he s got a rookie white house counsel who i don t think has deep criminal law experience. that s how the mistakes were made at the nixon white house. i remember warning erlich very early that i had no criminal law experience, and he brushed it aside. it was one of the early mistakes we made. so i think that s what they need to be doing. let me mention one similarity between watergate, and i don t want to go too far with it quick for me, carl. the nature of some of these people. flynn, stone, others who are off the reservation, who are not considered very solid folks. they re a little bit like hunt and liddi, the watergate burglars. i m not going to say criminally like them but in terms of people being who have a reputation for not quite thinking in a very straight line. all right. we ve got a similarity here. dean and bernstein, it s 1974 all over again. no. it is not. it s interesting to be talking to you guys. do not go there, do not go
he used the illegal means to undermine the anti-war movement. and then wire tapped the press, and then war against history and against the system of justice, the cover up. there s a line, the cover up is worse than the crime, not in this case. really, these crimes were enormous and it was why he was removed from office and now we have a better sense 40 years later with all the additional tapes and notes from the participants of just how brazen and corrupting of democracy this was and this president was. john dean, you were to inside and you were not corrupted in the end, you were able to break free, why did so many people, i m not saying this is nazi behavior or anything, but why did so many people go along with him? i mean, liddi is a strange guy anyway, but why would they do what he told them to do?
worse than the crime, not in this case. really, these crimes were enormous and it was why he was removed from office and now we have a better sense 40 years later with all the additional tapes and notes from the participants of just how brazen and corrupting of democracy this was and this president was. john dean, you were to inside and you were not corrupted in the end, you were able to break free, why did so many people, i m not saying this is nazi behavior or anything, but why did so many people go along with him? i mean, liddi is a strange guy anyway, but why would they do what he told them to do? it was done for the president. they believed the president had the power, today i don t. but he at that point did.