me and watch watergate. >> i was sitting in a dressing room making the film the great gatsby and to keep yourself from going mad you would watch the hearings and that was fine because the hearings were so interesting you couldn't stop. and what was interesting was the drama and the tension and the mystery. what's going to happen? >> do i understand that you are testi testifying -- >> the watergate hearings were an absolute unifying television experience for the entire country. i can remember watching it and thinking they're interrupting soap operas? wow. you just figure this must be something enormously fundamental to our democracy. >> most of us thought the most dramatic testimony would come