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Is there historical parallel for this? >> one of the things we don't want to have happen, and this has become partisan. look at the newsreels in 1973, and president nixon wanted to stop the investigation. it wasn't just enough to fire cox, and he failed. he had to backtrack. there was so much public outrage, and it wasn't left wing outrage. it was complete national outrage at this, that he actually stepped back and appointed a new special prosecutor. so the opposition to what trump does, if he does this, has to be national and it has to be bipartisan. >> but you say there's a big difference be...

Is there historical parallel for this? >> one of the things we don't want to have happen, and this has become partisan. look at the newsreels in 1973, and president nixon wanted to stop the investigation. it wasn't just enough to fire cox, and he failed. he had to backtrack. there was so much public outrage, and it wasn't left wing outrage. it was complete national outrage at this, that he actually stepped back and appointed a new special prosecutor. so the opposition to what trump does, if he does this, has to be national and it has to be bipartisan. >> but you say there's a big difference be...

Order. >> reporter: nixon takes a gamble and orders his attorney general to fire cox. >> reports that attorney -- to fire the special watergate prosecutor arch bald cox. >> reporter: refuses and resigns in protest. >> for me to have acquiesced in his being firing. >> reporter: he too refuses and resigns. before the night is done though, the u.s. solicitor general filling in as attorney general agrees to fire archibald cox. still nixon is hardly immune to it all. nine months later, nixon on the verge of impeachment, but instead of being removed from

And when did he know it. >> it was non-partisan and often quite young prosecutors oat the doj who faced incredible pressure and ultimately indicted people with over 30 crimes related to watergate. we turn to one of the prosecutors and one who recommended impeaching nixon. nick ackerman and elizabeth holtzman. elizabeth, what was the turning point going towards impeachment? >> well, the turning point was actually when president nixon had archibald cox fired. and the attorney general of the united states resigned rather than fire cox. and deputy attorney general resigned rather than fire cox. an...

Rosenstein and others what are the parameters of the recusal that we could not have been able to get a clear answer. >> richard nixon, the president wanted to fire -- 1973 wanted to fire cox, independent counsel at that time. he told the attorney general to do so. he committed himself to the congress not to do so. he had to resign. did the same thing, the deputy attorney general. he had to resign. he was fired actually and had to go to the judge to get anybody to do it. what would happen this time if the president told jeff sessions to fire the prosecution, wouldn't he have to quit soon. >> i ...