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Jaworski, is moving according to a more geological clock than the politics or the media would like it to be. senator baker there, you know, the hearings opened exactly 11 months after the break-in. and it took then another 14 -- 15 months, i guess, before nixons resignation. president nixon only resigned after the supreme court ruled that he had to hand over the tapes. there was a tape from june 21st, 1972, that had him asking, i think, the cia to block the fbi or maybe vice versa into the inves...

Top. >> matthew, as stories go, as leaks go, even given this white house, what was different to you about this mccain episode? >> well, i think whats so interesting about this mccain incident is the level of consternation and fury its drawn from the white house given the nature of the leak. this leak did not endanger national security. this leak did not do anything that would hinder free-flowing debate or the exchange of ideas in the west wing. what this leak did was reveal bad behavior in donal...

And kind of the front-line pbs documentary storytelling way, but there were a number of what became known as the white house horrors that ultimately became part of the investigation. and so i think we are in what another figure from that era, destined to be white house chief of staff, donald rumsfeld called a known unknown. >> jon, i was thinking of you today as you and i tend to reminisce about past presidents, about the tone of this president when we saw that tweet today that started, congratu...

Of staff, donald rumsfeld called a known unknown. >> jon, i was thinking of you today as you and i tend to reminisce about past presidents, about the tone of this president when we saw that tweet today that started, congratulations, america. it didnt go on to wish anyone congratulations. in fact, it was very dark, very negative, and sarcastic. and that, to me -- thats a first for us as american people. getting our arms around the fact that it may not be in the usual scope of the presidency that ...

Simple, and people who work at the white house, current and former staffers, tell me this all the time. this president does not engender the kind of loyalty that other presidents have. sarah sanders herself said today that it is an honor and a privilege to work at the white house, and anyone who is leaking information like this information that got leaked about john mccain, should be ashamed. but the problem is that there are a lot of people who work in this white house who dont view it as an ho...

The questioning. >> more on that later. giuliani also spoke to the pbs news hour about a possible interview earlier tonight. he said, quote, it would be going a little too far to say hes going to sit down, but it looks more hopeful than it did a day or so ago. as we mentioned here last night, giuliani told nbc news that muellers office acknowledged to trumps team that they cant indict a sitting president. earlier today, giuliani provided some more detail on that interaction during a different in...

So much that meetings called to bemoan leaks begin with acknowledgements the bemoaning will be leaked, which is promptly leaked. here to talk about it, matthew nussbaum, white house reporter for politico, and jeremy peters, political reporter for "the new york times" and an msnbc contributor. jeremy, what is -- theres usually a reason when an institution or entity leaks. theres all kinds of products to solve it on late-night cable. but what do you think is the reason this institution is leaking?...

Justice department -- >> the egg heads you want to be in that job. >> exactly. and they both have come out and said the same thing. that they dont think that a sitting president can be indicted by a special counsel. and i think that is right. i think thats correct. and i think thats also huge in terms of giuliani and frankly the president now being able to decide whether or not the presidents going to sit down for this final interview with the special counsel. >> matt, i heard the gentleman who ...

Potentially other countries. it just adds one more, you know, kind of heavy weight on paul manaforts shoulders. hes looking at years and years in jail, and he really only has two ways out of it. one is to cooperate with the special counsel, and it wouldnt just be cooperation. hes actually have to have something valuable to give up about the president or someone

I dont want to dismiss it because i think it was a good faith attempt to really narrow the focus quite dramatically of the questioning. >> more on that later. giuliani also spoke to the pbs news hour about a possible interview earlier tonight. he said, quote, it would be going a little too far to say hes going to sit down, but it looks more hopeful than it did a day or so ago. as we mentioned here last night, giuliani told nbc news that muellers office acknowledged to trumps team that they cant ...