. ♪ brian: pat buchanan, in the acknowledgements of your new book on your time with richard nixon, yourite, "this memoir and history of the nixon presidency is surely among the last to be written by a confidante who served in the white house from its first to its final days over four decades ago." how many others are left? patrick: i'm sure there are some of the young men around nixon, what we would call back in those days like dwight chapin and others who haven't written memoirs yet, but i'm not sure they are going to. but i do think in terms of a written memoir, this is -- brian, this is probably the last of someone who was right there and knew it from the beginning. brian: what did you put in this book that you had never talked about before? patrick: well, i put in the origins of the agnew speech -- my memos on that. there is a number of memos in there then i went to my files and got out that i have never published before -- a great number of them and there's a description of how i almost defected on the china trip. i was so unhappy with it, and there's also the end of it, you know

loyal, courageous, went through every single one of those crises and then some with richard nixon. >>ou on your -- you are on your way back from china? >> kissinger had gotten word, i thought the shanghai communication was a sell-out of taiwan. and frankly, a shallow piece of work, concessions all through it. and it embarrassed me. it almost made me a shame so he came back to discuss it. he said, what's your problems with the communique? i said look here, chinese open with a statement about revolution what we want and we start off with some examination of conscience. i said, japanese, they say japan is militaristic. we don't defend our own, and the part on taiwan, we accept their position. and so it was a sell-out. badly written. you should have had me in there. i would have liked to have written it. we could have stated our side, they state their side. so then he went forward and he came back and he started, henry started ragging me, your conservative friends haven't supported us in the middle east. and then i just got up and put my face about that far from his, and b.s. in the verna

the richard nixon presidential library and museum hosted this event. >> good morning, welcome to richard nixon's presidential library. i am with the richard nixon foundation. on this memorial day, we honor the fallen, and appropriately we honor those who were missing or killed in action during the vietnam war, a narrative which -- an era in which president nixon was commander-in-chief. this week marks the 46th anniversary of when the president and first lady welcomed the american prisoners of war held captive in vietnam, and their spouses and their mothers at what is still considered the largest dinners ever held at the white house. as president nixon said, it rained all day and much of the evening, and the south long was -- south lawn was soggy when the guests started arriving for dinner. many of the women's long dresses got splattered with mud, but nothing would dampen the spirits of that night." in the first year of his presidency, nixon met with the wives and mothers of the pows during the christmas season. he wrote that the women spoke respectfully and passionately about the need to

richard m. and patricia r. nixon.that, the 1973 requests cited the same law that democrats are relying on today, that 1924 law requiring the treasury department to furnish tax documents. democrats say all this refutes steve mnuchin who called their demand for trump's taxes an unprecedented request and who said he has never even heard of such a request. >> we will follow the law. >> thank you. >> i would expect that we would. i'm not aware there has ever been a request for an elected official's tax return, but we will follow the law. >> joining me now, pulitzer prize winning journalist david cay johnston who has been digging into trump's finances for years. his book about the trump white house is called "it is even worse than it looks." thank you so much for joining us on this. how relevant is this nixon era precedent to getting trump's taxes? >> well, it's totally relevant, yazmin. in the year since 1924, there is not a single known case of the irs not turning over a tax return on request. in fact, congress has at lea

morning, welcome to richard nixon's presidential library. i am with the richard nixon foundation. on this memorial day we honor the follow -- the fallen. we are -- we honor those who were killed in action during the vietnam war. president nixon was commander-in-chief. this week marks the 46th anniversary of when the president and first lady welcomed the american prisoners of war held captive in vietnam, and their spouses and their mothers. it is still considered one of the largest dinners ever held at the white house. as president nixon said, it rained all day and much of the evening. many of the women's long dresses got splattered with mud, but nothing would dampen the spirits of that night. with the wives and mothers of the pows during the christmas season. he wrote that the women spoke respectfully and passionately about the need to get their husbands and sons returned home to american soil. from that time on, each pow was an individual to me, obtaining the release became a burning cause. our distinguished speaker on this memorial day will tell this important story. her name is

morning, welcome to richard nixon's presidential library. i am with the richard nixon foundation.

we thought richard nixon would run for re-election and it didn't happen because it turned out there was a raging fire in the administration. my guess there is a raging fire in this administration. will the president survive that? impeachment, not likely. >> among the 23 or 24 democratic presidential candidates, who is best, from your perspective right now, congressman, to lead that fight against the president? >> the fight for impeachment or -- >> no, the fight to get elected president of the united states and defeat donald trump in november 2020. >> well at the moment it is the leader in the polls, mr. biden. >> is that someone you are supporting? >> i am not yet supporting one or another but he clearly is leading. he clearly has the experience. and at the moment he is best positioned. >> what do you think about the house judiciary committee going ahead and subpoenaing maybe about a dozen or so current and former trump administration officials. you could see the names over there. they want to come over and testify. what is that all about? >> it is all about this administration stonewal

richard nixon was president of the united states. the month before these were put -- the years these were put in the ground in december of that year, was the last time we were on the moon in 1972. this was just at the end of the apollo program. this is technology that is incredibly outdated. mr. turner: if you think the apollo program and the moon launch, you think, well, the next technology is the space shuttle. that launched in 1981, almost a decade after these were put in the ground. even the space shuttle is retired. but yet he wants to resurrect these. this is as ridiculous as saying we're going to go to the moon again, let's go to the museum and pull out the apollo moon crafts, let's just jigger them up again and put them up in space. it's not going to work. this is absolutely irresponsible. but it's not really about just trying to extend this life. because this has been studied before. this would be a study of a restudy of a restudy of a restudy. in addition, this is not only a study, this delays the program. everyone wonders

>> well, the national archives have been reviewing nixon tapes since the 1980s, richard nixon sued theon for control of his case. that lead to a court case, a whole different review. i've become director of the nixon library in 2007, by that the point the review had gotten to 1972, and by court order, we were supposed to go in chronological order. the chronological review ended in 2013. national arc iverson then did -- i was no longer there. i had a sense of what was done. the national archives went to preservation work on the tapes. digitized them, and then they started a review, they went back to the redactions, the withdrawn parts from the earliest tapes. and i learned again, now, as a private researcher, that private research researchers could request certain conversations. when i was at the national arc iverson, i heard there was a racist conversation between ronald reagan which was a surprise, and richard nixon, which was not a srp. i didn't hear the conversation, it wasn't part of my job to go back and listen to it, i made a point to find out if someone had requested it, no one

did before richard nixon was forced to resign the presidency. george willis said i think this will do more lasting damage than richard nixon's burglaries did. that damage, george will is talking about is damage that he said this president has done to our culture and our civic discourse. the president did more of that kind of damage tonight at a campaign rally in north carolina. he began the rally by telling the only truth that he told tonight. >> we have all night. we are going to have a lot of fun. i have nothing to do. nothing. he is our first president with nothing to do because hoe has no idea what the president is supposed to do and he is famously lazy. many of us said when donald trump was running for president, he didn't know anything about government. now former republican house speaker paul ryan said it in the new book, american carnage. he said i'm telling you he didn't know anything about government. covering a trump campaign rally presents challenges to the american news media because we know that the president is going to lie. proba

the richard nixon presidential library and museum hosted this event. >> good morning, welcome to richard nixon's presidential library. i am with the richard nixon foundation. on this memorial day, we honor the fallen, and appropriately we honor those who were missing or killed in action during the vietnam war, a narrative which -- an era in which president nixon was commander-in-chief. this week marks the 46th anniversary of when the president and first lady welcomed the american prisoners of war held captive in vietnam, and their spouses and their

moratorium were being monument grounds and it was quite clear time and news eek were saying, richard nixon's presidency is in danger broken. i wrote the president a memo saying you've got to stand up going to have to explain to the country why we have to keep those kids over dying in ting and gave his d nixon famous great silent majority speech on november 3, 1969. it was a smashing triumph. 70% of the country backed him him but that night after the speech finished, the networks had proceeded to trash it. three major networks and most americans got their news about the country and about the and the world from these three networks and nixon and halderman told me to write letters and telegrams. time to take the on the networks directly, openly, at a high level way to do it is with a speech by the vice president of the united states which i will it came back, a memo, photograph of it is in that book, where halderman wrote back, he has seen, go ahead. that means the president of the nited states has seen your memo, go ahead and start writing that speech. it for about three or four days. i was in

richard nixon claimed the word, not a speechwriter for richard nixon, the silent majority.he happened to win after the next one and he won with more votes than any president in history and a greater percenta percentage. but lbj in 64 was about a hair better. >>> up next on "after words" the federalist mollie hemingway and judicial crisis network examined the confirmation of supreme court justice brett kavanaugh and future of the court court interview today "los angeles times" and david savage. this is a weekly interview program with relevant guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest works. >>> last summer washington saul a particularly fierce political fight over president of trump's nomination of judge kavanaugh to succeed justice antonin kennedy on the supreme court. not always an edifying

. >> sunday, coverage of the apollo 11 returning to earth and greetings from president richard nixon. >> i want you to know that i think i'm the luckiest man in the world and i say this not only because i have the honor to be president of the united states, but particularly because speakinge privilege of for so many in welcoming you back to earth. >> watch the 1969 news coverage of the historic apollo 11 mission on c-span and c-span. or or listen with the free c-span radio app. former special counsel robert mueller is on capitol hill next week testify in back-to-back hearings about possible obstruction of justice and abuse of power by president trump and the 2016nterference in presidential election. live all-day coverage starts at 8:30 am eastern. three,ive on c-span online at c-span.org, or listen with the free c-span radio app. >> nasa administrator jim bridenstine on testified on the agency's exploration strategy to return to the moon and send a mission to mars. the hearing coincided with celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 mission. this is just over an hour. this

>> from a state of the union address, david stradling, as you hear that from richard nixon in 1970, one year after the fire along the cuyahoga river, your reaction? david: i think it's a recognition of just how powerful an issue -- a political issue the environment had become. nixon articulates it in a very common way at the time, which is to kind of suggest that things had just gotten so bad that now we finally have to deal with them. but as my earlier comments suggest, you know, the environment, particularly the urban environment around industry, had been so bad for so long that mostly what he is articulating is a changing sense that now we need to do something because american citizens are demanding that they be given access to clean water and clean air, that their cities not be as filthy as they had been. i think that this is mostly a recognition that a tide had changed, that a series of events, including the cuyahoga river fire, but also the santa barbara oil spill -- there is a terrible pesticide spill on the rhine river a couple days after the fire in cleveland. all of these thin

president richard nixon had a speech drafted just in case the apollo 11 mission failed.n, "fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace." 240,000 miles from earth, the fates of neil armstrong, buzz aldrin, and michael collins were still uncertain. their return trip a technical puzzle, involving a lunar liftoff, a docking maneuver, and a long journey through space. when they finally splashed down, the world breathed a sigh of relief and celebrated a human milestone. just eight years and 59 days after kennedy's challenge, it was mission accomplished. some history. i'm norah o'donnell in washington. good night. ♪ >> this is the "cbs overnight news." ♪ >>> welcome to the overnight news. i'm meg oliver. republicans and democratic are working feverishly to spin a long-awaited congressional testimony of former special counsel robert mueller who led the two year russian investigation interference in our last election. he spent more than five hours answering questions from two house committees and offers little tha

every presidential candidate who has been in the major party races since richard nixon has put out tax returns during their bid. it's one of these things that american electorates have come to expect from anyone who is open to the vetting to potentially be president. it's something that we seen as we all know as basic transparency and disclosure and it's happened in both parties until, of course, donald trump totally shattered that tradition. refused to release any tax returns whatsoever. now, democrats in congress, as you may know tonight, they're still in the middle of an escalation politically, legislatively and legally in this battle with trump to get his taxes. they asked, they invoked a law that allows them to ask. the president then used his own irs administrator to refuse to comply with what seemed like a pretty straightforward legal rule. so now they are seizing on that to sue the president and try to pry loose his taxes through the third branch of government. meanwhile, the president's lawyers were actually in federal court just this week with all this other stuff going on. t

when they were held in california in the summer of 1948, richard nixon didn't just win the republican nomination, he won the democratic and had wagered everything and ran unopposed in the first campaign.

and though the moon mission was launched byjohn f kennedy, it was his one—time rival richard nixon who president at the time. for every american, this has to be the proudest day of our lives. the moon landing came at the end of a tumultuous decade. the ‘60s brought the struggle for black equality, the vietnam war, the assassinations of the kennedy brothers and dr martin luther king. here, finally, was a moment that transcended national strife. there's been a wave of space—age nostalgia, marking a glorious, near—hypnotic moment when "america first" had a very different connotation. nick bryant, bbc news, washington. let's return to our top story — the seizure of two tankers by iran in the gulf. our diplomatic correspondent james robbins is here. update us on further events? two developers. the first is that the owners of the glasgow—based tanker say they have heard from the master and actually, that vessel has been released by what the master described as armed guards. they had left the vessel and he had been told he was free to continue his voyage and he reported all crew safe and well

we didn't have a report with richard nixon going into it and obviously the hearings themselves providedre, but what do you make of that distinction? >> i think the distinguishing feature is where are the articles of impeachment? where is the actual proceeding before the house judiciary? neil: do you think anything that mueller said that he left it in congress' hands to find those articles that by even acknowledging to prosecute the president? >> neil we've talked about this many times from the beginning. the answer is no. i think he recognized reality which is that there are alternative means to holding a president to account but when the congress, the hearings tried to get through the house judiciary committee, mueller to say, you know, isn't this essentially out to an impeachment referral obviously, he would not go there. neil: but he was perfectly fine with them pursuing this after he leaves office. >> i don't think that's realistic. i think the justice department ultimately has made the call. the attorney general said the matter doesn't go forward and find sufficient evidence there'

esther nancy neil armstrong and buzz aldrin were officially welcomed back to earth by president richard nixon. facebook.com.org type apollo 11 in the search bar for our anniversary coverage. narrator: this year marks the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 landing. sunday, moonwalk one, feature-length documentary commissioned by nasa covers pre-lift off preparations to parades for the astronauts after they save returned with rarely seen space in between. here is a preview. >> flight began with a vertical lift to the heavy lower atmosphere and a tilt to the east at 6000 miles per hour. the empty first stage is discarded to save weight and so is an adapter and the ring tower. with the second stage firing, it reaches 50,000 miles per hour when a2 is jettisoned. the third stage places apollo in earth's orbit at 17,400 miles per hour. when the spacecraft has been thoroughly checked out by the crew, the third stage hires again, it's speed tearing it free from the grips of earth's gravity. -- postingusand word outward you dock to the lunar module. the empty third stage is left behind. [beeping] apollo

this regard in contempt would make richard nixon blush with envy. taken together special counsel robert mueller's testimony and the presidents obstruction of the congressional investigation compel us to immediately begin a formal impeachment inquiry. i do not come to this decision lightly. and impeachment proceeding against the president of the united states is a matter of the highest constitutional magnitude. but when the evidence demonstrates that the president of the united states obstructed the special counsel's investigation and when the facts and the evidence demonstrate that the president of the united states is continuing to obstruct justice, seeking to derail a legitimate congressional investigation into the lawfulness of his conduct while in office then the congress must do its constitutional duty and act. the act of obstruction that special counsel muller defined it in his report in yesterday to congress are impeachable offenses. a view shared by myriad constitutional scholars, attorneys, and prosecutors. the president improperly pressed

and took a phone call from president richard nixon.il and buzz, i'm talking to you by telephone from the oval room at the white house. and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone phone call ever made. and what did we learn from the apollo missions that we still use today? we are leveraging a lot of the experience that we gained with the vehicles themselves in terms of the rocket design, the capsule design, and what it takes for us to safely, you know, send that body up to space and bring it back down. a recent poll suggests that one in six britons believe that the moon landing was staged. in the age of the internet, conspiracy theories run rampant and claiming the moon landings were a hoax is at the head of the pack. companies like nvidia have tried to use technology to try and prove the moon landings did happen. they built a 3d render using powerful graphics processing units which realistically represents how light behaves on the moon. debunking a popular conspiracy theory about the lighting in the moon landing images bei

and david stradling, as you hear that from richard nixon in 1970, one year after the fire along the cuyahoga river, your reaction. david: i think it is a recognition of just how powerful an issue, a political issue the environment had become. nixon articulates it in a very common way at the time, which is to kind of suggest that things have now gotten so bad that we have to deal with them, but, as my earlier comment suggests, the environment, particularly the urban environment, had been bad for so long, that he is articulating that now we need to do something because american citizens are demanding that they be given access to clean water and clean air, that their cities not be as filthy as they had been. i think this is mostly a recognition that a tide had changed, that a series of events, including the cuyahoga river fire, but also the santa barbara oil spill, there was a terrible pesticide spill on the rhine river just a couple of days after, the fire in cleveland, all of these things begin to build up, these spectacular events, to remind people just how bad the urban environment, industr

you were appointed by richard nixon to federal court and then gerald ford and turned out over 35 years to be a liberal. justice souther, nominated by george w. bush, another conservative, turned out to be as liberal as you. anthony kennedy, reagan appointee, turned out to be the biggest obstacle in roe v. wade and on gay marriage. why did you, suter, and kennedy, drift away from the orthodox views of the republican party? justice stevens: i have never been a political person of any kind. i am not conscious of changing my basic views. it was clear at the time that president ford would still appoint me. what has changed is a very large number of republicans. i really don't think all republicans are like donald trump. [laughter] >> you don't think so? if that's not true, why does the whole apparatus of the party get behind him? justice stevens: i don't know. >> that is an honest answer. ok. another case when people think about your long history, one of the cases brought up is the chevron versus nrdc. you created a legal standard that has lasted for decades. basically, the congress writes

president since watergate brought down richard nixon 40 years ago the 2 volume nearly 500 page report was completed in march or adapted version was made public in april it showed substantial evidence of russian meddling in the u.s. election 34 people were indicted and several convicted including some close to trump and his campaign administration and private life they are the facts and and the spin begins the investigation did not establish a conclusive link between the trump campaign and foreign interference i'm having to take you. know collusion no obstruction well not quite in a may press conference muller made his only public comments about the investigation they threw a lot of gray into trump's preferred black and white take. if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so. we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime the constitution empowers congress to do it justice department policy blocks charge try and remove a president from office democrats remain split over impeachment muller has said

they're looking at history and what happened to richard nixon. nixon was still reasonably popular among his base at the start of the waterfwaet heariga in '73, as americans watched and heard on television, attitudes changed. there are a lot of differences between then and now. the watergate hearings were surprisingly bipartisan. the what did he do and the republicans. the hearings lapsed weeks. today president trump has about the same approval rating but likely will be v is scheduled to last just five hours. you can watch the testimony right here on nbc bay area in 25:47. >>> san francisco's federal court will once again be the epicenter of the battle over immigration today. activists are asking for temporary restraining order surrounding a new policy aimed at stopping almost all immigrants from applying for asylum in the u.s./mexico border. they're now required to first pursue safe haven in a third country, which through they will travel on their way to the u.s. the requirement was announced by the trump administration last week. protesters are

richard nixon said he thought that the president is a dictator. the president is at the theme is it isn't illegal. president trump goaded that yesterday and said under article two i can do anything i want. that is a totalitarian patriot, not a democratic picture. the united states must be safe from this. >> in these actions, this cannot go on and it's up to congress to safeguard the constitution, and we will do it. >> as i mentioned today in the hearing the story of the 2,016th election is a story of disloyalty of greed and out lies. if there is anything that i think symbolizes those strands, it was moscow trump tower. it was this massive real estate projects the president was trying to consummate while running for president and concealing it from the country. this i think demonstrated disloyalty to the country by deceiving the american people about this massive business opportunity that he was seeking while she was running for president and it's certainly a vivid example and ample demonstration of the lies that permeated in the aftermath i tried

the astronauts were officially welcomed back to earth by president richard nixon. findh to c-span.org and apollo 11 in the search bar where our anniversary coverage is. ago the astronauts from apollo 11 came the first humans to set foot on the moon. the culmination of a challenge by president john f. kennedy on american history tv, what is commonly reviewed -- referred to as his moon speech, on september 12, 1962 in houston. [applause] senators,kennedy: scientists, distinguished guests and ladies and gentlemen. i appreciate your president having made me a visiting honorary professor, and i assure you my first lecture will be very brief. i am delighted to be here, and i am particularly delighted to be here on this occasion. we meet at a college noted for knowledge, in a city noted for progress in a state noted for strength. and we stand in need of all three. but we meet in an hour of change and challenge, and in a decade of hope and fear. in an age of both knowledge and ignorance. the greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. despite the st

good evening on august 15th 1971 richard nixon the president of the united states his coffers had been emptied of a gold reserves by the vietnam war announced a staggering measure that would drastically change the world economy. would have been the dollar against the speculators i directed secretary connally to suspend temporarily the combat ability of the dollar into gold or other reserve assets except in amounts and conditions determined to be in the interest of monetarist ability and in the best interest of the united states. but it was not a temporary measure at all the u.s. president definitively kept the fixed relationship between the dollar and gold. the donor became a floating currency like every other currency a around the world. all the currencies of the world that were either tied to the u.s. dollar of the british pound by $971.00 we're now pure fee at currencies they're not backed by anything they're just backed by the confidence that people have in those currencies. abandonment of the gold standard kid the way for significant currency market speculation. the free circulati

mexican americans they also use the language of dangerous this goes back directly to 1968 when richard nixon used words like crime to associate with african-americans who were in communities where there were. bronzing that were taken place because of some of the violence that was taking place gives african-americans so this language has been you throughout the history of many lives been used by republicans in the recent years to try mobilize southern voters but now this you know carried over to american voters ok but if we move away from perhaps the crass way that president trump past been targeting. targeting alija cummings and baltimore the fact us remain and that's a point that the president does make and has. kept does make is that baltimore is one of the poorest states in the u.s. it's a 5th of this population live below the poverty line and it's 2 and a half times more 6 more in poverty than the rest of the states national average so is there some credibility to what he's saying and is this the way to address that. well this is a part of the strategy again i mean this is a case where t

if he irkas about legacy, you know, richard nixon signed the epa -- created the epa, signed the cleannd water act. other than teddy roosevelt, he's one of the champions of the environment, it's one of the bright spots on richard nixon's the will and moment of all of those cabela shopping republicans that are intimate with the cycles of nature and seen what pollusion is doing to their favorite spots and be the president that goes back into paris and rallies people to figure out solutions because there are a ton of them we're not talking about. >> happy birthday, brooke. >> thank you, will. >>> just a short time ago, the house voted yes to legislation extending the funding for the september 11th victim compensation fund for another 71 years. that is threw 2090. it comes weeks after the bill received nationwide attention due to impassioned pleas for support from surviving first responders and comedian jon stewart. he celebrated the hard-fought victory for funding with john fuel and other supporters. >> not many people around this country can say they went to washington, d.c. and made the

so in the party primaries in the summer of 1940, richard nixon did not just when the republican nominationocratic nomination, he wagered everything and carried the day. >> explorer nations passed on american history tv, every weekend on c-span3. the first day of senate judiciary committee meets was legislation that would change the rules for people seeking asylum in the u.s. and establish processing centers outside of u.s. court or sprayed that is live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. president trump pulled the campaign rally in cincinnati ohio, watch live at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, online at c-span.org or listen live on the free c-span radio app. >> federal reserve drum powell iand outs in interest-rate cut since the 2008 financial crisis. following the announcement he took several questions from reporters including on whether he caved to political pressure from the president. >> good afternoon and welcome. we have decided to lower the target for the federal funds rate by quarter of a percentage

beyond the moment where it almost ended, we pushed it to 1969 and the irony is that jfk's old rival richard nixon president when neil armstrong and buzz aldrin went to the moon. >> something that people may not know that is interesting about this is the fact that president nixon had drafted, and had his speechwriter draft another speech in case things did not go well, and in that speech he was to say if they had not come back, fate has ordained that the men who went to explore the moon in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. it is profound when you think about it. you interviewed neil armstrong and he said that he knew that he had a 50% chance of making this work and coming back. did he talk to you about making that decision? >> look. neil armstrong never really blinked. he had a mission. he was going to fulfill kennedy's pledge, and his pulse stayed normal and the heart rate normal, but he did tell me that they had a 50-50 chance of success and not that they were going to die, but that everything would work exactly as planned, but there was confidence in that they had done a lot of the

it led to richard nixon's resignati resignation, marched reagan's second term. of historical record, he was correct. >> i know that i'm not under investigation. me personal lichly. >> throughout the spring of 2017, trump appeared to take so las in the belief that he was not under investigation and according to the report had been given private assurances by the fbi. by june 14th he found out that was no longer true. >> the latest breaking news story of the night is the washington post report that special prosecutor robert mueller is now investigating the president for possible obstruction of justice. >> federal investigators had to expand because they kept hearing from witnesses about how the president in their view was maybe trying to intimidate them or pressure them to do certain things to end the investigation. >> coming up -- >> explosive information about the saga of don mcgahn. >> this is one of the most significant episodes of obstruction of justice in the mueller report. obstruction of justice in the mueller report i switched to liberty mutual, because t

number of republicans on capitol hill deserteded richard nixon, that he chose to resign. so impeachment is far more about politics than it is about law. and of course impeachment is only the beginning of a process, simply impeaching a ppresident s not guarantee his removal. >> many democrats say rather focus on the election, that is the place to beat the president. let's pivot for a moment to talk about the president's big wins on immigration in guatemala for sure but also at the supreme court, the court giving his administration the nod to use funds from the defense defendant by overturning a lower court ruling. how does that play for president trump as he moves on to the campaign trail and shares that with his base? >> well, no doubt about it, donald trump has been very successful in presenting all decisions as overriding successes for him and his administration. on the one hand, we can rightly say as you are reporting that he has got the successful positive ruling from the supreme court. on the other hand as you are also reporting, very clearly he has always said that

, october of 1973, there was just a thunderous move among americans toward feeling that richard nixon should be impeached. same thing in this country after the starr report with bill clinton. we haven't seen something like that. so if there's going to be a movement toward impeachment, it's going to something that's different from what we had seen. it's going to be dependent on democrats making the case, and that's going to be hard to do the next few weeks when they're not there. >> jon meacham, what did we witness this week? >> i think we saw yet another important chapter in the reflexive tribalism of the age. it is different even from, as michael was saying with nixon where it took a tape, it took the supreme court saying that the smoking gun tape ah had to come out to finally force the last act of the nixon presidency. even there, you know, you had into the summer of '74 you had a lot of partisan support for nixon, at least among republicans. we're now living in an era where that seems quaint, and there is an extraordinary number of folks who are simply impervious to contrary data.

morning at 10:30 eastern, coverage of the apollo 11 returning to earth, and greetings from president richard nixon. >> i want you to know i am the luckiest man in the world. i had the honor to be president and i have the privilege of speaking for so many in welcoming you back to earth. >> watch the 1969 news coverage of the historic apollo 11 moon mission on c-span and c-span.org. next, a look at relations between the u.s. and saudi arabia, and the dynamics between saudi arabia and other countries in the middle east. the middle east policy council hosted this forum. it is about two hours. >>

democratic chairman, peter ro dino said when he began the impeachment hearings against president richard nixon. >> there have been serious allegations. my people of good faith and sound intelligence, that the president, richard m. nixon, has committed grave and systematic violations of the constitution. impeachment resolutions were introduced by members of the house and referred to our committee by the speaker on february 6th. the house of representatives by a vote of 410-4 authorized and directed the committee on the judiciary to investigate whether sufficient grounds exist to impeach richard m. nixon, president of the united states. >> that was as rhetorically as far as the chairman of the house judiciary was willing to go when he was beginning impeachment hearings of president nixon. jerry nadler has gone far beyond that and the house has not decided to have impeachment hearings. chairman nadler seems to be regarding the hearing with robert mueller as the only witness as a preliminary hearing on the way to impeachment hearings. >> i believe that when people hear what was in the mueller repo

out into some of his impressions during the news interview. >> you're going to do a tricky dick, richard nixon. roger stone is a trickster. roger stone is a shady character. okay. i know roger stone and i'm doing my reagan right now. as nixon, you know, he worked for nixon. >> all kinds of impressions. so which is it, a bizarre reference to those impressions or a menacing reference to the felony of witness tampering. roger stone's freedom may depend on the answer and while mueller handed off this case to career prosecutors in washington, they're doubling down on this point that it was a felony, and the god father proves it. and you can see this today in their new court filing headline governance motion to admit movie click, stone urged credico, adding, i know roger stone he was in the olive oil business with my father but that was a long long time ago so i told them roger stone this, roger stone that. now, prosecutors are calling stone on his drama here, saying since he brought this up as the foundation of what he told a witness to do, they intend to show jurors exactly what stone is referring

sunday morning at 10:30, coverage of the apollo 11 returning to earth and greetings from president richard nixon. >> i am the luckiest man in the world and i say this not only because i had the honor to be president of the united states, but because i have the privilege of speaking for so many and welcoming you back to earth. newsncer 1: watch the 1969 coverage of the historic apollo 11 mission on c-span.org or listen with the c-span radio app. robert mueller testifies to congress wednesday about possible obstruction of justice and abuse of power by president trump and russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. c-span3,rage starts on online at c-span.org and the fruit c-span radio and. before the hearing, listen to the complete molar report. audio at thereport search box at the top of the page. announcer 1: next, a book tv exclusive. tour visits missoula, montana. bringing the book seemed to our viewers. c-span.org/citiestour. >> here we are, on our farm, you can see it just behind our house. you can see a little bit here. we are walking into this thicket. this is not a big grove. n