everybody is jumping ship and he had to get rid of haldeman ehrlichman. at one point nixon calls him, he s like my brother. it s the last guy that he really can trust. he s fired haldeman. it s a fascinating relationship between those two. i interviewed bob haldeman right before he died. he s a christian scientist. he refused surgery on his stomach cancer. i said what was watergate about? he didn t get it. he never was a real politician. i think with this new 300 hours it shows how the president s trying to salvage
trump, this win at all costs mentality that doesn t matter how you win as long as you win, you re willing to accept russian intervention if it helps you win, it feels like you re willing to suppress lots and lots of votes, millions and millions of votes and violate the rights of millions of americans as long as you win. are we setting ourselves up for a 2020 that could be even scarier and watergate on triple amounts of steroids in 2016? maybe but we don t know yet. that s a long time away and my theory is that trump is not going to last that long. that s a point i want to stop you on. in this piece which i highly recommend, watergate didn t become watergate overnight. you walk the readers through the timeline about the public opinion of people in regards to nixon and how long they hung on. in july of 1973 which is now 13 months after the watergate break-in, by that point nixon s attorney general and campaign manager john mitchell had been
democratic base that voted for him maybe once or twice before. maybe. but he didn t answer very very simple questions because as both of you know i m a simple man. why didn t you fire sebelius? didn t d. panetta tell you it was a terrorist attack on the day that the ambassador was murdered? those are simple yes or no questions. he didn t answer them. i think the audience picked up right away that he didn t answer them, doctor. you say? basically they were the same canned dancers we have heard from some time. you elicited one of the oddest spawpses i have heard from obama. you asked him whether i was the most liberal president ever and he said richard nixon. i don t know too many people who would evaluate richard nixon as being more liberal than he obama. he had a good point nixon did start a lot of federal programs to do certain things that nixon thought would help the country. that wasn t a bad point at all. i was surprised. that was the strength of the interview he did say some t