g. gordon liddy and hunt responsible. when it was clear you had to involve the committee to re-elect the president. there was a hope you could stop the investigation with john mitchell, who was the head of the committee, john mitchell's deputy, jeb stewart mcgruder. could the investigation hold there? what the white house didn't want is for john mitchell to be indicted. again, you can listen to the cover-up as it evolves. these are hard to hear so we provide you with transcripts. here you can hear the president being told that e. howard hunt has disappeared. the president knows who e. howard hunt is. h.r. halderman, three days after the arrests, talks to the president about this. >> they were going after the cubans, is that right? >> no, well. >> mccord, my guess will say that he was working with the cubans who wanted to put this in for their own political reasons. but hunt disappeared or is in the process of disappearing. we can undisappear him if we want to. >> it was key for the white house to not talk to hunt because