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The missouri Governor Greitens refused to concede anything about any of the charges against him from the very beginning. He has refused calls for his resignation from the leaders of the house and the senate in his state, both of whom are republican leaders. He has been on the edge of the abyss for quite some time now. These new felony charges tonight represent one more hard shove toward him becoming airborne. Lots of eyes on the governor of missouri in the wake of these new charges. Internationa...

Hes going to need permission from democrats to do in the rotunda, permission from democrats to do in the senate as well. he does have floor privileges to walk onto the senate floor. but to actually deliver a speech, you would need some support within the senate because that institution operates on a concept called unanimous concept meaning everyone needs to agree. and in this environment its hard to see that happening. so the presidents going to have to find another venue off capitol hill. >> ma...

And of course you could go and there have been weird moments like in 1975 actually went in and said the "state of the union" of is not good. thats what were dealing with right now, not a good situation. >> david this afternoon you tweeted after two years of bullying@real donald trump has found himself nose to nose with an opponent willing and able to push back. to what end does the government remain shutdown? >> heres where the democrats have a bit of a high ground because theyve offered to reop...

This is the great trump shutdown. his poll numbers are starting to go in the backwards direction. by all indications hes being blamed for this, and i think the president needs to now respond by doing a written "state of the union." if he wants to go give a campaign-like rally, he can do it. fox news will cover it. i doubt the big networks or even cnn will probably cover something like that. and as was mentioned, he already had a kind of "state of the union" a couple weeks ago about the wall, and...

Story, and i would like to ask you which parts of this i screwed up. did get it wrong? >> you got it absolutely right. everything old is new once again. when david brinkley dismissed that in that broadcast, he was sitting about 100 feet from where i am in the nbc bureau in washington. >> when we think about lawsuits in politics, sometimes they are scurrilous. sometimes they are just used as political weapons. substantively some of the things that we won eder about is whether the lawsuits can be ...

>> people tell me all the time, our era is so poisoned by terrible cable news. it has gotten so snarky, and you know, david brinkly had pretty good on-air snark in 1972. the democrats brought this cute little lawsuit. obviously, its to get them out of debt. theyre saying its about the burglary. david brinkley is saying what everybody was thinking, this is a joke. the democratic party will lay blame for that at the doorstep of the white house? everybody thought it was a joke. they filed this laws...

Camera. he was preparing for an interview with david brinkly. its a rare glimpse behind the curtain. while the audio is poor, you can make out that theyre discussing the story about nixons makeup. a historian is here with me now. and youve seen this and you agree this is a big deal. >> yeah. its amazing, because number one, especially this week. if you think about the amount of film footage that you and i maybe have not seen before of jfk, very hard to think there could be anything like that. so...