fred fielding was working in the john dean suite and friends, terrific guy, well respected since. i'm not sure he understood. but when i read the john dean book i came away feeling like there was a white house within a white house that i didn't know anything about. i didn't even know it existed. and i had come to believe that the white house can be more compartmentalized than you would think. look, i work for two or three years next to -- sitting next to mike dever in the west wing in the reagan administration. i knew mike had a glass of wine. i knew he liked terrific wine. i didn't know he was an alcoholic. i didn't know he had a dependency. there's a tendency i think if you're working in the white house to -- you're so focused on the job at hand and you have so much coming at you so fast that maybe you are blind to some things going on around you. there is a famous experiment psychologists have that putting a group of people in a room and saying we have a ball we're going to ask you to toss back and forth and we want you to toss this as fast as you can and count the number -- se

i didn't know what he did except he reported to john dean. i called him and he said, i want to meet you in the office. i'll meet you in the men's room. i go to the men's room. and he said, tell me what it is. he said, i heard from erlicman's office you had a message from the president. he wants to get these documents back, i told him. he looked at me. i said, you can probably, the best thing to do would be call mel laird. he said, oh, no, he said, we'll never get anywhere that way. he said, you know, i was with the new york police. we used to create a fire as a diversion and go in and get papers out of anybody's office. i said, i don't know how you do your business, but all i can tell you is the president wants those papers left. that's the last i heard of it until watergate. i never heard what happened. nothing did happen, as a matter of fact. much was made of it that two -- one of the explosive allegations in watergate is i proposed the bombing of the brookings institution. i told the press at the time, they came to my house and interviewed

and john dean has made it a crusade over the years to talk about what a madman colson was.i got a call three years ago to ask my forgiveness because he said it was a lie, and he said there is perjury. he did not say who committed it. and i had written john dean and told him, and i told prosecutors after i had total immunity, and they said, "did you order brookings?" and i said i did not. they told me i had immunity. i said i did not. in taking full responsibility, i did not pull the whistle on the president, and i did not say that is not a good thing for you to do or that is not something you should be doing. i also did, as a result of those meetings, send a letter to john ehrlichman, in which i said there were people to be brought into one things, and there were six names and the files, and the bottom name was actually howard hunt. i think he was my last choice. in any event, it came down to hunt. interviews with howard. he came by my office a number of times, but i did not talk to him about this. i arranged for him to go interview ehrlichman, and he hired him, and he was

i didn't know we were paying money until he called me and told me so, which i recorded to john dean. he was a white head doing an honest investigation. i was never in any of the meetings, coverup meetings if you go back, look at the stuff. i was being set up, you're right. bill bitman, hunt's lawyer came to see me in january. i agreed to see him because hunt asked me to. i was appalled by his approach. it was very heavy handed. and i cut him off. i said look, if you talk to me this way, i cannot help you. if you will just be quiet, i'll tell you what i want to do. as a friend, not to keep anybody quiet or anything else. i don't care about that. just as a friend, he should not go to prison because he was doing what he thought he was being told to do by the white house. so if he did go to prison, i would go to the president and ask for amnesty or pardon or ask for some relief. you have my personal assurance on that. that's not to hush you up or anything else, but it is only because he's a friend and i brought him in here, i feel responsible. i guess i knew he wasn't testifying -- no, i

they had haldeman, mitchell, john dean, they discovered the tapes, they laid out the whole money trail, they -- and the special prosecutor's office discovered all of this corrupt campaign money. >> a republican on the committee said what did the president know and when did he know it. >> i'll add from my book that the average home watched 30 hours of the hearings that went from may 17 to august 7 and they filled 237 hours of television. but really, other than 9/11 i can't think of an event that gripped the nation and that only did for a week and this went on for months. i think we have to wrap it up. i want you to know i have a few copies of this book. i was on a panel with them a few years ago and i came out and they were signing my book and bob looked up, for people buying it and bob looked up and said do you mind? i was like no. then i told my son, go buy a copy of my book so i can get them to sign it. thank you all. [ applause ] >> stay with us for

people i forget who wrote the book authoritarians that's robert alter my idea this ideology and then john dean actually wrote it or based on the tickets to actually measure it differently now in a lot of cases than they measured it in actually now it's a simpler kind of question where they just ask about child rearing styles and authoritarians tend to tend to want children who are obedient sure and you know non authoritarian is the extreme opposite i'm a very not authoritarian person they want children who are creative so that that i have turns out to be a giant political divide right there and politically. in the book the authoritarians and dean's book they both talked about how there are third terry and leaders who are demanding obedience and then there are authoritarian followers who are demanding leaders who want leaders to tell them to do this and that that seems to be something that is predominately on the right. so the left do we predominantly have incoherent leaders or kind of all over the place and incoherent incoherence the wrong word but we're not as obedient make that would be fair

in fact, john dean later thought i was deep throat, which i wasn't, but bob woodward and i had gone to college together. we didn't know each other in college but had gotten to know each other in washington after we both got there, and he and woodward -- he and bob had teamed up on the watergate story. and he started calling me. i remember the first call i got he was at "the washington post" and they -- it was like 8:00 or 9:00 at night and i was in my office and he said, listen. we've got this hot story. ziegler won't talk to us in the press office. and nobody else will talk to us. this is really important. it's a very sensitive story. and we don't have a white house perspective in there and we can't get to anybody. and i said, you know, i don't know anything. he said, i know that but you've got to -- can you help me? we think it's really important for the paper that we at least have some understanding. i've got to talk to somebody who can either set it straight or at least give your version of it. i said, listen, bob. let me see. so i went down and talked to led garmin who was still a

and one of the well remembered momentstapes is when john dean was quizzing the president about what it would take to buy the silence of the watergate conspirators and suggested $1 million, which today would be several million today and nixon said, well, that wouldn't be a problem. i think it was generally understood that that's because all the money they were raising was considered a kind of slush fund, it just provided a lot of money in safes that could be dragged out and given to any purpose. and i think that's the sort of thing that really put a sour taste to the campaign financing of the day. >> i agree with you. i think people weren't aware of how much money was going in and that's one of the reasons that the contribution limits were part of the federal election campaign act. it's also probably behind the idea that corporations couldn't be spending money, the prohibition on corporations had been around for a much longer time period, of course, but some stricter limits came in. i also suspect that's a lot of why some of the expenditure ideas were floating around at that time, becau

nixon -- nixon's infamous enemies list, that list described in a 1971 memo from white house counsel john dean quote, how we can use the available federal machinery to, pardon the term, screw our political enemies. today, on a site called keeping the gop honest, president obama's election team names romney donors and then tries to shame them with embarrassing information. these are private citizens being attacked for making political donations to the republican presumptive nominee. joining me now, brad blakeman, former deputy assistant to president george w. bush and dick harpootlan, chairman of the democratic party. james rosen will yell at me if i say it was president nixon's enemies list, it was not, it of the white house counsel, from mr. kolson who put it together but in this case it's the president's reelection team that has nailed and shamed several donor, dick, coming out and saying, some have them, quote, have less than reputable records and are on the wrong side of the law, have been on the wrong side of the law. what do you make of it? >> well, megyn, i think the major point here, t

they had ehrlichman, mitchell, john dean, they discovered the case. they lead a -- they laid out the whole money trail in the prosecutor's office and discovered corrupt containment. >> the republican on the committee said what did the president know, and when did he know what? >> i read that the average american watched 30 hours of the hearing that went from may to august in 1973. really, other than 9/11, i can't think of an event that gripped the nation. this went on for months. i think we will wrap it up. i want to know i have a few copies of this book. i was on a panel a few years ago, and i came out and they were signing my book and people were buying it, bob looked up and said, do you mind? and i said no. i told my son to go buy a copy of my book so i could get them to sign it. thank you all. [applause] >> are special booktv programming continues over the next several hours as we focus on the lives of william f. buckley and ronald redman untrimmed reagan >> arthur carl bogus on his book about william f. buckley. and how buckley effected at americ

just asked john dean, whose father lived in akron, and whom i knew.e told me in the 1990's that his son was approached on the impeachment. that there was payback and we would be forced to resign. host: thank you for the call. this from "the washington post." "nude in retracts up $3 million more debt as campaign disintegrates -- newt gingrich racks up $3 million more debt as campaign disintegrates." the justices been tested again, coming after the historical arguments in health care, they will conclude one of the most significant and controversial terms in decades by taking on one more issue that has divided the nation. robert kearns, writing about illegal immigration crackdowns. host: florence, ky, democratic line, good morning. caller: it is hard to believe that if the president does it, it is not illegal. dick cheney came into office believing just that. one of the smartest things that george bush did was starting to push dick cheney out of the picture in his second term. far as i am concerned, the legacy of watergate and the reagan new administrati

and that there were calling upon alumni to come save them john said will reduce something said he's done here to do something and then the deanis going to address the students that and so worried fir several weeks about the realities and you'll be making an announcement at 836 stay tuned. as we said that members from john breaux the it team of the college dean story will be on campus to 830 to give a special announcement and are being tight-lipped. motive yet days. live in san francisco cbs five. out of my predecessors and labor activists have dropped plans to try to block the golden gate bridge tomorrow the demonstrations in oakland will include a march to city hall they're calling for a daytime work stoppage at the port of oakland and nurses plan to walk off their jobs at eight sutter health hospitals. this judge of kidder road with clothes for nine months to accommodate construction on the barge to send as a corridor is a starting today through traffic will not be allowed on warm springs boulevard including vehicles and bicycles and pedestrians tropical be detoured to dixon landing road in north milpitas. 6 and now you tel

ike ♪ everybody likes ike ♪ hang out the banner ♪ we'll take ike to washington ♪ we don't want john or deann step with ike >> i like ike became rather iconic. but short of having a name that rhymes with "like" what makes a successful slogan? >> in that particular situation, it was hard not to like ike. he led the invasion of normandy and it worked. so what a slogan has to do is reflect a brand promise. something that people believe that that individual can accomplish and matters to them. a slogan isn't just a catchy phrase to sort of cover up things. a slogan is intended to really reflect in fact what that person can accomplish and those two have to mesh. and if they don't it becomes very apparent. the politics is littered with slogans that didn't work. >> remember, also, that it's not just about a brand promise. it also slogans are about a point of contrast when former president bill clinton talked about putting people first, that was as much a slogan about what he would do, as it was a critique on what was not happening in the country. which is part of why i go back to one of the reasons

we've got the dean of john hopkins here. fantastic. >> yeah. >> facts are interpreted through the culture. >> and there's no narrative that matters to support it, it must exist within a narrative. >> that's true. >> you should have put that in your essay when you applied to john hopkins. >> wow. >> oh. >> we would have been happy to have you. >> congratulations on your book. >> thank you very much. >> and thanks to the panel. ari, enjoy your time in the great northwest. you look smashing with the half of space needle that probably is fake over your right shoulder. >> it's real. >> it's real, okay, wonderful. chris, have a wonderful weekend and wonderful holiday. whether you live with them or just visiting, like ari, families across the country are coming together to celebrate passover and easter. and next up, a sneak peep of what the white house has planned on this holiday of renewal as you can see, bo, the white house dog is ready to go. [ male announcer ] if you believe the mayan calendar, on december 21st polar shifts wil

dean of the college of arts and sciences at john hopkins university up the road in baltimore. as president of george washington he's made at priority to increase student opportunities for public service. in order to be accessible and better serve the students here he chose to take up residence on the campus, the first president of this university ever to do that. maybe he was just trying to avoid the well known washington, d.c. traffic. but it looked to me like he was trying to remain open to the students. he's made a lot of green renovation to the residents, demonstrating a strong commitment to sustainability, and trying to make the university a model for sustainability. this kind of complete view of public service, how it permeates every decision he makes, makes president knapp not just a good president for the students of g.w. but an inspiration to people everywhere. please welcome the president of george washington university, steven knapp. >> thank you. thank you, president clinton, for that very kind introduction and above all thank you for the inspiring leadership that

we're talking basketball with john harwood. so deane four corners, and it's 4-3 at halftime? >> this is a different game. this was -- howard white was the point guard. held the ball at the top of the key. playing south carolina. had john roach, all american. tremendously powerful south carolina team. came into maryland, lefty is trying to build the program. it was 4-3 at halftime. >> holy cow. >> maryland won it in overtime, 31-30. but when we had -- >> not too much information. >> the year after we went to the finals in '78 against kentucky and lost -- >> yeah. >> gibbons had 40 points. carolina came into duke. i was coming back after having graduated. >> boy, this is going a long time. bring it in for a landing. >> they went into the four corners and i think the score might have been 8-7 at halftime. >> can we get to the must read opinion pages? >> that is fascinating that was ever allowed in college basketball. >>> maureen dowd, men in black. how dare president obama brush back the supreme court like that? this court, koszetted behi

john henrehan, fox 5 news. >>> coast guard officer and a civilian helped treat the pilot of a downed pilot on virginia beach friday. nicholas dean was at a friend's house when he heard the jet go down. he ran over to make sure everyone was out safely of the buildings and he and a civilian spotted a pilot on the ground, still harnessed in his parachute. the pilot couldn't get up right away. they checked him out for serious injuries and cut him out of the parachute. heros indeed. >>> on to the campaign trail, where the topic today was religion and politics. what is the right balance? plus, gingrich sounding like a candidate who knows he has been beaten. melanie alnwick has our roundup. [ applause ] >> reporter: 100,000 catholics gathered in vatican city. in america, the catholic church has wielded its political power when it forced the president obama to change its rules on contraception coverage. on face the nation, cardinal timothy dolan said it's not realistic to have complete separation of church and state. >> i think politics, like business, education, arts, culture, only benefits when religion, when morals, when faith has a

john miller is covering. on the day pat summitt steps down, president obama makes a surprising announcement. dean reynolds is with the winningest college coach ever. and seth doane with the billionaire's son. how howard buffet plans to feed america's hungry. >> reporter: what would do you without a program like this here? >> starve. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. september 2009 might have been one of those dates etched in our history. that is when al qaeda terrorists planned to walk on to new york city subway trains and grand central terminal with bombs in their backpacks. those trains are ridden by more than five million people each day. details of this plot came from an admitted terrorist, now a government witness, at the trial today of an alleged coconspirator. homeland security correspondent bob orr is following the case. >> reporter: this is the handwritten recipe for bombs najibullah zazi hoped to explode on new york city subway trains. the nine pages of instructions were written by zazi in 2008 after he attended al qae

historically is very strong r runners-up, whether it's george bush in 19d 80 or john mccain in 2000 or bill bradley and howard dean in 2000, 2004, represent about where roughly a quarter of the country is, right? and i think santorum, what mark just said, represents that tea party strong cultural social conservative element. and to some extent, he has the vices of his virtues. he's immensely popular with an element, part of the electorate, but that has a natural ceiling right now. and so he didn't go from base -- his base plus this time. >> see, the trick is to -- everybody knew that rick santorum was pro-life. everybody knew where he stood on traditional marriage. everybody knew these things, where he stood on social issues. the disciplined candidate would sort of nod and wink to the james dobsons and say, when i'm there, you're there. but we're just going to keep it low. and i'm going to talk about my granddad. and i'm going to talk about economic pop populism. mike, that's what he needed to do. we all knew where he stood on social issues. the disciplined candidate in that place never talks about social issues.

dean reynolds reports on how a yv your tax refund can be stolen before it ever reaches you. john miller exposes a growing crime. and an anniversary for us. how the con cite era began this day a half century ago. >> good evening from cbs news headquarters in new york. this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> reporter: good evening, we learned today that more than 20 americans are under investigation while soliciting prostitutes while preparing for security for the president's trip to colombia this weekend. a pentagon source tells david martin more than ten members of the military are involved. the secret service says 11 of its officers and agents are under investigation. some of the secret service personnel are members of an elite tactical team trained to use heavy weapons to rappel any attack on the president. we have two reports tonight. first, bob orr, bob? >> reporter: a law enforcement source tells us the 11 secret service agents and officers recalled from columbia have had their top secret service clearances revoked. they've been barred from secret service facili

john blackstone is with the survivors. republican primary night in wisconsin, maryland, and the district of columbia. reports from chip reid and dean reynolds. and how to turn around a failing school? give the students unfailing attention. byron pitts with the best teacher in florida. >> reporter: what percentage of your band students who graduate high school go on to college or go on to a program after high school. >> 100%. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, it has been an ominous and frightening afternoon in dallas fort worth. at least two tornadoes the weather service described as very large and dangerous skipped across the metropolitan area of six million people. while damage is widespread, areas of severe damage appear to be limited. there are no immediate reports of fatalities but assessments are still coming in. we feared the worst when we saw pictures of semi trailers flying through the air but the twisters were selective. just a few neighborhoods are heavily damaged. a lot of what we've seen is broken glass and broken roof tops. we just talked to the mayor

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john miller is covering. on the day pat summitt steps down, president obama makes a surprising announcement. deanthe winningest college coach ever. and seth doane with the billionaire's son. how howard buffet troops in feed america's hungry. >> reporter: what would do you without a program like this here? >> starve. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. gillette government. september 2009 might have been one of those dates etched in our history. that is when al qaeda terrorists planned to walk on to new york city subway trains and grand central terminal with bombs in

joining me now is former senior adviser john mccain's 2008 presidential campaign and senior strategist in the bush/cheney 2004 campaign steve schmitt and howard deanairman of the democratic national committee and former governor of vermont. thank you both. howard dean, i don't shock easily looking at polls, but this surge in women's support -- rush limbaugh says it is a fluke. okay. here's an easy one. howard dean, do you agree with rush limbaugh? >> no. not now or probably ever. look, this sant fluke. this has been going on three weeks in some of the polls. this is a disaster for romney. he can't get this back. what women will remember is that in the debates, in these 25 debates or whatever these guys have is that women were not on the radar screen except to treat them as if they were supposed to be in the kitchen. it is the most ridiculous argument on the republican side and it is shocking. the numbers among latinos are even worse. explain how you can alienate two of the largest groups in the country and expect to win the presidency. it's not going to happen. >> steve schmitt. the number for women overall. we were talking about women under 50 bu

dean of attendance to catch the scam. the principal said attendance increased. >> the naked traveler makes national headlines. he was bound for san jose and stripped down to the bare essentials. 49-year-old john bren on shown here at arraignment stripped naked while going through a security screening at the portland international airport. he said he was fed up with security screening. >> i heart nothing. this was my next action. i know in oregon they are a protected speech. i chose that option. >> yes, he did. he was arrested after refusing to put his clothes back on. he was booked on disorderly conduct and indecent exposure charges and released. >> they like it. negotiable networking giants facebook got the green light to expand their campus in men low park. they approved a proposal and thousands of employees in the coming years. in exchange facebook agreed to pump millions into the economy with the projects and road improve ams and benefits like job training. this video just in to the nbc bay area newsroom. it comes from our chopper that shows police searching anderson lake this afternoon. they were again once more looking for morgan hill teen sierra lamar. despite the tips that trickled in

dean reynolds is there with the latest. abuse behind bars-- ben tracy details the charges of brutal mistreatment inside america's largest county jail. and the bookkeeper. john blackstone takes us to meet the internet entrepreneur of every book ever published. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. a scandal may be brewinged in the u.s. secret service. several agents were recalled there colombia where they were part of an advance team preparing for president obama's arrival for a weekend summit there. senior white house correspondent bill plante is live in cartagena with allegations of misconduct, include prostitution. bill, good evening. >> reporter: jim, good evening. it's an exwargs incident which has distracted from the president's participation in the 33-nation summit of the americas. 11 or 12 members of the huge secret service contingent for the president's visit were sent home from colombia after a noisy altercation involving at least one prostitute. the alleged misconduct and the explosion took place earlier this week before the president arrived friday and attended the summit's colorful

dean reynolds reports on how a yv your tax refund can be stolen before it ever reaches you. johnime. and an anniversary for us. how the con cite era began this day a half century ago. >> good evening from cbs news headquarters in new york. this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> reporter: good evening, we learned today that more than 20 americans are under investigation while soliciting prostitutes while preparing for security for the president's trip to colombia this weekend. a pentagon source tells david martin more than ten members of the military are involved.

john can keep them saving throughout. australia has a mandatory system. which works exceedingly well. i am not suggest dean the united states would want that line, but the broader the coverage the easier days and it's possible to do a simple system like the ira. and keep it very cheap. frankly we study overseas systems very extensively in developing it. >> thank you all very much. i go back, mr. chairman. >> mr. burge is recognized >> thank you, mr. chairman. obviously the goal in this whole thing is how do you make us template easy to pick the rate plan for each individual? obviously someone's understanding of financial markets and what is best for them and trying to make a lifelong decision rather than a short-term decision. so i was kind of intrigued by the automatic iras. i'm part of the testimony, mr. john cummings talked about simplifying things, but also having automatic ira. the kind of my question to you, does the simplification comes first? 42 the automatic ira and the simplification after that quite >> i anticipate that given the direction of things that the auto ira comes first. the auto ira is

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thinking the driver could be seriously hurt, but out pops dean hicks from the top of the truck with barely a scratch. >> i was in a state of shock. i told johnhat i was finished driving. >> john jesse helps hicks to his patrol car, calms him down, and later makes sure he has a hotel room for the night, something hicks has not forgotten. >> he went over and beyond the call of duty in taking care of me, carrying me to a hotel, to recommend that they give me a nice room, that i had had an accident, and gave me one of the best rooms for half price, and i don't care where you're from, you can't beat that anywhere. >> how are you doing? >> hicks and officer jesse reunite for the first time five months later back in reno. >> good to see you. you are such an officer, i'll tell you what. i didn't know how bad it looked until i saw the video that you took of it. i saw it on television. and i said, that's my truck. >> hicks tells jesse how his company bought him a brand-new truck when he returned to grand rapids and how he couldn't resist taking to the highways again. >> you're driving again. >> yeah. >> i remember your famous words that day, "i'm neve

. >> so in nevada you had senator john ensign step down from his seat after a host of ethics issues there and he's a republican and he was replaced by senator dean heller, a member of congress. this is always going to be a seat that ensign was going to just retire so heller had his sights on that seat. shelley berkeley, also a member of congress, is running as the democrat there. what's interesting about nevada is this is a presidential battleground state and particularly the obama campaign has put in a lot of resources to make sure they have the get out the vote operation, the make sure they can target latino voters and to activate the harry reid machine. this is harry reid's home state and he's going to be going after this seat. >> suarez: next, montana where incumbent john tester took the seat in a squeaker of an election in '06. what's the dynamic there? >> well, tester has only served for one term and he's running against a congress member named denny rheeburg. they run at large in montana and denny rheeburg has been winning statewide for a decade so this is going to be a very competitive race lockd from the beginning to tend. it's a state