waste of time and a red herring. he also said loud and clear that his old boss brought this on himself by taking what did not belong to him, refusing to give it back and he seemed to suggest perhaps obstructing justice with his legal team deceiving investigators. i think the driver on this from the beginning was, you know, loads of classified information sitting in mar-a-lago. people say this was unprecedented. it s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club, okay? and how long is the government going to try to get that back? they jawbone for a year. they were deceived on the voluntary actions taken. they then went and got a subpoena. they were deceived on that. they feel. and the facts are starting to show that they were being jerked around. and so how long you know, how long do they wait? the answer, as we now know, was more than a year before seeking a search warrant. the former attorney general had more
could easily win a national election. he had left the 1960 election which he lost narrowly to john f. kennedy with bitterness. and a sense the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demon that is he always had within him to play during elections. it is about lust for power and absence of morality. it was all about holding on to power. no one can find out about this. whatever it takes. when the president does it it means that it is not illegal. i told the american people i did not trade hostages for arms. there will not be an abuse of power in this office. he develops weapons of mass destruction. we are in trouble. i just want to find 11,780 votes. and that s really when you reach a tipping point in a democracy. that s how dictators come to power. within hours of the arrests at the watergate, the nixon white house started covering up. i was the desk officer of the cover-up. i get the information and gather it and i share it and they were maki
new information that is both urgent and important. the panel has not revealed any details publicly, but cnn has confirmed through sources that cassidy hutchhutchinson, who wa top aide to white house chief of staff mark meadows will testify today live. hutchinson is considered to be one of the panel s most consequential witnesses due to her proximity to the white house chief of staff, mark meadows, before and on january 6. hutchinson has been interviewed by the select committee at least three times before behind closed doors. clips from those recorded interviews were played during previous hearings. we saw cassidy hutchinson testify on many different parts of then president trump s efforts to overturn the election. remember, this was not just about the mob that stormed the capitol on january 6, it was about various other trump schemes to undermine the democratic election. for example, hutchinson testified to the committee that mark meldadows and rudy giulian were involved in e
up for us. so thank you very much tara as a pleasure to be able afternoon everyone, welcome to the washington post for this event. years ago today, breaking someplace at the democratic national committee headquarters in the water. it s two miles from here. white house press secretary at the time referred to the incident as nothing more than quote a great burglary. that may have been out history would have recorded it but for the recording of two men about to hit the state. former publisher of the washington post phil gramm once said journalism is the first rough draft of history. bob woodward and carl bernstein wrote their first draft of the story and their second and under the guidance of legendary editor brett ben bradley who sadly is not with us today the support of publisher katharine graham whose son don is with us exposed a tale of corruption at the highest levels of government. some quality of their work changed journalism politics. recognition from around the world
question. white debunking this myth matters. along the way, we will have some time for q&a. here are a few names that we will encounter during our class today. carl bernstein and bob woodward, these were reporters for the washington post, the lead reporters on the watergate scandal. and they teamed up in 1972 and worked together through the scandal in 1974. together, they wrote two books about the watergate scandal. catherine graham is another name you will encounter. she was the post publisher during the watergate years. the post was a family run newspaper and she was publisher from 1969 to 1979. she backed the watergate investigation. sometimes, in the face of government question. catherine graham died in 2001. ben bradley is another name you will encounter today. he was the post-executive manager at the time. that is the top news room official of a newspaper. and bradley broadly oversaw the watergate coverage of his newspaper. he was executive editor from 1968 to 1991, a p