parallel that this may be, if you will, hurting the left, the center left in the form of president obama, that we re seeing newt gingrich, a real nixon-type candidate emerging on the right? right. and you saw the notion of the silent majority and the appeals to the resentment of some resisting that. we ve seen eric cantor calling them mobs and herman cain say that they re designed to distract people from obama s failed policies. there s a real concern. president obama is trying to tap into some of the frustrations that the movement has brought to the surface. the polls you cited are interesting. i m more impressed with the fact that 75% or 80% of the country essentially agrees with the critique of the occupy wall street people. the power of big banks and corporations should be reined
in. that s a big support for their basic underlying critique. but you see the right already trying to make a nixon move. you see obama trying to tap into that energy. what i found talking to the people down on occupy wall street is that they very much, like the new left in 1968, their attitude towards barack obama is, he s as bad as the republicans. as you point out, some republicans seem to be channeling a richard nixon in response to the protest. here was newt gingrich earlier this month bashing the movement. let s listen to newt. they take over a public park they didn t pay for to go nearby to use bathrooms they didn t pay for, to beg for food from places they don t want to pay for, to obstruct those going to work to pay the taxes to sustain the bathrooms and to sustain the park so they can self-righteously explain that they are the paragons of virtue to which we owe everything.
nixon discussed the events under oath. timothy nafh tali is the director of the legendary journ covered watergate and broke the case. he s now a contributor to the daily beast. carl, why don t you start? your assessment of what is new here if anything. not much. it s more of nixonian attitude. he s cagey. he knows he s under oath. the real nixon is the nixon of the watergate tapes. unfettered, in his office, ordering break-ins, fire bombings, covering up. that s the real nixon. this is a witness who wants to make sure that he is not caught in a legal trap, who also wants to get some digs in at the prosecutors, at the press, at his enemies. he thinks, and you can see that these things might be read someday at some point. he was very cagey. in terms of the record of what
but his testimony has never before been made public after a lawsuit a judge ordered the material released and today it was. fs the only time president nixon discussed the events under oath. timothy naftali is director of the nixon library. he s read the testimony. and carl bernstein of course is the legendary journalist who covered watergate and broke the case. he s now a contributor to the daily beast. carl, why don t you start? your assessment of what is new here if anything. not much. it s more of nixonian attitude. he s cagey. he knows he s under oath. the real nixon is the nixon of the watergate tapes. unfettered, in his office, ordering break-ins, fire bombings, covering up. that s the real nixon. this is a witness who wants to make sure that he is not caught in a legal trap, who also wants to get some digs in at the prosecutors, at the press, at his enemies. he thinks, and you can see that these things might be read someday at some point.
to his resignation. but his testimony has never before been made public. after a lawsuit, the judge ordered the material released and today it was. it was the only time president nixon discussed the discussed tr oath. and carl bernstein, of course is the legendary journalist who broke the case. he s now a contributor to the daily beast. carl, why don t you start, your assessment of what is new here, if anything? not much of it s more of nixonian attitude. he s cagey. the real nixon is the nixon of the watergate tapes, unfettered in his office, ordering break-ins, fire bombs. that s the real nixon. this is a witness who wants to make issue he is not caught in a legal trap, who also wants to get some digs in at the prosecutors, at the press, at his enemies. he thinks and you can see