one in particular, james mccord. when he tells the judge who oversees the grand jury for the watergate trial. when he tells the j.j. i believe perjury occurred, that confirmed his assumption. and that opens it all up. the mccord ledder which he gives to the judge on march 19, 1973 is the first crack in the case and the first crack in the coverup. this is what the white house had been worry about the summer of 1972. that one of the burglars would tell his story. that happens in 1973, in march of 1973. a lot of other things happen. a number of people around the president who knew something about the hunt and liddy operation decide they are going to try to get clemency, some kind of legal protection and tell their stories. mcgruder and john dean, the president's white house con sell. at this time the senate is gearing up for a very public hearings. the senate has reacted to the very good journalistic work of woodward and bernstein. karl bernstein and bob woodward in the summer and fall of 1972 kept the watergate story a

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 essentially when the federal prosecutors handed over the case to a special watergate prosecutor in 1

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 point, part of your original question was you asked about if there was any fear of losing the client. >> right. >> and that has crossed my mind somewhat because it seemed to me reading from mr. dean's book and other materials that there was this culture from the white house that the ends justified the means, and whatever nixon wanted, you know,

james holmes expected to be formally charged monday friends and families are still trying to come to grips. >>> in a moment of crisis no time to think about what you're going to do >>> mccord document disclosed holmes was a patient of a psychiatrist for the attack the information was contained in their request from the suspect that authorities hand over a package sent to the doctor on grounds protected communication. the package was seized during a search last week a former prosecutor agrees with that position >>> and the communication between the defendant and the psychiatrist are absolutely protected. we do not know when the last time was he had any communications with their we don't know the nature of the communication at this point those communications are protected. >>> this psychologist weighed in on confidentiality >>> when a patient states a clear and imminent danger to a person we have an obligation to warn that person and one family members and also the authorities. >>> holmes is accused of killing 12 and dozens of others. we have continuing coverage at cbs s f dot com also the latest on tomorrow's court appearance. to detect giants get set for an epic battle and