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Of the pentagon papers that the white house had sent the plumbers to los angeles really i think broke open the watergate scandal. and then to top it all off, if the story needed topping, the fact that the president met with the presiding judge -- >> the man presiding over the ellsberg case, judge matthew byrne, today confirmed that ehrlichman had offered him the job of fbi director. >> it didn't seem possible but there were even more sensational developments today involving the white house. an admission from the federal bureau of investigation that it had listened to daniel ellsberg on wiretap...

Trusted man in america. >> good evening, daniel ellsberg, a former state department and pentagon planner and something of a phantom figure, agreed today to be interviewed at a secret location. i ask him what he considers the most important revelations to date from the pentagon documents. >> the people of this country can't afford to let the president run the country by himself. without the help of the congress, without the help of the public. >> dan does this interview which comes out on cbs, nationwide television, as the biggest fbi manhunt since the lindbergh kidnapping is going on looking f...

Up because someone sendses you a telegram. >> i don't care whether they're for the war. they should not attack the integrity of the government. by god -- they don't know what's going to hit them now. >> a federal court has ordered the new york times to stop publication temporarily. the government asked for and got an injunction against the times. >> before the nixon administration enjoined the new york times, there had never been another injunction brought against a media company in a federal court. >> a name has come out as the possible source of the times/pentagon documents. it is that of da...

Around my neck. the fear of being cut out from the group of people you respect and whose respect you want and normally expect, that keeps people participating in anything no matter how terrible. >> whatever his intentions may have been, in your opinion, did daniel ellsberg betray his country? >> i would put it another way. daniel ellsberg whatever his intentions gave aid and comfort to the enemy. that is inexcusable. after all, he is putting himself above the president of the united states, above the congress, above our whole system of government. when he says in effect that he would determine...

People w asked was daniel ellsberg. >> my involvement in this study would change my life. and change history, in ways i couldn't have imagined. >> we classified the pentagon paper study as top secret. and every page of every study is top secret. we considered the existence of the study to be top secret. the person we were trying to keep it from was not the vietnamese would not have cared at all, but lyndon johnson. we feared through the whole study that if the president found out about it, that he would stop it, johnson knew that mcnamara had doubts about the war, and believed there were a ban...