involved, that he did not realize or appreciate at any time the implications of his involvement. and i think that when the facts come out, i hope the president is forgiven. john dean followed that assertion with a 245 page statement that took all day to read, crammed with quotes, dates, memoranda and detailed recollections of talks with the president. a 245 page statement that he read outloud. nixon s white house counsel john dean had decided early on in the watergate scandal that nixon was going to try to make him the scapegoat. once he figured that out, he made 180 degree turn. he went straight to federal prosecutors. he told them he would cooperate with them fully. by the time nixon fired john dean from the white house counsel s job, dean had already for weeks been helping prosecutors on watergate.
scapegoat. once he figured that out, he made 180 degree turn. he went straight to federal prosecutors. he told them he would cooperate with them fully. by the time nixon fired john dean from the white house counsel s job, dean had already for weeks been helping prosecutors on watergate. so with this new reporting over the past couple of days that the current white house counsel has spoken for 30 hours with special counsel robert mueller, the president now is literally launching a new attack on john dean saying that dean was a rat for testifying against nixon back in the day. but the current white house counsel john mcgahn is in here of dean s legacy. he says he s determined to not
that correspondence tanya kramer there in jerusalem and cost and phenomena in washington thank you both now european leaders have joined the outcry against president trump s decision that britain s prime minister said the decision was unhelpful while president marcotte france called it regrettable germany s foreign minister said my gabriele warned of a risk of escalation in the israeli palestinian conflict. let s go over to see focus this i believe that this decision really carries the risk that an already difficult situation in the middle east the conflict between israel and the palestinians could escalate even further. for good reasons we haven t in the past had any other country in the world say they accept jerusalem as the capital that fantasist this represents one hundred eighty degree turn in american policy and that worries us. we hope that those concerns will prove unwarranted but this
business regulation, on the environment, on issues of race, on issues of crime. the 180 degree turn that s being engendered by appointees and general sessions leaves a lasting mark however home numbers erode, however many people wait for him to be impeached, indicted, 25th amendment. that s what people have to keep their eye on. our colleague, jeff tubin, wrote on that subject you first raised. put it up on the screen. he said, while the public watches trump churned through members, the administration is humming along nicely in filling federal judgeships with enthusiastic assistance of the republican majority in the senate. i say it every four years when it s time to vote, arguably the greatest power presidents possess is constitute the federal bench. people don t go out and cast ballots on that, but that s precisely what he s been able to do thus far. look, anthony kennedy is still a supreme court justice. ronald reagan appointed him left
booker, that he s using his position in the united states senate to run for president? is that a conflict of interest? we don t examine these things in a political context because all the focus is political people focusing on business. and this is an absolutely crazy set of arguments. first of all, we re trying to clean up government thank you. let me just say this. donald trump came into government saying that he was going to drain the swamp. one of the reasons he was elected is because so many people are so concerned about all this money in politics. all this money in washington. that was the whole this anti-establishment fervor that said effectively we don t want the status quo, we don t want politics as usual, we don t want big money in politics, that was what he was elected for. he s turning around. this is another 180 degree turn, 360 degree turn by donald trump no. draining the swamp has to do with washington, d.c., and the culture of washington, d.c., the