smith's coverage of those early days of the watergate scandal on the abc evening news. >> democratic national committees housed in the fashionable watergate complex. the break-in was apparently planned well in advance. through the door and down a narrow hallway, the intruders gained entrance to committee offices, where files were ransacked and papers removed. the five suspects armed with photographic devices were apprehended by police in these cubicles just outside the offices of democratic national chairman lawrence o'brien. in this area also, tiles had been removed from the ceiling for suspected planting of bugging devices. four of the men arrested were cuban nationals now living in miami. and the fifth was james mccord, a former fbi and cia agent recently employed as a security aide by the republican national committee and the committee to re-elect the president, reportedly on the recommendation of a ranking secret service agent. democratic national chairman o'brien has been out of town since the break-in, but he had these comments from new orleans. >> distinguished mayors, associates, and john mitc

national committee. >> what was this? what was its purpose? and who sponsored it? >> five people have been arrested and charged with breaking into the headquarters of the democratic national committee in the middle of the night. >> the democratic national committee is located in the watergate office building. the burglars forced a stairwell door then taped its latch open. the door was noticed by one of the guards employed by the watergate complex. the police found five men crouching behind some desks. >> the weekend the arrests at the watergate occurred, i had gone to the philippines to give a speech. it was for the bureau of narcotics and dangerous drugs in manila. but let me -- let me go back. the reason i wanted to become a lawyer is that i was very smitten with washington. as early as prep school, i started traveling to washington with my roommate. >> john was very good with people, he was a people person. i found him somewhat quiet. not overly rambunctious or expressive. he was an excellent student, and i was not. so we got along real well. >> he introduced me to his father. and that would have a huge impact on my life. >> my father was senator barry goldwater, and h

national committee. >> what was this? what was its purpose, and who sponsored it? >> five people have been arrested and charged with breaking into the headquarters of the democratic national committee in the middle of the night. >> the democratic national committee is located in the watergate office building. the burglars forced a stairwell door and then taped its latch open. the door was noticed by one of the guards employed by the watergate complex. the police found five men crouching behind some desks. >> the weekend the arrest at the watergate occurred, i had gone to the philippines to give a speech. it was for the bureau of narcotics and dangerous drugs in manila, but let me -- let me go back. the reason i wanted to become a lawyer is that i was very smitten with washington. as early as prep school, i started traveling to washington with my roommate. >> well, john was very good with people. he was a people person rick i found him somewhat quiet, not overly rambunctious or impressive. he was an excellent student, and i was not, so we -- we got along real well. >> he introduced me to his father, and that would have a huge impact on my life. >> my father was senator bar

especially five suspects were wi-fi suspect going to bob number one to bob the democratic national the democratic national committee offices committee offices, or whether or not they were or whether or not they were working for any working for any other individual individuals or organizations. organizations jill wine banks, what was the jewel wine banks what was explanation for why they did that? there the explanation for why they did that really is no there really is no explanation explanation. except except, i will pause it i will positive you that my to you that my theory is theory is that there was so that there was much dark so much there are money it money it was cash was cash in every white house safe. and they didn't have to make decisions about is this really going to help the committee to reelect the president? that was known as creep. is this going to help reelect richard nixon? who had done some very good things as president. but why would he need to do this? he won the election with 49 states, an overwhelming landslide in the electoral college. so there really is no logical sense. somebody came up with

it was not just at the democratic national committee. but still, when you look at the people who have planted those moms, they've not been identified. they're still out there. just as many other insurrectionists, election deniers and capital rioters are, that does not fire you up to, i don't know. the people at the capitol that day went home! they went back to coffee shops, police departments. serving people in their communities! the threat is still active. our democracy is still in danger. the threat has not been utilized. that is why this matters, folks. that is why with the january 6th committee is doing is so important. we must keep paying attention. all right, gone. thank you for watching symone on the sunday afternoon. i am symone sanders. you can catch me every weekend on 4 pm eastern anytime on peacock. and the msnbc hub every monday and tuesday. hit me up on social media. i've got something to say everywhere. you can find highlights, news and exciting things in the works for the show on instagram, twitter and tiktok. right now,

police arrested burglars in the democratic national committee headquarters in washington d.c.remember g gordon lady -- liddy. he helped plan to break in, went to jail because of it and served five years of a 20 year sentence. liddy reinvented himself as a radio talkshow host. he provided provocative history and memories of watergate. >> it occurred to me that they might have me assassinated, and i did not want some amateur doing it with a shotgun sunday morning through the kitchen. i said if you want to go that route i would just go stand on some remote street corner and get it done without harming any of the taxpayers. the comment was i do not think we have gotten to that point yet. announcer: you can find the weekly on c-span now or wherever you get your podcasts. announcer: by vote of 396-27 the house passed a vote providing security to family members of supreme court justices. the legislation was approved by the senate in may after demonstrations over eight

. 50 years ago, during the night of june 17th 5 men broke into the headquarters of the democratic national committee. apparently to install bugs and take photos of files. the men were caught, but others were involved in the scandal all the way up to the u. s. president journalist to reveal that richard nixon, eustace power against political opponents, good wife cody, for a year earlier, nixon had told his chief of staff that he wanted the use to use wire tapping, and a tailing and other shady to illegal forms of intelligence gathering against the democrats, so while nixon didn't know about the watergate break in advance, he had he was morally responsible for getting these hearings. didn't nixon committed? crime and investigative committee tried to clarify that, but he refused to testify or resign them. they stumbled upon the oval office recordings of conversations. after resisting the probe, the nixon administration agreed to turn in the tape. later it became clear that a crucial passage of the recordings was missing was the one in which he ordered a cover up of watergate. but at this point, impeach

five unlikely burglars in business suits breaking into the democratic national committee offices at the watergate building >> well, i'm not a crook. >> reporter: but old-fashioned shoe leather reporting by "the washington post" bob woodward and carl bernstein uncovered links to the white house and nixon's re-election campaign, taking down a president. >> what did the president know and when did he first know it >> reporter: watergate would change journalism and the political language >> just follow the money. >> reporter: and gate ever since attached to scandals large and small, think of bridgegate, deflategate, weinergate >> i began by telling the president there was a cancer growing on the presidency. >> reporter: it became emblematic of abuse of power, attorney general threatening "the washington post" publisher. >> tell her she is going to get caught in the big wringer if she publishes. >> reporter: she would not be bullied and there was a smoking gun. 3,700 hours of incriminating white house tapes, minus the notorious 18 and a half minute gap. nixon's secretary said erased when she

it is mostly unlike the big grass roots or democratic national committee spirit is primarily made up of politicians themselves. it is really only about a couple thousand people but they come to really reshape the party. i think the other piece of the power is bill clinton in 1982 selects al gore to be his running mate. that really solidifies the idea to new direction of the party unscented taken the usual approach in picking a vice president who will represent another wing of the party to try to win over voters they double down on the dlc message. especially to get elected. next professor, when you espouse some of their principlesse it sounds like republicans in a sense. that's one thing in my book the way people think of the dlc's republicans write about what other democrats calll them. i think there's actually a critical difference between the dlc style of democrat and the republican party. they did not support reagan for the thought a lot of what reagan was doing was horrible. especially the way it was affecting low income and poor people as well as people of color. one find a dif

. >>> 50 years ago today, five men were arrested for breaking into the democratic national committeehis would later become one of the most defining political events of the 20th century. nbc's justice correspondent pete williams takes us back to the beginning. >> early in the morning 50 years ago, these two men were washington, d.c. police officers responding to a report of a break-in at the headquarters of the democratic national committee. walking through these very same halls, they didn't know what to expect. >> do i think we're on to something? yes. but i have no idea how big it's going to be. >> no idea that the arrests they made that night would lead to the discovery of a political scandal that ended with richard nixon becoming the only american president ever to leave office in the middle of his term. >> therefore, i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. >> watergate changed the american political system and the very language of scandal. at first, it looked like a petty crime. five men arrested june 17th, 1972, after breaking into the national democratic party

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years ago today, breaking someplace at the democratic national committee headquarters in the water. it's two miles from here. white house press secretary at the time referred to the incident as nothing more than quote a great burglary. that may have been out history would have recorded it but for the recording of two men about to hit the state. former publisher of the washington post phil gramm once said journalism is the first rough draft of history. bob woodward and carl bernstein wrote their first draft of the story and their second and under the guidance of legendary editor brett ben bradley who sadly is not with us today the support of publisher katharine graham whose son don is with us exposed a tale of corruption at the highest levels of government. some quality of their work changed journalism politics. recognition from around the world and led the washington post to be honored with a pulitzer prize or public service but the significance of their work extends beyond committee accolades. through their relentless painstaking efforts to bring the truth about the nixon administr

yesterday, in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the democratic national committee. the article goes on to note that there was no immediate explanation as to why the five suspects would want to bug the offices, or whether or not they were working for any other individuals or organizations. jill wine-banks, what was the original explanation of why they did that? >> there is no explanation. i will deposit to you that my theory is that there were so many dark money, there is cash in every white house safe, and they did not have to make decisions about, is this really going to help the committee to reelect the president? is this going to reelect richard nixon? he had done some very good things as president. why would he need to do this? he won the election, with 49 states, and overwhelming landslide by the electoral college. there is no logical sense that this man came up with the idea, as well as many others in what is part of operation jump stone, which included luring delegates from the democratic national committee, which was meeting in florida onto a house vote, wh

late 80s and early 90s, very small organization mostly, unlike a big grassroots like the democratic national committee, primarily made up of politicians themselves so it is only a couple thousand people but at its height they come to hold, reshape the party and the other piece of the dlc's power is bill clinton in 1982 selects al gore to be his running mate and that solidifies the idea this is the new direction of the party. instead of thinking the usual approach of a vice president who will represent another wing of the party to win over voters they double down on the dlc's message to get elected. >> host: when it sounds like you espouse the principles, that sounds republican. >> guest: democrats called them republican like, there's a critical difference between the dlc style of democrat and the republican party. they did not support reagan. they thought what he was doing was horrible especially the way he was affecting low-income and poor people especially poor people of color and wanted a different approach and believed focusing on the market and private sector would be a way to help people into mo

begin tonight with june 17, 1972, the day five bungling burglars broke not offices of the democratic national committee located in the watergate complex in washington, d.c. two years later president nixon resigned. the 50th anniversary of watergate comes as public hearings are under way by the house committee investigating the january 6th capitol insurrection. two major political scandals, nearly half a country apart, two presidents driven by a thirst for power. unlike trump, nixon pulled his scandal despite being on a comfortable path to reelection and his efforts to meddle were more secretive than the very public brazen attempts by trump who relied on cameras and the internet to provoke his capital siege. let's not forget that trump pressured vice president pence privately, too, bullied him even, and while nixon was a bill just behind the scenes, he never set up his vice president for execution. trump, however, did exactly that, relentlessly badgering pence to break the law, incorrectly claiming that the vice president had the mother to unilaterally overrule the votes of 80 million people and reverse

police officers responding to a report of a break-in at the headquarters of the democratic national committeels, they didn't know what to expect. >> i think we're on to something yes but i have no idea how big it's going to be. >> no idea that the arrest they made that night would lead to the discovery of a political scandal that ended with richard nixon becoming the only american president ever to leave office in the middle of his term. >> therefore, i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. >> watergate change the american political system and the very language of scandal. >> at first a look like a petty crime. five minute rested, june 17th, 1972 after breaking into the democratic national party headquarters. paul leaper and john barron responded to the police radio call. while they were on regular duty as part of a plainclothes detail. a security guard at the watergate office building called police after noticing that someone had to use tape to prevent the stairwell doors from walking. with guns drawn, based search room by room in the sweet democratic office is now occupied

. >> this is the place where on june 17, 1972, five men broke into the democratic national committeeers and were caught. they were caught for a variety of reasons, all of them rely stupid. they were caught red-handed. they had on them evidence that linked them to white house. the white house denied any involvement and said it was a third-rate burglary. >> i had no prior knowledge of the watergate break-in. >> the pre cap after it. our office was established, the special prosecutor. we started using t grand jury to get evidence. the watergate hearings took place over 51 days and riveted the nation. >> this was the biggest day of the watergate hearings yet. >> literally, almost all of america, 85% of american households watched the heangs. they watched ateast 30 hours of hearings. >> the committee will come to order. raise your right hand. >> john dean was the narrator of the full story. >> i began by tellinthe president there was a cancer growing on the presidency and if the cancer was not removed, the president would be killed by it. >> his memory was terrific, he was an insider who

. ♪ >> this is the pla where on june 17, 1972, five men broke into the democratic national committee and were caught. they were caught for a variety of reasons all of them really stupid, but they were caught red-handed, and they had on them evidence that linked them to the white house. the white house denied any involvement and said it was a word, burglary. >> i had no prior knowledge -- and said it was a third rate burglary. >> i had no prior knowledge -- >> our office was established that the watergate special prosecutor, then we started usinghe grand jury to get evidence. the watergate hearings took place over 51 days and riveted the nation. >> this was the biggest pay of the watergate hearings yet. >> literally almost all of america, 80% to 85% of erican households watched the watergate hearings, and watched at least 30 hours of hearings. >> the committee will come to order. >> raise your right hand. >> john dean was the narrator of the full story. >> i began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and if the cancer was not removed, the presiden

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statement by american intelligence in 2016 that accused russia of stealing emails from the democratic national committee. that despite his government still to obtain any evidence, ortiz rachel blevins has more. the trial of michael assessment didn't just lead to a not guilty verdict for the former dnc attorney. it's also giving new insight into the obama administration handling of russia gate from the very beginning. it all started back in august 2016, whether the cybersecurity company crowd strike the f. b. i heavily redacted documents which they claim proved to russia, hacked the servers of the d, n. c, the f b. i then spent the next few weeks trying to verify the company's claim and emails that were made public in the sussman case show that in september they were actively searching for the full version of the crowds report. then came october 7th, 2016 when the us intelligence community released this statement in which they claim they were confident that russia was behind that toria dmc, half the u. s. intelligence community is confident that the russian government directed the recent compromises of e

today is the 50th anniversary of the break-in at the democratic national committee headquarters in the watergate, >>. there is no doubt the scandal has had a lasting impact on history of everything from politics to journalism to american culture over the past five years. gaetz is now -- watergate is a word that is added to almost every controversial hearing. -- the library of congress is home to more t50

police arrested burglars in the democratic national committee headquarters. first, we remember g gordon liddy in this episode of c-span the weekly. g gordon that he helped plan the big -- break-in, went to jail because of it, and served five years. then, he reinvented himself as a radio talkshow host. he used his radio show to offer provocative history and memories. >> it occurred to me that they might have me assassinated. i didn't want some amateur doing it with a shotgun on a sunday morning through the kitchen window. they took out not only me but also misses liddy and the kids. i said if they wanted to go that route, i would stand on some remote -- remote streetcorner without harming any taxpayers. his comment was i don't thing we have gotten there yet. >> you can find the weekly on c-span now our free mobile app for where you get your podcasts. >> the senate returns tuesday at 3:00 p.m. eastern. they are expected to take a bipartisan gun legislation if an agreement on the text has been reached. they are also expected to vote later in the week on the nomi

. 50 years ago, during the night of june 17th 5 men broke into the headquarters of the democratic national committee. apparently to install bugs and take photos of files. the men were caught, but others were involved in the scandal all the way up to the u. s. president journalist revealed that richard nixon, eustace power against political opponents. good wife, got it for a year earlier, nixon had told his chief of staff that he wanted the use to use wiretapping and a tailing and other shady to illegal forms of a intelligence gathering against the democrats. so while nixon didn't know about the watergate break in advance, he had he was morally responsible for getting these her did nixon commit a crime of an investigative committee? tried to clarify that, but he refused to testify or resign than they stumbled upon oval office recordings of conversations. after resisting the probe, the nixon administration agreed to turn in the tapes on my attorney. later it became clear that a crucial passage of the recordings was missing to watch the one in which he ordered a cover up of watergate. but at this point

50 years ago, during the night of june 17th, 5 men broke into the headquarters of the democratic national committee. apparently to install bugs and take photos of files. the men were caught, but others were involved in the scandal. all the way up to the u. s. president, journalists revealed that richard nixon, eustace power against political opponents, good wife, buddy for a year earlier. nixon had told his chief of staff that he wanted the use to use wiretapping and a tailing and other shady to illegal forms of intelligence gathering against the democrats. so while nixon didn't know about the watergate breaking in advance, he had he was morally responsible for it to be, i'll be getting these her did nixon commit a crime? that was an investigative committee, tried to clarify that, but he refused to testify or resign. then they stumbled upon oval office recordings of conversations. after resisting the probe, the nixon administration agreed to turn in the tape. so minutes later it became clear that a crucial passage of the recordings was missing to watch the one in which he ordered a cover up of wate

it's cohosted by the democratic national committee, the dnc, and an organization called electing women bay area. now with the vice president in town and the big money fundraiser in los gatos tomorrow, the talk just won't go away. will kamala harris run for president in 2024? let's be clear here, as of right now, president biden's camp says he's planning on running for re-election in 2024, but we know very well things change quickly in politics. not just the vice president, her longtime political ally is making moves. governor newsom just bought tv ads that will air in florida starting july 4th. his re-election campaign hasn't released what those ads will be or what they'll look like, but it raises the question why is the california governor advertising in florida or any other state for that matter. joining us now is nolan, professor of media studies and history at cal state east bay. professor, nice to have you back on the program. let's start off the bat here, if president biden changes his course and decides not to run in 2024, is kamala harris the democrat's best option to run? >> i

so it's mostly unlike a kind of big grassroots or even like the democratic national committee. it's it's primarily made up of politicians themselves. and so it's it's really only about a couple thousand people but at its height, but they come to hold to really reshape the party and i think the other piece of the dlc's power is that bill clinton in 1982 selects al gore to be his running mate. who's another dl founding dlc member and so that really solidifies this idea of like this is the new direction of the party. so instead of taking the the usual approach of picking a vice president who will represent another wing of the party to try to win over voters. they actually double down on the dlc booklet is a double down the kind of dlc message such to get elected. professor geisberg when you espouse some of their principles it sounds like republicans in a sense. yeah, and that was one thing i actually in my book. so i think often people think of the dlc as just other as republicans light as often what other other democrats called them. i don't think that that's i think there is act

somehow victimized by i lawyer the entire world knew was connected with hillary clinton and democrat national committeeing victimized and being duped. the fbi was duped, wittingly or unwittingly, they took a meeting they should never have taken, they got played. that is the fbi's fault. so yes, someone lost the trial this week. but it was not john durham. it was the fbi. >> joining us now someone who knows a lot about the russia investigation. former house intelligence intelligencecommittee staffer, kash patel, how can this be about the origin of the russia probe when it began months and months before this meeting between susman and baker took place. >> good to be with you. you are right, when we were running russia gate investigation for then chairman nunes, we issued 17 congressional subpoenas we knew this investigation, started before june of 2016, you have in susman case is fbi meeting with hillary clinton campaign including michael susman and fusion gps in 2015, operating duel tracks in line of effort. that now has been shown to be discredited. up in of this began in july of 2016. it began well be

. >> ashley: democratic national committee slashing price for a photo op with the vice president. >>ey: tickets are going down to $5000, down from $15,000. sean duffy will react. i was thinking inflation is a big deal right now, is that what pictures are on the clearance rack? >> sean: kamala harris and joe biden are the problem. listen, i've done events where presidents or vice presidents come into the state and there is wild excitement of people who make more money than the three of us and want to take a picture with the president or vice president. it's a great shrine to their political acumen and then they give to the dnc or rnc. kamala harris can't get $15,000, they have to slash the price down to $5000, which is still a lot of money, but people pay $15 or 20,000 for a picture. people have had enough. this is not inflation because the kind of people paying this price, inflation is not affecting them. inflation is fine in their homes, they don't like kamala harris, joe biden or the direction of this country. >> ashley: harris approval rating 56 disapprove. house majority whip loo

nixon understood that if people fount oud that the campaign stamp was breaking ento the democratic national committee, it would be a disaster for his reelection. >> so we had to stop it. >> john ehrichlman. henry peterson and i were all friend. >> we have been at the department of justice together. >> he knows not only the fbi knows. he knows everything of like the grand jury. i was keeping oon eye of where this investigation i think g going. >> we learned quickly that sk civil -- the private investigators trying to find leads. >> hunt leads back to the plumbers. >> hunt leads back to the break in. >> bthis was really explosive stuff. i was in the meeting and toll son wanted to alert everybody that howard hunt had an exec aif nufs and they were stuck in his safe. we should get our hands-on it. >> erlichman called him another pafer. >> my department started to go through them. >> and when i came in, he said, listen, we don't want to leave fingerprints on all this. >> why don't i bet some heber gloep to handle the information and see what's here? >> hunt say it was loaded. >> there was some disguises t