there was a special prosecutor who had been appointed who was demanding richard nixon's famous tapes and nixon was refusing to give them up and so nixon finally decided he's going to fire cox but to do that he had to get his attorney general to do it. the attorney general was elliott richardson, an upstanding gentleman from massachusetts. he said, absolutely not. i will quit before that happens. so he quit. the number two was a man named william ruk kels house. he wouldn't do it either. he also quit. number four was nominated for the supreme court, the nomination failed. borke said i will fire cox. cox was fired and the fbi was called in and that was called the saturday night massacre. it was on this network by the anchor at this time, this may be the greatest constitutional crisis in history. what we're seeing now in 2017