you can't shut spiro agnew up. three days after, he goes and says it is murder two, just horrifies the white house. he went on to say it was murder two, but sort of excusable murder two. you can read more about that. the next the next night, friday night is what i call the night of the weird. richard nixon gives a press conference. he goes back to his bedroom. he can't sleep. he makes 87 calls in three hours. 30 of them to henry kissinger. at 3:30, he shakes his valet and says have you ever been to the lincoln memorial? the white house at this point is ringed by d.c. transit buses. a fleet is sleeping in the executive office basement. there are tens of thousands of demonstrators in the mall to protest the can state shootings. nixon thought it would be a great time to show the lincoln memorial. they go down. these are demonstrators sleeping down there. i love the expressions. they are saying to themselves, what drug did i take? [laughter] >> this goes on horribly. seen thei have never secret service so petrified in

here's how spiro agnew defines what that really meant. he says it is time to rip away the rhetoric and to divide on authentic lines. he says, when the president said bring us together, what he meant was, the functioning, contributing portions of american people. the new president would have his job cut out for him. the same americans who voted quite overwhelmingly for knicks or at least who catapulted him into the white house over democrats gave the democrats both houses of congress. richard nixon in 1968 will be the first president to enter the white house without control of either house of congress since zachary taylor in 1849. that's how unusual it is for a president not to have either house of congress when he begins. that represents in part a really -- you can see that as real distrust at this point of government. and wanting to have real checks and balances. president from one party, both houses of congress from another party is an extreme version of that kind of distrust that you see other times. nixon's job in 1969 as he begins hi

getting spiros of a. yeah you're not to move. much your fears are finally finished here from the atmosphere and i'm going to see if you took hard sherman from harvard also come on your quest for forgiveness leaving my view don't bazza me. well 1st of all good it was close that was close but you know what i just realized there are no fans in the stands you can throw back the ball more you look at the photo that was with. her. yeah that's atlanta he's the citizen yeah it was you know he was such i think i was a. little hesitant i knew for certain who was behind smites rudolph actually who feel no way not this knucklehead celebration is still really different. why why. yes. yes. why do you continue to push push push we've been to an employee cheat on imus or something funny it sounds different that's what it is just the just thinking this is the fin fet. when the feds 1st of us consider bats for one of my most fans your thoughts now i have this book you want your thoughts cause i should have a man who says you're not classed as abov

here is how spiro agnew defined that. it's time to rip away the rhetoric and divide along authentic lines. when the president said bring us together, he meant the contributing portions of american people. the new president would have his job cut out for him. the same americans who voted overwhelmingly for nixon and catapulted him into the white house gave the democrats both houses of congress. so richard nixon in 1968 will be the first president to enter the white house without control of either house or congress since zachary taylor in 1849. it is unusual for president to not have either house when he begins. that represents in part a real distrust at this point of government. wanting to have real checks and balances. an extreme version of that distrust that you see other times. nixon's job in 1969 is to sued a country to head splintered into different groups. why, it's african americans, women, youth old, folks, workers and intellectuals. they were all at odds with each other. the this phrase middle america was not a fr

a smear campaign against a morning television host, a convoluted spiros theory about spying, more baseless conjecture that mail-in ballots would be, the president's words, a free-for-all on cheating the next election. the president leaves the white house this hour for florida to watch as nasa astronauts launch from american soil for the first time in nine years. he is absolute in his reopening push. and again, at odds with the science-based caution of his top expert. president trump wants north carolina's governor to commit this week to allowing the republican convention to come to charlotte in august. dr. anthony fauci, though, says it's too soon to answer that question, noting that as things stand right now, large gatherings are, quote, asking for trouble. the president also paints wearing a mask as politically correct, and we know he does not like wearing one. dr. fauci says wearing one is what everyone should be doing. >> i wear it for the reason that i believe it is effective. it's not 100% effective. i mean, it's sort of respect for another person and have that other person respect y

i think pretty much the conservative case against any media company's, the only evidence is a spiro ago knew quote. at this point they've been dining out on this. shannon pettypiece, i want to put up this facebook ad because it gets at both the point you made here, which is he is obsessed with the base, but it feels like the metaphor of cutting off your nose despite the face. it's president trump maskless. trump versus sleepy joe, 2020. he's got the american flag, they do a china flag, and they have biden in a mask here. shannon, the mask debate is only divisive inside the republican tent. it seems to be a weird thing to do this when you have a major gender gap problem. again, are they solely only concerned about their base? >> well, we don't know who this ad was actually targeted at and who saw it so if you took that ad and targeted it at white working class men, noncollege educated or whoever the democrat that they believe of their base is not into wearing masks, you know, going out in public, i see certainly many people wearing masks. i hear about it all the time. the -- if it's targ

equipment resources is now in a holding pattern after some parts were stolen from their mailbox re spiro is made up of several engineers across the bay area now each volunteers creating different parts of the ventilator at their homes unfortunately the parts that will one of the team members needed were stolen right out of his sunnyvale mailbox the team says the theft to set them back at least a week. >>a heartbreaker for us because we have over a 100 people around the world 6 different countries putting in nights weekends completely for free and ted to have our part stolen like that to have so many people putting in so much time and so much effort for free. to be held back by something like this it said. >>it's a heartbreaker for us. >>well the group is hoping to receive the replacement parts in the next week or so and they're also really just hoping that whoever took those parts will just simply returned them. it seems unimaginable in a city known for great food in restaurants that under the current shelter-in-place orders, half of the restaurants in san francisco could permanently clo

in the fall of 1973, spiro agnew had been forced to resign. then we had the long siege of watergate, the supreme court decision that, tortured explanation by richard nixon, and ultimately, his resignation. there was an enormous amount of relief. not just in washington, but across the country such goodwill from gerald ford, who seemed like a decent man who would always do the right thing. i was at a brunch at the home of the housing secretary when we began to hear that gerald ford was about to pardon richard nixon. it seemed like a signal that had come from outer space, some kind of alien environment. but in fact, it was true. tables were overturned, people were rushing to their cars to get to the office, to file the story, to figure out what was going on. the phones were ringing off of the hook in the white house. it was instantly and enormously an unpopular decision. i have always believed that president ford, an essentially decent man, had prepared the country in some fashion by saying "i'm going to ask president nixon to acknowledge his wro