Search

Home > Democracy Now! Video > Filmmaker Charles Ferguson on Richard Nixon, Watergate & Impeachment
Podcast: Democracy Now! Video
Episode:

Filmmaker Charles Ferguson on Richard Nixon, Watergate & Impeachment
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:59:00
Publish Date: 2019-09-30 07:00:00
Description: Congressional Democrats are pushing ahead with an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump over his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Trump pressured his counterpart to investigate his Democratic rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Trump is the fourth president in U.S. history to face impeachment proceedings, and the quickly escalating scandal has brought renewed interest to impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and, most famously, Richard Nixon. We revisit an interview with filmmaker Charles Ferguson, whose documentary “Watergate” examines the dramatic events surrounding the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in 1972, which precipitated Nixon’s eventual resignation two years later under threat of impeachment. Ferguson started working on the film well before Trump was elected in 2016, and intended to “make something of principally historical value.” But during the process, he says he realized he “had to make a quite different film that certainly showed what Watergate was like but that also showed how the system works and doesn’t work when there’s a true constitutional crisis in the United States.”
Total Play: 0

Users also like

2K+ Episodes
The Joe Roga .. 48K+     2K+

Some more Podcasts by Democracy Now!

2K+ Episodes
Democracy No .. 300+     80+
2K+ Episodes
Democracy No .. 60+     10+
2K+ Episodes
Democracy No .. 30+     20+