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Presidents and it turns out both got impeached. >> and i think it is so are arcane in history, the thing about andrew johnson to remember is as you said, he was the running mate for abraham lincoln as sort of a bipartisan ticket, but after lincoln was assassinat assassinated, he wanted to excuse the south. he wanted to stop black people from becoming full citizens. and can you just walk us through -- so he got impeached because of that, right? because he tried to stop the federal government from...

Kill his wife? >> under the circumstances, id say the motive was just based on this heat of passion argument that they were having. alcohol, a fight and guns, thats where we got murder. >> at the same time johnson was still reluctant to press charges. remember, the states own medical examiner couldnt say whether heidys death was a homicide. and johnson knew that would be a huge hurdle in court. >> based on my experience in courts with juries, a medical examiner carries a lot of weight. >> so joh...

Because an expectation of conviction forced him to resign. there is another historical example that offers clues and parallels, a president facing challenges to his legitimacy because he became president without winning a majority of the votes. these are the parallels to president johnson, who was the first president ever impeached in american history. he assumed the office after lincoln was assassinated and governed in ways that undercut lincolns work. he doubled down on racist structures in th...

>> detective wallace powered over conrads statements to police about what happened that night. as wallace saw it, conrads story went like this conrad was in the kitchen. heidi was in the bathroom. at some point conrad heard a pop. when he heard, he saw heidi standing somewhere between the kitchen and the bathroom hallway bleeding. >> and he either runs over to catch her or she falls down. >> wallace then went back to the truman home making detailed measurements of the kitchen and surrounding roo...

Craig johnson. johnson agreerkd everything pointed to conrad. >> why would conrad truman want to kill his wife? >> under the circumstances, id say the motive was based on the heat of passion argument that they were having. alcohol, a fight and guns, thats where we got murder. >> at the same time, johnson was still reluctant to press charges. remember, the states own medical examiner couldnt say whether heidis death was a homicide and johnson knew that would be a hurnl hurdle in court. >> based o...

Who saw this coming? >> ron johnson is trying to speak up for small businesses. the middleclass has really been left out. hes being motivated by a specific provision. and i think this is not a no vote. this is a negotiating assistance. it those folks too often get lost in the shuffle. >> small businesses are called pass throughs and you wind up being almost double taxed. one at the business level. they have to pay it as income. thats been there a long time. they are not just the manufacturing bu...

And joining me now, former nypd detective, tom verny, and vann jones. tom, youre with me. let me start with you. so johnsons version of the story. he says he wasnt intoxicated. he says he didnt try to present a fake i.d. we should note hes a few months shy of his 21st birthday. given that we dont know exactly what happened okay? but no matter what happened does it justify throwing a kid to the ground and having his face be utterly covered in blood? can anything in this situation justify that sor...

Former roommate, bob johnson. >> someone who came forward and claimed that their roommate at that time in 86, johnson, had come home bloodied and said that he had killed somebody. >> johnsons mugshot looked remarkably like the composite drawing of the suspect. he didnt fit the fbi profile, but his background made him a likely suspect. >> his ex-wife told the investigators that mr. johnson had a significant drug problem, and he was conducting those burglaries to help support that habit. >> janet ...

Ultimately fair housing in 68. thats for johnson. then there was so many people who had come to washington, when i went to work for robert kennedy in the senate, and we would need to find out something or get some help from the executive branch, there were people all over the executive branch who had come to washington to work with jfk and who were really interested in being helpful to rfk. sometimes they had to do it surreptitiously because the divisions between lyndon johnson and rfk were alre...

Recover, he should change his positions on the issues. >> so johnson has been anti-obama, scott walker also has been anti-obama care, big-time. hes up for re-election in 2014 and holds just a two-point lead against his democratic challenger, mary burke. now, i know a little bit about your state. ive spent a little bit of time in wisconsin, but i dont know mary burke. how does she get within two points in the first polling? ruth? >> i know mary burke. ive spent a lot of time about her. a lot of w...