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Sources. >> better get all five, huh? certain on mitchell? >> we know he approved payments to liddy while he was attorney general. >> weve got more than one source. >> who are they? >> sloan. >> sloan and who else? >> wont confirm the names of the other two but were working on it. >> why deep throat? >> hes not a source on this. >> do any of them have an ax? is there anything at all on mitchell? >> can we use the names? >> no. >> when is somebody going to go on the record in this story? you guys...

Bathroom while shes getting coffee. >> youd be crazy, too if you were operating on 20 cups of coffee. >> can you give me something i can get down? >> got it all. okay. write. mitchell was in control. there were men working under mitchell. >> how many? >> i dont know how many but they were the ones who received the money from the slush fund. >> do we know how much money? >> hundreds of thousands of dollars. these men are the key to what that money was used for. boy, that woman was paranoid. her p...

>> is this the whole list? >> look what it says. personnel. committee to re-elect the president. >> this is all in alphabetical order. you cant tell who works for who. >> find out the department. mitchell, magruder, stans. here, john mitchell. 301. find somebody who has a number close to it. they probably work -- >> heres a 303. >> okay. >> okay. we have to find out how money got from stans to the burglars. >> somebody who worked in finance. >> heres the hfd finance. maurice stans, 269. if we ca...

Explanation on why a check for $25,000 made out to mr. dahlberg that he sent to the committee to re-elect the president would end up in the bank account of a watergate burglar. >> i dont know. >> youre head of the committee. >> i just came aboard. john mitchell was the head of the committee. he might known. >> what was the explanation -- >> i dont know. youre implying that i should know. if you print that, our relationship will be terminated. >> the issues of the campaign are peace and prosperit...

>> sir, this is carl bernstein of "the washington post." im sorry to disturb you at this hour. tomorrow were running a story in the paper and we just think that you should have a chance to comment on it. >> what does it say? >> john m. mitchell, while serving as united states attorney general personally controlled a secret cash fund that was used to gather information about the democrats according to -- >> jesus. >> sources involved in the watergate investigation. >> jesus. >> beginning in the s...

>> if you guys could get john mitchell, that would be beautiful. >> the coffees cold. is there any evidence that any of mr. mitchells assistants were part of this? >> i had all the evidence. it was destroyed. i dont know who destroyed it. i think gordon did a lot of shredding. >> hard evidence? >> well, i cant say that it would positively prove that they planned the break-in, but it could come pretty close. >> can you tell me anything? anything about who got the money? we have had some help on t...

>> i cant say anything. im sorry. >> well, whens the baby due? >> soon. next month. >> are you going to stay here? >> no. i dont think so. >> did you decide where youre going to go? >> ive been looking for a job in the private sector but its very hard. my names been in the papers too much. >> you know one thing im still not completely clear about? >> what? >> i dont know how -- when you handed out the money, how did that work exactly? >> badly. >> i think what bob means is that ordinarily what w...

Highway. >> hi. im bob woodward. >> im carl bernstein from "the washington post." wed like to speak to you. we understand your daughter works for the committee to re-elect. it wouldnt be anything embarrassing. would you object to just -- >> yes. miss milland? >> yes. >> im bob woodward. >> im carl bernstein. were from "the washington post." >> i know youre trying to do your job. you dont understand the pressure were under. >> no, we understand that there was some documents that were shredded at ...

>> there was so much of it. >> how much is "so much"? >> in one two-day period, $6 million came in. >> six? >> $6 million cash. we didnt know where to put it all. i thought it was all legal. i mean, i guess i did until after the break-in when i remembered gordon got so much of it. >> this is mr. liddy? >> its all so rotten. its getting worse. and the only one i care about is hugh sloan. his wife was going to leave him if he didnt stand up and do what was right. so he quit. >> im wondering if hug...

>> you know the reason that were here basically is that we talked to certain people who have indicated the reason you left the committee is because you no longer wanted to be a part of it. >> right. maybe there is a legitimate explanation for why the money was handed to liddy and mitchells aide. >> im trying to understand this. im a republican. >> i am, too. >> well, i believe in richard nixon. i worked in the white house for four years and so did my wife. what happened on june 17th, i dont thin...