robert bork chbeged that, and clarence thomas confirmed it.i the clarence thomas nomition, everybody was watching >> this vote, thas are 52 and the nays are 48. the nomination of clence thomas of georgia is hereby confirmed. >> narrator: clarence thomas was 43 years old.he owed to stay on the court for 43 more years. ♪ ea in the after thomas' confirmation, mcconnell watcnntc as democratic and republican presidents tried to tip theba nce of the court. >> president clinton tod nominated ruth bader ginsburg... >> narrator: with republicans in the minority, bill clinton r plach bader ginsburg and stephen breyer on the bench. congress the name is nominee to fill the se... >> narrato george w. bush, with a republican senate, put john roberts and samuel alito on the court. >> barack obama is project to be e next... >> narrator:ith democrats back to control, barack obama appointed sonia yor and elena kagan. >> still, many republicans are asking if she's the right person for the job... >> narrator: throught all,nn mcl had been climbing to por inside th

president, i oppose the umination of robert bork to the supreme court, ande the senate ttereject it.a our staff said, "hey, g hear what kennedy is saying." so i went over. >> robert bork's america is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue policeould break down citizens' doors in midnight raids. >> whoa, this sods a little er the top. i knew robert bork, he'd been a profsor of mine, and i liked the guy, but certainly my journalistic instinct was, "okay, the fight's on, the fat's in the fire. this is really goingal somethg." than this injustice. better i yield back the balance of myce time. >> when he finished, there wasju silence. i said, "what is all this (bleep)?ou what, what areoing?" he said, "just know that we'll have to destroy him." >> and we we watchinatthis on tv as we were drking champagne in the counsel's office. add i said, "are you guys for this?" and they said, "oh, yeah, don't rrry about it." well, they werendy. nobody was ready. i don't thk they had any clue what was coming. (protesters shou

and antitrust, i mean robert bork right now is laughing in his sleep. we have a reality in this country where antitrust from pharma to farms is causing trouble, and we have to deal with this. as president of the united states, i will put people in place that enforce antitrust laws. and i want to say one last thing, and i feel qualified to say this as the vegan on the stage. going back to the fact that -- it's rich to me we asked three people about their health when looking at this stage, we know that the most unhealthy person running for the presidency in 2020 is donald trump. >> thank you, senator. congressman o'rourke, you say you're not sure if it's appropriate for a president to designate which companies should be broken up. so what's the proper level of oversight here?

solicitor general robert bork quickly was named acting attorney general.e did. >> it was unbelievable, literally unbelievable, except that it was real. you kept saying, that couldn't be. you know. but it was. >> i can make no further comment now other than their offices have been sealed by the fbi. >> how could you possibly bring this man to justice if it was within his power to call the investigation to a close? >> please, everyone. >> basically, the president had seized full control of the special prosecutor's office and is in full position of potentially incriminating evidence that could lead to the conviction of his closest associates and to his conviction. and that is the definition of tyranny. >> there could be no doubt this was a constitutional crisis. this was a president trying to stand above the law, and i remember thinking at the time the country's not going to stand for this. >> i think it's amazing that the country is not already fighting in the streets. he's divided the country that much. >> events of the past few days leave us little choice

those of the words of the late judge robert bork come himself no stranger to wounding press scrutiny. they are as true today as when he wrote the more than 25 years ago. i commend them to you. thank you. [applause] before we opened it up for questions from the audience, would any of the participants care to respond to any of the other participants? i would like to ask tragic if he could introduce me to some of those litigations? [laughing] i don't know them personally. lee makes a point there's this vast expansion of libel cases out there that are being funded by nefarious dark money, and i'm not aware of them and i would just like to be introduced to them. [laughing] this gentleman from the front. please keep your questions free so we can get to as many of them. please wait for the mic. yes. thanks. having heard lee describe and upsurge in this activity against the press and for example, libel points, it sounds like even without a change in the law from a legislature or the supreme court, consequences are being introduced to the press, and thus the state at play here is moving in a g

and in the course of that brief, of course, robert bork explained why the vice president did not have this kind of immunity and he offered reasons why that would be. it would interfere with the grand jury's work. but at the end of the opinion, he says that is not true with respect to the president and that was a grand jury investigation and a grand jury subpoena. so i think -- >> what about -- what about the moss -- the moss memo? the moss memo seems to suggest that there are things that can be gathered while the president is still president. even if the president cannot be indicted while in office. >> the answer is yes but i think the moss brief does not suggest those things could be gathered from the president. so -- >> united states versus nixon. those were the tapes that were gathered from the president. and the united states supreme court said in a unanimous opinion, yes, they're to be disclosed. even with an executive privilege argument. but there was no -- there was no -- there's no application of absolute presidential immunity to pre-indictment subpoenas in that case. >> so, y

and antitrust, i mean robert bork right now is laughing in his sleep.have a reality in this country where antitrust, from pharma to farms, is causing trouble, and we have to deal with this. as president of the united states, i will put people in place that enforce antitrust laws. and i want to say one last thing, and i feel qualified to say this as the vegan on the stage. going back to the fact that we -- it's rich to me that we asked three people about their health when looking at this stage, we know that the most unhealthy person running for the presidency in 2020 is donald trump. [applause] marc: thank you, senator. congressman o'rourke, you say you're not sure if it's appropriate for a president to designate which companies should be broken up. so what's the proper level of oversight here? mr. o'rourke: yeah, we need to set very tough, very clear, transparent rules of the road, the kind of rules that we do not have today, that allow these social media platforms, where we, the people, have become the product, to abuse that public trust, and to do so

bork on finally, robert the number three the justice department, agreed to fire cox i nixon's orders.my: your remarkable film "watergate" takes us through the step-by-step. let's go back to william ruckelshaus remembering how nixon and haig called him about the firing of archibald cox and how real power in washington can be wielded full stock >> richardson got a call from the white house and said the president wanted to see him. he went to the white house and the president insisted he fire cox and he would not do it. my assistant came up and said, the president once you on the phone. it was pretty clear what he wanted. when i got thehere, it wasas actually haig on the phone, not the president. youd theresidentants to firarchibal cox. i saidwell, i ought abtt ani can't do it. i thk it is ndamentay wron cox s de nothinwrong expt carryut his responsilities. i ju can't bringyself to firen who h done wh he is hired to do by the psisident ig said, wl, your commanr-in-chi is ordeng yoto fire x. on, know he is theommandern-chief. whats going to do, blow meut of my house byon'do the right inin