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>> in breathtaking succession tonight, the following historic events occurred. the president of the united states demanded the attorney general fire special prosecutor archibald cox. the attorney general, elliot richardson, arefused and resigned. the president then ordered the assistant attorney general to fire the special prosecutor. ruckleshouse refused. the president immediately fired ruckleshouse. solicitor general robert bork quickly was named acting attorney general. bork was ordered to fi...

>> does it have to do with the resignation of the attorney general? >> it might. >> in breath taking succession tonight, the following historic events occurred. the president of the united states demanded the attorney general fire special prosecutor archibald cox. the attorney general refused and resigned. assistant attorney general to fire the special prosecutor. ruckleshouse refused. the president immediately fired ruckleshouse. solicitor general robert bork quickly was named acting attorney g...

Still shouldnt have done it. >> the president gets contradictory advice and the moment passes. he doesnt destroy the tapes so he fights not to release the tapes. >> judge says the evidence is not yet conclusive as to why the president hasnt fully complied with subpoenas for those tapes and that there is a distinct possibility of unlawful conduct. >> what he is doing is kind of depersonalizing it all and saying, if i release these, it will do irreparable damage to the office of the presidency. >>...

Hollywood" tape came out. we jumped on that tape. >> we jumped on the ""access hollywood" tape. itself remember it was all over the media, wall-to-wall coverage. >> the media. >> look, its interesting that donald trump is choosing to tweet about this now. i know you were saying his folks have been encountering him not to talk about this last night. at the moment its interesting. >> couldnt be held back. >> there is a part of donald trump that likes this conversation, its sort of baiting democrat...

Committees, senate intelligence and now the senate judiciary committee. >> quickly, you were an independent counsel. bob muellers role is special couns counsel. that means he would be fired and you couldnt be. could you have done your investigation under the threat of possibly being fired. >> oh, yeah, i could be fired for good cause, same provision in the law as then. but now its just a tougher -- i think it is a tougher call because of the less -- lesser degree of independence that the special...

This time, there was nobody. just an open door, a cabinet including her foreign secretary were either silent or suddenly noncommittal. are you still supporting may? >> its early days and i think everybody should contain themselves until they see -- how are you? there we go. thank you so much. >> reporter: come daybreak and the contrast couldnt be, all hugs and smiles and waves and thumbs up. and the impartial observer outside labor headquarters would have thought he won the election. the fact is...

After drinking. i wasnt drunk, but i drunk the night before. i had to do a breathalyzer test and it came up hot. and here i am, trying it again. the mistake i made last time was because i drink. so even when i get off parole, im not going to drink because it can become an issue, and i dont want it to be an issue in my life. >> pet cat stevens. >> roys pet cat isnt the only thing he has to keep his mind off alcohol, he also loves his job. >> day to day, i get up and go to work every day. i cut ir...

The president of the united states demanded the attorney general fire special prosecutor archibald cox. the attorney general refused and resigned. the president then ordered the assistant attorney general to fire the special prosecutor. ruckleshouse refused. the president immediately fired ruckleshouse. solicitor general robert bork quickly was named acting attorney general. bork was ordered to fire special prosecutor cox. he did. >> it was unbelievable, literally unbelievable, except that it wa...

He doesnt destroy the tapes so he fights not to release the tapes. >> judge says the evidence is not yet conclusive as to why the president hasnt fully complied with subpoenas for those tapes and that there is a distinct possibility of unlawful conduct. >> what he is doing is kind of depersonalizing it all and saying, if i release these, it will do irreparable damage to the office of the presidency. >> well, for one thing, the president still has not said at any time, listen, john dean is lying,...

Investigation. so this was part of these things piling up for comey. but by ten of march he thought maybnow theyve figured out what they can and cannot do. theres no coherent answer for why comey was fired. so the question is that did the white house realize by tend of march that they werent going to win comey over? and is that when they realized comey wasnt going to be the person they wanted running the fbi. >> because implicit unless choice is that it was unacceptable and it was never going to...