Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190111:23:34:00
Debatable thing between a president and an attorney general. more importantly, two, richardson already pledged to the senate that kind of order was wrong and that was not debatable. it was black and white and under oath. so he famously quit in protest setting off the constitutional crisis of nixon's saturday night massacre. >> my only single most important commitment to this objective was my commitment to the independence of the special prosecutor. i could not be faithful to this commitment and the curtailment of his authority. >> the country tonight is in the midst of what may be the most ser...