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the biggest white house scandal in a century broke wide open today. the presidents white house legal counsel john dean has been fired. reportedly dean is implicated in efforts to cover up the watergate scandal. >> watergate is the largest political scandal in american history. >> five men apparently caught in the act of burglarizing and bugging democratic headquarters in washington. >> many have tried to dissect the events of watergate. i lived them. >> this room and the next contain m...

contain my archives. its magazines, newspaper articles, depositions, documents. everything relating to watergate. >> i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. >> i have no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. >> the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. >> were not on the road to fascism. but were dangerously close to it. >> these are the events that are going to follow me to my grave. >> i told the president that there was...

new tonight on cnn, missile launches off the korean peninsula, this time by american and south korean forces of the eight missiles in total, a direct response to the same number of missiles launched by north korea this weekend. we want to be clear on this. the missiles were launched into the sea, but lets get more from cnn correspondent barbara starr. barbara, this is a clear message to north korea from the other side of the dmz. is this when the new south korean president means when t...

in washington. >> many have tried to dissect the events of watergate. i lived them. >> this room and the next contain my archives. its magazines and newspaper articles, depositions, documents, everything related to watergate. >> i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. >> i had no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. >> the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. >> were not on the road to fascism, but were dangerously cl...

>> this room and the next contain my archives. its magazines and newspaper articles, depositions, documents, everything relating to watergate. >> i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. >> i have no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. >> the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. >> were not on the road to fascism, but were dangerously close to it. >> these are the events that are going to follow me to my grave. >> i told...

hello, everyone, thanks so much for joining me. im fredricka whitfield in atlanta. in wisconsin a deadly shooting left a former judge dead and sources tell cnn the gunman was planning to target several other high-ranking government officials. former juneau county circuit court judge john roemer was gunned down in his home friday. police say the shooter then shot himself. sources say the gunman was also planning attacks on wisconsin governor tony evers and senate minority leader mitch m...

Election and repeal the bill of rights. the assignment also said that a tax audit would be appropriate on this mag scene. hi no idea what to do with this. my immediate reaction was how petty. i thought, you know, the president shouldnt be worried about things like this, but he obviously is, and this was up of my first glimpses at richard nixon. this is tricky dick. im not sure what i would have done had jack caufield not arrived in my office, and jack said to me this is no problem. ill handle it...

>> nixon would go to any lengths to get something done and whether or not its legal would just have nothing to do with it. a year before the watergate break-in, there is a discussion with nixon, haldeman and kissinger, and they are talking about fire bombing and breaking into the brookings institution to get some papers that are in brookings that would make lyndon johnson look bad in his conduct of the war in vietnam and nixon look good. >> jack caufield came into my office wide eyed, and he sai...

>> very handsome and kind of had a baby face for a try who was counsel to the president. >> he wore moccasins with tassels on his shoes just like the ones im wearing now but that was new to all of us. we were very straight, conservative guys. >> jack caufield who would be assigned to my staff was there to meet me. i was told by caufield where my office was, and its right between a bank of elevators and the urinals of the mens room. not a really prime piece of property in the eob. my first assign...

Johnson look bad in his conduct of the war in vietnam and nixon look good. >> jack caufield came into my office wide eyed, and he said nixon wants me to fire bomb the brookings institute. i said come again. >> the president wanted classified documents, and he told the plumbers do it. chuck colson says what you gonna do is start a little fire. fire alarms go off and the plumbers were going to rent a fire truck and answer the fire while liddy and others would gun, go to the safe, break it and pull...