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1973. back then that was alex butterfield, who testified to the existence of nixon's secret taping system, blew it wide open. do we have anything approaching that from this witness? >> martha: i would say, john, i agree with what you have been talking about, i would say we had sort of the basic parameters of what happened with regard to this. we heard before that the president wanted to go to the capitol and that there was pushback against that. so what we are getting today are a lot of details and fill-in into just how dramatic that whole situation was. i think that she comes across very cred...

Tonight's other top headlines: how long the socialite who help jeffrey epstein abuse young girls will face behind bars. plus the rush on the morning after pill after the supreme court abortion ruling. and the new details in the deadly migrant tragedy in texas. ♪ ♪ ♪ this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> o'donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this busy tuesday night. as we detail for you the bombshell testimony today in the january 6 hearing. history is important. during the watergate hearings 50 years ag...

House aide, appeared out of nowhere in the senate watergate committee hearings to say there was a white house taping system. no one knew anything about the white house tapes. it wasn't previewed to the press. but they wanted to get him out there right away. is it something similar? beats the hell out of me. >> beats the hell out of me too. elliot, the committee has already revealed some very, very compelling evidence and testimony. at this point, could anything really fundamentally change our understanding of what happened on january 6th? >> wolf, i think so because, you know, i see three big ...

>> in february of 1971, the president told bob haldeman, his chief of staff that he wanted to install some listening devices around the white house. haldeman said it was up to me to decide who should install these devices. i chose the secret service. >> the system was designed only to tape conversations in which nixon participated. and so when he would enter a room there was a taping system, they would flip the on switch for the system in that room. when he left the room, they would turn it off. >> why did he want the tape recorder? >> the listening devices were to record as much of the admini...

And nixon was fascinated by the memoirs of the people like de gaulle and others, and wanted to show himself as a great world leader. >> the president did tell me at one point, along with haldeman, that no one was to ever learn about this taping system. >> alex butterfield had indeed confirmed my suspicion that i had been recorded. but more than my conversations had been recorded. everybody's conversations had been recorded. i was delighted to learn this information. >> one last question. one therefore had to reconstruct the conversations at any particular date, what would be the best way to re...