Joe Scarborough: “Mr. Speaker, I think maybe they had Richard Nixon's secretary who erased 18 minutes or so of tape, possibly, 20 or 30…”

“Mr. Speaker, I think maybe they had Richard Nixon's secretary who erased 18 minutes or so of tape, possibly, 20 or 30 years ago working for the White House, because now we find that we have an entire coffee erased, and yet they come to us with a straight face and they say that these were not fund-raisers. It is absolutely unbelievable. So unbelievable is the charge that The Washington Post wrote an editorial earlier this week called, 'Giving faith a bad name.' I have got to tell my colleagues, this is what is disturbing to me, a conclusion reached by The Washington Post, because as a student of history, as somebody who cites Harry Truman and Bobby Kennedy as two of my biggest heroes, I do not think it is in this country's best interest for us to have a failed presidency. It is not in my interest to have a failed presidency. It is not in anybody's interest in this Chamber to have a failed presidency. I think even more dangerous for us is if we allow the entire system of the United States Federal Government to fail.”