice because he was the one on the emails. he loved it when he heard about all the information coming in on hillary clinton. but yet he says nothing happened out of that. then you've got jared kushner who minimize attention his involvement by saying he came in after they were talking about the inincriminating documents and left before anything else was said even though he knew he was in a meeting with a bunch of people speaking russian with a russian interpreter. >> you put it that way. >> on top of that you've got to look at what happened before and after. it doesn't make sense. >> paul butler you get the last word. and your reaction to the fact that ov

and cnn contributor, john dean, the former nixon white house counsel. where do we start? let's start with we have more audio with the president's interview with the new york times. here it is. >> she's sitting next to putin and somebody else and that's what it is. and for dessert i wanted to say hello to milania and while i was there said hello to putin. really pleasantries more than anything else. was not a long conversation. but it was -- could be 15 minutes. we actually it was very interesting. we talked about adoption. russian adoption. yeah. i always found that interesting because he ended that years ago. and i actually talked about russian adoption with him, which is interesting because that was part of the conversation don had had that i think as i said most other people when they call up and say we have information on your opponent, i think most politicians -- they said who are you taking a meeting with? >> okay. so did you hear what he said? if you think about the timing of that because he mentioned the meeting with don and adoption and they're not actually talki

. >>> coming up in the days after the watergate break in the nixon white house, trying to call it a thirdburglary. today it is all about nothing burgers. >> donald trump jr. is not part of administration. this is a massive nothing burger. >> i know burgers and i have a gut to prove it. and this is a nothing burger. >> i would fall in the nothing burger category on this one. >> so far a nothing burger. >> i'm one of those people who says it's a nothing burger. >> i guess that would be a condiment. >> is that just mustard or a game changer? >> would you like to continue talking about nothing burger story? >> so put brit hume down as a nothing burger. >> that's a phrase that has gotten so common. >> now the e-mails are out. at least one of those people has evolved. today he declared it is, now, a something burger tweeting, i voted for potus last november and want him and the usa to succeed but that meeting given that e-mail chain just released, is a big no-no. >> the senate republican leader renewed his push to get a gop health care bill passed. possibly before it's too late. the fallout and

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eastern, pat buchanan talks about his book, "nixon's white house wars," about his time as the speechwriter in senior adviser to richard nixon. >> there were going to break nixon as they had broken lyndon johnson. at the end of that year, a divisive year in america, richard nixon was at 68% approval in the gallup poll. astonishing. he was nixon, seven years before, written off as the biggest loser in american politics. roxaneay, essayist gay discusses her life, her body , and its impact on her life, in her memoir, "hunger." >> she's like, i did it. i just thought, i can't write that book yet. and i want to write that book. why don't i tell the story of my body today, without apology, just explanation -- this is my fat body and this is what it is like to be in this world. >> for more, go to book tv.org. the national constitution center in philadelphia held its third annual freedom day celebration, marking the launch of the center's national commission, looking at how james madison might view congress, the presidency, the courts, and the media today. this is

. >> so, norm, didn't they look into this during the nixon white house? >> they did.of legal counsel looked at it four days before nixon resigned. of course, those are nixon's lawyers. and they determined that a president cannot pardon himself. if you go back, jonathan, to these debates -- well, not at olc, there was not. not at olc. of course, nixons own lawyers said he could pardon himself. not at the justice department. anderson, if you go back to the debates in the constitution, contrary to my learned friend's view, you look at the debates, you have jachmes wilson saying,f course, a president can be impeached and prosecuted. well, that would make no sense if the president could pardon himself, then he couldn't be prosecuted. >> the problem -- >> anderson, our constitution is a living document, it lives on common sense. this notion is absurd that the president can do -- imagine he could go -- he could go out on pennsylvania avenue, take bribes, shoot people, walk back in the oval office, sign a pardon for himself, do it again the next day. i'm afraid of who he migh

back to "hannity," the out outgoing press secretary, he is the original insurgent, author of "nixon's white houserick j. buchanan. you work in the nixon administration. the reagan administration, do you ever see it this bad? the media list of abusive bias, correct, i've never seen it this bad? >> first i thought sean spicer was very gracious in his departure. but to let me tell you, this is as bad as it was in thehe final days of watergate with richard nixon. though tremendous hostility of the press, the media, any of those press conference looking like things were in the forum, and i think the real problem here is that the president senses that the 80 you are the enemy, and i think the media if you watch all three networks and the major networks of the press, and the media are as hostile to this president as i have seen to any president candidate in my lifetime. >> sean: so what does he do, pat?a you know how hard it is inside that house, and you see them media acting this way, what do you do? >> i tell you what is coming, and i think that the president senses with regard to mueller and special

he discusses his book on the nixon white house years. >> you have to keep the five , keep theonversation tapes with the foreign policy .tuff that you need i said to take the rest out and burn it. shut down this special prosecutor's office now before this thing turns into a monster. i did not know at the time, but nixon had called in to men -- in the idea ofntertain burning the tapes. they said it would be obstruction of justice. simply got rid of them as a plea, i think you would have moved right through it. nixon said in his memoirs that if he had burned the tapes, he would have survived. i think that is right. >> that is sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern time on q&a. live sunday at noon eastern time, author and history professor herb boyd is our guest epth.ok tv's in d >> you look at the 1863 draft riots, that is a nice comparison there between what was happening in new york and in detroit. all of those things for the same reason. the plaque and irish community at each other's throats. in 1943., we had one it is almost with the same conditions that created that. >> his books include "b

eastern, pat buchanan talks about his book "nixon's white house wars," on his time as senior advisero president richard nixon. >> they were going to break nixon as they broke lyndon johnson, but at the end of that -- 1969,0 year, richard nixon was that 68% approval. astonishing. here was nixon seven years he has been written off as the biggest loser in american politics. and a sunday, ses, professor and novelist roxane gay discusses her memoir. >> you see a woman on the cover of her book standing in her formally fat pants and she is like, i did it. i thought, i cannot write that book yet, and i write -- i want to write that book. why don't i tell the story of my body today without apology, just explanation? this is what it is like to be in this body. >> for more on this week's schedule, go to book tv.org. >> president trump trip to the g 20 seven in poland, where he held a joint news conference in warsaw with the polish president eared he answered questions regarding the possibility of future u.s. military intervention in north korea. this is 25 minutes.

eastern, pat buchanan talks about his book "nixon's white house wars" on his time as the former speech writer and senior adviser to president richard nixon. >> they were going to break nixon as they broke lyndon johnson, but at the end of the year, 1969, richard nixon, if you can believe it, was at 68% approval in the gallup poll and 19% disapproval. astonishing. and here is nixon seven years before had been written off as the biggest loser in american politics. >> sunday at 10:00 p.m. eastern, essayest and professor rocksan gay doeses her above and her body in the memoir "hunger" you sue a woman in her fat pants and saying i did that. and i want to write that book so why don't i tell the story of my body today. and without apology. just explanations. this is my fat body, and this is what it is like to be in this world in this body. >> for more on this weekend's schedule go to booktv.org. >> sunday, on were bea i-i'm not asking anybody to compromise they're value or beliefs but to open their eyes to other people so you can figure out your place in this infinite world. >> the co-host an

he discusses his book, "nixon white house war." pat: i wrote in a memo saying, i think you will have to keep the five tapes of conversations with dean. i didn't think they would be that damaging to us. keep the tapes with brezhnev and the foreign policy stuff, the stuff that you need. i said, take the rest out and burn it and shut down this special prosecutor's office now before this thing grows into a monster. i didn't know it at the time but gue andad called in ha entertain the idea and they said, it would be obstruction of justice. first of all, i didn't recommend burning subpoenaed tapes and second, they were his property and executive privilege. and peach and be damped -- damned, i think he would've moved right through it. nixon said, in his memoirs, that had he burned the tapes, he would have survived, and i think he's right. >> in his weekly address, the president talked about immigration legislation in the house this week. representative joe kennedy delivers the democratic response, giving his reaction to the health care la

political analyst also political commentator david swerdlick and contributor john dean, the former nixon white house counsel. where do we start? why don't we start, patrick, let's start with we have more audio from the president's interview with "the new york times." i want you to listen to what he said about this undisclosed meeting with vladimir putin. here it is. >> she is sitting next to putin and somebody else. and that's the way it is. and toward dessert, i went down just to say hello to melania. and while i was there i said hello to putt tonight. really pleasantries more than anything else. it was not a long conversation, but it could be 15 minutes, just talked about things. actually, it was very interesting. we talked about adoption. >> you did? >> russian adoption, yeah. i always found that interesting. because he ended that years ago. and i actually talked about russian adoption with him, which is interesting because that was a part of the conversation that don had with his meeting that i think as i said most of the people, you know, when they call up and say by the way, we have informatio

he served as a senior advisor and speechwriter to president nixon and discusses his book "nixon's white house wars." >> i wrote a memo saying, that dean had testified, you will have to keep the dean tapes. i didn't think they would be that damaging. keep the tapes with the foreign policy stuff that you need. take the rest and burn it. shut down this special prosecutor's office before it grows into a monster. me,id not know it at the ti but nixon had called in hague andfred desired and entertained this idea that they should burn the tapes. they said it will be obstruction of justice. i did not recommend burning subpoenaed tapes. they were his properties. there was executive privilege. if he got rid of them as a fait a compli, and said impeachment be damned, i think it would of moved through it. president nixon said in his memoirs, if he had burned the tapes as i urged him to do, he would have survived. think that is right. >> tonight at 8:00 p.m. et on c-span "q&a." >> this week, during the july 4 recess in prime time on c-span, monday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, author david horace -- horwitz. >> c