committee under center sam irvin the man i m worship most in public life. and we were also proud to work for him. on may 17th 1973 out of this very room. chairman, sam irvin began hearing from the watergate scandal these hearings touched the heartstrings of america and ended up helping mold. what we thought would be the future of constitutional government. as then minority leader mike mansfield said no one in the entire senate was better equipped. to handle this thing called watergate than senator sam j irvin. i worked for center sam jay irvin for 10 years. and i can personally attest. that things were different then than they are now. civility reigned remember that word civility and all of and all the people who were here some 60 years ago know that that is the case. too much civility is absent today. consider the level of viteral and the political discourse that exists in government today and even in the halls of congress i cannot emphasize enough the importance of the rela
counsel of the senate watergate committee under center sam irvin the man i m worship most in public life. and we were also proud to work for him. on may 17th 1973 out of this very room. chairman, sam irvin began hearing from the watergate scandal these hearings touched the heartstrings of america and ended up helping mold. what we thought would be the future of constitutional government. as then minority leader mike mansfield said no one in the entire senate was better equipped. to handle this thing called watergate than senator sam j irvin. i worked for center sam jay irvin for 10 years. and i can personally attest. that things were different then than they are now. civility reigned remember that word civility and all of and all the people who were here some 60 years ago know that that is the case. too much civility is absent today. consider the level of viteral and the political discourse that exists in government today and even in the halls of congress i cannot emphasize e
can t imagine my parents. give me a name like that but backwards is spelled suffer. and and i was the deputy chief counsel of the senate watergate committee under center sam irvin the man i m worship most in public life. and we were also proud to work for him. on may 17th 1973 out of this very room. chairman, sam irvin began hearing from the watergate scandal these hearings touched the heartstrings of america and ended up helping mold. what we thought would be the future of constitutional government. as then minority leader mike mansfield said no one in the entire senate was better equipped. to handle this thing called watergate than senator sam j irvin. i worked for center sam jay irvin for 10 years. and i can personally attest. that things were different then than they are now. civility reigned remember that word civility and all of and all the people who were here some 60 years ago know that that is the case. too much civility is absent today. consider the level of viteral
Amongst the people that still work there, and the investigators . Well, i wouldnt say im the best person in the world. I think that there are probably a lot of good people because most of us dont take bribes, and most of us are really more interested in doing the right thing than we are in lining our pockets or having a lot of glory, but i think the way that you have to do this, of course, is to set a standard, and you need to make it very clear to all of your staff that there are no favors, that there are no gifts, that you will not tolerate anything of that sort. You got to do the kind of thing that liz holtzman did in brooklyn, which was if someone flashed a bag to get a free ride on public transit, they were fired. I mean, you got to be serious about that, but at a larger level, we have to look, also, at issues of, i would say, Institutional Corruption. There are far too many supervisors, and a lot of them were made that for reasons having nothing to do with running a good office.
Totallyadds up to a unprecedented situation, a grave and profound crisis and the president has set himself against his own attorney general and the department of justice. Amy we will speak to former u. S. Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman who served on the Watergate Committee and former assistant watergate prosecutor jill wine banks. She was the first woman to serve as u. S. Army general counsel. Then sarsour versus trump. This is an important time for many communitys desk communities. This is an opportunity for us to say we will protect the most marginalized amongst us. Amy palestinianamerican activist Linda Sarsour and other prominent Muslim Americans sue donald trump over the muslim ban. We will speak with her and trita parsi of the National Iranian american council. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President donald trump fired acting attorney general sally yates on monday night just hours after she