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Would happen next, when it wasn't clear that nixon would ever be busted for what he did. when nobody knew how it would end, how did it feel like at the time? if you're not listening to slow burn, you should be. but as we hit the one-year mark since the intelligence community assessment that russia attacked in 2016, i've been wondering if watergate can give us a good perspective what it's like to be in a sprawling investigation when the push back trying to thwart the investigation seems like it might be winning the day. joining us is the host of slow burn. thank you for being here. >> thanks fo...

Majority vote for those subpoenas. and with the country yawning about this snooze fest side show watergate break-in thing, richard nixon went on to win a second term by one of the most lopsided margins in the country's history. patman had failed. the watergate investigation came to a promising place, but then politically it got stomped. but you know what, the scandal came roaring back, in the president's second term, and the truth did come out. within two years, nixon's attempt to interfere with pat man's investigation by pressuring those congressmen on the subpoena vote, that ended up being i...

The watergate scandal was this man. his name is wright patman, a democratic congressman from texas. wh he had been serving in the house of representatives for more than four decades. he was chair of the house banking committee. he decided the way he would approach the watergate burglary mystery would be to -- say it with me now -- follow the money. why did the burglars have so much money on them when they got caught? and even more, why did they have such large amounts of seemingly political money in their bank accounts? well, turned out that the money had come from president richard nixon's re...

.. one people singing hamlisch outside the encampment and he went out and set i'm going to be ki with my walking cane and the people who were singing said oh well and they were taunting him. people were held in the park saying its judgment day, angry at white people but they were not saying it as directly as to illustrate what they meant. >> i finally told her if she wrote a novel about it and sold ase couple thousand copies and wrote nonfiction about its she could sell we more who because the story of what actually happened was much more fascinating than anything we could make up ab...