of james, mccord. he is one of five persons surprised and arrested yesterday inside the headquarters of the democratic national committee in washington. mccord is a former cia employee. now he runs his own private security service. and guess what else he is? a consultant to president richard nixon s re-election campaign committee. nixon s watergate scandal began 50 years ago today. like trump, his presidency ended in crime and chaos, but there were major differences in the methods the two presidents used to cling to power. also tonight, the unholy alliance between ginni thomas and the people plotting to overturn the presidential election. a member of congress who is now calling for her husband, justice clarence thomas, to resign joins me. we begin tonight with june 17, 1972, the day five bungling burglars broke not offices of the democratic national committee located in the watergate complex in washington, d.c. two years later president nixon resigned. the 50th anniversar
of james, mccord. he is one of five persons surprised and arrested yesterday inside the headquarters of the democratic national committee in washington. mccord is a former cia employee. now he runs his own private security service. and guess what else he is? a consultant to president richard nixon s re-election campaign committee. nixon s watergate scandal began 50 years ago today. like trump, his presidency ended in crime and chaos, but there were major differences in the methods the two presidents used to cling to power. also tonight, the unholy alliance between ginni thomas and the people plotting to overturn the presidential election. a member of congress who is now calling for her husband, justice clarence thomas, to resign joins me. we begin tonight with june 17, 1972, the day five bungling burglars broke not offices of the democratic national committee located in the watergate complex in washington, d.c. two years later president nixon
media. we had a partisan judiciary committee staff. in the fifth column, i gave them the sword, and they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. the real story of the war nixon describes is one that few americans know. it s a story of a small group of men who turned impeachment into an act of patriotism. it all begins on june 17, 1972. five men were arrested early saturday while trying to install eves dropping equipment at the democratic national committee. which was someone breaking into the democrats campaign offices? i again proudly accept that nomination for president of the united states. well, richard nixon won the presidency in 1968 by promising to get america out of vietnam. all we are saying
history. put that in perspective for us in terms of this seriousness of the moment we find ourselves. well, the entire legitimacy and future of an unfolding presidency is at stake. and there are very few moments in our 240 years, the 240th anniversary of george washington taking the oath in noerk and then ultimately moving to philadelphia. john adams was the first president to live in the white house as they move south to the potomac. andrew johnson in the cat clissism of reconstruction was a moment where the ongoing existence of a presidency was in question. richard nixon over a 26-month period, however, the water donald trump gate break in was june 17, 1972. there was a tape that we didn t know about for another year and a half made on june 23 where president nixon tried to use the
historian and msnbc political analyst jon meachum. jon, it s great to have you here, thanks so much for your time. thanks. thank you. it s been a quiet week, i hope you can find something to talk about for the broadcast. we re going to struggle to fill the time here in this block. can you just from a historical perspective explain if we have ever come anywhere close to a week like this for an american president. well, it s extraordinary and there have been moments where enormous things have happened, clinton impeachment things unfolded. the real example here, i think, is watergate and one of the things to remember is that watergate unfolded over 26 months. the break in was on june 17, 1972, president nixon didn t resign until august 9th, 1974. we have this tendency in the popular mind to go back and think things were fairly neat