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The line from trump -- vietnam to watergate and the two of them to a kind of anything to win trumpism is just clear. that's what we've tried to do in this podcast. >> and history does repeat itself. jon meacham, we've been talking about the trump administration getting data records from reporters. i remember mort halperin, they had their home phone line bugged for 20, 21 months. he was a member of the nixon administration and they bugged his phone for 21 months. and now we're finding out that don mcgahn was also targeted by the trump administration and you're hearing barr, sessions, and all of...

Congratulating him? >> he knows in this administration, you have to present every defeat as a victory. we saw this at the midterm election, trump said, we won the senate, we're the great am chap onhere. it's like a boxer getting pummeled. his corner man comes over and says, it was precisely the option that the census bureau presented to him before he launched into this fight. in early 18, the census bureau said they could get this information from government data without all the trouble of trying to put it on the census. now they've chosen that option. >> also congratulating, hearing barr, app...

The census bureau has said, you have all the data, go aggregate it, analyze it and use it it as it is legally appropriate. i don't think he was thumbing his nose at the supreme court. he was casting shade as you say on wilbur ross. the thing that is important, i think, and again in the oversight hearings, the commerce department took the position, which the court said was contemptible that this was to enforce the voting rights act, the justice department had asked for that, barr has to find out, how did that happen? how is it that the justice department was used to create this phony argument f...