"Authoritarian Nightmare": John Dean Helped Bring Down Nixon over Watergate. He Says Trump Is Worse

As President Trump is set to accept the Republican Party's formal renomination for president amid ongoing scandals and multiple crises, we speak with John Dean, who served as the White House counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1970 to 1973. His testimony during the Watergate scandal helped bring down Nixon. His new book is Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers." I worked for the last authoritarian president we had," Dean says. Trump is of a different cut than Nixon. ... He's going to make Nixon look like a choir boy before it's all over."