Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131027:13:36:00
>> nixon ended up summoning his solicitor general, a right wing former yale law professor, robert bork, to the white house. he was sworn in as acting attorney general and carried out the president's order to fire cox. the saturday night massacre represented a traumatic suspenseful and unprecedented constitutional crisis. it also became a critical turning point in the watergate story, the moment that nixon lost the country, the moment his beloved silent majority turned on him, the moment that made impeachment proceedings and nixon's resignation inevitable, the most his fate as the most notoriou...