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Situation. >> the justice department on the recommendation from the fbi. >> the justice department, of course, headed by attorney general jeff sessions. so lets just put it this way. im not really confident that we would see this taken up as a criminal matter. typically, if you look back at the metaphor or the analogy that everybody is drawing with the nixon administration, which at the end of the day wasnt so much an issue of what actually happened at the watergate complex. it was an issue of t...

Interest in the tax returns in what was going on. theres nothing more sacred than our election and our democratic process. >> jeffrey lord, couldnt donald trump alleviate all of this by saying, you know what? heres all the contacts people in my campaign had, here are the phone conversations, here are the russians that -- >> the yes, maamly cati -- impn is that he was conspiring with russians. >> we dont know what the implication. >>. >> why not come forward and say heres the contacts. >> i dont ...

Campaign got a peek at their information? >> it is possible. >> but this is a 45-minute window, and the chairwoman said that for 45 minutes they acce accessed allegedly, this information there, and so it is a lot of time. stop and ask what this information is? it is specific as a specific voter in iowa who had been approached by a volunteer who likes hillary clinton but is open to bernie sanders and so these are real voters and all of this information is such the lifeblood of the campaign. >> it...

Earlier today in the headquarters of the democratic national committee in washington. they were caught by a night watchman, and they did not resist arrest when the police came. they were apparently unarmed, and no one yet knows why they were there. the film in the camera hadnt been exposed. in any case, theyre being held. >> the democratic national committee is housed in the fashionable watergate complex. the break-in prepared well in advance. files were ransacked and papers removed. also in thi...

Skilled. he was able to handle virtually anything. >> five men wearing white gloves and carrying cameras were caught earlier today in the headquarters of the democratic national committee in washington. they were caught by a night watchman, and they did not resist arrest when the police came. they were apparently unarmed, and no one yet knows why they were there. the film in the camera hadnt been exposed. in any case, theyre being held. >> the democratic national committee is housed in the fashi...

>> nixon. >> richard nixon. >> nixon. >> yeah, nixon. >> nixon. >> is anybody else running but nixon? >> the president was a political animal. the president was phenomenally skilled. he was able to handle virtually anything. >> five men wearing white gloves and carrying cameras were caught earlier today in the headquarters of the democratic national committee in washington. they were caught by a night watchman, and they did not resist arrest when the police came. they were apparently unarmed, an...

Washington. they were caught by a night watchman, and they did not resist arrest when the police came. they were apparently unarmed, and no one yet knows why they were there. the film in the camera hadnt been exposed. in any case, theyre being held. >> the democratic national committee is housed in the fashionable watergate complex. the break-in prepared well in advance. files were ransacked and papers removed. also in this area, ceiling tiles had been removed for the suspected planting of buggi...

Episode may have never gone down the way it did. >> well, thats the irony of it. if the cop that was assigned to that patrol area that night had shown up, in his -- in uniform in his squad car with presumably the sirens whaling and lights flashing the spotter across the street in the howard johnsons would have had time to get on his walkie-talkie and warn the burglars law enforcement was there and to get out. of course that law enforcement officer had to go up six flights of stairs before gettin...

Public affairs, craig shirley, books include "reagans revolution, the untold story of the campaign that started it all." >> he writes one a week. >> out with a piece published in washingtonian magazine where he gives details on how the infamous so-called watergate five were arrested. writes, though not reported in "the washington post" police blotter on june 17th five burglars dressed in suits but wearing surgical gloves would be arrested at the watergate complex in foggy bottom by three plains ...

Bill lacey, vietnam war vet and hero was in the dmz for a number of years and leading a platoon there and bill was with his brother and another fellow rick stewart, owned p.w.s restaurant right there on the same street as the palm here in washington. and he told me the story years ago, but he didnt want me to write it until a couple months ago. i said look, the 40th anniversary of watergate is coming up, let me write the story and he finally agreed to let me write the story about how the cop tha...