Have you heard of the Rosemary Woods stretch . It is named after this woman, Rosemary Woods. The longtime secretary of richard nixon. Woods became her career with nixon in 1950, went long before his time with the white house. She was so close to the family the nixons daughters referred to her as aunt rose. In 1974, route woods was thrust into the National Spotlight during the watergate scandal when investigators discovered a Mysterious 18 and a half gap on one of the tapes handed over from the nixon white house. The tape was believed to contain a conversation between president nixon and his Chief Of Staff three days after the watergate breakin. Woods took responsibility for that gap. She tried to explain it away as an accident. As she tells, it she was simply transcribing the tape at her desk when the phone rang. As she reached for the phone, she mistakenly struck the wrong key on the recorder while her foot was on the machines pedal. The motion ended up somehow destroying the tapes co
send to congress, and to any american that believes supreme court justices should not vote with impunity above the law. joining us now to discuss, this is mark joseph stern, a senior writer on the court for slate. thank you for joining me. what do you think justice alito is trying to do here with this wall street journal interview? as he got a strategy here? is he just trying to provoke debate for the democrats to subpoena or impeach him? was it a show of strength, you can t touch me? i think justice alito genuinely enjoys trolling liberals. clearly a consumer of twitter type news and information. he clearly sees the reaction on the left whenever he makes a statement like this. he seems to love it. what he said in the interview goes so far beyond the pale of any known standard of ethics. it s hard to know where to start. you have a justice offering an advisory opinion on legislation that is pending before the
american that believes supreme court justices should not vote with impunity above the law. joining us now to discuss, this is mark joseph stern, a senior writer on the court for slate. thank you for joining me. what do you think justice alito is trying to do here with this wall street journal interview? as he got a strategy here? is he just trying to provoke debate for the democrats to subpoena or impeach him? was it a show of strength, you can t touch me? i think justice alito genuinely enjoys trolling liberals. clearly a consumer of twitter type news and information. he clearly sees the reaction on the left whenever he makes a statement like this. he seems to love it. what he said in the interview goes so far beyond the pale of any known standard of ethics. it s hard to know where to start. you have a justice offering an advisory opinion on legislation that is pending before the senate. giving an interview for a lawyer that, as you noted, will shortly appear before him in a case th
there s nothing conservative about donald trump. is it just anti-liberal? trolling liberals and not having an agenda of your own or just about power? definitely power and something they ve never had before. a pliable president. he gets molded around into whatever they re looking for and they love that. they love they could just have another kind of tv star, pliable issue that you just go and speak to him and he kind of changes his position if he wants to. but is the cost of that, cheering on the mocking of an american hero who gave his all in vietnam while donald trump had five deferments and on the day he graduated from penn i think 40 americans died in vietnam. is that the cost that? i don t think the cost is that. i don t think you have to mock a man who is dieing of brain cancer. i don t think you have to mock george h.w. bush.