impeding an investigation and the crime of obstruction of justice. and what if you look at those documents that you were just talking about, jaworski is interested in the question, did the president commit a crime? he eventually decides he s going to name him as an unindicted co-conspirator, not going to indict him while he s still in office. but his focus is on criminal acts. he describes him as committing crimes. committing crimes. and he treats it entirely in a criminal context. when that information goes to congress, their job is not to decide, did he commit crimes. their job is to say, did he commit an offense that is unacceptable in a president who has taken an oath to preserve and protect the constitution, and who has a duty under the constitution to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. that is a different question.
don t we re not going to pay attention to what the president says, we re going to focus on what he does, even though we don t read the tweets, not that nixon tweeted. they said, this is an unacceptable way for the president, who has taken an oath to preserve and protect the constitution and has a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, this is an unacceptable fashion for the president to engage with an investigation of, among other things, his white house and himself. and that is one of the articles of impeachment against richard nixon. and i want to be specific about that bottom line, because what happens with nixon is that it does end up being part of the articles of impeachment against him. but we know in part because of documents that were unsealed because of litigation that you were part of to get this unsealed, we know this was not a matter that congress became interested in, these are all things that prosecutors, special
documents that you were just talking about, jaworski is interested in the question did the president commit a crime? he eventually decides he s going to name them as an unindicted co-conspirator, not going to indict him while he s still in office. but his focus is on criminal acts. he describes him as committing crimes. committing crimes. and he treats it entirely in a criminal context. when that information goes to congress, their job is not to decide did he commit crimes. their job is to say, did he commit an offense that is unacceptable in a president who has taken an oath to preserve and protect the constitution, and who has a duty under the constitution to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. that is a different question. and part of my point here is that the impeachment question is a different question than the criminal question.
history. it s an article about how congress experienced that set of things. and, by the way, they didn t look at it and say, you know, we don t we re not going to pay attention to what the president says. we re going to focus on what he does, we don t read the tweets, not that nixon tweeted. they said, this is an unacceptable way for the president, who has taken an oath to preserve and protect the constitution and has a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, this is an unacceptable fashion for the president to engage with an investigation of, among other things, his white house and himself. and that is one of the articles of impeachment against richard nixon. and i want to be specific about that bottom line, because what happens with nixon is that it does end up being part of the articles of impeachment against him. but we know in part because of some documents that were unsealed because of litigation that you were part of to get
trump is allegedly back at the white house. we should mention, this happens under presidents 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 75-footer 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