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Nixon resigned before the house impeachment hearings started, hearings that would have revealed this information. the documents are being made public today after members of nixon's defense team and legal analysts filed lawsuits asking that they be unsealed and released from grand jury secrecy rules. the legal experts say they could serve as a road map loosely for the current special counsel robert mueller. they argued this could be a benchmark on how to publicly release findings that might directly involve a president. at the time, the evidence against nixon was sent straight to the house judi...

On this, we would see at the same time, rachel. and it would be important to him. it doesn't necessarily mean he has to follow it. this is a compelling way to frame the evidence. >> the people who sued to release this document seemed to be making a public case that the unsealing of this document essentially establishes this precedent, so that mueller, when he gets to the end of his investigation or gets to the appropriate point, he will be able to cite this document that we can all see and we can all read as precedent in order to make the case for how he wants to release information. we're not...

That, what you reported yesterday. there is a group protect democracy and you've got ben wittes, an nbc analyst as well. and pairing with jack goldsmith and steven bates. what are they try doing and how high is the hurdle they face? >> what they are trying to do is get a judge to unseal, to lift the grand jury secrecy rules off of this report that we've been discussing from march of 1974. the house judiciary committee then and now by the way has access to that report. but they have to keep it even today in a skiff, a police where they would normally keep classified information because it is st...

Called to be witnesses. >> in fact, they can come out on the courthouse steps and hold a press conference. they don't typically do that. >> their choice. >> the grand jury secrecy rules apply to the grand jurors, prosecutors, the folks that work in the courthouse but not to the witness. >> we know about some witnesses that have been called. it's a list that doesn't have a lot of people on it that look like steve bannon in terms of his role in the campaign and white house. therefore i'm trying to figure out why he got subpoenaed. lots of people that look like him were brought in for interviews....

People who have been subpoenaed to testify to the grand jury. we do know a fairly substantial list, though, based on public reporting. i gather that witnesses themselves are not precluded from confirming they have been called to be witnesses. >> in fact, they can come out on the courthouse steps and hold a press conference. they don't typically do that. >> their choice. >> the grand jury secrecy rules apply to the grand jurors, prosecutors, the folks that work in the courthouse but not to the witness. >> we know about some witnesses who have been called. it's a list that doesn't have a lot of ...