it was the height of the 72 primary campaign season. nixon was running for office again. the bureau was empty. i was brand new at cbs news. the assignment editor looks around, he s like, ah, let the new girl go. i bought into the idea that it was a nothing burger. i went to the court and the room was empty. there was one other reporter, this guy from the washington post metro page. it was bob woodward. in come the five burglars, dressed in business suits. nine months on the police beat, i ve never seen a burglar who was well dressed. it just telegraphed mystery. there were these little things that cropped up that were suspicious. our police reporter had learned that first day that they had sequential 100-dollar bills
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but cbs had a sort of scent about this. the assignment editor sees a break-in at the national democratic committee and he looks around the newsroom and there s no one, so he sends the new kid. police arrested five men in the watergate with bugging equipment and copying cameras. reporter: they sent me to the arraignment. as the testimony went forward, you became more and more suspicious. there were $100 bills with consecutive numbers. these guys were cubans. you kept sitting up, thinking, my, this is not just a third-rate burglary. o donnell: well, there s a lot more from lesslie in a see it now studio special. it starts at 9:00 right here on cbs. i am watching that. still ahead on tonight s cbs evening news. a disturbing confrontation