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I will just point this out, though, when richard nixon finally resigned in august of 1974, almost a year had passed from the time that -- a little more than a year passed from the time the white house taping system was revealed in congressional hearings. so it took a year for republicans to come around and finally say to him, okay, youve lost our support. so these things do take time if they happen at all. >> charlie, new polling from pew that found 54% of americans now back impeachment. that nu...

Jeffreys point, there is still a lot of things we dont know here yet, but there may well be. it is clear there are people who are not in the inner circle deeply disturbed alarmed by what they know and heard and want to speak out as whistle-blowers or at least have some protection when they do that. and so we know that but i dont think -- so far there hasnt been anybody who has the inside track. john dean knew a heck of a lot, right, at the center? he was the ground central zero at ground central...

What does the nixon model teach folks here today? >> well, first of all, the nixon process was very different and most of the investigation had happened and a lot of it was public so the public knew about the enemys list and the public knew that there was a taping system and the public knew there was an insider named john dean that was a part of the cover-up and it was a saturday night massacre that was a public event that got democrats and republicans say there was an inquiry and there was a lo...

Enormous number of questions about what the content of those calls would be. is it alexander butterfield who revealed in a meeting with fred thompson in a watergate staff meeting that there was a white house taping system? i dont think its quite that scale because we had no sense at that point that there was a taping system for nixon. >> we did know in this case. >> right. what it does say in this case is that the president of the united states has had a lot of free wheeling and arguably inappro...

Illicit and perhaps unconstitutional to try to curry favor with ukraine to get a secret deal, secret payload of dirt on biden. so they really echo each other a lot, and nixon got undone with the tapes when we found out through alexander butterfield that there was a taping system in the white house and of nixon. donald trump, we have a transcript now. hes saying in his own words, you can hear the quid pro quo, or at least read the transcript of it. that may be enough to move forward very quickly ...

Are derogatory comments with the governments. neil: and with vladimir putin saying dont release our conversations. routinely there are a dozen or morleysening in on these calls. and maybe thats always been the case and maybe picked up steam after they got rid of the taping system in the white house after richard nixon, i dont know. what do you think of that? there are a lot of ears in this. >> frankly, i dont have a problem with that. we entrust our public servants with information, intelligence...

Certain things out of the broader flow. but what weve learned with the whistle-blower and what the "post" is reporting. if one or two folks know about it, theres enough, perhaps, for people to stand up within the system somehow and say this is not right. this needs to stop. and if its troubling enough for the white house to take extraordinary steps to conceal it, as you say, it raises an enormous number of questions about the content of the calls. is it alexander butterfield in 1973 who revealed...

What "the post" is reporting is that if one or two folks know about it, theres enough perhaps for people to stand up within the system somehow and say "this is not right. this needs to stop." and if its troubling enough for the white house to take extraordinary steps to conceal it, as you say, then it raises an enormous number of questions about what the content of those calls would be. is it alexander butterfield in 1973 who revealed in a meeting with fred thompson, in a watergate staff meeting...

With the election. a pattern of behavior, even if it is not criminal, it does suggests an abusive power and undermining the process that could arise for the level of impeachable offense. >> frank, let me ask you something, we didnt know about this from the mueller report. so makes me wonder, how secret is this system? it is all a secret from us. the transcripts would be held on one server and if there is a national security reason for them to have been moved to a secure server, thats the reason ...

With the ukrainian president as well as now, according to the noshl "new york times," tripss of conversations with vladimir putin, removed to this yet more selective system. i dont know if thats akin to alexander butterfield disclosing that there was a recording, you know, that nixon had records in the white house. i dont know what it is. but give me some historical context into this sort of thing. presidents keeping information from those who might want or need it for political purposes as oppo...