Balance of Power: Watergate’s Ghosts

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It's always been fashionable for Democrats to compare Donald Trump to Richard Nixon. And now they have a charge straight from the Watergate era to make that comparison stick: obstruction of justice.

Trump is facing the deepest crisis of his young presidency after ex-FBI Director James Comey said the commander-in-chief asked him to squash an investigation into fired national security adviser Michael Flynn -- an impeachable offense if true. The White House denies the version of events described by Comey.