Thank you, sherif. Good luck the rest of the evening. Thats it. Was it all you hoped it would be . [ laughter ] didnt get a good look. You want me to leave . You have had a long day. These folks cant go until you all go. I know we have talked about leaving the equipment here. Dont leave it here, because you wont want to be her tomorrow. You are welcome to be here if you dont have a role 22 for whats going on tomorrow. Did we find anything . It has to be a group decision. They can come and collect. You are watching a feed from the courthouse in Fulton County, georgia. That is judge Robert Mcburney on the bench who just told all of the reporters in that room that, quote, you need to leave. He said he meant it in a nice way. What has just happened and we will get some Expert Advice on this in just a moment, but under Georgia State law, when a grand jury handsdown an indictment, it goes immediately to the Presiding Judge who has been overseeing the work of The Grand Jury. In this case, tha
Government. Slate magazine hosted the event. Leon hey everybody. [applause] leon hi everybody, thank you for being here. Can everybody hear me . Great. Here, a week and a half after the show ended. Season one ended. , or it could slate have even guessed that we would be talking about season one, and that we are now planning season two of slow burn. Thank you again to the slate plus members who are here. It is really a dream to be here in the watergate hotel. We have a great show tonight, it is our first live show. We have this fantastic lineup of guests. Introduce them without clearing my throat anymore. Elizabeth drew to my left. [applause] elizabeth covered the water gate scandal for the new yorker. Her coverage was collected in the book washington journal. Dickight is did cap it cavett. [applause] etthosted the dick cav show. He introduced interviewed a number of key figures in the watergate scandal. Here we have susan glasser. [applause] susan is the chief International Affairs col
Cable or satellite provider. Authors and authors and journalists who covered the watergate scandal in the 1970s met recently to talk about the era and how it compares to todays Political Climate regarding the russia investigation, the news media and the publics view of government. Hosted by slate media, this is one hour and a half. [applause] leon hey, everybody. [applause] leon thank you for being here. Can everybody hear me . Is my mic awake . Great. We are here about a week and a half after the show ended, season one ended, and i think none of us at slate assumed or could have guessed we would be talking about season one and planning season two. Season two of slow burn so thank you to all of you. [applause] for being here, but o listening to the show. Leon for being here, but also listening to the show. It is really a dream to be here in the Watergate Hotel with all of you. We have got a great show tonight, our first live show. We have a fantastic lineup of guests who i now want to
Covered the watergate scandal in the 1970s met recently to talk about the era and how it compares to todays Political Climate regarding the Russian Investigation, the news media and the publics view of government. Media, this is one hour and a half. [applause] hey, everybody. [applause] thank you for being here. Can everybody hear me . Great. We are here about a week and a half after the show ended, season one ended, and i think assumed orat slate could have guessed we would be talking about season one and planning season two. Thank you to all of you. [applause] for being here, but also listening to the show. It is really a dream to be here in the Watergate Hotel with all of you. We have got a great show tonight, our first live show. We have a fantastic lineup of guests. I want to introduce them without clearing my throat anymore. Elizabeth drew, to my left. She covered the watergate scandal as it was unfolding. In the book that washington journal in the book washington journal. To my
It really is fun. Thank you, ali. Have a good evening, friend. Thank you. Well, if youve never seen the attorney general of the United States lie under oath to the House Judiciary Committee, then today was your lucky day. And i say lucky because being a witness to history is lucky. Those of us who lived through the watergate investigation that brought down the nixon presidency consider ourselves lucky to witness all of that in the early 1970s, because it showed us something very, very important about our government and politics. It showed us how bad it could be. How genuinely evil it could get. The nation watched as 48 Nixon Administration officials were found guilty of crimes in the watergate investigation, the same investigation that produced the three articles of impeachment that the House Judiciary Committee passed, that forced Richard Nixon to become the first president in history to resign the presidency. Richard nixons first attorney general, John Mitchell, was the 67th attorney