so i did fly to key biscayne and haig and zeigler tried to put a lot of pressure on me to come in and take over all the water gate things because he was no longer credible. and i said i just didn't feel like i could do it because i had a new job and i owed something to my family as well. they said, well, fly on up to washington with us and let the president talk to you. so i got on air force one and met with the president. the president said, i know you got a new job and what do you think? i said i think it would be real hardship on me. i don't like to tell you no because i've never said no to something you've asked me to do and i thought was reasonable. and he said, well, ind that. he said that's fine. he started talking football with me. so he never put any pressure on me at all. >> but he also didn't talk to you about water gate. did you? >> no, he just -- the question was would i come in and help. he didn't talk about how to solve it, no, he didn't ask me. >> from june of '72 to this point, say early '74, did president nixon ever sit down and say -- he'd known you for years. say,

>> well, it was extraordinary that the chairman of the joint chiefs, martin dempsey, plus william haig, the foreign secretary in the uk would both come out and say what they said. this is the strongest signal, the national security adviser is in israel, met with prime minister netanyahu last night and presumably having more meetings today. they are doing everything they can publicly and privately. basically pleading over to israel, all these u.s. officials telling israel not to strike iran. at the same time we saw a "diplomatic leak" very vaguely sourced over the weekend from vienna where the international atomic energy agency is based suggesting that the underground caverns that we all know about that u.s. intelligence actually discovered and then the iranians acknowledged two years ago that those caverns were being outfitted with centrifuges. the facts are according to american intelligence that is not the case, that the sanctions have worked to prevent the equipment from being installed and that those caverns are basically a village. so all the signals from the u.s. is that iran has