You. this rule boggles th imagination. was the role adopted t actually shield president nixon? yes, there was a feelin that nixon was going to go under in 73 and this would be way to protect nixon s power but alas, watergate did happen and many of the spiro agnew ha to resign. the vice president, over bribery charges. could ve gone to jail but he didn t but then all of the presidents methadone iksan including attorney general joh mitchell ended up doing jail time the president was seen a something unique and leave i to protect we did not have the weir spectacle of former u.s. president or a sitting one suddenly indicted and put in jail that is why trump is such strange aberration going o right now. but in most of american history, presidents either came out o the u.s. military meaning yo learned a code of honor.
Famously pardoned roger ston and others but once you re out of office, you honestly, honestly simon are simply a citizen you have to have secret service, yes you have a nice pension bu you are an american citizen an you are not above our judicial system that s where trump misread things, he really is a student of nixon s line from the frost nixon debate were nixon s out of a presiden does it, it must be legal bu trump never said - nixon never said it if an ex president is indicted. it s different, trump s a ma without that kind of privilege that we would like to clai executive privilege and he has none he has nine doug brinkley, you always just make it so plain and break all of the things down i am grateful for your voice i this moment. appreciate your time oh, thank you and thank you out there for watching symone on thi
frost nixon. he was interviewed, first time he had spoken in public since his resignation to almost three years later. nixon said something that s really astounding. he said, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. sure. he not only said that, but he said that after he had to quit the presidency to avoid a trial that very probably would have taken him to prison, john might agree. this is three years later when he was supposed to feel shame about his role in watergate. instead, he was saying things like, what i have just mentioned, plus he was saying other presidents did things that were worse than i did and they didn t get railroaded out of office what i m trying to suggest is that what nixon said shows that we were living in an alice in wonderland world where presidents thought that they could get away with absolutely
Presumed innocence for this defendant. not anything else will suffice also, no fear or favor by this prosecutor follow the facts wherever they lead, whether they lead to an exoneration of sorts by your peers or whether they lead to an eight foot long prison cell. we are joined now as we absorb this news, this night, this week in america by presidential historian michael beschlosch i m sure you saw the movie
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