he told her to get chuck colson on the line. he came right on. ehrlichman said to colson, young council the news out here and he does not think the brookings plan is a good one, turn it off. he put down the phone. ehrlichman turned to me and said anything else i can do for you today, counselor? i said no, that will take care of it, thank you. >> why did you go to ehrlichman and not haldeman question mark >> because he was a lawyer. he would understand when i laid out a a legal argument that this was absurd. he was sort of my immediate on legal issues. i could have gone to haldeman just as easily, i have a good rapport with both of them but that was my instinct was that he would do the right thing in that instance and he did. what happened after that -- i was telling you about the plumbers -- bud krogh stopped in san clemente on the way home and got the assignment to start the plumbers unit, the special investigation unit. when he came back to washington, he said i am doing something that i'm not allowed to tell you about. he said normally i suspec

john: i met hunt once in chuck colson's office. hunt were pounced two times. he said colson introduced him in the hall once. i didn't remember that. i remembered meeting him in the waiting room area of colson's office. i've never had any dealings with him. i had very few dealings with liddy after he went over there. i told him he had access to my files for i have the state election laws. i found gordon wasn't much of a lawyer. those were details he got someone else then who was competent to handle. >> when did you first become involved in the hush money? -- moderator: when did you first become involved in the hush money? john: the hush money, what libby claims he told me when we met on monday morning, he needed funds for a commitment. somebody had made a commitment to him to take care of his people. that is incredible to me. how the anybody know he was quite discreet everything up and how all these contingency plans? this is just liddy inventing things after the fact. he did the same thing with bob marty that said the commitment had been made to these people to

john: i met hunt once in chuck colson's office. introduced himself. phoned recounts to hunt recounts two dad -- hunt recounts two times. he said colson introduced him in the hall once. i didn't remember that. i remembered meeting him in the waiting room area of colson's office. i've never had any dealings with him. i had very few dealings with liddy after he went over there. i told him he had access to my files for i have the state election laws. i found gordon wasn't much of a lawyer. those were details he got someone else then who was competent to handle. moderator: when did you first become involved in the hush money? john: the hush money, what libby claims he told me when we met on monday morning, that he needed funds for a commitment or i have made a commitment, somebody had made a commitment to him to take care of his people. that is incredible to me. how did anybody know that he was going to gold rivera and screw it up and -- go over there and screw it up and have all these contingency plans? this is just liddy inventing things after the fact. h