because richard nixon was president. as i slowly realized the unspoken rule was that nixon was not going to win any cases. that's not to say the office of the presidency didn't win any cases, it certainly did, but the closer any case got to richard nixon the person the quicker, oh, there was a typo, quicker it was rejected." this is the solicitor general saying these courts are all as biased as they can be against nixon, too, and then he goes on to talk about what it was like to be acting attorney general. remember, i was the guy that went over to see him after the saturday night massacre to ask for some legal help and he wasn't very friendly. he was not outgoing in meeting me halfway. ok, "throughout the matter, i was surprised and disappointed at the failure of so many lawyers to act like lawyers. prone to complimenting can each -- complementing each other as specialists in process. many lawyers demonstrated during the week after the massacre and throughout the watergate affair how easy it is to let process take a back

it's sort of like richard nixon saying let's move on at the height of the investigation of his wrongdoing. of course he wants to move on. he wants to cover up. he wants to silence on one of the most serious issues we face, whether a foreign power can manipulate our elections, the well spring of our democracy. he doesn't want to the move on. he wants to run away.

. >> article iii of impeachment against richard nixon, the article was based on the idea that richard nixon as president failed to comply with subpoenas of congress. congress was going through its oversight function to provide oversight of the president. when asked for information richard nixon chose not to comply, and the congress back in that time said you're taking impeachment away from us. you're becoming the judge and jury. it is not your job to tell us what we need. it is your job to comply with the things we need to provide oversight over you. the day richard nixon failed to answer that subpoena is the day that he was subject to impeachment because he took the power from congress. >> we have carrie cordero here with us to sort out all the legal implications of this. it's not the first time, carrie, that lindsey graham has contradicted himself as he tries to defend president trump, right, but why is it so significant that he's telling donald trump jr. to ignore a subpoena? >> well, first of all, because the subpoena that's being issued is from the republican chairman of the sena

in all of this richard m. nixoncted in a manner contrary to his trust as president and subversive of constitutional government to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the united states. wherefore richard -- with minor edits those are the central holdings of article 3 of the impeachment case against richard nixon who was convinced to resign during a very different time by three senior members of his own party from the house and senate who told the president he simply lacked the support to continue. the quote from carl bernstein endures, it's something for everybody to think about, republicans were the heroes of watergate. and with that, that's our broadcast on this wednesday night. thank you so very much for being here with us. >>> tonight -- >> we believe the president of the united states is engaged in a coverup. >> democratic leader accuses the president of a coverup. >> he is engaged in a coverup. and that could be an impeachable offense. >> donald trump

because richard nixon was president. s i slowly realized the unspoken rule was that nixon was not going to win any cases. say the office of the presidency didn't win any cases, it did but the closer any got to richard nixon the person the quicker, oh, there quicker it was rejected. this is the solicitor general saying these courts are all as as they can be against nixon, too, and then he goes on to talk about what it was like be acting attorney general. remember, i was the guy that went over to see him after the night massacre to ask for some legal help and he wasn't very friendly. not outgoing in meeting me halfway. throughout the matter, i was disappointed at the failure of so many lawyers lawyers.ike prone to complimenting can each other as specialists in process, demonstrated during the week after the massacre and throughout the watergate affair to let process take a back seat to preferred political results. their se who found liberal identity before embarking on a career as a they regarded nixon ipso outside the law.

in all of this, richard m. nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as president as subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice to the cause of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people of the united states. wherefor, richard m. nixon by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial removal from office. those are article 3 of the impeachment case against richard nixon, who was convinced to resign by three members of his own party, from the house and senate, who told the president, he simply did not have the support in the party to continue. the quote from carl bernstein endures. it's something for everybody to think about. republicans were the heroes of watergate. that is our broadcast for this thursday night. thank you so much for being here with us. good night, from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. infrastructure meeting saying he can't work with democrats if investigations continue.ig >>> plus high-profile attorney michael avenattito facing new charges

. >> article three of impeachment against richard nixon, the article was based on the idea that richards part failed to comply with subpoenas of congress. congress was going through a function to provide oversight of the president. when asked for information, richard nixon chose not to comply and the congress back in that time said you're taking impeachment away from us. you're becoming the judge and jury. it is not your job to tell us what we need. it is your job to comply with the things we need to provide oversight over you. the day richard nixon failed to answer that subpoena is the day he was subject to impeachment because he took the power from the congress. >> cnn michael zelden is a former prosecutor and former essential assistant at the department of justice. a pleasure to see you. when you hear senator graham, especially then and now and the notion of saying defying a subpoena, it's like he's watering down his own power in congress. watering down the power that is congress. >> well, that's right. congressman graham was exactly right. this is what the rule of congress is in our

when the tapes were found, with richard nixon, the american people said enough was enough. i can assure you that as we find the truth there is still that proceeding, but we will not be baited into it we will only do it as this constitution gives us power to do. we're not intimidated by the fact that it may be a little longer. the idea of the attorneys is continue newty of questioning. you can cross examine in the midst of your collectively the members of congress that are on this committee i have been stunned and excited by the questioning of their thoughts. but what happens when the but the line of reasoning that allows even the american people to see the building blocks and the story narrative of truth that is so very important. >> our committee chairman is very patient and knowledgeable. and he understands the time frames. let me say this. let's hope there is something productive over the weekend let's hope that the attorney general of the united states understands his job and will affirm allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and not a single man fleetin

they say let's look at richard nixon obviously he resigned before he could be impeached but the congress started holding congressional hearings that was public and public support against nixon who by the way had much higher approval ratings than president trump does now public a support started to leave him the republicans then followed suit so they're saying that that is the road map the democrats should take now she doesn't appear to be budging but pressure is building especially with this appearance of robert mueller still the white house is trying to bat it away really trying to slam democrats for even thinking about the i word is the president likes to say impeachment they spent 2 years they interviewed $500.00 people they looked at over a 1000000 pages and documents over 50 subpoenas and made the determination there was no collusion again that's the entire reason for the special counsel they've concluded it just because democrats don't like the results of the 2016 election or the mall or report it doesn't mean they get a do over it's sad that they have no message that they have no

states declassify things and i will have him prosecute my political end. >> donald trump is taking richard nixon to the sixth power. nixon had a couple of things he was looking there. i interviewed the director of cia under nixon. he said that nixon kept oncoming to him and saying i want the kennedy administration's files. i want files on cuba. helm figures that what nixon wanted was evidence that john kennedy ordered the assassination of fidel castro. nixon kept on wanting materials as you see, you had him on the tape on the coup against south vietnam in 1963. they thought if they were able to tie the jfk murder -- they thought that would undermine appeal to catholics to the united states. >> first of all, was that unprecedented in the use o of of - of -of -- of -- obviously the intelligence relatively to modern things. is this a renovation of richard nixon of the idea that he can look for them to dig up dirt and doing watergate over and over again. >> it was but the cia was a little bit innovative. franklin roosevelt could have used the fbi, he asked files he can use against his opponents and

trump has that self-awareness, thank you very much. >> and richard nixon was a train add lawyer and itike there were several points in the investigation where nixon the lawyer understood that there was no legal alternative in the next move, that he must in fact submit to the supreme court. >> he certainly understood it after the 9-0 supreme court case because those tapes were turned over instantly and he had to know they were his undoing. they had him lying on television to the american people. that was enough to remove mr. nixon. everyone said that's one thing you can't do is lie to the american people. it happens in this administration almost every day. sometimes on little things, sometimes on very big things. >> one of the articles of impeachment was specifically about what the president is doing today which is refusing to comply with legal and legitimate subpoenas that are investigating criminal conduct. >> that's right. >> when they were investigating the mueller report, they are investigating suggestions and evidence of criminal conduct in the mueller report. >> that's exactly ri

justice, richard nixon.und president reagan in his administration had undercut the constitution in terms of appropriating money outside of the normal appropriations process tryi to fund the contras. we did so in a manner that was civil. weid not get involved in name-calling. i think this simply has to stop. people will say there were perfectly capable people herof questions inent the senate. when attorney general barr said i am not coming to the house, i think at that point the house overplayed its hand. all of the members of the committee are lawyers. they can conduct an investigation with qualified people. we saw that in the senate. we had kamala harris very penetrating questions, we e.w amy klobuchar do the s there are opportunities for the chairman to say we invited the attorney general to answer questions from council, he refused to do so, t we will move forward nonetheless. now it looks like it is part of an entertainment center where people are just ridiculing the absence of the attorney general. thin

during what would not become impeachment but the impeachment investigation of richard nixon, it took months and months of a senate committee that was solely dedicated to researching impeachment before they decided to have articles of impeachment come from the house which were never executed because the house and senate agreed. it was a democratic house and a democrat senate. we have a different scenario now. the case has to be very -- to the american people. we are legislating and wish the press could cover more of that. thank you for pointing out some of the bills we passed and sent to the senate on safety. violence against women, gun safety. the list goes on. climate action now. in any event we're legislating. we're investigating. we are litigating. we're going to as we go down the path make a decision based on the strongest possible case to get the best results for the american people and the action taken by the special counsel today, i commend him for the work that they did to present the facts. we have to get it unredacted for the public but nonetheless and for the congress. the

. >> this is what he said about richard nixon ignoring a congressional subpoena. watch this. >> the day richard nixon failed to answer the subpoena, he took the power from congress over the impeachment congress and became the judge and jury. >> so refusing to comply. don jr. is refusing to comply, the president is telling his folks to refuse to comply. when it's a democrat president or owhen he can use richard nixon as an example, it's okay. but not this president. what gives? >> worse to me is the fact that the president is defying congress. this is a separation off powers issue. he's not even sticking up for his own entity, his own institution. >> is he going to be reelected that fast? >> they are basically being undermined by the president elect right and center. >> well, that's a good question. who said that? >> the other part of the clip from gram is he's saying mueller got to the bottom of this. the executive branch did do an investigation. richard burr and senator warner are the chair and can co chairman of the senate intelligence committee. they eare separ

does it mean richard nixon, who believed he was falsely accused, could simply the missed the entire investigation? is that what hebe believes? what president doesn't believed they are being falsely accused? is this were to become the standard, no president could be guilty of obstruction federal investigation and every president would have the right to terminate any investigation certain about that president and maybe about many others with some relationship to the president. attorney general bars comments are as close as it gets for saying the president should be about the law. i will be writing him a letter and send it to him this morning asking him these questions and asking you if he stands by this statement. if he does, he should not be attorney general. i will wave his answers. i hope he doesn't stonewall. in addition to these statements that the president could terminate any investigation or procedure and he believed based on false facts. the discrepancy between the opinions of the attorney general and conclusions of the mueller report. my colleague senator harris masterfully also covered t

the closest president, again, is richard nixon. but the stonewalling and the cover-up in the nixon administration, at least you had some degree of negotiation, some degree of bargaining, and eventually went up to the supreme court. but here we have a blanket stonewall. this is an administration that says absolutely we are not going to cooperate. and in william barr, you have an attorney general that i think donald trump finally found -- you know, it's almost as if starting with jeff sessions, he's been auditioning attorney generals to be the attorney general he really wants who is not going to represent the people of the united states, not going to report to the people of the united states, but is going to be a lap dog for donald trump. >> same question to you. >> well, i was the chair of a subcommittee. i remember asking the immigration service about information about nazi war criminals in the war criminals in the united states. they could have said, oh, i'm not going to answer that question, but they did. turned out that there wer

and nixon had a couple of things he was looking for there. and i interviewed richard helms, the director of the cia under nixon, whom he hated and sdru d distrusted, many times. he said nixon kept coming to him through haldeman and others and saying, i want the kennedy administration's pbay of pigs files on cuba. he wanted evidence that john kennedy had ordered the assassination of fidel castro. also they wanted material, as you had on the tape, on the coup against the president of south vietnam in 1963. they thought if they were to tie jfk to the murder of the president and his brother, that that would appeal to catholics in the united states. >> was that unprecedented, intelligence agencies are relatively modern things, but is this an innovation of richard nixon, this idea that he could take the levers of government and look for them to dig up dirt, basically do watergate over and over again? >> it was with the cia, maybe that was a little bit innovative. but franklin roosevelt abused the fbi, he asked for fbi files that he could use against his opponents. same thin

on october 8th, 1971, president richard nixon called a meeting with his cia director, richard helms, the official reason was to discuss cia document classification. but that was code for something else. and we know that because we have to audiotape of nixon huddling with white house aide john ehrlichman before the cia director got there. >> i was kind of mysterious about why you were doing all this. i said to him, look, the president has got some very heavy negotiations coming up in the future, and i implied that it was important for you to understand the whole background of the cuban missile crisis because you're going to negotiate with the russians. >> so they told the cia director that nixon needed these secret files so he could prepare for negotiations. but listen to what they really wanted it for. >> supposing there's something we can really hang teddy or the kennedy clan with. i'm going to wanna put that in colson's hands and run with it. i think what you will say to him -- >> i'll make the decision. >> you have to make the decision in the last analyst. >> i have a right to. >>

because of the interview, i knew richard nixon was involved in planning and directing a cover-up that was being executed by john dean in the white house. so he is saying in his book that the interview was embargoed. he couldn't print it, he couldn't tell anybody. but he knew, from that interview, there was a cover-up, nixon is at the heart of it, john dean is running it. who could he tell? one of his best friends is judge soroka. and the judge just appointed himself to be trial judge for the break in trial. he says in his later book that he invited the judge down to have lunch when he was special counsel to nixon. they were close and he impressed the daylights out of the judge. clark was an insider in the white house. this is the second book. it comes out first. i hesitated to write or speak of my conviction that the judge would be trustworthy and aggressive as a judge. despite long conversations with him in the fall of 1972 in which we talked about the importance of honest government and i expressed a belief in the eventual triumph of right over wrong. we did not speak of the merit o

richard nixon, when he was being investigated by the department of justice, they demanded his tapes. he directed the head of the investigation be fired. at thatrney general time declined to fire the special prosecutor. the president fired him. the deputy attorney general declined to fire the special prosecutor. the president fired him. he went to the third official in the department who agreed to fire the special prosecutor. that was one of the key elements of the entire watergate scandal, the fact that the president sou prosecutor whohe was investigating him. the president tried twice to do the same thing. first, he fired james comey, and he said it was because of this russia thing that he fired comey. .t could not be clearer it was a most a confession on videotape. i fired him because he was investigating me. later, it was clear, he tried several times to fire bob mueller just the way richard nixon fired the special prosecutor that was going after him. he was supported in that only because -- thwarted in that only because his white house counsel refused to carry out his instruction

i came across them when i was working on a book on richard nixon, he also wrote two books about richard nixon so i'm familiar with what is here but i don't know what is actually in the joseph kennedy boxes. finding is a chance of bunch of media clips that won't help me much at all. host: tell me about richard whalen and what items you hope to find? john: richard whalen was a new york journalist who spent time working for "fortune" magazine, and he was also a liberal republican. nixon caught up in the campaign, richard nixon's presidential campaign in 1968 as a speechwriter. it did not go well. he clashed with other raids -- with other aides and left the campaign and ended up writing two books about american politics in the 1960's. that is what brought me here last time. because he had that business background, and because he worked for richard nixon who famously lost project -- lost to jack kennedy in 1960, he also had an interest in the kennedys and joseph kennedy. so what i am hoping to find here research,ts from his original documents that can't be found elsewhere, but i'm especially

i came across them when i was working on a book on richard nixon here he also wrote two books by richardort of familiar with what's here but i don't know what's actually in the joseph kennedy boxes. there is a chance that we be finding excellent gold or just a bunch of media clips that will help me very much. >> can you tell me a little bit about richard whalen and what kind of items you hope to find in his boxers? >> sure. richard whalen was in new york journalist, a magazine journalist. he spent some time, i believe, working for fortune magazine. he was also a liberal republican and he got caught up in the nixon campaign, richard nixon's presidential campaign in 1968. as a speechwriter. it did not go well. he clashed with some of the other aides and left the campaign and ended up writing two books about republican politics in the late 1960s. that's what brought me here last time. because he had that business background he also was very interested and he went for richard nixon who famously lost to jack kennedy in 1960. he also had an interest in the kennedys. especially in joseph kenned

but donald trump is no richard nixon. donald trump has much less respect for the law than even richard nixon did. and so it is easy now to feel a constitutional crisis approaching in washington. there is another crisis presented by the trump presidency that has been with us and been very visible every day of the trump presidency. it was described by 27 mental health professionals who contributed to the best selling book, the dangerous case of donald trump. the book describes donald trump's psychological weaknesses in ways that make him unfit for the presidency. three coauthors of that book have written an op-ed piece for the boston globe based on their reading of the mueller report. and they say, the pattern that emerges of the president is one of rash shortsighted decision making without consideration of consequences. he is protected only by actions on the part of former fbi director james comey, former white house counsel don mcgahn, and former campaign manager cory lewandowski who in effect shields the president from h

is above the law strikes me as unfounded and contrary to the positions that he took on richard nixon and on bill clinton and others where he has argued that the law applies to everyone and that's the ruling of the united states supreme court. >> if donald trump listens to senator graham, what will this do to the credibility of senate subpoenas going forward? >> fortunately, the senate intelligence committee is acting on a bipartisan basis. assist glimmer of hope that we're going to see some bipartisan effort to protect our nation against these continuing russian attacks. and christopher white has warned, as has the entire intelligence community, the a russians are doing it again. they were successful in 2016 beyond their wildest dreams, as jim comey said the other night on the cnn town hall, and they're doing it again right now in europe and around the world. so my hope is that we will have a bipartisan urging to donald trump jr. that he come forward and now tell the truth. >> you're suggesting that he didn't tell the truth the first time he appeared before the committee under oath?

aid to highway act, rehabilitation act of 1973, the endangered species act while they're driving richard nixon out of office investigating, the budget act of 1974, nixon signs it on july 12th and he's. >> he's on a helicopter a month later. >> exactly. >> that was a giant piece of legislation. that created the budget committees. it created the congressional budget office. everythinging about federal budget is was defined in that very complex law that the nixon administration tracked, responsibly. they did their jobs. and the president frankly did his job while he was being driven out of office. >> look, the nixon administration for its many flaws was a presidency. this has always been a presidency. it never did a real presidency from day one. it's never been fully staffed. it's never been staffed with competent people let alone the brilliant people that we usually see in administrations. people who really know the ins and outs of the federal budget, really know infrastructure. who are committed to the idea of government and not the idea of grifting you know themselves into a bigger house and a

so the calculation on impeachment is far more complicated now than it was for richard nixon. secondly, i think pelosi is right on a couple of counts. one, you cannot have a close election the next time. trump lost some popular vote by 2.9 million and he still won the electoral college. i agree with her that he will try to play games if the election is close. third, she does have to keep her house a majority. when you have polls showing that basically 60% of americans think trump did something wrong or think he lies, but only 17% are for impeachment now, if i remember those numbers right, then you've got a real selling job to do before you move to impeachment. so i think what pelosi has been saying is, look, we are going to keep pressing, we're going to keep trying to hold him accountable, we're going to try to reveal as much as we can about what trump did to try to move that 17% number up to try to move the number up that says, my god, trump really is lying here. >> yeah. >> and then we will have a different kind of politics both on the election and on impeachment. >> can eve

richard nixon's lawyer went to prison. the only reason richard nixon did not go to prison was he was pardoned by gerryry ford. amy: you want to thank you for being with us. a small correction, said trump tweeted a 4:00 a.m., it was actually at 7:00 a.m. are only have one bullets -- pulitzer prize, amy. amy: two corrections. david cay johnston, pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter previously with "the new york times," now founder and editor of dcreport.org. he has been reporting on donald trump for decades. his latest book is "it's even worse than you think: what the trump administration is doing to america." when we come back, a new organization has been formed. it is called super. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, i'm amy goodman. as the 2020 election seasonn heats up, we turn now to the launch of a new political action group by three prominent women's rights activisists. it's called supermajority, and its goal is to train a new generation of women activists to take on grgrassroots campai

when asked for information richard nixon chose not to comply. >> sound familiar?se graham is singing a very different tune saying that donald trump should fight like hell to resist subpoenas issued by congressional democrats. who he calls political hacks. who you about the decision to hold an attorney general in contempt of congress? here is one senator's righteous indignation. >> i think that it is outrageous that any attorney general, republican or democrat, refuse to comply with congress' constitutional right to hold them accountable and the justice department accountable. i would say that if this was a republican just like i do now because it's a democrat. >> that applies almost perfectly to the situation with bill barr today, but as you may have guessed it's marco rubio back in 2012 railing against obama ag eric holder for refusing to hand over documents related to the fast and furious gun walking scheme. the key line is rubio insisting that i would say that if it was a republican just like i do now if it's a democrat. instead marco rubio is calling the barr

those are article 3 of the impeachment case against richard nixon, who was convinced to resign by three members of his own party, from the house and senate, who told the president, he simply did not have the support in the party to continue. the quote from carl bernstein endures. it's something for everybody to think about. republicans were the heroes of watergate. that is our broadcast for this thursday night. thank you so much for being here with us. good night, from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. >>> good morning. happy to have you with us. today was the day that a larger dynamic finally suddenly became clear. but today i think was the culmination of something that started to happen a few days ago. a little bit under two weeks ago. the first crack in the dam is something that we saw just less than two weeks ago. it actually feels like a year ago now. but it was may 9th, which is less than two weeks ago, and that was the first one. that was when the president and the trump administration more broadly started losing these battles that they have been waging now for a while

donald trump's i don't do cover ups an undeniable echo of richard nixon's i'm not a crook. as nancy pelosi went further this afternoon. >> the fact is, in plain sight, in the public domain, this president is obstructing justice and he's engaged in a cover up. and that could be an impeachable offense. ignoring this -- ignoring the -- ignoring the subpoenas of congress was article 3 of the nixon impeachment. article 3. he did not honor the subpoenas of congress. as they say, the cover up is frequently worse than the crime. >> and today's dramatic escalation of tensions between trump and pelosi is where we start with our favorite reporters and friends. annie karni. chuck rosenberg, the host of the podcast the oath. senior political reporter for "the washington post" aaron blake is back. eli stokeles reporter for the los angeles times. and former democratic congresswoman donna edwards. donna, let me start with you. it seemed that nancy pelosi started the day on the defense within her own caucus and ended up on the offense with the president. does that buy her time within her ca

when the tapes were found with richard nixon, the american people said enough is enough. i can assure you as we build the blocks of finding out the truth, there is still that proceeding. but we will not be baited into it as our friends on the committee choose to try and do. we will only do it as this constitution gives us the power to do. so we're not intimidated by the fact that it may be a little longer. the idea of the attorneys, as many have seen is the continuity of questioning. that means that you can cross-examine in the midst of your time frame. collectively, the excellent members of congress that are on this congress, i have been stunned and excited by their questioning and their thoughts. we will put all that together. but what happens when the lawyers -- and i have been on impeachment proceedings in this committee, judges and others, is the line of reasoning that allows even the american people to see the building blocks and the story narrative of truth that is so very important. [indiscernible question] ms. jackson lee: i will just say this. our committee chai

no there really isn't the richard nixon tried to refuse to turn over the the oval office tapes and of course the supreme court unanimously said he had to turn them over. this law as i mentioned is just absolutely. unconditional and really there's a less room for argument here than in any other case so if it's unprecedented it's on the side of congress and their absolute right to have this information so where busy is heading to the courts. well when nugent says it goes for the courts 2nd mean several things one is there could be a reference case could be referred that is to the justice department for them to initiate criminal contempt proceedings of course that's not going to happen the other route is that congress can petition the federal courts to issue an order compelling these tax returns to be turned over that's going to take a long long time to get resolved which is really the trump administration's plan they just want to slow walk and stonewall as long as they can they hope past the 2020 elections there is a 3rd way congress does have an inherent contempt power which is punitiv

nonetheless, richard nixon would be gone from the white house within four months. ld would remain. >> tom, we saw president nixon in your piece there which brings us to yesterday's hearing with attorney general barr. you spoke of america's values surviving the worst of watergate, the worst of richard nixon. what are your thoughts about what you saw yesterday? >> well, there was a sharp difference between what we saw yesterday and what we went through at that time. obviously in the summer before during the water gate hearings, there was a kind of, if you will, very clear case for all that had been done by the nixon men. and he was trying to push back gentsz th against that. but he could do it because we didn't have 24/7 coverage. everyone looking at him wherever he was around the world. there was a time if you will for a little more reflection. the people who were working for him were a very small core at that point. alexander hague, ron zeigler and others. they thought that they could win with the saturday night massacre and that turned against them. people also for

this author makes the case for abuse and the watergate scandal that ended richard nixon's presidency. from the outset, there was a the-court press by department of justice, not surprisingly, to find out what had been going on. and it got worse and worse. but in the beginning, it was the career prosecutors. that would have been ok. it is when the cover-up and we brought in highly partisan, specially recruited people to take the investigation and an entirely new direction. indictmentses the for 10 months and they launched investigations into every aspect of the nixon presidency. that is when it went off the rails. it is our fault. was running this cover up. it made it much worse. watch the entire class is sunday at 8:00 p.m. admin night eastern on big presidency. americanatching history tv on c-span3. when mexico gained its independence from spain, the new country's northernmost holding was the sparsely populated territory of california. aboutennedy talks mexico's governance and plans for california in the decades leading up to the 1848 mexican-american war in which mexico lost californ

. >> article three of impeachment against richard nixon the article was based on theed in that richard as president failed to comply with subpoenas of congress. the day richard knicks nixon failed to answer that subpoena is the day he was subject to impeachment because he took the power from congress. >> chris is our cnn politics reporter. that was then. this is now. you got other examples of hypocrisy. >> yeah. breaking news. politicians like lindsey graham sometimes just change their positions to suit the moment. let's go through it. there a lot here. we only have another 40 minutes to do this segment. i kid. okay. all right. well, let's start first with you mentioned with lindsey graham said about donald trump when he was running against him. remember, you might not remember, but lindsey graham was a candidate in the 2016 pre mares. let's do to that quickly. he said donald trump -- well, here's his word. he called him an idiot but also said you know how to make america great again? tell donald trump to go to hell. there's lindsey graham. that's donald trump playing golf. they played

you might call it a richard nixon style madman strategy or it mayjust be that trump is having a quieted and the adults out of the room, who knows? it may very well be him shortly before the talks about to start panicking the chinese into making further concessions but he may have spooked them to the point where they don‘t get on the plane and don‘t fly from beijing to washington because the vice premier was going to come in and hopefully conclude these talks because there was an “— conclude these talks because there was an —— there was three months before the trade well that cost a huge amount of money. trump says it asa win—win, huge amount of money. trump says it as a win—win, and the great results have been buoyed up this trade well. if you are a soybean farmer or a picnic spot in the united states, you are hurting at the moment even if you are getting some subsidy. you are hurting at the moment even if you are getting some subsidylj suppose if you are getting some subsidy.” suppose he would argue that this was not going to work, everyone said it was going to be a disaster. there m

in other words as richard nixon said, i am not a crook. >> i'm the most transparent president in the history of this country. i don't do coverups. you know that better than anybody. >> the parallel to nixon's infamous line was immediate and obvious to everyone watching. not the least because nixon happened to be talking about releasing his tax returns. >> i have never obstructed justice. and i think that i can say in my years of public life, that i welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. well, i'm not a crook. >> the president's claim that he doesn't do coverups is, of course, laughable. because all he does is cover things up. he is covering up his tax returns. he is stonewalling. as the mueller report describes in detail, he tried over and over again to shut down the special counsel's investigation. in fact, in this very moment, while speaking to you, the man's former lawyer is sitting in a prison in part for illegally covering up the president's alleged affairs during the presidential campaign. that coverup was, ac

richard nixon, within days after the supreme court in united xon ruled he had to turn over the tapes,hem over. he had a sense of self-awareness so that when he saw what that portended, he resigned. david: who would have thought we look back on that as a better time when it comes to law? mr. weld: that's right. david: thank you so much. that is bill weld, 2020 republican presidential candidate and former governor of the commonwealth of massachusetts. more "bloomberg markets" coming up next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ thiseld: this is -- david: is "bloomberg markets" on bloomberg television. president trump has announced that stephen moore has withdrawn his name from the federal reserve nomination process. this comes just hours after he said that he was "all in," despite the growing senate opposition. >> the situation today, i think it could be a lot different three months from now when i go before the banking committee and the full senate. i am not too concerned about this. thed: we are joined now by bloomberg "what did you miss?" anchor. out "all in"ns doesn't mean that much. we don't act