Trump is allegedly back at the white house. We should mention, this happens under president s of both parties. Usually a motorcade snafu. They were eventually gathered up. And we show you what we keep out back here, the Rockefeller Center tree is up and lit. A 75footer from the new york suburbs. It certainly changes the view from here at this time every year, at least for a while. And that is our broadcast tonight. Thank you so much for being here with us. And good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. And thanks for joining us this hour. In the summer of 1974, the Special Counsel who was investigating the Watergate Scandal wrote a letter to congress, to the Judiciary Committee in congress detailing what his investigation, what his prosecutors and investigators
had turned up about Criminal Behavior by the president at the time, president Richard Nixon. Now, by this point, by the summer of 1974, the president s Campaign Chairman, who would also have been his Attorney Genera
obtaining information about the ongoing investigation for the purpose of diverting or thwarting that investigation. these could be captions for a picture book tour of the nixon or the trump administration, either way. when it came to nixon, it turned out at the time, and we can now see more clearly than ever, 45 years down the line, it turned out there were mountains of this stuff, this evidence of nixon s criminal behavior, mountains of this stuff that was turned up by federal investigators. now, in our lifetime, we know very little about what federal prosecutors and investigators have about our current president. but nevertheless, we have still got our own mountain of reporting and evidence about a bigger number of alleged obstruction by the president. just stuff turned up by investigative reporting and just admitted to by the president and other senior figures themselves or just committed openly out
uncannily parallel experience we are having right now in our lifetime when it comes to our current president. i mean, even just looking at this one exchange of information, between the judiciary committee and the watergate prosecutor in 74, just pull a couple of those bullet points, see if any of these things ring a bell, right? making and facilitating the making of false statements and deck ha ratilarations about the investigation. obtaining information about the ongoing investigation for the purpose of die verting or thwarting that investigation. these could be captions for a picture book tour for the nixon or trump administration, either way. when it came to nixon, it turned out at the time, and we can now see more clearly than ever, 45 years down the line, it turned out there were mountains of this stuff, this evidence of nixon s