vince foster was a wonderful man. unfortunately he had a breakdown. but president nixon was a very able guy but he did what he did and we did what we had to do and the congress reached the decision it had to reach. >> sam garrison's office was it close to yours? >> yeah, yeah. we were all -- we work out of the congressional hotel. it was a very small place. and we were constantly together. garrison was a good advocate. i have, you know, for -- i don't believe he's alive anymore. he died, didn't he? he was young. he was not old. certainly no older than i was. you should really -- well you did track down some of the -- you should track down some of those republican staff members and see what they remember. at the end we were all on mostly the same page. which is an amazing feat, which i fully didn't appreciate. i know it was important at the time but i didn't appreciate how amazing in this day and age, impossible, impossible to have done today what we did then. i think it's impossible. >> what changed? >> the enormous partisanship that exists today, whi

kennedy faced from the john birch society, bill clinton with the vince foster rumors.evolved to the point where you have joe wilson interrupting, this reporter doing it today, but it stems from the same sort of sentiment that a president sort of from the left side, a president from the democratic party in the eyes of many people on the right is illegitimate from the beginning. >> even if he wins the election? joe -- >> i just want to make one quick point. that is true it's evolved from bill clinton and vince foster rumors to openly challenging a president at an event where there's a lot of decorum, but it's gotten more acceptable. i think it's largely because this president does not look like the others. i think that's something that could be discounted, even though the right has been at this a long time. bill clinton was never openly confronted. it was alls within certain strictures. he never got challenged openly at a joint session of congress. >> i would say this kind of press corps didn't exist when bill clinton exist. he was apparently there on a one-day blogger p

and with this outcry arose, in late 1993, when i was counsel to the president, after my deputy vince foster committed suicide, this whitewater, so called investment that president clinton and hillary clinton had made a long time ago, which they lost money on, that somehow there was some sort of corruption involved or guarantee and then jim mcdougal and people -- had nothing to do with abuse of power, nothing, none of the same kind of stuff that happened in '73-74. and for the independent counsel to investigate. i was vehemently opposed to that. vehemently opposed. itas

. >> dan burton, republican in the mid '90s shot a pumpkin in an attempt to show that vince foster couldshot himself the way it was alleged. >> which, of course, he didn't. >> that's how insane the mid-clinton years became and i think that politically as you've said, it's nightmarish. with mike, what is the next act here? is there a compromise or now both sides dug in? >> i think the justice department is going to put a lot of documents up there and i think the hill will not be satisfied. >> all right. mike allen, thank you so much. >> happy weekend. get the ticket pocket. >> happy birthday. >> happy birthday mom. mary jo scarborough. >> mary jo. still ahead, a preview of "meet the press" with david gregory and "washington post" columnist eugene robinson and next, sports with mike barnicle. keep it on "morning joe." [ thunk ] sweet! [ male announcer ] the solid thunk of the door on the jetta. thanks, mister! [ meow ] [ male announcer ] another example of volkswagen quality. that's the power of german engineering. right now lease the 2012 jetta for $159 a month. visit vwdealer.com today.

vince cable's office. and the last one, mr. clegg, the fourth little paragraph down, don foster supporting the remedy and he is writing a memo to clegg to welcome it. to the best of your recollecti written to you which welcomed it might understand is don foster writing. memorandum from the secretary of state, i think it's one of the ones which set to the prime minister. he explains that the issue seems to have died, looking back to the fact he had independent advisors at every stage seems to be decisive. certain none of the newspapers, talking about this now. i did hear -- criticizes partly it is don foster was on the site and recommend. -- [inaudible] >> okay. in the point you make to you, apparently, is the matter had been transferred or referred, pardon me, it would almost ou direct, direct input. >> to further e-mails from mr. michel relate to you in some way. tab 12 now at page 011832, the 13th of march 2011. there was a piece here in the financial times about the onus of the bid had been taken to the fight -- principally aimed at lib dem in piece. what mr. michel tells mr. smith, he knows that you and chris my emotions ar