Additional funding is provided by. Drporate funding is provi by. Welcome to firing line, chairman adam schiff. Thank you. You are the chairman of the house inlligence committee, the democratically controlled committee th ran the impeachment hearing for President Trump. At what point in the process did you, mr. Chairman, begin to be convinced that the president had committec imble offenses . I dont know that i c or testimony becau plot really unfolded during the course of the investigation. Unusual, having beenigation so a prosecutor many years ago, th is very much analogous to a whitecollar complex criminal case. Those cases are almost always very documentdriv, but here the administration completely stonewalled our investigation. We they said,e not gog to give you any documents. Were not gonna make any witnesses available, but because of the courage of a number of Public Servants who defied the white house and came forward and testified, we learned about this effort to shake down the p
Additional funding is provided by. Corporate funding is provided by. Welcome to firing line, thank you. Schiff. You are the chairman of the house intelligence committee, thdemocratically controlled committee that ran the impeachment hearing for President Trump. At what point in the process did you, mr. Chairman, begin toe convinced that the president had committed impeachable offenses . I dont know that i can pinpoint a specific day t timony because the plot really unfolded during the course of the investig what made the investigation so unusual, having beenan a prosecutoryears ago, this is very much analogouste to a wollar complex criminal case. Those cases are almost always rery documentdriven, but the administration completely they said, were nottigation. Going to give you any documents. Were not gonna make any witnesses available, but because of the courage of a number of Public Servants who defied the white h and came forward and testified, we learned about this effortto hake down
Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Thank you, peg. I appreciate that. Im tuajuanda jordan, president of st. Marys college of maryland, the National Public honors college. It makes me smile the say that. I am happy to welcome you to this discussion with the authors of this book. This event is sponsored by the center for the study of democracy here at st. Marys college of maryland and our department of history. The center is a skbroint initiative of the college in st. Marys city, the site of marylands first capital. The centers goal is to promote understanding of democratic values, traditions and institutions through the exploration of contemporary and historical issues. Dr. Antonio ugas yur is the director of the center. He joins us here this afternoon. Thank you, tony, for being here. Charlie musgrove, chair of the department of history here at the college, is also with us this afternoon. Our History Department at st. Marys college is pretty active, offering many opportunities for researc
like something is going on in the news today, doesn t this remind me of something else? yes, it does, something that might seem unprecedented, like we ve never faced something like this before in the news. it turns out more often than it, it does have an antecedent in history. the very first episode dropped today. it is about something that s very much like january 6th that happened before. i would have more to say about this later on this hour. but chris is right, it s just drop. today we are super excited about it. that s all still to come, it s called rachel maddow presents deja news . all right, so, here s what it said when they finally showed what they had to the public. this was from the u.s. justice department at the time. quote, the following statement is respectfully submitted to the court by the government at the arraignment of the defendant. it constitutes a detailed resuscitation of the facts and evidence developed by the investigation to date. that presentation
Welcome to the National Press club. I covered as a very young reporter, a baby good evening. Welcome to the National Press club. I covered watergate as a very young reporter, a baby reporter, they just let me come in diapers. I covered from the hearings to the trials. I am especially elated to be here this evening i went like to welcome cspan and the cspan audience. This is being filmed for cspans American History tv. Our program tonight marks the 50th anniversary of the saturday night massacre that ultimately led to president nixons resignation in the scandal. It was a significant event in the nations political history to say the least. The National Press club played an Important Role on it, special prosecutor cox, who i would later be lucky enough to become friends with held his News Conference here on the afternoon of october 20th, right in the clubs ballroom. It was at that Historic Press conference that he insisted that president nixon turn over the tapes. We will see a clip later