welcome back, everybody. it is the bottom of the hour. we ll start with the morning s top stories. we are 18 1/2 hours away from a shutdown of the federal government as the senate decides the path forward. the house passed a continuing resolution to fund the government for 30 days. but the democratic minority and a few republicans are standing in the way, demanding longer term fixes. late last night on the senate floor, democratic leader chuck schumer said president trump was to blame for inaction while the republican leader mitch mcconnell said there was no hurry. the president has been impervious to compromise for several months. he can t maintain a consistent position. we all know that. he makes and rescinds and remakes demands. he encourages compromise one day only to thwart it the next by saying he ll only accept a deal that gives him 100% of what he
off and melting them down and making a weapon. and this stuff dries pretty hard. so it s not soft. there s probably four or five weapons in there once you melt them all down. we re going to write him up for destruction of state property and take his stool out and when we have a stool available, we ll give him another. like i tell a lot of these officers, if you do your job, you should be safe. you shouldn t get stabbed or anything like that, but there s always that one time you slip up or you forget to do something, and that s when it happens. these guys want you and they ll wait and wait until you don t follow procedure. and that s when you get hurt. it s not uncommon for inmates to land longer sentences in prison because of bad behavior on the inside. inmate david scritchfield learned this lesson the hard way. i ve been in prison 18 1/2 years now. i have been convicted of aggravated assault on peace officers probably two or three times, battery on officers.
of an h.r. haldeman conversation with the president three days after the watergate break-in. it didn t happen by accident would have been our first suspicion. i was the lawyer who questioned rosemary woods about the 18 1/2-minute gap. are you discussing testimony tomorrow? or another actual re-enactment i don t want to comment on it. i m called the miniskirted bitch. that was my name. pictures of me were always head to toe. my male colleagues are shoulder up. that s just how it was. rosemary woods represents really the majority of women at that time. you could be a nurse. you could be a teacher. you could be a secretary. or you could be a housewife. those were your choices. i was a very early professional and there we were head to head combat basically. ms. woods said it was a mistake. a record button hit accidentally while she took a phone call.
tape recordings were finally delivered today. we won t hear them, however, until all the discrepancies have been accounted for and today that situation grew worse, not better. much worse. nixon had handed over the tapes but there was a catch. i was in the white house. things were fairly quiet. and i got a call to go to ron ziegler s office. i go up to ron s office thinking it s something routine and ziegler is clearing his throat a lot and is kind of rattling his coffee cup and that is when we learned about the gap in the tapes. we had been told just about three days earlier that the worst is behind us and suddenly there was an 18 1/2 minute gap in the tapes and all hell broke loose again. the conversation in question took place three days after the watergate burglars were caught and the watergate prosecutor thought it was important. we know the 18 1/2 minute gap was a conversation about watergate because it was with haldeman and the president and haldeman was a meticulous note
the president s presidential secretary, rosemary woods, was recalled to explain how she accidentally erased 18 minutes of a haldeman conversation with the president three days after the watergate break in. it didn t happen by accident would have been our first suspicion. i was the lawyer who questioned rosemary woods about the 18 1/2 minute gap. are you discussing testimony tomorrow? or another reenactment? i don t want to comment on it. i m called the mini skirted bitch. that was my name. pictures of me were always head to toe. my male colleagues are shoulder up. that s just how it was. rosemary woods represents really the majority of women at that time. you could be a nurse. you could be a teacher. you could be a secretary, or you could be a housewife. those were your choices. i was a very early professional and there we were head to head combat basically.