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>> in breathtaking succession tonight, the following historic events occurred. the president of the united states demanded the attorney general fire special prosecutor archibald cox. the attorney general, elliot richardson, arefused and resigned. the president then ordered the assistant attorney general to fire the special prosecutor. ruckleshouse refused. the president immediately fired ruckleshouse. solicitor general robert bork quickly was named acting attorney general. bork was ordered to fire special prosecutor cox. he did. >> it was unbelievable, literally unbelievable, except that it wa...

>> does it have to do with the resignation of the attorney general? >> it might. >> in breath taking succession tonight, the following historic events occurred. the president of the united states demanded the attorney general fire special prosecutor archibald cox. the attorney general refused and resigned. assistant attorney general to fire the special prosecutor. ruckleshouse refused. the president immediately fired ruckleshouse. solicitor general robert bork quickly was named acting attorney general. bork was ordered to fire special prosecutor cox. he did. >> it was unbelievable, literally u...

Still shouldn't have done it. >> the president gets contradictory advice and the moment passes. he doesn't destroy the tapes so he fights not to release the tapes. >> judge says the evidence is not yet conclusive as to why the president hasn't fully complied with subpoenas for those tapes and that there is a distinct possibility of unlawful conduct. >> what he is doing is kind of depersonalizing it all and saying, if i release these, it will do irreparable damage to the office of the presidency. >> well, for one thing, the president still has not said at any time, listen, john dean is lying, a...

Hollywood" tape came out. we jumped on that tape. >> we jumped on the ""access hollywood" tape. itself remember it was all over the media, wall-to-wall coverage. >> the media. >> look, it's interesting that donald trump is choosing to tweet about this now. i know you were saying his folks have been encountering him not to talk about this last night. at the moment it's interesting. >> couldn't be held back. >> there is a part of donald trump that likes this conversation, it's sort of baiting democrats. i saw chris murphy, the senator from connecticut yesterday saying you know what, this is not ...

Committees, senate intelligence and now the senate judiciary committee. >> quickly, you were an independent counsel. bob mueller's role is special couns counsel. that means he would be fired and you couldn't be. could you have done your investigation under the threat of possibly being fired. >> oh, yeah, i could be fired for good cause, same provision in the law as then. but now it's just a tougher -- i think it is a tougher call because of the less -- lesser degree of independence that the special counsel enjoys under these regulations. but it's essentially the same standard. >> good to me. m...