>> i have not seen anything like this since october 20th, 1973, when president nixon fired archibald cox, the watergate special prosecutor. >> to people my age, it conjures up images of richard nixon. >> there were also nixonian echoes in this tweet from president trump, saying he might be somehow taping his conversations inside the white house, but are these analogies appropriate or are they perhaps turning off some viewers as our prior guest said? i have the perfect guest to ask, the author of a biography of nixon, john farrell. the new book is titled "richard nixon: a life." john, thanks for being here. >> thank you, brian. thanks for having me on. >> just now, a couple minutes ago we were hearing about the watergate analogies and how perhaps they turn off trump supporters. trump loyalists here say that's bogus and they don't listen to any of the media coverage about this current crisis. what do you say to that? >> i think that in this 24/7 news climate that we're in, there's an impatience. we want to get to the end of the