June 1973 News Today

Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Presidency took a giant step toward impeachment. It happened in a courtroom in manhattan when these words were spoken. At the direction of, meaning at the direction of the president of the United States. And when a defendant is Pleading Guilty in court, it is very difficult for the defendant to Say Something more important than the word guilty. Thats usually the most important word a defendant speaks du...

Sentence in this case and you agree to cooperate. And i think from Robert Muellers perspective it would be worth it because even if Paul Manafort doesnt have anything incriminating i think Robert Muellers quest is to get to the truth and Paul Manafort certainly knows a lot of what happened. He was present at that june 2016 meeting at trump tower. He has all the connections with the russians and the ukrainians and so it seems that hes in a position to know a lot of what was happening with regard ...

End of this? >> i think theres a big possibility well be asleep depending on what mueller says. you mentioned john dean, i think youre absolutely right. that would be at one end of the scale if youre talking about testimony in history that has moved public opinion against a president. that was june 1973. there were rumors and there was some evidence that nixon might have been involved in the watergate coverup. john dean comes in and says ive got news for you, president nixon was at the center of...

Situation with me yesterday and says he wants michael cohen to come back and testify before he starts his prison term in march. what do you want to ask him? what do you think he might be able to share with your committee? >> sometimes when you interview a witness its better to let them just do the talking, and he seems to be a witness now where you just want to ask him what happened, what did you see, what did the president hear, what did the candidate do? i think of june 1973 when john dean sat...

Federal office." jon, where are we tonight? >> well, i think we are -- one of the things the trump era has done, as you know so well, is it has now taken us beyond superlatives. i googled "worst day of trump presidency" earlier and got something like 600 different candidates for it. but i do think given that the legal time is now catching up with political time, and that always -- the wheels of justice always move more slowly than the press, than a lot of the people who are deeply engaged in the...

Quoting what the prosecutor has said about this crime, "in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office." jon, where are we tonight? >> well, i think we are -- one of the things the trump era has done, as you know so well, is it has now taken us beyond superlatives. i googled "worst day of trump presidency" earlier and got something like 600 different candidates for it. but i do think given that the legal time is now catching up with political time, and that always --...

Replied "i love it" to. its always been an interesting defense, to say the least. >> another question, john, has to do with the drafting of the statement about the trump tower meeting by trump and hope hicks aboard air force one. this is from "the washington post," june 1973, the story by carl bernstein, it says "dean alleges nixon knew of coverup plan." are there similarities here, john? >> thats the sort of thing that leaked out. i never met with carl until after watergate was over. i learned ...

Love it" to. its always been an interesting defense, to say the least. >> another question, john, has to do with the drafting of the statement about the trump tower meeting by trump and hope hicks aboard air force one. keep that in mind as i read the headline. this is from "the washington post," june 1973, the story by carl bernstein, it says "dean alleges nixon knew of coverup plan." are there similarities here, john? >> thats the sort of thing that leaked out. i never met with carl until long ...

Called enemies on so many documents. a memo drafted by dean himself. it describes a plan in deans language to use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemy. >> to use the available machinery to screw our political enemies. not just list them, but hurt them. john dean admitted it in june 1973. and in january admitted there was a taping in the white house and all of this enemies list stuff and all this stuff that had described to us about using the available federal machinery to...

Documents. this is an example of that file a memo drafted for haldman and ehrlichman by dean himself. it describes a plan in deans own pungent along the use the availability federal machinery to screw our political enemies. >> use the available federal machinery to screw our public enemies. dont just list them, but use the available federal machinery to hurt them. john dean admitted to it in june 1973. july 1973, the white house admitted there was a taping system in the white house. the supreme ...