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[ applause ] and we're back at the cnn republican debate at the reagan library in beautiful simi valley, california. let's turn to issues of foreign policy. senator graham, you all oppose the u.s. nuclear deal with iran. former u.n. ambassador john

bolton, a republican, is pushing for a u.s. military strike against iran, against its nuclear facilities. senator graham, would you authorize, as president, a nuclear strike against -- i'm sorry. a strike against iran's nuclear facilities? >> if i believed they were trying to break out and get a bomb, absolutely. here's the most important thing. they know i would if i had to. and none of us are going to be able to defend this country adequately until we rebuild our military. a weak economy, a military in decline, the world on fire, does that sound familiar to you? michael, does that sound familiar to you? the first thing i'm going to do as commander in chief on day one is call the chairman of the joint chiefs and say, what do you need that you don't have? we're cutting our military, we're on track to have the smallest army since 1940, the smallest navy since 1915 and john kasich says he wants to close more bases. i want to rebuild our military and i want the iranians to know that if i had to, i would use it. the worst nightmare in the world is a radical islamic regime with

a weapon of mass destruction. they are on track to get a bomb even if they don't cheat. this deal is a nightmare for israel. they are coming here if we don't watch it. terrorism with a nuclear capability sponsored by iran. yes, i would use military force to stop them. i would set this deal aside and get you a better deal. if you gave $100 billion, i could get almost anybody out of jail. we couldn't even get our hostages out of jail. >> governor -- [ applause ] >> i'm going to go to hugh hewitt for a question for governor pataki. >> i want to quote rick santorum. if you're a scientist owe working on a nuclear program for a bomb for iran, you are not

safe. does that message work? does anything that works on the table? >> not on the table but i think there's a lot that does work. and that is, to have a strong america, a strong military and a resolve for the iranians know that not only are we going to reject this deal on day one and reimpose sanctions but if they move forward with the nuclear program, their safety for those facilities will be at risk. i'll tell you a couple of things i'd do. i'd give the israelis a chance to make sure they never have a nuclear weapon. let me point out that hillary clinton supporting this deal, she was the senator from new york on september 11th, she saw what happened at the hands of radical islam. this was a senator that did the reset program with russia who allowed the middle east to deteriorate and lied about benghazi and is now supporting the iranian deal. that's the opponent we're going

to have next november. we have got to win this election. everything we say is wonderful. but we have to win and once we win we have to actually do what we say. i can do this. >> senator santorum, any means necessary? is that what you meant to say? is that what is still on this table what many believe is a catastrophic deal? >> hugh, 12 years ago i authored a program and came within four votes of passing a very strong version of that. the people who opposed me were joe biden, hillary clinton and barack obama and we came short and i've been laser-beamed focus on the issue with iran. you know why? because i understand who they are. yes, they are radical islamists, that's true. but their particular version of it, they believe in bringing an

end to the world. if you poll shiites in the region, more than two-thirds of them believe that the end of the world is going to come within their lifetime. why? because their regime preaches it. they believe in bringing about the end of times. that's their theological goal and we are in the process of giving them a nuclear weapon to do just that. that's why on day one i would say to the iranian government, you open up all of these facilities for inspection, you make them available to the u.n. and to the u.s., everything, we can go everywhere or else we will take out those facilities. and when people say you're going to start a war, my response is, no, i'm going to stop a war because a nuclear iran is the end. >> thank you, senator. senator graham -- [ applause ] >> i'd like to answer that question. >> we're bringing you into this question as well. senator graham, vladimir putin in recent days has sent an estimated six tanks, four helicopters and russian ground troops into syria to help support president assad, an enemy of the united states.

the russian military is also buzzing american planes and naval vessels around the world. your front-runner, donald trump, says he can do deals with president putin, that the two of them will get along, quote, very well. why would your confrontational approach work better than mr. trump's negotiation? >> do you think putin would be in the ukraine or syria today if ronald reagan were president? no. this is what happens when you have a weak, unqualified commander in chief who doesn't understand the role america plays in the world. why is it bad for you that russia is helping assad? he's the magnet for sunni extremists. the syrian people are not going to accept him as their legitimate leader.

by assad being helped by russia, it means the war never ends. it means the next 9/11, which is most likely to occur from an attack from syria, is more likely. at the end of the day, if i'm president of the united states, i've told you what i'm going to do. there is nobody left in syria to train. we're going to get a regional army who doesn't like isil, who won't accept assad because he's a puppet of iran. we're going in on the ground and we're going to destroy the caliphate, pull it up by its roots and hold the territory. this is a slap in the face from putin to carry an obama. assad must go. if he doesn't go, this war never ends and if the war in syria continues, it is coming here. for god's sakes, let's get on with fixing the problem of syria. >> governor jindal, how would president jindal get the russians out of syria? >> jake, i want to answer that question and go back to iran. i didn't get a chance to answer that as well. look, on russia, across the world dictators walk all over

this president. he treats our friends like dirt, let's our enemies walk all over us. the only group he's able to outnegotiate are the senate republicans. instead of a two-thirds vote to reject the iran deal, i want to ask lindsey a question. will the senate republicans, they still have time, are they willing to use the nuclear option, meaning get rid of filibusters to stop iran from becoming a nuclear power, now is the time for the senate republicans to stand up and fight. we are tired of the establishment saying there's nothing we can do. all night tonight we've heard republicans say, the supreme court ruled there's nothing i can do about religious liberty. the presesident did, this there nothing we can do for two more years. >> we won the senate and the house. what was the point of winning those chambers? you're going back tonight and still have time before the thursday deadline. will you all use the deadline to stop iran from having nuclear power? >> you were in the congress and if you want to repeal obamacare, get a new president. if you want to defund planned parenthood, elect a pro-life president because that's the only way. if we pass the cardin bill, it would go to the president and he

would veto it. 67 votes are required to override the veto. wait a minute. you asked me a question. i don't want to take off the table the ability to slow down obama in his last 13 or 14 months because i want 60 votes to stop what i think he's going to do between now and january 2017. five republicans deflect -- leave, we're in trouble. so, folks, the world really is the way it is. president obama is president. the goal is to get him out of there and pick somebody who would actually do something to repeal obamacare, who would get you a better agreement. bobby, he would veto the bill.

we don't have 67 votes and you had given away a defense against obama for the rest of his presidency. no, i'm not going to do that. i'm not going to tell you things i can't do. i'm not going to tell you by shutting the government down we're going to defund obamacare as long as he's president. that hurts us. i'm trying to lead this party to winning. >> lindsey, that's my frustration. you basically heard a senate republican say we can't defund planned parenthood, despite these barbaric videos. maybe answer this question now. i wish they had half the fight that the senate republicans did. president obama didn't give up on obamacare when they lost in massachusetts. they broke the constitution, they broke the law but they forced obamacare down our throats even when they didn't have 60 votes. i wish republicans in d.c. had half the fight the senate democrats to get rid of obamacare, to defund planned parenthood. if we can't defund planned parenthood now, it's time to be done with the republican party. we defunded them in louisiana.

let's defund them in d.c. if we can't win on that issue, there is no point for being cheaper democrats, no point for having a second liberal party. it's time to get rid of the republican party, start over with a new one that's at least conservative, give harry reid and pelosi credit. at least they fight for what they believe in. i want senate and house members to fight for what we believe in as well. it's time to have republicans with a backbone in d.c. >> can i just say something? bobby, we're running to be president of the united states. the most important job in the free world. with it comes a certain amount of honesty. i'm tired of telling people things they want to hear that i know we can't do. he is not going to sign a bill that would defund obamacare. if i'm president of the united states, i wouldn't put one penny in my budget for planned parenthood, not one penny. i'm as offended about these videos as you are. but the one thing i'm not going to do going into 2016 is shut the government down and taint

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[ applause ] welcome back to the cnn republican debate at the reagan library in beautiful simi valley, california. we have time for one more question for the candidates. governor pataki, let's start with you. you have all spent the last hour and a half debating each other. the other 11 candidates are on their way to the stage.

what is the one thing as a candidate that you offer that no one at the next debate can offer? >> i think there are two things, jake. two things that we need as republicans. first, we have to win the election. you're going to hear a lot of great ideas, i'm going to do this, i'm going to do that. none of it matters unless you win the election. and the second is, once you win, you have to be able to governor successfully. you've heard a lot of fighting back and forth, you didn't get this done, that done, that's the way washington is today. you have to have a leader, a president, who will get a conservative agenda through. i'm running because i have done both those things and i did them, one of the most liberal states in america. i get elected three times in the state of new york. twice by the largest pluralities ever for a republican. i ran as a republican conservative. if i get the nomination, i will be able to get broad support and win this election and take the white house back for our party. but more importantly, once i've won, i will put in place a sweeping conservative agenda. i did that in new york. over $143 billion in tax cuts.

more than the other 49 states combined. taking one million people off welfare and putting them into jobs in a state where the democrats control the state assembly. >> thank you, senator. >> 103-47. i got them to support a conservative agenda. if i get elected president, i will make things work in washington. for the republican party and for the united states. >> thank you, governor. senator santorum? [ applause ] >> i came to washington in the most unlikely way. i defeated a 14-year incumbent. i went to washington thinking i was only going to be there for one term and so i just shook things up. we sent the chairman of the house ways and means committee to jail. we ended 40 years, 40 years of democratic control of the congress. and i led that fight with reforms, substantive reforms,

welfare reform. i wrote the bill when i was in the house. i led the charge in the united states senate. partial birth abortion, bipartisan pro life bills. i mentioned the iran bill. we also passed one on syria. health savings account. i authored the original bill on health savings accounts, pushed that for private health care reform. an outsider who came to washington from the tough state of pennsylvania and we got conservative things done. i made things happen in a town where things don't happen very much. now after ten years of seeing the mess, the retreat that we see in the republican party in washington, d.c., it's time to get someone who is an outsider. >> thank you, senator. >> who can go to washington, d.c., and get things done. you know what, you have a lot of folks who will tell you a lot of things. look at their record. i went to washington as an outsider. >> thank you. >> shook things up, got things done. >> thank you, senator. >> that's why you can trust me to do it again. >> governor jindal, what is something that you offer as a candidate that the other 11 candidates coming on stage in a

few minutes cannot offer? >> jake, i'm a doer, not a talker. look, the idea of america is slipping away from us. if you want to make incremental changes, vote for somebody else. if you want to vote for somebody who understands what is at stake, planned parenthood is selling baby parts across this country and the senate republicans have already given up, even without a fight. i am tired of this caucus and angrier at the republicans in d.c. than i am at the president. the president is a socialist. at least he fights for what we believe in. we need to send somebody who understands it's time to make big changes. it's time to take on the establishment and take on the d.c. permanent governing class. every republican says they will shrink the size of the government. i'm the only one that has done it. cut our government 26%. it's time to get the idea of america back.

at some point you'll be asked what did you do when the idea of america was slipping away? i promise you this, i will give every ounce of blood, energy and sweat i've got to save the idea of america, the greatest country in the history of the world. >> thank you, governor. [ applause ] senator graham? >> number one, i will win a war that we can't afford to lose. i have a plan to destroy radical islam because it has to be. these are religious nazis running while president obama has made one mistake after another and it's caught up with us. what i have to offer that's different? i get my foreign policy from being on the ground. i've been to iraq and afghanistan 35 times in the last decade trying to understand how we got in this mess. our leading candidate gets his foreign policy from watching television. and what i heard last night is the cartoon network, oh, i'm big, i'm strong, we're going to hit them in the head. that's not foreign policy.

that's a cartoon character. john kasich, a good friend of mine, said in new hampshire, we're going to close more bases on his watch. on my watch, we're going to open more bases. the military is in decline, folks. we're going to have the smallest military in modern times, spending half of what we'd normally spend by the end of this decade. >> thank you, senator. >> what do i offer? to make your families safe and our countries strong again, a vision and a determination to win a war that we cannot afford to lose. >> thank you, senator graham. our thanks to the candidates for our thanks to the candidates for a great debate.

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did someone put up a lot of money to have the democratic headquarters infiltrated and, if so, who and why? >> justice will be pursued no matter who's involved. >> do you have information implicating president nixon? >> i have no comment. >> the president of the united states demanded the attorney general fire the special prosecutor. >> that is the definition of tyranny. people have got to know whether or not their president's a

crook. well, i'm not a crook. >> i don't think there was ever any discussion that there wouldn't be a cover-up. >> congress must move ahead with impeachment proceedings. >> there can be no whitewash at the white house. ♪ ♪ ♪ it seems what we have to do is to feel it out.

we're going to have to find out what the mood is. >> in 1972, richard nixon is very much at the top of his game and is in a position to achieve his goal of being the greatest president in american history. >> the comments before about mao and joe. >> he had desegregated all the southern schools, instituted the draft, and he had the greatest arms control agreement in american history. not a bad record, and the american people thought so. >> air force one has just landed. it is an historic moment, the official beginning of his visit to china. >> china was considered almost a different planet. and the idea that any american president would go to china was considered a fantasy probably at best. in terms of foreign policy, it was sort of a moon landing. >> i think one of the results of

our trip, we hope, may be the walls that are erected, whether they are physical walls like this or whether they are other walls of ideology or philosophy, will not divide peoples of the world. >> in richard nixon's own mind, this was a script. it was designed to result in an overwhelming election victory in the november election. >> who do you think you'll vote for for president this year? >> nixon. >> richard nixon. >> nixon. >> yeah, nixon. >> nixon. >> is anybody else running but nixon? >> the president was a political animal. the president was phenomenally

skilled. he was able to handle virtually anything. >> five men wearing white gloves and carrying cameras were caught earlier today in the headquarters of the democratic national committee in washington. they were caught by a night watchman, and they did not resist arrest when the police came. they were apparently unarmed, and no one yet knows why they were there. the film in the camera hadn't been exposed. in any case, they're being held. >> the democratic national committee is housed in the fashionable watergate complex. the break-in prepared well in advance. files were ransacked and papers removed. also in this area, ceiling tiles had been removed for the suspected planting of bugging devices. >> it was saturday morning, june 17th. the phone rang, it was about 6:30. a colleague of my mine was on the phone, he said, hello, it's chuck. we have a hot one. we have a burglary at the democratic national committee headquarters. and most unusual of all, the burglars, five of them, are wearing suits. >> the arraignment of the five middle-aged men was slowed down by the fact that each had

several aliases. four said they were from miami, the fifth said he lived in the metropolitan washington area. three were originally from cuba. the facts presented so far raise a number of intriguing questions, which is, did someone put up a lot of money to have the democratic headquarters infiltrated. and if so, who and why? >> the president's press secretary said of this incident, i'm not going to comment from the white house from a third rate burglary attempt. obviously, he said, we don't condone that kind of second rate activity. >> when the first reports came about the burglary at the watergate, i didn't think much of it. but more and more facts begin to come out. >> this is a police photograph of james w. mccord. mccord is a former cia employee. now he runs his own private security service. and guess what else he is. a consultant to president richard nixon's reelection campaign committee. accomplices meanwhile have been charged with second degree

burglary and released on bail. i don't think that's the last we're going to have on this story. >> it's one of the most shocking actions i think that's happened in this country in a long time. but i must say that it's the legacy of years of wiretapping and snooping and violation of privacy in which the government itself has been too deeply involved. >> both democrats and republicans played with pranks and tricks all the time. the difference in watergate was that these people were foolish and they got caught. >> no one in the white house staff, no one in this administration was involved in this very bizarre incident. >> nixon said, this is being investigated by the congress, by the fbi, but even more importantly, i've had my own white house counsel john dean conduct an investigation, and he's reported to me that nobody presently employed in this administration had anything to do with this. well, this is the first i heard of my investigation, and my

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i met howard hunt. i didn't know who they were when i was in the white house. but when the break-in occurred, i said, oh, no, because i knew at once instinctively it was our guys. >> g. gordon liddy, ex-fbi, ex-treasury, ex-justice, ex-white house consultant, and e. howard hunt jr., ex-cia, ex-pay of bigs consultant. >> we didn't think they measured up. it was closer to the typical gang that couldn't shoot straight. >> earl silva read the names of 60 government witnesses. the list included only one low ranking white house lawyer and several former employees to re-elect the president. >> if you don't know richard nixon's psychology, you don't know his background, you could never understand why the white house reacted to watergate the way it does. >> from day one, there was a great sense that we were under

siege. and we were not deceiving ourselves that the press did not like us. both houses of congress did not like nixon. i mean, that is the truth. and the question is how you deal with it. >> he tries to build a little like mafiosa group out of the oval office, guys that will take the bullet for you. pure loyalty. they fell under his spell. >> president nixon created a what you'd have to call a paranoid atmosphere in the white house. that you're supposed to get your enemies. they took it literally, that if the president said, you've got to go get your enemies, well, we've got to go get our enemies. >> nixon did not know that they were doing the break-in, but once it happened, he was convinced they had to engage in a cover-up. >> by august 29th, nixon is

deeply involved, to my surprise, in all the key elements of the cover-up. >> who do you think gave the orders to bug the watergate? >> well, the persons who the grand jury indicted in washington, d.c., last week gave the orders to do it. >> you don't think they were following orders then? >> no. there's been no evidence presented by anybody who did that. i think the opposition is disappointed that after a thorough investigation that seven persons were indicted. >> at the time, most of the press was satisfied that the nixon white house had nothing to do with this watergate break-in. >> i have full confidence in the integrity of president nixon and in his determination and ability to resolve the watergate matter to the full satisfaction of the american people. >> now, this is when "the washington post" really distinguished itself from the rest of the press pack. >> october of '72, the headline said that dirty tricks operation had been run out of the white house. >> they don't really crack the case. what the "post" does very

effectively, they kept the story alive when nobody else was paying attention to it. >> using innuendo, third person hearsay, anonymous sources and huge scare headlines, the "post" has maliciously tried to give a direct connection between the white house and the watergate scandal. a charge which the "post" knows and half a dozen investigations have found to be false. thank you very much. >> fairly early on, we were running into a wall of silence. that became clear, none of the seven would talk to us. the white house was paying hush money to keep the watergate burglars silent. hunt is asking for money. and if the money isn't forthcoming, these people aren't

going to stay silent. haldeman and yours truly, we're obstructing justice. we're thinking about the politics of it all. >> all of the burglars stay quiet. nobody else is indicted, which is exactly what the white house's strategy was. >> the strategy was containment. if it doesn't get widespread coverage in the country as a whole, then we'll be able to handle this. >> this is about the government. this is about credibility. this is about bugging. this is about deception. this is about the white house. and this is how you stop it. with your vote. >> while senator mcgovern is out campaigning tirelessly. president nixon is sitting in the white house and carrying out his presidential duties and leaving the hard campaigning to vice president agnew. >> people want to trust the king. people don't want to believe this about their president. >> pennsylvania decisively important state for the

democrats drawn tonight for the republicans. kansas, connecticut, texas, michigan, delaware, arkansas and north dakota, those are the states that we show for president nixon. >> that was one of the greatest victories any president has ever had, carrying every state except massachusetts and the district of columbia. >> i think that the shadow on his victory is the watergate affair, and i believe a great many people very close to the president would like to have a move on that as one of the high priorities of his new administration. >> either have these people exonerated or get them out and persuade the country that the taint is gone if there is a real taint there.

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the jury in the watergate case reached a quick verdict late today. nixon campaign counsel gordon liddy and campaign security chief james mccord guilty on all counts of the break-in and bugging of national democratic national headquarters. >> liddy faces a possible 35 years in prison. mccord a possible 45 years. >> they're all found guilty, all of the seven men who were originally indicted. but one of them starts to crack. >> is your client going to spill the beans on the watergate affair to the judge?

>> i have advised mr. mccord to be guided solely by his own conscience and conviction. he'll do just that. >> mccord isn't so willing to go to prison and not speak up. he feels hirerups shouldn't get off scot-free. >> mccord wrote the judge a letter. in it he says, other people not yet named were involved in the break-in at democratic national headquarters. >> mccord says there are efforts being made to keep us quiet, and there are people responsible who are much higher up than us. and you're being denied that information. >> i think what bothers us as republicans is that there is apparently so much more to be

revealed. and every day, every week, when something else happens, it's one further dagger in the heart. >> by and large, it was a national consensus, listen, the president is saying one thing, the prosecutors are saying another thing. there are a lot of very serious accusations in the air. let's get to the bottom of it. >> senator sam irvin of north carolina was chosen today by the democrats in the senate to conduct a full investigation of the watergate case. >> once that senate committee convenes in february of '73, it's the first time that people were going to have to testify under oath. this was not good for the president. >> i go in on march 21st to see nixon, and i lay out the mess we're in. telling him i thought there was a cancer on his presidency. and my hope is, by laying it out as brutally as i can, that he'll bring his fist down on the table and he'll say, this is unacceptable. we have to end this. to my surprise, i am unable to convince him. >> dean had been caught up in this and had done things that really involved him and the

obstruction of justice, and i think they had decided he was going to be the sacrificial lamb. >> john dean was in way over his head. and then when he realized this ship is going down, he jumped. >> this morning, without the president's approval, dean issued a statement in which, among other things, he declared some may hope or think i will become a scapegoat in the watergate case. anyone who believes this, dean added, does not know me, know the true facts, nor understand our system of justice. >> do you have information implicating president nixon in a cover-up? >> i have no comment this morning. i'm sorry. >> we started having secret conversations with john dean. he was disclosing this sprawling conspiracy, to put it mildly. >> when i broke rank and started dealing with the prosecutors in early april, i had the naive belief that, by breaking rank, they would do likewise. >> john dean kept upping the ante. i want immunity. okay, i'll tell you this.

as we were leaving, i just remember this. he said, john has something to tell you. and dean told us that this same group had broken into the office of ellsberg's psychiatrist. he says, oh, your jaw just dropped beneath the floor. >> in 1971 daniel ellsberg had been a defense consultant, decided that the war was wrong and so he took this vast volume of secret papers and he leaked it to the "new york times." >> i felt, as an american citizen, i could no longer conceal this information from the american public. >> names on paper never mentioned the name richard nixon, but its leak drove richard nixon nuts. >> i think it is time in this country to quit making national heroes out of those who steal secrets and publish them in the newspapers. >> this is a product of the president's paranoia about his ability to control his own government.

>> they actually broke into the psychiatrist's office of ellsberg. now, come on! somebody's psychiatrist's office files are raided by people who are commissioned by the white house? >> it's one thing to disclose breaking into the offices of the democratic national committee. it's another to have broken into the offices of a person's psychiatrist. and the public would really have an adverse reaction to that, much more so than the democratic national committee headquarters. >> i hope that whatever comes out they get it over with, they find out what it is, and it teaches us some kind of lesson because this country is coming on to its 200th anniversary, and i want to be proud of it when it does. and i'm not too proud of it right now. >> that's when i went to nixon and i said, get up and clear

from this thing. whoever's going to have to go ought to go now. >> good evening. the biggest white house scandal in a century, the watergate scandal, broke wide open today. the two closest men to the president, h.r. haldeman his chief of staff and john ehrlichman, his chief domestic adviser, have resigned. the president's white house legal counsel john dean has been fired. reportedly, dean is implicated in efforts to cover up the watergate scandal, and he may implicate ehrlichman and haldeman. >> good evening. i want to talk to you tonight from my heart on a subject of deep concern to every american. today, in one of the most difficult decisions of my presidency, i accepted the resignations of two of my closest associates in the white house, bob haldeman, john ehrlichman. >> he thought, by throwing out his inner circle, he would be left alone. he was throwing these people under the bus so the bus wouldn't hit him.

>> justice will be pursued fairly, fully, and impartially no matter who's involved. >> richard nixon wants to control everything. but he's extraordinarily delusional. i mean, he really doesn't seem to understand that he's digging himself deeper and deeper into the crime when he's trying to dig himself out. >> we must maintain the integrity of the white house, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. there can be no whitewash at the white house. >> in may of 1973, earl silva is preparing to hand the case over to archibald cox. and he says there are 39 principals involved in this case. and he said, number 39, richard m. nixon, president of the united states. >> what if this trail leads into the oval office at the white house? >> well, as i replied then, the trail should be followed

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this is the senate caucus room in washington, d.c., and it's jammed this morning, jammed with spectators newsmen, senators and their aides. and the scene adds to the sense of drama as the senate opens what is likely to become the most serious investigation ever made. >> i was glued to the hearings like anyone else. i was watching my friends go up there and testify and trying to understand what happened. >> i think there was no question that the cover-up began that saturday when we realized there was a break-in. i don't think there was any discussion there wouldn't be a cover-up. >> the president said there is no problem in raising a million dollars. we can do that. but it would be wrong. >> neither mr. haldeman nor i were criminally involved in this matter in any respect. >> people were seeing this underside of the white house, this kind of gothic reality that they never dreamed existed, men in trench coats showing up in phone booths with bags of money.

>> it comes from way up at the top. >> yes, sir. i believed that he was talking about the president. >> good morning. although this is not abc's scheduled day to provide live continuous coverage, we are going on now with the hearings because the witness will be john dean, the 34-year-old lawyer who one year ago was just another anonymous official in the white house but who today is a very well-known figure indeed. >> so help you god? >> i do so help me god. >> if people knew one thing about john dean, he was the guy who knew what was going on in watergate. so when it was announced he was going to testify, people really thought that this was the most the thing was going to blow wide open. >> i told the president there was no money to pay these individuals to meet their demands. he asked me how much it would cost. i told him i could only make an estimate it might be as high as a million dollars or more. he told me that was no problem. he also looked over at haldeman

and repeated the same statement. >> this was the first time that a white house staffer had ever contradicted with criminal consequences a president on live television. >> there was also maintained what was called an enemies list, which is rather extensive and continually being updated. >> the idea that the white house draws up a list of enemies and is prepared to use the agencies of government, this is very, very serious, scary stuff. >> john dean talked about a list of enemies that was compiled at the white house. >> one, arnold picker described as a top must-be fund-raiser. second, alexander -- >> once the enemies list was revealed, the cbs news

correspondent is reading this, off and he reads his own name. >> 17th, daniel schorr. the note here is "a real media enemy." >> i remember thinking at the time, what is going on? is this really believable? >> you're aware, mr. dean, of the gravity of the charges you've made under oath against the highest official of our land, the president of the united states? >> yes, i am. >> and being so aware, do you still stand on your statement? >> yes, i do. when i'm finishing my testimony for the senate, i read it, and i said, you know, it's my word against haldeman, ehrlichson, mitchell and the president. >> all of us watching this is surmising that there is another witness someplace in the building. >> a witness will be called, and as to who it will be we'll have to wait and see. >> are you aware of any installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president? >> i was aware of listening devices, yes, sir. >> when he answered yes, everybody in america just froze. like uh-oh, tapes? what tapes? >> as far as you know, did mr. ehrlichman or mr. dino about the presence of those devices? >> that would be unlikely. my assumption is that they didn't know. >> the story of watergate takes on a whole different complexion. and the happiest man in the moment would be john dean. >> what is the best way to reconstruct those conversations mr. butterfield? >> well, in the obvious manner, mr. dash. to obtain the tape and play it. >> slowly, this smile comes over my face, and i said, get those tapes as fast as you can before they disappear. >> this afternoon i received from the white house a letter declining to furnish the eight requested tapes. careful study before requesting the tapes convinced me that any blanket claim of privilege to

withhold this evidence from the grand jury is without legal foundation. >> nixon had a legitimate argument that congress shouldn't be able to delve into the private discussions of the president in the white house. >> the story of watergate takes on a whole different complexion. and the happiest man in the moment would be john dean. >> what is the best way to reconstruct those conversations mr. butterfield? >> well, in the obvious manner, mr. dash. to obtain the tape and play it. >> slowly, this smile comes over my face, and i said, get those tapes as fast as you can before they disappear. >> this afternoon i received from the white house a letter declining to furnish the eight requested tapes. careful study before requesting the tapes convinced me that any blanket claim of privilege to withhold this evidence from the grand jury is without legal foundation. >> nixon had a legitimate argument that congress shouldn't be able to delve into the

private discussions of the president in the white house. that's a legitimate constitutional argument. but to invoke executive privilege to cover up a third rate burglary was suspect. >> now watergate committee and special prosecutor archibald cox are taking the white house to court to gain access to those tapes. >> as the weeks have gone by, many have urged that in order to prove the truth of what i've said i should turn over to the special prosecutor and the senate committee recordings of conversation that i held in my office or on my telephone. however, a much more important principle is involved inhis question than what the tapes might prove about watergate. >> he gathers his legal team and his advisers, and a number of them say, mr. president, if you destroy these tapes, it's an admission of guilt and also, theoretically, it could be obstruction of justice. >> he felt it would suggest that he was implicated in watergate and he had something to hide if he refused to give them up and destroyed them.

and that's probably true, but he still should have done it. >> the president gets contradictory advice and the moment passes. he doesn't destroy the tapes so he fights not to release the tapes. >> judge says the evidence is not yet conclusive as to why the president hasn't fully complied with subpoenas for those tapes an that there is a distinct possibility of unlawful conduct. >> what he is doing is kind of depersonalizing it all and saying, if i release these, it will do irreparable damage to the office of the presidency. >> well, for one thing, the president still has not said at any time, listen, john dean is lying, and i have the tapes to prove it. >> well, maybe there is more on those tapes than the president would have us believe. and even fargo, in fargo! binge, while you lose weight! and enjoy a good cliffhanger while you hang from a... why am i yelling? the revolution will not only be televised.

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after hard deliberation and much prayer, i concluded several days ago that the public interest and the interest of those who mean the most to me would best be served by my stepping down. >> there is evidence which shows that agnew was taking political kickbacks, not only while governor of maryland, but also while he was vice president. >> what is your reaction to the resignation of vice president agnew just announced? >> who? i don't know too much about him, but nixon stinks. >> there were developments at the white house today that indicate that some kind of major decision is near on the constitutional issue of the white house tapes. >> special prosecutor archibald

cox wanted the tapes. he wanted the tapes themselves. and there's an impasse. >> yesterday president nixon ordered cox to stop going to court to try to get access to the tapes. today he held a news conference and said that since the president was defying the court, he was going to defy the president. >> last night we were told the court order would not be obeyed, that the papers, memoranda, documents of that kind would not be provided at all. >> archibald cox let the president have it, that this is obstruction of justice and that was the turning point. >> there was a limousine on the west side driveway of the white house this afternoon, with the number 77. it turned out to be elliot richardson's limousine. and when the reporters spotted him leaving the white house, they knew some sort of day knew mont was in progress. >> what is going on today?

>> there will be an announcement out of the white house later. >> does it have to do with the resignation of the attorney general? >> it might. >> in breath taking succession tonight, the president of the united states demanded that the attorney general fire special prosecutor archibald cox. the corner jenelle yot richardson refused and resigned. the president then ordered the assistant attorney general to fire the special prosecutor. ruck ellshouse refused. the president immediately fired ruckleshouse. solicitor general robert bork quickly was named acting attorney general. bork was ordered to fire special prosecutor cox. he did. >> it was unbelievable, literally unblechable, except that it was real. you kept saying, that couldn't be. but it was. >> i can make no further comment now other than their offices have been sealed by the fbi.

>> how could you possibly bring this man to justice if it was within his power to call the investigation to a close? >> please, everyone. >> basically, the president has seized full control of the special prosecutor's office and is in full position of potentially incriminating evidence that could lead to the conviction of his closest associates and to his conviction, and that is the definition of tyranny. >> there could be no doubt this was a constitutional crisis. this is a president trying to stand above the law, and i remember thinking at the time the country is not going to stand for this. >> i think it's amazing that the country is not already fighting in the streets he's divided the country that much. >> events of the past few days leave us little choice but to move ahead with preparation for impeachment proceedings. >> do you think the president should be impeached? >> yes, sir, i do. >> why? >> i can't trust him. >> at the time, the idea of impeaching the president was a pretty radical idea. it hadn't happened in over a century. >> impeachment does not mean removing the president from office. it does mean putting the president on trial in the senate

to determine his fitness to continue in office. >> the whole country is going bananas on this. >> i went to howard johnson's today. you know what the flavor of the month is? >> no. >> impeachment. >> what is it about you that makes you so angry. >> one can only be angry with those he respects. >> he obviously was having some kind of mental breakdown. it became clear there was something very wrong with nixon. >> people have got to know whether their president's a crook. well, i'm not a crook. >> a lot of people want the president to resign. they don't want to put the country through an impeachment drama. they want to create an atmosphere that forces his hand. >> the white house committee named a new special prosecutor. >> whatever i conceive to be necessary in order to perform my function properly i'm going to ask for it, and if i don't receive it, i'm going to proceed to under take to get it.

>> jaworski comes to washington, is presented with all the evidence. a couple days later, he goes to the white house and says, i think the president has to get a criminal lawyer. >> i think it's not excessive to say we've been put through too much. either the congress or his president, by his own patriotic decision, should relieve the nation of a burden that's grown too heavy to carry any longer. >> the effect of this was a huge dip in public support for richard nixon. but the white house thought that it could solve the tapes problem by producing transcripts. >> the idea that he's going to release these transcripts, richard nixon thinks he's finally going to be able to caught arise the wound.

>> i think there's no doubt about the seriousness of the problem we have. we have a cancer from within close to the presidency that is growing. >> the tapes show that the president is involved at the times that dean said he was. it shows that dean's memory is predigous. >> dean. >> i would say these people are going to cost a million dollars over the next two years. >> the president. >> you could get a million dollars. you could get it in cash. i know where it could be gotten. >> now, when individuals read the entire transcript, they may reach different interpretations. but i know what i meant, and i know also what i did. >> richard nixon's problem is they keep on subpoenaing more and more tapes. he says he's not going to give them up unless the supreme court demands him to. >> the supreme court today heard arguments in the historic case of the united states of america versus richard nixon, president of the united states. >> the television cameras saw the two main players in this classic confrontation arrive. first james st. claire, president nixon's attorney, then leon jaworski, special prosecutor to argue his case against the president's refusal

to surrender 64 tapes and documents. >> it is a strange notion that the president of the united states is the defendant and the government of the united states is the prosecutor. >> jaworski was even cheered by some in of the crowd as he entered the supreme court building. much as a roman gladiator entering the arena to do battle. >> it was a product of this peculiar moment when the u.s. government had to test the constitution to find out what limits there were on presidential power. >> if it came down to the supreme court of the united states making a decision against the president, would he obey, or would he put himself in a confrontation with the supreme court? >> i don't know of anyone here or at the white house or anywhere else who knows the answer to that. it would be hard to imagine a more memorable day in the history of constitutional law is or lead a country. it may not be obvious yet, but one of these kids is going to change the world. we just need to make sure she has what she needs.

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than this one. 11:00 a.m. the supreme court tells the president he was wrong to withhold those tapes. at 7:00 p.m. the president announces he will of course obey. at 8:00 p.m. the house judiciary committee opens its doors to the television media for its debate. >> the american people, the house of representatives and the constitution demand that we make

up our mind. >> for all of those in favor, signify by saying aye, all opposed no. >> mr. donahue. >> aye. >> mr. bruce. >> aye. >> it was a saturday night and sort of near sundown when they voted the first article of impeachment and the room was quiet. mr. rodino. >> aye. >> peter went in the back and cried.

we took it very seriously. >> with that vote, mr. nixon became the first president in more than a century and only the second in all of our history to confront removal from office through the only means provided in the constitution, impeachment. >> i stood by nixon and felt he should remain in office, but then we discovered the tape of june 23rd. this was fatal. >> good evening. president nixon stunned the country today by admitting he held back evidence from the house judiciary committee, keeping it a secret from his lawyers and not disclosing it in public statements. mr. nixon issued transcripts of three recorded conversations he had with h.r. halderman on june 23rd, 1972, six days after the burglars were caught in the watergate. >> you open that scab and there's a hell of a lot of things that we just feel that this would be detrimental to have this thing go any further. >> the facts came out.

yes, the president himself, not only was he involved in this but he directed this criminal operation. >> they should call the fbi and n. and say that we wish for couldn't trib don't go they further into the case, period! >> the problem with that tape was not that it implicated nixon so much in the watergate thing but it contradicted what he said. he had not told the country the truth. >> the news caused a storm in washington and some of mr. nixon's most loyal supporters are calling for his resignation. >> i'm aware with of the intense interest of the american people concerning developments today and over the last few days. tonight at 9:00, eastern daylight time, the president of the united states will address the nation on radio and television from his oval office. >> as you probably can see behind us, we have a large number of people who have been standing by to watch the various television networks. most here out of curiosity and concern. >> only the cbs crew now is in this room during this -- only the crew. no, there will be no pictures. >> just a few moments. we have 40 seconds to go now. the president has taken his place at the table in the white house while where he is going to speak. >> good evening. this is the 37th time i have spoken to you from this office.

where so many decisions have been made that shaped the history of this nation. throughout the long and difficult period of watergate, i have felt it was my duty to persevere, to make every possible effort to complete the term of office to which you elected me. but as president, i must put the interest of america first. therefore, i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. vice president ford will be sworn in as president at that hour and in this office. >> when you weigh what happened against the potential of president nixon, this is almost the dictionary definition of tragedy. >> by taking this action, i hope that i will have hastened the start of that process of

healing, which is so desperately needed in america. >> good morning. this is today in washington. friday, august 9th. the nation awaiting the swearing in at noon eastern time of our 38th president, gerald ford, and the departure from political life of richard m. nixon. he and his family are expected to leave by air to their home in california later morning, and we expect to see their departure from the white house. >> in departing the presidency, richard nixon is leaving us with one notable legacy -- proof that the american system does work.

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in dallas, preparations were already under way for extraordinary police protection when the president should arrive. >> do you anticipate any trouble on the president's arrival? >> because of what has happened here previously we would be foolish, i think, not to anticipate some trouble. i don't -- really i don't anticipate any violence. >> here comes air force number one, the president's plane now touching down. there is mrs. kennedy, and the crowd yells.

and the president of the united states. and i can see his sun tan all the way from here. >> looking at how things actually went, it wasn't just a trip to dallas, it was a political trip preparing for the 1964 elections. >> shaking hands now with the dallas people, governor and mrs. connolly, governor connolly on your left. >> it was whether kennedy, using all his charisma and influence to get all the squabbling democrats in texas to come together before the election the next year. >> and here comes the president now. in fact he is not in his limo, he is reaching across the fence shaking hands. >> in those days everybody could get a lot closer to the president. i was standing behind mrs. kennedy and saw a hand reach

through the chain link fence and break off one of the red roses. >> thousands of children now swarming, trying to get over the fence. the dallas police trying to keep them back. >> this is great for the people and makes the egg shells even thinner for the secret service, whose job it was to guard the man. >> the trip had gone terrifically well in texas. pretty hard to write a script for it going any better. >> thousands will be on hand for that motorcade now, which will be in downtown dallas. >> a number of my classmates were gone, they were at the parade. my father had been invited to have lunch with kennedy at the trade center. there was a mood, a climate of excitement. >> the speech of president kennedy at the dallas trade mart will be broadcast by radio. stay tuned for the dallas speech at the trade mart. on 570 radio. ♪ ♪ ♪ work hard in the daytime rest easy at night ♪ ♪ big boss man won't you hear me when i call ♪ ♪ yeah big boss man won't you

hear me when i call ♪ ♪ well you ain't so big you just tall and that's all ♪ >> this bulletin just into the news. three shots were fired at the motorcade of president kennedy. today in downtown dallas. >> police radios are carrying that the president has been hit. >> parkland hospital has been advised to stand by for a severe gunshot wound. >> this is walter cronkite, in our newsroom. and -- there has been an attempt on the life of president kennedy. >> just turn the mic on. i can't hear you, johnny. what do you want? you want me to move back a little bit. is it all right now? is this all right? ladies and gentlemen, i would like to introduce to you the chief cameraman. and assistant news director.

bert, we have brought the people pretty much up to date. would you tell them exactly what you know as of this point? >> well, i was standing at the trade mart, waiting for his arrival there. all of a sudden we saw them approaching, they didn't slow down, as a matter of fact, they were going 70, 80 miles an hour past us. and then i jumped into a police car and went to parkland. >> these two men come in and one of them had a large machine gun and they were hollering for the cots and the stretcher and everything. >> what happened? >> then the president came in behind him and they took both of them back -- >> albert thomas, democrat of texas is standing outside the

corridor of the emergency room said he has been told the president was still alive but in very critical condition. >> the president has not arrived here. a group of secret service men and other officials has gathered where the president normally would enter and discussing heatedly with one another some subject or other, of course we have no idea what. >> now, here is an announcement from the platform. mr. eric johnson with an announcement. >> it is true, our president, governor connolly in the motorcade, have been shot. we shall tell you as much as we know as soon as we know anything. thank you. binge, while you lose weight! and enjoy a good cliffhanger while you hang from a... why am i yelling? the revolution will not only be televised. the revolution will be mobilized. introducing the all in one plan.

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a gentleman just walked in our studio that i am meeting for the first time, as well as you. this is wfaa tv in dallas, texas. >> my name is abraham zapruder. >> zapruder? >> yes, sir. >> will you tell us your story. >> i got up about a half hour earlier, in order to shoot some pictures. five-year-old boy and myself were by ourselves on the grass on palmer street. and i asked joe to wave to him. and joe waved and i waved -- >> that is all right, sir. >> as he was waving back he was -- the shot rang out and he slumped down in his seat. >> and then this next one popped and governor connelly grabbed his stomach and kind of laid over to the side. and then another one. it was just all so fast and president kennedy reached up and grabbed -- looked like grabbed his ear and blood just started

gushing out. >> did you see the person who fired it? >> no, i didn't see the person who fired the weapon. >> you only heard it? >> i only heard it and i looked up and saw this man running up this hill. >> if it's a conspiracy not only the president was hit, the governor was hit. who knows if the next shot would have been for lyndon johnson. johnson's car pulls into the emergency bay at parkland hospital. four agents reach in and grab johnson and pull him out and start to run him down one corridor. looking for a safe place. >> mr. johnson, his whereabouts are being kept secret for security reasons. if anyone knows where mr. johnson is, it is not us at this moment. >> it was a signal moment in our cultural history. suddenly it occurred to us the right thing to do is turn on the television. >> reports continue to come in but in a confused and fragmentary fashion. >> president kennedy has been given a blood transfusion at parkland hospital here in dallas in an attempt to save his life.

it was odd because there were no commercials. it was just a continuous experience. >> two priests have entered the emergency room at parkland hospital where he rests after the assassination attempt which now was about a half hour ago. >> what are your feelings right now, ma'am? >> i'm absolutely shocked. stunned. we have the same birthday. i am just crazy about him. >> who would want to shoot the president? what did he do? i mean, he has been doing so much for the country. someone goes ahead and shoots him. >> a flash from dallas, who priests who were with president kennedy say he is dead of bullet wounds. this is the latest information we have from dallas. i will repeat with the greatest regret two priests who were with president kennedy say he has died of bullet wounds. >> the assistant press secretary

was filling in for the regular press secretary. and then he had to draw himself up to give the most fateful announcement that a press secretary might have ever had to give. >> all the cameras were rolling and i remember he put his fingers like this on the desk and pressed very hard to stop his hands trembling. >> john f. kennedy died at approximately 1:00 central standard time. today here in dallas he died of a gunshot wound in the brain. i have no other details regarding the assassination of the president. >> the people standing here are stunned just as all of us are

beyond belief. that the president of the united states is dead. >> all over the world people are going to remember all their lives what they were doing when they first heard that president kennedy had been killed. >> the crowds are standing around in silence and sorrow in the rain. the strange thing is you don't even notice it is raining. and if you do notice you don't care. >> i just can't believe it. i feel like someone in my own family has died. i just can't believe it. >> ma'am? >> i can't -- like a daze, you don't know what is going on. why? why did it happen?

who would have done such a thing. is the question. >> in the first minutes and hours, chaos and confusion was radiating out from the scene itself. it was very pervasive. >> the secret service agents thought the gunfire came from an automatic weapon fired possibly from a grassy knoll. >> i thought they were chasing a gunman and i ran with them. >> the report is that the attempted assassin, we now hear it was a man. and a woman. >> i got to the top, looked around. a policeman went over the fence so i went over the fence too. there was nothing there. >> a television newsman said he looked up just after the shot was fired and saw a rifle being withdrawn from a fifth or sixth floor window. >> it was originally thought that the shots came from here, and now it is believed the shots came from this building here. >> the police officers are running back to the texas school depository building. they are going to continue searching in that building for the would-be assassin of the president. >> in the federal downtown building, they are combing the area in an effort to find the suspected assassin.

>> in the building on the sixth floor we found an area near an area that had been partially blocked off by boxes of books and also the three spent shells that had apparently been fired from a rifle. >> crime lab lieutenant day came out of that building with a british .303 rifle. >> it was a 7.65 mauser. >> a high-powered army or japanese rifle. >> a .3030 rifle. >> much of the first things you hear are going to be wrong and to some degree you were constantly trying to separate out what seemed to be a fact. >> in dallas, just a short while ago, a police officer was shot. and killed while chasing a suspect. >> j.d. tippit was shot three times in the chest in the oak cliff section of dallas. then the manager of a shoe store

saw the suspect walk into the texas theater. >> someone has been arrested in one of the downtown theaters. they don't know if it was the person who shot the policeman or the person who actually shot president kennedy. >> the police dragged him out of theater. as the crowd started to break they grabbed this man and tried to run with him. they shouted "murder" and the officers hustled him into the car and ran away just as fast as they could. >> as we mentioned a short while ago a number of arrests have been made in dallas in the wake of president kennedy's death. we have scenes of one of those arrests in the downtown area. this is just after a dallas policeman was shot in the vicinity of a downtown movie house. >> paul bentley.

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>> the president was shot. and a police officer is shot. and someone named lee harvey oswald is arrested. oswald may be a suspect in the assassination. who is he? >> lee oswald of dallas, a former marine who spent some time in russia who at one time had applied for soviet citizenship. >> the description that we had of the suspect in oak cliff was similar to the description we had and the man we were looking for as the assassin.

but at that time we had not been able to connect it to him in any way. >> down in the third floor corridor, a crowd of cameramen reporters wait for the possibility to see the man accused of killing the president and a dallas police officer. >> now, apparently a great deal of confusion. mr. oswald is put through the door. i don't know if you saw him, oswald lives at 1026 meckley. he is an employee of a book-binding firm in the building which the police and sect servicemen believe the president was shot today. >> mrs. kennedy accompanied the body in an ambulance to the airport where it will be flown back to washington. >> everybody in the emergency room, the hospital was -- on the first floor they came and said we would have to remove the remains to a casket. >> lyndon johnson ordered that body be brought immediately to air force one. so there was a little tug of war. they almost shook the crucifix off the top of the coffin as they were trying to get him into the hearse from the hospital. >> one of the secret service men, well, about two or three of them got into the hearse and just drove off and left the rest of them just standing there.

>> vice president johnson is expected to be sworn in as president aboard an airliner before flying back to the nation's capital. >> not everyone realized that johnson was already the president, because he in fact had taken the oath in january '61, the same oath the president takes. >> johnson wanted to show the american people that the government was functioning without interruption. and also perhaps he wanted to show that his predecessor's family bore him no ill will for the assassination. >> lyndon johnson is flying back to washington to take the reins of government, at which time president johnson will have to take into his hands the reins of the most powerful nation in the world. >> we see november 22nd, 1963 as a date the president was killed.

but it was also a date when the president was created. >> is there any doubt in your mind chief that oswald is the man that killed the president? >> i think this is the man that killed the president, yes, sir. >> is there any evidence any one else may have been linked with oswald in this shooting. >> at this time we don't believe so. >> i don't know what this is all about. >> did you kill the president? >> no, sir, i didn't. >> sir? >> did you shoot the president? >> i work in that building. >> were you in that building at the time? >> naturally if i work in that building, yes, sir. >> back up, man. >> taken in because of the fact that i lived in the -- >> did you shoot the president? >> i'm just a patsy. >> this is room 317, homicide burro here at the dallas police station. as you see, they are bringing the weapon allegedly used in the assassination of president john f. kennedy this afternoon at 12:30 here in dallas. >> 6.5 made in italy in 1940. >> police have traced a rifle purchased in chicago by mail order to oswald. he bought it under the alias, of a. heidel. handwriting analysts have confirmed that the handwriting on the purchase order was in fact made by oswald. the price of $12.78, the life of the president of the united states apparently was bought. >> in the wake of the kennedy assassination, the dallas police on the one hand were committing all of their resources to try and solve a crime. >> move in the doorway, get him

in the doorway. >> on the other hand they were ill equipped to handle this tsunami of reporters. >> well, i was questioned by a judge, but i protested at that time that i was not allowed legal representation. >> in bringing oswald out, they were of course doing something that you would never see happen today, but they were trying to cooperate with the press, with the understanding that there would not be questions shouted to him. >> move in the doorway, get him in the doorway. >> on the other hand they were ill equipped to handle this tsunami of reporters. >> well, i was questioned by a judge, but i protested at that

time that i was not allowed legal representation. >> in bringing oswald out, they were of course doing something that you would never see happen today, but they were trying to cooperate with the press, with the understanding that there would not be questions shouted to him. >> did you kill the president? >> no, i have not been charged with that. in fact, nobody has said that to me yet. the first thing i heard about it was when the newspaper reporters in the hall asked me that question. >> you have been charged. >> sir? >> you have been charged? >> nobody said what? >> okay. >> what did you do in russia? >> oswald. >> how did you hurt your eye? >> a policeman hit me. >> at 1:35 this morning, a complaint was read. it charged that quote, lee harvey oswald did voluntarily and with malice aforethought

kill john f. kennedy by shooting him with a gun end quote following the reading of the mplat, oswald said, that's ridiculous. >> within hours of the assassination, it was very obvious to virtually everyone in dallas law enforcement that oswald had killed kennedy. >> chief, can you tell us in summery what directly links oswald to the killing of the president? >> well, the fact that he was on the floor where the shots were fired from immediately before the shots were fired. the fact he was seen carrying a package to the building, the fact that -- >> when was he carrying that package? >> yesterday morning. >> he was the only employee that fled the building. 45 minutes later he shoots and kills officer j.d. tippit. by pulling a gun on an officer. during 12 hours of interrogation, the dallas police department over the weekend, he told one provable lie after another.

>> did you buy that rifle? >> that's the facts you people have been given but i emphatically deny these charges. >> within a day or so thereafter within a day or so thereafter when they discovered what a complete nut this guy was, they were satisfied beyond all reasonable doubt that oswald had acted alone. >> only one thing i can tell you without going into the evidence, that this case is -- this man killed the president. there's no question in my mind behind it. we plan to transfer this man by tonight. he will be here no later than 10:00 in the morning. that will be early enough. >> do you have any concern for safety of the prisoner among the high feeling in the people of dallas over the assassination of the president? >> no, but precautions will be

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