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Abscam. there was little doubt what he did and facts showed what he did. he still implored his colleagues in the house to standby him and even talked about a, quote lynch mob. >> i hope they will not let the pressures force them into joining a lunch mob because that's exactly what i think it is. i know what it feels like now to sit on death row when you vote to expel. it will have the same effect as hitting the button if i was strapped in an electric chair in this well. >> here is why that moment in congress matters tonight as congress prepares for this hearing tomorrow. when those facts came ...

It's pretty damning. myers is the first congressman convicted in abscam. there is little doubt about what he did and what the facts showed. he then implored his house colleagues to still stand by him. he invoked even a, quote, lynch mob attack. >> i hope that the members will not let the political pressures of the vote force them in joining a lynching mob, because that's exactly what i think it is. i know what it feels like now to sit on death row when you vote to expel. it will have the same effect as hitting the button if i was strapped in an electric chair in this well. >> but here's what's...

Bribery and conspiracy. >> the house voted overwhelmingly to approve of myers taking a bribe in the abscam investigation was expelled. a moment in history. >> a moment in history. the house standing together in that bipartisan rebuke of bribery. most of fellow democrats voted to expel him along with most republicans who had the same problem in the same scandal with richard kelley, a florida republican. >> my way of thinking is there is only two people involved, you and i. >> okay. >> if that's all right with you, that's the way we'll do it. it's up to you. >> okay. >> i don't know whether i ca...

>> how am i ruining america? >> that's because you want to be a big shot, get a promotion. >> the dialogue is realistic because the plot was very real, right down to the tense moments when a politician's handlers get in that place, that moment before a bribe where everyone knows something pretty legally dangerous is going down. >> excuse me, excuse me, i'll handle that for the mayor. >> no, it's for the mayor. it would be a sign of disrespect to the chic sheik if the mayor t take it. it's for you, mayor. >> five members of the house have been implicated in the fbi's abscam bribery investigatio...

They're just not going to play along with that. and they're going to proceed. >> yeah, and then the other part of this, jeremy, as you know, if there is an impeachment vote and it goes to a senate trial, sooner or later in that process someone's got to come down there and present the president's case. we were looking at history as we often do. i'll show you one of the "time" magazine coffers of the nixon lawyer at the time defending nixon. james st. clare, and "the new york times" today has an interesting piece about a lawyer we've seen less of i'll show you by contrast, reporting on jay sekul...