Podcast appearances and mentions of Elizabeth Holtzman

Few women have had a bigger impact on New York City politics than Elizabeth Holtzman. A Brooklyn native, Holtzman embarked on a political career over 50 years ago. She was an aide to Mayor John Lindsay in the late 60s and then became the youngest woman at the time ever elected to Congress at 31 years old. She was also the Brooklyn district attorney and the New York City comptroller — the only woman ever to hold either of those positions. Holtzman joined NY1's Errol Louis for a look back at her many years in politics. They discussed her role in the Nixon impeachment investigation while serving on the House Judiciary Committee in 1974. They also touched on her long relationship with President Joe Biden, her thoughts on Republican candidate Donald Trump, and the many accomplishments of women in politics since she started. Finally, she explained what made her initially enter public service and why it still matters to her. Join the conversation, weigh in on Twitter using the hashtag #NY1YouDecide or give us a call at 212-379-3440 and leave a message. Or send an email to YourStoryNY1@charter.com.

Ali Velshi is joined by Michael Cohen, Fmr. Special Counsel to Donald Trump, Caleb Silver, Editor-In-Chief at Investopedia, Christopher Browning, Professor of History Emeritus at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Eden McLean, Historian and Professor at Auburn University, Catherine Christian, Former Assistant District Attorney for Manhattan, Elizabeth Holtzman, Former Congresswoman, Ebony Twilley Martin, Executive Director at Greenpeace USA, Zack Beauchamp, Senior Correspondent at Vox, and SteveBenen, Producer for The Rachel Maddow Show.

Elizabeth Holtzman is best known for her legendary primary upset of the Dean of the House in 1972, making her the youngest woman elected to Congress and propelling her to national notice as part of the House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Hearings of Richard Nixon. Even beyond that specific era, the diversity and duration of her public service is nearly unrivaled...including working in 1960s Georgia to advance civil rights, her role bringing 100+ Nazi War Criminals closer to justice, becoming the first woman to be a District Attorney in New York City,  the only woman to serve as NYC comptroller, and an impactful political legacy spanning several decades that continues to this day.IN THIS EPISODEMemories of growing up in an immigrant family in Brooklyn, NY...An incredibly formative experience working on civil rights issues in Albany, GA...Her instrumental role bringing 100+ Nazi war criminals to justice in the 1970s...How she became the youngest woman elected to Congress by beating the Dean of the House in 1972...Stories of taking on the Brooklyn political machine...An unsettling comment from a veteran member after she's first elected to the House...Memories of her service on the House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon Impeachment Hearings...Her rejection of the revisionist view of Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon...Analyzing her very narrow loss for US Senate in 1980...Looking back on her stint as both Brooklyn District Attorney and NYC Comptroller...Her view on the "finest mayor NYC has had"...Comparing her 2022 House race to her first run in 1972...Her view of the current Supreme Court as "illegitimate"...The couple of times her path crossed with Donald Trump in NYC politics...AND Abraham Lincoln High, Samuel Alito, Birch Bayh, Jimmy Breslin, bureaucratic gobbledygook, the CIA, CORE, Jimmy Carter, cattle prods, Manny Celler, Frank Church, Cracker Barrel, John Culver, Al D'Amato, Mike Dewine, William O. Douglas, Meade Esposito, the first piece of paper, Flatbush, Gimbles, The Godfather, Barry Goldwater, the instrumentality of the state, Jacob Javits, John Lindsay, Carolyn Maloney, James Meredith, Pat Moynihan, NAACP, Radcliffe, John Rhodes, Peter Rodino, Russian pogroms, SNCC, Bernie Sanders, Hugh Scott, shoe leather, smoking guns, John Paul Stevens, Adlai Stevenson, Tammany Hall, Clarence Thomas, Larry Tribe, whistleblowers, witch hunts & more!

Ali Velshi is joined by Barbara McQuade, Professor at University of Michigan Law School, Jennifer Rubin, Opinion Writer at the Washington Post, Elizabeth Holtzman, Former Congresswoman, Juno Dawson, author of ‘This Book Is Gay', Michael Steele, Former Chairman of the RNC, Charles F. Coleman, Jr., Civil Rights Attorney, Michael Waldman, President & CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, and Soledad O'Brien, CEO of Soledad O'Brien Productions.

Elizabeth Holtzman is an attorney, writer, author, tv commentator and former politician. She served for nearly three decades in government, including 20 years as an elected official. She was the youngest woman elected to Congress, a record she held for 42 years, and subsequently became the first woman elected Brooklyn DA and the first and only woman to be elected NYC Comptroller. During her four terms in Congress she captured national attention for her role on the House Judiciary Committee where she voted to impeach President Richard Nixon. Liz is a champion of women's rights, authoring many laws including extending the deadline for ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment, the Rape Privacy Act and, in exposing the U.S. government's inaction on Nazi war criminals living in America, forced the Justice Department to create a special Nazi-hunting unit that won world-wide acclaim. The issues that mattered deeply to Liz and first brought her to Congress 50 years ago are among the same critical issues challenging America today and have her as fired-up and engaged as ever. Join us for this spirited, insightful conversation about women's rights and the attack on abortion and reproductive rights; anti-Semitism, racism and ageism; the GOP culture wars; Trump and Trumpism; the impact of the Fox/Dominion settlement; Clarence Thomas and the tarnished Supreme Court; preserving our democracy; and a fascinating look back on Nixon and Watergate. Got somethin' to say?! Email us at BackroomAndy@gmail.com Leave us a message: 845-307-7446 Twitter: @AndyOstroy Produced by Andy Ostroy and Matty Rosenberg @ Radio Free Rhiniecliff Associate producer Jennifer Hammoud Music by Andrew Hollander Design by Cricket Lengyel

Joy Malbon, CTV News; Bruce Heyman; former U.S. ambassador to Canada; Elizabeth Holtzman, former U.S. Congresswoman & Brooklyn District Attorney; Roy Eriksson, Finland's Ambassador to Canada; Yuliya Kovaliv, Ukraine's Ambassador to Canada; Brian Gallant, former N.B. premier; Lisa Raitt, former Conservative Cabinet minister; Tom Mulcair, CTV News Political Analyst; and Robert Benzie, the Toronto Star.

Ali Velshi is joined by Jonathan Allen, Senior National Politics Reporter at NBC News, Elizabeth Holtzman, Former Congresswoman – Judiciary Committee member who voted to impeach Nixon, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History NYU,  Anne Applebaum, Staff Writer The Atlantic, Hugo Lowell, Political Investigations Reporter The Guardian, Carol Lam, Former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California, Joyce Vance, Former U.S. Attorney, Peter Beinart, Editor-at-Large at Jewish Currents, and Michael Beschloss, NBC News Presidential Historian.

Ali Velshi is joined by NBC's Vaughn Hillyard, NBC's Molly Hunter, former SDNY Criminal Division Deputy Chief Kristy Greenberg, Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), Author of “Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right” Matthew Dallek, Professor of History at NYU Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Washington Correspondent at The New York Times Charlie Savage, former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, former FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair, Fmr. Governor of Ohio (R) John Kasich

Since Richard Nixon resigned rather than face a House impeachment vote after Watergate, the U.S. has seen three impeachments and three trials, none of which has resulted in a conviction or voluntary resignation. What do Watergate and the Clinton and Trump episodes tell us about the circumstances in which impeachment might remain a meaningful check on a President's abuse of power? Peter Shane pursues the basics of impeachment law with constitutional scholar Michael Gerhardt and then interviews former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, a key figure on the 1973-74 House Judiciary Committee, regarding her experience in the Watergate investigation and perspective on more recent impeachment episodes.

Katie Phang and Jonathan Capehart are in for Ali Velshi and are joined by MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, NBC's Garrett Haake, NBC's Michael Beschloss, NBC's Julie Tsirkin, Executive Editor,NewYorker.com David Rohde, Donald Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen, Fmr. Homeland Security Advisor and Counterterrorism Advisor to VP Mike Pence Olivia Troye, Sen. Tina Smith (D- MN), Advisor of Renew Democracy Initiative Rina Shah, NBC News Senior Politics Editor Digital Amanda Terkel, Fmr. Asst. Watergate Special Prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks, Fmr. Asst District Attorney for Manhattan DA Rebecca Roiphe, Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative Reporter at The Washington Post Carol Leonnig, House Judiciary Member during the Nixon impeachment Elizabeth Holtzman, Fmr. U.S. Attorney Carol Lam

Robin explores contemporary book banning as a legacy of the Confederacy, and confronts the epidemic of US gun murders. Special guest: Elizabeth Holtzman, former Congresswoman and progressive activist.

Ali Velshi is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative Reporter for The New York Times Susanne Craig, NBC News Foreign Correspondent Matt Bradley,Filmmaker and Director of “The Corridors of Power” Dror Moreh, former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman,former U.S. Attorney in Michigan Barbara McQuade, Host of Black Diplomats podcast Terrell Jermaine Starr, Opinion Writer at The Washington PostJennifer Rubin, former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh

In this episode we examine the Legacy of Watergate. It was the one question everyone was asked by historian Timothy Naftali and the answers were fascinating.  This is a study of what each person thought the lesson of Watergate is for history. The one that caught the most interest from me was that of Bernard Nussbaum, who was the second in command on the staff of the House Judiciary Committee. He calls the Special Prosecutor's Office " a dangerous, dangerous office."He runs through all the ways this office can be abused and how President Nixon and his friend President Bill Clinton should never have allowed the office to have been created in either of their cases. While Nussbaum pays token defenses of the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office it is clear that he holds the institution in fairly low regard and in every point he makes we are in agreement. His warning is one every President and leader needs to heed. There is no reason the office should ever exist again, in my opinion.  Former Senator Trent Lott also makes a valid point too about what happens when a person gets in trouble and how the price they pay can be very different depending on which political party they are a member of when it happens. Here is the Legacy of Watergate, including my opinion, which is  its unfairness to President Nixon and the battles over the war in Vietnam planted the seeds of the  disfunction in politics we see today Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

This episode opens with President Richard Nixon's March 1974 visit to the Grand Ole Opry.  Nixon was there to open the brand new Opry House on its first night after moving from downtown Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. It is a symbol of the one section of the country that never wavered, as President Nixon's problems mounted. In the South, we don't cut and run, especially when it is a President that stood strong during war time as this President had done. Unfortunately, the public support was not translating to the Judiciary Committee's three influential Democratic Congressmen Representatives Walter Flowers of Alabama,  Ray Thornton of Arkansas, and Jim Mann of my home state of South Carolina. They were moving toward impeachment, undercutting the President's support in their states delegations. President Nixon sensing the momentum shifting away from him, reached out to Governor George Wallace of Alabama to see if he could not help him sway Walter Flowers, when Wallace refused, it was the moment President Nixon knew this fight was lost. He would lose the southern firewall that stood between himself and Impeachment.  The President was also having trouble holding his Republicans together as Representatives William Cohen, Tom Railsback, W. Caldwell Butler, and Lawrence Hogan had decided to side with the democrats. As we listen in on the debate in this episode, you will hear these men, as some struggle to vote their conscience, and some make their decision in  matter of fact fashion. You  will get to hear the moments of high drama and one speech that has been an enormous part of the history of the moment from Representative Barbara Jordan of Texas. Jordan's speech contained many charges, most notably  was that of Howard Hunt faking cables to embarrass the Kennedy Administration and involvement in the overthrow of the South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.  While that charge of Hunt faking cables tying Kennedy personally to the assassination of Diem was faked, it was faked by a man who, as a member of the CIA, had seen the real ones that had tied Kennedy to the overthrow of the Diem Government.  A fact hidden from the public and Barbara Jorden for  years afterwards. This is but one of many examples of charges made that with time, unsealed documents, and an explosive set of Church Hearings in the United States Senate would later be proven untrue. All to late for Watergate and Richard Nixon. But the President did have defenders,   Representatives Charlie Wiggins of California and Charlie Sandman of New Jersey.  The case they made has, in reality, stood the test of time and you will hear it in this episode too. Plus we will dismantle the mythology of the Watergate debate that the defense case was dismantled by a hearing full of specific accusations concerning the President that overwhelmed his defenders and that President Nixon's attorney, James St. Claire, was actually able to perform a real defense of the President. Neither was true and you will hear it here for yourself.  Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

This episode is an in-depth look at the House Judiciary committee itself as they went through the work of deciding whether or not they should impeach a President of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanors for the first time in 106 years.In this show you will hear the memories of each of the members and staffers of the committee we selected. They will go in-depth to recall the procedures they followed, their own feelings upon hearing the tapes, their own judgements, the work ethic of the staff and members and their thoughts about Watergate all these many years later. Of particular interests will be the oral history segments of Bernard Nussbaum and his assessment of both John Dean, the star witness and the former Counsel to the President , and of John Mitchell the former Attorney General and head of the Re-Election campaign for President Nixon. He says at one point that he found John Dean "the perfect Nazi corporal" who would mirror the opinion and thoughts of the person who had power over him at any given point. It is a startling revelation as to what this member of the staff thought of the main witness against the sitting President. Nussbaum also says that this issue of mirrorring the powerful person in the room made him watch what he said "out of fear of putting words in his mouth" and " while some prosecutors will do that , that is not what I do".  It will make your jaw drop. We also will hear from President Richard Nixon, in an interview conducted by his former aid Frank Gannon from 1983, in which the President will lay out his version of several of the lesser remembered accusations of the Watergate years: his taxes, the improvements to his homes, the accusations of enriching himself etc.. If you listen with an open mind it will certainly cause you to question a lot of the claims made by his accusers. Then we let Geoff Shepard lay out the articles of impeachment that are to be drafted by the House Committee after they had reviewed the overwhelming evidence they had in their hands.  Evidence, in our opinion, tainted by the decision of John Doar, the lead House Staffer, to only collate the evidence provided by the Watergate Special Prosecution Task Force and the Watergate Senate Committee.  Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Voting is important because it's an opportunity for change. It gives people a voice about whom they want in office and is a chance to stand up for the issues they care about. About Hon. Elizabeth Holtzman Elizabeth Holtzman handles government relations at the federal, state, and local levels. She also focuses on litigation. Liz joined Herrick after over 22 years in government, including 2O as an elected official. During her four terms as a U.S. Congresswoman, she captured national attention for her role on the House Judiciary Committee where she voted to impeach President Richard Nixon and questioned President Ford about the Nixon pardon. She chaired the Immigration and Refugees Subcommittee (where she co-authored Senator Ted Kennedy the Refugee Act of 1980). Co-founded and was elected and re-elected as the first Democratic Co-Chair of the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues. She wrote many laws, including extending the deadline for ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment and the Rape Privacy Act. She was the first member of Congress to expose the U.S. government's inaction on Nazi war criminals living in America and spearheaded the effort to bring them to justice. When elected, she was the youngest woman to be elected to Congress, a record she had held for 42 years. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tbcy/support

In this episode we cover the opening day of the Impeachment Hearing of the House Judiciary Committee. We listen to staffers of the committee and a couple of the committee members as they discuss the way the committee operated and the issues they faced as they moved forward to really look at the events. You will also hear from the members of a quiet coalition of southern Democrats all of whom are struggling between their feelings of loyalty to both a President and a constituency that is counting on them to do the right thing, and the overwhelming nature of the evidence that is in front of them. This evidence totally coming from two sources, the Senate Watergate Committee staffed with partisan Democrats put together by Senator Ted Kennedy's office, and the Rabid Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office. None of those facts was known at the time this debate raged  by this set of politicians tasked with making the final judgement as to whether to impeach the President As all of this pressure continues to build we will look into the toll it is taking on the President's mental health. Just how well was Richard Nixon coping with the disintegration of his Administration.  There are various rumors circulating that it was not to well. Yet, other staffers such as Alexander Haig and Ray Price take issue with those reports. We will hear from various people who witnessed the President up-close as all of this was unfolding. Then we close out the episode hearing from the man himself,  President Richard Nixon. In 1983, just nine years after these events transpired, then Former President Richard Nixon sat down with his former staffer Frank Gannon for an in-depth, non adversarial, much more relaxed, set of interviews. We will be sharing portions from those interviews in our remaining broadcasts. They will provide you with some extraordinary insights from what the President was thinking in these final months of his administration.  Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

In this episode we listen as the House Judiciary Committee sets up shop to start their look into the impeachment of Richard Nixon.  You will hear from Bernard Nussbaum as he talks about the decision by John Doar not to aggressively investigate the facts of the case instead deciding they would collate the evidence already gathered by the Senate Watergate Committee and the Special Prosecutor's office. A decision that Nussbaum violently opposed at the time but in these interviews tries to put the best face on for the oral history he is providing. He even goes so far as to say it was  most likely the biggest factor in getting to the result that eventually happened. You will hear Hillary Rodham Clinton discuss the system for organizing material they came up with based on how Doar ran his law practice. The three areas that they all worked on included just trying to figure out how an impeachment would work, what were the grounds for determining a high crime and misdemeanor, and just what exactly were the facts as they knew them. It is a fascinating look at how the committee was run and you will hear how the congressmen were babysat through the process, with little black books, kept under lock and key, that staffers would go through the evidence with the congressmen, given to them by the WSPF, let them ask questions and go through books only under the direct supervision of staff with all the materials going safely back into custody after they were done researching it all for the current session. It was all a very controlled environment, for secrecy's sake, or at least that is what we have been led to believe.Then we go through the scenario that led to the request by the Special Prosecutor's office for 64 more taped conversations. The President refused to hand them over, deciding instead to give edited transcripts, to be released simultaneously, to the Prosecutors, the House Committee and the public. That decision would eventually lead to the legal fight in the Supreme Court known as the United States vs Richard Nixon.  Then the President addressed the nation.If ever a case of being caught telling the truth has existed then this speech by President Nixon is it.  We just did not have any way of knowing it then, but we do now. If you go back to our first four tape series episodes and listen to the "Cancer on the Presidency" conversation with John Dean, the White House Counsel, ( episode 137 -  Tape series part 1) or the conversations with Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen ( episode 139  -  Tape series part 3) every single assertion in his defense made by President Nixon in this April 1974 speech turned out to be true. Go listen to it all for yourself. ZBiotics Pre-Alcohol ProbioticBreaks down the byproduct of alcohol responsible for rough mornings after drinking.Brand Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

In this episode we are going to introduce you to a new set of players in the saga of the fall of Richard Nixon. These are the members of the House Judiciary Committee and its staff. We chose five of them. Representatives Elizabeth Holtzman D-New York and Trent Lott R-Mississippi, two people at the very start of their long and illustrious careers. We also chose three members of the staff, Hillary Rodham Clinton and William Weld, who were young staffers and the number two man on the staff Bernard Nussbaum. It is Bernard Nussbaum whose oral history is of the most interest throughout the rest of our series. He is blunt in his assessment of the office of Special Prosecutor even as he attempts to defend the job that they all did in 1974. He calls it a dangerous office. He also points out often that Doar overruled him in his view that a thorough investigation needed to be conducted by their office rather than just relying on the information and evidence gathered by the Senate Watergate Committee and the Watergate Special Prosecutor's office. However, in this episode, we will just introduce them all to you and how they got in the places they were when the scandal landed on their doorstep in March of 1974.  I will tell you that of all the various entities involved in the horrible travesty of justice known as Watergate (Here I am editorializing again) my opinion of these people, with the exception of William Weld, changed the most dramatically for the better of any of the research I conducted. This is their story with a few funny side stories too. Like how sliming  salmon prepared Hillary Rodham Clinton for her long career in politics. Reality Life with Kate CaseyThree times a week I interview directors, producers, and stars from unscripted television.Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify The Enthusiasm ProjectDeep dives exploring the world of what it means to be an independent creator.Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

In this , the season premier or our final season on "Richard Nixon and Watergate 1974 - 1994 The Fall and Re-Rise of Richard Nixon" we take a thorough examination of the actual crime that our President had been accused of by the Watergate Special Prosecution Force. It was that he authorized the payment of $75,000 in hush money to Howard Hunt. They laid out a convincing case. They met in secret with John Doar, the House Judiciary Committee's lead legal staffer. They met in ex parte meetings with Judge John Sirica, to insure that all the accumulated evidence they had was going to be moved over to the Judiciary Committee, Grand Jury secrecy rules be damned.  It all went down  flawlessly when the indictments were handed down on March 1, 1974. There was just one problem. They had a gargantuan hole in the story. There was even more than a small possibility that the money had been paid outside of a window of time when President Nixon could have even known about the blackmail threat made by Hunt. Now that's a problem. But you got to give it to Leon Jaworski, Henry Ruth, and the Special Prosecutor's for coming up with a creative way around it. They met with John Doar late at night and over dinner at Henry Ruth's house and made a case to him. Then somebody, be it Doar on his own, or from the advice of his friend Henry Ruth, decided to go against the advice of his top advisors, Bernard Nussbaum and Hillary Rodham, and not investigate anything on their own. He would ,collate the evidence, given to him from the Grand Jury. by way of the Watergate Special Prosecutors and follow their road map.  A road map with only one goal in mind;  take down the President of the United States of America. The President they could not defeat at the ballot box. It's all here and you will hear it in their own words, and in one case, when asked a direct question by Historian & CNN contributor Tim Naftali, you will even hear one prosecutor, Jill Wine Banks, attempt the artful dodge rather than answer the question "How did you know for sure Richard Nixon authorized the payment to  Howard Hunt?" Reality Life with Kate CaseyThree times a week I interview directors, producers, and stars from unscripted television.Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify The Enthusiasm ProjectDeep dives exploring the world of what it means to be an independent creator.Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

The House Judiciary Committee is about to take center stage. In February 1974, the House votes to start the inquiry on Impeachment in ernest. They assign the task to the House Judiciary Committee under its new Chairman Peter Rodino, a little known New Jersey Democrat from Jersey City. He had assumed the position out of seniority after Elizabeth Holtzman's upset victory had unseated Chairman Emanuel Celler, who had served 50 years in the House and was a friend and supporter of President Nixon. Most of the committee was made up of lesser known political figures, some at the very start of their political careers like Holtzman and Mississippi Republican Congressman Trent Lott.  They would be assigned the enormous and volatile task of investigating the President of the United States for High Crimes and Misdemeanors. The spotlight would fall to them. Would they be fair? Would they be bi-partisan? Could they meet the test?  Here we examine the committee and their efforts to staff up to look at the evidence. We will also look at a major decision made by the lead staff person they hired, John Doar. Mr. Doar was himself a former Justice Department lawyer who had been heavily involved in civil rights work. He had lived in New York City at an early point in his career and then worked in the South. At several points along the way he had become friends  and maintained a friendship with Henry Ruth, now serving as the number 2 man in the Special Prosecutor's Office. In this episode you will hear from Henry Ruth himself at just how close that relationship was and how it played to the advantage of his staff and their efforts to get all the evidence they had over to the House Committee, all while circumventing all the due process procedures that normally protect a defendant in any criminal proceeding. In this case, against a President of the United States of America, you will see every effort made that could be, to render the leader of the free world defenseless before an unsuspecting committee of lesser known political figures. *** For more information please go to the following website ShepardonWatergate,comSupport My WorkIf you love the show, the easiest way to show your support is by leaving us a positive rating with a review. You can also tell your family and friends about " Randal Wallace Presents : Nixon and Watergate " tooThe Lowcountry Gullah PodcastTheculture, history and traditions podcast where Gullah Geechee culture lives!Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify ZBiotics Pre-Alcohol ProbioticBreaks down the byproduct of alcohol responsible for rough mornings after drinking.Brand

Hear back-to-back "elevator pitches" from 11 of the Democrats running to represent New York's 10th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives: Daniel Goldman, lead counsel for the impeachment investigation of Pres. Trump in 2019 and former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District NY,  Quanda Francis, accountant, data scientist and entrepreneur,  Yan Xiong, pastor, veteran and activist,  Brian Robinson, author and founder of a consumer advocacy company,  Mondaire Jones, U.S. Representative for the 17th district,  Yuh-Line Niou, NYS assembly member (65th),  Peter Gleason, an attorney,  Maud Maron, public defender,  Jo Anne Simon, NYS assembly member (52nd),  Elizabeth Holtzman, former U.S. Congresswoman, Brooklyn DA, NYC comptroller, assistant to Mayor Lindsay, and  Carlina Rivera, City Council member (2nd). Plus, check out Gothamist reporter Liz Kim's voter guide on the candidates.

Elizabeth Holtzman - Attorney and politician who served in the US House of Representatives from New York's 16th congressional district as a member of the Democratic Party from 1973 to 1981. She is running for the Democratic nomination in New York's 10th congressional district in the 2022 election. She joins Tavis to discuss the FBI executing a search warrant at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence

THE TRUTH HAS FINALLY COME HOME!!Season 7 Richard Nixon and Watergate, 1974 Through the Fire will take you from the start of the New Year in 1974 through the March 1, 1974 indictments against the defendants in the Watergate Case. One of the 19 people named as an unindicted Co-Conspirator was President Richard Nixon.  This is the story of how the President was named, how the defendants were indicted, and the ways those decisions were made. Using oral histories and newly released documents made available to us from the National Archives and organized in three extraordinary books written by Geoff Shepard. Our show will attempt to lay out the case of alleged Prosecutorial Misconduct so extreme that it was hidden from the public for nearly five decades. This conduct is now the subject of an ethics complaint that was filed in 2021 with the Justice Department.  In this introduction to our season we want to explain how this season will be different than how our other episodes have been constructed. We chose several players in the events of the period that would eventually lead to the fall of President Nixon. Here we introduce you to those players, who they were and what their role was in the events of 1974.We will be listening to oral histories from: The Special Prosecutors Jill Wine Banks, Richard Ben Veniste , and Henry Ruth. The Nixon Administration figures Alexander Haig, Ray Price, and Geoff Shepard. The House Judiciary Committee Members Trent Lott and Elizabeth Holtzman. House Judiciary Staff members Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bernard Nussbaum, and William Weld. Plus interviews with President Richard Nixon himself. All are discussed and introduced to you here in this introduction of Season 7, Richard Nixon and Watergate 1974 Through the Fire. By the time our story is through, It will change everything you thought you knew about the fall of President Richard Nixon *** To read the documents we will be using you can go to the following websiteShepardonWatergate.com Support My WorkIf you love the show, the easiest way to show your support is by leaving us a positive rating with a review. You can also tell your family and friends about " Randal Wallace Presents : Nixon and Watergate " too

Elizabeth Holtzman -- former member of Congress, Brooklyn District Attorney, and NYC Comptroller -- joined the show to discuss her campaign for Congress in the new 10th District of New York, which includes much of Lower Manhattan and a large stretch of Brooklyn.

Sam Stein is joined by Katie Benner, Justice Department Reporter at the New York Times, Barbara McQuade, MSNBC Legal Analyst, Rep. Stacey E. Plaskett (D – U.S. Virgin Islands), Caleb Silver, Editor-in-Chief at Investopedia, Secretary Jena Griswold (D) Colorado Secretary of State, Elizabeth Holtzman, Fmr. U.S. Congresswoman, Michael Conway, Counsel of U.S. House Judiciary Committee in the Impeachment Inquiry of President Nixon, Hugo Lowell, Congressional Reporter at The Guardian, Kyle Cheney, Senior Legal Affairs Reporter at Politico, Rep. Madeleine Dean (D- PA), Lexi Churchill, Research Reporter, ProPublica at Texas Tribune Investigative Unit, Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, Fmr. Director for European Affairs at National Security Council, Robin Rue Simmons, Founder & Executive Director at FirstRepair, and Robert J. Patterson, Professor and Inaugural Chair at Department of African American Studies at Georgetown University.

Ali Velshi is joined by Texas State Rep. Jasmine Crockett, former HUD Secretary Julian Castro, Congressman Hank Johnson, Congresswoman Madeleine Dean, New York Times reporter Katie Benner, Washington Post reporter Philip Rucker, Dr. Rick Bright, Dr. Celine Gounder, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, and former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman.

Tonight: The first felony sentencing for a MAGA foot soldier in the Capitol attack. But why isn't the Justice Department prosecuting the leaders who inspired him? Then, as infrastructure votes begin, why is the White House waiting to act on voting rights? Plus, the Texas lawmaker who fled his state to stop voter suppression tests positive for Covid in D.C. And an exclusive interview with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on America's sluggish response to climate change.Guests: Donald Ayer, Elizabeth Holtzman, Majority Whip James Clyburn, Rep. Trey Martinez-Fischer, Amos Bridges, Secy. Jennifer Granholm

Elizabeth Holtzman, former US Congresswoman, Brooklyn DA, NYC comptroller, assistant to Mayor Lindsay; currently a lawyer in New York City and author of The Case For Impeaching Trump (Hot Books, 2019) draws on her extensive experience in local and national government to discuss this year's primaries and what voters should look for in a candidate.

Donald Trump leaves on 20 January, which begs the question, what will happen on 21 January going forward. Will there be peace and will Trump and his cronies be held accountable? Thom is joined by Brendan O’Connor who is a journalist-contributor of The Nation Magazine.

Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by former Congresswoman, the Honorable Elizabeth Holtzman, now of Herrick Feinstein LLP, to discuss last week’s tragic insurrection at the Capitol and the unfolding aftermath, the resulting second impeachment of President Trump, and Congresswoman Holtzman’s concerns about our country’s future and the rule of law, truth, and democracy.    Today, Aaron and Congresswoman Holtzman have a vital conversation about what should happen next in our country. Who needs to be held accountable? Is the President criminally responsible? What about Members of Congress who enabled and contributed to the insurrection?  How do we unify the American people? Congresswoman Holtzman and Aaron have a crucial discussion about unity and division, the damage done to American democracy, the mythology of President Trump and Trumpism, the media’s role in perpetuating falsehoods of fraud in the 2020 election, peace and war, as well as the violent attacks on Capitol Hill last Wednesday, Trump’s galvanizing actions thereof and therein, and how exactly we as a country move forward and “defang” these insurrectionist movements. Congresswoman Holtzman talks about her personal concerns about attending the upcoming inauguration of President-Elect Biden as D.C. and state capitols all over the country prepare to handle mounting threats of violence and her disappointment in how far we as a country have fallen. Aaron and Congresswoman Holtzman compare and contrast Trump and Nixon, their actions and handling of criminal activities, and the aftermath of Watergate. Throughout the conversation, comparisons of our current state are made to denazification and that of the mob. What will the standards be? How will the truth be established? And perhaps most importantly, how best should we proceed as a society to restore respect, trust, and the rule of law?   At 31, Ms. Holtzman was the youngest woman ever elected to Congress in 1972.  She graduated from Harvard Law School and holds admissions in the state of New York; the U.S. Supreme Court; the U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit; the U.S. District Court, Eastern District, New York; and the U.S. District Court, Southern District, New York. After more than 22 years in government, including 20 as an elected official, the Honorable Elizabeth Holtzman, now 79, handles government relations at the federal, state, and local levels as well as litigation in her position at Herrick.   During her four terms as a U.S. Congresswoman, she captured national attention for her role on the House Judiciary Committee where she voted to impeach President Richard Nixon and for her questioning of President Ford about the Nixon pardon; chaired the Immigration and Refugees Subcommittee (where she co-authored the Refugee Act of 1980 with Senator Ted Kennedy); and wrote many laws, including extending the deadline for ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment and the Rape Privacy Act. She was the first member of Congress to expose the U.S. government’s inaction on Nazi war criminals living in America and spearheaded the effort to bring them to justice. Congresswoman Holtzman subsequently became the first woman elected District Attorney in New York City, serving eight years as DA of King County (Brooklyn); she was also the first and only woman to be elected Comptroller of New York City.   In 2014, Congresswoman Holtzman was appointed by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to its Advisory committee. She later resigned from that position to protest the policy of separating parents and children at the southwest border. Previously, Congresswoman Holtzman was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the Nazi and Japanese Imperial War Criminal Records Interagency Working Group, which oversaw the declassification of more than eight million pages of secret Nazi war crimes files held by the U.S. government.   Congresswoman Holtzman has written several books, including the 2018 book, The Case For Impeaching Trump, and many articles. She regularly appears as a commentator on television and has been featured in several movies, including Charles Ferguson’s “Watergate,” Robert Redford’s documentary “All the President’s Men Revisited,” and the Academy Award-winning documentaries, “Hôtel Terminus” about Gestapo Chief Klaus Barbie an “Women-for America, for the World,” about the nuclear disarmament. Congresswoman Holtzman has also received many honors and four honorary degrees for her significant contributions to American politics.   Listen now!   To learn more about Congresswoman Holtzman, please click here and/or here. To learn more about Congresswoman Holtzman’s 2018 book, The Case For Impeaching Trump, please click here.     Host: Aaron Freiwald Guest: Hon. Elizabeth Holtzman       Follow Good Law | Bad Law: YouTube: Good Law | Bad Law Facebook: @GOODLAWBADLAW Instagram: @GoodLawBadLaw Website: https://www.law-podcast.com

Heresy in Broad Daylight: Herrick counsel and former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, who captured national attention for her role on the House Judiciary Committee, where she voted to impeach President Richard Nixon, speaks with host Richard Levick of LEVICK on what the U.S. Congress needs to do now in light of the tragic and shocking events of January 6th and the ongoing threats to democracy. “No one is safe.”

Former congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman joins us to discuss her experiences fighting for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, and her opposition to Phyllis Schlafly. This is part of our series "Keep It 100," celebrating 100 years of women's suffrage. 

Robin on the Senate trial, part 2; WAPO’s sexist blunder; India’s feminist #MeetToSleep movement; and Mexico’s guerrilla glitter tactics. Guest: Former Congresswoman Liz Holtzman discusses what’s really happening in Washington—and what’s next.

Thom engages his callers on a wide range of topics, from impeachment strategy, to corrupt Republican Senators, to what led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 76 years ago. For the Book Club Thom reads from "The Case for Impeaching Trump" by Elizabeth Holtzman and from his own work "ADD Success Stories."

Today we talk to lawyer and political leader Elizabeth Holtzman. She served on the House Judiciary Committee charged with investigating the Watergate scandal and prepared articles of impeachment that precipitated the resignation of President Nixon. Her latest book is The Case For Impeaching Trump.     The post Learning From the Nixon Impeachment appeared first on KPFA.

For only the fourth time in American history, impeachment hearings have begun. On this week's episode, congressional trailblazer Elizabeth Holtzman (D-NY) joins Tara to discuss her experience as a Judiciary Committee member during Watergate and the comparisons to Trump's impeachment hearings. Holtzman brings a candid, first hand, perspective to how Democrats and the Republicans should be handling Trump's abuse of power. She's also written several books including the "Case for Impeaching Trump."A self–proclaimed political outsider, Holtzman defeated a 50–year House veteran and powerful chairman to win a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives as the youngest female member of Congress at the time. During her four terms in the House, Holtzman earned national prominence during the Richard M. Nixon impeachment inquiry and as a cofounder of the Congressional Caucus on Women’s Issues. Tara gives her take on the opening impeachment hearings and discusses her trip to Montgomery, Alabama where she witnessed the historic swearing in of the first African American mayor of the city known as the "cradle of the Confederacy and the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement."

Today, November 13, 2019, as witnesses take the stand in the first public hearings on the impeachment of President Donald Trump, the Harper's Podcast looks back to another major report on presidential infraction. The Department of Justice released its redacted version of the Mueller Report almost seven months ago, on April 18. Although the 448-page document revealed new depths to the chaos of the Trump presidency, its inconclusiveness was a disappointment and a setback to those who had hoped to see clear grounds for impeachment. On May 30, Harper's Magazine organized a discussion about the report's implications between four experts—Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School; Elizabeth Holtzman, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives who recommended three articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon; James Oakes, an American historian specializing in slavery, antislavery, and the Civil War; and Brenda Wineapple, author of a recent book on the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson. In a conversation that takes on new relevance during the current prosecution, the panelists discussed common misunderstandings of the impeachment process (at least one of which was shared by Donald Trump), the narrowness of the argument that impeachment proceedings might perversely “help” the president, and the provision's larger historical importance as a means of reasserting the limits of presidential power. The panel took place at the New York Society for Ethical Culture and was moderated by Harper's president and publisher John R. MacArthur. This episode was produced by Violet Lucca and Andrew Blevins.

Mike Rogers, former chair of the House Intelligence Committee, and Elizabeth Holtzman, former member of the House Judiciary Committee, join Christiane Amanpour to reflect on the first public hearing of the impeachment investigation. They give their thoughts on top U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor's testimony on Capitol Hill. Anthony Gardner, former U.S. Ambassador to the EU, gives his thoughts on the strategies employed by both Democrats and Republicans so far. Jeff Greenfield, journalist and author, and Carl Bernstein, former Washington Post reporter, reflect on past impeachment processes involving Presidents Nixon and Clinton. They give their take on how this impeachment compares.

With Congress poised to begin public impeachment hearings, the Feds consider the coming historic juncture through the prism of the impeachment investigations of Presidents Nixon and Clinton.  Eyewitness participants in those dramas spell out key distinctions that shed light on the Trump impeachment and bring into relief some of the high hurdles facing the House Judiciary committee right now.  The episode brings together Judiciary Committee members and players from all 3 impeachment dramas—Elizabeth Holtzman, a Committee member and then the youngest woman ever to serve in Congress; Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the Clinton impeachment and a senior member today, and Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon, the current Vice-Chair of the House Judiciary Committee,  and a member of the House Committee on Rules. Joining them is Lanny Breuer, former head of the Criminal Division at DOJ and special counsel to President Clinton during the 1998 impeachment trial.

Former Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman reflects on taking part in the 1973 impeachment hearings into President Nixon as a freshman Democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee. She explains the impeachment process, draws parallels between the inquiry into Nixon and the current investigation into Trump, and shares some advice for current House members. She also discusses her successful long-shot 1972 campaign to unseat longtime Rep. Emanuel Celler and making history to become the youngest woman ever to serve in the House at the time. And as the first woman to be elected as Brooklyn District Attorney and New York City Comptroller, she also weighs in on gender politics in New York City. MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE The Case for Impeaching Trump Join the conversation using the hashtag #NY1YouDecide or give us a call at 212-379-3440 and leave a message.

Thom conducts a brief straw poll on Democratic candidates while reflecting on the history of Guy Fawkes Day. - The reasons we should kill Daylight Savings Time before it kills us. - Book Club reading from "The Case For Impeaching Trump" by Elizabeth Holtzman. - Kymone Freeman, Co-Founder and host of We Act Radio shares a public thank you to Sean Doolittle for his rebuff of Trump's hypocritical gesture.

Rukmini Callimachi, award-winning correspondent at The New York Times, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the life and death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who died during a U.S. raid in Idlib, Syria. Frank Luntz, pollster and political strategist, and Elizabeth Holtzman, former U.S. House Democrat, give their views on this win for President Trump, during a tumultuous time in The White House and the ongoing impeachment inquiry. Aarti Shahani, author of "Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares," talks about her immigrant family and their fight for justice in America.

How should impeachment be carried out, according to the Constitution? This episode explores the constitutional process of impeachment, from investigation and passage of articles of impeachment by the House of Representatives, to the Senate trial, and the aftermath. Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, who served on the House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon impeachment, and Gene Healy, author of Indispensable Remedy: The Broad Scope of the Constitution’s Impeachment Power detail the constitutional framework under which impeachment has been carried out in the past, how those precedents compare to what’s happening today, and what might happen next. Jeffrey Rosen hosts. Questions or comments about the podcast? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org.

How should impeachment be carried out, according to the Constitution? This episode explores the constitutional process of impeachment, from investigation and passage of articles of impeachment by the House of Representatives, to the Senate trial, and the aftermath. Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, who served on the House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon impeachment, and Gene Healy, author of Indispensable Remedy: The Broad Scope of the Constitution’s Impeachment Power detail the constitutional framework under which impeachment has been carried out in the past, how those precedents compare to what’s happening today, and what might happen next. Jeffrey Rosen hosts. Questions or comments about the podcast? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org.

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, former representative and Nixon impeachment investigator, Elizabeth Holtzman, knows the semantics and substance behind Trump's impeachment investigation.On the rest of the menu, water contamination clean up on all US military bases is set to top $2 billion dollars; major drug dealing companies filed a motion that the judge hearing the US opioid trial must recuse himself; and, a three-judge Court of Appeals panel ruled that hotel and restaurant owners can sue Trump over unfair competition.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Australian intelligence has concluded China was behind the hack on parliament and the three major political parties before their General Election last May; and, Mexican prosecutors will target a former attorney general and his top aides in the disappearance five years ago of 43 student teachers.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help." -- Julia Child~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/16/1885719/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann discuss how Trump is using the same tactics as Richard Nixon. Nixon and Watergate resulted in 70 court cases or other legal processes, but it took two years to remove Richard Nixon from office. Nixon crimes and Watergate burglar files are still being withheld, especially those featuring E. Howard Hunt, Roger Stone and others, are being stopped by Trump. How were both presidents tied to organized crime? Why is Trump protecting the legacy of Nixon? ~~~ Thom reads from Elizabeth Holtzman's book 'The Case for Impeaching Trump'. ~~~ Thom continues to read The Mueller Report, now on page 105. ~~~ Iran expert and former Republican congressman Bob Ney continues his analysis of the unfolding brinkmanship between Iran and American forces in the Middle East.

Special Edition! Robin and former 4-term Congresswoman and Watergate Committee member Elizabeth Holtzman talk bold new strategies for impeaching Donald Trump. Two former POTUS’s refute Trump’s claim that laws against foreign interference are “wrong.”

We made it to the end of another week, though just barely. As we embark on the Memorial Day weekend and a week with Congress on recess, we're left wondering why Nancy Pelosi is dead set against impeaching the criminal-in-chief, Donald Trump. Today's guest is former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman who was on the House Judiciary Committee in 1974, and voted for three articles of impeachment against Nixon. Her latest book is "The Case for Impeaching Trump"...

Former four-term congresswoman, Elizabeth Holtzman discusses her book 'The Case For Impeaching Trump', how the Nixon impeachment serves as a precedent for Congress and what the Framers planned for when dealing with a 'rogue president.' She also details her experience unseating a 50-year incumbent in 1972 and holding the title of youngest women elected to Congress for over 40 years. Buy 'The Case For Impeaching Trump' here - https://www.amazon.com/Case-Impeaching-Trump-Elizabeth-Holtzman/dp/1510744770 Miranda Warnings is hosted by past NYSBA President David Miranda

Thom's enlightening explanation of the three powers Congress has to enforce a subpoena. But would William Barr cooperate? ----- A long interview with author and historian Alan Lichtman- author of 'The Case for Impeachment', as he joins to Thom to indeed make the case for why we should impeach the criminal in the White House. ----- Thom reads from 'The Case for Impeaching Trump' by Elizabeth Holtzman, one of the Congresspersons who voted to impeach Nixon in the 70s. ------ A deep dive on issues surrounding impeachment - can Trump take it to the Supreme Court, as he is saying he will? Nancy Pelosi's strategy - the legal precedent we set if we don't impeach Trump - Should we delay impeachment until past 2020? What if Trump loses the election and refuses to give up the office?

Thom chats with Elizabeth Holtzman, the only remaining member of the House Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach President Nixon, and author of the new book 'The Case for Impeaching Trump'. ------ Thom reviews some of the probably-impeachable crimes Trump has been shown to have committed. ------ Thom reads from 'The Case for Impeaching Trump' by Elizabeth Holtzman. ------ Co-chair of the Progressive Caucus- Congressman Mark Pocan explains from the inside what moves lawmakers are making- Republicans as well as both Progressive and corporate Democrats. Topics include gerrymandering games played by both Democrats and Republicans, Trumps schemes for delaying or escaping impeachment, avoiding the manipulation of rules of congress, the cost of higher education/student loans, tying executive pay to your lowest-paid employee, and more. ------ Ellen Rattner's Talk Media News brings the most intriguing headlines once again, including the more than 6000 missiles America has fired in Afganistan this year. Teresa May takes a beating on Brexit. Facebook's data sales exposed by the Brits. And Trump gets the silent treatment from the other American presidents.

Watergate revealed a trail of crimes and coverups that brought down a president and changed the course of American history. With Robert Mueller's findings likely to be unveiled soon, what can we learn from Watergate about Trump-era abuses of power? John Dean, who was President Nixon's White House counsel, and Elizabeth Holtzman, who as a member of the House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach Nixon, discuss. Brennan Center Live is a weekly series of podcasts created from Brennan Center events, featuring fascinating conversations with well-known thinkers on issues like democracy, justice, race, and the Constitution.

Watergate revealed a trail of crimes and coverups that brought down a president and changed the course of American history. With Robert Mueller's findings likely to be unveiled soon, what can we learn from Watergate about Trump-era abuses of power? John Dean, who was President Nixon's White House counsel, and Elizabeth Holtzman, who as a member of the House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach Nixon, discuss. Brennan Center Live is a weekly series of podcasts created from Brennan Center events, featuring fascinating conversations with well-known thinkers on issues like democracy, justice, race, and the Constitution.

Elizabeth Holtzman is a former four-term Democratic Congresswoman from NY, who served on the Judiciary Committee that investigated Nixon and Watergate, and voted to impeach him. Her new book, "The Case for Impeaching Trump" does what the title implies, it lays out the case for the impeachment of Donald Trump. She's Nicole Sandler's guest today.

As a new member of Congress in 1973, Elizabeth Holtzman participated in deliberations over the possible impeachment of Richard Nixon. In this lecture given in 2006, she reflects on the legacy of impeachment from Nixon to Bill Clinton and argues for its use against George W. Bush. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gary, Lyn and Dee discuss politics and current events.  We start by discussing some records on the current Republican Administration.  Not sure these are records to be proud of — most days of vacation, most games of golf, least amount of bills signed.  We read the resignation letter from Elizabeth Holtzman from DHS.  We discuss the caging and deportation of migrants on our southern border.  Thousands of these families are still separated.  We discuss the recent summit.  In some good news, the case against the Trump hotel in DC is going forward regarding the violation of the emoluments clause.  We discuss Alaska’s new Anti-Corruption Act.  India factories are replacing their lights with LED bulbs.  This is leading to more energy efficiency for the companies and INCREASED production.  (Not to mention the benefits to the environment.)  We discuss the consequences of the tax cuts to workers, real wages have actually gone down 1.8% since the tax cut passed.  Even though wages may have gone up, the purchasing power of the average worker has gone down.  We discuss local control v. state control.  In a few states, the state government has passed a law stating that local municipalities cannot raise the minimum wage above the state wage.  This has led to pay cuts for residents of St. Louis, Missouri.  The most recent case was the state of Alabama repealing Birmingham’s minimum wage increase.  The state of Oklahoma has had this restriction for a few years.  We discuss the truth behind unemployment numbers and wages.  Wages have remained stagnant or in some cases decreased.  If employment was as robust as numbers claim, wages would be going up.  They aren’t going up.  Is a recession coming?  There are some signs of this, not the least of which is low birth rate.  In another bit of good news, Disney Land workers have gotten raises, promises of future raises and other concessions.  We finish with a discussion on CEO wages.  It used to be that CEO’s made about 30 times what a median worker made.  Now, it can be 1,000 times or more.  Do we need a maximum wage? Like what you hear on Peak Reality Check?  Want to help support this podcast?  Visit our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/DeirdreL #TrumpRecords #DHSResignation #ICE #AlaskaAntiCorruptAct #IndiaLED #TaxCutWages #Localv.State #EmploymentWages #Recession #DisneyWorkers #CEOPay The post Peak Reality Check, July 27, 2018 appeared first on Studio 809 Radio.

Why Trump sent Jeff Sessions to announce they were targeting the Dreamers for deportation—John Nichols explains. Plus Elizabeth Holtzman, veteran of the Watergate investigations, on Robert Mueller’s brilliant move against Trump, and Joan Walsh answers the question, would Pence be worse?

Plus: What Trump's people have been doing (or not) about the disaster in Texas. Elizabeth Holtzman, who served on the House Judiciary Committee that brought articles of impeachment against Nixon, reviews the case against Trump at this point -- and what special counsel Robert Mueller is doing to protect his investigation. Also: Trump vs. Trans soldiers and sailors: the ACLU is taking him to court. Chase Satrangio explains. And John Nichols of The Nation talks about his new book "Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse," and what they've been doing about the floods in Texas.

Plus: What Trump's people have been doing (or not) about the disaster in Texas. Elizabeth Holtzman, who served on the House Judiciary Committee that brought articles of impeachment against Nixon, reviews the case against Trump at this point -- and what special counsel Robert Mueller is doing to protect his investigation. Also: Trump vs. Trans soldiers and sailors: the ACLU is taking him to court. Chase Satrangio explains. And John Nichols of The Nation talks about his new book "Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse," and what they've been doing about the floods in Texas.

Former U.S. Representative Elizabeth Holtzman will discuss her new book, CHEATING JUSTICE: How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule of Law, Plotted to Avoid Prosecution--and What We Can Do About It. --------As a member of Congress and part of the committee that investigated and held hearings on the conduct of President Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal, Elizabeth Holtzman condemns Bush's adoption of Nixon's claim that he acted in the interest of national security

Former U.S. Representative Elizabeth Holtzman will discuss her new book, CHEATING JUSTICE: How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule of Law, Plotted to Avoid Prosecution--and What We Can Do About It. --------As a member of Congress and part of the committee that investigated and held hearings on the conduct of President Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal, Elizabeth Holtzman condemns Bush's adoption of Nixon's claim that he acted in the interest of national security