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End the matter now. accordingly i gave considerable thought to how i would present this situation to the president and try to make as dramatic a presentation as i could to tell him how serious i thought the situation was that the cover-up continue. i began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it. >> a lot of people, john, are looking back on your role in history. what parallels do you...

On the presidency, and if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it. >> a lot of people, john, are looking back on your role in history. what parallels do you see now? >> well, we certainly have many echoes. we have parallels in the russia investigation starts with a break-in or a hack at the democratic national committee. watergate got its name from a break-in at the democratic national committee when it was located in the watergate office complex. and if we go thro...

Similar kinds of abuses of power. trump has only been there a short while and is as not as experienced as nixon. i fear when he gets more experience it may get worse. >> when you look at the tape, do you remember it vividly? >> don, i remember the testimony, i remember the conversation. i didnt start meeting with the president until eight months after the arrest. and after hes been reelected, before that i had one meeting with halderman on this subject with the president in september. but then h...

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Employee. hes now threatening to sue the trump administration. this i beg happens. sue. please. take a look. >> i have been contacted by a number of lawyers and have already given me their thoughts about the basis for a complaint, an injunction, to try to prevent him from doing this in the future. if my clearances and my reputation as im being pulled through the mud now, if thats the price we are going to pay to prevent donald trump from doing this against other people, to me its a small price t...

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I think this is yet another example of his egregious use of power and authority. just because he has the ability to revoke ones clearance doesnt mean that he is doing it for the appropriate reasons. if my clearances and my reputation as im being pulled through the mud now, if thats the price were going to pay to prevent donald trump from doing this against other people, to me it is a small price to pay. so i am going to do whatever i can personally to try on prevent these abuses in the future. i...

Friday night. >> well, i have been contacted by a number of lawyers, and they have already given me their thoughts about the basis for a complaint, an injunction, to try to prevent him from doing this in the future. if my clearances and my reputation as i am being pulled through the mud now, if that is the price we are going to pay to prevent donald trump from doing this against other people, to me it is a small price to pay. i will do whatever i can to try to prevent these abuses in the future....

Prevent donald trump from doing this against other people, to me it is a small price to pay. i will do whatever i can to try to prevent these abuses in the future. if it means going to court, i will do that. >> and in a footnote to "meet the press" yesterday, just when you thought rudy giuliani was beyond parody, he found a way to parody himself. >> look, im not going to be rushed into having him testify so that he gets trapped into perjury. when you tell me that, you know, he should testify bec...

The price we are going to pay to prevent donald trump from doing this against other people to me is a small price to pay. i will do whatever i can personally to try to prevent these abuses in the future. if it means going to court, i will do that. >> here are some of the former intelligence officials president trump says could soon lose security clearances. among them a former national security adviser. what is involved in getting a security clearance anyway? what are security clearances and whe...