kissinger passed away at his home in connecticut yesterday. he was 100 years old. you are watching fox and friends first on thursday morning, i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. kissinger was a leading voice in major decisions impacting the united states and the entire world. i came to this country as a refugee from germany. so i have known in a way that native-born americans cannot experience what this country means to the downtrodden and to those who need a ray of hope. todd: griff jenkins has more on his life and legacy. griff: his strategic decision advised five presidents from nixon to trump, his firm kissinger associates made the announcement saying a respected american scholar and statesman died today in connecticut in his home. reaction from around the globe. secretary blinken praising his contributions from israel. set the standard for everyone who followed and in this job. few people were better students of history, even fewer people did more to sha
i say that for two reasons. one in recent weeks, 1,000 former federal prosecutors, not ten, not 100, but a thousand have signed a document saying that the evidence of president trump s obstruction of justice us the in the mueller report senior not even a close case. it s overwhelming and i agree with that and i signed that document. number two, i think people have lost sight of the timeline here. the nixon impeachment started in october of 73, president nixon finally lost that in august of 74, ten months later. well, ten months from today would put us into april which is well past it the super tuesday of the presidential primaries in 2020. we probably would already know who the nominees are going to be or have a pretty good idea. and that s not the ends of it at that point, if the house voted to impeach, the house would then appoint six managers as prosecutors to go try the case in the senate.
us tonight, governor. appreciate it. always a pleasure. let s go straight to the question of the day. are you for sbooepment of this president. i ve been slow to come to there conclusion but i ve finally come to the view that it is time. i won t say past time. but it s time for the house judiciary committee, not the whole house to launch an inquiry, not take a vote but inquiry into impeachment of this president. i say that for two reasons. one in recent weeks, 1,000 former federal prosecutors, not ten, not 100, but a thousand have signed a document saying that the evidence of president trump s obstruction of justice us the in the mueller report senior not even a close case. it s overwhelming and i agree with that and i signed that document. number two, i think people have lost sight of the timeline here. the nixon impeachment started in october of 73, president nixon
attorney general agrees to fire archibald cox. the so-called saturday night massacre. still, nixon is hardly immune to it all. about nine months later, nixon, on the verge of impeachment. but instead of being removed from office, he resigns. i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. reporter: randi kaye, cnn, new york. david gergen and timothy naftali are back with us you. were working for nixon the night he ordered the firing of the special prosecutor. when you heard this proportionate that president trump had also ordered mueller to be fired, what were you thinking? is history repeating itself? it sure triggered a lot of memories when i read that the president did want to fire mueller, and fortunately someone talked him out of it. his own attorney said you do that and i m out of here. and that persuaded him not to do it. so it was the saturday night massacre that didn t happen. i can tell you, going back to october of 73, at that time i
the missing texts. that was a bogus assertion. could it be true that but for white house counsel don mcgann, if the president of the united states had ordered the firing of the special counsel, he might have wound up exactly where nixon was? well, we would have had, i think it s likely we would have had an impeachment crisis last june. i m sure you all recall that a number of leaders in the senate, republican leaders were sending signals to the president don t do this. don t fire the special counsel. this is what s really concerning. why does he want to fire mueller. that s the real issue. why does he want to fire him. in nixon s case, he wanted to fire the special presideosecuto his team stopped him from doing it in the summer of 73. they couldn t hold him back by october of 73 and he pulled the