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Books, you read sam dash's memoir. you read all those accounts, and it was rapid, but it wasn't like this. and we haven't even gotten, interestingly, to the underlying -- the infrastructure of the entire question of whether someone associated with the president of the united states or perhaps the president of the united states committed treason by constitutional definition, giving aid and comfort to the enemy. so these have all been process points. it's been, you know, the question of a cover-up, the question of dropping an investigation. we haven't even begun to get to what that investigation...

And joining us, eugene robinson, opinion writer for "the washington post" and msnbc analyst and luke russert who's been on capitol hill, nbc news capitol hill correspondent. first of all, eugene, i want to offer you one of these losanges that hillary clinton needed to get through the day. >> would you have a shot of bourbon with me? >> i want to go to richard first. you have the experience that i find so relevant to what we were watching today. i said last night one of the reasons the watergate committed worked so well is that they left most of the important questioning to the special counsel,...

On june 27 of 1973. and he was actually trying to pin me down for perjury at that point. i would take some issue with you on sam dash and fred thompson, while they did ask a lot of the questions and counsel was asking questions, the senators actually asked some of the tougher questions. dash and thompson just did kind of a clean up. i would also tell you, the witnesses are really in control in to a congressional hearing, unlike when i testified ten days in a courtroom, the witness doesn't control. whereas hillary was really in control today. >> how does the witness get to control the congressi...

>> john dean, you have the experience of being in that hot seat in the committee room like this in a much more intensity serious situation with this, at that time, the entire presidency turned out to be at stake. what you watched today, if you -- if they had come to you and said how should we run this hearing, what would you have told them to do? >> well, the senate watergate committee really was a model and did become a model, served as a model for a lot of years. ironically, the question that you just raised that baker asked, what did he know and when did he know it was asked of me on june 2...

Toward her, towards her office, toward the casualties of benghazi that day. i harken back to committee hearings, you just alluded to them and i ended up thinking about halfway through the 11 hours that had this committee been employed to investigate the watergate break-in instead of sam irvin, a democrat, and howard baker, a republican, instead of sam dash, the democratic counsel and fred thompson, the republican counsel, who completed that hearing skillfully, legitimately, if this committee had been in charge of the watergate hearing, richard nexton wounext -- nixon would have finished his te...