he had this key role in the haldeman-nixon circle.of what is called internal security, which means wiretapping. >> i was the deputy white house chief of staff, chief administrative officer, and director of internal security. >> i then said to sam dash, you've got to interview alexander butterfield. >> we put butterfield before the committee. and i think we thought that it might be an interesting investigation, and we might uncover some wrongdoing. but nobody anticipated what happened. >> there was a surprise witness at the watergate hearings today, and he made a dramatic disclosure. >> we didn't know who he was or why he was coming. we never heard of him. >> and so the mystery guest turns out to be alexander p. butterfield. he has been described as one of the half dozen people at the white house closest to the oval office. >> will you stand and raise your right hand? >> i knew -- i knew it was just going to be huge. >> mr. butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president? >> i

and bob haldeman. that's the buzzer and the buzzer when the president pushes the buzzer. you go in asap if he pushed the line button, then he it's a direct line to your desk. and then this less that leaves any doubt, this is a part of the diagram of the ground floor of the west wing and so there's the cabinet room the oval office and then of course the real center of power is dwight's office, which is which is right outside. yeah. we put mine right in the center there. you can see that and so this is there's this cover. i know that you had some choices. that this was the this cover was the the result of deliberation this was another another choice. i called this your j crew catalog and i think that's i think that's that's where it can be now seen but what was the rationale but this is actually the picture that i wanted on the cover and this was taken at the balboa bay club in september of 1969 and nixon was going to go out on the columbia, which was a sailing vessel that had been in the us cup races an

on." >> mitchell and haldeman talk about who's going to do it.name liddy bubbles up. ♪ america america god shed his grace on thee ♪ >> g. gordon liddy was the action officer of the plumbers. but he was also the lawyer. >> so i explain the job to liddy. >> john dean is part of this discussion because he's already aware of investigations associated with the political enemies project. it was always understood that liddy's main job would be spying on nixon's political opponents. and liddy has a very dangerous understanding of power. >> some of the people they had hired at c.r.e.e.p. were of a mindset, whatever he asked them to do, they were going to do it. they went beyond what he could have thought of himself sometimes. >> six months before the watergate break-in, i got a call to come to john mitchell's office. and liddy is setting up an easel. and i can see he's got big charts. it was a sales pitch. >> liddy is tasked with coming up with a plan. >> one chart has different gemstones. he has diamond, he has ruby, sapphire. and each one would represen

haldeman, who was mr.ndicted for conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury. john ehrlichman, who was the chief domestic aide indicted on charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and lying. >> john mitchell, the former attorney general, indicted on charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, perjury, and lion. >> they would come after many months in a long deliberation, all be convicted. >> 30 months to eight years. the sentences were heavier but each man will serve some sentences concurrently. ehrlichman got the same 2 1/2 years minimum. a >> if i could go back and do one thing, and one thing only, in connection with my work in washington, it would be to have stayed at the department of justice, and not have gone to the white house. i should have insisted, listen, i cannot handle this. this is out of my league. i don't have criminal law experience, you've got to find somebody else to handle it. i should have done that. there might have been no watergate, there might have been no john dean in w

and it's on the nixon tapes and uh haldeman said you mean marty schram. he said yeah him and some guy named named green burger green bomb or something like that and at that point, uh, uh, i have to interject. the other fellow leading the investigation in fact and had assembled a whole team. i was part of it was bob green g-r-e-e-n-e a big 350 pound irishman who is now buried in the our lady of the sacred hoo-ha catholic church cemetery in long island, but as far as richard nixon was concerned if they're investigating him and his finances. they're --. that that's what he felt. um. i think eventually the investigating would have been done. but what bob and carl did and the genius of what they did was to be ordinary old school reporters and uh that coupled with their own instincts really helped they went and knocked on the doors and didn't go through secretaries to try to set up interviews and they went to people's homes at night, which i always understood was the only way you're going to get a lot of people to talk because they don't want to be seen talking

they thought had lied to them about haldeman. they went to his boss. it was the worst of journalism. look we'd accused the number one aid to the president of the united states and the attribution was wrong. we were desperate young men. so you blew a source deliberately blew a source. yes. what's the ethics of that? probably not terribly good. so why aren't these ethical lapses? more often recognized why aren't they more? central to the dominant narrative of watergate. what do you think is an explanation as to why we don't hear more about this kind of stuff. maybe because the ethical boxes like weren't i guess the public didn't necessarily see them like as bad as like the watergate scandal itself, so they were willing to accept like, okay. this is like dirty journalism, but like they were willing to accept that over the fact that like the watergate scandal happened in the first place like this wouldn't be great reporting on any other story, but it's because it was over a massive scandal already that it like kind of didn't look that bad to the public i g

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and my only boss was haldeman the, -- i had trouble with him, i had known him back at ucla back in 46. and we were close because we -- our girl friends were kappa kappa gamma sisters. so bob counted on me to do a lot of things right away, and i took that, i don't have any trouble doing it. i was colonel an air force, and one of the world's greatest fighter pilots. so, this is something i felt i could do and do pretty well. >> as he watched this current investigation of the president, and he watches testimony unfolds. what are your reactions to the witnesses so, far especially cassidy hutchinson. >> well, i'm glad you mentioned her, because i can't tell you, lawrence i was very impressed by that young lady. you could tell a lot she didn't particularly want to be there, that she was still professional, you knew that she was being truthful. a was just i knew nothing about it before, and she was being very professional in every way. i only hope that the my various interviews were half as good. >> did you have a feeling watching her, of what it felt like to be in that room yourself, giving

haldeman went to jail. the attorney general of the united states went to jail. white house counsel went to jail, the vice president and president were forced to resign. in part that was because you had an aggressive independent prosecutor and you also had a federal judge that squeezed these defendants for more evidence, so that's what's going to have to happen. look, nobody is going to take mark meadows seriously as the fall grow because he was the totti in chief. he doesn't have the clout, but he was in the room and the more people that we have in the room who will tell you what donald trump said and did not say, the stronger the case is going to be. i guess i want to disagree a little bit with katie about no evidence linking donald trump to the various incidents. we have the tapes. we have donald trump on tape down in georgia. we have people who are describing conversations that take place in the oval office, and i hope we don't get so numb by the fact that this conspiracy took place in broad daylight to think, well, we don't have anything. you know, donald tr

we know from watergate, and from the chief of staff haldeman's notes that the missing 18 minutes was exactly the time that the conversation turned to watergate. we know from the timing that january 5th and sixth were days when there would've been a lot of messages about protecting or not protecting the president and the vice president. not enough attention is being paid to what was going on with the vice president. the fact that he was possible for the secret service to whisk him away, at the direction of james murray. two words that i won't forget, i promise you. they're going to whisk him away, never to let him to return to fulfill his constitutional responsibilities to oversee the counting of the ballots. that is something that we need to know. who made that order to get out of there? was it james murray? was that the president? was it the president directly to ornado, we just don't know. the good news is, agents can be called to testify. there are witnesses to every single one of these communications. the best evidence, of course, is the text messages. the quickest and easiest wa

before this flight with her co-pilot here, george haldeman ruth elder would also pay a really awful personal price. amelia earhart is a social worker from boston who comes next? you know in our quest to remember earhart or to solve the mystery of how she disappeared we seem to have forgotten almost everything about how she actually lived. and the fact of the matter is in 1927 and 1928 amelia earhart wasn't a famous pilot. she was a licensed pilot. but by her own admission, she wasn't doing much flying anymore. she was working at a settlement house. on tyler street in boston what people in boston now call chinatown? and she was helping new immigrants to this country. learn how to speak english. learn how to get a job. it was here at the settlement house in 1928 six months after ruth elders flight. the connected east coast businessmen would discover her including her future husband george putnam of putnam publishing and they would put amelia earhart on a seaplane sitting in boston harbor flown by men. plane that was going to be going across the atlantic. you know on this first flight amelia ha

bob haldeman, nixon's chief of staff did 18 months for his role .rate attorney general that he got. >> obviously they have been very aggressive about people who entered the capital, who attacked the capital, who hurt officers. what lays ahead legally here? >> one of the things to keep in mind is if you have cooperators you are sort of a double-edged sword. on the one hand it is great because you get information but on the other hand a jury might receive them with skepticism and think you are only doing this or saying what you need to say because you are preservation which is obviously a very big enticing factor and so it can cut both ways but the idea these are very serious charges. up to 20 years for these conspiracy based charges. the burden of proof has however different than the legislative committee. accountability looks like in cases like this, jail time, when somebody has tried to overthrow the government and undermine democracy, jurors are not particularly, this is a dc jury we are talking about as well. not known for thumbing its nose on po