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Had in the white house. you wont see any of that kind of bipartisan professional, respectful and cooperative interaction tomorrow. here are a couple of sam dashs follow-up questions. >> it was your understanding that this operated on an ongoing basis daily? the system operated on an ongoing basis daily. >> yes, sir. >> to your knowledge, did the president ever ask while he was in the oval office to have the system not operate? the light not -- the locator not show in that office so as to trigger...

Over most of the questioning to those lawyers who were not elected to anything. but were much better than senators or members of congress at asking witnesses questions. the republican counsel was a young lawyer named fred thompson who would later when a senate seat himself. the counsel for the democrats was sam dash who became a giant media star at the time, both by his performance in the committee room and by handling press questions outside of the hearing room. no senators were jealous of all ...

Who are oblivious to what real investigative questioning is and completely uninhibited in exhibiting their obliviousness. you will not see a member of congress ask a simple 11-word question or a simple question of any length that captures the essential purpose of the now very confused benghazi committee. you will not see special counsels to the committee asking questions in a professional nonpolitical manner. because in the committees previous hearings only members of the committee have been all...

The republican counsel was a young lawyer named fred thompson who would later when a senate seat himself. the counsel for the democrats was sam dash who became a giant media star at the time, both by his performance in the committee room and by handling press questions outside of the hearing room. no senators were jealous of all the media attention that sam dash was getting because they knew that sam dash and fred thompson were doing a better job of conducting this investigation than they could ...

And open manner and you can always tell how serious an investigative committee is if the members are asking the questions, its not serious. the watergate committee, the special counsels asked virtually all the questions. sam dash, the democratic counsel, became a star. fred thompson became a star, the republican counsel. i showed an exchange last night that they had in the watergate hearing where at the end of fred thompsons questioning, sam dash said i just have a few questions because mr. thom...

I think congress has got to be making clear to the president right now because its clear what hes up to. theyve got to be making clear, if you start using the pardon power in this way that clearly wasnt intended to as a way of protecting yourself from legal liability, that is going to put impeachment on the table. i think it would put it on the table in a more serious way than the comey firing. >> sam dash, the former watergate hearing lead counsel said afterwards when he saw another tape that h...

That was a more dramatic moment. >> the fact i forgot about is that he wasnt asked about it. the committee didnt know about it. the committee made a demand of documents he told them the stuff he was going to bring. they were asking about other stuff and he says, by the way, do you want the enemy list i brought with me? nobody had any idea it was coming. the room erupts. the senator questioning him has no idea what to say in response. its nervous laughter. sam dash comes in and says yes, we would...

Compose, which is incredibly incriminating of the president. john dean was in the thick of all of this stuff. he was in the thick of all of this criminality just months before he became this highly cooperating witness right there on tv. >> yeah. i mean, this is -- i think like -- so its -- like imagine its don mcgahn sitting there in a committee hearing and he volunteers, you know, you guys havent asked me about this, but you know that the president personally intervened with the postmaster gene...

Sam dash said that would be an article of impeachment. we teased it earlier of michael cohens with a reporter with the daily beast and now with npr. this was 2015 rooegarding a negative story about trump that michael cohen did not want out. >> i know what youre planning on doing p and if theres any inference whether its in the headlinen or any aspect of your article that indicates a rape and i dont care about some small [ bleep ] line that youll throw in somewhere. mark my words for it, i will m...

Today it was as if hillary clinton reread mcclewan last night and trey gowdy had never heard of him. with is john dean, former white house counsel to president nixon during watergate who testified at those hearings. and joining us, eugene robinson, opinion writer for "the washington post" and msnbc analyst and luke russert whos been on capitol hill, nbc news capitol hill correspondent. first of all, eugene, i want to offer you one of these losanges that hillary clinton needed today. >> would you...