Legal expert and Hill contributor Jonathan Turley said on Wednesday that there were parallels to Michael Cohen's plea deal with federal prosecutors and developments in the Watergate case during the Nixon administration.

"Has any president faced this kind of a day in terms of the courts and criminality of their close advisers in recent history?" Hill.TV's Krystal Ball asked Turley on "Rising."

"Yeah, Richard Nixon. The fact is this has some parallels to Nixon. You have the president's lawyer going south on the president. You have these sort of bombshell moments," Turley replied.

Trump's former lawyer said he broke campaign finance laws "in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office," an indirect reference to the president.