i think eventually he will be dealt withfi took a long time with robert nixon, and in the end he wasn'tif i recall rightly, richard nixon resigned in august 197a, 197a, was that even a year passed a second election? so i think the process... but he got in for a second term. election? so i think the process... but he got in for a second termm might well be that they could not muster a majority or a two thirds majority, but i wouldn't be surprised if trump goes before that. if that is the scenario you're aiming for, the question is do we prepare president pence, someone who does not tweak things but who gets into congress and grinds out a result. —— he does not tweet things. american politics have a problem, but i'm not saying that all those people who voted trump are racist, but is this whole thing of america, not just but is this whole thing of america, notjust america, but in europe, things swinging to the right now. . robert nixon for his resignation, i a lwa ys robert nixon for his resignation, i always remembered this as someone who has been a huge beneficiary as i believe we all ar

if you recall that period of understandyou richard nixon a little better. host: robert merry? guest: nixon did decline to challenge those vote questions. i think there was some stealing of the votes in illinois in chicago. a doing so, he manifested pretty good element of character. he also showed character when he became president after 1968 in not ever talking about the mess he inherited from lyndon johnson. asnever said i'm struggling, donald trump has done and barack obama did. i am struggling with what i inherited. he did not do that. he was a smart man in significant ways. in these instances he showed character. host: richard nixon campaigning in new hampshire, being interviewed as he is going from one campaign event to another. [video clip] >> why do you want to do this? you have are any put in time and served your country. >> that is a question that has occurred to me too, and it has occurred to my family. i suppose your wife and children feel even more deeply about and husband being involved in a great battle then he himself does. the man in the battle can fight back, w

robert f. kennedy assassinated. richard nixon accepting the nomination in august of that year. late another august, hubert humphrey accepting the democratic nomination in chicago amidst the riots. richard nixon is electioned president on november 5th, 1968. we want to welcome barbara perry was the director of presidential studies of the university of virginia's miller center and then pat buchanan who was worked on the campaign of richard nixon. where were you that? >> i was in richard nixon's campaign. we were having an argument. nixon was moving towards a more doggish position when we got word from cbs that lyndon johnson had asked for him sunday night. with nixon going to wisconsin the next day, he told me, pat, i want you to be at la guardia, the private terminal. he was making an appearance out there. brief me on what johnson said before the press gets to me. so i was sitting in the limousine on the tarmac at la guardia and nixon's african american driver was there. he starts shouting, i knew that was going to happen. i knew that was going to happen when lbj would not run a

and that was the role that nixon wanted him to play. >> robert merry, who else did he consider and was governor reagan on that list? >> governor reagan was not on the list. i think governor reagan had established himself as too formidable a politician for nixon to have as his vice president he couldn't be sure he could control somebody who commanded that much support. nixon went into that convention in a somewhat tenuous situation. it took 667 votes to get the nomination. and he had, he thought, he had maybe 26 votes more than that. that's not a position of strength. reagan came in and at the convention, as soon as he announced his candidacy. he picked up 19 votes. so nixon had to go to strom thurmond of south carolina. and strom thurmond that nixon needed him desperately. and nixon knew that he needed strom thurmond desperately. and strom thurmond knew that nixon knew. and that therein lies political negotiation. so the two main questions were racial guidelines, guidelines on racial integration. nixon favored guidelines. and it gets into the whole question of, timetables and quotas an

khrushchev took the measure of him as weak and made a grave mistake. >> what was richard nixon's reaction on the night that robert f. kennedy wonka can caa and was assassinated? >> it was 3:00 a.m. in the east, i got a call from headquarters, jeff bell, who just died, a young aide to nixon, ran for senate, he was in his mid-20s. he called me at my apartment, i was asleep, he woke me up and said, bobby kennedy's been shot. i called nixon, he said i'm already up, trudy and david had been watching the race, they had woken him up. it was amazing, one week before that, i was in oregon when nixon won, may 28th, he swept it, as i mentioned, 70%. he went down to dinner with pat nixon. i went out to the front door with shelley, my girlfriend at the time, because bobby kennedy was coming up from california to concede the race. we saw bobby get out of the car with teddy white, he had the dog with him. i went down to the room to watch him concede that. and i remember telling folks there that that was a bobby kennedy i hadn't seen. he was at his most gracious. the concession speech to gene mccarthy was just very -- it was eve

robert merry and matthew dallek. go ahead, charles. >> caller: hello. my question is the right man for the right job. when nixon retired -- retired from the presidency he said no longer do you have me to kick around. as a person, as a man i think led to most of his decisions about watergate, about a lot of other things. >> to charles point, again, that was in 1962 when he lost the race for governor. >> yeah, well, he attacked -- it was really an attack on the immedia media. he said after losing to pat brown in 1962 he said you won't have dick nixon to kick around anymore. i think it was -- the reason that moment stuck in part was that it reflected his resentment toward the media. it was a kind of flash of just how much vitriol he felt under siege by the media. but the caller makes, i think, an important point which is that nixon who had -- was very smart, he had vast political strengths, incredible will and resiliency and yet really was -- and i don't want to overpsycho analyze him, of course, you know, historians always get into trouble when they do that, but i think it's pretty clear now as we have a picture

times" that the white house counsel don mcgahn has spent 30 hours talking to robert mueller's investigators. this is echoes of nixon. john dean turned on nixon. i think the fear in trump's mind is that don mcgahn might turn on him so it's really the best historical parallel and that's why it keeps coming up again and again and again. >> and guys to be fair to president trump there is no evidence of the find of wrongdoing and conspiracy that the nixon white house was engaged in. those nixon tapes are damning what they were up to, using the tools of the government to go after their political enemies. in a way that, yes, the president has views on twitter that breaks norms but there's no evidence of wrongdoing. >> we've heard plenty of trump tapes but none have been as incriminating against the nixon tapes. >> there's a big difference between the omarosa tapes and nixon's tapes. we'll stipulate that. josh green, i have been quoting you all morning -- >> oh, boy. >> with praise. you noted when president trump says he could take over the mueller investigation, you think this is about control, trying to show he has contr

robert mueller? >> you're exactly right, victor. nixon did most of his fuming in private, although there would be the occasional outburst, and trump is very public about his anger. it serves a purpose for him of continuing to fire up his most ardent supporters and keep the narrative going that this is just a partisan unfair witch hunt against him and that sessions and rosenstein have fallen into that as well. >> this week we heard from senator lindsey graham saying the president deserves, and impair a phrasing here -- i am paraphrasing here, said essentially if ag sessions won't do what the president wants, he should quit. i want to read a quote from your book where you point out that reporters and political kmen at a timers -- kmen at a time ors often express frustrated surprise. but it has happened before. remind us how. >> during watergate, republicans in congress and other republican leaders stood by nixon until almost the bitter end. gerald ford used the word political witch hunt, used that phrase. others called it hysteria, mud slin

and i am confident that this test is we can feel successful. >> richard nixon declaring victory november of 1968. robert, as you hear that and you reflect 50 years later, what's the political legacies of that year and for the conservative movement? >> i think that the three most significant figures leading to the election of ronald reagan and the triumph of conservatism were goldwater, nixon, and buckley. and what nixon did in creating the coalition that ultimately went on to bolster him and lead to that landslide of 1972 that matthew was talking about and ultimately the election of reagan was very, very significant. >> matthew, 50 years later, the legacy? >> i think one is the republican party -- conservative movement became much more stronger on national defense. pro military. p pro-using aggressive military power overseas. and the democratic party became much more anti-war in that sense. the issue of race, i think, is central to this discussion. the republican party really became the party of white working class americans much more so than the democrats. really disrupting or exploding the roosevelt/l

nixon. senator mccarthy opposed the vietnam war and his strong challenge to president johnson and the nation's first primary along with robert kennedy's entry soon thereafter is thought to have played a role in the president's decision to pull out of the race less than three weeks later. on the republican side, mr. nixon's when launched him on a path to victory in november. we are going to show you a half hour portion of the event. the entire discussion is on c- span's video library, cspan.org. >> we got to the end of the side of the table thinking about history. depending where you are in age, and where you are in conscious memory, you have to realize the young people had grown up in families where there was a war almost seemingly constantly. born in 59, i call myself a war baby, because i can distinctly remember the sounds of hitler and mussolini on the bbc as we turned on the radio and listened on the sunday night news. subsequently, watching this happening to my family and have been torpedoed. as i walked into my high school , we now have the korean war. the korean war was a war that was forgotten. people did it and came

nixon and the republican presidential victory. ronald reagan ate his debut as a presidential candidate. our guests are robert merry, editor of the american conservative and author of where they stand, the american presidents in the eyes of voters and historians. george washington university professor and graduate school of political management, he's the author of the right moment, ronald reagan's first victory in the decisive turning point in american politics. first here's richard dixon accepting the republican nomination for president at the gop national convention in miami beach, august 8, 1968. >> we make history tonight, not for ourselves but for the ages. the choice we make in 1968 will become not only the future of america but the future of peace and freedom in the world for the last third of the 20th century and the questions that we answer tonight and america meets the hell. for a few moments let us look at america, let us listen to america and find the answers to that question. as we look at america, we see cities enveloped in smoke and flames. we hear sirens of the night. we see americans dying on

nixon, i believed more than i did, that we might end up with robert kennedy as the candidate and you would have another candidate run. but again, i always thought that humphrey was the candidate who had great depth inside the left wing of the democratic party from that convention. he was mr. civil rights. he had put the civil rights act on the floor of the u.s. senate and run it through for lbj. he had labor, he could bring together the anti-war groups, as eventually he did, along with the center of the democratic part party. >> robert from frostburg, maryland, go ahead, please. >> good morning, mr. buchanan, and the lady, as well as you, mr. scully. i'm a vietnam veteran. and i don't think mr. nixon gets the credit he deserves, even though i voted most of the time with democrats, i think nixon was a very good president. but what oversthad dhadowed his goodness as a president was the vietnam war, watergate, and his personality complexes. but some of the decisions he made with civil rights and other issues, epa and nixon was a very good president. just those three things ov overshadow

nixon. johnson did not like robert kennedy. he was uneasy and saddened by the assassination. >> at the same time, while this was happening, the apollo program continue to grow with research being done in florida and texas and cape canaveral and the johnson space center. apollo 8 launched in december 1968 . >> the curious thing about the cold war, it always brought out the worst and best america. part of that was a peaceful competition with the soviet union about space. it began in 1955 when the united states announced they would put a satellite up. the soviets heard that and immediately got going. they launched the first satellite which was sputnik. the joke was when sputnik went over the world it would go beep, beep, beep until it got over washington and then it would go ha, ha, ha. the soviets had not only beaten us to the first satellite, they had beaten us to the first man in space and again they were beating us in 1968. in september they had the first lunar orbit. they had put up to turtles and mealworms. at that moment th

nixon. johnson did not like robert kennedy.t was no secret and he was uneasy at the same time, was deeply saddened by kennedy's assassination. >> at the same time, while all of this was happening, the apollo program continues to grow with research being done in florida and texas a cape canaveral and the johnson space center and the apollo 8 launched in december of 1968. >> i think the curious thing about the cold war is that it always brought out the worst and the best in america and part of that was a peaceful competition with the soviet union about space. that actually began in 1955 when the united states announced it was going to put a satellite up. the soviets heard that and immediately got going. they launched the first satellite which was sputnik and the joke in washington and actually in foreign capitals at the time was that when sputnik went over the world it would go beep, beep, beep until it got over washington, it would go ha, ha, ha. so the space race was apart of this whole thing. they had not only beaten us to the

don mcgann is cooperating with special counsel robert mueller's russia election meddling investigation. dean, the white house counsel for president nixon during watergate. mueller and his investigations, he said, have nothing on the president. >> this whole mcgann thing leaked from them. if they had some kind of evidence that there was collusion or there was obctio don't you think it would have been leaked? they leak everything else. >> reporter: giuliani believes mcgann is a strong witness for the president, despite not knowing everything mcgann said to mueller, but the presida he n and others to testify, since he has nothing to hide. jennifer johnson, nbc news, washington. >>> breaking overnight, a u.s. military helicopter conducting a joint counterterrorism mission has crashed in iraq, leaving one coalition service member dead and multiple others injured. no specifics yet on their nationalities or where the chopper went down. the military says there is no indication the crash was caused by hostile fire. an investigation is under way. >>> also breaking overnight out of turkey, authorities say six shots were fired from a moving car at

nixon. what is your reading of where robert mueller stands tonight on the issue of what to do with interviewing the president or subpoenaing the president or moving past any possibility of talking to the president and going ahead without that? >> first let me say, lawrence, that you gave such a good introduction that you have left very little for me to add to it. but -- and i do remember, by the way, the night of the resignation announcement like it was yesterday. >> jill, can we just stop you on that for a second? >> sure. >> because we will not be at this day again. take us back to 9:01 p.m. on that night. all of you in the prosecutors team i assume are sitting around televisions watching the president say those words that he would resign the presidency at 12:00 noon tomorrow. >> i think the first thing that came to our mind was now can we indict him? he won't be the sitting president anymore. and we had already been turned down while he was the sitting president, despite the fact that we had more than ample evidence of his guilt. and once he wasn't the sitting president, we said now we could

nixon. senator mccartney opposed the vietnam war, and his strong challenge to president johnson in the nation's first primary, along with robert kennedy's entry soon thereafter, is thought to have played a role in the president's decision to pull out of the race less than three weeks later. on the republican side, esther nixon's victory launched him on a path to victory in november. this is about an hour and 45 minutes. >> welcome to all of you being here on such a historic day for new hampshire for the nation's presidential primary. the idea for this came about two years ago when the person who wrote the first book about the national primary, chuck baron, there was a memorial service for him, and david holt, who was the number one on the democratic side in new hampshire forming -- for eugene mccarthy, was there. i met him for the first time, and i was listening to him, and it made me think about having something on the exact day here at the statehouse to commemorate that primary. i asked if he would be willing to come to it, and he was very happy about it. he said i hope you do this. but, i am not sure if i'm going to be able

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hubert humphrey accepting the and richardugust 29 and richardugust 29 nixon elected president captioning performed by vitac >> -- that robertnedy brought sort of a love and unity, there was a positiveness to it. in contrast i disagree with mr. cohen. my impression at age 23 in listening to mccarthy, i thought he was undermining the military, contributing to an atmosphere which some of my friends i thought were horribly abused and abandoned, the military was blamed for things and they were among the bravest finest people in the world who fought there. in contrast bob kennedy i thought brought love and respect across the board. from my feeling and my life at age 23 that i could not in the same breath talk about your wonderful bob kennedy and gene mccarthy. those are my thoughts and i would ask for your comments, please. >> fred, thank you for the call. let's begin with michael cohen. >> i would say in defense gene mccarthy i don't think he was critical of the military and soldiers themselves. he thought they shouldn't have been in vietnam and his criticisms were of the political leadership of the country, particularly of pres

nixon have in common? president trump lashing out at robert mueller saying he made jokes with mccarthy the senator known for hunting communists in the 50s looked like a baby. the president going off as "the new york times" drapd -- dropped a bombshell saying they don't know what he told during the 30 hours he sat for. at the issue is the investigation of whether president trump obstructed justice. the president earlier tweeting the failing "new york times" wrote a fake piece today implying that because white house counsel done mcgahn was giving hours of testimony to the special counsel he must be a john dean type rat. but i allowed him and all others to testify. i didn't have to. i have nothing to hide. that's your second historical reference. the former white house counsel who cooperated with prosecutors during the waterga scandal. today dean is speaking out giving trump a history lesson himself. let's bring in ryan noble who's has been in new jersey traveling with the president this week. what makes dean's response so interesting is that it basically is a warning that president shouldn't presume he knows

nixon. senator mccarthy opposed the vietnam war and his strong challenge to president johnson and the nation's first primary along with robert kennedy's entry soon thereafter

programs in the 1968 presidential campaign between lyndon johnson, robert f kennedy, george wallace and ronald reagan. we hear from former nixon campaign staffer and columnist, pat buchanan, as well as barbara perry, the miller center presidential studies director. starting at 8 p.m. eastern on sees and

robert mueller will prevail? >> i am very confident on that. just v. nixon said that no one is above the law, including the president and they allowed a subpoena for documents. there is no real difference between making the president turn over incriminating tapes and making the president testify. yes, there is a time issue for him to do both of those. and probably a little more for testimony. but a man who can play as much golf as this president does has enough time to prepare to be interrogated in any kind of situation before a grand jury. so i'm very sure that he would lose that one and he would look really bad. i think he is trying to just divert his recent episodes and this release about, you know, that omarosa is lying and he's trying to divert attention so he's now taken away the security clearance for john brennan divert attention from omarosa. he is scared and he has every reason to be scared because the evidence and the pieces of the puzzle are really fitting together. >> thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> when we come back, was do

robert mueller's russian meddling investigation. he tweeted he isn't a john dean type rat. dean was the white house counsel for president nixon during watergate. >>> the developments in washington, will come up next on "nightly news." tune in after this newscast at 5:30. >>> happening tonight a different vigil in memory of a woman found dead hours after her release from almeida county's santa rita jail. jessica st. louis was released last month around 1:30 a.m., more than 30 miles from her home with nothing but a b.a.r.t. ticket. she couldn't use it until the trains started running in the morning. she was found dead of an overdose. state senator nancy skinner is leading a no candlelight call f people are released from jails. that vigil starts at 9:00 p.m. at the santa rita jail in dublin. >>> a fund-raiser is taking place tomorrow to help the family of a fallen chp officer. dutch brothers coffee is donating $1 from every drink sold to benefit the grist family. officer kurt grist was killed on i-80 in fairfield earlier month. he was on the side of the interstate with driver jim manuel when a car slammed into them, killing them

nixon. senator mccartney opposed the vietnam war, and his strong challenge to president johnson in the nation's first primary, along with robert kennedy's entry soon thereafter, is thought to have played a role in the president's decision to pull out of the race less than three weeks later. on the republican side, esther nixon's victory launched him on a path to victory in november. this is about an hour and 45 minutes. >> welcome

robert mueller's russia meddling investigation. the president tweeting mcgann isn't a john dean type rat. dean, the white house counsel for president nixon during watergate. mr. trump's current lawyers says mueller and his investigators have nothing on the president. >> this whole mcgann thing leaked from them. if they had some kind of evidence that there was collusion or there was obstruction, don't you think it have been leaked? they leak everything else. >> reporter: giuliani believes mcgann is a strong witness for the president despite everything mcgann said to mueller. he allowed mcgann and others to testify, since he has nothing to hide. according to the "new york time times", mcgann has spoken with mueller's investigators at least three times, about 30 hours' worth of voluntary interviews. jennifer johnson, nbc news, washington. >>> continuing coverage of the developments in washington, d.c., coming up on "nightly news." tune in at 5:30 here on nbc bay area. >>> a fund-raiser is taking place tomorrow to help the family of a fallen chp officer. dutch brothers coffee is donating $1 from every drink sold to benefit the gris pht. offi

robert mueller was hired. and that's the way it was done in the nixon days. they had the house and senate actually doing their jobs, and investigating. this is and has been evidence of obstruction of justice going all the way back to the comey firing, at least. it's shameful it's not being investigated. he ought to be out of office by now. >> and i know that you speak as someone who's running for a senate seat. we're getting a window into what you would do if in that body. cynthia, take a listen to how donald trump used to say he would deal with these type of matters. >> i said on the department of justice i would stay uninvolved. now, i may get involved at some point if it gets worse. >> what does it say to you about the case against him if he is now getting more involved in the week of his campaign chairman's trial? >> you know, i think there's a couple of reasons. they're pretty interesting legally. one is, giuliani dropped this little gem in his unhinged interview that they had sent a proposal to mueller's office in which the president would agree to test

the talks stalled after the special counsel, robert mueller, raised issues with the potential deal. outfront now, john dean, a former nixonite house counsel and shan wu, former lawyer for rick gates and former federal prosecutor. john, if i could begin with you, what does it tell you that manafort's defense team was trying to cut a deal in washington while the jurors in his first trial were still deliberating his fate. is that significant in your view? >> well, i think the timing tells us something. at the time they were discussing this, they had a little more swagger in their step. they felt strongly about their case in virginia and i'm sure that the defendant feels the pressure of the expense of these trials. it's probably a seven-figure trial that he just went through in virginia and that's what he's facing in the district of columbia. so doing a deal would have been an intelligent and cost-saving move. but i think probably the prosecutors said he want some cooperation and couldn't get any. that's when the discussions broke off. >> would that be the likely reason, and again this is reading tea leaves here, i'll admit t

violent, a lot, one of their major candidates robert kennedy was assassinated that year and the party limped into the fall election and lost to richard nixon. due in part of the divisiveness they made a lot of changes to their rules after that year. that is where they started coming up for how many delegates, to open up the delegate selection process and created the primary caucus as we live under today so that is a very consequential year. after 2000, 2004, there were not many changes made to the rules, they copied and pasted what was done previously. 1988 is a big year for change. it doesn't come up in many studies of consequential changes. part of what happened is they made a lot of changes how the party reviews delegate selection rules. there was a lot of tinkering with the proper wording resulting in a few different words, not necessarily very substantive but i was curious what explain the years they make a lot of change versus years in which they make very few. if they just lost very narrowly, maybe that means you don't need to make a lot of changes. 20002004. al gore won the popular vote, came close to winning, john kerry came close

robert mueller. so that this is a chain. i mean it is much like what happened with nixon when he wanted to fire the special prosecutor archibaldwatergate. and in the end had to fire both the attorney general and the deputy attorney general before third in line agreed to fire archibald cox. but that was the beginning of the end. so one has to be careful if you are donald trump. he has the right to have the attorney general that he likes, but at the moment, the current attorney general is not involved with the russian investigation, so he is not subject to trump's pushing around on this topic. and i think that drives trump rather crazy. >> steven erlanger live for us in brussels with perspective. we'll keep in touch with you as we follow the trail. >>> we've been following the story of pope francis, scheduled to land in ireland in the next hour. and at some point in his two day trip, he will meet with a number of victims, people sexually abused at the hands of priests. ireland is like too many countries with a horrid history of abuse. phil black spoke with some of those who were abused and we do warn you, some of the description

nixon. senator mccarthy opposed the vietnam war. and his strong challenge to president johnson in the nation's first primary. along with robert kennedy's entry soon thereafter is thought to have played a role in the president's decision to pull out of the race less than three weeks later. on the republican side, mr. nixon's victory launched him on a path to victory in november. this is about an hour and 45 minutes. welcome to all of you, being here in such an historic day for the new hampshire and its first in the nation presidential primary. the idea for this came about two years ago, when the person who wrote the first book about the new hampshire primary, chuck barretten, there was a memorial service for him. david hull, who was the number one in the democratic side in new hampshir

nixon. senator mccarthy opposed the vietnam war. and his strong challenge to president johnson in the nation's first primary. along with robert kennedy's entry soon thereafter is thought to have played a role in the president's decision to pull out of the race less than three weeks later. on the republican side, mr. nixon's victory launched him on a path to victory in november. this is about an hour and 45 minutes. welcome to all of you, being here in such an historic day for the new hampshire and its first in the nation presidential primary. the idea for this came about two years ago, when the person who wrote the first book about the new hampshire primary, chuck barretten, there was a memorial service for him. david hull, who was the number one in the democratic side in new hampshire, for eugene mccarthy was there. i met him for the first time and i as i was listening to him it made me think about having something on the exact day. here at the state house. to commemorate that primary. and i asked him if he would be willing to come to it and he was very happy about it. and he said, i hope you do this. but i'm not sure if i'm

nixon and the republican presidential victory. ronald reagan ate his debut as a presidential candidate. our guests are robert merry, editor of the american conservative and author of where they stand, the american presidents in the eyes of voters and historians. george washington university professor and graduate school of political management, he's the author of the right moment, ronald reagan's first victory in the decisive turning point in american politics. first here's richard dixon accepting the republican nomination for president at the gop national convention in miami beach, august 8, 1968. >> we make history tonight

robert mueller's russian election meddling investigation. the president tweeted mcgahn isn't a john dean type rat and has nothing to hide. dean was white house counsel for president nixonrgate. >>> a controversial wedding guest this weekend. vladimir putin. the russian president flew to austria for the wedding of the country's foreign minister. karen nessel is an independent but was nominated by the pro-russia freedom party. critics say putin eeg's invite s into question austria's role in the conflict and sends a message over heightened tensions over russia's behavior on a variety of fronts. putin toasted the couple and led in a dance before leaving for a meeting in germfy. >>> we're going to turn it over to sports. we're brodie brazil with a preview of what's coming up next. >>> the oakland a's haven't had sole possession of first place in the american league west division this late in the season since 2014. plete the sweep of the astros to take over the division. we'll have highlights of that plus the giants on the other hand just looking to avoid being swept in cincinnati. sports coming your way right after this. the nature of a virus is to change. move. mutate. tod

if you're robert mueller, you're thinking, okay, i've got the law on my side. we have of course the nixoncedent, but it's not exactly on point in terms of if this went to a subpoena and went up to the supreme court, i think likely mueller feels he has the law on his side. that's going to take time, brooke. they want to get him in there on a voluntary basis to be sure, but not, you know, giuliani doesn't get to be in the driver's seat in this instance. mueller is a special prosecutor. he gets to set the guidelines. this back and forth is ridiculous. it's all dramatics. i think quite frankly i think this is all just a front. i don't think president trump has any one bit of an intention of going in there and sitting down and talking. >> total ruse. i'll go in. >> good cop/bad cop. >> quickly, bob. >> first of all, it's essentially an admission we're not worried about collusion but we're worried about obstruction. mueller is only playing a little game here. he calls the shots. i was a head prosecutor. this is how it works. you come in or don't come in. answer all our questions or don't answer

robert f kennedy assassination. televised clashes between chicago police and protesters during the democratic national convention and richard nixon's decisive victory. watch 1968, american turmoil tonight at a pm eastern on american history tv. on c-span3. >> this weekend on booktv. author interviews from this year's freedom fest conference in las vegas.starting saturday at 3:20 pm with the book failure, the federal miseducation of america's children. at 6:30 pm robert poole with rethinking america's highways. 1/21 century vision or better infrastructure. then on sunday at 1:00 p.m. eastern, the book, in order to live. in north korean girls journey to freedom. at 5 pm, walter block with space capitalism. how humans will colonize planets and moons and asteroids.then george gilder in his book, life after google. and at 11:40 pm the book profit motive. what drives the things we do. watch this weekend on c-span2 booktv. >> the house homeland security subcommittee on border security heard testimony from national guard officials from texas and arizona. about the play national guard troops to the us/mexico border. this is an hour and 10 m

then to speaker roberts and ruth griffin, former executive councillor, they're going to talk about the republican side, about richard nixon ended up being the big winner and actually pretty much the nominee after new hampshire and engine splan, former senator, state representative, he's going to talk about the johnson side. because he was the chair of unh, democrats for johnson and portsmouth, and at the end. joe mcquaid, publisher of the "manchester union-leader" is going to talk about both party primaries from the perspective of the newspaper and from a reporter's perspective. of pieces of information probably most of you perspective, what he was able to hear from his father also who was editor in chief of the sunday news and the daily morning and evening papers. so that's how we're going to go through this, and then we're going to open it up a little bit at the end. so with that, it's quite a privilege to have sandy hall here because she was at it from the cradle that very first meeting and sandy's from hanover, and so i'm going to turn it over, and sandy and paul together are going to tell us about how eugene mccarthy

programs in the 1968 presidential campaign between lyndon johnson, robert f kennedy, george wallace and ronald reagan. we hear from former nixon campaign staffer and columnist, pat buchanan, as well as barbara perry, the miller center presidential studies director. starting at 8 p.m. eastern on -- on c-span3. the majority of the country begins to see that these litigants, these people, these real people had a real injury and our court addressed system, our commitment to the rule of law, our commitment to decency is such that i think most of our decisions are accepted overtime. >> that was supreme court justice anthony thomas the night conferencing, you, just days ahead of retiring from the nation's highest court. ronald reagan renominated him in 1987. he was not the president must first choice, it was rather his third choice. he took his seat on the court the very 18th, 1988. for over three decades he ate a major role in some of the most complex constitutional matters in america religious liberty, school prayer, college admissions, gay rights, and prisoners rights as well areas often called the swing vote on the court, today w

1968 presidential politics, robert f kennedy's assassination, televised clashes chicago police and protesters during the democratic national convention, and richard nixon's decisive victory. watch tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on "american history tv" on c-span3. the role of civil society and u.s. foreign-policy was the focus of a discussion yesterday hosted by the open society foundation in washington and runs a little over one hour. afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> let's get this level appropriate. welcome to building the bench for inclusive of foreign policy, civil society leading by example. follow on social media using the hash tag inclusive foreign policy. we are here with you live today for the next hour on c-span so we areth

robert kennedy was assassinated that you . the party kind of limped into the fall election and lost to richard nixon. due in part to that divisiveness they might a lot of changes to their rules after that. that was where they started coming up with rules for how many women should be delegates, how many african-americans or young people , it was intended to open up the delegate selection process and created some of the primary and caucus rules that we live under today and that was inconsequential year. on the other handafter 2000 , after 2004, there were not really many changes made to the rules. the party copied and pasted what it had done previously. 1988 comes up as of the year for change, kind of a surprising one . it doesn't, on many studies of consequential changes that year. part of what happened is they made a lot of changes about how the party reviews state delegate selection rules and there was just a lot of tinkering with worrying about that and it necessarily wasn't very substantive but i was curious what explains in the years when they make a lot ofchange versus very few . one idea i had

nixon and a republican presidential victory. ronald reagan made his debut as a presidential candidate. our guests to discuss conservative politics are roberty editor of the american conservative and author of where they stand, the american presidents in the eyes of the voters and historian, matthew delick, george washington university professor and the school of political management. he's the author of the right moment, ronald reagan's first victory and the decisive turning point in american politics. first, here's richard nixon accepting the republican nomination for president at the gop national convention in miami beach, august 8, 1968. >> we make history tonight, not for ourselves, but for the ages. the choice we make in 1968 will determine not only the future of america, but the future of peace and freedom in the world for the last third of the 20th century and the question that we answer tonight, can america meet

robert f. kennedy's assassination, televised clashes between chicago police and protesters, during the democratic national convention and richard nixon's decisive victory. watch 1968, america in turmoil, tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. >> this weekend on book tv, author interviews from this year's freedom fest conference in las vegas. starting saturday at 3:20 p.m., the author discussing her book failure the federal miseducation of america's children. at 6:30 p.m., robert pool with rethinking america's highways, a 21st century vision for better infrastructure. then on sunday at 1:00 p.m. eastern, the book in order to live, a north korean girl's journey to freedom. at 5:00 p.m., walter block with space capitalism, how humans will colonize planets moons and asteroids. at 10:00 p.m., the book life after google, the fall of big data and the rise of the block chain economy. and at 11:40 p.m., the author discusses his book profit motive, what drives the things we do. watch this weekend on c-span 2's book tv. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's c

versus nixon, unanimous opinion from the 1970s, seems like the law is very strongly in favor of robert mueller, at least as of this point. >> let's talk about the other big legal drama in trump world, the one where we have you tethered to a camera there for us, the paul manafort trial. you're outside the court house. prosecutors are back at it. they're showing how they say manafort committed bank and tax fraud. the latest example, apparently manafort claimed a new york city condo was a second home when he was renting it out on airbnb. that allowed him to get a bigger loan and lower mortgage rate from the bank. the airbnb listing disappeared right around the time manafort was trying to secure that loan. how airtight, how good was the testimony today, how good were the prosecutors today at making their point in your opinion? >> i think it was a very strong day. today was a prosecutor's dream. it can be very dull and tedious for the jurors and for the court watchers, but the case comes in through documents. they had bank witnesses who were just up there talking about how they do their job

one of their major candidate robert kennedy was assassinated that year and the party kind of lumped into the fall election and lost to richard nixon. they made a lot of changes to their rules after that year. that was where they started coming up with rules for how many women should be delegate, how many young people and also created some of the primary caucus rules that we live under today. a very consequential year. on the other hand after 2000, after 2004, there were not many changes made to the rules. the party largely copied and pasted what he had done previously. 1988 comes up as a big year for change here at sort of a surprising one. it doesn't come up in many studies of consequential changes that year. part of what happened is they made a lot of changes about how the parties refuse state delegate selection rules and there is just a lot of tinkering with the proper wording about that. a lot of back-and-forth ended up resulting in quite a few different words even though wasn't very sensitive. i was curious what explains the years when they make a lot of change versus the years in which they make very few. one idea i had was