he is the only person to be secretary of state and world leader. he didn t seem to mind. his greatest concern was that the influence of the united states would collapse as a super power. he was concerned that the united states had to get out of vietnam, so he designed this structure with nixon, and it continues to influence us to this day, and as we are controversial with china, the foundation was begun with henry kissinger and richard nixon. he loved to be the limelight and on the world stage and other stages, too. he was perfectly adept at charming those who entinteracte with him. he was not a retiring professor. he was a professor who loved theater. lashing out, deflecting and denying. george santos is speaking on capitol hill as he is staring down the possibility of being expelled, and what is to happen in the house. and what the former president said that he was told and absolutely understood that failing to comply with the subpoena of the justice department would
books and other books about how henry kissinger basically wouldn t let the prime minister talk to a drunk richard nixon during the 1973 arab/israeli war and how from 73 until august of 74 you had nixon cabinet members doing everything they could to keep the world stable when richard nixon was not stable. that s exactly what happened here and if you look at it, milley was confronted with the practical problem. they had very sensitive intelligence that the chinese thought we were going to attack them. that is the most dangerous environment internationally, and so milley talked to his counterpart in china and we have the dialogue and, quite frankly,
president nixon should have fought all the way through it t was a different time back then. both president nixon had both houses against him. steve: it was bipartisan? well, not so much. really, some ofรง the democratic congressman, a little bit he woulder there back then, it was completely partisan on democrats back then. they drove it. they wanted to depose a powerful president who had a great re-election in 72. first republican landslide since the 1920s. they wanted to get back power. that s what they did. steve: do you think ed, almost all the democrats voted for inquiry, a lot of democrats won t vet for actually impeachment? they will not want to walk the plank. will not want to lose. president nixon had a terrible economy t fell off the cliff in november of 73. by august of 74 it hit a nadir.
i say that for two reasons. one in recent weeks, 1,000 former federal prosecutors, not ten, not 100, but a thousand have signed a document saying that the evidence of president trump s obstruction of justice us the in the mueller report senior not even a close case. it s overwhelming and i agree with that and i signed that document. number two, i think people have lost sight of the timeline here. the nixon impeachment started in october of 73, president nixon finally lost that in august of 74, ten months later. well, ten months from today would put us into april which is well past it the super tuesday of the presidential primaries in 2020. we probably would already know who the nominees are going to be or have a pretty good idea. and that s not the ends of it at that point, if the house voted to impeach, the house would then appoint six managers as prosecutors to go try the case in the senate.
finally lost that in august of 74, ten months later. well, ten months from today would put us into april which is well past it the super tuesday of the presidential primaries in 2020. we probably would already know who the nominees are going to be or have a pretty good idea. and that s not the ends of it at that point, if the house voted to impeach, the house would then appoint six managers as prosecutors to go try the case in the senate. that s a minimum of another six, eight months. and i can tell you as a former quite veteran prosecutor, a complicated investigation white collar with long lead time, grand jury investigations, takes 12 to 18 months. it doesn t make six months. so if the congress doesn t act at all now, this whole thing may be over before they can act. that s a pretty powerful motivator. i think what you just said, first of all you re breaking news here tonight as a