Fascist dictatorship, and so bill barr, after, ive got to say, humiliating himself for several years, bill barr decides, this is where i get off. This is enough. This is my line. I believe in an imperial presidency, but i dont believe in a fascist presidency. Thats what donald trump was asking him to do. Asking him to steal an election. Asking him to arrest his political opponents. Asking him to do the sort of things, again, that fascist dictators do. He wouldnt do it. Now, trump has turned on him. As far as fani willis goes and jack smith and everything else, again, we can point you back to it and play it for you again, what we were saying in 2019. If donald trump lost in 2020, he would run again, and hed run again simply to avoid all the crimes he was committing. Im not good at math, but that was four years ago. Four years ago, we were saying he will run again so he can try to avoid jail. Going to jail. Here we are. I must say, a lot of people were saying that, so its hard to believe
Ago, is he talks about the constitution still work. here, the people rule. you know, the system worked at that time. yeah. the most remarkable thing about the resignation of richard nixon is that he was getting pressure from his party to resign the office. just before his resignation on august 8th, when he announced to the american people that he would not stay in the office, he was visited by three republicans, republican leaders. the republican leader of the house, john rhodes, the republican leader of the senate, hue scott, and conservative stalwart barry goldwater. they urged nixon in the face of all of the evidence that was mounting around watergate, to resign from the presidency. nixon did that for the good of the country. it hurt nixon for sure, but he did it for the good of the country. and you saw republicans putting country above party. so it was a very different time
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There is nostalgia about water gate. there is a lot of great drama that hue scott and berry gold water and john roads went to the white house and told nixon he had to go. that was august 6th, i think. august 5th. it was very late empty game. just four or five days ago leading into the last act here. and we have to remember republicans supported nixon at a pretty high proportion, very late in the game and so let s not sentimentalize the past. it was a tough time and i think we were very lucky frankly in having president ford be the person who came in to kind of restore order. seems to me that to go to the impeachment question right now, you know, i can t think of many examples where congressional courage has risen the closer we get to an election so i m not
Asked you to come up with any echoes of this day 45 years ago, fast forward to today are there any? well, you have an embattled president and a time in which people believe that we are engaged in triablely driven politically warfare. there is a lot of thgreat drama that hue scott and berry gold water and john roads went to the white house and told nixon he had to go. that was august 6th, i think. august 5th. it was very late empty game. just four or five days ago leading into the last act here. and we have to remember republicans supported nixon at a pretty high proportion, very late in the game and so let s not sentimentalize the past. it was a tough time and i think