future judge, future supreme court nominee robert bork. happily, i will give a little personal testimony, i discussed this with bob bork during his lifetime. i was privileged, unworthy as i was to serve as his colleague on the d.c. circuit. bob wasn't one to march down memory lane, but he would on prompting. the story has been told through reflection of bill rocco -- ruckle. elliot richardson wrote about this. would love to be guided but here is a firsthand report. robert bork i did not want to , fire the independent counsel, special prosecutor as he was called. but we sat -- many of you have been on the fifth floor, the attorney general, you had meetings there. behind the conference room is a rather small, surprisingly small office and there the three of them discussed it and bork wrote, i don't want to say relented, that would be overstated but accepted the fact , that it was the right thing to do in light of the president's power and use of power as he saw it, to fire the independent counsel. as he would be called in the fullness of tim

supreme court. >> robert bork is a lightning rod nomination. ll sorts of provocative writings on american social issues and democrats react with terror. >> as chairman of the judiciary committee, biden will oversee the bork supreme court hearing, while continuing his run for president. amid everything biden starts to get debilitating headaches but works through the pain. >> so the headaches started. it is not like he said, i got a terrible headache. you will just notice he is popping some aspirin. >> during his campaign, biden is inspired by a speech given by british labor party leader neil kinnock and begins referencing it on the trail. >> neil kinnock was telling a personal story about the dignity of working class life, about the potential of building something better for the next generation, about the role government can play in helping families like that, and so he did start making it kind of a staple of his message on the campaign trail. >> almost every major press person in the country had heard me repeatedly attribute that quotation to ki

robert bork is proftessor of art history at the university of iowa with a specialisation in gothic architecturey. thank you for your time. this is a very painful time for all sorts of people in all sorts of way and certainly for a lover of gothic architecture. indeed, it is a terrible day. what is it about this building that makes it a gothic masterpiece? it is of course the cathedral of paris, one of the grandest and greatest of the first generation of gothic architecture in the second half of the 12th century when they were beginning to invent the style. it is one of the tallest, over 100 feet interior. very thin walls that had to be glazed with some of the first flying buttresses so some of the first flying buttresses so it is really an audacious building. it seems to be the stone of the interior, of the vaulted roof that may have saved much of the interior? that's exactly right, yes. is there a danger now to the structural integrity of the building? i think there is a danger but i think the worst has passed, 110w but i think the worst has passed, now that the fire has been controlled. as ma

future judge and supreme court nominee robert bork. i will give some personal testimony, i discussed this with him during his lifetime. privileged to serve as his colleague on the d c circuit. he was not one to march down memory lane but he would on prompting. the story has been told through the eyes and recollection of only one other. anyway, here is a first-hand report perhaps i have a feeling memory but i don't think so on this. i did not want him. thed not want to fire independent counsel or special prosecutor as he was called. sat in the back room on the fifth floor. -- not they general big conference room but behind the conference room is a surprisingly small office. there, the three of them i don'td it and bork want to say relented but accepted the fact that it was the right thing to do in light of the president's power, it was an unwise use of power as he saw it. counselthe independent as he would be called. wasrous to say, the country inflamed. that was the beginning of the end as it turned out. not so much nationally but here

like robert bork, like clarence thomas before him.nd it was -- and the republicans actually for once did something right, they took it with the proper seriousness, they did it the right way. but what they did to this man, to watch him go through on public tv defending himself before his children and his family, they rushed to judgment all the time. jesse: right. >> and the lesson richard jewell taught me is not to -- it's not like i have a crystal ball and they keep being wrong. am i ever going to get credit? jesse, seriously -- jesse: if there was an award, "watters' world" would give it to you. >> hannity's world. jesse: all right. >> look, you, obviously, we're watching your career take off. jesse: rising star. one of these days. >> they're going to want to crush you. they're going to want to silence every voice, tucker, laura, me, rush, beck, mark, o'reilly, you name it. everybody gets -- you get big enough and you get -- your voice becomes powerful, they want to silence b you. they want this channel destroyed. jesse: theyy will g

if we put it in watergate terms, will he be remembered as an elliot richardson or a robert bork? told to do things by the president and didn't, and of course, the president did not tell them to fire robert mueller hero did not successfully tell them to fire him, but he interpreted the obstruction of justice evidence one way. is he a hero? >> he has a uniquely complicated legacy. liberals will always salute him for, he was the person who picked robert mueller. he was the person who started this whole investigation. yet, he was also the person who came up with this pretext to fire james comey as the fbi director. he stood with william barr in exonerating the president in a way that the mueller report did not. it's a complicated legacy, complicated person. >> american hero or washington survivor? >> you know, you can be a lot of different things. and i am not prepared to issue a verdict. >> when you do, we'll bring you on the air. >> brother sciutto, as always. >> thanks very much. >> when it came out two years ago, experts warned the show "13 reasons why" could be dangerous to vuln

robert bork, who also was a nominee at one point in his life, he went on the air after she was nominatednd said something like she is a nightmare in every way. he meant it from the point of view, not that she was a woman, not that she had not had an extensive background in constitutional law, but they cannot trust her ideology. that is what is at stake. we know from the polls from 2016 that many people who voted for 2016 did it because scalia's seat was vacant and they put a lot of stock for a republican to name the individual. brian: how much anger was there behind-the-scenes over obamacare? -- over the obamacare decision? joan: a lot. brian: can you explain that. joan: i knew half the story at the time. i did not know the whole story. i knew how angry justice scalia was. i knew how angry some of the other conservatives were. chief justice john roberts switched his vote twice and gave mixed signals. they felt betrayed. then he felt betrayed because some things were leaking out. the liberals were baffled. two of the liberal justices switch their votes on the medicaid part. so much of the

robert bork's speaking to us there from iowa city an ex-president french protected thanks for being withus on al-jazeera. while we have breaking news right now president donald trump has vetoed a resolution by congress calling for an end to u.s. involvement in the saudi led war in yemen while rozlyn jordan is following the story for us and she joins us now live from washington d.c. rose was are we hearing from the white house. well the president has issued this veto message which was e-mailed to reporters in the last ten minutes and he is saying that he is vetoing senate joint resolution number seven this is a resolution which both senators and representatives voted on saying that they don't want the u.s. to give any support to the saudi let coalition as it tries to support the yemeni president mr hadi as he tries to regain control of his country yemen that country has been locked in a very devastating civil war for the past four years there's also been a massive humanitarian crisis the animosity on capitol hill to u.s. military support for the saudi coalition basically stems on two poin

earlier i spoke to robert bork who's a professor of art history at the university of iowa where he'swritten extensively on french gothic architecture he says rebuilding the not true don will be extensive and needs to be done judiciously. first we're going to have to understand what has happened to the building examining it carefully understanding what the fabric is like right now and then we're going to have to have a discussion about how exactly they're going to try to put it back together whether they're going to try to use modern materials in some places where they're going to insist upon reproducing things as they were immediately before the fire. i believe it should be done very carefully and very conscientiously there are a lot of decisions that will have to be made before they even start to do this work i think that mr mccraw is very right to try to say we should do this and have it done expeditiously but it shouldn't be done hastily that spire that collapsed actually dates from the nineteenth century it was the work of beauty of the duke the great restorer who helped to conso

says no and the deputy says now and then this yale scholar who happens to be solicitor general robert bork who by the way i interviewed for the nixon library, he didn't want to do it either. but he felt the president had the authority under article two to do it. and he fired archibald cox. and that raised the question of president nixon's legitimacy. not just for part of it. and i think that's the key part of the story that interested me. because you know, we've got a lot writing about nixon. and when jeff asked us to do this book together, the story i wanted to understand, because of the current political moment we live in, is was everybody partisan in 1974? why was it that republicans voted against this? and that, and that's the story. that's what interests me because we all have to wonder sometimes, can we be bipartisan let alone nonpartisan? the nixon story is phenomenally interesting because nixon pushed republicans over the edge. by his misconduct. >> questions as to whether a sitting president could be indicted for obstruction of justice. has that question been resolved? >> well, i'