accelerated psych and we re under all these pressures to come up with something new, and there s still a lag. there s still things sinking in outside in the real world. i always remember that whether i m home sick or get to sneak away. so shout-out to reality. is that what it is? yeah, because this is only a version of it in a box. but great to have you back, nicole. thank you very much. absolutely. nice to catch up with nicole. as she mentioned, sometimes inside the news it does seem like it s going really fast. well, that s the actual case today. so welcome to the beat. begins the congress building on the case that got a trump white house aide indicted friday. that s the news nicole was just referring to a liptically. there s also going to be the first primetime hearings andty january 6th this week, and they say there s sign of damning new evidence. the select committee has found evidence about a lot more than incitement here, and we are going to be laying out
Special counsel . Eventually can he fire everyone . I mean, its going to be fascinating tomorrow. Were going to hear every one of those questions. What we dont know is how many answers were going to hear. Yeah. That were not sure of. Yeah. This question of Executive Privilege and what theyre going the call Executive Privilege and such a i mean thats a difficult legal theory anyway. Thats not a cut and dried thing even in the best of circumstances, i think were going to get into Appeals Court territory pretty quickly tomorrow. And i have a feeling that Jeff Sessions isnt going to rely on the feelings pleading that we heard last week from dan coats and the director of nsa. It is my feeling that i shouldnt talk about this. I have discomfort. Yeah. Yes. I have a gavel. We will seattle. Thank you, rachel. Thanks. When president nixon fired the special prosecutor investigating him, he did it on a friday night and shocked
headline writers who immediately called it the Saturday Night Massacre.
Pictures. Afraid he will catch me picking my nose. Cant believe that guy was president of the United States. Because he is branded as a crook. Its important to remember the wrong approach that Executive Power that led nixon to those crimes. You want a level, dont you . Good evening. This is the 37th time i have spoken to from you this office. So many decisions have been made that shape the history of our nation. Need more . There was good in him. He had been a good vicepresident. But he was fatally flawed and a fatally flawed president. Nixon, he had been a hero to millions of americans. Here is a guy who received more votes than anybody else in the history of this country. The Richard Nixon they supported through the years was not the Richard Nixon that they thought
they knew. Every generation has to lose their virginity. It was just the day that my generation did. To think that were the only generation that had that experience is probably the mistake that a lot of generations make. H
halderman, nixon said to halderman, just tell the grand jury, just say you can t remember. just say you can t. just say corrupt. that s a formula of criminal presidents. this is huge and it s going to require a big investigation and a careful investigation, a thoughtful investigation. because this is an effort that s ongoing to overthrow our democracy. and it s also a criminal effort in my humble opinion. and it s an effort that threatens us deeply. and so, when we say, also, about the witnesses we re going to look at, if you go back to watergate, the person who really broke that case open was an obscure government official, no big name, no big title, a guy named alexander butterfield, who knew where the tape recordings were and that there was a tape recording system. this has to be a careful and methodical investigation. i m sorry. sorry, liz, go ahead.
watergate begins to monopolize more and more of their time. we know that because nixon had a secret tape recording system in the oval office. what s the dope on the watergate incident? there s nothing new. because i think the country doesn t give much of a [ bleep ] about it. and most people around the country think that this is routine, everybody s trying to bug everybody else. it s politics. the great thing about this is it is so totally [ bleep ] up and so badly done that nobody believes that we could have done it. that s right. it s just beyond comprehension. well, it sounds like a comic opera. it would make a funny [ bleep ] damn movie. it really is like a comic opera. it would make one hell of a movie. but not very funny. haldeman and ehrlichman knew what they had to do, cover all the tracks leading to the white house. they started by enlisting another of the president s men, legal adviser john dean, to monitor day-to-day changes.