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taylor green. some have denied this ever happened. matt gates is under investigation in an alleged sex trafficking investigation. he has denied all wrong doing, he has not been charged. but according to the testimony we heard in the hearing today, matt gates was asking for one of those from the beginning of time for everything he has ever done kind of pardons. and, you know, that could be an interesting thing for prosecutors who are still looking at him and are still going to have to decide whether or not he faces these charges. it depends on what he told the white house his pardons ...

I think in many ways our institutions are under assault, both externally, and that is the big news here. Russian interference in our election system. And i think as well, our institutions are under assault internally . Internally from the president . Exactly. In high gear add in the meantime, jeff sessions, the Attorney General, and his deputy interviewed eight candidates, the acting director of the fbi, andrew mccabe, john cornyn, alice fisher who was in the Justice Department years ago. Judge michael garcia, Federal Judge from virginia, henry hudson. Adam lee who is the head of the fbi virgi...

You believed there would be hundreds and hundreds of people that would resign from the justice department? >> i think it would be pretty damning what would happen. this was reminiscent of had archibald cox was fired. president nixon ordered his attorney general to fire cox. he refused to do it he ordered his deputy attorney general to do it. he refused to do it. when finally robert bork did it, it was part of the agreement among the three of them, the attorney general and the depp testify attorney general would both resign and refuse to do it because they had made a commitment to the senate th...

Eight of the tapes. ag specif eight specific tapes of conversations either in the president's office or on his to telephone. >> nixon refused on a saturday night, october 1983, he ordered his attorney general to fire his prosecutor. the attorney general was appalled and he said "no" and resigned. i pi >> i picked the phone, he said hey, he wanted me to fire cox, i am not going to do it. constitutional drama obey a president's order to fire the special prosecutor. and then the next person who's the deputy attorney general, one of the great people in the nixon administration, one of the most eth...

Too, was not willing to do it. so the deputy attorney general also resigned. >> he said well, you're commander in chief is ordering you to do this, i don't know what added to the discussion. he said well, who else was around? >> i said bob borkus here, he was the last one that was eligible to do it. >> the commander in chief finally found someone willing to carry out his orders. cox was fired. >> i asked all the people in the department to stay. so ended what would become know as a saturday night massacre. the president's motive was to remove the possibility confrontation as quickly and early ...