townsend was john poindexter considered a credible witness? think a lot of people did not think he was a credible witness because of his behavior. the record was that when he learned that the justice department was starting to investigate iran-contra, he tipped oliver north and oliver north then destroyed documents, documents and deleted emails. fortunately, he was unable to eliminate all the evidence, but essentially poindexter engaged in obstruction of congress. so that evidence had come out at that point. and i don't believe he was a very credible witness. and he was, as i mentioned before, ultimately prosecuted and convict did, although his conviction was overturned. but he was somebody who a lot of people, i think, felt had to see the american people. was it rare for congressional hearings like this to create eight mini celebrity eyes like oliver north and fawn hall, etc.? well, i think it's rare in in the bigger scheme of things, it's rare for a congressional hearing to generate that kind of attention that does not happen too often. but

relationship that's revealed in the court transcripts and the brilliant cross examination by larry poindexter who was your father's defense attorney and the prosecutor, asking patrick kelleher who we saw playing you those questions. it really is exactly what you went through in the courtroom. ron playing her father so powerfully. when we see what you went through, one of the words that gets repeated more than once is the word love. that is a word repeated between you and your father for each other. there's a complexity to the feelings. in the story that is told here that is so profound and so rich. can you describe your feelings for your father now? >> he is my father. i still love him. but, that doesn't justify his actions, and it won't. if he continues to act like this, he gave me, he raised me to be the person i am today. the honest, the trustworthy person i have become. he gave me all the privilege i have in my life to be who i am because he gave that to me. because he raised me. and, i still love him. he means the world to me. that is what made that decision so hard. if i wouldn't have m

relationship that is revealed in the court transcripts in the brilliant cross-examination by larry poindexters defense attorney. and a place the prosecutor asking patrick kelleher, who we saw playing you, those questions. it really is exactly what you went through in the courtroom. when we sit there in the theater seeing what you go through, one of the words that gets repeated more than once is the word love. that is a word repeated between you and your father for each other. there's a complexity to the feelings here in the story that is told here that is so profound and so rich. can you describe your feelings for your father now? >> he is my father. i still love him. that does not justify any of his actions and it won't. if he continues to act like this, he raised me to be the person i am today, the honest, the trustworthy person i have come. he gave me all the privilege i have in my life to be who i am because he gave that to me, because he raised me. i still love him. he means the world to me. that is what made that decision so hard is because if i would not have made that decision, who kn

but then mcfarlane successor as his national security adviser, john poindexter and his aide, all of our north got another bright idea, which was to divert the profits from the sale of arms to iran to support the nicaraguan contras. the the guerrilla fighters, even congress had forbidden the government from supporting the contras. and so this was inviolate of what was known as the boland amendment. and that is something that cut potentially gotten reagan impeached, except that poindexter said he never reagan. and so that was basically what saved reagan's presidency, because could plead ignorance of the diversion funds to the contras. when reagan was generally thought not to be paying as much attention to details. so you can credibly say, i didn't really exactly. you know, you could argue that he got into the iran-contra. i mean, think big picture. ronald reagan, great leader, but a poor manager, hands off manager, often didn't know what his aides doing. and so you could argue that the reason he got into the iran-contra affair in the first place was because he was a very poor, hands off m