larry o'brien had no power, they were broke. i can't imagine why they broke in. to this day, i don't know why they did. it is a mystery why anybody went to the democratic national committee. >> you didn't see any of the political take, intelligence that came from that operation? it was running for awhile before. >> never saw it. never heard anybody talk about it. >> did you interact with gordon strong? >> i don't think so. not much. are you talking about -- what job did he occupy? >> he was halderman's liaison. >> he was never in any of the meetings that i had. bruise was the staff secretary. i could always trust bruce, he was good at that. i had my own strategy meetings going on. strong was never in those, no. >> before we push on with watergate, how uncertain about re-election were you in early 72? >> i thought musky would beat us. he was ahead in the polls. knew him well because he was a new england senator when i was i think he caped 1960s. i stayed on with -- i got to know musky and his people quite well, and i liked him. had a lot of respect for him, believ

the -- what happened larry o'brien's office, the dnc chairman, was a big corner office with big windows overlooking the potomac window. where they had broken in and supposedly put the bug on the wrong phone, ha ha, was spencer oliver. he had the diagonally opposite overlooking the highway and there was no way you could possibly mistake one for the other. howard hunt also had a special hatred for spencer oliver. and all the targets they picked were of more interest to the cia than they were to us. and hunt and liddy were both cia people. and all during their operations, direct report to the head of the cia. now, what to make of that, i do not know, but this is something that was not publicized very much at the time. to put it mildly. >> what did it feel like for you to be the chief speechwriter all throughout the presidency, to be in the middle of this but not to be in the middle of watergate? >> i was glad not to be. i was not involved in that sort of stuff. none of the speech writers were. we were not operational and it was operational people that got caught up in it and unfairly for t

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larry holder, thanks for joining us this morning. i'm sure there will be more unfolding. >>> and at 7:30 eastern, dan marino will join soledad o'brienbounties, eavesdropping, tomorrow's nfl draft and his new partnership with the aarp. >>> it's now four minutes past 6:00 on the east coast. and what a difference a month can make. back a month ago, sanford, florida's, city commission gave their police chief, billy, a vote of no confidence for his handling of the trayvon martin investigation. so let's fast forward to last night when they voted to reject his offer to resign. lee had been under fire for his decision not to arrest and charge george zimmerman immediately after the fatal shooting. the supporters say they cannot make him a scapegoat. >> chief lee is paying for the sins of past police officers. he's police chief. he has been here -- he has been in office ten months. how do you steer a boat that big, mr. mayor? how do you steer a boat in ten months to a complete turnaround? you don't. >> all of this has george zimmerman walking out of jail, charged with second-degree murder, but out on bail and whereabouts this morning unknown.