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To fulfill their role as a check on the executive branch. >> we continue to act here as if all is normal, as if all parties are observing norms. even as the executive branch shatters them. robustly trafficking in conspiracy theories and attacking all institutions that don't pay the president obedience. our justice system, the free press, the list is getting longer. we demearselves and our proper constitutional role when we act like we work for the president, that we are only here to do his bidding. especially now. >> john heilmann, jonathan lemire, ashley parker remain with us. and john, i'm g...

Encourage handi, i mean basically that was what you got. we want them over we've got to get them to paris or you can't have a peace. >> but, notes taken by one of the nixon's closest aids, now shows that nixon directed efforts to scudle those talks. because he feared it would give an edge to his opponent. he was vice president under lbj. john farrell, author of the forthcoming book richard nixon, the life discovered the notes while putting his book together. he joins us now to talk about this. i really appreciate it. the context for anybody's forgotten, he was leading in the '68 campaign over ...

Vietnam, under lbj, do you look at this as lbj was continuing jfk's policies, or would something different have happened if jfk had remained the president, do you think? >> i think something definitely different would have happened. and probably some 58,000 young americans would still be alive. roger hillsman, who was on the state department desk for southeast asia told me himself that the president would call him at night and say, roger, how are you going to get me out of vietnam? i think robert kennedy also said that he and his brother had been in indochina and back in 1951, '52 era and saw ...