butterfield, he was not very surprised.kind of gave a little smile and a nod, and i looked right at him. i felt very good. yeah. i can sleep at night now. >> we talked to butterfield only moments after he left the courtroom. and he told us what the verdict meant to him. >> so a free bible study for the rest of my life, free meals included. that's what it is. free bible study for the rest of my life, free meals included. how can you beat that? it's not a joke and i'm trying not to make light of it. i'm trying not to go crazy in this place. >> it was just a horrible thing that he did to his daughter. and a parent is supposed to be the person that protects and loves you. and he was the boogie man that we try to save our children from. >> you guys only see her as dead. she is in the cell with me every day. i just wrote another song two days ago. i feel like she helped me with these songs. i've written nine songs in jail, what, 314 poems. so i mean, in my opinion, she's not dead. i mean, she's -- i hear from her all the time. >>

butterfield. >> thank you, mr. dash. >> the caucus room was packed full of famous names and celebrities and whatnot, you know, kind of a circus atmosphere, frankly. >> mr. butterfield, i understand you previously were employed by the white house? is that correct? >> that's correct. >> during what period of time were you employed by the white house? >> i would like to preface my remarks, if i may. mr. thompson -- >> i'm sorry. go right ahead. >> although i do not have a statement as such, i would simply like to remind the committee membership that whereas i appear voluntarily this afternoon i appear with only some three hours' notice. >> i wanted them to know i was enjoying a haircut just at 11:00 today. >> mr. butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president? >> i tried to think is that direct? yeah, that's direct. that's a very direct question. i'm not trying to sound dramatic here, but i knew then that the jig was up. >> i was aware of listening devices,

alex butterfield, deputy assistant, who handles much of the paperwork. >> my first meeting, i can't tellfrom behind his desk and looked very tentative. he had no idea what to do. so he began to gesture. >> okay. >> no words came out. no discernible words. it's just this deep guttural rrrrr. this is the president. i couldn't believe it. >> alexander butterfield would play a crucial role in the watergate investigation. he had direct knowledge of the secret taping system in the office. >> haldeman came to me and he said the president wants a tape recording system. the secret service has a technical security division, electronics guys and communications guys. so that's who i went to. the first thing he indicated, he intimated that they had done this before. he didn't say we did it for johnson, yes we did it for this president or that. and he also indicated these things usually don't work out very well. >> get those files. are we going to go after some of these democrats or not? bob, please get me the names of the jews. can we please investigate some of the [ bleep ]? >> he was a paranoid man

alex butterfield, deputy assistant, who handles much of the paperwork. >> my first meeting, i can't tellixon came out from behind his desk and looked very tentative. he had no idea what to do. so he began to gesture. >> okay. >> no words came out. no discernible words. it's just this deep guttural rrrrr. this is the president. i couldn't believe it. >> alexander butterfield would play a crucial role in the watergate investigation. he had direct knowledge of the secret taping system in the office. >> haldeman came to me and he said the president wants a tape recording system. the secret service has a technical security division, electronics guys and communications guys. so that's who i went to. the first thing he indicated, he intimated that they had done this before. he didn't say we did it for johnson, yes we did it for this president or that. and he also indicated these things usually don't work out very well. >> get those files. are we going to go after some of these democrats or not? bob, please get me the names of the jews. can we please investigate some of the [ bleep ]? >> he was

butterfield. reppo better field -- >> very quickly, we want to make it abundantly clear that the congressional black caucus certainly supports and embraces our dreamers. they have dreams to become american citizens, and we embrace their goals. but our objection to the continuing resolution is not only about the failure of the congress to address the status of the dreamers. but we have other concerns that are equally as compelling, such as community health centers, such as disaster relief, and other very important issues, so please do not report that we are objecting to the c.r. because of a failure of the congress to take up the dream act. it is much wider and deeper than that. thank you. >> any other questions? >> this guarantees there will be more c.r.'s coming up, do you guys expect to be here three weeks from now with these same issues? >> absolutely. since i have been in congress, and republicans have controlled the house, the house has continued to govern by man-made deadline, man-made disas

butterfield. >> we want to make it abundantly clear that the congressional black caucus supports and embraces our dreamers. they have dreams to become american citizens and we embrace their goals. the continuingo resolution is not only about the failure of the congress to address the status of the dreamers, though we have other concerns that are usually as competitive -- as compelling including disaster relief and other important issues. please do not report that we are because of the cr the failure of the congress to take up the dream act. it is much wider and deeper than that. thank you. >> any other questions? is this a guarantee that there will be more crs than this? do you expect to be here three weeks from now with the same issues? >> absolutely. and since i have been in congress and republicans have controlled the house the house has continued to control by man-made deadlines and disasters. has been ang process disaster for the american people. we won't appropriate funds until the government is shut down. that is one of the reasons why we want to be crystal clear about how gre

monday they called butterfield and i remember ben came by and knocked on my desk and said, okay, it's better than a b-plus. >> from that point on, of course, it's a fight for the tapes because they answer the questions. am i telling the truth? is the president telling the truth? what else happened? the prosecutors immediately subpoena the tapes. the senate subpoenas them. so nixon is early advised to destroy the tapes. somehow we always leave packing to the last minute. guys, i have a couple of things to wash we got this. even on quick cycle, tide pods cleans great 6x the cleaning power, even in the quick cycle it's got to be tide >>> the discovery of the nixon tapes would ignite a new battle ground in the watergate drama. it went something like this. nixon's attorney general had appointed a special prosecutor, archibald cox, to investigate watergate. the special prosecutor then demanded nixon hand over eight of the tapes. >> eight specific tapes of conversations either in the president's office or on his telephone. >> nixon not only refused but on a saturday night in october 1973 he

. >> the key difference is when butterfield lets the white house taping system goes, that's sam irvin's a national event, it's barbara jordan. these are closed doors and republican house committee. what information leaks. but if this is a parade of trump officials, this is not a particularly fun parade. this is high risk. today is steve bannon. now you have an aide who was kicked to the curb, not only fired from the house, cut off by his benefactors, fired from his job. he has a lot of information. then there's hope hicks, does not speak publicly a ton. a lot of access to information and corey lewandowski, bring it on, i have nothing to hide. but bannon is particularly bad stakes. there's a lot of bad blood. >> truth about what? what was he there for? i know that he was there -- >> unpatriotic. >> we don't know he was particularly close to anyone who would have confided to him. >> we know he's not close to jared kushner. >> he had every motivation to talk smack. in terms of knowing things versus having an opinion, that's a meaningful distinction when you sit with a bunch of fact finde

and danielsickles butterfield who is the most obscure important figure in the history of the army of the potomac. i don't think there is any question that the head injury had a profound effect on hooker and on the battle of chancellorsville. >> this one is for steve. it is basically about the relationship between grant and buell. >> there really wasn't a relationship between grant and buell. they had only met one time. that was at shiloh. there really wasn't any real opportunity to have any sort of relationship. so basically, whatever existed was through official correspondence. >> and their performance together on the second day of the battle? >> the performance on the second day is largely because where grant's army retreated. the defendable ground in charlotte. get,loser to the river you the higher it gets. there was a slight ravine. the arrival of buell's troops that were fresh from transporting and thrown into what the confederates thought would be a fairly defensive position the next morning and were not prepared for what buell and grant had planned for them early the next day,

butterfield revealed the existence of the tapes during the urban committee hearings and when they camethey did. and in this case, if this memo exists and if this memo is so flagrantly an exercise in cherry picking, there's something to be said for letting it out and demonstrating that it was cherry picked and examining the motives of those who did the cherry picking. pat moynihan, who wrote a whole book on secrecy, said the thing about secrecy is it's a regulation. most regulations tell us what we cannot do, secrecy tells us what we cannot know and this seems to be a case where we're reaching the point where there's a certain level of speculation that can only be quenched by looking at the document in the bright light of day. >> perhaps that is the case, noah rothman, but it seems these republicans keep making the same mistake that newt gingrich made become during the so-called gingrich revolution. he was always great with the first move, he never had a seconds move, though. he never figured out that the democrats were going to respond to his first move. devin nunes and the republicans