Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Gates, and said well, you couldnt have had manafort paying that those attention or you wouldnt have been able to steal so much money. That has to influence the jury. Thats a scary statement he made. Hes gone way beyond what anybody should have expected of a judge. In the meantime, jill, i notice your pin youre wearing, nixon lodge. That was from his first Unsuccessful Campaign for president. Today is the 44th anniversary of his resignation for obstruction of justice among other things, and while it may foretell the future, it certainly inspired my pin today to remember what happens when you obstruct justice. Well, let me ask you about that, because i know you must get asked all the time about sort of the way that these two may be similar and the ways that they may be different. What do you tell people . Well i actually think this situation is
and a lot of it is not holding water. this strikes me as water gate in reverse. during water gate we had a year and a half of congressional and fbi investigations. leading to the smoking gun tape. where everybody saw nixon was interfering in the fbi trying to block the investigation into the water gate burglary. this is in reverse because we started with the smoking gun. the transcript itself. showed the president s own words he was asking zelensky to do him a favor of investigating his political rival joe biden. there it was in many ways that s the most serious evidence we have gotten yet of an abuse of power. the question is, as you have been discussing does it add up to grounds for removal of office. and on that ground i think it s a political judgment.
well i actually think this situation is worse, for several reasons. one, nixon actually did a lot of good things policy wise. he passed title 9 giving fairness to women in sports. he passed the epa, opened china. so he did some good things. he was obviously a fatally flawed man, much like i think president trump is. but in terms of the actual cases, you have a break in of the dnc, one physical and one by today s modern standards, is through a computer. you have follow the money. in this case, the money flowed, it seems, from russia to the president, as opposed to in the case of the water gate burglary where the white house was paying for the burglary, there are some differences but so many similarities in terms of things. in terms of witnesses, you now have a lot of documents for
the a burglary portrayed in this film all the president s men . washington post reporters bob woodward followed a money trail from the democratic party break in to the committee to reelect president nixon. a discovery of taped conversations in the oval office. you open that scab there s a lot of things we. reporter: it revealed nixon helped orchestrate a coverup six days after the water gate burglary. bill clinton s presidency was nearly undone by an investigation into a land deal. we were assigned a difficult job. reporter: ken star, a staunch republican eventually headed it up, and during his investigation, a former white house staffer, linda trip, decided to give him her secretly recorded phone conversations with a former white house