An american tragedy. This program is about one hour. 40 years ago, the white house was the scene. We will continue with your calls and comments on American History tv. Our guest is john farrell who is coming out with a new book, Richard Nixon an american tragedy. Thanks for being with us on American History tv. You wrote a piece for politico and said this dwarfed any other political scandal in American History. He tried to put the entire nixon presidency in context. How so . Talking was sort of a point over the years that watergate was this third rate burglary, that everybody did it, and it was not that big a deal. It was a big deal and lead to further big deals because in the aftermath of watergate, it had the rockefeller and Church Committee investigations that rattled theeeply u. S. Government was with this abuse of power. Watergate was much more than one burglary. That was the third burglary they pulled off. As repercussions, you had the president resigning. You had the Vice Presid
Lerner with conversations with the department of justice, conversations on how they would pursue conversations with those conservative groups applying for tax exempt status. The documents contain a conversation between lerner, the chief of staff, the former irs director steven miller, discussing how they would work with the department of justice to accomplish their goal. Miller, you may remember, visited the white house 118 times from 2010 to 2011. On may 8th of last year lerner wrote, quote, i got a call today from richard hilliar, the director of Elections Crimes Branch at doj. He wanted to know who at irs the d. O. J. Folks could talk to about senator whitehouses idea that d. O. J. Could piece together false statement cases about applicants who, quote, lied, end quote, on their 1024s. Doj is feeling like it needs to respond but wants to talk to the right folks at irs to see whether there are impediments from our side. I told him it sounded like we might need several folks from irs.
Conversations that centered how they would pursue prosecution of those conservative groups applying for taxexempt status. The documents contain a conversation between lerner and the chief of staff to former irs director steven miller, discussing how they would work with the department of justice to accomplish their goal. Miller, you may remember, visited the white house 118 times, from 2010 to 2011. On may 8th of last year, lerner wrote, quote, i got a call today from richard hill gear, the director of Elections Crimes Branch at doj. Who doj foaming to caulk to could piece together false statement cases. About am plants, lied, end quote on their 1024s. Doj is feeling like it needs to respond but wants to talk to the right folks at irs, to see whether there are impediments from our side. I told them it sounded like we might need several folks from irs. But a message sent minutes later shows lerner admitting no such evidence existed. Lerner wrote, quote, whether there was a false stateme
Lerner with conversations with the department of justice, conversations on how they would pursue conversations with those conservative groups applying for tax exempt status. The documents contain a conversation between lerner, the chief of staff, the former irs director steven miller, discussing how they would work with the department of justice to accomplish their goal. Miller, you may remember, visited the white house 118 times from 2010 to 2011. On may 8th of last year lerner wrote, quote, i got a call today from richard hilliar, the director of Elections Crimes Branch at doj. He wanted to know who at the d. O. J. Folks could talk to about senator whitehouses idea that d. O. J. Could piece together false statement cases about applicants who, quote, lied, end quote, on their 1024s. Doj is feeling like it needs to respond but wants to talk to the right folks at irs to see whether there are impediments from our side. I told him it sounded like we might need several folks from irs. But
Lerner with conversations with the department of justice, conversations on how they would pursue conversations with those conservative groups applying for tax exempt status. The documents contain a conversation between lerner, the chief of staff, the former irs director steven miller, discussing how they would work with the department of justice to accomplish their goal. Miller, you may remember, visited the white house 118 times from 2010 to 2011. On may 8th of last year lerner wrote, quote, i got a call today from richard hilliar, the director of Elections Crimes Branch at doj. He wanted to know who at irs the d. O. J. Folks could talk to about senator whitehouses idea that d. O. J. Could piece together false statement cases about applicants who, quote, lied, end quote, on their 1024s. Doj is feeling like it needs to respond but wants to talk to the right folks at irs to see whether there are impediments from our side. I told him it sounded like we might need several folks from irs.