of his life. not just for the white house, but for his freedom now, too. biden is trying to jail his leading political opponent. plus trump s top 2024 rival lets him off the hook and attacks the justice department instead. can t have one faction of society weaponizing the power of the state against factions that it doesn t like. while earth owe challengers hope the details might force supporters to question their allegiance. is this the type of conduct that we want from someone who wants to be president of the united states? and making history. has the united states of america ever faced a moment like this? welcome to inside politics sunday , i m abby phillip. it is another week in the history of our nation. a former president and leading presidential candidate indicted now for hoarding calassified documents and sharing them with others ab conspiring to hide them from the government. and it includes reams of evident including tape recordings and text messages
Continues. Host welcome back. The summer of 1973 and millions of americans were tuned in to watch the Senate Watergate hearings. The testimony led to Richard Nixon resigning the following year. Captain scott joins us. She is a associate historian and author of the Book Congress in vietnam and watergate area. Catherine, thank you for joining us. Take us back to 1972, 1973. What was happening in washington and what led to the creation of these senate the committee in the senate . Guest it is important to understand the context of the special committee. 1972 was a president ial election year. Richard nixon was seeking reelection for another term. He was going to face as yet undetermined democratic opponent. Prior to june 17, 1972 the name watergate in washington dc was known primarily as the name of high end condo and Office Complex situated along the banks of the potomac rer. After the break and water june 17, 1972 became synonymous with the largest political scandal that had ever occurr
Welcome to the National Press club. I covered as a very young reporter, a baby good evening. Welcome to the National Press club. I covered watergate as a very young reporter, a baby reporter, they just let me come in diapers. I covered from the hearings to the trials. I am especially elated to be here this evening i went like to welcome cspan and the cspan audience. This is being filmed for cspans American History tv. Our program tonight marks the 50th anniversary of the saturday night massacre that ultimately led to president nixons resignation in the scandal. It was a significant event in the nations political history to say the least. The National Press club played an Important Role on it, special prosecutor cox, who i would later be lucky enough to become friends with held his News Conference here on the afternoon of october 20th, right in the clubs ballroom. It was at that Historic Press conference that he insisted that president nixon turn over the tapes. We will see a clip later
-led congress, and why it really matters for everything from health care to global and national security, to the balance in your 401k. plus, i will talk to yuri salk, the adviser to ukraine defense minister about a very important week for ukraine, and a new evidence that ending roe was not enough for the anti abortion lobby in this country. the war against reproductive rights rages on, and it s worse than you would think. i will call this week s meeting of the velshi banned book club comes together. it is a celebration of mother daughter love and it has been banned. i will talk to the author, graceland, about why the story is so important. ahead. velshi starts now. . good morning, i m ali velshi, it is saturday january 21st. it is two years of the day since president biden s presidential moderation. we begin with a dire warning to the present day, but to do so, let s go back in history to this famous exchange. little did i dream you could be so reckless and so cruel ask
sir? those famous lines ordered by the lawyer, joseph wells, on june 9th, 1954, effectively marked the end of mccarthy-ism, and the investigations that wisconsin senator joseph mccarthy was conducting as chair of the senate permit cup subcommittee on investigations, created initially to investigate government fraud and waste, but he quickly turned into a political pet project to investigate what mccarthy claimed was communist infiltration at all levels of the government. the origins of the mccarthy investigation could be traced back to the post world war i overmine committee, a subcommittee of the senate judiciary committee, and to the house special committee to investigate communist activities in the united states, aka, the fish committee, formed and chaired by new york representative hamilton fish. the fish committee walked into the famous house on american activities committee, formed in 1938, and chaired by texas representative merchandise. much like mccarthy, 12 years