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happy friday it's 4:00 in new york. he has held no press conferences, done no interviews that we know about he is elusive. the inner workings of his highly sensitive assignment a bit of a mystery outside of what some journalists worked to uncover. when it comes to the special counsel jack smith and his federal investigations, plural, into donald j. trump it takes an ear to the ground adept and trained to know when progress is being made this afternoon trusted voices suggest it is time to buckle up. here's why in dates since the federal appeals court in washington rejected the ex-pres...

the january 6th hearing is appealing to both. it's pushing people to feel u.s. democracy is under assault. many insiders, political pros, people who populate your tv screen all day had a gnawing feeling the presentation on thursday would not sway public opinion. the fact pattern should convince steptics to care more about the attack on the capitol and all of trump world's dishonorable conduct in the winter of 2020. but this is where the facts come into conflict with feelings. i'm with jim sciutto on this one. the cnn anchor was sick of all the chatter whether any minds will be change...

Pre-social media era of extreme alienation, these sorts of national security secrets leaked for reasons other than specifically to harm the national security of the united states or to help another nation so, again, this just all in all completely a fascinating case and will be something that the justice department's national security division and other prosecutors have to consider extremely carefully as they move forward. >> andrew, does the prosecution have to move that national security was damaged or does it have to prove that national security is damaged bit leaking of classified document...

Existential question about whether american democracy survives. >> in that way it is quite different from watergate. as you mentioned the 50-year anniversary is this friday. your book about this is fantastic, "watergate a new history." but isn't there a limit to the new lessons we can learn from anything that happened in the pre-fox, pre-cable, pre-social media era? >> there is. and i think there's important distinctions to draw between richard nixon and donald trump. that richard nixon's crimes, which were many -- part of fully understanding watergate is this was a case where the crimes were ...

Quick. you don't even have a whole day to reflect on anything. famously in the book by tim krause it talks about -- it talks about -- >> "the boys on the bus". >> right. and every day they would turn to the ap reporter and say, what's the lead? you know, this kind of thing. so, you sort of drove the political agenda back then. >> i tried. i don't know that i drove it, but -- >> well -- >> but it was. today, you know, i sit there and say, i can't even picture -- i did, but i can't even picture functioning in a media world without twitter because twirtd has exposed all these blind spots i didn't...