2 Watergate panel members compare Nixon probe to January 6 investigation: 'There wasn't really the cult of Richard Nixon as there was the cult of Donald Trump'

Two people who served on the House Judiciary Committee in the impeachment of former President Richard Nixon have weighed in on the differences between the Capitolriot investigation and the Watergate scandal.

The panel investigating Nixon had marked differences between the two political scandals, one of which was the GOP's response to them.

The Republicans were willing to listen to what was said. They wanted to disagree with Democrats. They were following the information.

She told MSNBC that when her Republican colleagues first heard about the Nixon investigation, they thought there was nothing there.

It became unanimous and Nixon had to step down. Holtzman said that there is an alternative reality. If people make up their own facts, our democracy can't function. That is the risk.

The judiciary committee's counsel during the Nixon impeachment was Michael Conway.

When the House voted to authorize the impeachment inquiry, 410 members voted in favor of starting the inquiry. Today, you wouldn't get that level of bipartisanship.

When the judiciary committee was working on the Nixon impeachment, people couldn't go looking for "alternative facts" to support their baseless claims. The differences in Trump's and Nixon's personality are likely to affect how the investigations are unfolding.

If the Supreme Court ordered the president to turn over something, I think he would be defiant. "I think it's just the personality that's part of it." The cult of Donald Trump was different from the cult of Richard Nixon.

The parties involved in the Watergate investigation have weighed in on the scandals before. In April, a Watergate prosecutor commented on the gap in the White House call logs on the day of the Capitol riot, saying it may have masked worse behavior than Nixon's.

Three public hearings detailing Trump's role in attempting to overturn the vote and inciting violence have been held by the House panel. Trump demanded equal air time on national TV and released a statement bashing the January 6 investigation.