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>> imagine that. >> right? and back then, corrupt? that's the entirety of the libel. having teddy roosevelt on the stand, and franklin testified in his defense. so it is a fascinating read. i think it was so much fun and so interesting to work on because so few people knew about it. >> so from donald to teddy to dan, the third there, dan, has agreed to stay with us. coming up, we'll talk about dan's other line of work. it just happens to be something of an addiction for viewers across the country when they are not watching us at 11:00 eastern time on week nights. time on week nights. in a new ...

And you say, wait, we're still talking about those same issues. and the reason roosevelt got sued is because he accused a party boss of being corrupt. >> imagine that. >> right? and back then, corrupt? that's the entirety of the libel. having teddy roosevelt on the stand, and franklin roosevelt actually testified in his defense. so it is a fascinating read. i think it was so much fun and so interesting to work on because so few people knew about it. >> so from donald to teddy to dan, the third there, dan, has agreed to stay with us. coming up, we'll talk about dan's other line of work. it just...

Defending himself and his legacy. and it is fascinating stuff. so what we did is we took this transcript and tell the story, surrounding that trial that at the time was huge news around the country. but somehow has back footnote to history. >> the part i got to last night. he casually tosses off the fact that he hired 40,000 people through patronage into the u.s. government. >> yep. >> and it is another line in testimony. >> and there were also, there was questions about all sorts of campaign donations that were made to him. and on cross-examination, they go through each and every donation tha...

Basically say that teddy roosevelt was a fraud. it's a fascinating trial. franklin roosevelt testifies in teddy roosevelt's defense. we've taken the transcript of 3,000 plus pages, which we had to go to syracuse, new york, to get because no one asked for it in a hundred years, and we were able to tell the story around this fascinating trial, which really res nate resonates toda. the key questions related to corruption in politics. it relates to money in politics. i mean, these are the same issues we talk about today. theodore roosevelt accused a party boss of being corrupt. as a result, the pa...

The michael cohen extravaganza in various stages, public and private. you see the political back and forth. republicans are accusing schiff of being corrupt, and everything is already kind of a giant mess. if they want to be able to conduct these investigations and do it without being accused every 30 seconds of just trying to orchestrate a slow motion impeachment, pelosi has to come out and say that's not necessarily our end game at all. we're trying to do this based on the merits. so to protect that, she had to do this early on. sdplz s >> she set the rules in the beginning of a very long, o...