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Richard nixon resigned from office. The white house was in turmoil, the Nixon Administration was reeling from the monthslong watergate scandal. He was on his way out the door. Nixons defense secretary was worried about what might happen if the president decided to subvert the constitution to stay in power even as everything around him was falling apart. By using the power of the presidency to call up the military, or god forbid if he tried to authorize the use of Nuclear Weapons without consulting anyone first. The story as told to a wire years earlier was that nixons defense secretary overwhe...

To end any investigation including any investigation involving general flynn. Ken delaney is the nbc news intelligence and National Security reporter. He joins us. Ken, what can you tell me . Reporter greta, just want to clear something up because i was confused about this at first. This is such a fast moving story. It wasnt after the dinner that comey wrote the memo. It was after an oval office meeting, a day after flynn resigned about two weeks after the dinner. But the upshot is the same and were speaking to we have multiple former Law Enforcement officials confirming this now. I spoke in p...

Authorize the use of Nuclear Weapons without consulting anyone first. Nixons defense secretary overwhelmed by the possibility tried to prevent anything like that from happening by going behind his back to the chairman of the join chiefs of staff. If essence, the defense secretary asked the chairman of the joint chiefs for a commitment that neither he nor any of the other chiefs would respond to an order from the white house calling for the use of military force without immediately informing the defense secretary. Nixons defense secretary asked the chairman of the join chief of staff, quote, do...

Facetious. This is the highest office in the land. Were talking about the white house. Scaramucci was ousted moments after john kelly was sworn in as white house chief of staff. Heres scaramucci actually standing nearby at that event. Officially, were told, he offered to resign but lets make no mistake about it. He was fired. Kelly wanted him out. Kelly found scaramucci undisciplined after his profanitylaced tirade to a reporter. It was just ten days ago that trump was praising scaramucci saying that he had, quote, Great Respect for him and calling him a great supporter and, quote, important a...

Tillerson today responded harshly to the story, but he did not deny calling the president a moron, nor did he deny threatening to resign. Reports and analyses from here in las vegas as well as washington and new york. Our nbc reporters, Kristen Welker in vegas, Peter Alexander at the white house, and carol lee who helped break the tillerson story with us is here, and nbc contributor josh barro, and former nevada governor bob miller will be joining me momentarily as well. Kristen, let me start with you. Tell us where President Trump is going to be headed. Reporter well, President Trump is going...