and richard nixon.68 the presidential wannabe lost his last two' elections. >> by then he wanted it so bad he was willing to do anything. >> this is twiced a gooz as in 1960 and the result is going to be twice as good as in 1960. >> july 12th. we have three men in a hotel room. a veteran politician plotting his comeback. the man running his political operation and south vietnam's man in washington. plus one lone woman, anna chennault. >> i had opportunity not only talking to the leaders but the people. >> nixon knew that anna chennault could establish a relationship between him and the south vietnamese and that just in case it became public nixon could pretend that she was not his real envoy. >> after just 10 years in washington d.c. anna had fast tracked her way to wealth and influence, and a pent house on top of the brand new watergate complex which she made into her private clubhouse for the global elite. >> she had loved to do parties. she's notoriously known as the republican social hostess of the

would have completed a second term. >> instead, richard nixon would spend the rest of his presidency keep anyone from hearing them. >> the white house made it clear today that president nixon has decided not to release tapes of his conversations. >> if i were to make public these tapes, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect from now on. >> he fought subpoena after subpoena. >> i have never heard or seen such outrageous, vicious, distorted reporting. >> even as he tried to convince the american people that watergate was a press creation. >> what is it about television coverage of you in these past weeks and months that has so aroused your anger? >> don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. one can only be angry with those he respects. >> mr. president, mr. president. >> finally, a drastic step. >> nothing like this has ever happened before. >> their offices have been sealed by the fbi. >> a mass firing of the men pursuing the tapes. the saturday night massacre. >> the news caused a sensation in the white house press room and sent reporters

that was richard nixon. how american. may god bless richard nixon.nd may god bless the united states. brian: what would you to say to young people who are watching this about the practice of law, about our american system of justice? worked.this case, it in watergate, it worked. i don't agree with senator dole about the place of richard nixon in history. i think he has a place in history to show what a corrupt president was in wood damage she could do to the country with his cover-up,st, with his and the system worked in getting rid of him. ron: i think the system not only worked, i feel very strongly that it still works and it will work and it will continue to work,. we are a country of laws. we are a country with a moral fiber and moral backbone. i feel very strongly that, despite a lot of events that are unfolding now, that the system will continue to work. brian: i forgot to ask you what you went to school -- where you went to school. tim: i went to the university of maryland law school. brian: i know you went on to practice law in your life. wha

given how repulsed she was at richard nixon i could only imagine how she would be about the president of the united states. i think he represents everything she opposes. i think she would see him as an absolute white supremacist, the worst kind of misogynist, anti- immigrant and warmonger even though he pretends he is not. >> what about leader nancy pelosi who is now speaker once again? >> i think she would be very proud and they would work together. they have very similar political aims, shirley chisholm was left of the progressive wing of the democratic party as is speaker pelosi. >> barbara winslow thank you for your time. >> thank you. this was great. >>> approximately 25,000 people gathered at the lincoln memorial to demand an end to segregation and lobby for voting and civil rights for african-americans. the prayer pilgrimage fo

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richard nixon didn't want that. >> he hated the press. him during the '60s campaign. >> when nixon lost to john kennedy. >> president nixon gets in office and says, we're going to move the sons of bitches. the scheme was, put them over in the executive office building. >> across the street. >> every news organization in the country said, you know, this is ridiculous. and so somebody on the nixon staff came up with what for president nixon was a brilliant idea. among the people president nixon couldn't stand was president john kennedy. the white house swimming pool was identified for president kennedy because president kennedy had a bad back and he liked to swim a lot. the advice to president nixon was, we can pour over the swimming pool and put the briefing room and it will still be in the white house and briefing room there, it will be out of the west wing. mr. president, we're going to board over jack kennedy's swimming pool. and that's how the president briefing room came to be. >> but the room you're used to didn't look this way when f

and, given how repulsed she was at richard nixon, i can only imagine how fraught she would be about the current president of the united states. host: how so? >> i think he represents everything she opposes. i think she would see him as, you know, an absolute white supremacist, the worst kind of misogynist, anti-immigrant, and war mongerer, even though he pretends he's not. host: and what about leader pelosi, now speaker pelosi once again? >> i think she would be very proud of speaker pelosi and they would work together. they have very similar political aims. chisholm was on the left of the progressive wing of the democratic party, as is speaker pelosi. host: barbara winslow, thank you for your time. >> thank you. this was great. tv,oday on american history the treaty of versailles. the moving of historical building and voter suppression and the 1960's. at 4:00 p.m. eastern on railamerica, the 1963 film we will never turn back about the violence and intimidation civil rights leaders and black farmers experienced over registering to vote. county of people in the are afraid to register to

he was a friend of richard nixon. first came into office, he went to johnson's ranch to talk about a sensitive matter. howson looked up and said am i supposed to know what happened 30 years ago? i have a little tape machine and i would have verbatim conversations come out great. you tell nixon that there is nothing more important than a taping system. [laughter] and thereby johnson contributes to the downfall of his good friend richard nixon. david: our leaders born are they trained? doris: i think some qualities are inborn. empathy is one of them. lincoln from a the time he was a little kid when his friends would have hot coals on turtles to make them wriggle, he would say they were wrong. i think johnson had a little bit of empathy earlier on. perhaps with coming from poor backgrounds made them closer to people. he taught at a small mexican american school. prejudice on of their faces and wanted to help them. he changed those kids lives. and teddyin roosevelt, empathy did not develop until they went into politics. t

he was a friend of richard nixon.n nixon first came into office, he went to johnson's ranch to talk about a sensitive matter. johnson looked up and said how am i supposed to know what happened 30 years ago? i have a little tape machine and i would have verbatim conversations come out great. you tell nixon that there is nothing more important than a taping system. [laughter] and thereby johnson contributes to the downfall of his good friend richard nixon. david: our leaders born are they trained? doris: i think some qualities are inborn. empathy is one of them. lincoln from a the time he was a little kid when his friends would have hot coals on turtles to make them wriggle, he would say they were wrong. i think johnson had a little bit of empathy earlier on. perhaps with coming from poor backgrounds made them closer to people. he taught at a small mexican american school. he saw the in of prejudice on their faces and wanted to help them. he changed those kids lives. for franklin and teddy roosevelt, empathy did not dev

less than seven months later, richard nixon was out of a job.fell to his successor, gerald ford, to level with the american people. the state of the union is not good. >> fast forward to where president obama had 84% approval rating. >> states like these and their terrorist allies cut an axis of evil. >> the invasion of iraq began a year later and with iran and north korea still show the policy. and president obama criticized the supreme court decision. >> last week, the supreme court passed a law that i believe will open the flood gaits for special interests and including on for corporations. >> justice alito could be seen shaking his head and mouthing, not true. in years since, we have seen it leading to more money in politics without the transparency. we're still learning how foreign entities funnel money to influence our elections in 2016. politics is history in the present tense. we will be watching to see whether president trump can support a unifying division to pass a policy in congress. that's a reality check. >> such interesting histor

and thereby johnson contributes to the downfall of his good friend, richard nixon. david: are leaders born or trained? doris: i think certain qualities are born. one of the most important qualities in a leader is empathy. lincoln from the time when he was a little kid, when friends would be putting hot coals on turtles, he would go and say that's wrong. lyndon johnson had a certain empathy. maybe both of them having come from poor backgrounds gave them a closer feeling to people who were poor. he saw the kid in pain taking off a year to make money. he saw the pain of prejudice and he really wanted to help them. and he changed those kids' lives. whereas for franklin and teddy roosevelt, empathy didn't develop until they went into politics. teddy said that he was going in for an adventure. he thought it might be fun. once he got there and saw tenement houses and was a police commissioner and he saw what the slums were like, he developed a fellow feeling and desire to help make their lives better. fdr's polio made him a more warmhearted man to other people who had been

and thereby, johnson contributes to the downfall of his good friend, richard nixon. david: are presidential leaders born, or are they trained? doris: i think certain qualities are inborn, perhaps. i think empathy is one of them. one of the most important qualities in a leader is empathy. you can have natural born empathy. lincoln from the time when he was a little kid, when friends would be putting hot coals on turtles to make them wriggle, he would go over and say that's wrong. lyndon johnson had a certain empathy as well. maybe both of them having come from poor backgrounds gave them closer to seeing people who were in trouble and feeling for them. he taught at a small mexican-american school and saw the pain -- he was a kid in college at that time -- taking off a year to make money. he saw the pain of prejudice and he really wanted to help them. and he changed those kids' lives. whereas for franklin and teddy roosevelt, empathy didn't develop until they actually went into politics. teddy said that he was going in for an adventure. get in the state legislature. he

bill clinton and richard nixon. david: ok.n, i would say on a strictly iq basis, those two, but they had other flaws, obviously. david: do you ever have any regrets about anything you did in your career, and do you ever regret not going into private equity? alan: well, i'm an economist. making money, per se, has never been my interest. it has turned out a good fallout, but it was never my real purpose. david: if you ever want to reinvent yourself as a private equity person, let me know. you could, you know, learn this business and still be very good in it. alan: after i run out of economics, i -- david: you will give me a call. alan: no, my problem is basically the economy keeps fascinating me. david: all right, well thank you very much for taking the time. thank you. ♪ i'm a veteran and the army taught me a lot about commitment. which i apply to my life and my work. at comcast we're commited to delivering the best experience possible, by being on time everytime. and if we are ever late, we'll give you a automatic twenty dolla

not just richard nixon.e house impeached him on grounds he lied about monica lewinsky. is there anything president trump can learn from their speeches? >> president trump is very uncomfortable informal settings. he doesn't give written speeches very well. what he could learn from his predecessors is this is a moment you have the nation's attention. you have your adversaries, your opponent's attention. this is the time you can think big. lbj, just after a nation's turmoil and sadness, uses his first state of the union to talk about the war on poverty and medicare. john f. kennedy after the bay of pigs gives a second state of the union and talks about putting a man on the moon in the 1960s. bill clinton looking at a tough re-election battle, says the era of big government was over. donald trump, if he were capable of that kind of rhetoric, could actually set our sights higher, talk about our better angels. unfortunately, he is likely to talk about the crisis on the border and give another jeremiah speech to ma

we've played that richard nixon clip before when mike pence said one year of these investigations is enough. last night, it was donald trump channeling the ghost of richard milhouse nixon. >> maybe not for the first time. i guess the difference is, joe and mika, in nixon's case, at least he had the self-restraint to wait until the end of the speech. in trump's case it came very early on. in trump's case, it was tied to a threat. i have never, for all the state of the union address i know of, i have never heard a president deliver a threat like that, unless you relieve me of these so-called ridiculous partisan investigations there's not going to be any legislation. that's a new one. >> that isn't in the state of the union but what he said before democrats were sworn in the beginning of the year. this is a threat repeated. yesterday, he talked about how he had written three books and i went back to look to see if i was still the consistent conservative i was, unfortunately -- i discovered i was, but unfortunately i was embarrassed to realize i had written the same exact book three times

richard nixon was never suspected as someone who might be an agent of the russians or the chinese or e. nixon was clearly anti-communist, that's the reason he could go to china when nobody else could without severe criticism. and he was always considered a patriot. so his problem wasn't that he was in anyway suspect of being an a manchurian candidate. he was anything but that, while this president certainly is suspected of that. >> the when president ands his then acting a. g., someone he appointed could recuse himself from an investigation that involves the president, again that's according to "the new york times," is that obstruction? >> you know, the obstruction law itself, the federal statute, the criminal statute is very broad. it deals with endeavors, even having the intent to do it. when you get in the area of impeachment it's just what is politically considered obstruction. so there's a big difference. and nixon did lots of things that tried to impede investigations that trump is nudging into that area when he's calling the southern district as saying, hey, can't we get our ri

brooklyn college professor kc johnson teaches a class on lyndon johnson and richard nixon's supreme courtlan to fill the bench with liberal justices and the difficulties he ran into trying to get them confirmed. he outlines the pushback from conservative senators and confirmation hearings. he concludes with background on some of nixon's nominations to the court. his class is about one hour and 15 minutes.

it's a conundrum to deal with richard nixon. in some ways, you know, you could see the dark side of nixon existing and roger stone and others of today and in other ways you see nixon alive air and with clean water with china. he's a large president. we lived in the age of nixon with a long time. eight years as vice president under eisenhower in addition to two-term president. people forget when he won in 1972, nixon's second term for re-election, when he beat george mcgovern it was the biggest landslide in history. nixon was popular. but we talked about "the washington post" earlier, "the washington post" and others got nixon during the watergate hearings and he's been tainted as president because of it. host: middle river, maryland, is next, walter, republican, go ahead. walter: good morning. mr. brinkley, i want to challenge you on a couple issues. first you said that "the washington post" was a act checker. i have to say they're a fact checker for the democrats. they're not a true fact checker because we've found them wrong ma

they're in richmond -- that's the tipping point in virginia. >> neil: they were also telegraphing richard nixon was for events that occurred while in office. so there was that hanging over nixon, which is not hanging over governor northam. >> neil: so short of resigning, he won't go anywhere. >> there's no legal way to make him go anywhere. >> neil: all right. judge, thank you very much. the host of "fox nation", "liberty file". >> we had roger stone on who made to me the argument he would make if judge jackson lets him speak to her before she imposes the gag order, which we all think she's going to do on friday. she's probably not going to let him speak. >> neil: he's free to gag until them. >> gaggle and gaggle he is. >> neil: i had a feeling you won't gag him. >> not at all. >> neil: judge, thanks very much. more coming up, including what the judge and i were chatting about going way back in time. your year book, whether it's high school or college or med school, expanded to social media postings, pictures of you on other people's sites now going way, way back in time for how long. after thi

the watergate scandal and his testimony was the turning point in that investigation a year later richard nixon then resigned from the presidency so why is mr cohen's testimony today so explosive well i think it's fair to say it's not the character assassination or the mudslinging which has been going on for the past couple of years is those three big accusations that he leveled out against the president namely for example that he was aware of the wiki leaks dump of e-mails against the democrats in twenty sixteen and when it comes to russia trump was still engaged in negotiations or at least conversations about the trump tower moscow project when he was also running for office he was also alleged to be at least to know about a meeting between his son donald jr and russian connections at the trump tower in manhattan and thirdly of course those hush money payments to stormy daniels the adult film actress although we knew that they did did take place what we hadn't yet heard in terms of analysis allegation from mr cohen was that that check reimbursement to him to the tune of thirty five thousand d

his final cabinet meeting, delivers state-of-the-union address and witnesses the inauguration of richard nixon. the film also covers the first lady including a speech on her conservation and beautification efforts. [background noises] ♪ >> a lot of people have been asking us what we're going to do in our spare time. i tell you what i'm going to do. i'm going down to the ranch monday afternoon and i'm going to sit on that front porch in a rocking chair for about 10 minutes. [laughter] >> and then i'm going to read a little and write a little, and then i'm going to put on my hat and go out and find walter. [laughter] >> someone told me the other day that the press had had a few complaints about the treatment that you had received during this administration. this is a fine time to be telling me now. why didn't you mention it sooner? [laughter] i've got some complaints of my own. maybe i should have mentioned them to you. getting misquoted. i remember that peter herd painting, y'all remember that? i never said it was ugly. [laughter] pres. johnson: actually, i thought it was a pretty good likeness

tom: that was richard nixon closing the gold window in 1971.years after we started, he closed the window, which was fortunate for us. david: why didn't benefit you so much? tom: because gold was trading for $30 an ounce in 1971, now it is $1300. in your house that you got 1971 was probably $20,000, now look at it. so everything has exploded since the gold window. david: what is the biggest trade you ever made? tom: jimmy carter, that was his grain embargo to russia. it is a funny story. um, someone you know called me and said, we are making charts that carter is going to embargo the grain to russia. i said, no. so we caught up victor pershing, the head of the club to russia and we said any chance of an embargoed great -- an embargo he said no. i didn't sell anything. i was big short. we had a dinner party on friday night and i said, excuse me, i want to see this speech. an e.m. barcoded -- and he embargoed the grain. it was a $50 million trade. david: so you stepped away from refco, and a 6.5 years later it went bankrupt. tom: i sold it in 1999

scandal now off to his testimony was delivered that was a turning point in that investigation and richard nixon actually resigned the year their office said what we saw maps wasn't so inflammatory in terms of painting the president as a lie a racist and cheat i think that mud has been thrown for the past two years now and what the democrats were looking for was a smoking gun and they certainly found some gunpowder what would you say was the most damning indictment that was leveled by cohen a good strong yesterday. i think what the democrats will be pinning their hopes on is the smoking a revolver was when mr cohen produced the check a copy of that check to congress to the tune of thirty five thousand dollars which he said was paid to him to reimburse him for the payments the hush money payments he made to stormy daniels and not check was dated august twenty seventeen of course when president trump was well and truly ensconced in his role as president two of the things that i think a worth pointing out though is that mr cohen says that he is aware of a further investigation into illegality poten

indeed, he poses a problem for the republican nominee, richard nixon. if wallace siphons to many conservative votes, he would help the democrats win with the minority of the votes. nexen in 1968, the clever strategy called at the time a southern strategy. it was much broader of challenging the precedence of the warren court. appealing to what we would call a racial backlash vote. he was doing so in code. you won't hear anything that the civil rights act was bad or that he was opposed to equal rights for lack people. he would leave impressions of the mind. the issue he seizes on his crime. he says the warren court has made too many decisions in favor of the rights of criminals and it created dangerous situations for society as a whole. here is an example of a television ad he runs in 1968. it is very cleverly constructed. there is only one person in this advertisement. we are left to imagine who the person pursuing this woman actually is. >> crimes of violence in the united states have almost doubled in recent years. today, a violent crime is committed e

exactly well it is it is interesting that forty five years ago now richard nixon said there had already been one year of the watergate investigation and that needed to end so that is one of the things being passed around in response to president trump that he has played the nixon line tonight and that that did not work too well for president nixon steve great to talk to you on the program many thanks indeed for being with us let's turn to some of the other things that are making news right now venezuelan opposition politicians in colombia preparing for the transfer of aid and supplies from the u.s. trucks were sent a request for help myself to play that interim president. but it's unclear if military forces who remain loyal to president nicolas maduro well allow the aid into the country to raise about reports from caracas. employees have bismuth hospital in the capital caracas say they are in desperate need of aid they say their hospital urgently needs basic medicines and medical equipment they say the venezuelan government shouldn't get in the way of international aid entering the coun

before president donald trump all president since richard nixon have publicly released their returns. the hearing is that 2:00 p.m. life here on c-span 3 online at www.c-span.org and on the c- span radio app. >>> the c-span bus recently traveled to alabama asking folks, what does it mean to be american? >> what it means to be an american is to stand up for the citizens. we the people of the united states of america in order to port are more perfect union. it's about our country, debate, discussion solving issues, solving uses for the citizens at ground level. >> to be american means to maximize your opportunities. it means to be who you are and benefit others. >> to me to be an american is very good. my culture and races of all minorities don't have more chances to enjoy the luxuries of be an american because of the typical stereotypes and all the racial profiling which is our faith that it can be eliminated and they will make us -- make america better for us. >> what this meeting an american mean to me? it means to me, that i have the liberty to be free, to worship where i want to wo

first of all, he's got a tattoo of richard nixon's face on his back.nd secondly, we know that he's got a tattoo of richard nixon's face on his back. he loves attention. the minute he got arrested, he went on a publicity tour. it was as if he had a new "star wars" movie coming out. last night he dropped by the warm confines of sean hannity's show to give you the real news that the fake media won't report. >> i honestly believe that they're going to charge the president with collusion. then nancy pelosi can be president. i think that's what they have in mind. >> jimmy: i'll go you one further. i think they wanted to get rid of pelosi, too. they knock off nancy pelosi. when she's gone, they get rid of the next guy in line for the presidency, chuck grassley, then they get rid of mike pompeo. when he's gone, he go after the secretary of the treasury, health and human services. agriculture, commerce. labor. they don't stop. they keep going until they get to the department of housing and urban development, dr. ben carson, who will be so sleepy throughout the

you're going to have to explain that to richard nixon because the helicopter he got onto fly him awaye white house forever was exactly the kind of helicopters being used in the vietnam war the exact same day. that's another extraordinary line that has -- is an a historical reference by him. these things go on and on. really to michael's point about the shutdown, the shutdown was about the wall. what was the wall in this speech? it was less than it's ever been. first it's see through, and in the end the final line on the wall was i will get it built. and then he says -- after that he says let's work together to a congress who has said we are not building the wall. and there's no ultimatum in that spot. there's nothing he said in this speech about how this wall will be built other than asking congress to work with him and they've already refused to work with him. >> having this see through steel barrier erected where the need was -- >> very limited locations. >> let us bring in our next guest because she has been very patient waiting for us. she is freshman member of congress rasheeda t

after richard nixon, by pure luck we got gerald ford.ng he had not been elected vice president. and then jimmy carter. and likewise i think we're yearning as a nation for somebody with a certain decency, somebody you don't have to be embarrassed to explain to your children what they just did that day, and so i think, you know, maybe the next president, certainly in the next few years, i think we'll see a righting of the american gyroscope, not just in terms of ideology, because that's not the big thing here, but in terms of decency, compassion, empathy, civility and the norms, the norms of just what we do and don't do, especially if you're a leader. >> and about that speech last night, since you did go through it line by line, the last page, while not quite aaron sorkin was an attempt to be soaring and lofty, but given what proceeded it, did it have a kind of cut and paste quality to you? >> well, they were two speeches in some ways. it was almost like an unstable molecule where there was, you know, one atom that was trying to reach out

from one of our favorites here, cnn contributor john dean who served as white house counsel to richard nixon is with me. john, welcome back. as kara was just reporting, prosecutors are investigating these handful of potential crimes, straw donors, false statements, mail fraud, wire fraud to conspiracy against the u.s. i want to focus in on conspiracy, john. is that the most potentially damning and if so why? >> it could be if there was an effort to somehow collectively use this entity for nefarious purposes of getting money and favors from the middle east was where the target would be, that was certainly a very prominent contributor to the inauguration and as was just mentioned, over 100 million, 107 million broke all records for inaugural committees. >> they're looking into the paper work and the paper work with the paper work. how the sdny is looking for all of this related to, quote, the possibility of doan nations by foreign nationals. it's only a crime if it is done with the knowledge that the foreign contributions were illegal, right? so why is the knowledge piece so significant? >> i'

looks at theook scandal that brought down richard nixon. a piece that basically said it did begin with russia in the 2016 election, explain. >> the concerns about untrue information have been around for a very long time. what we find as there is a tremendous number of parallels between what rush is currently doing in terms of attempting to sow divisions within american society and often doing this and other countries. and what russia did during the cold war era. if you go back to the origins, there is a famous episode where --is a very well-known in well-known diplomat, since a telegram to the united states trying to explain russian behavior. what they're doing in the far east. you also get an a norma's chunk, a five thousand word essay, and a norm is chunk of devoted to what russia is doing on the unorthodox plane or the activities that russia would not acknowledge doing. what we would call today plausible deniability. they are supporting favored candidates in elections, they are propping up local communist parties, they are disseminating

steve: a famous book looks at the scandal that brought down richard nixon. you wrote a piece that basically said it didn't begin with russia in the 2016 election, explain. kenneth: the concerns about untrue information have been around for a very long time. during the cold war era, what we find is there is a tremendous number of parallels between what russia is currently doing in terms of attempting to sow divisions within american society, and they are also doing this in other countries, and what russia did during the cold war era. if you go back to the origins, there is a famous episode where george kennan, a well-known diplomat, sends a telegram to the united states trying to explain russian behavior. and he lists a range of concerns, whether they are doing in germany, in eastern europe, and this is a 5000 word essay with an enormous chunk of it devoted to what russia is doing on the unorthodox plane or the activities that russia would not acknowledge doing. what we would call today plausible deniability. covert operations. he lists what they are doing, s

history has been remembered since then is that that 1973 olc memo was written specifically with the richard nixonatergate problem in mind and a definitive look at the issue of whether a president can be indicted and the context of watergate, they believe that nixon really it was about agnew and specifically trying to get to an outcome where the answer would be yeah, you can bring charges against agnew. what j.t. smith is saying here and again, he was there when it was written is in the course of expressing the view that a vice president can be indicted, which was the imperative of the moment, robert dixson opined on the president's ameanbility to the indictment but wasn't the intent of the memo but asserted that about the president to make the relevant case about the vice president. which is important about that history and important in terms of how that memo became woven into what we currently understand as how the justice department works. because to some extent the justice department position right now that a president can't be indicted rests on the conclusions of that 1973 office of legal cou

richard nixon said that water gait should last no more than a year, and then basically about a year later he was no longer president. what donald trump said at his state of the union was wildly inappropriate and frankly, un-american. all members of congress took an oath to the constitution and our framers set up the constitution as three co-equal branches of government. >> you heard nancy pelosi this morning talk about what you could call cautious optimism. if it were up to the conference committee, there may be a deal on immigration. maybe by the end of week and before the february 15th deadline. do you think there will be a deal struck in congress on the border wall and on border security? >> i am hopeful. for the last two years we saw that republican legislators didn't care about the wall. and that's because it's inefficient and a wasteful use of money. i think it's fascinating that donald trump's going to go down to el paso because the republican member of congress down there opposes trump's wall. i think the appropriators on both sides could come together with a deal that has additio

. >> couple things of note there, that's awfully reminiscent of richard nixon saying one year of watergate is enough. i can't imagine that they did that deliberately. >> unintentional. >> but it has to be unintentional, but if you know your history you know that richard nixon say that and i don't think they would like to see that parallel. number two it's interesting when he calls it a partisan investigation at a time when the biggest headlines about investigations are coming from the southern district of new york. >> that's a great point, in two separate probes. >> two separate cases. the southern district of new york is led by a u.s. attorney appointed by him. it's hard to make a point that the southern district case is bipartisan. >> that's the case they've been starting to make. just yesterday sarah huckabee sanders when she was asked about this investigation she talked about how it was a result of the people not accepting the result of the election, that the investigation into the inauguration and how that money was spent was basically bitterness on the part of partisans. so in the mi

included secret raids on cambodia laos and north vietnam richard nixon i know was to see that much the same way and was continuing the war while presenting to the public that he was on the process of getting out and we speak of america's priorities the first priority must always be peace for america and the word. revelation of the secret pentagon documents for street protests and anger spread across the country decorated war heroes and civilians marched together protesting the unconstitutional undeclared war ask the united states has been at war under every president since nine hundred forty. ever since the end of world war two us presidents have authorized the illegal and unconstitutional wars of aggression. according to the us constitution only congress can declare war but presidents have consistently found ways to wage war without congressional approval. between one nine hundred fifty and two thousand the us government was overthrown sixty. democratically elected governments dropped bombs on over thirty nations and attempted assassinations of over sixty four in the leaders. millions