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good morning, everyone. were going to take a minute to announce some good news. yesterday, clant collins is the new host of the 9:00 p.m. hour, opposite side of the day. >> i am. just when i got into this whole, you know, waking up at 3:30, everything. i had it down pat. >> i almost brought you a trash can and larmalarm clock. will youll never have to set an alarm clock. >> it will be very exciting. f fun to i dont views and i will miss you. >> of course im going to miss you. youve bee...

Good morning, everyone. were going to take a minute to announce some good news. yesterday, clant collins is the new host of the 9:00 p.m. hour, opposite side of the day. >> i am. just when i got into this whole, you know, waking up at 3:30, everything. i had it down pat. >> i almost brought you a trash can and larmalarm clock. will youll never have to set an alarm clock. >> it will be very exciting. f fun to i dont views and i will miss you. >> of course im going to miss you. youve been everythi...

Authoritarians the world over are weaponising wokeness.

>> yeah. >> and eventually deciding he had to say something. >> well, i think in a sense, rarely saying anything and then coming out and disputing part of the story but not definitively knocking the story down. i think the most difficult line to maintain in washington right now is the line, "we need to wait and see what robert mueller does before we exercise our own independent oversight authority." the house of representatives has every right, and in a sense a duty, to allow the public to under...

Thats where we discovered there was a tape system in the white house. we discovered all of the great drama, really, publicly in those senate hearings, and then you also covered the impeachment hearings that elizabeth holtzman was part of and voted on. was there any sense in washington at the time that this should be slowed down, everyone should wait for the special prosecutor to finish doing the special prosecutors work? >> no, because i think you had an entirely different special prosecutors mi...

One that bad because it was just flat wrong. >> but the rest of woodward and bernsteins reporting was right. and in the end, richard nixon chose to resign the presidency rather than face certain removal from office in an impeachment trial in the united states senate. joining us now, david corn, washington bureau chief from mother jones and msnbc political analyst. also joining us, elizabeth drew, political journalist and author whose book about watergate is entitled, "washington journal, the eve...

>> im going to see before it closes. >> thank you both for joining us. when we come back, the question of impeachment. the question of impeachment was already looming large in washington this week. before last nights buzzfeed story came out and raised it even more loudly. were going to consider where the question of impeachment stands tonight. should the house of representatives wait until robert mueller has finished his investigation, or should they do it the way they did it during the nixon ...

You cant get that anyplace else, so i do think the special prosecutors role this time is much larger than it was. i have one thing before we all get dug in on this fact. as you mentioned, the house judiciary committee voted three articles of impeachment. it was understood before that piece of tape was found, it was well understood that these were going to be carried by the house and that the presidents support in the senate had chanced. collapsed. the only thing that piece of tape did was speed ...

Attribution. it had never come before a grand jury and the substance was important. and at the same time, we had not been diligent in nailing this down, this one aspect of it. >> and bob woodward will never forget what that felt like. >> this was one of the real dreary days of our reporting life. in fact, i dont think ive had one that bad, because it was just flat wrong. >> but the rest of woodward bernsteins reporting was right. and in the end, richard nixon chose to resign the presidency rathe...

Been diligent in nailing this down, this one aspect of it. >> and bob woodward will never forget what that felt like. >> this was one of the real dreary days of our reporting life. in fact, i dont think ive had one that bad, because it was just flat wrong. >> but the rest of woodward bernsteins reporting was right. and in the end, richard nixon chose to resign the presidency rather than face certain removal from office in an impeachment trial in the united states senate. joining us now, david co...