Watergate scandal
They all fell for the Jimmy Kimmel prank.
Nick Akerman says an upcoming public hearing in the impeachment inquiry against Trump will prove pivotal.
The former W.H. counsel says the impeachment proceedings have already been worse for Trump than they were for Nixon.
"We have a different dynamic after today," said the Watergate reporter after the first public impeachment hearing against Trump.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The U.S. is in “the middle of a cold civil war," said the famed Watergate reporter.
The line Richard Nixon used is still quoted today.
The group drew clear parallels between the current president and Richard Nixon in a Washington Post op-ed.
During the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon tried to release transcripts instead of audiotapes — and the courts struck him down.
"To borrow John Dean’s haunting Watergate-era metaphor ... there is a cancer on the presidency and cancers, if not removed, only grow," Conway wrote.
"They could indict a sitting president," said Nick Akerman.