gordon liddy and hunt responsible. when it was clear that to some extent you had to have a committee to re-elect the president, there was hope you could stop the investigation with john mitchell, the head of the committee, with john with -- john mitchell's deputy, jeb stuart magruder. could the investigation hold there? the white house didn't want mitchell indicted or chuck colson to be indicted. so, 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 told that e. howard hunt has disappeared. the president knows who hunt is, of course, for the reasons i described before. here, h.r. haldeman three days after the arrests talks to the president about this. >> [indiscernible] >> hunt disappeared or is in the process of disappearing. timothy: you can hear "we can undisappear him if we want to, but he's planned for this day all along." so it was key for the white house that the fbi not talk to hunt because he could reveal all the oth

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to the ukraine in recent days to find other oligarchs who want some help and the same as if gordon liddyending people back to the watergate. right? in the '70s on nixon. it is astonishing. it is not even that there is a -- some joint understanding of what the facts are as you were saying before. they're just keep on going with the things that got them in trouble in the first place. >> that's the democrats' argument that they need to do this now. they can't wait for the courts to rule on bringing more witnesses or getting the white house to comply with subpoenas because the president cheated or tried to cheat and he will continue to try to cheat, a threat to our elections. republicans, though, are saying this is all nonsense. they're arguing something completely different, as if the two sides are not just two sides but in two different universes. >> that's exactly right and sitting on the sidelines what's so fascinating about this to nick's point is barbara mcquaid called it the crime that keeps criming and that's a good way to put it but i want to go back to the point you don't need a cr

james mccord was an employee of the re-election committee and it soon developed so that liddi was, too, and hunt. but what you say is true. there is no federal burglary statute. los angeles county indicted them for burglary, and that would normally be where the case was, but this case had political ramifications, and from the outset, there was a full-court press by the department of justice, not surprisingly, to find out what the heck had been going on. and it just got worse and worse. but in the beginning, it was the career prosecutors. and that would have been ok. it's when the cover up collapsed -- it should have collapsed. and we brought in highly partisan, specially recruited people, to take the investigation in an entirely new direction. they postponed the indictments for 10 months, and they launched investigations into every aspect of the nixon presidency. that's where it went off the rails. but it's our fault, our in the bigger sense, because john dean was running this cover up. it just made it much, much worse. >> can you repeat the question? >> yeah, the question was, how com