Famous Tapes News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

ex-president to have the fbi execute a search warrant on his home. trump posted just before 7:00 p.m. last night that mar-a-lago was, quote, currently under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. adding, quote, they even broke into my safe. a source familiar with the search tells nbc news the investigation is related to the transfer of classified government documents from the white house to mar-a-lago. the national archives reported in february that 15 boxes of documents were improperly taken to the president's florida estate when he left office. at the time, the ...

Passed in 1978. that was in response to nixon. as, you know, you and mika -- as i'm sure mika does from studying ancient history, and you do, too, joe -- that in nixon's case, nixon made a deal with gerald ford, who had good intentions but was a little clueless about how diabolical nixon could be. the deal was that nixon's famous tapes and papers would be flown to california, put in a vault, the archives would get a key and nixon could get a key and destroy embarrassing or incriminating evidence that was in the vault. congress found out about those things. in those days, congress knew the diff...

Washington decided that his records belonged to him. so from george washington to richard nixon, presidents owned their documents. they could sell them. they could destroy them. presidential families often sold presidential documents after a term had ended. so there was really no control over presidential records. that changes because of watergate, because of plumbers, nixon's plumbers. and as a result of watergate, richard nixon's papers were seized. it was like a crime scene. everything was seized, including the famous tapes. after the negatives experience, congress decided to act, and decid...

Records belonged to him. and so from george washington until richard nixon, presidents owned their documents. they could sell them. they could destroy them. presidential families often sold presidential documents after a term had ended. so, there was really no control over presidential records. that changes because of watergate, because of plumbers, nixon's plumbers. and as a result of watergate, richard nixon's papers were seized. it was like a crime scene. everything was seized, including the famous tapes. after the nixon experience, congress decided to act and decided to renegotiate the rel...

There was a special prosecutor who had been appointed who was demanding richard nixon's famous tapes and nixon was refusing to give them up and so nixon finally decided he's going to fire cox but to do that he had to get his attorney general to do it. the attorney general was elliott richardson, an upstanding gentleman from massachusetts. he said, absolutely not. i will quit before that happens. so he quit. the number two was a man named william ruk kels house. he wouldn't do it either. he also quit. number four was nominated for the supreme court, the nomination failed. borke said i will fire...