From Trump to Nixon: "Watergate" Film Explains "How We Learned to Stop an Out of Control President"
President Donald Trump called openly Thursday for the leaders of Ukraine and China to investigate Trumps campaign rival Joe Biden and Bidens son Hunter for corruption. Trumps explicit remarks during a press conference came as leaders of the Democratic-led House pushed ahead rapidly with their impeachment investigation. President Trump is just the fourth U.S. president to face a formal impeachment inquiry, joining Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton. We spend the hour looking at back at the Watergate scandal, which led to Nixons resignation in 1974 and is the focus of a documentary titled Watergate Or: How We Learned to Stop an Out of Control President. Drawing on 3,400 hours of audiotapes, archival footage and declassified documents, the film chronicles the dramatic events surrounding the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in 1972, which precipitated Nixons eventual resignation two years later under threat of impeachment. We play clips from the film and speak with its director, Charles Ferguson, who won an Academy Award for his documentary Inside Job.
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