i want to thank general dunford, general millie, general neller, admiral richardson, general gold fine, general engle, and vice admiral ray. thank you all for your leadership. you are magnificent. we appreciate it very much. thank you. thank you. [ applause ] a very special thank you to the commanding general of the 10th mountain definition, major general walt piyat. what a special man. walt, i want to thank you. where is walt? where is walt? walt, thank you very much. thank you. thank you. [ applause ] walt is back on american soil after deployment in iraq. and i just want to welcome you home. you have tremendous respect. they have great, great admiration and respect for you, walt. thank you very much. i also just had the chance to meet division command sergeant major jason roork along with 10th mountain division soldier of the year, michael lima. where is michael? where is michael? soldier of the year. michael. [ applause ] pretty good. and that soldier of the year, michael, out of how many? how many? that's a lot of soldiers. 18,000? do you want to work for me? thank you michael. gr

, who was the attorney general at that time, to fire the special prosecutor, archibald cox, richardson stood up to nixon and said, no, i'm not going to do it. so nxixon fired him. ru ruckleshouse was the next person in line and went 2to the third person in line, mr. bork, who issued the order. it's unusual to have this kind of fight between the attorney general and president of the united states. >> everyone, stay with me. there's much more to discuss. >>> more breaking news, the "the wall street journal" reporting a longtime crony of president trump has been granted immunity in the case. david pecker, head of the publishing company that owns the national enquirer the latest to make a deal with the feds. >>> also president trump making the case against his own impeachment. warn whing what would happen toe financial markets and personal finances if he were to be forced out. we'll discuss. now t-mobile has unlimited for the rest of us. unlimited ways to be you. unlimited ways share with others. unlimited ways to live for the moment. all for as low as 30 bucks a line. unlimited for you. f

the attorney general elliott richardson refused and resigned. the president then ordered the assistant attorney general to fire the special prosecutor. he refused. the president immediately fired him. so solicitor general robert bork was quickly named acting attorney general. he was ordered the fire special prosecutor cox. he did. >> we discussed your reporting then and your anchoring then before. you said it is surreal. but now we're living through this. it is an indication that yeah, things can always get worse. we're in a kind of political theater of the absurd now. we expect things on get worse before they get better. >> i'm sorry you played that clip. i had more hair. >> i was going to say, who was the guy all that hair? >> and a better color. [ laughter ] >> it's always pleasure. >> look at that hair. do you see that? you haven't changed a bit. the hair is a little grayer. you had bigger side burns. >> welcome back. belly fat: the chili pepper sweat-out. not cool. freezing away fat cells with coolsculpting? now that's cool! coolsculpting s

right at the height of watergate and richardson to get the seat had to promise to appoint a special prosecutor, that's when things started to go amiss for him. the senate, while it's a minority that is pushing for more oversight of nixon, they can still have an impact on the hearings and still extract more from a nominee than you might think. >> you meant more oversight of nexton or jeff sessions? >> more oversight of trump. >>. >> of trump, ok. >> what happened. >> ok. what has been -- what would that do to us? would that throw us back to the beginning of the investigation? does it start over? i don't think anyone is sure what would happen if he fired the attorney general. >> well, what will happen, what would likely happen is if you got a new attorney general in there is that rosenstein would no longer be in charge of the investigation because the new attorney general would have no conflict of interest, theoretically, and he would take charge of the investigation. i think ultimately, a new attorney general would make such a decision as to what do i do with the report of the specia

richardson had to promise to appoint a special prosecutor. that is when things started to go amiss for him. the senate while it is a minority that is pushing for more oversight of nixon, they can still have an impact on the hearings and extract from a nominee more than you might think. >> you had more oversight of nixon or more of jeff sessions? >> more oversight of trump. >> what would that do to us? is that a constitutional crisis or would that throw us back to the beginning of the investigation? i don't think anyone is exactly sure of what would happen if he did fire the attorney general. >> what will happen is if you got a new attorney general in there is that rosenstein would no longer be in charge of the investigation because the new attorney general would have no conflict of interest theoretically. he would take charge of the investigation. a new attorney general could leave it with the deputy attorney general who is much more familiar with the case. i think ultimately a new attorney general would make such a decision as to what do i d

well that case was called frontier against richardson, and we represented sharon frontiero who was a lieutenant in the air force. sharon had a husband and t husband was denied medical and housing benefits because he wasn't as dependent on her as he should be the law to let a husband get benefits, where the wives of military men automatically got benefits. so we were in court saying that that distinction based on gender was unconstitutional. >> and you won? >> we definitely won. all but rehnquist, justice rehnquist agreed that was discrimination on the basis of sex. but we wanted to get a very high standard of review so that sexual discrimination would be scrutinized at the same level as race zrichlz discrimination. we almost got that four of the justices ruled in our favor on that. >> you remain close with her in washington and beyond. do you think she is close to being done? >> no. i think that she -- first of all, she said that she has at least another five years in her, and she has maintained her health beautifully. she works out, as you can see in the documentary, religiously, an

david richardson lost to donna shalala in a primary for a representative ileana ro ross-lehtinen's seat. >> there's one word official washington doesn't want you to hear. it's [ bleep ]. it's [ bleep ]. it's impeachment. >> and up next, few people were closer to john mccain in the u.s. senate than lindsey graham. senator graham is going to be here to talk about his friend up next. >> the bottom line is, folks, that the people that he served with in jail will tell you the same thing in prison that i will tell you. he is loyal to his friends. he loves his country. and if he has to stand up for his country, so be it. he would die for this country. i love him to death. it was here. i couldn't catch my breath. it was the last song of the night. it felt like my heart was skipping beats. they said i had afib. what's afib? i knew that meant i was at a greater risk of stroke. i needed answers. my doctor and i chose xarelto® to help keep me protected from a stroke. once-daily xarelto®, a latest-generation blood thinner significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a

. >> you had a lot of candidates like chris dodd and joe biden, bill richardson and in the end you thought this is dpoing to be clinton's time. >> for some time it's been no secret that hillary clinton would run for president, but today on her website shs she made it official. >> i'm not just starting a campaign, though. i'm beginning a conversation. >> after six years as a senator, people believe that she has the credentials and leadership skills to be president. >> i'm in it to win it with your help. >> she got a lot of experience. her husband a popular the. she had all the money, the backers and big names. it looked like a sure bet. >> senator barack obama threw his hat in the crowded ring today in springfield, illinois. >> one thing you can say with certainty about senator barack obama is that there's benever bn another presidential candidate like him. he has a foreign sounding name that rimes with osama and admitted to using marijuana and cocaine as a teenager. he's half black, half white and in terms of political experience, green. >> as a senate candidate in 2004, barack obama stepp

he would pull an elliot richardson and resign before that. >> as kaylin said, it's odd. either he doesn't know the process or knows the process and this is a political step. ultimately, he has the power to do it. look, their talking point continues to be for months to month, it should end. there is no evidence. any legal expert will tell you because it ended doesn't mean they have anything. this will play out. it's unlikely, it seems that mueller will come out and conclude right near the election. we are getting close. can you guess that might be into next 84. so it doesn't seem like it will end any time soon. >> i think it's important when you say there is something there or not. i think mueller, with respect to the president or the president's son are looking at perhaps ob suction or some tuned of a perjury type thing in the fbi. they're certainly not looking at conclusion. with the manafort trial you have one guy with all the wes e connections. look at all the charges. >> you don't have any idea what they're looking at or don't. >> i know he's on trial. >> we know the

i want to thank general dunford, general millie, general kneller, admiral richardson, general goldfein, and vice admiral wray. a very special thank you to the commanding general, the 10th mountain division. congresswoman mauther-mcsally. thank you. >> that was president trump just a few minutes ago thanking a laundry list of people before signing the john mccain national defense authorization act. one person who wasn't on that list of people that he thanked? outspoken trump critic and the name sake of the bill, senator john mccain. the decorated war hero, was a prisoner of war. the bill the president signed, the john s. mccain national defense authorization act. no mention of him by the president today. today mccain issued a statement saying i'm huggabled my colleagues in congress chose to designate this bill in my name. one person who was clearly thinking of him in the ceremony, his wife cindy mccain tweeting i'm so proud of senator john mccain and his work on ndaa. incredibly humbled and since president trump would not do it, let us hear on "the lead" congratulate senator mccain and