Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180128:00:25:00
Constitutional crisis in history. the president has fired the man you just saw, the special watergate prosecutor, the attorney general resigned. elliott richardson, appointed attorney general last may, in the midst of the watergate skands scandal quit, saying he cannot carry out his instructions. he refused to aboy a presidential order to fire the special prosecutor. in my career, i never thought i would be announcing these things. >> i never thought i would be announcing these things, that was john chancellor in 1973, the night richard nixon fired the man in charge of the watergate investigat...