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bret: breaking tonight and all day today president biden has covid. the white house made this announcement this morning just days after the president returned from a middle east trip and the trip yesterday to massachusetts. is said to be experiencing mild symptoms. the president will isolate at the white house and execute his duties from there, according to the white house press secretary. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has the latest tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening to you, bret. the president is suffering only mild symptoms. a runny nose, a dry cough, and fatigue. but we did get conflicting information from white house officials and his doctor about when those symptoms started and why he only reported them after popping a positive on a routine test. but, most importantly, we re told the president is doing fine. but the team or the day rather that his team had long prepared for has finally come. hey, folks, yes y ....
this room and the next contain my archives. it s magazines, newspaper articles, depositions, documents. everything relating to watergate. i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. i have no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. we re not on the road to fascism. but we re dangerously close to it. these are the events that are going to follow me to my grave. i told the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency. we will never give up, we will never concede. we will stop the steal. here we are, 50 years later, and the events of watergate are as relevant as they have ever been. there will not be a cover-up, there will not be an abuse of power. weapons of mass destruction. open up, you traitor! my name is john dean. i was richard nixon s white house counsel. the morning of june 17th, 1972, i got a call saying they ve got this st ....
everywhere. and, alexander butterfield we, 49 years later, is going to join us here tonight. no way, really? to talk about what it is really like to be that star witness in that kind of presidential investigative hearing, in what is now the cassidy hutchinson role, and what we ve seen. he was subpoenaed, just like she was subpoenaed, and it was obviously, it s a unique experience, and a unique perspective to get on what we are watching, and what we will be watching tomorrow. i can t believe i went all day-to-day without knowing the butterfield will be on the show tonight. how come nobody came in and rang my bell about this. you are supposed to know immediately about this, these are not supposed to take you by surprise, i don t know what happened at the system. but it s really exciting, and we do have to reach back that 50 years, for people who actually have lived through things like this. yes, exactly right. and, arguably, what we ve learned from the january 6 ....
49 years later, is going to join us here tonight. no way, really? to talk about what it is really like to be that star witness in that kind of presidential investigative hearing, in what is now the cassidy hutchinson role, and what we ve seen. he was subpoenaed, just like she was subpoenaed, and it was obviously, it s a unique experience, and a unique perspective to get on what we are watching, and what we will be watching tomorrow. i can t believe i went all day-to-day without knowing the butterfield will be on the show tonight. how come nobody came in and rang my bell about this. you are supposed to know immediately about this, these are not supposed to take you by surprise, i don t know what happened at the system. but it s really exciting, and we do have to reach back that 50 years, for people who actually have lived through things like this. yes, exactly right. and, arguably, what we ve learned from the january 6th committee, is already describing a scope ....
the biggest white house scandal in a century broke wide open today. the president s white house legal counsel john dean has been fired. reportedly dean is implicated in efforts to cover up the watergate scandal. watergate is the largest political scandal in american history. five men apparently caught in the act of burglarizing and bugging democratic headquarters in washington. many have tried to dissect the events of watergate. i lived them. this room and the next contain my archives. it s magazines and newspaper articles, depositions, documents, everything related to watergate. i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. i had no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. we re not on the road to fascism, but we re dangerously close to it. these are the events that are going to follow me to my grave. i told the president that there was a cancer growing ....