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Assurances under oath that the special prosecutor will be allowed to proceed independently and both the attorney general and the special prosecutor understand that, there's still times when senator robert byrd decides that this nominee for attorney general, he's saying all the right things but not being afusive enough in his assurances. he wants him to spell it out even more. senator byrd, do you subscribe to that, senator saxbe, do you subscribe to that, you will not interfere with the special prosecutor's decisions or actions. saxbe, that's correct. senator byrd, my understanding is he'll op...

Byrd proceeded to go line by line through the regulations that created the office of the watergate special prosecutor and governed the way he was supposed to investigate and line by line, paragraph by paragraph as part of the process of confirming him as attorney general, bill saxbeand the water gate special prosecutor both affirmed overtly, line by line, paragraph by paragraph, they understood, they had no reservations about the independence of the water gate prosecution and the fact that the president's nominees at the justice department including the attorney general could not tell that pro...

Independence. they had the same understanding, they both respected it. i mean, that's weird, right? i mean, the prosecutor was not being confirmed by the senate in that moment but they made him sit down and get sworn in right there with the guy who was being confirmed. i mean, this attorney general nominee, they made him swear he wouldn't interfere with the water gate investigation but remarkably, they made the water gate prosecutor sit down next to him and swear that he understood that as well. i had not realized this had happened before this la faire piece today. it's kind of an amazing bit ...

Committee with guidelines guaranteeing his independence. >> that was key, pushing richardson to commit to, one, appointing that special prosecutor, archibald cox, and, two, respecting his independence. >> mr. cox will have full independence, as far as i'm concerned. he has been given or will be given upon his appointment full authority to investigate all aspects of the watergate cases. >> what if inen senator bird's words this trail leads into the oval office? >> as i replied then, the trail should be followed wherever it leads. >> now, the senators didn't know that trail would lead to a white...

Incredibly powerful person. and what she is being met with is a rush to defend this person rather than get at the truth. you know, the benefit of the doubt here to quote senator robert bird back in i think about 1991, the benefit of the doubt should go to the court and to the country. that's our job. and it is absolutely shameful to be playing politics with this. >> and there is, in effect, chris, in the larger context on other survivors who are deterred from coming forward. you know, i spent a part of today with a couple of survivors and advocates who describe their own experiences very much ...