gordon liddy and e. howard hunt. >> i had never met liddy nor had i met howard hunt.n't know who 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-bay of pigs planner, ex-white house 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 of the committee 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 h

even liddy. liddy was an idiot who'd been dumped on the treasury who had been dumped him on the white house. working for the plumbers were hunt and liddy and they were run by a gay guy named eagle grove. this guy was a former eagle scout. his nickname at the white house was the evil crow, it was a joke. but he was intimidated by nixon and he ran into this crew of clowns and they screwed up. they broke into ellsberg's office, made a hash of that then broke into watergate, did other things as well and got caught. they were not criminal masterminds. nixon didn't even know about these break-in attempts, there was some evidence that his top aides there, certainly probably not. the record is a little squiggly on that. but mostly, the point is it wasn't a conspiracy to violate the constitution, it was a bunch of hapless clowns running around to carry out the will of the deeply shy leader. this might be a time to bring crow on stage. but you make it clear to him again and again the phrase gutter politics

that's why we're concerned about coastal flooding of in the northern spots citrus liddi and potentially hernando county more around the panhandle. hurricane warning and place that is the registered the orange strip south is a tropical storm warning that goes all the way down to the southern part of sarasota county. should we can overland. the fuel for hurricanes is the warmer air over the waters. hurricane warning in place for the northern area. it goes to the coastal sarasota for kanellis, hillsboro and polk county northwards of the threat of a tornado is still there. we have seen several warnings this afternoon and we still can. you can see the bands that spinoff defeat -- center of the hurricane. very strong winds within this and reports of damage from likely straight line winds. it is still moving over pasco county over citrus county. keep in mind you can see strong wind gusts all the -- the intensity is not what was. breakout showers can occur. right now east of sarasota around the lake pretty good ground force. a broader range shows the circulation off to the west. incredible view

. >> anchor: three hours fighting over a liddy snake it always come down to a woman. >> anchor: no comment. jr. >> anchor: >> reporter: she probably just left. >>> she was like girlfriend we are out of here. let's go shopping girl weekend. showers we are tracking mid to late evening and they gone for tomorrow. so we are talking about a breezy cool weekend. dry, dry into next week. chance of rain this week i should say into next week low until we head to tuesday afternoon and then we have the showers to deal with out there this evening. fall is here. so the fall count down rolls on trick or treat 37 days away and daylight saving time comes to an end 3-4-3 days from now. lower ground 39. montreal 63. the city at 72. so again the warm air we are right on the edge of these much cooler temperatures on the other side of a cool front. keane 66. burlington 58. here is the cool front. the front edge of that cooler air and it's generating a couple of isolated showers just now getting organized northwest of albany, new york. so as the cool front presses south i think ou will go up just an isolated sh

the effect on climate, which drives so many things, the developer liddy -- the availability of basics like water and food and other resources, which are recently going to become matters of --flict -- they already are so this will give rise to national security insight that we will need to understand this and, hopefully help anticipated. over timeimate change will have an effect on our national security picture. chair long: i think many would agree. you spoke about a revolutionary intelligence architecture that included automatic viewing, fast specifics, and that was something i talk a lot about when i was director of nga . how important is autonomy to developing this approach and how well is the community progressing? are we there? should we ever be their? director clapper: well, we are getting there. there is great work going on under the office of the nro, and when we reach the point where we persistence, i think -- to me, it's almost a no-brainer to on anmuch of this automatic basis as possible and to get as much as possible out of it. -- myassic pattern pitcher tomorrow, if i don'

. >> could have given them to gordon liddy and he would have eaten the tapes. and held his hand over them. to see how much pain he could endure. there is an uplifting moment on that last tragic day that we do want to take some questions. >> yes we do but we have another 7 minutes or so before we need to do that. >> there is an uplifting moment i would like to close on because i do not want people to think this book is 300 pages of blood and tears. >> i appreciate you doing that. i may have overemphasized it. >> there was a young man who is gone now, on the national security council staff. a marine who went on to become a diplomat serving in iraq, lebanon, saudi arabia, syria, yemen, he was the american ambassador in bahrain in the 1990s and he sadly died in 2005 at the age of 65. he is on the nsc staff, wanders to the east room where nixon -- his final address about how you destroy yourself and nixon is in a trance, the military aid with him is brazen and telling him where he is and what is going to happen and what is going to happen next, nixon gives a speech

gordon liddy was the leader of the birther issue and the former house majority leader tom delay, andan citizen to believe whatever conspiracy theory or whatever it is that he wants to believe, but once again, it's political and they took something that was political and made it racial. since trump is making inroads into the black community, hillary clinton gets this old argument back out, dust it off and tries to play on the emotions and the sensitivities of black to say don't vote for him because he questioned our president. >> bishop vaughn? >> be that as it may. here's where we are today, with african-americans now at 2% in terms of favoring mr. trump as a presidential candidate. if you want to engage us, be that as it may, you can, quote dates, you can quote facts and you can quote names. the reality is you're 2% or less in the polls with african-american. if i think that that is something that can bring more that can engage more people to me, then just make the decision as a leader and say, listen, i'm sorry. >> you don't apologize in politics, though. >> this is what we want. w

machines is elderly person may be dragging their hand and inadvertently hits the button below or a liddy with long fingernails has a problem. you do have a way to rectify that. we audit on the end of each day in early voting to ascertain the correctness of the vote and balance the balance sheets. mr. tonko: there are -- the paper ballots that you're devising an audit process for. secretary schedler: that is correct. mr. tonko: what are. so factors in that audit you see essential? have you looked at other states and what they might be doing? secretary schedler: we have gone out to denver, the county of denver has a very similar situation that is now being used in california and other states. with the paper ballot where the majority of folks are actually want to bring that ballot in and put it into a box so to speak at a site. we have looked at that system. we have looked at the printing of the paper ballot instead of on the screen, it would go into a lock box. i would be personally against that voter taking that ballot out of the presidget -- precinct. just one state that does that. but o