00:00If Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story.
00:04I'm actually fascinated by Nixon as a character in history.
00:08I think that his historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, but I think deservedly so.
00:16As I joked with Robert backstage, if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story.
00:23The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy.
00:26And, by the way, if you look at the story of how the deep state took down Richard Nixon,
00:35it's not all that different from what the same groups of people, the same institutions,
00:41tried to do to Donald Trump and the first Trump administration.
00:43There is a parallel.
00:50I also just, at a personal level, you know, okay, young senator,
00:56vice president, writes some best-selling books, is hated by the media.
01:01It kind of sounds like J.D. Vance.
01:02So I'm a little, you know, I've always liked, I've always liked Richard Nixon.
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