he drops that facade later, starts campaigning for pat buchanan, supporting pat buchanan in the 1992 race against george w. bush. later drops that, becomes a kris can-right guy, become -- crisp chan-right guys, becomes a tea partier after that, drops that. like so many things with donald trump, he moves so fast and so chaotic that he exposes a lot of the, we'll call it the hypocrisy. the old indiana republican chairman use to say there's hypocrisy and high-pocrisy. and the rapidity, the rapidness of that change becomes apart when he flips on a dime from being a quasi-technocratic establishment republican to a neo-populist, you know, demagogue republican. that's who this -- i mean, this is who mike pence is. >> and i should say that my last two books were about anti-nazi resistance movements in berlin and occupied paris, so i never really intended to come back and write about this part of the country. but i felt compelled to given recent developments. so i found that the down ill for national policy -- council for national policy had its roots in texas, and it was at a time when, actu

he drops that facade later, starts campaigning for pat buchanan, supporting pat buchanan in the 1992 race against george w. bush. later drops that, becomes a kris can-right guy, become -- crisp chan-right guys, becomes a tea partier after that, drops that. like so many things with donald trump, he moves so fast and so chaotic that he exposes a lot of the, we'll call it the hypocrisy. the old indiana republican chairman use to say there's hypocrisy and high-pocrisy. and the rapidity, the rapidness of that change becomes apart when he flips on a dime from being a quasi-technocratic establishment republican to a neo-populist, you know, demagogue republican. that's who this -- i mean, this is who mike pence is. >> and i should say that my last two books were about anti-nazi resistance movements in berlin and occupied paris, so i never really intended to come back and write about this part of the country. but i felt compelled to given recent developments. so i found that the down ill for national policy -- council for national policy had its roots in texas, and it was at a time when, actu

1980 when senator ted kennedy put up a formidable challenge against jimmy carter or 1992 when pat buchanan became a formidable opponent at least early on to george hw bush, miniature beating the loss in november 1992. we are seeing a number of candidates challenging donald trump but none of them seem to be making any mark in terms of polling or traction. >> guest: that is right. we are seeing adhesion to the party leaders and we will see adhesion among democratic voters on the democratic side to opposing donald trump. this is a period are a polarized partisan parity. the two parities are equal size in the elections. now parity is more than 53% of the vote in a presidential election since 1984, 30 some years ago. we have what are clearly liberal and clearly conservative party. the political scientist of the 1950s put on a campaign, they had commissions and things, we need to have a clearly liberal party and clearly conservative party. we shouldn't have liberal republicans and conservative democrats. they got their wish. now the political scientists of today say this is polarized, these peop

amy: so let's turn to william ruckelshaus and pat buchanan describing the battle between nixon and specialrosecutor archibald cox during the days leading up to the saturday night massacre. >> the president was awfully desperate to get these tapapes back under his control and not have them released. he was trying to think of every way to do it. we w we spendingng practically e entire day trying to figure ou what to do next. >> sources indicated le today thatoo far all efforts to reach a compromise on the tapes ca hahafailed. but torney geral ellt riardson w describ as ill tryi. >> i think elliot watrying very hard to work out a coromise because he thought that was his responsility as attorneyeneral. me and said, we're gog to give these smaries and we a going ttell cox that hisis goio have to accept the. d if he doesn't,ell, he can do what heants to but if he will firerichardson m.m. saidid tee woror, "elliott abor"" he said, y.. said, tt t casego a ahe. on october frayay 19,heyy orderere coxox t stop pursuing e tapes. he refused and aouounced preress confnfence for the next mornin >>anybody

. >> pat buchanan always said, he should have taken them out, put a bonfire on the south lawn, burn themve known what was on them. he got turned out by al haig and the others, the president's lawyer. pat also said on the sunday after the saturday night massacre, he wired a friend of his in st. louis where he had once worked and said, there will be impeachment proceedings beginning on monday. >> so much to learn from this and such a wonderful personal in an effort narrative, and beautifus "the fall of richard nixon." >>> coming up, back in sessions? is the forearm attorney general eyeing a run for his old senate seat in alabama? at in alabama?or and i always had in my mind that one day the family car could compete in rallies and racing when the mini actually came out i said this is the one to do it. johnsbut we're also a cancer fighting, hiv controlling, joint replacing, and depression relieving company. from the day you're born we never stop taking care of you. ever since you brought me home, that day. i've been plotting to destroy you. sizing you up... calculating your every move. you t