one of the many threads running through the tapestry of the hearings is the indifference, at best, to violence committed in his name and inclouding the now notoriou tweet about then vice president pence. do you remember seeing the tweet about the vice president did not have the courage to do what needed to be done? i do. hot was your reaction when you saw this tweet? as a staffer that works to always represent the administration to the best of my ability, and to showcase the good things that he had done for the country, i remember feeling frustrated, disappointed, and really it felt personal. i was really sad. as an american i was disgusted. it was unpatriotic. unamerican. we were watching the capitol building get defaced over a lie. with me now washington post associated editor, bob a woodwardand former white house nixon counsel, john dean. bob woodward, we should notice is more recently the co author of peril and buernstein of chasing history. and a new forw
blackmail. high crimes against the very structure of our constitutional state. the nixon team receives an overwhelming mandate from the american voters sweeping every state but one, massachusetts. as a result of the cover-up, richard nixon stayed in office a lot longer than he should have, but imagine if the american people had known in the summer of 1972 the extent to which richard nixon had participated in criminal enterprises. it s not just a desire for political power. it s a lust. i mean, that s what nixon said. i lust for power. the man in the middle in the watergate scandal. it s 34-year-old john wesley dean iii. i thought the cover-up was going to end after the election. i was wrong. i had no prior knowledge of the watergate break-in. it s going to get worse, much worse. seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged with the break-in and burglary of democratic national headquarters in the water building last june. the white ho
the similarities and the comparisons between trump and nixon and whether they are like and where they are not, but the truth is trump seems to take pride in these comparisons to nixon. just today he shared this letter from his pen pal back from the 80s, in which nixon predicted trump would one day win the presidency. why does trump continue to idolize a man who resigned in disgrace and is arguably one of the worst, if not the worst president in modern american politics? because donald trump idolizes outlaws. and we should never forget that. that s not just in america, that s around the globe. the people, the letters that he saves, the ones that he brags about, they re all outlaws and dictators. and so the idea of him living outside the bounds of what is a normal is where he has always lived and where he lives and now. and that is the comparison. i would make one last point though. i would be very interested to know if jack smith, if they
in these comparisons to nixon. today he shared this letter from his pen pal back from the 80s, in which nixon predicted trump would one day win the presidency. why does trump continue to idolize a man who resigned in disgrace and is arguably one of the worst, if not the worst president in modern american politics? because donald trump idolizes outlaws. and we should never forget that. that s not in america, that s around the globe. the people, the letters that he saves, the ones that he brags about, they re all outlaws and dictators. and so the idea of him living outside the bounds of what is a normal is where he has always lived and where he lives and now. and that is the comparison. i want to make one last point though. i would be very interested to know if jack smith, if they were not able to delete footage, if jack smith has any footage of people going near
all of this obstructive activity was around those lawyers. and so i think all of that in combination along with that reporting, i think it makes a very strong case. i actually think that jack smith, the mar-a-lago case really stands alone as the most straightforward easily prove-able case of all the cases that are arraigned against donald trump, in my opinion. charles, we may be discussing this among ourselves, the simulators and the comparisons about trump and nixon and whether they re like or not. but trump seems to take pride in these comparisons to nixon. today he shared this letter from his pen pal back from the 80s, they re like or not. but trump seems to take pride in these comparisons to nixon. today he shared this letter from his pen pal back from the 80s, in which nixon predicted trump would one day win the presidency. why does trump continue to idolize a man who resigned in disgrace and is arguably one of the worst, if not the worst president in modern american politics?