when osama bin laden blows up the world trade center, americans look to the oval office. when 100,000 americans are going to die from a once in a century pandemic, americans look to the oval office. they don't look to militias or 50 different governors. that's what -- and if the president in the oval office is making statements that risk senior citizens, the numbers across florida and america seem inevitable. >> there's been a kind of noticeable callousness in some of the debate here over the course of this pandemic when it comes to older people. some of it has come from the white house, you're right. andrew cuomo hasn't always got it right, and he was too slow in acting to shut down new york,

that meeting in the oval office continues again as we mentioned, headlines in a moment. also with former deputy independent counselor during the whitewater investigation, good afternoon to you. i know it's news that is just breaking right now, your initial reaction if indeed the case is dropped for good. >> i think my initial reaction is it's a very good move, and i'm looking at the statement from the justice department today after rick considered the facts of the case including newly discovered and disclosed information, they decided to drop the case, they say that the interview by the fbi of flynn was untethered to an unjustified by the fbi's counterintelligence investigation into mr. flynn which by the way -- and they say it was conducted without any legitimate basis, and that's totally true. it's what i've been writing about. they use the logan act, an act that hadn't been utilized since 1850 keep open a phony investigation on general flynn after they had already completely cleared him in the russia collusion investigation and crossfire hurricane. keep in mind, there

written two weeks after a oval office, with oval office, obama, biden, comey, yates, susan rice. she wrote it two weeks after, comey make sure the president they were doing it by the book. we know he has not been doing it by the book. we've been following this a long time. on the day of inauguration, may have had a epiphany, oh, my gosh, somebody may find out we're spying on incoming administration. i need to cover myself, cover comey, president obama to make everything looks right. she is simply diverting her own fault to say she did nothing wrong. couldn't be further from the truth. susan rice's credibility is nothing now looking forward to the doj who unmasked the people and leaked it to the press because this is a crime. elizabeth: is it by the book for the outgoing administration to consider that the incoming trump team basically had officials who were russian agents, is it by the book to determine five months prior that michael flynn had nothing to do with russia but then continue to still try to target him in a perjury trap after the steele dossier was falling apart, is th

we find it in the oval office. not the oval office of president trump but the oval office of president obama who was asking about flynn who would add his own chief of staff unmask him the day there was a meeting and oh, by the way joe biden were you asleep in this meeting as well when you actually were there and you told just this past week that you knew nothing about cuppertino and you actually made a request for unmasking? this is the problem we're seeing is people are waking up to the real fact there was an attempt to take out a candidate and then a president before he could get going, and the american people should be demanding why every news outlet is not cover ing this the way you have for the last three years and many of us have been screaming at the top of our lungs there was basically a coo attempt at the highest level and now we are right into the oval office. maria: and you still don't see it on any of the news media, they actually used the media to leak things, classify documents in fact, trey gowdy sai

that's great except it didn't make it through the house or to the oval office. so there's $10 million of their authorized previously appropriated but needs a technical fix to be able to help the farmers and ranchers right now. i am not saying to all of you that this would be enough help r this incredibly drought but steps could be taken right away and that is the delay will be introducing tomorrow with the full support again my partners in this effort, congressmen and senator wyden. farmers and ranchers need help and they need it now. this is not a silver bullet, but it is something easily within our reach. what do these thing is within our reach. money that has been authorized and appropriated or that had a technical glitch was fixed that and get help right now to pump water to provide a system. i think all of my colleagues is that helped so much for making to the floor under similar circumstances and we gave unanimous consent for this bill. the congressman came down the hallway to vouch for the issues that we were facing so we were hearing bipartisan represent

why is susan rice memorializing a meeting about flynn in the oval office? do everything by the book, obama said. could it be more obvious that the person that lied on sunday with ben because he scared to death that obama's plotting and scheming would be exposed? the days and weeks to come, took unusual aggressive and frankly unethical measures to persecute general plan. 33 year vet knowing he was an innocent man. comey, mccabe, peter struck at the white house day four with the new administration. by the way, he called the deputy fbi director mccabe and mccabe, he advised general flynt that he did not need a lawyer present. he knew better. they significantly altered his original 302 and we now as of late last week have that evidence. then they turned the screws on general flynn. they threaten him with years behind bars and threaten to lock up his son, legal bills force the sky at one point to go bankrupt. he lost his family home all over a simple process that they concluded never took place. and yet, by the way, president obama is still out for blood. now th

we are getting some headlines out of the oval office right now.sident trump is apparently saying dr. anthony fauci and dr. deborah birx will continue to hold the same roles on the coronavirus task force. he had said earlier that the task force would continue, but there had been word that maybe they might switch out some people. well, now it appears that dr. fauci and birx will remain. we are also hearing that u.s. agriculture secretary sonny perdue has just said that meat processing plants in the united states will be fully back up in a week to ten days. that is, of course, sparking a lot of concern because they have become hot zones for mass coronavirus outbreaks among the workers. president trump apparently then followed up just minutes after that by saying he has asked the justice department, and let me just put it how the president put it, he's asked the justice department to quote, look into disparities related to the meat supply. we need to wait on getting more context of what that actually means, but he also said the fast food chain wendy's

the technical corrections bill never made it to the oval office. so there is $10 million out there authorized, previously appropriated, that needs a technical fix to be able to help out our farmers and ranchers right now. now, i'm not saying to all of you that this will be enough help in this incredibly horrific drought year. we may well need significantly more, but at least this first step should be taken right away and that's the bill i'll be introducing tomorrow with the full support again of my partners this this effort, co congressman walden and senator wyden. ranchers need help and they need it now. this is not a silver bullet, but it's something easily within our reach. let's do these simple things that are within our reach. money that's been authorized. money that's been appropriated. money that hit a technical glitch at the bureau of reclamation and let's get help to idle land and pump water to provide assistance. i thank all of my colleagues who helped so much in 2010 when i came to this floor under similar circumstances and we gained una

she discussed it on january 5 at the oval office with obama. was asked by a good journalist about this email. about the unmasking of michael flynn. she was asked specifically about these claims. she said, i know nothing about this. it was a lie. rice, her attorney said that this was the first opportunity that she had to write this email memorializing her oval office meeting with the barack obama, it was her first opportunity. interesting. she had an opportunity in those three weeks to do a passing of the baton event with michael flynn. she praised him and wish him success and talked about his great transition to the white house. she was able to participate in a story that published on that day in the lifestyle section of the washington post. but she never had time to write this email until inauguration day as she was rushing out the door. she had an opportunity to do all of those things. i believe that with you. thank you for bringing up susan rice, allowing me to share that. , testimony from epa administrator andrew wheeler on his agency's rol

but mueller probe did not change anyone for russia conspiracy. >> no, this did not happen, in that oval office meeting, it is interesting now. we're seeing with deputize criminal gang it seems now with joe bidengo and president obama and susan rice. this goes back you know months when they were looking him as at candidate, to carter and page, andd papadopoulos this is trying to get a president they did not like. if you don't believe it just look at the text-messages. elizabeth: should congress call cin susan rice? she is denying in spring 2017 she knew anything about obama thofficials doing anything surveillance. ic>> in last few hours we've ben following a disclosure by chairman of house en tel -- intelligence committee devin nunes, in final days of the obama administration, after president trump had been elected that he and the people around him may have been caught up in surveillance of foreign individuals, and their idea identities may have been disclosed. >> do you know anything about it? >> i know nothing about this i was surprised to see reports from chairman nunes on that count

more headlines in the oval office.ll planning to have a normal season but the league now has. and roger caddell wrote that anyone buying tickets directly will be able to get a full refund or put the money toward a future ticket. the league says that ticketmaster and deceit geek will also offer refunds and stubhub will do so only where required by state law. that is a developing story and so is this. tom cruise is next mission takes him out of the planet. nasa says all systems go, next. if you're the spouse of a military veteran, here's money saving news from newday usa. your spouse's va streamline refi benefit lets you easily refinance when mortgage rates drop. and they just dropped to the lowest in newday's history. refinance now. there's no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. one call can save you $2,000 a year. refi now. >> i'm just happy. speaker that is army veteran releasing the milwaukee va medical center 48 days after he was admitted with covid-19 symptoms. he was the first to test po

i'm in the oval office going to wear on the ground him . he is very protective. he tested negative daily. that's his personal choice . in the cdc recommends but is a personal choice . reporter: they're both testing for things and they both were there facemask credit. >> he said an example. i want all of you wearing facemask in here . he noted that today's young man that is and above and beyond what the cdc guidelines say. but all of our staffers and art they are all wearing facemask. that was at the direction of the present to set a good example. reporter: personally, getting talk about all of the separations that the trump administration dead. that happened on january 2020, the stockpile was as low as it was. inaudible. >> translation redirect your question to president obama who left the stockpile empty. it was usaid a fact active that . he left that the president noted in usa today, there's no indication that the obama administration took significant steps to replenish the supply of the n95 masks and the stockpile after it was depleted. from repeated crises .

president trump meeting in the oval office, and here's what we expect.t 30 minutes ago we heard from the president on a multitude of topics. he signed a proclamation for national nurses day and spoke about his decision to keep the task force intact for now saying he had no idea how popular it was with the public. the professor with his new prediction about how many americans could die. kristin fisher begins our

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the president is in the oval office working late and he was quite pleased with the progress we made today to give americans the tools that we need to open up safely. testing is a major component of that. we passed 9.3 million tests. we are best testing, 394,711 tests. compare that to 60 days ago, basically march 11th, we did 3,748. that is over 100 times increase in testing from where we were 60 days. the ramp-up continues to be extraordinary, and president trump continues to put the full force of the federal government behind to do everything we need to get all the resources we need to minimize the damage that is being cost them because right now by the virus and to get our country open. he is the defense who created ventilators, 30,000 ventilators and the president is on track to do over 50,000 ventilators this year. he is doing swabs, masts, making things appear in america which is really great. and that is giving us the ability to need to make sure we open up the country safely. >> sean: so on march 2nd, both the governor of new york, mayor of new york, go out on the town. we are fine

ed: -- has it reached the level n your opinion, that the president does need to give an oval office address or something like that since this is not just happening in one city and maybe it's time to pause and hear from him directly? enter yeah. and i think you're right, i think it is time for the president to address the country. there are an awful lot of security moms across the country, and i've heard from so many, i've heard from dozens of them in the past two days, and they are fearful. they don't know exactly what to do. they have handled covid, and now they're handling this. they have tremendous concerns. and what we know is this: that thin blue line is what so often stands between chaos and calm. we are seeing these cities, these mayors -- philadelphia, different area, all these big city mayor withs, they're going to have to get a handle on this.

i really believe, it is time for president trump to do an oval office address. remember george h.w. bush's address after the l.a. riots was one by many political analysts one of the most effective in his presidency. that gentleman tried to defend his business with a a a machete brings to the many african-americans, but the president must stand up and do what president bush did. on one hand reassure order will be restored and provide the security and reassurance and guarranty that our cities will be protected while shifting to the need for empathy in the really, calling for healing in our country. this is unacceptable. it can't continue. everyone knows it. and let's not forget, we're in a time of a pandemic and historic recession. it is time for the president to speak to the whole nation and to be the uniter in chief. pete: waiting for all the protesters to get their citation for not social distancing. shows you hierarchy of priorities in moments like this. we had darren porcher, former nypd lieutenant, talking about what is occurring before our very eyes. >> in many cases they are r

i really believe, it is time for president trump to do an oval office address. remember george h.w. bush's address after the l.a. riots was one by many political analysts one of the most effective in his

about the rash of broke from the former and for the obama administration official said light on an oval office meeting which was present. gillian turner leads us off tonight. good evening, julian. >> good evening, so president trump's former national security advisor general michael flynn has asked an appeals court to force a district judge of handling his case to drop criminal charges against him in a brand-new emergency filing, they ask that judge emmet sullivan handling the case dropped the charges. they say he is not objective and is creating a political spectacle. in the midst of a national collection season, drag them into the political hurricane. now his legal team also insists he would be removed from the case and the court immediately called his unusual move to allow a friend of the court, a.k.a. a specially appointed judge to argue against a justice department's request to drop the case. flynn is not the only former national security advisor making headlines tonight. fox news has learned the acting director has declassified a top-secret inauguration day email written by susan

we've seen this play out in the oval office. this went into obama's oval office.s the mainstream media? where are they crying out? why would this be in the obama oval office when they're trying to trip up and to catch the president coming in? this is just wrong. they were out after donald trump from day one, and we're seeing it -- this rice memo's terrible. lou: do you see a pattern here for the republicans? the little darlings don't want to even think about if president obama and vice president biden were directing this, this assault on the president of the united states? they don't want to even think about it. we'll just let that go. i mean, what in the hell do republicans think? i mean, do they think this is a game? do they think this was just a hoax? that was the word used by a lot of people, hoax and witch hunt. you know, that sounds kind of tame and de minimis, doesn't it? it was a damned attempt to overthrow the president of the united states, and republicans sit there on their hands -- well, one hand and they're sucking their thumb with the other while the

hard and effectively and forcefully, and i think president trump ought to give an address from the oval office, repeat some of the comments he made yesterday at that nasa speech, explain that he

hard and effectively and forcefully, and i think president trump ought to give an address from the oval office, repeat some of the comments he made yesterday at that nasa speech, explain that he understands the injustice here and understands the pain and the peaceful protesters and he at the same time these people are engaged in this mayhem and destruction need to be isolated and stopped and punished. pete: you've done a great job covering this with your columns, thank you for doing that and for being on the program this morning. great stuff. thank you very much, pete. pete: you got it. still ahead american cities reeling from riots cars torched, properties destroyed lives ruined. a live report on the aftermath in chicago which was hit hard last night. that's next. when you're confident in your gut, you feel confident to take on anything.

he does his briefings but not as much and meets people in the oval office. he's flown across the country.

lou: -- at that oval office meeting. the attorney general's voicing support then for wray as he has, in point of fact, blocked a lot of transparency and the public's right the know hasn't been exactly high on his agenda in any -- >> yeah. i don't know what that is. it might be a matter of timing, might be a matter of waiting for other shoes to fall, i don't know. but i do know one thing, there's been an absolute lack of leadership, you know, throughout the government. there's a few people that stand up and say the right things like yourself and others. but without leadership you're not going to have results. and i'd just point out two things that happened with fbi that just point out the fact that the place is out of control. you know -- lou: got about 30 seconds, jim, i'm sorry. >> roger stone and paul manafort. i mean, look at those two people. white collar crime, supposedly. 40 agents, s.w.a.t. teams, automatic weapons, helicopters, 4:00 in the morning, wives in bed, you know, people banging down the doors. i mean, th

the pool is in the oval office right now with the president so we will likely hear from him in the nextw minutes about all of this as well. >> dana: turning out to be a big day of news, one of those things i kind of like. a fox news contributor and a former u.s. attorney. in you've been looking at this case very closely, you join us by phone now because we have to hurry up and get you on the line. and what does this practically mean for michael flynn now? >> he's in the clear, dana. i think -- i heard what carl said about the logan act which was absolutely right. as far as foreign agent violation, remember, they tried to prosecute flynn's former business partner. that case blew up and in the course of the justice department said he was not an unindicted coconspirator, so i never really thought there was much of a basis to that but i don't see how they could do anything. >> dana: so now, tell me a little bit about what it means by the prosecutor withdrew, is that just a normal course or is that a protest? >> we don't know enough about it yet whether he withdrew because he was told to wit

in the oval office the president signed the declaration.a great day to be a nurse, a great day to be a nurse practitioner i could share that. represent my nurse practitioner colleagues around the country. connell: that exchange though did seem somewhat tense after the president jumped in when you said the supplies of ppe were sporadic. it brings up a question how much progress we've made, where we were, where we are now. you know, maybe last time you were on or certainly, even a month ago, it is a fact that not only your hospital but hospitals around the country were struggling on the ppe side. there is no fake news there. we talked to a lot of people that confirmed that. we know that was the case. the hhs inspector general put out a report early in april said that hospitals were experiencing serious shortages but that was a while ago. how much has changed now since then? how much progress has been made? by the looks of things we still have work to do if you're wearing the same mask day after day? >> i would tell you cdc guidance on ppe wit

eight days before they left the oval office and donald trump was inaugurated, then joe biden who said on day one of this last week, he didn't know anything about unmasking. we found out he was one of the unmaskers. what about comey sending the agents as he admits and brags on tape to ambush general flynn a 33 year veteran four days into the trump administration, something you would never do gev away with in any other administration? what about before meeting with those fbi agents, well, general flynn called andrew mccabe, deputy fbi guy and asked him, do i need my lawyer? what about the agent who asked "what is our goal with general flynn? is it to get him to tell the truth, and admission, or to get him to life so we can prosecute him or get him fired?" is that policy by the fbi, get somebody to lie, said a perjury trap, ambush 8:30 three year veteran and tell him he doesn't need a attorney when he did need one? none of that is by the book. what about the text relates to lisa page. president obama want to know everything weut are doing. they want to be kept abreast of this. the white

administration has done the inbox would be extraordinarily demanding for whoever is sitting in the oval office and, the time with us chinese relationship is in worse shape and those resources will be stressed because of what we are doing at home. i actually think it will be a difficult foreign-policy challenge for whoever sitting in the oval office next time aroun around. >> excellent question. next question. >>. >> i'm not hearing anything go on to the next question. >> richard that was spectacular. they are somewhat related so you said today very compelling in terms of america's role had you get the american public to follow? and with the role of the world and then to see this and then i believe americans have benefited enormously with the they don't see then that it creates and it seems very hard to make the case of american public so how do we do that? like it's a great question and it is essential that we do that because i would argue we have been stunningly well served by america's involvement in the world since world war ii. and in vietnam and iraq and by a large and to be much m

. >> final question, should we expect to see an oval office address for the president? >> i thought the president gave extraordinary eloquent remarks yesterday in florida, i believe abc carried it, i thought those were wonderful remarks, talked about bringing americans together. how we have to come together as a country. we stand with the peaceful protesters, and so the president was eloquent on that front, and he'll be speaking with the press regularly. you can expect the president will remain involved and will remain -- continue to communicate with the american people throughout this crisis. >> robert o'brien, thanks for this time this morning. >> thank you, george. thanks for having me. >>> house speaker nancy pelosi is next. we'll be right back. xt. we'll be right back. and i'm an area manager here at amazon. when you walk into an amazon fulfillment center, it's like walking into the chocolate factory and you won a golden ticket. it's an amazing feeling. my three-year-old, when we get a box delivered, he gets excited. he screams, "mommy's work!" when the pandemic st

then they have the oval office meeting on the fifth. comey admits in his testimony that the fbi are the people that unmasked general flynn. our people, whatever that means, and at the meeting on the fifth sally yates was stunned because obama mentions to her out of the blue about the call and the transcript of the call. she knew nothing about it. comey hadn't briefed doj. so then, they dispatch comey the very next morning to brief president trump only on the selacious aspects of the dossier on january 6 to set the news hook for buzzfeed and cnn to run with the dossier which is a lie and then peter strzok is watching a cnn report on that and texts about he is sitting there watching it using it as a pretext to go interview people so the whole thing was orchestrated and setup within the fbi, clapper, brennan and the oval office meetings that day with president obama. maria: so you think this goes all the way up to the top to president obama? >> absolutely. maria: whose going to be charged >> i have no idea that's up to john durham and atto

before he signed it, he spoke to reporters, i believe in the oval office. just to give you a little tease before we play this back. the president says the social media companies are tantamount to a monopoly. said that moments ago. also said in addition to the executive order, wii we'll talk about, the judge standing by for analysis, he said he will pursue legislation for these companies. we'll play that back. >>> one quarter of the labor force filing for jobless benefits over the past 10 weeks as local leaders push forward plans to safely get back to business. at this point all 50 states now have resumed retail services in some capacity. alaska is actually leading the charge, the only state allowing businesses to operate at full capacity. latest on the pandemic throughout the hour. some more on industries that are fighting back. attractions across the country outlining plans to reopen but strict new safety measures could end up pushing stresstores away. we're live from a six flags in illinois with a look where things stand. don't go away. across america thr

e-mail declassification and why she mailed herself on inauguration day of 2017 about a january a 5th ovalice meeting, a meeting at which president obama and senior obama err a rah officials talked about the radical dems' effort to target the into coming trump administration. today superrice's representatives -- susan rice's representatives told fox news that rice was directed by the white house come, neil eggleston, to, quote, memorialize that meeting before thed a managers left -- the administration left office. rice's attorneys made the very same claim back in 2018 in a letter to senate judiciary committee leaders. in that letter, however, rice's attorney wrote, quote: president obama and his national security team were justifiably concerned about potential risks to the nation's security from sharing highly classified information about russia with certain members of the trump transition team, particularly lieutenant general michael flynn. on its face, that is an outright lie. and why was that assertioning of her attorneys? in these newly declassified parts of rice's inauguration day e-m

this is the oval office, i'm sure you have all been here many times. [laughter] it's a big deal, the oval office. >> you mentioned the coronavirus task force. yesterday we were told there were tinges of winding it down. you tweeted this morning it will continue indefinitely. what is the rationale? pres. trump: it's a great success, mike pence has done a great job. when we started we didn't have ventilators, and we got them built very quickly and now we are giving them to other countries all over the world that are desperate for ventilators. there is been no person in our whole country that hasn't had a ventilator if they needed it. you probably saw that, remember at the beginning, it was really tough, and then we got them built so fast. it was really an incredible mobilization. not since world war ii has anything happened, not only with ventilators but anything else. the testing is going really well. the task force has done a great job, and i had a meeting yesterday and a meeting this , and we will be leaving the task force indefinitely. at some point

this was placed in the oval office by mrs.nedy, it had been in private quarters but she thought it should be the most visible desk the president would sit at. it was given to president hayes by queen victoria in 1880 and the famous one of the young john jr. coming out through the knee hole under the desk as the president is working at it. and a more recent photographs of caroline in the office as president obama tries to figure out how to go under the desk and open the door. [laughter] like,ok on her face is please, mr. president, just stop. [laughter] the only times as kennedy came back to the white house was for a private unveiling of the portraits in the nixon building. he was very low-key. she and her children came back. she had made her mark and she felt it was time to leave the white house to her successors. that is what we do today. our office tries to assist along with the national park service and white house historical association, also celebrating its 50th anniversary, to provide forresources and expertise each new

this national nurses' day, the president sought to honor front-line workers by ffice.ng them to the ovalice. and in an extraordinary exchange, the president disagreed with a nurse who said there are p.p.e. shortages nationwide and that she had to reuse her mask for a few weeks straight. this comes as more questions are raised about how fema is getting supplies to healthcare workers. cbs' ben tracy is at the white house tonight. ben. >> reporter: norah, the president also reversed himself keday, saying he will now keep his coronavirus task force, but it's clear that the president wants to focus less on public health and more on the health of the economy. president trump continued to urge governors to reopen their states and even their schools, acknowledging it may mean more americans die. >> it could very well be the case. we have to be warriors. we can't keep our country closed down for years. >> reporter: the white house wants to focus less on the rising number of deaths and more on the economy, a move criticized by democrats. >> the administration has responsibilities that are critical

celebrating national nurses' day in the oval office, the president called the well-documented shortages fake news, despite a nurse from louisiana telling him access to supplies has been sporadic. >> i've been reusing my n95 mask for a few weeks now. >> sporadic for you, but not sporadic for a lot of other people. >> oh, no, i agree, mr. president, absolutely. >> because i've heard the opposite. >> reporter: some inside the white house are criticizing an effort led by jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, to find critical medical supplies. a whistleblower complaint by members of his team said they had little success because the team was filled with inexperienced volunteers. >> now, i don't know anything about any of the details of it, but it was a well-oiled machine. >> reporter: a source tells cbs news that many of the volunteers on kushner's task force were recent college graduates with no emergency management experience. the source calls that task force abnormal and odd. norah. >> o'donnell: ben, thank you. tonight, we're taking a closer look at what it will take to get a vaccine

well, okayt that's great except that bill did not make it through the house it never made it to the oval office. there is $10 million out there authorized previously appropriated thated needs a technical fix to help out our farmers and net and ranchers right now. i am i not saying to all of you that this will be enough help. not in this incredibly horrific drought year. we may well need significantly more but at least this first step should be taken right away and that is the bill i will be introducing tomorrow with the full support again of my partners in this effort farmers and ranchers need help. and they need it now. this is not a silver ebola, but it is something easily within our reach. let's do the simple things that are within our reach. money that has been authorized, money that has been appropriated money that hit a glitch so let's fix it and get help right now to idle land and the public water to provide assistance. colleagues of my who helped so much in 2010 when i came to this floor under similar circumstances and we gave you an animus consent for this bill. congressman wald

now he is in the oval office. you have to picture this. he is surrounded mainly by nixon loyalists, ason's his own advisor. that presents some real problems. from days of his taking office on august 9 of 1974, journalists start swamping ford with questions about his intentions, if he is thinking about pardoning richard nixon. not exactly what he was looking forward to in the first days on the job as president. it washand, ford knew crazy to even consider pardoning nixon. the country had been ripped apart by watergate. by this point, nixon was perceived as a first-rate villain, even by many republican leaders. one of ford's top advisers told me he advised ford categorically not to do it. he said "you will be eaten alive, your political future, if you decide to run for president on your own in 1976, will be shot to hell if you pardon nixon." on the other hand, this is hopefully what you can see from this chapter, ford had a strong sense of what he thought he should do. he is a man who grew up of very modest origins in the midwest. he was the