abuses are purged from our political processes. in the years to come. long after i have left this office. i looked at my own calendar this morning as i was working on this speech. it showed exactly 1,361 days remaining in my term. i want these to be the best days in america s history. god bless america. god bless each and every one of you. central to the problems faced by president nixon is the water gate tapes and tangled history. fred graham traces that story. it all began suddenly when an obscure former white house official appeared as a surprise witness before the senate watergate committee. are you aware of the installation of listening devices in the oval office of the president? i was aware of listening devices. yes, sir. when i got the confirmation there was a taping system, i was elated. they would tell much more than i could even remember about what happened in those conversations. my mind is not a tape recorder. it does recall impressions of conversat
A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Collusion, wikileaks collaboration, or any other impropriety related to the 2016 election, which i thought was the subject of this probe. I understand she appeared voluntarily. I am highly confident she will testify truthfully if called upon to do so. Davis once ran a highend Prostitution Ring and went to jail in the scandal surrounding then democratic governor eliot spitzer. The remorse i feel will always be with me. Reporter she has worked with stone over the years. And in late 2016, she joined his payroll to help him with clerical tasks. Muellers team has been looking into possible contact between stone and wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, as well as stones contact with russia during the 2016 campaign. Stone admitted to trading direct twitter messages with guccifer 2. 0, which is now known to be an online persona for russian intelligence officers. But stone says the messages were innocuous. I certainly acknowledg
challenging his presidential authority. i think everybody had questions, where is this going go? is the rule of law under serious attack? are we going to get justice here? is nixon going to get away with this? what do you do with a president who insists on firing somebody. robert mueller has been investigating whether trump colluded with russia. he criticized it as a witch hunt. it s a dangerous thing. when you are able as the president of the united states to get rid of those people that are investigating you. simply because they re not on your agenda. president trump could instruct the attorney general to fire mueller. because of his role in the campaign, sessions recused himself from the russia investigation. so if sessions is forced out, trump could appoint an attorney general who would fire mueller. when you asked what the importance of the saturday night massacre was, i think sessions who whatever you think about the way he led the justice dmt.
here, specifically. and i m curious, are these would you call this one charge or essentially ten different charges? firing comey, because of the russia probe. suggesting to comey to drop the flynn probe, ordering the white house counsel to try to fire mueller. calling for the attorney general to fire mueller. dangling pardons for russian witnesses. revoking clearances of potential witnesses. threatening to publish tapes of a mueller witness. are those is that one charge or are those separate charges? well, of course, i would have to see the specific evidence, but it sounds a lot to me like it could be a case made up of separate counts of obstruction, if, in fact, there was enough evidence to prove obstruction on each of those counts. howard fineman, here s what i challenged somebody today. i said, give me the elevator pitch for why you should impeach the president. if you believe there s all of these, you have this list, can you give the elevator pitch? can you do it in 15 seco
guy who served time, i seem to recall, through watergate. now he is a contributor to cnn, msnbc, what does he say? it is like the president is plotting to kill somebody, a murder. so he gets rid of sessions, what, so what happens? he has an acting attorney general, then i hear these so-called experts, he can t do that, there is a rule ofr succession of course he can do that. moreover, they say it is like the saturday night massacre how? i did he fire mueller? did he order the attorney general to fire mueller? did he order the deputy attorney general to fire mueller? he hasn t ordered anyone to do anything to mueller, mueller is still roaming the countryside looking for people to prosecute and challenge and so forth and so on. nothing has happened. a but chuck schumer is there, i think we have a constitutional crisis. let me tell you something, this is an important point. i have said that the appointment of mueller is unconstitutional and violates the appointment