they need to take the fight to him. and john is right, if you have impeachment proceedings can you imagine the coverage of that, the wall-to-wall coverage, the folks testifying like mcgahn, like mueller, and how you will bring the country along with you? i want to bring some numbers in. watergate, before the impeachment proceedings, 37% of americans were not for impeachment. by the end of the hearings were not for or were for? were not for impeaching nixon, were not for it at all. they didn t want anything to do with it. by the time it was over, it was at 60%. by the time the hearings were over it was 60% they wanted to impeach him. this is what needs to happen in this case as well. people have said, majority of americans have said, he s not exonerated, donald trump didn t think he s exonerated, majority of people said he committed a crime, they re still with them, they just have to tell the
most demanded impeaching nixon. nixon was forced to appoint a new special prosecutor and as the months went on, he was forced to turnover the tapes. white house council john dean s system turned out to be entirely accurate. they were going to cost a million dollars over the next two years. it was clear, nixon s defenses were beginning to crumble. would you consider the crimes to be impeachable if they did apply to you? well, i have also quit beating my wife. the meeting will come to order. in july of 1974 in a packed
flooded washington. western union was flocked, most of them demanded impeaching nixon. nixon was forced to appoint a news special prosecutor. as the months went on bit by bit, he was forced to turn over the tapes. they were as damming. john dean s testimony turned out to be entirely accurate. how much money do you need? i would say a million dollars the next few years. it was clear nixon s defenses were beginning to crumble. would you consider the crimes to be impeachable? well, i have also quit meeting my wife the meeting will come to order. in july of 1974, in a packed
office. but, you know, before that smoking gun tape had come out, david dennis really had been nixon s guy on the judiciary committee. he had been his constant defender. david dennis spent months on television and in the press defending nixon on capitol hill, talking about how weak the case was against nixon, how there was no evidence, how this was a shame. what happens to you when you ve been shouting nothing s here, nothing s here, nothing s here, and then all of the sudden you and everybody else find out for sure yeah, there is something there. it s like the tide goes out and you get to see who s been swimming naked. in the immediate aftermath of that, in the fall of 1974, so right after nixon resigned, nixon resigned in august. then in november of that same year, just a few weeks later, it s time for the midterms. so everybody in the house had to run for reelection. in david dennis case he had to head back home to indiana to convince his constituents to send him back to congress.
democrats flipped 380 more seats red to blue. that means democrats in two years have won back nearly half the seats they lost over president obama s time in office. the head of the campaign committee who has overseen the huge wins across the country in the state legislative races, that s the oregon speaker of the house, tina kotek. fairly stunning success already. and then there is congress. democrats doubling down on what helped them win more seats this year than they have won since nixon resigned. the new head of the democratic congressional campaign committee as of this month is congresswoman cheri bustos of illinois. her first order of business is actually this endless weird ground fight in north carolina s ninth congressional district which turns out to be kind of a crime scene. who the would have known that would be the first order of business. but the big picture is a lot to work with here.