reporter: the irs, benghazi, the ap phone records, you know it s been a bad week when you get this question. how do you feel about comparisens by some of your critics of this week s scandals to those that happened under the nixon administration? reporter: in historic terms, how bad of a week was this? it was a bad week for obama. reporter: we asked historian alan nicken in hman how the pres problems compare, as bad as watergate? i did not take part in or knew about the subsequent cover-up activity. reporter: iran/contra. an old saying nothing spreads so quickly as a rumor. reporter: how about monica lewinsky? i did not have sexual relations with that woman. reporter: okay. so obviously there have been plenty of presidential scandals in the past. you already knew that. let s get past this 101 and dig a little deeper. it is rare, but president obama is not the only president to have faced tr more
we begin with that devastating commuter train crash in connecticut. ntsb investigators are now on the scene. the collision last night injured dozens of people and it s creating quite the night nightmare for commuters. susan, what is happening there right now? reporter: investigators from the national transportation safety board are on site and they are fanning out to take a closer look at this accident scene, which they said covers about 200 yards or so, so the length of two football fields. we re talking about two commuter trains. one going eastbound from new york heading to new haven, connecticut, and the other one going in the opposite direction. the first one derailed a little after 6:00 in the evening at the height of rush hour on friday night when that accident happened. they are trying to determine what caused it.
what s your question? just say it was a flat fee and do you want me to read the flat fee? read page 4. both of you stop. you only paid him 15, you re telling us you paud him 25,000. reporter: simpson s team pressed on, claiming galanter was cagey about expenses through the trial, shorting or not even paying some colleagues to pocket as much of simpson s money as possible. earlier this week, o.j. simpson even took the stand to accuse galanter of giving him bad legal advice, claiming his then attorney told him he could confront two men he believed had stolen property from him, the day before the incident happened. what was the advice to you? that if they didn t give me the stuff, yeah, call the police. okay. and that is what i told everybody involved, that if they don t give it to me, i m going to get the police in it. at the time you re leaving the palace station room, were