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>> i said to myself wow everything john dean is saying in that committee i hope they know it is true. >> the counsel was retained at that time. >> what date was that? >> that was on the 25th, as i recall. >> we absolutely believed what he was saying and the more evidence we got the more it confirmed what he was saying. >> meeting of march 21. as i have indicated my purpose in requesting this meeting, particularly with the president, was that i felt it necessary that i give him a full report of all the facts that i knew and explained to him what i believed to be the implications of those facts....

He said there is somethingpute rud in your drinking water where you live. i said i am just a realist. we got problems. >> on march 21 john dean walked into the oval office to give nixon an investment of the damage that watergate was doing to his presidency. >> he had his feet on the desk. as he often did was walking around his shoes at me. >> i had the impression that you don't know everything i know. and after that remark hit feeze were solidly on the floor. he slid his chair up. i knew at that point he knew something. >> i'm warning him. he has problems. this was not good news i was about to...

President will resign. >> he thinks this will protect him and he will claim he knew nothing about a cover up until i told him on march 21. he is sorting this up when he decides he has to let everybody go. then he fires me. >> on may 17 the senate held its first public hearing. one by one the president's men were summoned to the chamber. under cross examination each was asked chad the president of the united states broken the law. >> i don't think there has been a moment in american history as riveting at the water gate hearings. >> i did not grow up with the memory of having seen it. it was th...

Nothing wrong with taking it, but it does send a signal. whether you like ior not. i've heard immunity thro out there by the flynn people, the lawyers. these are the tools you use to cover up. they're not the tools to expose a story. they're used to keep things secret. >> when there's a criminal investigation, which there obviously is, it is not unusual for witnesses to invoke the fifth amendment rights. >> how about immunity? >> and to seek immunity. i think that's, you know, a pretty standard practice. executive privilege, that's going to be an interesting one to watch with comey. look, this...

Amendment. nothing wrong with taking it, but it does send a signal. i've hrd immunity thrown out there by the flynn people, the lawyers. these are the tools you use to cover up. they're not the tools to expose a story. they're used to keep things secret. >> when there's a criminal investigation, which there obviously is, it is not unusual for witnesses to invoke the fifth amendment rights. >> how about immunity? >> and to seek immunity. i think that's, you know, a pretty standard practice. executive privilege, that's going to be an interesting one to watch with comey. look, this comey hearing ...