A President engulfed in scandal. Democrats in Congress determined to investigate. White

House Aids advising obstruction, arguing it was all political. The scenario may sound familiar

to anybody following the current standoff between President Trump and the House over the

fallout from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report. But we're actually talking

about another scandalous episode from more than three decades ago. The Iran Contra affair,

and President Ronald Reagan's White House was accused of violating the law to carry out

a secret foreign policy that involved selling arms to Iran in order to fund the Nicaragua

in Contra's fighting to overthrow that country's leftist government. But there was one very

big difference between Iran Contra and Trump's Russia affair.

Back then, when Congress investigated, it did so in a hold on to your seat by partisan

way. The Senate Committee set up to investigate Iran Contra didn't even have separate majority

and minority staffs. The Democrats and Republicans worked seamlessly together to gather evidence

and question witnesses. Not only that, the Reagan White House in the end fully cooperated,

turning over documents and not invoking executive privilege to block the testimony of key witnesses,

making subpoenas entirely unnecessary. Another huge difference. We'll discuss how the Iran

Contra scandal was investigated with a former staff member of the Senate Committee that conducted it,

and how much things have changed between then and now on this episode of buried treasure.

Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of the crop, well, I'm not a

crop. I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage. My heart and my best intentions

still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. I did not have sexual

relations with that woman. There will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth

and nothing else.

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