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
solicitor general that did it. so i think it s pretty remote. but, don, let me just footnote my remarks by congratulating michael for getting on the best-seller list, new york times list at number three this week for his first week on. it was an inassistant best-seller. michael, let me ask you this. if trump takes action against the doj, could it have the same effect the saturday night massacre did on nixon s presidency? it could. what happened with nixon was after that happened, after he fired those people and abolished the special prosecutor s office, that was when the first big movement toward impeachment really began to we began to see that. and a lot of this depends on what kind of at least a house of representatives is elected next month. if there is a democratic house and donald trump does that, you can imagine what the result will be. it could be very much like nixon at the time of watergate. i bet michael at the time,
so i think it s pretty remote. but, don, let me just footnote my remarks by congratulating michael for getting on the best-seller list, new york times list at number three this week for his first week on. it was an instant best-seller. before he even finished the end of it, it was a best-seller already. we ll talk more about his book later on. michael, let me ask you this. if trump takes action against the doj, could it have the same effect the saturday night massacre did on nixon s presidency? it could. what happened with nixon was after that happened, after he fired those people and abolished the special prosecutor s office, that was when the first big movement toward impeachment really began to we began to see that. and a lot of this depends on what kind of at least a house of representatives is elected next month. if there is a democratic house and donald trump does that, you can imagine what the result will be. it could be very much like nixon at the time of watergate. i
ms. curtis. the judge says, at the table is a lawyer the court recognized buts who name was not called. could you add for the record your name? miss curtis says thank you, your honor, good afternoon your honor, deborah curtis on behalf of the united states. this is new. we knew butina was not being charged by the special prosecutor s office, robert mueller s office, by a u.s. attorney, federal prosecutor in d.c. we knew at the initial appearance while the case was still under seal, the prosecutor leading the government s case was eric kennerson. today, they added another prosecutor in the courtroom. the person they added is the deputy chief of the national security division at the dcus attorney s office, an
the trump legal team after john dowd heard all of these questions verbally presented to him by the special prosecutor s office? is that how this list came to be? yeah i mean, so as mike was explaining to rachel, this is the result of this back and forth between the trump legal team and the mueller team. you know, in which mueller is trying to convince trump lawyers to let him sit down for this interview. as we describe in our story here tonight, the document that was provided to us was provided by somebody outside mr. trump s legal team. so i m not going to get too in the weeds there. but, yeah, we condensed some of the language in our list, but, yeah, it s a good it s a pretty good takeaway that the list you re reading on the times