nixon, i obviously started thinking very seriously about impeachment and what it was all about. to a newly tenured law professor at harvard, impeachment looked, at the time, like a rather practical way to preserve the nation. by pulling down a crooked president, preventing him from wrecking our constitution, by ignoring the rule of law and using executive agencies like the fbi and the cia and private thugs to boot, in order to hurt his political opponent. that seemed like an astonishing threat to the rule of law and to our system of government. little did any of us imagine we would see much of same thing but with the hostile foreign power as the colluding entity in achieving presidential authority. i spent the four or five years after the watergate scandal studying the whole constitution and writing about it as a whole. looking at things that seemed rather marginal at the time except maybe for the impeachment clause, which had its day in the nixon era, the emoluments clause was interesting, never thought it would come in handy, you never know what will be relevant in the constitution

child valueless. stacie max do you remember under nixon president nixon sounds like a david bowie song do you remember your president nixon well remember he had the mad man policy he acted like a madman against the soviet union and other communist states of that time he believed the madman policy would scare them so much that you know this guy nixon might nuke you all and well kissinger used to go over to you know north korea and say you know we're or afraid of nixon he's so crazy we don't know what's going to happen i hope you guys come to a settlement you know say well about what. richard nixon. yes of course and i think they made a film about that and here's a tweet from zero heads craziness becoming strategic nato leaders in panic mode ahead of trump visit of course trump is over there visiting as we speak and if the people are well it's hard to tell who's crazy or trump or the protesters but nevertheless here's a quote we used to roll our eyes at trump's policies but now we're seeing the craziness becoming strategic its senior e.u. diplomat told reuters we now have to seek out all

results, the military results after the we get to the nixon administration, extradition, how we try to extradite ourselves from vietnam. let's start out where we left last time. we now have american ground troops in vietnam. william westmoreland is the commander on the scene. what is your problem if you are westmoreland? >> you are facing threats, two different threats. prof. faulker: what is the problem with that? >> you can't kill your force to be counting on uncertainty, weirdest -- we are just combining arms. nva, youo just against have to worry about threats in north vietnam growing. prof. faulker: if you are westmoreland and you have this hybrid threat, you have large-scale operations with the nva, the north vietnamese army. you also have the viet cong serving as the main force guys as well as military guerrillas. and you also have the political structure in the village. what are those guys doing? what is their effort focused on? go ahead. >> sir, what they're trying to do is the long-term fight. they are trying to change of political culture in the villages. so they are trying t

the test campaign. he talks about richard nixon's victory in the 1960 presidential election and how this resulted in a gradual removal of u.s. troops and a shift in responsibility to the south vietnamese government for fighting the war. this class is about one hour and 45 minutes. ok, heroes.r: class -- again, this is the second part of our vietnam class. last class, we talked about the escalation and how the u.s. got into the ground war and how both sides escalated the conflict. today we will focus on the test offensive, political results -- tet offensive, political results , and how we try to extradite ourselves from vietnam. let's start out where we left last time. we have american ground troops in vietnam. theiam westmoreland is commander on the scene. what is your problem with westmoreland? , twou are facing threats different threats. prof. faulker: what is the problem with that? --, they just do go were overwhelm you. are. faulker: if you westmoreland and you have this hybrid threat. you have large-scale operations with the north vietnamese army. viet cong serving military gor

richard nixon had to turn over the audio times he made from the oval office. the tapes that ultimately confirmed his case in the watergate case. that put the seal on it case. the supreme court. unanimously that not even the most powerful person in the country is above the law. days after the public learned what was on the tapes, richard nixon of course resigned in disgrace. u.s. v nixon. nixon has to comply with a court order to hand over the times. that's one of our nation's consensus cases. it is almost impossible to find someone who says, yeah, the times should have stayed secret. the president should have defied court order. presidents should be allowed to evade the justice system and get away with what he did. it is almost impossible to find someone who disagrees u.s. v nixon. here's someone, quote, maybe u.s. v nixon was wrongly decided. heresy though it to say so. nixon took u.s. v nixon took away the power of the president to control information in the executive branch by holding up the courts had power toer to president to disclose information in response to a subpo

russia against china of course an echo of what kissinger engineered during the nixon administration nixon went to china i still think that train has left the station a long time ago i think it was going to disagree with me a little bit well i agree with you because it was basically president obama who i think was the most disastrous president in u.s. history primarily because he just institutions you know he made people does believe in the elections for the first time in many years. to use foreign policy disaster the main foreign policy disaster was that he managed to make russia and china elyse you know when russia became basically for the united states because of the ukrainian adventure of mr obama and mrs new one trait. push and pull and they meet into china and what did obama do he visited all of those competitors philippians he reassured that will against china and the chinese gave us the gas prices that we have been asking from them for ten years maybe more so china became you know unwittingly probably russia's a way and it's not going to change in the near future because mr o

defensive position which does make his posture different but not his tactics. talked about trump and nixon. so this is the biggest witchhunt since watergate. so nixon was not the hero in that story. but same things that led trump down a bad path was paranoia. when he had his men start to break in with the pentagon papers he was upset about that and then they start to break in they break into watergate broke into watergate twice but how many people went along with it? and to see how they can inspire people to go along with things out of loyalty really made an impression on me. because we travel in the same circles but at one point they sent me to go do an interview with g gordon liddy so i just knew it was a talk radio host as a refresher he was one of the people who broke into watergate and suggested all kinds of crimes to the nixon team including killing the journalist and kidnapping people he is a felon but somehow years later he is now like a conservative hero based on a little journalist for an interview to go do interviews with. i was ignorant and i absolutely admit that. >> but now t

nixon library foundation they not only are a great service and source for all of us here in orange county, but they do a wonderful job promoting the legacy of the 37th president. please join me in getting a round of applause. [applause] here we are 2018 and it is the 50th anniversary of the 1968 presidential campaign and that was a very important year for me for a lot of reasons, one of them is because it generated my interest in what extent government and got me started on the path i took. i started collecting campaign buttons that here in 50 years later i'm still collecting them. i don't know if you have a chance that i've take taken up t here with a lot of campaign memorabilia from 1968 campaign so if you haven't had a chance to see them i hope that you will take a look. when you walked into night, they were passing out campaign buttons to you. they have a picture of president nixon says nixon is the one. these are the original ones for the campaign i got a big bag of about 3 pounds of them today and one of them said to me where did you get all the campaign buttons and i said wh

as a container that the treaty signed by mr. nixon, i happen to value mr. nixon as a president and worked for him in the white house, i worked for mr. johnson, mix son and ford in the -- nixon and ford in the white house. in a summit in 1972, nixon signed three treaties. the first was to be a star treaty which basically froze some numbers but didn't make meal reductions the second treaty was the anti bo listic missile treaty. the first meshes i met were bombing the hell out of my neighborhood because i was a british child hostage in germany. it came to me, the next americans i met including my own father who i scaped and came back as an american soldier and deliberating, that would have to be very, very much aware of preventing them from using it and the military and they're cheating. the russians cheated on almost everything they did. certainly in arms control. when we reexamined in the springal 81 and 2 and through 82, what to do with a russian asymmetric challenge. look at the chart on the wall there. it presented 25 years where the russians. it violated the human rights and eve

nixon had to turn over the audio tapes he made in the oval office that confirmed nixon's role in the watergate cover up. that put a clear sealing on the power of the presidency. the supreme court said unanim s unanimously that not even the most powerful person in the country is above the law. just days after the public learned what was on those take place, he resigned the presidency in disgrace. nixon has to comply with a court order to hand over the tapes. that is one of the nation's consensus cases. it is almost impossible to find somebody who thinks the tapes should stay secret and the president should be allowed to evade the justice system and get away with it. it's almost impossible to find someone who disagrees with u.s. v nixon. here's someone. herressy though it is to say tow. u.s. v nixon took away the power of the president to control information in the executive branch by holding that the courts had power to disclose the information sought by a subordinate branch official. maybe the tension of the time led to an erroneous decision. that's a transcript from 1999. a transcri

around down the child i guess. stacie max do you remember under nixon president nixon sounds like a david bowie song do you remember your president nixon well remember he had the mad man policy he acted like a madman against the soviet union and other communist states of that time he believed the madman policy would scare them so much that you know this guy nixon might nuke you all and well kissinger used to go over to you know north korea and say you know we're or afraid of nixon he's so crazy we don't know what's going to happen i hope you guys come to us settle this you know so you know about. richard nixon. yes of course and i think they made a film about that and here's a tweet from zero heads craziness becoming strategic nato leaders in panic mode ahead of trump visit of course trump is over there visiting as we speak and the people are well it's hard to tell who's crazy or trump or the protesters but nevertheless here's a quote we used to roll our eyes at trump's policies but now we are seeing the craziness becoming strategic its senior e.u. diplomat told reuters we now have

clinton's i did not have sexual relations and of course richard m. nixon snow the croke handling of the watergate scandal and its fall out the impeachment process is found in article two section four of the u.s. constitution and according to history dot com the process includes the filing of formal charges with which at the federal level is performed by the u.s. house of representatives and the resulting trial which is going got to conducted by the u.s. senate during which the chief of chief justice of the u.s. supreme court acts as judge since the first accusations of alleged russian interference in twenty so in the twenty sixteen u.s. election in favor of donald trump there have been calls from the neo liberal left and the russian or russia hawks on the right for the impeachment of president trump especially after his firing of former f.b.i. director james comey but one prominent legal voice has spoken out against these calls for him cheech men famed lawyer and harvard law professor alan dershowitz and his latest book the case against impeaching trump dershowitz uses his knowledge of

of impeachment. i noticed that article i, the obstruction article for nixon really draws heavily on his public statements and not so much his private statements or the tapes. they used the tape after they had written a report after they said this kind of confirms what we already figured out. >> in fairness to the president here, their argument is, how can it be criminal intent if he's just broadcasting it to the world? how can he think he's doing something wrong if he is telling everyone in a tweet? you can be a brazen criminal, that's the response, but that is a legitimate point, that his defenders say. >> the team is dismissing this argument the president is within his rights to defend himself on social media. >> they're saying he can use social media, rudy guiliani is making the case jeffrey is talking about. if he was trying to obstruct justice, why would he do it in plain view. you can look at some of these tweets and say this is kind of witness tampering. i went back and looked at the 40 plus questions that teemu ler gave to trump's attorneys months ago saying, these are some

richard nixon with those words when he was caught up in a scandal of his own. here is nixon discussing the idea with his henchman chuck colson. >> i think it would be helpful if they came out. >> well trump's tweet today suggested the democrats will benefit from russia's interference. just last week putin admitted that he wanted trump, a republican to win in 2016. >> did you want president trump to win the election and did you direct any officials to help him do that? >> translator: yes i did because he talked about bringing the relationship back to normal. >> this counts as political retribution who criticized his behavior towards russia. resembles the behavior of an autocrat. >> i can't even believe that somebody at the white house thought up something like this. when you are going to start taking ret trribution against people who are your political. you just don't do that and i can't believe they even allowed it to be aired. to be honest, it is a banana republic kind of thing. >> even the "wall street journal" called it the dumbest. you know, this idea of trying to blame the democra

china of course an echo of what kissinger engineered during the nixon administration nixon went to china i still think that train has left the station a long time ago i think it was going to disagree with me a little bit well i agree with you because it was basically president obama who i think was the most disastrous president in u.s. history primarily because he just showed institutions you know he made people does believe in the elections for the first time in many years. his foreign policy disaster the main foreign policy disaster was that he managed to make russia and china elyse you know when russia became basically for the united states because of the ukrainian adventure of mr obama and mrs no one trait. putin plan to meet and to china and what did obama do he visited all of those competitors philippians he reassured that will against china and the chinese gave us the gas prices that we have been asking from them for ten years maybe more so china became you know unwittingly probably russia's a way and it's not going to change in the near future because mr obama may have may

make his tactics different. >> host: talk about trump and nixon. >> guest: i love this chapter, thank you. since the whole russian investigation started people brought up watergate which are comparisons there. then he brought it up. >> guest: which is crazy. they say this is the biggest which have since watergate. unlike, there was not a a witcn watergate. it was the president. nixon was not the hero in that story. >> host: right. >> guest: but what is fascinating is the same things that of the trump done a bad path led nixon down the bad path, and that is hostility towards the press and paranoia about government leaks. watergate started when nixon had his men start breaking in to offices to find it was leaking the pentagon papers. that wasn't even on his watch but he was upset about it. once they preached that, they started breaking, they broke into watergate and i was in the third breaking because the broken twice. they got away with it, but once faceting is not how many people went along with it. the similarities between nixon and trump and how they can't can inspire people

a little bit by the moves of richard nixon in going to china in 1969, and kissinger. then there was when i got more involved and got involved with all these fine people who have done so much over the years to keep the american people educated and able to understand and keep the press honest, regarding what is really going on with strategic nuclear forces in the various countries, including our own. 1981 is the fine period beginning when reagan became president. brought his personal convictions and principles to the nuclear strategic forces and arms control. and used his political skills into the national security community that had begun to some degree, under nixon and ford. and it must be noted under nixon and ford, there were strong efforts in the mid 70s, this is a 1978 report, which i was the editor and coauthor of, which began to take a look at how weak we were. the early reports that we wrote, i was in the secretary office in '72 to '77, when he changed the strategic integrated operations plan, we write the nuclear strike plan of the united states. i was part of that. it was n

, the obstruction article for nixon really draws heavily on his statements, and not so much his private statement or the tapes. they used the tape after they'd written the report to say this just confirms what we'd already written about. >> in fairness to the president their argument is how can it be criminal intent if he just broadcasting it to the world? you can just be a brazen criminal. that's the response. but that is legitimate point. >> and glarria, the president's team is dismissing this that the president is within his rights to defend himself using social media. >> look, they're saying he can use his social media. rudy giuliani is making the case jeffrey's talking about which is if he's trying to obstruct justice why would he do it in plain view? but you can look at some of these tweets and you can say this is kind of witness tampering. and i went back and looked at the 40 plus questions team mueller gave to trump's attorneys months ago saying these are some of the things we'd be interested in. and one of them was, for example, what was the purpose of your may 12, 2017

former member of congress who voted to impreach president nixon during water gate. also with us is steven benhak. he was on ken star's team during the investigation into president clinton. he has worked previously with kavanaugh in the u.s. office of independent counsel. welcome to both of you. thank you for being here. liz, i want to go back to water gate. there were a number of supreme court justices who at the time had been appointed by richard nixon. but because they were appointed prior to nixon allegedly having committed any crimes or having been investigated, they didn't recuse themselves. only one did. william rehnquist on the basis he had worked in the nixon administration. at the time rehnquist saw fit because he had tied to the administration to step out. nobody has stepped out because the president is under investigation. >> no. and i think the remarkable thing about the supreme court decision in water gate was it was a unanimous opinion from people appointed by republicans as well as democrats. people who had been appointed by richard nixon. they decided that the rule

. nixon saying nixon is the one. these are original campaign buttons from the 1968 campaign. i have a bag of 3 pounds of them today so they could pass them out to all of you. when i was a kid i would plot out where all the headquarters were, to drive me around, tenure mcavoy, go into all the courtesans ask. and told me help yourself. and the 3 pound bag of them and she said wow, that is a lot of campaign buttons. looks like the entire supply, i think it was. she said that is so sweet of richard nixon's campaign records to give a boy all the campaign buttons. i didn't say they gave them to them but the statute of limitations has passed. if you didn't get one please do. we in the law are associated with that. it is appropriate to bring a gavel to this meeting to order. this is a special gavel from my collection. this is a gavel used by a member of the house of representatives and the majority leader, the speaker of the house to preside over the iconic 1968 democratic national convention, this was the gavel used, banged down by hubert humphrey who challenged for the presidency. you can't

article reveals an instance in which kavanagh said u.s. versus nixon may have been wrongly decided. you'll remember that decision led the supreme court to order president nixon to hand over tape recordings to a federal court. and ever since it has been referenced as one of the major cases that limits executive power. kavanagh's views on executive privilege are being carefully looked at as he makes his way through the confirmation process. joining me mao to talk about there and everything else that went on this past week, democratic senator from connecticut and member of the judiciary committee, senator richard blumenthal. senator, thank you so much for being with us tonight. i want to start right there with this revelation from these documents that the judiciary committee has found about kavanagh's comments on the u.s. versus nixon case. do you think that should be applicable in his confirmation hearing? >> it is of profound importance to these confirmation hearings. the reason is very simply that u.s. versus nixon not only stands for the basic principle that the president must pro

, i guess, nixon in 1971, richard m. nixon in 1971, took us off the gold standard. what that did is it opened up the whole world to take over our industries because at that time, the second ranked -- we were stronger than the second ranked economy by 18 times. when the press confronted nixon about that item, he just mentioned we're going to have a lot more customers. yeah. that's true. but all our jobs disappeared because it became more of empire when the pirate ships landed in this hemisphere, which was america, and the people that were here were consequently americans and they were called indians, that's called empire when you take over something. what they've done is take over -- the republicans have taken over the labor force of the whole world and the consequence is that we -- this new president has to deal with russia to see -- scratch his head and find out what he can do about it. >> thanks for calling. >> you know, i think that one of the things that your last caller brings up is really important, is what age are we in? and how does america continue to innovate and continue

convict him which would be -- only alive in a nixon type situation where the president is standing with the public has so degraded that members of his own party, both feel compelled and feel politically free to go against him and convict him. so in that circumstance it would be very. plus plausible the supreme court -- >> the supreme court would side with congress and wouldn't even have to reach the merits. they could say dis -- >> they might. >> that congress decided -- this is the john roberts court. roberts didn't want to overturn obamacare because he feared the political blowback on the court. the idea he would step into the 2010 then the -- >> lease not stepping inch he is presiding at the time remember that to impeach and remove a president, only a president, the chief justice presides. he is not an empty suit. not just an empty robe. he is going to be sitting there making rulings and if i were the president's lawyer -- not going to be the president's lawyer but if i were the first motion i would make is, mr. chief justice, you are the presiding judge here. this impeachment bill d

richard nixon did surely he would have been impeached he paid her money he told his horn is the lie of the f.b.i. destroyed evidence he committed crimes while in office and donald trump if there's evidence that he committed crimes of course would be circular to impeachment my argument is you need to commit a crime to be impeached is not good enough to say he's a bad president or we don't want this policies or he's done terrible things you have to find a specific on the constitution says it has to be the bribery treason or other high crimes and missed in the soul when i haven't seen it bill clinton was wrongly impeached i think it was he did according to the allegations commit a crime it wasn't a high crime you know it was covering up for a sordid affair that's not what hamilton and madison basically wrote the impeachment provisions of the constitution had in mind they had minor crimes that affect the national security crimes like richard nixon's crimes covering up a burglary to help them get elected that kind of thing those are the kinds of crimes we had in mind or real obstruction of

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rosenstein, raether that that would nixonize him -- trump? >> yes. to the leadership in the republican party, i believe that is their own red line because that's also where the public is on this. and the polling, again, reflects that. but in the house justice committee, they are his fixers in congress. that is about 20 michael cohens sitting there, trying to fix this investigation in the president's favor. >> it must be great sitting next to them. by the way, i thought it was interesting they separate the staffs, the minority and majority staffs by some kind of partition. do you think that was part of the effort so they could go about their business of saving this president's neck without your committee and staff people getting involved? >> yes. they have taken away the bipartisan comedy that we've had in previous congresses solely to protect the president, not to protect the democracy or the ballot box in our future elections. i think they're going to pay a price in november. people want someone to push the big red button that stops the wrecking ball that's donald trump. >> i mention

follower of u.s. vs. nixon, ruled 8-0, a president doesn't have an automatic right under executive privilege to defy a subpoena from a prosecutor. he does not believe the president is immune or should be immune. >> does he think trump has the the right to refuse to answer robert mueller's questions? >> he hasn't weighed in on that. the law in the d.c. circuit is pretty clear. first of all, the law is clear a president can be subpoenaed. no question. jefferson was subpoenaed in 1807. the real question is once a president is subpoenaed, what do you need to do to overcome executive privilege? and even u.s. vs. nixon said, you have got to make a pretty strong showing. you got to remember, leon juwarski was in an excellent possession to make a strong showing that the tapes had to be, the tapes had to be turned over. there is a case, don, from 1997, the d.c. circuit, the law in d.c. now which says, in order to overcome a valid claim of executive privilege, a special counsel has the to show that the evidence he seeks is important and that essentially he can't get it from anybody else. >>

discussing payment to mcdougal." there are tapes! at this point, nixon is going to rise from dead and say, "i'm suing you for copyright infringement." ( laughter ) ( mocking nixon ) >> jon: that's a good nixon. >> stephen: a little wet than i thought it would be. trump is very upset, reportedly saying, "i can't believe michael would do this with me." no sir, that's believable. what i can't believe is that karen mcdougal would do that with you. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) this weekend, trump defended himself on twitter, "inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer's office-- early in the morning-- almost unheard of. even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client-- totally unheard of and perhaps illegal. the good news is that your favorite president did nothing wrong!" ( audience reacts ) ( booing ) sir, i know grover cleveland did nothing wrong. i'm a bit of a cleve-head. yeah. only two-term non-consecutive president. let's get back to my least favorite president. according to stormy daniels' lawyer and future stanley tucci role, michael avenatti

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statute you cannot use obstruction of justice like an accordion to target people nixon was impeached i was on the national board of the aclu they were all in favor of impeaching esop that they did not let the special prosecutor get away with anything today it has made $130 million in contributions as a result of trump being elected. they've traded civil liberties in favor of money to support certain basic left-wing and ideological position they abandon free speech on campus announced that a new priority the aclu has lost its way one of the reasons i say what i am saying and losing friends with family members is i am the only civil libertarian in the country prepared to make these arguments. shame on the rest of the civil liberties union 17. [applause] if these were made against hillary clinton about her e-mails she obstructed justice. every civil libertarian would say you cannot expand the statutes. one test in my life called the shoe on the other foot test asked yourself if the shoe was on the other foot where would you be? i honestly believe that almost everybody who was arguing fo

echo of what kissinger engineered during the nixon administration nixon went to china i still think that train has left the station a long time ago i think it was going to disagree with me a little bit well i agree with you because it was basically president obama who i think was the most disastrous president in u.s. history primarily because he just rode institutions you know he made people does believe in the elections for the first time in many years but his foreign policy disaster the main foreign policy disaster was that he managed to make russia and china elyse you know when russia became basically for the united states because of the ukrainian adventure of mr obama and mrs no one trait. putin plan to meet and to china and what did obama do he was it took all of those competitors philippians he reassured that will against china and the chinese gave us the gas prices that we have been asking from them for ten years maybe more so china became you know unwittingly probably russia's their way and it's not going to change in the near future because mr obama may have made a change b

votes to recommend president nixon's impeachment for obstruction of justice." today, 1974. he included the next day's "new york times" front page treatment. jon, we don't have to draw any parallels, but the question to you is how much more real did things get this week? >> then or now or both? >> today in current time. >> like beschloss, who is the gibbon of twitter, sometimes july '74 seems better. i think it got realer, to use a very elegant literary term. what we forget sometimes in the maelstrom of what we do, in the maelstrom of your broadcast and just the tsunami of information is that these things do take a good bit of time. from june 17th, 1972 until august 9th, 1974 was 27 months. joe mccarthy rose and fell from lincoln's birthday in wheeling, west virginia in 1950 until late 1954. legal time does not work along the same geological spectrum as political time. political time wants action immediately. we want a decision. we want to finish a news cycle. legal time takes longer. and i think given, you know -- i don't know about you, but if i found out that my lawyer had been tapin

] it wasn't a witch in watergate committee was the president. nixon wasn't a hero in that story. but what is fascinating to me is the same person that put him down a bad path is the same that led nixon and his hostility towards the press into paranoia. they have been start breaking into offices to find who was leaking the pentagon papers. once the bridge that they'd start breaking into poverty and that was the third one. it's how they inspire people to go a long with things out of loyalty and it really made an impression on me in part because we traveled in some of the same circles but when i worked on a publication called human event at one point they sent me to an interview that i knew as a talk radio host at the time. he's one of the people who broke into watergate and suggested all kinds of crimes including killing a journalist, breaking and commit kidnapping people, he is a felon but somehow years later he's like a conservative hero that based on journalists in capitol hill to do interviews with which is just a i was ignorant i fully admit that but now realizing -- he will go do

presidential authority suggesting that the ruling by president nixon to turn over the watergate tapes may have been wrongly decided. new jersey democrat bob menendez this morning on "fox news sunday." >> a judge who's written in fact are the is above the law. he can decide what laws are constitutional, which i believe was reserved for the supreme court under government and therefore not a bailout if in fact he believes is unconstitutional. he believes the president cannot be investigated while in office. >> justin walker is a law professor at the university of louisville. secret for kennedy and judge kavanaugh. great to see you again. one item that is generating some buzz and since the graphics team is working overtime let's move on. to control information in the executive branch by holding they had power and jurisdictions over the president would disclose information in a response to a subpoena sought by a subordinate executive branch official. i was a huge step with implications that people do not appreciate sufficiently. do expect that to be a big issue in judge kavanaugh's hearing

as a campaigner that treaties signed by mr. nixon, and i happen to value mr. and to and mr.resident -- i worked for johnson, mr. nixon and jerry ford in the white house. i have been there longer than anybody else in this country. i think bob cates comes next. 1972, nixont in signed three treaties. treaty,t was the start which basically froze some numbers for demo make real reductions. it was not effective beyond national technical means. that means no on-site inspections. the second treaty was the anti-ballistic missile treaty, which i already than opposed strongly on moral grounds because it was weighted to the doctorate of visual assured destruction -- wedded to the doctrine of mutually assured destruction. experiencing it in the second world war in europe for the first americans a network -- out the hell at a of my never have because i was a british child in germany. when the nexte americans i met included my own father who had escaped and came back as an american soldier killing and liberating his former countrymen. aware ofo be very much preventing totalitarians by using mental

final sentence is, if cohen is seen as akin to john dean and president nixon, he will by john dean light. why is that? why do you think he is not as potentially valuable, i guess, to those opposing the president if he flips? >> in writing the article i found out a lot of people don't remember who john dean was. absolutely. counsel to president nixon, the center of the watergate scandal and maybe the most important witness that led ultimately to the impeachment of the president. i call cohen john dean light because even if cohen has some taped conversations with the president, john dean had the benefit of every conversation that happened in the oval office pretty much was on tape. john dean's evidence related to nixon as president. most of cohen's tapes probably relate to president trump before he was inaugurated. there may be -- even if there was evidence of a crime or embarrassing stuff on the president, i don't think he is going to get impeached for it. >> i will say ""vanity faiva "v reporting michael cohen said if they think the efforts to discredit me aren't known to me, this

house slamming liberal cynthia nixon for calling ice a terrorist organization, carley shimkus is here with reaction online up next . ooh ohh here we go, here we go. you got cut off there, what were you saying? oooo. oh no no. maybe that geico has been proudly serving the military for over 75 years? is that what you wanted to say? mhmmm. i have to say, you seemed a lot chattier on tv. geico. proudly serving the military for over 75 years. you ok back there, buddy? are you ready to take your then you need xfinity xfi.? a more powerful way to stay connected. it gives you super fast speeds for all your devices, provides the most wifi coverage for your home, and lets you control your network with the xfi app. it's the ultimate wifi experience. xfinity xfi, simple, easy, awesome. heather: welcome back, president trump nominating bret can -- kavanaugh ending day's game, carley shimkus, fox news headlines 24/7, siriusxm 115, people have been trying to ges it for about a week or so n. carley: absolutely right. two weeks i would say. as you know, heather democrats were vowing to fight the supre

remember that nixon tried to give a big pile of transcripts. if you give the tape out, it seems like you are closer to the truth. your thoughts. >> without a doubt. that is not to say you can't doctor audio. >> intelligible if you don't like a line or two. was it edited. >> i can't speak to that. if you are trying to project confidence, releasing a tape is stronger than releasing transcript. needing to slow things down, look at a transcript, it doesn't look right. >> what do you think that most americans would think when they hear the president is talking to his fixer lawyer in this conversation. comfort with the conversation. >> what is striking is how cavalier the president's tone is in his audio. he talks about paying off a tabloid company to cover up a story related to his alleged affair to a playmate. >> you said alleged. he knows it happens apparently. >> talks about it n as an average day to donald trump. that is what makes the audio so striking and significant. it speaks to the way trump does business. imagine if president obama had something like this, it would have been impeach