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Hearings held by the senate watergate committee, witnesses testified about the voice activated taping system in the oval office. on those secret recordings. richard nixon can be heard talking about the watergate break in, when were those devices placed in the oval office? approximately the summer of 1970. nixon invoked executive privilege and refused to give up the tapes to the special prosecutor until the supreme court forced him to. were not playing nixon knew he was going to be indicted if he...

Set to slam california. >> norah: my goodness. thank you. the waiting game for the possible criminal and im a former president donald trump will continue for at least another day. the manhattan district attorneys office postponed a scheduled grand jury session today. but jurors could meet again on thursday. cbss robert costa is outside the courthouse in new york city. >> reporter: with demonstrators on hand and increased security around manhattan criminal court, the decision by manhattan kristin...

Very short leash because this indictment could be hand handed up today. it could be having to do with connections to the hush money payments. explain to me the process here. we think the grand jury meets on wednesdays. what could be happening behind the scenes right now? if this were to happen today, whats happening in any grand jury presentation? you come to a point where youve shown them all your evidence as a prosecutor, then you have to make a decision as a prosecutor, do, i now ask them for...

Was before the grand jur today. we know that the prosecutors have interviewed storm daniels. we know they have hid trump lawyers. they invited trump himself i to testify and he declined that this all sounds like the kin of things you would want to do at the end after you have informe yourself as best you can b talking to all of the othe witnesses and reading all th documents, they have had 19 or 20 meetings with michael cohen and they finally found that he was ready, that they could cooperate wh...

Thats the hand they have been dealt. so they cannot make the case except through him, and what i made of it most consequentially is hes all done now. he said he finished up yesterday. and they had done the best they can to show corroborating evidence. well see what the indictment looks like, but what i make of it is all paths have been cleared. the next thing they will do is ask the grand jury for an indictment. they will probably do that monday. its a special grand jury, so it just meets twice ...

Legal assistance lawyers paula jones, and her sexual harassment suit against, and sitting president, donald -- bill clinton in the 1990s. can i get your reaction to this document, in terms of laying out the case, and establishing the motive, or to have reason to subpoena, and speak on the documents that they are seeking? >> >> my reaction was guilty, guilty, guilty, on all counts. this is a draft indictment. in time, they still have to contain the evidence, it lays out the different ways, in whi...

It was a decision to let a violent mob continue to attack the capitol on the off-chance that it might satisfy his desire to stay in power. >> so, john dean, does that strengthen a potential criminal case against the former president and perhaps increase the likelihood that the justice department will go in that direction? >> it depends on upon the case they seek to make. the case i think they should make is seditious conspiracy. the case i think they have made and its pretty clear in this added ...

It wasnt just laziness or, you know, a lack of attention or not a failure to understand what the constitution required him to do in that crucial moment. it was a decision to let a violent mob continue to attack the capitol on the off-chance that it might satisfy his desire to stay in power. >> so, john dean, does that strengthen a potential criminal case against the former president and perhaps increase the likelihood that the justice department will go in that direction? >> it depends on upon t...

And i think that there might be an examination of the public record of how these facts were communicated to family and to the media. >> jim cavanaugh, lets talk first about the credibility issue here that this community is facing and the country really is facing when it comes to the way in which these facts or misnomers have trickled out. >> yeah, no there is no credibility left with the state police statements here because it has just trickled out as people dont exist, everything is wrong, the ...

Because they would check the box unethi unethical and move on to the next question. >> giuliani will argue the president doesnt pay him for legal services. but his argument is he can get paid from others. where it is snilg >> thats the question. there was a draft indictment against giuliani that was created recently just as an exercise by a couple of former prosecutors, and among the charges that they think could be possible are conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to defraud the united stat...