the white house built or created this investigatory unit in the white house and it didn't use subpoenas to acquire information. that is where the problem arises. here a little later in 1971 the white house wants better political intelligence for the pending 1972 elections. president it appears was concerned about his re-election. and so here we have information laying out for you what we know and what one can know about the extent to which the white house sponsored what was then called a dirty tricks operation, to undermine the campaigns of adversaries and launched an intelligence organization that would use wiretapping and surreptitious entry to acquire information about the president's adversaries. the exhibit is very clear about what we know and what we don't know. in fact, there is a whole panel here that lays out based on the trial testimony, on the tapes, on the documents that the watergate special prosecution force and house judiciary committee looked at and whe looked at and materials we had in our collection that we were able to release in the last few years, best evidence on w

were preparing to burn the white house, and the check was made out by james madison to wightman 23 days -- to white man 23 days before burning the white house. it's probably for books, because wightman was a book seller and he was dragged in to represent the humiliation of the americans. he was the only american in the white house, the british bandit, and so i knew knowing more about the providence of this check that it was going to be very valuable. one day donated to the white house, but i'm fearful it might end up in a drawer or something where the public can't see it. but it really is a remarkable find, because of the fact that wightman was the only person in the white house who was an american. he later became mayor of washington. he was a notable grand mason, and so that's why i brought it. >> how long had washington been the seat of government by 1814? how long had it been the -- >> 1800. john adams came down in 1800, because the capital used to be in philadelphia, and he was the first president to live in the white house. every president has lived there except george washington.

tonight, white house leak accusations, governor romney attacks.powerful democrat changes her tune. plus, action at the movie theater massacres apartment. >> the investigation in aroar with a, colorado has only just begun. now arrests in at least three other states raising concerns about copycat you want to think any place you go is safe. >> shepard: new spike in gun sales. >> as you know the obesity epidemic is run that is ravaging the nation. >> shepard: showdown over sugary drinks. >> what will the government be telling me next, what time to go to bed? >> a trip to the car wash usually doesn't involve a river. but first from fox this tuesday night. governor romney is calling it contemptible. is he now accusing the white house of leaking national security secrets to the news media to help president obama's re-election campaign. a live look now portland, oregon where the president is speaking at a campaign event tonight. we are keeping an eye and an ear to this to see whether he responds to governor romney. two u.s. attorneys are investigating the

and there's a taping system in the white house. we immediately went to urban and baker and over the weekend they decided to -- that we needed to immediately, you know, get in before the cameras. so that happened monday. >> and wereou

there can be no whitewash at the white house.st reform our political process, ridding it not only of the violations of the law but also of the ugly mob violence and other inexcusable campaign tactics that have been too often practiced and too readily accepted in the past, including those that may have been a response by one side to the excesses or expected excesses of the other side. two wrongs do not make a right. i've in public life for more than a quarter of a century. like any other calling, politics has good people and bad people. and let me tell you, the great majority in politics in the congress, in the federal government, in the state government are good people. i know that it can be very easy under the intensive pressures of the campaign for even well-intentioned people to fall into shady tactics. to rationalize this on the grounds that what is at stake is of such importance to the nation that the end justify the means. and both of our great parties have been guilty of such tactics in the past. in recent years, however,

leaks that appear to have come from the white house. less than 24 hours after house minority leader nancy pelosi down played the leaks yesterday -- >> i don't subscribe to the idea that there is a prepond rains of leaks. i don't know that to be the case. >> new hampshire republican senator kelly ayotte delivered this blunt rebuke. >> i think it's clear that nancy pelosi lives in an alternative universe because we have already heard from the chair of the senate intelligence committee, tiian feinstein, that these leaks are the worst she has seen in 11 years on the intelligence committee. >> and while senior advisor to the obama campaign called the attacks a bunch of bellicose bloviating, the head of the special operations command described the leaks about sources and methods very differently, saying sooner or later, it's going to cost lives. >> so all of that we guard carefully. unfortunately, not everybody guards that very carefully. >> with an interview with greta van susteren, house speaker john boehner last night concurred with the adm

what the white house is saying, not saying, doing and not doing.e'll talk about it with the fox all-stars when we come back. our fireworks. ♪ and our slip and slide. you have your idea of summer fun, and we have ours. now during the summer event get an exceptionally engineered mercedes-benz for an exceptional price. but hurry, this offer ends july 31st. it's a real spirited campaign, but we kept it civil. your face is like a butt. your mama's ugly. [ male announcer ] will vs. zach. that's my baby to kiss. oh, you don't take a swing at my hair! [ crowd gasps ] all class. [ male announcer ] "the campaign." is that a crossbow? aah! aah, that hurts! >>> we need to do the best we can to clampdown on it. sooner or later it will cost people their lives or our national security. >> there are investigations ongoing. i'm not commenting on the specifics. >> you said nobody in the white house is involved. can you today say nobody in the white house is involved. >> involved in which case? >> the president takes this seriously. we all take it seriously. it's an

what's her role in the white house? >> i love that picture of michelle obama. she's a very attractive woman as you can see in that picture. she's been on the cover the fashion magazines, and "vowing" had the headline, the first lady the world has been waiting for. michelle looks to tell the american public that she has no interest in politics, that she doesn't like politics, doesn't want to get involved in politics, and that her main interest is in raising her children, taking care of her husband, doing work for the appty-obesity campaign, but my reporting turned up a very different, very different profill of michelle obama, a woman who, in fact, grew up in a household where her father was a political operative of the daly machine in chicago who was actually weaned on politics as a child, who married obama knowing of his political ambitions, and so she chose a politician to marry, and who has been his most important political partner at every step of his campaign, and every step of the presidency and has enormous amount of influence in his decision making proce

and there's a taping system in the white house. we immediately went to urban and baker and over the weekend they decided to -- that we needed to immediately, you know, get in before the cameras. so that happened monday. >> and were you surprised that president nixon had a taping system? >> yes. to say the least. up to that point, it looked like it was going to play out like so many cases we're all familiar with is played out. it's a he said/she said. and john's testimony was very effective, but haldeman and ehrli ehrlichman, they had a quandary position, and you had mitchell and you had everything in between. and so the american people are not willing -- i don't care who the president s they're willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, and they're very suspicious of his detractors. i think president clinton, for example, got the benefit of his enemies when he got in trouble. >> different trouble, though? >> a different kind of trouble. so when we found out about the taping system, you know, 100 things went through our mind at t

the rule of law does not stop at the white house door. watergate demonstrated that. [ applause ] >>> i am jim lera of t erlerer the pbs news hour. so here we are, and the question is, what was watergate? what is it now? what will it be tomorrow and all the tomorrows still to come? in the beginning, as mary said and as you all know, it was, in fact, just a piece of real esta estate, this particular building. and unless somebody demolishes it, and it doesn't look like that's going to happen any time soon, it may always be a watergate as a building. but it was also a crime, a crime not of passion, a crime not of greed, but a crime of corruption. political corruption of institutions by individuals high and low who saw the need and/or the opportunity to violate laws and standards of personal conduct. their lives were changed forever by what they did. most paid an enormous price and a loss of liberty and a loss of reputation. some of them went on to various forms of public as well as private redemption. watergate the crime also spawned good dee

and he said he was going to the white house to get one. i said, that would have been helpful information. >> that's great. bill, you were working side by side with hillary rodham. in those days you guys were working closely with the bill and hillary was a different bill and hillary, right? talk about working with her in those days. both of you had front seat to some of the most colorful members of congress. >> not only an office in common, but a task in common. we were writing the book about what constitutes grounds for impeachment for a president. it took about six months. finally, we came out with a pamphlet. 25 years later, i'm in a hotel room preparing a witness for testimony, the phone rings as i'm preparing a witness and john podesta said it likes like they're going to proceed against my client, which was president clinton. and he said there's two people that know more about impeachment than anyone, and one of them is disqualified by interest. so i need you to come and testify, which i was happy to do. the branches of political power

but the white house did release the transcripts and this became an issue because the white house transcripts weren't accurate in certain key portions. whether it was deliberately inaccurate or what, i don't know. people like buzz hart and others they were under tremendous pleasure. 18 years later i was in the white house. you might think the white house is an efficient place. it's not true. poor fred. a handful at the white house. >> if for whatever reason, the transcripts they released were inaccurate, then we made it our business to put together accurate transcripts, then presented that to the committee, obviously. >> to demonstrate that what we were given was not accurate. when they can draw whatever they want to draw from that. obviously we weren't in the face of drawing favorite conclusions. >> it was after the white house. >> that you start the process. >> correct. >> and what kinds of checks and balances did you put into that practice to make sure they're accurate? >> we just devoted -- we just devoted a lot of time, people really made an effort to get it right. once we realized the o

johnson was driving the nixon white house crazy. two such distraction that nixon said to him a house or building or an office or place to stay overnight. a young military aid was a colonel in the air force at the time, he got this assignment. i guess that tells you how i found out about this story. they basically take over a rundown townhouse on lafayette square. it becomes a secret place where presidents can be or stay the night until today. it has recently been renovated. i did recently get inside. it is four stories, the nicest four seasons you have ever stayed in your life. you can check in only four people can do that. and i should just tell you that the thread count sheets is like a billion. [laughter] there is a luxury feel on the duvet cover for you wake up in the morning and you are not sure, you can look down at her toes and say oh, i used to be president of the united states. one of my favorite parts of the club, we love reading presidential biographies. we read on truman and lbj, and there are lots of great ronald reagan

that's insulting stuff from the white house.scious decision was made by the obama administration to return the bust of winston churchill within weeks of obama taking office. that's a huge snub. that's very insulting to the british people. megyn: is there any question president obama was given the opportunity to keep the bust and then refused? >> i think there is no debate over this at all, frankly. the obama administration had the opportunity to extend that loan, they chose not to do so. this is widely reported in the british newspapers at the time. and this was a hugely insensitive move at a time when britain had and still has 10,000 troops on the battlefield of afghanistan fighting alongside u.s. allies. a deeply insensitive, insulting move against america's closest friend and ally. megyn: we'll see what the next iteration of this is. niles, thank you. it's one of america's greatest strengths. the belief that the next generation will have it better than the current generation does. but a new poll says the days of sunny optimis

ultimately, rahm emanuel was forced out of the white house. he was forced out by michelle and valerie jarrett. to edward klein, what are your politics. are you a conservative? >> i would describe myself as someone who is right of center, that makes me conservative -- i guess that makes me conservative. i'm certainly not a liberal. my training as a reporter is to let the facts speak for themselves. but i do have a sense that this country has been drifting in the wrong direction, and that it ought to be righted, using that in both senses of the word. >> have your politics changed over the years? >> i think i have been a conservative or conservative -- conservative leaning individual. i am actually quite libertarian on some issues,. >> were you surprised by some of the findings in her book? >> the thing that surprised me the most in this book, i expected and the many trips that i took to chicago, i live in new york and went to chicago many times, i expected to find, and this might be my own prejudice, that african-americans, you know, unanimously

in early months, 1969, they decided let's set up an investigations unit in the white house. we don't trust the fbi. nixon's personal lawyer paid $130,000 of excess campaign funds to these people and one of the operations was to get somebody to climb the telephone pole behind joe craft's house. he was a columnist for "the washington post" and tap his telephone. now, you know, if they had been caught at that, maybe there wouldn't have been a watergate. but there were so many things regularly done in secrecy and hidden and then there was all this money, all this campaign money. they were just throwing it around. >> you suggested in the piece over the weekend there were five wars. war against anti-war movement, war against the media, war against the democratic party, a war against justice. he came to office with those -- to fight those wars. >> yes, he did. because, you see within the first three months the apparatus had been set up to fight all these wars. you hear on the tapes him talking to kissinger and kissinger very enthusiastically embracing the wire tapping of reporters a

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the white house is doing nothing. and the white house has done nothing.d in 2008 he was going to work to restore the ban on assault weapons. here we are in 2012 he has done nothing. nobody else has done anything either, but he leadership has not come from the white house. the president went again to tucson and said again renewing his call for sensible gun-control measures. what has happened since then? as they say you can't just talk the talk you have to walk the walk. what has hand since then? nothing. the president gave a speech to the urban league saying we got to do something. what is he doing? nothing. listen to jay carney dancing around -- here is the question that reporter after reporter after reporter asked at the briefing yesterday. the president says this. what is he actually doing? what is he actually going to do? and the answer is nothing. and you can hear it in jay carney dancing. here he is just sort of, you know, saying what we have done -- kind of what we have done -- excuse for what we have done and why we can't do more. >> president obam

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neil barofsky stood by the charges. >>> a threat from the white house tonight.he average family will be pay at least $1,600 more in taxes next year if congress does not pass the president's increase on high earners. molly henneberg reports. the two parties are blaming each other. >> the top senate republican says democrats need to fish or cut bait on president obama' push to ex extend some of the bush era tax cuts. >> the democrats believe the president's rhetoric, they'll vote for his proposal and he'll work together their support. my guess is that democratic leaders won't law a vote. >> senate republicans want to extend all bush era tax cuts for a year. families making less than $250,000. as president obama called for and they want to increase the estate tax, what critics call the death tax, to 55% on estates worth more than $1 million. that estate tax part is more than president obama wanted though the proposals were never written up. harry reid says republicans are blocking a vote on any tax cut bill. >> we're here trying to get things done and we're stopped

he was covering the white house when i was a white house correspondent. what i remember that jim always had a way of kind of holding his head. and johnson always said, oh, you know, he's the reporter that looks like he just smelled something. and he usually did. >> kevin? >> and that is a zest for politics. there has never been a great president who was not also a great politician, and if we have presidents who cover themselves above the political fray, who have a disdain for the sort of sweaty, world of politics and the trenches. there's never been a president who didn't have a zest for political combat and for political bargaining for politics in the raw. fdr was somehow able to connect with people from a completely different background. lbj was skilled. he had, what i call operational intelligence, not to train kind of literary intellectualism when we think of when we talk about intelligence. he had operational intelligence and it was essential to presidential greatness, and if i were advising later presidents, i would say, do not hold yourself above t

>> all i can tell you, he is right to say that the white house -- all the evidence leads to the whiteon't know wlat president said. but i know this, this was an orchestrated campaign by somebody at the highest levels of government for a political purpose. we'll never get the answer, having eric holder -- >> greta: we will never get the facts if we have u.s. senators running for cover because the election's coming up. we'll never get an answer. every u.s. senator is appalled and thinks this is such a national security risk -- >> dianne feinstein spoke truth to power. she's backing up because romney uses her comments. but governor romney was right to tell the american legion and the country that what the president's team did was unconscionable. >>> she has incredible stature. she is in california. she won't get voted out. if this is such a serious issue,s not a time to backpedal -- >> my problem is not with her, it's with -- >> greta: mine is too. but the only know only one who s the real power to put the pressure on those who might have that information or might do somethingism the one

and working on the white house and so forth. and out of the blue, one of the key people in the white house that i wanted to talk to e-mailed me and said let's meet. and i didn't come back and say why do you want to meet? i just said, fine. tell me when and where. let's do it. so you don't set those terms of engagement with the source. and this was a source early on who told us when gene -- bless him, the night police reporter who found the entries in the notebook, h hunt w house. when carl heard that w house he said it could only be one of tw things. >> true story. >> yeah, true story. so it calls it the whore house and i call it the white house. >> that's right. >> it was -- you know, mark felt -- i have your name in my address book and go commit a crime, that doesn't mean -- >> that i knew anything about it. >> exactly, in the least. so you have what's called a link that may mean something, may not. i call up mark felt. he said don't worry. howard hunt is up to his ears in this. so the word stage is when he helped us but the r

after making negative comments toward the white house. have you been bookered? martha. martha: and some troubling news for millions of americans who get health care benefits through their jobs. there is a new survey out and it claims that one out of every 10 employers plans to drop health care coverage for their employees in three years when the key provisions of the new health care law really begin to kick in. so one in 10 would stop covering employees according to this survey. peter doocy joins me now. he is in washington. so, peter, how many people would that impact? >> reporter: it's hard to say specifically but potentially millions of people who get their health insurance at work because the consulting firm deloitte says employers sponsored health insurance covers more than 160 million americans. when they randomly asked 560 employers with 50 or more workers what's going to happen with their health insurance coverage in the next one to three years, 9% said they anticipate they will drop it. vast majority, 81% said they will keep it.

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and there was a white house dinner. and he was going over the list with liz carpenter and he said and nelson rockefeller, wanted him down here, his new wife, and had him down. >> we're kind of coming to the end of this. >> but i would just like to go around and ask each of you what, do you think is the quality about lyndon johnson that today's politicians would do well to emulate? or what was it about him that they could learn from him that would help them the most? senator mcgovern, what woo you say? >> well, i think we've all talked about his great skill in bringing people arnold his point of view, or even if they didn't come to his point of view, at least cooperating. i think that was one of his enduring qualities, that he could bring a person of either party into the oval office or go to the senate floor, whatever the case might be. and make it a reasonable persuasive answer. and he left no doubt that this was something that meant a lot to him. and he felt it was in the best interest of the country. and i think that

pat nixon traveled to more than 75 countries during her time in the white house. her daughter, julie nixon eisenhower, offers her own recollections and insights. this program is about 90 minutes. >> good evening. i'm from the archives of the united states and it's a pleasure to well i don't mean you to william g. mcgowan theater this evening. we are celebrating first lady, pat nixon. and a special welcome to the c-span audience. before we begin, i would like to tell you about two programs coming up later this month. on wednesday, april 18th, we'll have a special discussion on slavery freedom to observe the 150th anniversary of the d.c. emancipation. the next week on monday, april 23rd, we'll host a nipgs nixon legacy forum called wages peace, nixon and politics in the middle east. to learn more about these and all our programs and exhibits, consult the monthly calendar of events and there are sign-up sheets in the lobby where you can receive it by regular mail or e-mail. you'll also find brochures about other national archives exhibits and programs. another way to

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i wish the white house would do more. i don't expect them to do anymore. i don't expect the romney campaign to do anymore. unfortunately, both of these guys have been in favor of gun control in the past, but i think that there are political issues that are preventing them from leading on this issue. i'm not saying this as the position of a democratic strategist, but as an american. my uncle was murdered eby gun violence. but it will take more than politicians. it will take ordinary people standing up and deciding they're not going to live their lives in fear anymore. we've got to do something about this and stop waiting for the political leaders to lead and start leading ourselves as human beings, as american, as people who are being victimized in this country. >> trey, to mitt romney's credit, when he was governor of massachusetts, he did sign into law a certain ban for assault weapons there, but now it's kind of not bringing that up with regard to what we saw in aurora, colorado, stepping away from putting any new laws into place as he runs for the presi

now let's get to ed henry at the white house tonight.e a shift in message ever so slight on this matter? >> seems to be a little bit because the president was offended back last month as you note. and was adamant about the fact that nobody in the white house had leaked. but, yesterday, david axelrod said specifically the president did not leak and did not authorize any leaks. that seemed to open the door maybe to white house aides but not the president leaking so i pressed jay carney on that point. he didn't answer. take a listen. >> you can say flatly that nobody inside the white house was involved in the national security leaks or being investigated? >> well, ed, as you know, this is a matter under investigation by two experienced federal prosecutors so i'm not going to speak specifically about it. >> now, jay carney did go on to say he thinks it is preposterous to suggest that the white house leaked information for political gain. also worth noting admiral mccraven went on to say in his own comments that the president deserves great c

also because it's a democrat in the white house so reports are more galvanize the. like we saw in 2010. obama has serious issues with turnout. the biggest block is hispanics and youth, two demographics that placed him in the white house. back to the you didn't build that. >> do we have to? >> it's working. >> before he made those comments, bob, he said the private sector was fine and he was more concerned with the government workers. well, a lot of those workers in northern virginia -- i'm not telling you something you don't know, that professional class, he needs virginia. it's a state he won if 2008. >> he's got more favorable. >> a lot of young professions. >> i say this all the time. he said you didn't build roads and bridges. >> he said the private sector is fine. >> i agree with that. >> the point about enthusiasm is important. it's low even for an incumbent, 39%. on the other side, when you've got somebody dislike among republicans as obama is, 51% is terrible. it shows what mitt romney's problem is. >> it should be higher. >> much higher. >> this is the firs

the speech is in the east room of the white house. some of you watching or listening today will recall this speech because of what the president says about the lesson that he learned about how one treats one adversaries. >> always give your best. never get discouraged. never be petty. always remember others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. and then you destroy yourself. >> at the end of the timeline wall, we ask you to think about how dwell our system perform, did -- did the american people expect of president nixon what they had not expected of other presidents? we also had to think it the consequences of watergate for our country. let's walk over here. we have this exhibit called "watergate's legislative legacy." some of our visitors may be surprised to the extent to which watergate produced laws designed to protect your privacy, designed to improve public's access to official records, designed to tighten the use of subpoenas, and to discourage the national security investigations at home that wer

he was the white house aide. he said now on when you're flying on the military airplane, you're air force two. that's how air force two came about. but when we first started, they were strictly prop airplanes. the jets were coming into being, but we didn't have them. in fact, we didn't have them until we took the trip to russia. >> jack, you were military aide during the white house years. were conditions quite as primitive as they were during the vice presidential years? and after a couple of years, everything part. the 707s, the helicopters. we got spoiled. and we got to the point to say when we take a 707, we don't particularly want one of those who don't have windows in it. he was getting a little tired of it. he said, we'll teach you a lesson. he didn't say it out loud. but we went in advance to make the arrangements for mrs. nixon to go on the africa trip, three countries in africa. we didn't get a 707 with windows. we didn't get a 707 without windows. we got the column bko columbine. a four engine plane. w

she worked at the white house.or years and this does soind like mike mccarthyism. >> i asked begin fwrich that off camera. i asked him. he said you can ask questions about anybody and there's often an insinuation. he said, yeah, so be it. this is a question that has to be asked. >> michelle bachman is not asking for that, she's asking for an inspection including security situations that are at stake. >> they would say they want nothing to do with this. they think this is a small band of republicans asking questions they should be asking. we had a reporter go in and talk to michele bachmann. there is a segment inside the republican parties feels the questions should be asked, it is fair game and it's not mccarthyism. >>> just because people are against it they shouldn't play off of it. thank you very much. >>> up next, former florida governor charlie crist taking on the right to vote. first hair-raising moments for team usa. >> you told me this morning you may have blown a fuse at the olympic village. tell me about

in 1993-94 when i was in the white house, i was affected by what happened in '73-'74. and this is of course also part of history right now and in various books. the office of the independent council is a very dangerous office. you know. it was conducted well in '73-'74, cox and jawarski did a good job, a fair job. it was the proper thing to do but it was a unique circumstance. at the time. there was you know, clearly evidence of significant abuses of power, we had the tapes ultimately. but normally, that is a dangerous office to exist for a president to have to face. when you start appointing independent counsel, the dynamic is such that you want to make a case. when you only have one target and your representation sort of at stake you want to make a case. the impeachment process is the proper process. but the independent counsel is dangerous. you have to have a unique person to walk away. especially when the president's involved. so i was very wary and when i came into the white house in '93-94 of the institution of special prosecutor, the independent counsel. and wit

there are leaks out of every administration. >> axlerod left the white house in february of 2011. the controversy continued. >> it began after the killing of bin laden which the president deserves credit for but the leaks that poured out of the administration on the days and weekend following that, the agreement with sony pictures to do a film on it. >> court filings showed the c.i.a. produced more documents about cooperation with the film producers though there's no information they provided classification information. tuesday mitt romney condemned the leaks. >> this conduct is con templable. it betrays our national interest and compromises our men and women in the field. >> romney invoked senator diane feinstein who said the white house had to understand the leaks were coming from within the ranks then walked it back saying i don't know the source. in june, mr. obama said he was offended by the notion his aides would leak classified information to make him look good. >> these are criminal acts when they release information like this and we'll conduct thorough investigations, as