gordon liddy and e. howard hunt. >> i had never met liddy nor had i met howard hunt.ho they were when i was in the white house. but when the break-in occurred, i said, oh, no, because i knew at once instinctively it was our guys. >> g. gordon liddy, ex-fbi, ex-treasury, ex-justice, ex-white house consultant, and e. howard hunt jr., ex-cia, ex-pay of bigs consultant. >> we didn't think they measured up. it was closer to the typical gang that couldn't shoot straight. >> earl silva read the names of 60 government witnesses. the list included only one low ranking white house lawyer and several former employees to re-elect the president. >> if you don't know richard nixon's psychology, you don't know his background, you could never understand why the white house reacted to watergate the way it does. >> from day one, there was a great sense that we were under siege. and we were not deceiving ourselves that the press did not like us. both houses of congress did not like nixon. i mean, that is the truth. and the question is how you deal with it. >> he tries to build a little

i wouldn't call it the telecommunications act today i would call liddy internet of things because that now has attenuated itself to the equivalent of city fracturing an automobile. we have the hearings on that. it is gratifying because of it was beyond the capacity to fully grasp what we're doing. of the everyday lives of everyone on our planet. >> talk about substance. but it's coming back to the process we should be complemented. he was one of our basketball buddies. event in craig simon wed called the up with the direction that you want to go the vice president will have the problem sometimes we agree and sometimes we wouldn't but it was that line of communication. and that we had to lead the senate but we have the ability to rooftop with each other and across the capitol when. and and this is what is missing with governing. with that 20th anniversary natalie about substance with those lines of demarcation. with a major segment at that time the telecommunications industry as part of the economy. and where we were prior to the 1996 act with those applications and how to improve their