gordon liddy's plan to spy on members of the campaign involving members of the world's oldest profession. >> he had another plan which would have used women as agents to work with members of the democratic national committee at their convention, and here in washington, and hopefully through their efforts they would obtain information from them. >> with regard to the use of these women as agents, did this involve the use of a yacht in miami? >> he envisioned renting a yacht in miami and having it set up for sound and photographs. >> and what would the women be doing at that time? >> i really could only estimate. >> well, based on the project and your recollection? what did he indicate? >> well, they would have been i think you could -- i think you could consider them a call girl. chris: he tried to keep a straight face there. when we come back, how the far right's influence on the g.o.p. began 50 years ago and how the forebearers of the tea partiers took own whehen nixon lost. be right back. chris: welcome back. the curent divide in the g.o.p. with the tea partiers on the far right gettin

mean the pentagon papers case gave rise to watergate because with nixon wanted a group of people like liddy you could go around and burglarize and stop this kind of stuff and now you don't have that you know you have work in self supporting manti which is which is ironic the man who leaked the pentagon papers is supporting manning but nobody else is the mainstream media is attacking julian assange on whether the supporting him so everything's just flipped around from from what i remember even as a child well that is. interesting because you know you yourself are a journalism professor and right now there's a huge debate within the journalistic world because you're right a lot of people are attacking manning they're talking assignment they're saying fees people are betraying you know the united states they're putting lives in danger and yet you have daniel as. humming to their defense hailing them how do you teach this to your students how do you put this well i mean there are certain ethical boundaries that everybody has to meet but i mean julian pretty much did i mean he turned the stuff o

liddy and involved in research. >> that makes a difference. we have had an incident in minnesota in the somali community. they have had a very high incidence of autism. the diagnosis is one out 28 of their children that have autism. i was wondering how this possibly could fit into the research side is going on. they are searching for answers. we were talking about clusters. they live in a similar area. other kids that are not somalian and do not have that high of rate. >> there are some reason hypothesis that vitamin d, or the absence of vitamin d, and may be associated with a risk of autism. there are no reports of autism in somalia. it is a developing country. they may now have a diagnosis. the phenomenal cluster actually is in minnesota -- people are really suggesting that it might be related to not having enough vitamin d. that is a hypothesis that people are beginning to look at. >> i would just suggest that while this is certainly an important area of research, it does lend itself to something we discussed earlier, which is how the genet