spirit" is chris matthews's new book. historic day today. i feel like history kind of hits you hard on a day like today. it's really hard to get away from. today is the anniversary of the day that cap weinberger was inieted. today is the anniversary of the day the house judiciary committee first voted to start impeachment proceedings against nixon. and this stuff comes around and you can never -- the bigger the news day the further -- the harder it is to get away from history. >> if i were trump i'd remember one thing about watergate and i'd keep it in my head. it wasn't a political argument. it wasn't what jimmy breslin said, the guys who couldn't shoot straight or the guys that finally won. it was about fact. and in the end the courts produced the 23rd june tape about nixon covering up. and all the the talk nixon said i didn't do tr, i didn't do it, was countered by the fact. and what trump has to deal with is his first facts was there was no russian effort to influence our election. >> wrong. >> then he said there was no participation. now we've got a guy named papadopoulos. we've got a guy named jared kushner. i'm sorry. they were flirting with a collusion. and now we have to go to the next step and see if they really