you let halderman slip away. >> yes. >> you've done worse than let halderman slip away.step by step. if you shoot too high and miss, everybody feels more secure. you put the investigation back months. >> yes, we know that. if we're wrong, we're resigning. were we wrong? >> you'll have to find that out, won't you? >> listen, i'm tired of your chicken -- games. . i need to know what you know. >> the whole business was run by halderon, the money and everything. it won't be easy getting to him. he was insulated. you'll have to find out how. mitchell started doing covert stuff before anyone else. the list is longer than anyone can imagine. it involves the entire u.s. intelligence community. the fbi, cia, justice. it's incredible. cover-up had little to do with water-gate. it was mainly to protect the covert operations. it leads everywhere. get out your notebook. there's more. your lives are in danger. >> hi. i finally got someone on the phone. ♪ ♪ >>> the phones aren't safe. can't trust them. >> come on in. >> can't come in, sir. hoover says there's electronic surveillance. >

this is john ehrlichman, bob halderman, jeff -- >> i had hair there, so you don't recognize me. >> and arnie weber with his back to the camera. bad place to be. public. later, we go developments whole from your paper to the meeting in ehrlichman's office is a month probably. you think the government can't act when it wants to? >> there's even a better story than that in terms of government acting quickly. there was a confluence of concern among the american people with regard to the relationship of heroin addiction and crime and vietnam. we're coming. we have slides. and there's two or three of these slides. this is the president's message on june 17, 1971, where he says "i want to create a special office for drug abuse prevention , i want congress to enact it, but i'm going to create it by executive order, and i'm going to appoint jerrod jaffe to run it. " jeff has done all the staffing on this. he's not quite senior enough to be in the picture, but jeff has done all the work. there's a public announcement of this presidential endorsement and organization designed to encourage a treat

halderman case, though the power to legislate is broad, it does not include surprising participation states with postacceptance or retroactive conditions. that, of course, is not the case with the bill which applies its prohibition on the receipt of federal economic development funds only after a state had been found by a court in a final judgment on the merits to have violated the act. finally, not only is it implausible the bill would ever run afoul of supreme court precedent due to the relatively small size of economic funds in the entire budget, the bill contains a further safety valve in that it gives the attorney general the disyou cregs to promulgate precisely which federal funding streams are federal economic development funds under a bill. so if a constitutional issue ever arose, the attorney general could simply scale back the size of its promulgated list accordingly. so it seems to me it can't be claimed this bill is unconstitutional under any reasonable reading of the any existing supreme court precedent. regarding federalism values, generally, the key point is that there