. >> it was before susan smith. >> it was a drama that gripped the nation for weeks.been arrested and will be charged with two counts of murder in connection with the deaths of her children. >> in the diane downs case, diane downs faces the issue of her daughter christie who survived testifying against her. that's a big, big piece the other two cases did not have. >> as soon as the trial started, we all wondered, will christie testify? every day, it was kind of touch and go. would she be able to do this? >> the prosecution had their doubts about putting her on the stand. it's tough to do. >> prosecuting attorney fred hugi would paint a picture of a woman obsessed with a married man who didn't want to have kids and who wouldn't see her when children were around. >> the murder trial, it was actually depicted later on in a made for tv movie, made off of ann rule's book, "small sacrifices." >> that woman doesn't love. she devours. >> base on a true story, "small sacrifices". >> starring none other than farrah fawcett in her heyday. ♪ and i'm hungry like the wolf ♪ >> farr

smith went home, burned his papers and killed himself. susanbefore he died, did harding confront doherty? ryan: not to my knowledge. when he died he was on his westward tour, that is when he found out about teapot dome. susan: teapot dome needs a bit more explanation. what were the details? ryan: it is probably the coolest name to scandal. -- named scandal. the navy had oil reserves set aside in california and wyoming. these were oil reserves for use exclusively by the navy if we get into a war or some kind of emergency. naval ships ran on petroleum, not nuclear powered like they are today. they needed that in reserves. strictly under the control of the navy. harding's interior secretary was a man named albert fall. they knew each other from the senate. he appointed him secretary of the interior. when he became secretary, he convinced the navy secretary to transfer the naval oil reserves to the interior department. the interior department controls a national forest and national parks. the excuse was, the oil reserves should be under the interio

susan: one historian has a different view is richard norton smith, who we have worked with a lot over years. he was one of two of the advisors on our president survey. we have a clip. [video clip] >> no american president sets out to fail. some are victims of events or changes in culture to which they cannot adapt. some, like franklin pierce or warren harding are weak men, simply overwhelmed by the job itself. their experience should put us on guard, i think. against the short-term expedience of the dark horse candidate, usually a second rater chosen by a convention. harding, whose cabinet included jail bound embarrassments. and glittering talent. beware of presidents who profess ambitions before taking office. in harding's case, not to be the best president, but the best-loved president. susan: ryan walters, our conversation continues. right now i wanted to deal with wanting to be like. ultimately, was his affability, his personality a detriment to him? ryan: probably so. that is probably a fair assessment. if i had to do any criticism, he was very trusting of people. he could not be

susan li. [applause] >> and to enter the battle and take them clubbing. afterwards, most of rob smithblematic rob smith. [applause] you got a big yay there. like a dart board which gnomic board, sharp and pointy. kat tempf. and we will always see eye to eye as long as the virus, my massive sidekick and nwa world television champion, tyrus. [applause] susan always a pleasure to see you. >> yeah. >> i want to ask about the business element of this. this is really creepy that like, there is people who give $40 to like some donation, something they see on tv and all of a sudden, reporters are calling them question what that is really, really gross. >> i will say the good thing come about the trucker protest in canada we play street hockey and with all the truckers on the street, that means no cars come through so a continuous game of street gnomic street hockey in canada. spill and that is the silver lining. >> that is the silver lining in all of this. back to the blm shooting in louisville, i did some research. >> greg: good for you. rico i prefer to talk about the victim and to give him

smith household. >>> all right. let's turn to my political panel. joining me is juanita tolliver, democratic accomplice cat analyst and susan del prescio, both msnbc contributors. juanita, let's start with the high-stakes call earlier today between president biden and russian president vladimir putin. officials warned that russians could force an invasion on ukraine in a matter of days. is the white house doing what it needs to be doing in preparing the american people for potential foreign policy crisis in your judgment? >> i think the white house is making every effort to not present as though they're giving into putin off the back, where we saw him grovel. on top of that, i think biden in the white house has support for what they're doing in terms of escalation around sanctioning with 63% of americans supporting that, as well as 57% of americans supporting the diplomatic efforts they're taking. where they lose a bit of support comes around with troop movements. i think that will continue to dip further below 48%, as they send in additional troops to nato allied countries. i think what is telling here is the language that the president is using, talking abou