i brought myself down. i gave them a sword. they stuck it in and they twisted it with relish. if i had been in their position, i would have done the same. neil: richard next nixon who said in that famous interview, with the water gate thing that they took the sword and they ll more relished turning it in him. we have press secretary ari fleischer on that. good to have you. great to be here. thanks. neil: what do you make of that maybe this donald trump jr. thing, we re nowhere near that, i grant you, but you ve seen the obsession and the coverage, that this is the start of it. donald trump has got to be careful. donald trump jr. that i would have done differently on the interview, he walked up to the line and said there are things i would have done differently. all he had to say, on this one, the critics were right and i shouldn t have taken the
if he fired him because he wasn t doing the right job, he did the wrong thing. if he fired him because he wanted to slow down or impede the fbi investigation of any potential contact between russian intelligence and the trump campaign, he did the wrong thing and that will complicate matters. shepard: could complicate matters. go on. it could be obstruction of justice if the president did that. this is what impaled richard next nixon when he fired the attorney general at the time. shepard: it s difficult to know if he was aware of the optics of all of this, the meeting with sergei kilseav. we don t know whether donald
lbj became the part of the massive protest in history. richard next to became its next target. he survived the four years and won a massive electoral re-election. he won against george mcgovern in the aftermath of 1968. he was read as far to liberal for america at that time. to this day, george mcgochb stands as the most liberal nominee of a major party in history, and so that led to basically a voter return to the safety of richard nixon. he was driven to resign as a result of impeachment
but you are seemingly smug. doesn t this whole story reveal when the media and the government are created from the same cloth, it is no different than suppression of free speech? nobody is policing each other. the government is okay with it the media is okay with it because they are comies. you are created richard next on dick aids later republicans hate you. they are more efficient. they are like the dog food that makes their own gravy. now they make their natural disasters and they clean it up. this is more efficient. it is like a snake creating its own tail as opposed to eating it. perhaps i should have moved on to joanne. joanne could you summarize what s going on here? yeah. a whole lot of awfulness.
but you are seemingly smug. doesn t this whole story reveal when the media and the government are created from the same cloth, it is no different than suppression of free speech? nobody is policing each other. the government is okay with it the media is okay with it because they are comies. you are created richard next on dick aids later republicans hate you. they are more efficient. they are like the dog food that makes their own gravy. now they make their natural disasters and they clean it up. this is more efficient. it is like a snake creating its own tail as opposed to eating it. perhaps i should have moved on to joanne. joanne could you summarize what s going on here? yeah. a whole lot of awfulness.