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At camp david, the Vice President , secretary of state, secretary of defense, secretary of education, head of the cia, head of the office of management, the deputy head of the transportation department, also all of the congressional leadership on the republican side and chief of staff and his top legislation guy and the political director for the white house and top Economic Advisor and does the personnel for the white house and Sarah Huckabee sanders and that guy with the crazy wes welker guys, steven miller. Everybody you heard of associated with the administration who has not been fired or ...

The political director for the white house and the top economic adviser at the white house and guy that does the personnel for the white house and Sarah Huckabee and the steven miller. Everybody you have ever heard of associated with the administration who has not already been fired or indicted, and a bunch of people you havent heard of they are all going to spend a frigid weekend together in camp david. But not Jeff Sessions. And this is not like some official event. Its not like a state of the union thing where they need a designated survivor. Where they need to to keep somebody somewhere sa...

Well, it turned out that the money had come from president richard nixon's reelection campaign so he was asked to approve subpoenas that. makes sense. but the white house successfully pressured enough members of that committee they could not get a majority vote for those subpoenas that and the country yawning about the snooze fest watergate break out thing, richard nixon went on to win a second term. patman failed. the watergate investigation came to a promising place but politically got stopped. you know what, the scandal came roaring back in the president's second term and the truth did come...

End. the evidence would be taken away, who knows what would happen to it. but the public pressure was so intense that nixon had to capitulate and say okay, we'll install a new federal prosecutor and i'll give you the tapes you want and of course, that was the beginning of the end. >> one of the things i find about a lot of news stories, not just gigantic like watergate, the further you get down the road in time the harder to realize affiliation. patman was a democrat so it matters there was a democratic majority and nixon was republican. you start to lose track of the affiliations. in the mome...

Joining us is the host of slow burn. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> congratulations on the success of this effort and on the ambition, you're doing a great job. >> thank you. >> the idea of the investigation being successfully thwarted by skillful political players. >> uh-huh. >> you used the story of patman to tell that effectively because very much lost the history. are there other examples of that? >> well, i mean, of course, the big effort to stymie the federal prosecutor was when nixon fired him. that didn't work out, either. in the end it didn't work out. initially...