the fact that nixon was hands-on very early is just like trump hands-on very early. the firing of comey was certainly not dissimilar from some of the actions that nixon took. nixon tried to influence the f.b.i. investigation as did trump. there are lots of comparisons. the president said after all this time and money spent, $40 million. the mueller report was a disaster for them, a reference to the democrats. but they want to redo or do over and bringing in @ cnn sleaze bag attorney john dean. sorry, no do overs, go back to work. the rules committee in the house sex pekted to approve language for the house vote allowing democrats to go to court to enforce subpoenas for the attorney general and former white house counsel don mcgahn.
we are looking forward to a big show and a big week ahead. democrats about to make a big show on capitol hill in a series of hearings that will be targeting president trump. and now republicans are warning their colleagues against the aisle against pushing a impeachment era. mark is here this morning. we can expect a busy week ahead as the house judiciary committee will hold a hearing as to the lessons learned through the mueller report. this is the start of a week of actions tweens president trump. tomorrow the house democrats will hear from john dean, the former white house counsel to nixon as well as legal experts well versed in impeachment proseergd. jerry nadler released a statement, bright in part, these hearings will allow us to comam minuttoexamine the findings to t
made history. i m going to step off the lam now. that s one small step for man, one giant leap for man kind. martha: can t watch that without getting choked. douglas brinkley, new book, american moon shot. he joins me now. congratulations. a wonderful book. uncovered a lot of amazing things there. talk about what john f. kennedy wanted to do and how it was good for him as the president and how it also helped him to achieve that goal of beating the russians into space. when he ran against richard nixon in 1960, at one point in those debates, kennedy said to nixon, if you re elected, i see
as a democrat with white working class and white suburban voters who fled to nixon and reagan in 1980. it worked for bill clinton, it s one of the ways that clinton got elected in 1992. though he wound up apologizing for his part in mass incarceration once his wife was running for president, being tough on crime and fending off republicans on the issue is how bill clinton came to sign the omnibus bill against crime in 1994. today democrats who are trying to run from that same play book are finding themselves in a very different democratic party where the progressive wing is getting stronger again and winning elections for congress. candidates for president who might naturally have appealed to the rust belt white working class voter 20 years ago are struggling to figure out a credible path to the nomination. this early on in the race. and it may be impossible to say what kind of kand day-to-dcandi
that s subornation of perjury pure and simple. it is a direct act of the president while he s president interfering not only with an investigation but of directly conspiring to obstruct justice. and this should be enough for even the and remember, he lied that he told cohen to lie to the senate. even the republican senate is going to have to say we ve been had, we can t have him lying to us. and in the end of watergate it was the republicans who went to nixon and said, you have to resign or we will convict you in the senate. and that s going to happen here. we re getting closer and closer. john heilemann, as usual, it s very hard for me to think of what rudy giuliani will say about this. but this time he s going to have to tell you that is not smoke coming out of that gun. yeah. i can t imagine what rudy will say. just looking through this article, just to put a very fine point on it, the thing that caught my eye right after the thing you read, lawrence, it says this revelation