could take the levers of government and look for them to dig up dirt, basically do watergate over and over again? it was with the cia, maybe that was a little bit innovative. but franklin roosevelt abused the fbi, he asked for fbi files that he could use against his opponents. same thing with lbj, same thing with some other presidents. and i think the pertinence to donald trump here is that nixon was looking for two things. number one, he wanted dirt against his enemies, the kennedys. he was worried that ted kennedy might run against him. he was also worried that the cia had secrets that would be damaging on him. he didn t know what that could be. and if you take that into the present, what is donald trump doing with this effort to get all this stuff from all these intelligence agencies? if nixon is any lesson, i would say, number one, he wants to
know that because we have the audio tape of nixon huddling with john ehrlichman before the cia director got there. i was kind of mysterious about why you were doing all this. i said to him, look, the president has got some very heavy negotiations coming up in the future, and i implied that it was important for you to understand the whole background of the cuban missile crisis because you re going to negotiate with the russians. so they told the cia director that nixon needed these secret files so he could prepare for negotiations. but listen to what they really wanted it for. supposing there s something we can really hang teddy or the kennedy clan with. i m going to wanna put that in colson s hands and run with it. i think what you will say to him i ll make the decision. you have to make the decision in the last analyst.
intelligence agencies are relatively modern things, but is this an innovation of richard nixon, this idea that he could take the levers of government and look for them to dig up dirt, basically do watergate over and over again? it was with the cia, maybe that was a little bit innovative. but franklin roosevelt abused the fbi, he asked for fbi files that he could use against his opponents. same thing with lbj, same thing with some other presidents. and i think the pertinence to donald trump here is that nixon was looking for two things. number one, he wanted dirt against his enemies, the kennedys. he was worried that ted kennedy might run against him. he was also worried that the cia had secrets that would be damaging on him. he didn t know what that could be. and if you take that into the present, what is donald trump doing with this effort to get all this stuff from all these intelligence agencies? if nixon is any lesson, i would say, number one, he wants to
jack and a heavily pregnant jackie cast their votes and fly to hyannis port to be with the kennedy clan. just about everybody on both sides knew that this was going to be an extremely close election. and so everybody was nervous. none more so than richard nixon, who casts his vote with his wife, pat, in california and then makes a break for the border. nixon was gloomy as usual. thought he was going to lose. went off with a pal to mexico to drink margaritas and to desert the press. essentially throughout the day they kept getting reports, good and bad. they didn t know what they meant. no one ever does. in the evening, the first returns were very pro-kennedy. we want kennedy. kennedy wins connecticut and the network broadcasters are saying that it might be a landslide. but by midnight the picture is
democrats. i m not worried. they didn t get one vote yesterday for november. in fact with their response with that weird response with the member of the kennedy clan afterwards they proved again they re disconnected from the american people. most important of all, they don t understand they still don t understand what happened on november 8, 2016. sean: i think that s a big part of it. dan bongino we talked it about when we came on later, the lowest level of african american employment in history, same with hispanic american unemployment. 17 year low for women in the workplace and all these jobs created, all these businesses coming back, all this opportunity in energy he s opened up. they can t even clap once. it begins to raise the question, do they want us to succeed? are they unhappy he s successful because it makes their last eight years look so bad?