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I think congress has got to be making clear to the president right now because it's clear what he's up to. they've got to be making clear, if you start using the pardon power in this way that clearly wasn't intended to as a way of protecting yourself from legal liability, that is going to put impeachment on the table. i think it would put it on the table in a more serious way than the comey firing. >> sam dash, the former watergate hearing lead counsel said afterwards when he saw another tape that had not been released, another nixon tape plus personal tapes that rachel maddow revealed last ni...

That was a more dramatic moment. >> the fact i forgot about is that he wasn't asked about it. the committee didn't know about it. the committee made a demand of documents he told them the stuff he was going to bring. they were asking about other stuff and he says, by the way, do you want the enemy list i brought with me? nobody had any idea it was coming. the room erupts. the senator questioning him has no idea what to say in response. it's nervous laughter. sam dash comes in and says yes, we would like a copy of that, sir. it's just a truly shocking moment. it was shocking not just because th...

Compose, which is incredibly incriminating of the president. john dean was in the thick of all of this stuff. he was in the thick of all of this criminality just months before he became this highly cooperating witness right there on tv. >> yeah. i mean, this is -- i think like -- so it's -- like imagine it's don mcgahn sitting there in a committee hearing and he volunteers, you know, you guys haven't asked me about this, but you know that the president personally intervened with the postmaster general to double the shipping rates on amazon because he doesn't like jeff bay sew and "the washingt...

Sam dash said that would be an article of impeachment. we teased it earlier of michael cohen's with a reporter with the daily beast and now with npr. this was 2015 rooegarding a negative story about trump that michael cohen did not want out. >> i know what you're planning on doing p and if there's any inference whether it's in the headlinen or any aspect of your article that indicates a rape and i don't care about some small [ bleep ] line that you'll throw in somewhere. mark my words for it, i will make sure that you and i meet one day over in the courthouse and i will take you for ever penny...

Today it was as if hillary clinton reread mcclewan last night and trey gowdy had never heard of him. with is john dean, former white house counsel to president nixon during watergate who testified at those hearings. 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 today. >> would you have a shot of bourbon with me? >> i want to go to richard first. you have the experience that i f...