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Democracy. the plumbers had two objectives, one was to prevent leaks. the second was to discredit his enemies, one being daniel ellsberg. >> the plumbers unit cooks up this idea of breaking into ellsbergs psychiatrist office. >> the order from ehrlichman was to find psychiatric notes and do this discreetly. this was an unchecked white house investigative unit. nixon knew full well that his people were going to engage in a crime against an american citizen, but hes not told details of whats going...

The second was to discredit his enemies, one being daniel ellsberg. >> the plumbers unit cooks up the idea of breaking into ellsbergs psychiatrists office. >> the order from ehrlichman was to find psychiatric notes and do this discreetly. this was an unchecked white house investigative unit. nixon knew full well that his people were going to engage in a crime against an american citizen, but hes not told details of whats going to happen, so nixon had deniability. hunt and liddys team break in. t...

Thing he is later accused of. thats true in this case as well. and just to prove our point here, trump in 2016 criticizing hillary clinton, and of course, her emails. watch. >> people have nothing to hide, they dont bleach their emails, or destroy evidence to keep it from being publicly archived as required under federal law. >> and heres the thing, david, republicans who gleefully attacked her for the way she handled government records are amazingly and remarkably quite about trumps behavior th...

And im thinking that, you know, nixon had a plumbers unit. it seems like the white house needed one as well, but for a different reason. the trump white house needed one, but for a different reason. it was pretty clear at the time that the email controversy, even if you can call it that, was overblown. this is where people were shouting, lock her up, at the convention. and then at the trump rallies, and they still do so today. there are still looking to lock her up because of emails, but yet, th...

The abuse of power. it covered the fact that richard nixon tried to get the irs to audit his political enemies, that he wiretapped journalists and other officials, that he set up the plumbers unit, which was an extra legal unit in the white house that burglarized, and as well as the obstruction of watergate. and that actually garnered the most votes. theres an interesting historical precedent. just one moment. there was a federal judge who was impeached in the 1930s. there were seven articles of...

Connections. theres been one year from watergate. president nixon said this needs to stop. one year from the mueller investigation, pence says this needs to stop. watergate had plumbers, these people are concerned about leaks. they ought to have a plumbers unit. >> can i ask you, though, before we move on to other things, do you think this kind of thing happens in other white houses, we just dont hear about it? these kind of, in this case, off-color super-offensive remarks. is that the case? >> ...

Primarily the "washington post," occasionally the "new york times" so it moved at a much slower pace. laurence tribe made an interesting comment where he said its like a black hole where history is just getting sucked into it right now and thats a good analogy of whats happening. >> weve seen the president -- i asked roger stone about this. the president said nixon would hate the leaks. nixon became obsessed with the leaks coming out of the white house and wanted criminal prosecutions and were s...

The president today talking about "illegal leaks." he has a point in a certain extent they that they probably are violations of the law to the extent people are leaking classified information but there is a parallel in that deep throat mark phelps was an agent in the fbi with his own ax to grind that drove this. >> thats true. and watergate itself was born in leaks. it was the setting up of the so-called plumbers unit that was investigating leaks for nixon that had howard hunt and gordon liddy, ...

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