and a couple months after ike picked nixon, vice presidential nominee richard nixon got himself into his own corruption scandal. this was the headline, right? "secret rich men's trust fund keeps nixon in style far beyond his salary." the "new york post" slaying richard nixon going right at what was supposed to be his strong suit saying he was not some anti-corruption crusading man of the people, he was a puppet of a millionaire's club that secretly paid not only for him but for his whole family's lavish lifestyle. it just looked terrible for ike and for nixon. people started protesting at his campaign events holding up sarcastic signs like "donate here to help poor richard nixon." in eugene, oregon, a sign directed at his wife. "pat, what are you going to do with the bribe money?" the "washington post" and "new york herald tribune" saying ike should dump nixon, kick him off the ticket. richard nixon did something that was genius. he could see this thing accelerating and getting a little out of control. the pressure building for him to get dropped as the vice presidential nominee. rath

frank church held these hearings about the abuses of the intelligence agencies at the direction of richard nixon that was you know arguably a crime the president doing that but basically some really nasty stuff was going and we passed legislation to restrain though is the time to do that again i think it's definitely time for us to re-examine our current policies be examine the patriot at and how we are dealing with the war on terror. you know there needs to be better restrictions within the act you know in terms of just searching in viewing people's items without having any tangible linkage or tangible proof that this individual is linked to another individual who has terrorist ties i think that there needs to be stronger restrictions in place before you start engaging in this type of snooping through people's park what they feel their personal thoughts and ideas that they're sharing with their private friends and family members i mean this is just big brother i mean it is have we reached one of those rare moments

. >> obviously, the he is richard nixon. the sad truth is that some supporters of president obama don't want to know the truth. and it was the same way back in 1972. even when nixon quit about 30% of the country didn't want him to. but it all comes back to honest reporting. and in 2013, situation is much bleaker on that front than it was in 1972. and that's the memo. now for the top story. her husband super advisouupervi watergate reporting. >> i have to tell you that brokaw's a friend of mine, and i do work for the washington post. and we have a killer editor, marty barron, and i think one of the keywords about reporting that nobody is focusing on when you criticize people for not digging up stories is pew litter prize. if somebody can dig up a great story, that person would get a pew lit ser prize. there's not a reporter in washington who is not digging up. >> i think there's difference between newspaper reporters and television people. and obviously -- >> wait, wait. and even though brokaw is a friend of yours and i hope y

he said he found the tape at the richard nixon presidential library in march.he voices on the recording belong to then-president richard nixon, national security adviser henry kissinger and the president's assistant for international economic affairs, peter peterson. the discussion took place 10 days before the signing of the okinawa reversion agreement. peterson raised objection to returning the senkaku islands. >> how crucial are these for japanese? will you sure it's entirely necessary? >> reporter: records reveal peterson's concern was over taiwan. at the time the u.s. had diplomatic relations with taipei which it regarded as the original diplomat of china. people pouring into taiwan were putting the textile industry under strain. taiwan was demanding that the u.s. not return the senkaku islands to japan. peterson apparently believed that satisfying taiwan would prompt it to agree on cutting back on textile imports to the u.s. >> translator: nixon's reelection campaign was coming up the following year. he needed to win support from voters in the southern st

and compared president obama to richard nixon.id you find that unusual that a republican leader would take aim at a former public and president? lik>> i do not see the video. i'm kind of know what you're talking about. , whether ithavior is a republican or democratic president, when we see misconduct, when we see potential illegal behavior, we ought to point that out and oppose it. people who commit crimes, people who break the rules or laws or act inappropriately, it ought not be about party politics. wrong is wrong. >> reid wilson. >> let's talk about some of the nrsc have competed against. what can you do to make sure any of the conservative outside groups based here in dc do not meddle in the states that you're trying to avoid. how do you make sure they are not picking candidates who cannot win? there are restrictions nrsc with outside groups. in the time frame in which we have been able to have those conversations, we have done so. here is the point i would make. it is similar to what i said about our contributors to the sena

was it a, franklin roosevelt, b, harry truman, c, dwight eisenhower, or d, richard nixon?l tell you the correct answer. go to cnn.com/fareed for more of the gps challenge and lots of insight and analysanalysis. you can also follow us on twitter and facebook. remember, you can go to itunes.com/fareed if you ever miss a show or special. this week's book of the week is "christian carl's strange rebels, 1979 and the birth of the 21st century." the book explains how the end of the 20th century, two forces, religion and markets, sprung onto the world stage. china's reforms, margaret thatcher's rise, ayatollah khomeini's revolution, they all began in 1979 and have been shaping international life ever since. carl tells the story of that pivotal year and its consequences with intelligence, grace, and lusidty. now for the last look. this has become the face of the modern protester. we saw it on the streets of turkey this week. worn on masks by airline workers but by many others, too. and in thailand this week, too, covering the faces of anti-government protesters. they were used by

when the president does it just means it's not illegal these are the words of richard nixon barack obama appears to be saying the same defending massive you would conduct surveillance of citizens all over the world defenders of prism income with some form and claim these programs protect lives but who is looking out to protecting our rights. we speak your language i mean some of the will not advance. what programs and documentaries and spanish matters to you. but will turn into bangalore's stories. here. altie spanish to find out more visit. welcome back you're watching r.t. the ballots have been costs and the polls have been close in iran's presidential election turnout there was so high that polling stations were kept open for an extra five all as security is tight across the country was president. would mamma did coming to the end of his second and final term artie's marie if you know snow has been watching the election. was iran's supreme leader is among the first photos today the country chooses its next president i hope you have a lot to see how tall a company has just cast his bal

when the president does it you means it's not illegal these are the words of richard nixon barack obama appears to be saying the same defending massive you would conduct surveillance of citizens all over the world defenders of prism in common with some form and claim these programs protect lives but who is looking out to protecting our rights. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle when the president does it it means it's not the legal these are the words of richard nixon when defending and even defining the rights and privileges of the american presidency barack obama appears to be saying the same defending the mass of the electronic surveillance of citizens all over the world defenders of prism in boundless informant claim these programs protect lives but who is looking out to protecting our rights. to cross out the most recent u.s. surveillance scandal i'm joined by eugene per year in washington he is a national organizer with the answer coalition also in washington we have sharon bradford franklin she is a senior counsel at the constitution

but if they wanted to if another richard nixon or worse became president and he wanted to take you outnd he had a copy of everything you've ever downloaded or emailed or forwarded you could spend a good chunk of your life in prison and odds are nobody would even notice the criminal penalties for first time offenders of our copyright laws could be as high as i years in prison and two hundred fifty thousand dollars in fines civil penalties can run into many more thousands of dollars in damages and legal fees the minimum penalty seven hundred fifty dollars a song now say this new version of richard nixon knows that five years ago you went to a music website and downloaded some music illegally or got some from a friend an e-mail and forwarded it to another friend and say this to you next and also knows that through monitoring your emails you plan to show up at a local political protest over the weekend occupier tea party doesn't matter if it upsets that politician tyranny is non partisan whom the police are kicking down your door and you're in jail before breakfast and before the protest t

when the president does it to paint it's not illegal these are the words of richard nixon barack obama appears to be saying the same defending the massive you would chronic surveillance of citizens all over the world defenders of prison in power with some form and claim these programs protect lives but who is looking after protecting our rights. dangerous experiments on prisoners they want to make money and they have to use healthy guinea pigs in the regular society they're not able to use prisoners i mean they wish they could. drug tests on human guinea pigs. paid to pop deadly pails he didn't pass subway he was killed. he didn't pass away they let him down. is pharmacy really about helping people. welcome to teal one out here you can feel at home. there are three choices in life the first is to work in a mccullough go to school and live on a miserable way like a slave. for a second just to jump the wall and catch the american dream because most of the guards and lose their lot of. the other choice just as they come on a number of an organisation and get inside the drug trade. to buy

in february 1972 when richard nixon went to china and restor d relations that had ban broen, beijing negotiated as if from commanding heights. in fact china was in the midst of cultural collapse and chaos. its per capita gdp had fallen below uganda. today china has tremendous assets, the world's second largest economy. and because of its size will one day become the largest. but power is defined along manydy mentions and by most political strategic and cultural measures, china is a great power, but not a global power. its military spending for example is not even a quarter of america's. it hacks the intellectual ambition to set the globaled a jen a skren today. a scholar says china is he wrote in essence a very narrow minded self interested real list state seeking only to maximize its object interests and power. it cares little for global governance and enforcing global standards of behavior except its doctrine of noninterference in the internal affairs of countries. its economic policies and did diplomacy passive. now, beijing wants good relations with the united states and a genera

richard nixon ultimately wanted to overthrow the, you know, the crazy hippies that were part of thisce and love movement that he saw as destructive to america, and so he was able to get it classified as schedule i narcotic carrying the same legal ramifications if you were caught with heroin or today, methamphetamines. marijuana has three key straits, the substance has hyigh potentil for abuse, and it is not ak s t accepted use in medical treatment in the u.s., and deemed unsafe for use under medical supervision. it costs the system $40 billion despite the fact that marijuana is far less addictive than tobacco or alcohol which accounts for hundreds of thousands of american deaths each year. >> continuing the war on california pot shops. >> two valley pot shops have been shutdown by the feds and this is important, the shutdown came without warning. >> the two dispensary raids come in regards to the connection of a large marijuana raid in the stockton warehouse. paperwork shows that the dispensary goes to matthew davies of property management in stockton. >> he was indicted for the very

richard nixon ultimately wanted to overthrow the, you know, the crazy hippies that were part of this and love movement that he saw as destructive to america, and so he was able to get it classified as schedule i narcotic carrying the same legal ramifications if you were caught with heroin or today, methamphetamines. marijuana has three key straits, the substance has high potential for abuse, and it is not accepted use in medical treatment in the u.s., and deemed unsafe for use under medical supervision. it costs the system $40 billion despite the fact that marijuana is far less addictive than tobacco or alcohol which accounts for hundreds of thousands of american deaths each year. >> continuing the war on california pot shops. >> two valley pot shops have been shutdown by the feds and this is important, the shutdown came without warning. >> the two dispensary raids come in regards to the connection of a large marijuana raid in the stockton warehouse. paperwork shows that the dispensary goes to matthew davies of property management in stockton. >> he was indicted for the very marijuan

house to the shi'ite committee staff investigating whether there were grounds to impeach president richard nixon sunday at 3:00. booktv continues now with khalid hosseini who talked about his travels around afghanistan and relief work he has been doing with the united nations high commissioner for refugees. this is about our. [applause] >> thank you all. this beautiful synagogue is such an extraordinary setting and to see all of you here, really acclaim this amazing book. this is a work of fiction but so resonant for any of us who imagine or have spent time in afghanistan. even though some like your first two novels this is less afghan centric, more global in its perspective. i am wondering still how central the complex history of afghanistan is to your writing, to your narrative, or -- >> guest: it has always been afghanistan of the last 30 some odd years has always been a kind of background character in my novels. features very prominently in the first and especially my second book. it is in the background in this novel as well, not quite as prominently. part of that is as i wrote the novel, i

they don't like what's his plan he wants to use an arcane procedure that was first cooked up by richard nixon called fast track it's like a slate of shoves things through congress it bans all amendments it limits congressional debates and it mandates a yes or no vote within a very limited. amount of time after a bill is submitted congress has to agree in advance to delegate away its constitutional authority to the president and that is going to be a battle royale if he doesn't have that procedure he's in big trouble but congress is not inclined to give away its power now i used to work on the hill so i've seen kind of what this process could turn out to look like and what i'm seeing it's going to be a huge bill no one's going to have time to read it and like you said there won't be time for any amendments i mean do you think that this bill could be so confusing that literally no members of congress are going to get to read it well what's even worse is the actual trade agreement becomes u.s. federal law so it pre-amps all inconsistent state and local law and it's adopted these u.s. laws so for

the odd thing that people forget about richard nixon is that almost every piece of progressive economic legislation that we have was passed -- either passed or tried to be passed and didn't during the nixon administration. i mean, the epa, the eeoc, the -- you name these alphabet agencies, and, in fact, he and daniel tried to put in a negative income tax, and they couldn't get it through congress, but they tried, and i remember a few days -- few years ago, bob dole made a tv series for public television in which he comments there's stlowtly no way richard nixon could get the republican nomination today because he was far too progressive. in fact, in many ways, his economics was to the left of barack obama's. of course, he opened up china, made the first -- was it salt treaty with the russians, so it was a very exciting time to be there, and it was with great regret that i left, but as i say, it increasingly dawned on me he could not have been unaware of what was going on. >> well, you make that point in the book that you felt just as a matter of principle after watergate and all the rev

even comparing him once again to richard nixon. >> when richard nixon tried to use the irs to targetolitical enemies, it was wrong. and when the obama administration does it, it's still wrong. >> that's why i call him president barack o'nixon. >> barack o'nixon. really? it's amazing they're saying this even though the newly released transcripts show that no irs official has linked the controversy to the white house. guess they've just got watergate on the brain. >> somebody the other day said to me this is as bad as watergate. well, nobody died in watergate. >> this is far worse than watergate. nobody died in watergate. >> get to the bottom of it like we did in watergate. >> if you add watergate and iran-contra together, you can get in the zone of what benghazi is. >> these republicans always seem to bring their bucket straight to the water gate well. no matter the facts. but the american people know better. joining me now is michelle cottle and jimmy williams. thank you both for being here tonight. >> thanks, rev. >> michelle, seems like republicans are not really letting facts get

he put richard nixon up there.arly, there was a disgraceful, disruptive president and you are making the equation with him and eric holder? >> he's not the first -- >> first is barak obama. real quick, i think it's only a matter of time before th start getting smart and offering a some kind of limited use of unionity and people start talk like lois lerner and others because they're not going to take a fall for this. at a certain point they have to calculate how this is going to calculate their future. and it ain't worth it. talk. >> that's happening in another scandal. in the benghazi piece. >> parallel. >> stop investigating these groups who were using them for political purpose. >> please. >> that's funny. >> please? >> coming up, democrat plays the race card against obamacare. critics and it's on tape. right back with that. don't go away. ♪ ♪ okay, team! after age 40, we can start losing muscle -- 8% every 10 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got rev

richard nixon ultimately wanted to overthrow the, you know, the crazy hippies that were, like, part oface and love movement that he saw as being destructive to america. and so he was able to get it classified as a schedule 1 narcotic carrying the same type of legal ramifications as if you were caught with heroin, or today, methamphetamines. schedule 1 narcotics are defined as having three key traits. drug or substance has high potential for abuse. it currently has no accepted medical use in treatment in the united states. and it's been deemed unsafe for use under medical supervision. it's estimated that the united states spends around $40 billion fighting the war on drugs annually. and $13.7 billion of that is spent on marijuana. all this despite evidence that marijuana is far less addictive than even alcohol or tobacco which together accounts for hundreds of thousands of american deaths each year. >> continuing coverage of the federal war on california pot shops. tonight, we've confirmed that two valley pot shops have now been shut down by the feds and this is important. the shutdown

the voices on the recording belong to then president richard nixon, national security adviser henry kissinger and peter peterson. the discussion took place ten days before the signing of the okinawa reversion agreement. peterson raised an objection to returning the skew islands. records reveal peterson's concern was over taiwan. at the time, the u.s. had diplomatic relations with taipei which it regarded as the legitimate government of china. cheap textiles pouring in from taiwan were putting the u.s. industry under strain. they were demanding that the u.s. not return the senkaku islands to japan. >> translator: nixon's reelection campaign was coming up the following year. he needed to wen support from voters in the southern states. the center of the u.s. textile industry. >> reporter: henry kissinger argued that the senkaku islands should be returned to japan. kissinger noted that the 1951 san francisco peace treaty placed okinawa, including the senkaku islands, under u.s. rule. the professor says kissinger was concerned about the impact a collapse of the falks would have. they agreed to ret

remember richard nixon? he went after the bureau of labor statistics.e had the assumption that all the guys and women working there were lib rams because there's always been an assumption in this town the people who work in our giant bureaucraies tend to be public servants by definition. they tend to be liberals. they believe in what they're doing. it could well be the people at the irs are a bunch of liberal guys who had a point of view and did like the tea party. who knows? why are we making the assumption they were directed by the white house? we don't know. >> that's why he's hurting his case. what's going to happen if he's not careful, keep demagoguing, the public is going to tune it out, assume it's pure politics. if they come up with something more, the public is not going to believe it. what the president has already conceded, this is a deplorable action by a bunch of bureaucrats, why cover that up with demagoguing? >> i know why. because every time you trash government, you help the republicans. >> not in this case. >> well, i mean, i think chr

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itas wrong when richard nixon did it and it was wrong when barack obama did it.n the federal government has that much power in individual lives it's an invitatioto be abused. i think should move to a simple flat tax where the average american can fill out tax on postcard. put down how much you earn, a deduction for charitable contributions and how much you owe. it oug to be a simple one page postcard and take the agents, the bureaucracy out of washington and limit the power of government. >> eric: i have a hunch you might get suport for that? >> it's about empowering the people and that ought to be a bipartan value, something that republicans and democrats can both embrace empowering the citizenry instead of liticians i washington. >> eric: a lot of us are concern because the irs has en entrusted by obama administration to administer obamacare. doou trust them to handle that? >> not remotely. th the irs is gven keen administerg our healthcare. concerning vital aspects of taking care of our family's health and loved ones health. they are creating the largest datab

he says his party has changed so much ronald reagan and richard nixon would no longer be welcome to themany of that ring true to you? >> yes. several factors. is ontobob dole something. . he was a certifiable conservative, five times a candidate for the highest office. and i do think that what we saw in new jersey was an example of a crisis that worked last summer to the advantage of president obama he was running for reelection and now is working to the advantage of governor chris christie. theforgotten party is democratic nominee who could not get her picture taken with the president. shouldn't they work together? if youother contest -- believe obamacare is going to aeck the healthcare system, train wreck coming, you should oppose it. if you look around and see what obama has a train wreck coming, you should oppose it. if you look around and see what obama has and one of the reasons his numbers are down, you have an irs out of control, a justice department out of control, the anghazi scandal, which is dereliction of duty, and you say here is a president will -- that wants to put the ir

then the government decides they're going to use that against him because some future richard nixon decides that he doesn't like somebody and he's going to embarrass him publicly. that's the kind of thing that the personal infringement, embarrassment, vendetta i think we need to figure out how to prevent. i'm less worried about just the very fact the government looks at who's talking to whom. i think we need to do that to stop terrorism. we need strong safeguards so there cannot be future abuses of power by a government that decides to target people and use potentially embarrassing information we should never. >> god forbid there was some kind of attack, that this metadata, had we analyzed it properly, could have prevented. that's what we're all seeking to stop, no? >> well, there's no evidence that these sorts of metadata collection programs actually work in the terrorism context. we've been collecting this information for over a decade now in the post-9/11 world. neither the past administration or this one has been able to give a single example of how this information has caught a terrori

last week we saw the president being compared to richard nixon on the irs issue.ek we saw the president being compared to george w. bush on nsa spying. those are two presidents who are not at all popular with the president's progressive, liberal political base. at some point, this is going to start to do some damage, and we're going to have to watch poll numbers over the coming days and weeks to see at what point the base decides hey wait a second, the president isn't doing the kinds of things that we just elected him in november to do. >> thank you, eamon. eamon javers in washington. >>> still ahead, jcpenney makes over its home furnishings department, but it is enough to get the retailer's financial house in order? >>> first, though, a lock at how the international markets finished the day. >>> jcpenney is looking for a home run from its home furnishings department. the makeover of this business unit is a big part of that retailer's strategy to get customers back into the stores and spending. but as courtney reagan tells us the move doesn't come without risks. r

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richard nixon was forced to resign in large part because he thought well. this is a huge change in our perception while a media war breaks out over supporting or hating edward snowden as little airtime as possible is actually dedicated to the spying on unsuspecting citizens itself the biggest privacy leak in recent u.s. history has shown the media to have little ability to deal with complex issues instead indulging themselves in a manhunt yet again but then again the shouldn't be too shocking when the finger pointing every now and then is paused it's stories like this that fill air time all of the super bowl or the sound of your holiday your holiday wait. i'm going to new york. and in the meantime eric draitser a new york based geo political analyst he believes the government and the media are in cahoots waging a concentrated smear campaign against snowden in the united states we see a concerted propaganda campaign designed to demonize and to destroy the image if not the total character of snowden and we see this happening from the right wing and also from

looking the real villain in the face when you consider that as recently as one thousand seven richard nixon was forced to resign in large part because he thought well. this is a huge change in our perception while the media war breaks out over supporting or hating edward snowden as little airtime as possible is actually dedicated to the spying on unsuspecting citizens itself the biggest privacy leak in recent u.s. history has shown the media to have little ability to deal with complex issues instead indulging themselves in a manhunt yet again but then again this shouldn't be too shocking when the finger pointing every now and then is paused it's stories like this that fill air time. or and the sound of your holiday your holiday weight. i'm going to new york. the u.s. says its large scale spy program is there to target only terrorists but experts suggest those planning terror don't exactly spend their time googling the scoping or the facebook page or use of english to explain exactly what part of cyberspace they do. and there's suppose a quest for preventing terror attacks and increasing sec