democracy. the president made the comments against an eerie blood red background complete with marines on guard at philadelphia s independence hall. critics say it is the hyper divisive president and his progressive agenda that are the real threats to the country. now the president seems to be backing off a bit. white house correspondent peter doocy takes a look at the address and the fallout. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, mike. the president s argument is basically that he thinks the united states can have a democracy or maga republicans. but not both. so i asked him today whether or not that applies to all 74 million americans who backed trump in 2020 and his answer was very revealing. this is not unusual, right? to have a to have a speech like this. peter: that speech a warning about so-called maga republicans. they promote authoritarian leaders and fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights. peter: but the preside
this room and the next contain my archives. it s magazines, newspaper articles, depositions, documents. everything relating to watergate. i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. i have no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. we re not on the road to fascism. but we re dangerously close to it. these are the events that are going to follow me to my grave. i told the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency. we will never give up, we will never concede. we will stop the steal. here we are, 50 years later, and the events of watergate are as relevant as they have ever been. there will not be a cover-up, there will not be an abuse of power. weapons of mass destruction. open up, you traitor! my name is john dean. i was richard nixon s white house counsel. the morning of june 17th, 1972, i got a call saying they ve got this strange,
the biggest white house scandal in a century broke wide open today. the president s white house legal counsel john dean has been fired. reportedly dean is implicated in efforts to cover up the watergate scandal. watergate is the largest political scandal in american history. five men apparently caught in the act of burglarizing and bugging democratic headquarters in washington. many have tried to dissect the events of watergate. i lived them. this room and the next contain my archives. it s magazines and newspaper articles, depositions, documents, everything related to watergate. i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. i had no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. we re not on the road to fascism, but we re dangerously close to it. these are the events that are going to follow me to my grave. i told the president that there was a cancer growing on the
contain my archives. it s magazines, newspaper articles, depositions, documents. everything relating to watergate. i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. i have no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. we re not on the road to fascism. but we re dangerously close to it. these are the events that are going to follow me to my grave. i told the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency. we will never give up, we will never concede. we will stop the steal. here we are, 50 years later, at the events of watergate are as relevant as they have ever been. there will not be a cover-up, there will not be an abuse of power. weapons of mass destruction. open up, you traitor! my name is john dean. i was richard nixon s white house counsel. the morning of june 17th, 1972, i got a call saying they ve got this strange, weird burglary in the dem
in washington. many have tried to dissect the events of watergate. i lived them. this room and the next contain my archives. it s magazines and newspaper articles, depositions, documents, everything related to watergate. i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. i had no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. we re not on the road to fascism, but we re dangerously close to it. these are the events that are going to follow me to my grave. i told the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency. we will never give up. we will never concede. we will stop the steal. here we are 50 years later, and the events of watergate are as relevant as they have ever been. there will not be a cover-up. there will not be an abuse of power. weapons of mass destruction. my name is john dean. i was richard nixon s white house counsel. the morning of