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>> that was certainly a shot across the bow today from corker. and i think he is leading the way in doing so. what historically has happened when republicans have taken on powerful presidents like mr. nixon is they have come out on the good end of history and not the wrong end of history. so when you can just obviously see mistakes and refuse to call them, you are inviting more of those mistakes. republicans need to get their act together and not be so worried about legislation theyre not enacti...

Careening from crisis to crisis. we see the cost already when it comes to his support among republicans on capitol hill. you see republicans going a little further with each one of these to distance themselves from trump or to criticize the president and tell them to cut it out. >> is it insanable because heres my question. do you think republicans are actually -- is there a howard baker among this group or is it, well, i want to hear more from the white house or im a little concerned? >> how lo...

Up the system. when they see everybody kind of pile on like washington is doing this week, they get defensive on his behalf and say thats just because hes trying to drain the swamp. its obviously a weakness in that he really doesnt understand where the pitfalls are. most politicians understand that even hinting at the idea of a secret taping system would raise all sorts of echos that you normally wouldnt want to arara. as you pointed out with the appearance with henry kissinger, with the firing ...

And the conspiracy theorists they are. theyll do and say anything at this point in time to take down this president. for example, now lets take a look at how theyve been breathlessly, breathlessly comparing president trumps firing of james comey to richard in this caseon and watergate without any factual comparison. its an obsession now of theirs. >> i have not seen anything like this since october 20th, 1973, when president nixon fired archibald cox, the watergate special prosecutor. just like ...

He apparently did not know what his words in neither confirming nor denying recording the kind of scrutiny that the brief papers with janine pirro would bring? >> i think you need to remember this is the first president who never serve admin in an elected office and never been in the military. this is all new to him. it is a strength and a weakness. a strength obviously because people who support him and love the fact he is shaking up the system and when they see everybody pile on like washingto...

Rather, host of access tvs "the big interview." so good to have you here. thank you so much. >> good to be back, don. >> he said he fired comey because he wasnt doing a good job. do you think this was about that or about russia? >> no, it was clearly about the russia investigation. look, this has echos of the nixon administration. theres a nixonian tone increasingly enveloping this. because keep in mind, it wasnt so much the crimes, the war crimes that president nixon and those around him commit...

Undermine and destabilize our country. that doesnt mean necessarily that it happened. but the president is keeping us from knowing whether it happened or not. and this is a terrible, terrible thing to happen because he is impeding our ability to know what occurred. >> david, you served as an adviser to president nixon. a lot of people describe the saturday night massacre as a constitutional crisis. does this mean the same threshold? is this a constitutional crisis? >> not yet but echos of waterg...

Constitutional crisis. does this mean the same threshold? is this a constitutional crisis? or looming on one? >> not yet but echos of watergate grow more powerful over the last couple of days in particular. both cases i think theres a parallel that they were challenging the integrity of the rule of law in this country. i think carl has a good point. there are differences, especially on national security. but this threatening the integrity of the rule of law is very serious. in each case in both ...

This go away. >> right. >> you cant do that when youre president of the united states. >> well, particularly you cant do it with a system of justice and law enforcement. it doesnt work that way. >> yeah. >> if youre accused of some crime in your neighborhood, you cant call up the police chief emp if youre the mayor and said, listen, i want this to stop, which is what drup dprup is t donald trump is trying to do here. >> hes mad at sessions, sessions recused himself, he said he was really mad, ma...

His lawyer, mad at the staff, mad at us guys on television, mad at the committees, bad at comey. hes mad and frustrated at everyone. >> again, echos of richard nixon who got mad at everybody. he was mad at everybody, thought everybody was against him. >> yeah. heres "the new york times" reporting. says "after president trump accused his predecessor in march of wiretapping him, james b. comey, fbi director was flabbergasted. the president mr. comey told executives was outside the realm of normal,...