Historian Meets Watergate Prosecutor On The Right (And Wrong) Kinds Of Presidential Accountability
As new details develop in the name of accountability for January 6th, we look at what it means to hold a president accountable, and whether it was done right in the wake of Watergate.
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
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Show Notes
As new details develop in the name of accountability for January 6th, we look at what it means to hold a president accountable, and whether it was done right in the wake of Watergate.
On Today's Show:
Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, CNN political analyst, NPR contributor, and author of The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment (Princeton University Press, 2022) and co-author with Kevin Kruse of the forthcoming Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past (Basic Books, 2023), and Jill Wine-Banks, MSNBC legal analyst, former Watergate special prosecutor, co-host of the podcasts "#Sistersinlaw" and "IGenPolitics" and the author of The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President (Henry Holt and Co., 2020), look to lessons from Watergate for what needs to happen with the Jan. 6th committee report.