National Security Adviser all together. Trump then asks the directors of National Intelligence to clear him of any guilt in the matter. When that fails, he fires the fbi director saying he wanted to rid himself of the russian thing. He then shared with the Russian Ambassador his relief having gotten rid of the fbi director. Thats a lot of obstructing, not to be obstruction. Thats hardball for now. All in with chris hayes starts right now. Tonight on all in what is the nature of what you saw in i saw interaction that raised questions. The russia plot thickens. It raised questions in my mind again, whether or not the russians were able to gain the cooperation of those individuals. A former cia director goes further than ever in describing what he saw, as the current director of National Intelligence wont deny the
about it. Usually hes the first out of the box. Let me ask you this. Its sort of remarkable, the color in this article. The sense you get is the president just sort of cualling
that nixon sort of cooked up this idea that he was going to tell the fbi, that they were going to uncover some black ops the cia was running. that was the point, where it all flipped over, right? it was the discovery of that tape, which was just before trial. we asked for additional tapes. went oh the supreme court. they said we have a right to them. that one tape, june 23rd, just six days after the break-in, was exactly the smoking gun that led to the republicans going to the president and saying if you don t resign, you will be impeached. and why was that so important? there was a lot of facts on the table at that point. what was it about that, from a legal or political perspective? one, it was just an accumulation of things that by that point you couldn t ignore anymore. and it was he had lied. he said he didn t even know about the cover-up until march when john dean told him there was a cancer growing on the presidency.
yesterday on may 22, 1973, that this was the front page of the new york times. richard nixon conceding an effort to conceal some aspects of watergate. the nixon presidency was brought down in large part by the so-called smoking gun tape, a june 23rd, 1972 recording on which nixon tells the staff to direct the cia to stop the fbi from investigating the watergate burglary. joining me now, attorney jill banks, one of the