obviously is joe weinbank knows jim hamilton and all you good lawyers. you never put somebody on the witness stand unless you know what they're going to say so every no one appeared on the witness stand here unless they'd been in an executive session and had been unbriefed. i'm not going to say practice. but so tell tell them gene about what exactly happened in that committee room in the committee room. just four of us. i was the chief counsel in there. i had a uh, my assistant counselor was a a republican republican party minority council. i had an investigator and i had a a young lady who took notes fortunately. she made a mistake and shred the notes of that hearing by state bless our heart she rewrote them from memory. but anyway, that's that's another circumstance, but it went along. uh, we uh had had that uh interview what had happened john dean. i'd interviewed john dean and dean made a statement to me and i was over at his apartment over in alexander, virginia, and they said gene. i did this. this is he said i was there with the president one time

and jim hamilton, our jim hamilton that camel one of the issues of the three pronged motivate right to get investigation, a longtime friend. and we are looking for miss holzman. how are we going to handle that, amy? >> -- would be here but we have congresswoman -- . >> good lord, i love my congresswoman -- ross. and i want to call up also my congresswoman, debra ross, from the second congressional district in north carolina. she's a brilliant lady. [applause] [laughter] and the next panel will be gene voice, who's going to tell you how this, how they discover the tapes. this is after this panel. so jill, you are the boss here. >> hi, everyone. i know that you all want to be mingling so we are going to keep our program tight. but i am very happy to be here. and -- can you all see? or should we move chairs so that? okay? it's all right. we are going to talk about what watergate was all about from both the senate point of view, and i'm sorry that former congresswoman liz wholesome holtzman isn't here. i've spoken in part of her have, gotten to be friends with her, and so some of the thing

[applause] assistant chief counsel jim hamilton. [applause] he was a neighbor from south carolina. i will started to say south america. [laughter] south carolina will be fine. [applause] gordon friedman. gordon has been so -- [applause] gordon has helped keep this thing together for so many years. we had a 20th watergate reunion in here. i remember smoking away on cigarettes, and running, jean and carl -- every time i saw her, she was running in high heels faster than i could run. gordon has been working on a watergate website called watergate.org, he's worked with the 45th and has been instrumental in the 50th. is there anything more you need to tell us about how to get a hold of you? >> watergate.org. go there, because what happens here tonight is wonderful, but is what we do after tonight, to keep our eyes open and our voices in the public sphere about these issues. because they are not going to go away with the current situation. something we have to face. -- it's something we have to face. [applause] >> thank you. ok. let me just repeat that. what happens here tonight is impor

jim woodley is an indigenous hamilton, the ecuadorian countryside at the diana cassette is, takes us to her field to show us why they're more poor than ever. i was to find a mom, a phillip on the loudy ask when we can't afford fertilizer. this is all that grows . we can't sell anything ever look m m. as in most indigenous communities, this, when lacks decent education for the children. only 2 teachers for the entire elementary school other than is not the name of all of our please have fallen on deaf ears says 35 year old at the diana who has 5 children. mother is one with who is sped, answer has been working the feels good since she was 7 and says her hands are permanently stained from the soil. moving in my in liver, these seal, and the cost of everything goes up except that of our produce the president doesn't know anything about working yourself to the bone. all he does is some people to kill us, like my husband and son who are in the capitol risking their lives protesting is should be quality for everyone in this country. chronic infant malnutrition has soared in ecuador in the

this country for 400 plus years now, but also in sports and leonard hamilton the florida state basketball coach who grew up with jim crow. in in charlotte, north carolina said to me look for any of us to say progress hasn't been made is stupid. i mean i grew up with white only water fountains and having to sit in the balcony at the movies and and dealing with that throughout my boyhood and obviously that's totally different now he said but people there are people many of them 74 million people voted for donald trump a little more than a year ago who want to believe that because there's no jim crow because they're a voting rights laws. although now that some of them are basically being repealed. it's okay. we don't have to worry about race anymore. well, that's just not true as we all know. it's it's the fact that steve mentioned the brian flores case. it's 2022. jackie it'll be 75 years. since jackie robinson made his debut in brooklyn. come april. and we're still dealing with some of the same stuff jay. i mean, you know that you you live with it every day and what i mean, look at black participation to major leagu

and leonard hamilton, the florida state basketball coach who grew up with jim crow in charlotte, north carolina. look for any of us to say that progress hasn't been made is stupid. i grew up with white only water fountains and having to sit in the balcony at the movies and dealing with that throughout my boyhood and obviously, that's totally different now. he said, but people -- there are people, many of them, 74 million people voted for donald trump a little more than a year ago, to want to believe that because there's no jim crow, because there are voting rights laws although some of them are basically repealed, it's okay, we don't have to worry about race anymore. well, that's just not true. as we all know, it's the fact that mentioned the forest case, it's 2022. jackie, it will be 75 years since jackie robinson made his debut in brooklyn come april and we're still dealing with some of the same stuff. ja. you live with it every day. >> and participation in major league baseball, right? it's peaked into the '70s and mid 80 as. >> it was down to 6% and now up to 8%. >> half of where i