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I dont know whether before the wiretap act of 1968 it was. if it president wiretapped his opponents today, it would be impeachable conduct. >> i also serve on the foreign affairs committee and i understand how significant it is to foreign leaders to meet with our president. to attend a meeting in the oval office is very significant. president zelensky is a newly elected head of state and a fledgling democracy. his country is at war with his neighbor. russia invaded and is occupying his countrys ...

Mistake. if a president wiretaps his opponents, thats a federal crime now. i dont know whether before the wiretap act of 1968 itse was bu if a president wiretapped his opponents today, that would be impeachable conduct. >> i also serve on the foreign affairs committee. and i understand how significant it is to foreign leaders to meet with our presidents. to attend a meeting in the oval office is very significant. president zelensky is a newly-elected head of state in a fledgling democracy. his c...

No president has ever survived a stronger than expected challenge in the new hampshire primary. in 1968, president lyndon johnson won the new hampshire primary but democratic senator eugene mccarthys stronger than expected second-place showing meant the beginning of the end of the johnson re-election campaign. president george h.w. bush won the new hampshire primary at the beginning of his re-election campaign, but pat buchanans strong second-place finish was an accurate forecaster of how vulner...

They covered for each other. >> theres a bigger problem because how many times has he abused in the last 40 years? >> two men separated by over a decade of time. but each is abuse and betrayal bleeds into the others. when he was a student in high school from 1968 to 73. local television kovrnl coverage of a shocking case. >>. salesian high school in california was a hunting ground for a ring of pedophile priests. a self-protecting cluster. anonymous victim john doe 17 filed a lawsuit that was br...

Buttigieg. he started over in goldsboro, north carolina. over at the church of reverend william barber, who is the individual who resurrected the poor peoples campaign started back in 1968 by reverend martin luther king. i want to let you hear some of the conversation. theres been a conversation over, why is pete buttigieg not attracting support at this point in this campaign here across the south, particularly among african-american voters. one of those ideas and those concepts that has been pu...

Violent protests. largely against the vietnam war. >> it really did seem like the world was unraveling, growing up in a suburban existence with parents who saw chicago in 1968 erupt into flames, saw people burning their draft cards, saw a sexual revolution, saw a drug revolution, saw woodstock come into their homes. >> when i joined the nixon white house, there were a lot of demonstrations against the war. it probably was some of the most intense times i think our country had ever faced. i mean,...

Committee staff, special prosecutor staff, media, partisan judiciary. 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. its a story of a small group of men who turned impeachment into an act of patriotism. it all begins on june 17th, 1972. >> five men were arrested early saturday while trying to install eavesdropping equipment at the democratic national committee. >> why was someo...

Are older voters. fascinating. from one poll over last poll to this poll, older voters have been fleeing joe biden. thats why he dropped to fourth place. he dropped nine points among older voters. meanwhile, pete buttigieg is the one whos gaining. he gained seven points among those older voters. right now theyre the subgroup thats moving the most right now. >> isnt that interesting that mayor buttigieg leads the field with 22% support among voters 52 to 65 years of old. the young mayor from sout...

>> 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. ♪ >> are you listening, nixon! >> but as the war dragged on, the anti-war movement exploded. as nixon campaigned for a second term, he feared vietnam might give his enemies the ammunition to defeat him. and so his men planned a series of dirty tricks. crippled the democrats. one of them was the watergate

Ambassador to the united states, saigons man in washington. and then theres richard nixon. by 1968, the perennial republican presidential wannabe had lost his last two elections, and he knew that this was his last shot. >> in 1968, he wanted that presidency so bad that he was willing to do whatever was necessary. >> this is twice as big a crowd as we had in 1960, and the result is going to be twice as good as in 1960. >> so back on fifth avenue, july 12th, we have three men in a hotel room -- a ...