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

he said to gordon liddy, i am not your lawyer, so i am not your lawyer. i'm going to tell john mitchell everything you tell me. all right. the question you asked on cross-examination, did you explain to liddy that mitchell could waive the privilege, mardian's response was, well, that was a risk that liddy had to take. but, of course, we all know liddy didn't worry about that because he knew that john mitchell knew as much as he did, so he was i don't think concerned that mitchell was going to turn him in. >> because what he was saying was that mitchell was the one who was behind it all. so, of course, he was going to withhold it and not reveal this. >> but in other segment you that employee better be warned you're going to tell the boss and that the boss could very easily tell you to disclose it. i think that's very important. >> in fact, that's called the upjohn warning today. can i say one thing for this audience that jill had two moments that the were her shining moments during the watergate trial, and this is of mitchell, ehrlichman, mardian, et cetera

it's not like gordon liddy coming in and saying to bob mardian, here is a dollar, represent me, so i can tell you everything. what happens when your client is an organization? how do you decide who you're representing and how to handle what you learn, who do you tell, when do you report up, when do you report out? >> let me just use bob mardian's situation. i think he handled it totally appropriately. in this situation, he had the committee to re-elect the president as his client. he told john mitchell everything he learned. john mitchell told him everyone was lying to him. he decided to walk away. bob mardian was only involved for about 30 days. it's not a question where you have somebody who cannot get other counsel. in that situation i think that when you have a powerful organization where the upper levels are refusing to cooperate, withdrawal is the appropriate mechanism. in terms of noisy or not noisy, anything there was noisy. people knew he was gone. so where is bob mardian? he's not here anymore. everyone knew that. i don't have a problem with a noisy withdrawal, of stating t

howard hunt and gordon liddy. now james mccord facing a stiff sentence handed down by the judge was the furstenberg lar to crack. he wrote a letter to the judge saying that perjury had occurred during the trial and that there was a cover-up of the parties that were really responsible. and finally and most oddly, when l. patrick gray against all the odds was nominated to be the permanent director of the fbi, at his confirmation hearing, he was completely oblivious to the fact that there had been a cover-up. and every day at his confirmation hearings, he made statement that's undercut the administration's claims about what watergate was all about. it was the combination of gray's testimony, mccord's letter which was brought about by his heavy sentence. and that's what finally got john dean and jeb mcgruder to run to the prosecutors and tell the whole truth. and that's when the whole thing came apart. of course, there were many, many more months of fights over presidential recordings to show nixon's culpability. but

very quickly since jill brought it up, somebody, i will say somebody called up gordon liddy to try to contact richard klein on the burning tree golf course to get him out of jail. the prosecution presented evidence that bob mardian was involved in that and bob mardian denied it. here we go again. what's the reality he choose to accept? there was a false press release that was issued where james mccord, who had been a creep security officer had been arrested, and the false press release -- the press release said -- it was false. it was obviously false. it said, well, mr. mccord has many clients. creep is one client of his, but he has other clients, and we don't know anything about this. of course, not expressly, at least very, very much hinting that this watergate job was for another client, all right? those did occur before mardian was asked to be counsel. however, mardian denied doing those things. that's just what the jury concluded and with all the things mardian was accused of doing, we never know which one the jury hung their hat on, this or that. >> okay. before we lose the poin