I like being able to fire people that provide services to me. John in politics its not what you say, its what people hear. John is he right . Thats our show tonight. And now, john stossel. John now that election season has begun,well hear well hear more lies from politicians. I guess they dont usually lie outright, but they play with words so is everything they do or propose sounds great. I long for day when a politician runs a campaign ad that tells the truth like this one. Hi, im gil fulbright. The people who run my campaign have made commercial, and im in it. This campaign, its not about me its about crafting a version of me thatll appeal to you. A version that visits random worksites with paid actors pointing at things. As a conventionally attractive and yet curiously still family. My names gil tug dwight but, hell, ill change my name to bill fulbright or i approve this message. John id vote for that guy. Unfortunately, hes just an actor doing that commercial for a group that pushe
I like being able to fire people that provide services to me. John in politics its not what you say, its what people hear. John is he right . Thats our show tonight. And now, john stossel. John now that election season has begun,well hear well hear more lies from politicians. I guess they dont usually lie outright, but they play with words so is everything they do or propose sounds great. I long for day when a politician runs a campaign ad that tells the truth like this one. Hi, im gil fulbright. The people who run my campaign have made commercial, and im in it. This campaign, its not about me its about crafting a version of me thatll appeal to you. A version that visits random worksites with paid actors pointing at things. As a conventionally attractive and yet curiously still family. My names gil tug dwight but, hell, ill change my name to bill fulbright or i approve this message. John id vote for that guy. Unfortunately, hes just an actor doing that commercial for a group that pushe
Announced they will not send all of their students back to the campuses this fall. So what is he doing here exactly . Hes got the cdc now spinning and saying it will come out with new guidelines, relaxing guidelines around school. Theres always, with this president , an element of politics here. What are they . Thats right, willie. For weeks and even a couple of months, the sort of hot button political cultural wedge issue was use of masks. The president defying all Available Health data, the recommendation of his own medical team and Public Health professionals and not wear a mask. Even in the face of rising elements that a mask reduces the transmission of the virus. And weve seen fellow republicans break with the president and endorse them, other prominent elected officials. Seems the next battleground is going to be schools. In the last 48 hours a remarkable assault from the president making this political push suggesting without evidence that del democratic governors and mayors and
Democratic party for the presidency through espionage and sabotage that would be the weakest opponent of Richard Nixon. When we wrote that story, we thought, ah, now it makes sense. Now after 40 years it all makes much more sense about this huge criminal enterprise. And, ken, you have probably we were talking about this earlier. We have probably spent more hours listening to more president ial tapes than any human being in america. Youve been immersed in not just nixon tapes but lbj takes. Whats your take, leaving aside your 10yearold self, on what we knew now, what we know now about nixon that we didnt understand at the moment of his resignation . First off, i just want to talk about how honored and what a surreal experience it is for my former 10yearold self to be sitting here between woodward and bernstein talking about watergate with all of you. But that said, in between then and now, i have listened to an awful lot of tapes. And i think the biggest thing that ive learned about wat
Because i was always unable at the time to keep any of these characters straight but, of course, the main character was Richard Nixon. And complex and impenetrable and not understandable but youve done about as good a job as anyone of trying to understand the kind of tortured mind that led us to this national crisis. And to look at nixons activities even post watergate as a way of interesting him. So tell us a little bit about nixon and what compelled him to do these things from your point of view. Some talk about when did watergate begin . Was born in this little town in yorba linda, california, where he was born. Now, i say this with some empathy. I think he was trapped in his own personality, in his own hangups. And hangup is too light. But i dont do any psychobabble. This was a man who all his life felt that everybody else was getting a break and they all had more advantages than he did and he had to show them that he was going to be he went out for football he couldnt run or throw