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Democracy. the plumbers had two objectives, one was to prevent leaks. the second was to discredit his enemies, one being daniel ellsberg. >> the plumbers unit cooks up this idea of breaking into ellsberg's psychiatrist office. >> the order from ehrlichman was to find psychiatric notes and do this discreetly. this was an unchecked white house investigative unit. nixon knew full well that his people were going to engage in a crime against an american citizen, but he's not told details of what's going to happen, so nixon has deniability. hunt and liddy's team break in. they look around and they d...

The second was to discredit his enemies, one being daniel ellsberg. >> the plumbers unit cooks up the idea of breaking into ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. >> the order from ehrlichman was to find psychiatric notes and do this discreetly. this was an unchecked white house investigative unit. nixon knew full well that his people were going to engage in a crime against an american citizen, but he's not told details of what's going to happen, so nixon had deniability. hunt and liddy's team break in. they look around and they don't find any psychiatric notes, so they decide to make it look like ...

Thing he is later accused of. that's true in this case as well. and just to prove our point here, trump in 2016 criticizing hillary clinton, and of course, her emails. watch. >> people have nothing to hide, they don't bleach their emails, or destroy evidence to keep it from being publicly archived as required under federal law. >> and here's the thing, david, republicans who gleefully attacked her for the way she handled government records are amazingly and remarkably quite about trump's behavior this we. is it too much to expect anything other than hypocrisy from the republican party, when it...

And i'm thinking that, you know, nixon had a plumbers unit. it seems like the white house needed one as well, but for a different reason. the trump white house needed one, but for a different reason. it was pretty clear at the time that the email controversy, even if you can call it that, was overblown. this is where people were shouting, lock her up, at the convention. and then at the trump rallies, and they still do so today. there are still looking to lock her up because of emails, but yet, there is no concern with those 15 boxes of material from the white house, that should've gone to the ...

The abuse of power. it covered the fact that richard nixon tried to get the irs to audit his political enemies, that he wiretapped journalists and other officials, that he set up the plumbers unit, which was an extra legal unit in the white house that burglarized, and as well as the obstruction of watergate. and that actually garnered the most votes. there's an interesting historical precedent. just one moment. there was a federal judge who was impeached in the 1930s. there were seven articles of impeachment, six specific acts and one overall umbrella argument. the senate acquitted him on the ...