this room and the next contain my archives. it s magazines, newspaper articles, depositions, documents. everything relating to watergate. i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. i have no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. we re not on the road to fascism. but we re dangerously close to it. these are the events that are going to follow me to my grave. i told the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency. we will never give up, we will never concede. we will stop the steal. here we are, 50 years later, and the events of watergate are as relevant as they have ever been. there will not be a cover-up, there will not be an abuse of power. weapons of mass destruction. open up, you traitor! my name is john dean. i was richard nixon s white house counsel. the morning of june 17th, 1972, i got a call saying they ve got this strange,
Investigation into russia and the Trump Campaign at this point and in light of this new information. But you also have republicans who are out there defending him. People like senator ted cruz, House Speaker paul ryan, saying that the attorney general doesnt have too much of a conflict of interest here, to continue with any investigation. Senator Lindsey Graham telling nbc news, and graham is a unique one today because he obviously was meeting with jim combey, th fbi director. Hes frustrated that the fbi will not say one way or another to members of congress whether this investigation is even going on. Grahams position is, yes, Jeff Sessions should recuse himself from an investigation of the Trump Campaign and russia, but since i dont know whether that investigation is going on or not, i cant say if hes recusing himself. We do know that graham was pushing comey behind closed doors to talk to him about what is going on with the investigation into its been reported widely in the press, o
my bosses, dick kleindienst and john mitchell, discovered i was a fast study so they started sending me to go to the white house for background briefers for the media, where programs were explained. that s how i really met people like ehrlichman. he was the first to have the title of white house counsel. ehrlichman had personality. wonderful personality. he had humor. he knew how to talk to reporters. so i have to admit, i liked him very well. as you know very well, number one, it isn t the largest white house staff but let s not quibble on that right now. as the white house evolved, he decided to become an assistant to the president for domestic policy. so he decided to give up the job of white house counsel. that s when they sent bud krogh to ask me if i d be interested in the job. mitchell said to me, don t take the job at the white house because you ll grow up in the department of justice.
kleindienst told me, i wouldn t work at that zoo up the street if they paid me. and i should have listened. wow, we re crunching tons of polygons here! what s going on? where s regina? hi, i m ladonna. i invest in invesco qqq, a fund that gives me access to the nasdaq-100 innovations, like real time cgi. okay.