of james, mccord. he is one of five persons surprised and arrested yesterday inside the headquarters of the democratic national committee in washington. mccord is a former cia employee. now he runs his own private security service. and guess what else he is? a consultant to president richard nixon s re-election campaign committee. nixon s watergate scandal began 50 years ago today. like trump, his presidency ended in crime and chaos, but there were major differences in the methods the two presidents used to cling to power. also tonight, the unholy alliance between ginni thomas and the people plotting to overturn the presidential election. a member of congress who is now calling for her husband, justice clarence thomas, to resign joins me. we begin tonight with june 17, 1972, the day five bungling burglars broke not offices of the democratic national committee located in the watergate complex in washington, d.c. two years later president nixon resigned. the 50th anniversar
and i m joined by the stars of the big payback and as well the founder of first repair. i have to start with you, my friend, eric alexander. talk about the genesis of this film. yes, thank you so much for having us on. the big payback genesis is it s a documentary about reparations. directed by me and a white malle co-conspirator and clan nator whitney dowd, and it s following the historic stories of alderman robin simmons and congresswoman sheila jackson lee. we started this at the initial hearings in 2019, and then we heard about what are robin simmons did and totally pistd on got there and started filming her where we witnessed her beginning to implement the ground breaking bill in evanston as the tax reparations bill in america. that s what we did, and we ve been following congresswoman lee