i'm going to tell john mitchell everything you tell me. all right. the question you asked on cross-examination, did you explain to liddy that mitchell could waive the privilege, mardian's response was, well, that was a risk that liddy had to take. but, of course, we all know liddy didn't worry about that because he knew that john mitchell knew as much as he did, so he was i don't think concerned that mitchell was going to turn him in. >> because what he was saying was that mitchell was the one who was behind it all. so, of course, he was going to withhold it and not reveal this. >> but in other segment you that employee better be warned you're going to tell the boss and that the boss could very easily tell you to disclose it. i think that's very important. >> in fact, that's called the upjohn warning today. can i say one thing for this audience that jill had two moments that the were her shining moments during the watergate trial, and this is of mitchell, ehrlichman, mardian, et cetera. one was her rosemary woods moment when she got her to do the rose

in other words, once you get confirmation, he went right to the top, he went to john mitchell, and john mitchell basically said you're being fed lies. then he talked to some other people, and then he realized, i don't like what's going on here, and he resigns. so bob mardian was only involved as the attorney for about one month. there were some other accusations against him, and his defense on those were basically put the denial card i found up there. he just denied some of this stuff. jill mentions obviously there were two issues here -- it's not denial, i'm just selective about the reality i choose to accept. very quickly since jill brought it up, somebody, i will say somebody called up gordon liddy to try to contact richard klein on the burning tree golf course to get him out of jail. the prosecution presented evidence that bob mardian was involved in that and bob mardian denied it. here we go again. what's the reality he choose to accept? 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 r

, john mitchell's deputy, jeb stewart mcgruder. could the investigation hold there? what the white house didn't want is for john mitchell to be indicted. again, you can listen to the cover-up as it evolves. these are hard to hear so we provide you with transcripts. here you can hear the president being told that e. howard hunt has disappeared. the president knows who e. howard hunt is. h.r. halderman, three days after the arrests, talks to the president about this. >> they were going after the cubans, is that right? >> no, well. >> mccord, my guess will say that he was working with the cubans who wanted to put this in for their own political reasons. but hunt disappeared or is in the process of disappearing. we can undisappear him if we want to. >> it was key for the white house to not talk to hunt because he couldry veal all the other operations. that would pull the white house directly into the watergate scandal. the president is being told about the fbi investigation because the white house is getting fbi reports and the white h

one of the more interesting bits that happened is that nixon calls john mitchell when he gets back to washington from the residence. not a recorded call, but the call has been recorded not on the eob phone where he later reports to haldeman what happened, but rather the room phone. it's a fascinating conversation where mitchell is told by the president that he thinks that the matter can be controlled, and he comes up with a plan to have a cuban committee in miami raise money and protect -- and support these people who have been arrested. richard, i don't think, from the prosecutors i've talked to, that a committee that had been made public, and that was his plan was to public publicize it and it for political reasons. >> we didn't do that. litty said commitments had been made with him when they undertook the task, and he immediately starts extracting those commitments from the reelection committee, turning to the white house to get help to raise the money, and of course that will get us all across the line into an obstruction of justice. >> now, one of the key things was to keep the n

>> at one point felt alleged that the reason john mitchell had resigned from the committee to reelect the president is because each of the top aides in the nixon white house, haldeman, ehrlichman, john mitchell, were having to contribute their own personal funds to the kitty to pay off the burglars to keep them quiet. this was completely untrue. i mean, they were raising money privately, hush money to keep the burglars private, but it wasn't coming from the personal bank account of haldeman, ehrlichman and mitchell. it's completely without foundation. this is one of the questions i had for woodward, what did he think about this, and then this is one of the cases where he turned the question around to me. well, did you find any evidence of that? no, i didn't, and nobody else did, not the watergate special prosecutor, not the senate committee, not the impeachment committee, it was just a falsehood. because felt really didn't care -- he really did have contempt to the media. all that mattered to him was there were stories, true or not, that would appear in the press and upset the white h

my name is john mitchell. i am a member of ninth church. i am a parent of a 7-year-old child. i know what it is like, finding a preschool for little ones in this city. it is very difficult, particularly in our neighborhood. i live across ocean, within 200 yards of this facility. i am chairman of the building and grounds committee. we have wonderful relations with the balboa terrace association, and we want to maintain that. they are our friends, and we are part of the community. my feeling is there is no material change that will take place. as was mentioned previously, the real problem is parking, as someone who is there literally seven days a week. a lot of the problem which we are having is people that are parking and leave their cars to jump on muni and go into the city. the teachers at the elementary school, people that go to our church, etc., have a very great difficulty, because cars are parked there all day, because there are no parking restrictions. i think it is important to review that, in terms of the two-hour parking. we support the community. one of the reasons -

i had been assistant united states attorney there with john mitchell's certificate of appointment hanging over my wall. and so i had not kept up with it at all. i remember something about a break-in. and when i came up in february, it was just the most rudimentary of information, and i had most of it from the "washington post." and i think most of us thought that in typical campaign fashion that there were some young, inexperienced, over-aggressive people who had done some things that were stupid that did notice that some of the people who got caught weren't that young, but maybe pulling the strings behind the scene. and that certainly never occurred to me, that the president of the united states, for example, or his key people would be involved in something so ridiculous both from a moral standpoint and from a practical standpoint. as you remember, it was a totally botched job from every way imaginable. they practically left a blueprint, you know, for the law enforcement authorities to follow and the whole thing. and these were supposed to be cia-experienced people. so it was bizarre, an

he told john mitchell everything he learned. john mitchell told him everyone was lying to him. he decided to walk away. bob mardian was only involved for about 30 days. it's not a question where you have somebody who cannot get other counsel. in that situation i think that when you have a powerful organization where the upper levels are refusing to cooperate, withdrawal is the appropriate mechanism. in terms of noisy or not noisy, anything there was noisy. people knew he was gone. so where is bob mardian? he's not here anymore. everyone knew that. i don't have a problem with a noisy withdrawal, of stating that he's no longer representing and they can draw any conclusion they want. i don't have a problem with that. i do have a problem with saying, and i'm resigning because this is all the information i have heard. so i believe that the confidence belongs to the organization and that the top people, whether it's -- that was headed by one person, it was the director, so that's my position on that. >> so what the rule provides today, 1.13, is that when you confront a situation like

we interviewed the witnesses obviously before john dean and john mitchell and people like that, but we didn't go out to aggressively investigate the facts. which is something i wanted to do. i felt we had to do. this was my background both as a prosecutor and as a private lawyer. doar was much more cautious about doing it. knowing that we send people out, there will be newspaper stories. who knows what we'll get, how we'll be attacked? so he wanted to take it step by step. other people were gathering information or information was coming. let's just put it together and we'll present it in a neutral fashion. that judgment which some of which i opposed at the time i realized after it was all over happened to be a correct judgment. and i think it was very helpful in at achieving what was the ultimate outcome. at the beginning, we weren't sure. i wasn't sure at least, and i don't think doar was sure either although articles have been written contrary to this, that we were going to recommend impeachment of the president. we didn't come in to -- and this is how i remember it and i truly beli

cover-up has been -- absolutely necessary and inevitable to hide these white house horrors, as john mitchell called them. the tent was white house horrors. >> and it began early. if you look at the senate watergate record, they really dug into this. and they found all kinds of abuses in illegal operations. in early months, 1969, they decided let's set up an investigations unit in the white house. we don't trust the fbi. nixon's personal lawyer paid $130,000 of excess campaign funds to these people and one of the operations was to get somebody to climb the telephone pole behind joe craft's house. he was a columnist for "the washington post" and tap his telephone. now, you know, if they had been caught at that, maybe there wouldn't have been a watergate. but there were so many things regularly done in secrecy and hidden and then there was all this money, all this campaign money. they were just throwing it around. >> you suggested in the piece over the weekend there were five wars. war against anti-war movement, war against the media, war against the democratic party, a war against justice. he

president fong: additional speakers -- joseph, roger, margaret finley, john mitchell, and andrew. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am an officer of the ninth church of christ scientist. our members of spoken in favor of going ahead and approving the school. i would like to say, in addition, we are looking to fund approval for this, but we want to work equally with our neighbors, our neighborhood association, and the preschool directors. they are offering a wonderful service to the community. we want to be sure the traffic conditions will

mcgruder, despite the concerns earlier in the summer is not indicted nor is john mitchell indicted. but the burglars themselves who would change the story. 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.

house, people knew about it, but the fact was that there were all these different things that john mitchell himself, president nixon's closest ally and attorney general, characterized them as the white house horrors. so most significantly, the break-in to daniel ellsburg's psychiatry office, which was conducted by the same team that broke into the watergate building that we're sitting in this evening, so many things that had been done, any single one of which today would have been cause for screaming headlines. one goes back and looks over the kind of things that were done, the idea of firebombing the brookings institution to steal material from their safe, the idea of paying folks to rough up anti-war demonstrators, the list goes on, the enemies' list. >> we should ask the audience how many were on the enemies list. at the time it was a big deal. it was a badge of honor. >> the fact is nixon had surrounded himself with people who vied for his attention and the way to get nixon's approval was to bring the dead mouse to his door to show that you were a tough guy, to show that you weren't bou

think the most remarkable thing was early on, about eight weeks after the break-in, we found out john mitchell, nixon's campaign manager, former law partner, former general of the united states control this had secret fund. we were having coffee off a vending machine room. i put a dime in and i felt this chill go down my neck and said to woodward, oh, my god, this president is going to be impeached and woodward looked at me and said, oh, my god, you were right. and we can never use that word impeach around this newspaper, lest ben bradley or someone else thinks we have an agenda and we don't. and i think there was awe at that moment and some fear, that the stakes became so obviously huge. we're 28, 29 years old. every day the spokesman for the leader of the free world is getting up and making the conduct of the press the issue in watergate, our conduct specifically that of "washington post." bradley, bob, myself. >> and did you feel the pressure that was being put in terms of the paper itself and journalism itself and katherine graham and ben bradley? >> no, because we were kind of operating i

john dean's testimony didn't secure president nixon's impeachment and i remember john mitchell, he was a tough guy, he wouldn't talk. he was a tough guy. mitchell, he wouldn't give an inch. i guess he testified before the committee too, dean testified, it's similar to the way he testified before the senate watergate committee. everybody was saying, we got to have witnesses, we got to have witnesses. it turned out it was the right instinct. we had witnesses, we had to satisfy the committee. if it was up to dole, we would haven't had witnesses. but the pressure of the committee was we had to have some witnesses, so doar said we had to have some witnesses, so it was my job to prepare these witnesses and the witnesses, which i had hope would have great impact. was these statements of information, one after another, which were boring, plus the tapes. the tapes -- once you heard the tapes, then you could put the tapes together with documents and some of the testimony, that created this impetus for impeachment. >> tell us when you first heard about the tapes. >> i'll tell you when i first she

by a handful of votes so the justice department is the most political justice department since john mitchellnforced laws that they feel like enforcing and they ignore laws. if you're a texas voter, what objection could you have to bringing a state issued i.d.? why would you not want to do that? >> jacques, why would they not want to do that? >> errors in record keeping that have been rampant throughout this country for years, we just had a special election in new york, a primary in new york where there were allegations of errors but fraud is a different issue and fraud is a legal issue and has not been found in court. >> but why -- why are people opposed to showing i.d. to vote? >> they're saying with the allegations particularly in texas indicate is that hispanics in this particular instance are less likely to have voter -- the state issued voter i.d. cards or driver's licenses. and therefore, that disparity puts them at gre be challenged at the polls on election day. it has worked thus far. and because of the trend in this election, i believe that there's really a political motive in the s

de la "liga mx" y los del toluca recibían a las chivas del holandés john van't schip y él hizo un derechazo que vence al portero mitchelartido atlas recibió a pumas y quienes se pudieron adelante y el portero de pumas despejó la pelota, pitazo final y no hubo más. >> fernando alonso ganó el gran premio de alemania. >> antes de despedirme, el principito andrés guardado tiene su nuevo equipo, así terminamos los deportes. >> gracias y nuevo corte y al volver estaremos de nuevo en aurora con lo más reciente de la tragedia. >> el lunes en al despertar, --cual es el vinculo entre el abuso del alcohol y sufrir del mal de alzheimer's, una condicion que ya es clasificada como una epidemia global de saludy como planea . >> retomamos con la información más importante de la masacre en el colorado, vamos con luis, salen detalles de las víctimas, la niña de seis años, el aspirante a conductora. >> correcto, la casa blanca tiene buenas fuentes para informarse de los heridos y este ha sido un día muy emotivo para la gente y seguimos en esta vigilia que lleva más de una hora. >> lourdes. >> ese personaje que mañana estará ante un juez,

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it's people like holbrooke, joe biden the secretary of defense, george mitchell who was the middle east peace envoy, i would call john kerry who wasn't in the committee but certainly in the administration's strong supporter of congress certainly a charter member of the vietnam generation. this doesn't mean that all of the members of this administration or the entire war democrats. holbrooke in particular had repeatedly at each juncture where there was an antiwar candidate he tended to be with the centrists to finance the the to denounce the candidate. that was true of mcgovern and of obama and so on. the more than any other generation, these members of this first generation have seen firsthand how the use of force can go disastrously wrong and it's something that they keep in mind regularly. this is a dominant issue for the democrats right through until the persian gulf war mack of 1991. when the democrats predict inaccurately as it turns out that there are going to be tens of thousands of casualties, that wasn't some flippant thing by a minor politician. the senate majority leader george mitchell presented george h.

mitchell reports," the face of an accused mass killer. james holmes' shocking appearance in court today. even as victims and survivors try to cope with their loss. >> johner. >> jesse childress. >> we will remember. >> there's no reason for me to hold any hate right now. it's sadness. >> words can't describe how thankful i am that i'm sitting here talking to you today. >> we will reclaim our city in the name of goodness, kindness and compassion. >> you see young people who have come in and just two days ago or 36 hours ago or even 24 hours ago, it wasn't certain whether they would make it, and now suddenly their eyes are open, they're alert and they're talking, and it reminds you that even in the darkest of days, life continues and people are strong and people bounce back, and people are resilient. >> judgment day for penn state. >> no matter what we do here today, there is no action we can take that will remove their pain and anguish, but what we can do is impose sanctions that both reflect the magnitude of these terrible acts -- >> a day after joe paterno's famed statue is removed from the campus, the ncaa hammers penn state with tough penalties. but

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friend told nbc's andrea mitchell the congressman is suffering from severe clinical depression and has an alcohol problem which his office denies. >>> also this just in, house speaker johnding his well wishes this morning. saying, quote, we hope he gets well soon and says an explanation is between him and his constituents. >>> trouble by mitt romney's money? a new gallup poll asked responders how romney's riches impact their likelihood of voting for him. 75% said it made no difference, 20% said they were less likely, 4% said more likely. former republican presidential candidate rick perry will be stumping for his one-time rival. the texas governor will make his first campaign appearance on romney's behalf this friday in nevada. that wraps up it for me, i should say, for things right here. i'll be back at 2:00. "now" with alex wagner up next. a and reimagined nearly everything in it? gave it greater horsepower and best in class 38 mpg highway... ...advanced headlights... ...and zero gravity seats? yeah, that would be cool. ♪ introducing the completely reimagined nissan altima. it's our most innovative altima ever. nissan. innovation that excites. ♪ nissan. innovation tha

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mitchell will harness the boys and repel down the tower with them. but with night falling and temperatures dropping, it's becoming a risky operation. >> james had john'snd he was just -- had a death grip on it. when we picked up his hand, his brother's hand was blue. >> it's been two tense hours since the crisis began when another option makes a dramatic entrance. a special utility truck called a condor, equipped with with a 150-foot boon. by coincidence, it had been undergoing repairs just a few miles away. >> they only had one in the state, i believe, at the time, and the mechanic in charge of it saw this on the news, and he went back to work to reassemble it. when the condor entered the green belt, there was a roar. we were excited. >> the boys are ushered to safety. >> oh, i was so relieved. i just wanted to thank heavens that they were safe and i wanted to hold them. >> and james is treated as a hero. >> i still don't see what i did as that unusual. maybe a little trysome at times, but i have a really wonderful brother, and i love him. >> some day i hope you can tell me why you climbed all the way to the top. >> years later, john has now grown to