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i thought in tom brokaw myself. they start to think they can get away with anything including coercing women into doing something they don't want to do. >> what was your experience like in that there were a number of women who came forward to defend tom brokaw and said he had only been helpful in their careers, is it possible that there are people who were treated differently, women who were treated differently than you were because we see a number of these women worked closely with matt lauer, we weren't aware of it? >> it is entirely possible that women had neutral or positive relationships with mass or tom, but it's important to know that predators hide their behavior, they hide a lot and that is why it is so important to conduct a fool investigation because there's been so much hiding and instead of executive saying everything is fine and if we clean things up in the future they will be fine, they have to get answers about what has been going on for years and have to let women speak openly, have to let people ou

i sought and tom brokaw, after enough power and enabling, they start thinking they can get away withhing including cores and into doing something you want to do. >> shannon: what was your experience like and that there were a number of women who came forward to defend tom brokaw and said they'd only been helpful in their careers, someone who can forge -- is it possible there are people who were treated differently, women who were treated differently than you were because we see a number of these women who worked closely with matt lauer say he was our friend and we never saw this, we weren't aware of it. >> i think it's entirely possible that women had neutral or positive professional relationships with matt or tom. i think it's important to note that predators hide their behavior, they hide a lot. that's why it's so important for nbc to conduct a full investigation, and instead of executives saying everything is fine here in the future will be fine, they really do have to get answers about what has been going on for years. they have to let women speak openly and have to let people ou

tom brokaw is with us this morning.ressure, under investigation. now you have a president under pressure and investigation, but there's some differences in how nixon handled the impeachment investigation and how this president is handling it. >> there are big, big differences. by the time of the fall of 1973, the president's chief of staff, his domestic adviser, his lawyer, and other senior people in his administration were headed to jail for violating federal laws we haven't had that happen to donald trump yet at this point, it's as much political as it is legal so an impeachment proceeding really has to be well grounded it's the most serious thing that we have in our system of government to remove a president from office for malfeasance. and then how you sell that to the american people as well as the congress. >> you had a front row seat back then when did you realize that the end was going to be what it became ultimately for richard nixon? >> i think we all had an instinct about it because as i say, all of the senio

impeachment is on a collision cour course, potential government shutdown, and now this, tom brokaw sayshe democrats don't have the goods to impeach. they have yet to explain to voters what exactly is the law they think the president has broke. >> they still don't have what you would call the goods on this president in terms of breaking the law and being in an impeachable target for them. they are going to start the process, but they don't have the same kind of clarity that the people who are opposed to richard nixon had because it was so clear that these were criminal acts that he was involved in. elizabeth: republican congressman from louisiana is joining me now. great to see you. you met with the president last night. what did he tell you about impeachment? >> we did. we had a long meeting with him in the white house. the republican study committee is the largest caucus of conservativism in the congress. we went to give him an update. of course we talked about impeachment. it is top of mind for the president as it is for all of us. he's being denied basic due process rights. he's conc

in 2008 with joe biden where tom brokaw did a good job pointing out to joe biden, hey, you were shepherdingedit card bill to help credit card companies. just so happened, the company hired your son to be a lobbyist. that son being hunter biden. while you might say oh i had poor judgment in the past and didn't really think this stuff was going to happen, he should know. he should have known and they know now that his father is a long time elected and public official and all of this stuff comes out especially when you run for president. >> correct me if i'm wrong that credit card circumstances, those circumstances around the credit card and hunter biden, that's how elizabeth warren made a mark as well, right? >> yeah. >> back against biden. >> there was a, a pretty well seen r or well r regarded exchange between warren and biden. i believe it was in congress during a hearing, which kind of put warren on the map as espousing what i'd like to call economic populism and talking about how these large banks and financial institutions are taking advantage of people. that's a card warren has yet to

and tom brokaw joins us now. s time and back then, but also differences. >> you know, there are not many parallels, quite honestly, about the climate, the two presidents, the time. the president, president nixon, when he was trying to defend himself in that last year, he knew that on those recordings he could be heard as part of the conspiracy. that's why we had an 18-minute gap at one point. he was going around the world trying to sort out his leadership, going to russia, to china -- not to china, in fact, at that time, but he went to egypt constantly trying to persuade people that he was the president, and they couldn't get him because he had executive privilege. well, then, of course, they were defeated by the supreme court in a unanimous ruling that he had to give up the recordings because they would be the way that he would be charged and the way that we can make a judgment about him. it was all over at that point. the difference is, of course, that everything was a lot more moderated. i didn't have one of th

nbc's tom brokaw has a new book out called "the fall of richard nixon." to tom this morning on "today" and he described the major differences between the nixon years and now. >> it's not something that played out like a television game show which we have a lot of that now, with the president having comments about everything. everybody has an access to an opinion about everything. social media has changed everything. i think it's a great instrument. but you don't know what you can believe and not believe. that's a huge, huge difference between then and now. the republicans who were on the hill took it very seriously and were not afraid to speak up at the end about the fact he clearly violated what's going on. they became part of the process. we don't see that now. w.your vie and save in more ways than one. for small prices, you can build big dreams, spend less, get way more. shop everything home at wayfair.com woi felt completely helpless.hed online. my entire career and business were in jeopardy. i called reputation defender. vo: take control of your onli

. >> "nbc nightly news" with tom brokaw. >> good evening. attorney general edwin meese's announcement that he will resign by the end of july or early august came shortly after the special prosecutor today filed a lengthy report. as nbc's james folk reports tonight, even if meese escapes prosecution, he leaves behind a record that has been criticized by republican and democrat alike. >> when the special prosecutor's report was carried into the courthouse after a year-long investigation, meese was on a drug-busts trip to california. meese did not wait to read the report before telephoning the president to resign. >> ed meese never ended up going to prison the way that nixon's attorney general, john mitchell, did. but among all of the attorneys general we have ever had in this country, he's really right up there in terms of having one of the most scandal-ridden, ethically challenged tenures at the top of the justice department. up to and including the fact that he was the subject of multiple criminal investigations himself, and that last indepe

tom brokaw i was reading this morning in the news packet said that right now at this point the democratsoods on donald trump for impeachment. brian: looks like donald trump being donald trump in this area of the foreign policy just like he is in the economy and everything else, they need 216 to pass. they have 233 democrats out of the 433. most likely there. meanwhile congressman devin nunes says i have seen this script before. adam schiff, who famously flew and tried to work with michael cohen to make sure his testimony was impactful right after the democrats won the house, he sees schiff doing the same thing with all the witnesses going behind closed doors in the unclassified setting. watch. >> i have never, in my life, seen anything like what happened today. i mean, they have been bad at most of these depositions. but to interrupt us continually to coach the witness, to decide whether or not what we're going to be able to ask the witness, and we don't even get any witnesses at this point, and it doesn't look like we're going to get any ever, but to not let us ask questions, i have nev

a direct quote from tom brokaw to joe biden in 2008.propriate for someone like you in the middle of all of this to have your son collecting money from this big credit card company while you were on for protecting its interest? so there was already, even from tom brokaw in 2008, people wondering about what was going on with you and maybe. ainsley: inappropriate things. >> again, we need to get to the bottom of it. and we need to get to the bottom of -- i mean right on the heels of flying over -- can you imagine if the trump family, if this happened and how the mainstream media would just be losing their minds? so, we need to get to the bottom of it. it's got to come from the senate. as you guys all know in the house, i'm fighting as a sitting congressman just to be able to read the transcripts from the witnesses that they're calling because i'm barred from it. steve: nice and simple. brian: real quick just before did you go tucker underthe sanctions the president put steel tariffs on yesterday. threatening to him hit him with financial p

sandra: always far as the actual goods, if you will, whether they are there or not, matt, here is tom brokawerday. hear him out. >> they don't have the same kind of clarity that the people who were opposed to richard nixon had because it was so clear these were criminal acts he was involved with. >> the oval office tapes. >> no more taping systems in the oval office. >> that we know of. >> i disagree with tom brokaw there. we have several very, very credible witnesses, career diplomats and career military officers who -- the officer that testified yesterday was listening to the phone call. you can either believe him or you can believe the self-serving statements coming out of the white house. >> i'm so sick of hearing democrats talk about witness this and that. we have the transcript. the american people can decide if they believe the president or don't. but if you guys are basing your case on partisan or people that may be involved with the deep state, i don't think the american people will buy this. you aren't talking to somebody. >> sandra: i will leave that issue there. the vote will hap

craig: just prior, tom brokaw was in his skybox live on nbc and he says, governor, are you going to address the convention tonight, and reagan says no. the convention gets louder and louder, so he finally feels he has to say something. i think mike dever told me the story, he walks out of his box to walk down and say something and he turns and says, what do i say? he says, i don't know, you will think of something. craig: mike told me the same thing. frank: anyway, he gets up and it is like he had a five minute speech prepared. are you going to show that? craig: yeah. frank: it is not totally ex-tem p, because he had been working on an article that was going to say this same thing. he kind of talked about 50 years from now. the theme of the speech was, 50 years from now, they will know if we met the challenge here tonight because they will know if america was still free or not. craig: he talked about a letter in a time capsule. frank: you will still see that. typically, so beautifully delivered. reagan never raised his voice. he is one of the great writers of our time -- great orators of ou

tom brokaw, anchor, has said they have not -- the democrats have not delivered the goods yet to the americanuse gets to set its own rules on how to conduct this, but it's been doing impeachment by leak, trying to move the needle on public opinion. "new york times," upshot and siena college survey show 52% still oppose in six battleground states, oppose impeaching the president right now. >> let me add one other thing. the criminal division of the department of justice looked carefully at the official record of this conversation and said there's no crime here. that was a unanimous decision not by political appointees, career prosecutors at the doj. so what are we left with? i mean, truly, you hear nancy pelosi today say oh, democracy is atutter nonsense. are we going to impeach a president because he said to the ukrainian president, gee, please look into corruption. stuart: are we going to throw him out of office for that. look at the screen now, left-hand side. that's the voting board. the magic number we believe, it depends on how many members are present in the chamber, but we believe the