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John, i'm going to start with you. explain why you think there are echos of watergate in this russia investigation. >> well, they both start with a penetration, if you will, or attempted penetration in one case of the d.n.c., the democratic national committee. and roll out from there. of course gordon liddy and a team of burglars broke into the watergate complex where the democratic national committee was located and tried to plant or fix a bug and take some photographs. the russians electronically penetrated the democratic national committee and spread the fruits of their entry all over the w...

And carrying cameras were caught early today in the headquarters of the democratic national committee in washington. they were caught by a night watchman, and they did not resist arrest when the police came. they were apparently unarmed, and no one knows yet why they were there. the film in the camera hadn't been exposed. in any case, they're being held. >> the democratic national committee is housed in the fashionable watergate complex. the break-in prepared well in advance. files were ransacked and papers removed. also in this area, ceiling tiles had been removed for the suspected planting o...

Anything. >> five men wearing white gloves and carrying cameras were caught early today in the headquarters of the democratic national committee in washington. they were caught by a night watchman, and they did not resist arrest when the police came. they were apparently unarmed, and no one knows yet why they were there. the film in the camera hadn't been exposed. in any case, they're being held. >> the democratic national committee is housed in the fashionable watergate complex. the break-in planned well in advance. files were ransacked and papers removed. also in this area, ceiling tiles had...

Issue, i think in particular, the obstruction issue. and with richard nixon, obviously, that was the aspect of his presidency that brought him down, much more than the break-in to the watergate complex. and in this case we're looking not simply at the election and the activities of advisers, but how did president trump respond. and was the firing of james comey, the fbi director, as president trump himself has suggested, an effort to push away this investigation? so it's a very serious matter, and that's why the news about flynn this weekend will cause concern in the white house. >> and samant...

The burglars who had broken into the watergate complex, the democratic national committee headquarters, had been arrested, prosecuted and they all pleaded guilty. it was a very conservative republican judge who smelled a rat. he said, why are all these people pleading guilty? this makes no sense. you have people with a cia background who were part of the burglary operation. he just didn't buy that this was kind of a third-rate burglary. so he slapped really stiff sentences on these people. guess what? one of them broke and said, they're higher ups. that's what happens in the criminal justice p...