a dirty trick, they were screwing up their operation. but here you ve got a foreign power, our adversary, the russians, who are interfering, according to the unified version of our intelligence community, interfering with our election. with our electoral process. so that s big. so the question is was mr. trump, now president trump or any of his close associates somehow involved with the russians during this course of conduct? if so, that would be huge. is it impeachability at this point? can you have retrospective impeachment for something done before you were in office? if there was, if there was such activity, then this would be a criminal act so it would be a high crime and misdemeanor
until maybe now. on a 10 scale of armageddon for our form of government, i would put the russia scandal around 5 or 6. it is cascading by the hour. i m joined by the former watergate assistant special prosecutor, mr. dean, echo or denial or nothing s the same. where do you stand? i see some interesting parallel. obviously the russian break-in was a little different than the watergate break-in itself. it was a hacking versus a bugging and ransacking of the files but they obviously deal both with the dnc.
i think that s where the comparison comes from, chris. and from there, there s clear i don t ever coverups going on. no one is coming forward and confessing this. and that s watergate. this time around, i m not sure. i think some of the disruption of the dnc, the palmieri thing, the poddesta, i know it was just a dirty trick, they were screwing up their operation. but here you ve got a foreign power, our adversary, the russians, who are interfering, according to the unified version of our intelligence community, interfering with our election. with our electoral process. so that s big. so the question is was mr. trump, now president trump or any of his close associates somehow involved with the