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Statement about the disclosure of the tapes. but then also there above the fold, i mean next to the picture of the democratic leader tip o'neil, there's this back bench california congressman charles wiggins with his incredible head of hair, right? and he gets his own headline on the front page of "the new york times" that day specifically because he's the epitome of the staunch republican defender of nixon. he gets his own headline on the front page. wiggins for impeachment, others in gop join him. front page of "the new york times" tuesday, august 6th. by the end of that week nixon was gone....

Inquiry on watergate 6 days after break in. expects impeachment, support ebbs. see the upper right-hand column there, tapes released. there's two big fat columns there in the middle of the front page, the verbatim copy of nixon's statement about the disclosure of the tapes. but then also there above the fold, i mean next to the picture of the democratic leader tip o'neil, there's this back bench california congressman charles wiggins with his incredible head of hair, right? and he gets his own headline on the front page of "the new york times" that day specifically because he's the epitome of ...

Said, the president is not willing to step into the arena. he's going to set on the back bench and complain and send his little tweet bombs, which is how he chooses to participate, which is a sign of weakness and a sign of no defense at all on the merits. >> meanwhile, yamiche, senator john kennedy, republican from louisiana, this has gotten a lot of attention over the last 24 hours, senator kennedy had been a staunch defender of the president, a bit of a sound bite machine there on the hill. i want to play just a series of comments that he made on "meet the press" yesterday, about the entire ...

Really destroyed the party. they destroyed the back bench. it's our fault including us wanting to take over. >> laura: i will say that you have hillary clinton brand name and if they really believe that russia stole the election for trump, which they believe, then why wouldn't you want hillary to have a second run at it? if he was robbed, she knows trump, she knows how to do it. she said it, one of her friends was quoted as saying. i know how to run against him, i've run against him. it sounds like there is a tease going on and i do not think it's for book sales. >> i think there may be two pe...

All of this is insulting to the existing field. look, i don't like any of them but they are putting themselves on the line. their lives are disrupted, lives are disruptive, working hard to get on the debates, they been raising money, they've been facing the media, they've at least been trying. here now with his message, my gosh, none of these are good enough. we see that in the fund-raising. yet this nothing coming in for the candidates that are democrats, but this is why debates matter. the problem already there's a a lack of interest, lack of enthusiasm, they are not even into the primaries ...