>> it was mostly haldeman. mostly haldeman. >> do you think he felt vulnerable? >> he had to make documents disappear. which would track back to him. haldeman, i believe, was aware of that as well. they just knew it was a huge disaster. but they thought that p.r. was the answer. i tried to dissuade them of that. he didn't want to hear it. i said well, john you better listen. we're on the other side of the law on this. >> what role do you think the president played in the coverup? >> well it wouldn't have happened if he didn't want it. he knew very well. you go back he bases his defense on my march 21st conversation conversation, said before dean came in, i didn't know anything. some of my conversations before march 21st are highly revelatory. that's his defense. so, when the tapes come out that he has talked to haldeman within days of the break-in about using the cia to block the fbi investigation, it decimates his defense. so, he's clearly involved all the way along. i've never made an effort, because i don't think they're all available, but somebody someday wil

through haldeman? >> it wasn't pressure at all. he told me what had happened with houston and he had said -- you know he said that houston was able to get this -- not get this off the ground after the president pushed him to do so. why don't you see what you can do with it and we came out with this interagency committee. one of the reasons that i took the plan with me when i left is when -- at that time i was convinced that nobody would ever believe the kind of atmosphere that had developed within the white house and this was the best paper record of it that i knew of and while i knew it was a security breach to do so, i solved that very quickly by having my lawyer make arrangements to have the judge take it who we gave him a key to a lockbox so even he didn't look at it. there was no security breach with it not that there was any problem because sam irvin virtually put the entire thing into the senate watergate hearings. they redacted a few parts but they are not particularly sensitive. but what's interesting on that document, als

haldeman denied it. or haldeman didn't really add anything to it.deman years later published his diary, he had recorded that when i met with mitchell, mitchell to his surprise after he had stonewalled him right after the break-in, that when haldeman had asked him again if he indeed had approved liddy's plans, mitchell had acknowledged to haldeman, as he recorded in the diary, that he had done so. which was pretty solid cooperation. it's a contemporaneous note. >> you never saw richard nixon again after -- >> never did. i wouldn't have had any problem with it but he would have. just his personality, that would have been difficult. and the memoirs are kind of curious. he at one point says how much he likes me and respects me in the memoirs, but then he said i lied before the senate, and the problem is that he had lied more than i had. well, this is when they were nitpicking and using minor problems in my getting one thing on one date wrong with another date which -- >> you in "blind ambition," you give the impression that the president's own knowledge

dean was willing, he said to go to prison for the president but not for haldeman. also, he was not willing to perjure himself. he was a fairly unprincipled person at that time. he's learned a lot of principles since then. i like him a lot now. dean is a friend of mine. and i believe he's a great truth teller. at that time, he was still a white houseman, as he put it. blind ambition. but he was not willing to perjure himself. and he revealed in the course of plea bargaining with the prosecutors, the break-in to the doctor's office. that, i'm going to condense here very greatly. nixon did his best to keep that from going to my trial. nixon kept the knowledge of the break-in from going to my trial where it clearly was his responsibility to inform the judge of this break-in. and, also of the f.b.i. wiretaps against me. he ordered the material not go. finally, peterson, on i believe, april 25th 24th or 25th went into him and implied they would have to resign because they would be guilty of obstruction of justice if they didn't pass that material on. nixon, on the 25th t

hunt and erlichman haldeman and kroed were all christian scientists as i had been and my father was. i wondered what had meant for them to be going after a fellow christian scientist. that's a good deal of cleej yal feeling. so when i asked erlichman and kroeg, who is now a friend of mine, how did you feel going after a christian scientist? they had not discovered that i was a christian scientist, which was not a secret. that's why i gave the papers to the christian science monitor. my father had given me praktically a life subscription. he was a very fanatic christian scientist. they had a whole room filled with documents on danny who somehow never picked up thatives a fellow christian scientist. and i asked kroeg how they would have felt. well, they would have felt very strange about that you know that that would not have gone unnoticed. that it was much easier for them to imagine that i might be a soviet agent not knowing that i was a christian scientist than if they had known. but, anyway what they were after was information that could blackmail me, as i say, into silence. that w

itself is seems to eclipsed them or haul them and haldeman the question.h more appealing to the vast majority of people. it's a question i have. >> a very profound question. if we found that is exactly what we want to do. [laughter] we living catastrophic times ecological catastrophe looming, nuclear capacity from nuclear catastrophe a possibility increasing wealth inequality, the inequality the spiritual capacity of losing sight of nonmarket values like love and integrity. it could be against arabs and muslims, against gays and lesbians against jews, black people, read people supremacy and so forth. forth. it could be against christians in a certain context. certain right-wing questions so many more right-wing questions and revolutionary questions like myself. anti- christians more direct. critique. first thing you need to have a commitment to is to allow the suffering to speak. have a public conversation that at least attempts to tell the truth about the situation. colin the question people living in denial, the disneyland mentality. things are wonderful

up investigators tell us a woman says another driver rammed her car at bustleton and haldeman avenue and then fled the scene. the it happen just a after 4:00 a.m. the 29 year-old woman was rush to the hospital complaining of head and ankle pain. there is in word on a description of the car at this time. >>> now lets check that forecast, sound like a nice day, carol. >> it is better than what we have sceneries eventually. we will find some sunshine breaking out skies clearing we like that as we look at a the skies over philadelphia and new jersey, heading out to kutztown it is even brighter there. 49 degrees. the beautiful looking start to the the day in that area and we will be pushing these cloud out, you can see there on their way out and fine them through south jersey but they will be leaving us and we will be left with great conditions. fifty-one at the the airport in philadelphia right now we're in the the 40's elsewhere. high of 63. it will be windy today tomorrow looks like a nicer day mid to upper 60's and not as much wind, nicole. >> carol, thanks. our next update 7:57. i'm

and please join me in saying a prayer for the family of freddie gray ed haldeman whose names we know-- and all the men whose names we know those we don't, who lost their lives unnecessarily and tragically. and in particular today include in that prayer the people of baltimore and our beloved country. thank you all very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> the u.s. senate should be gaveling back in shortly to resume consideration of the iranian nuclear negotiations oversight bill. they been in a joint meeting with the house to hear from japanese prime minister shinzo abe, but that is wrapped up in we expect the senate to gavel back in shortly. the house as well. follow the house on c-span and the senate on c-span2. yesterday debate debate continued on an amendment to the iranian to include one by ron johnson of wisconsin introduced as an inimitable declared a nuclear deal with iran a treaty subject to the advice and consent of the senate. it ultimately failed 39-57 but we'll show you some of the debate on that as we would for the senate to gavel back in. >> mr. president, i w