perhaps we need to look back of the 15 years and get some segments back. i think today a good one would be what have we learned today? what i learned today is john erlichman was an environmentalists. i never saw that one coming. yeah, in the closet about it but doing it anyway. doug, the new book silent spring revolution. it is out now. doug, thanks so much. congrats on the book, good to see you. thank you. that does it for us this morning. we ll see you tomorrow morning on morning joe. jose diaz balart picks up the coverage right now. good morning, 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz balart. we begin with details on the missile strike in poland that left two people dead. nato leadership now says it was likely caused by ukrainian defense missiles and was not
i didn t learn about it until i returned on sunday, call my deputy. he told me that john erlichman s looking for you, so you better get back. what were they doing? why were they doing it? who had authorized it? i didn t know.
hand. g. gordon liddi, special agent with the fbi. in order to protect the lives we would be justified in a homicide. g. gordon liddi used the symbol of the ss when he signed memos. so he is no friend of democracy. the plumbers had two objectives. one was to prevent leaks. the second was to discredit his enemies, one being daniel ellsberg. the plumbers unit cooks up the idea of breaking into ellsberg s psychiatrist s office. the order from erlichman was to find psychiatric notes and do this discreetly. this was an unchecked white house investigative unit. nixon knew full well that his people were going to engage in a crime against an american
out all the classified material. i said, this is insane. this is declaring war on a think tank because they have papers the president thinks he wants. called john erlichman. he was in california with the presidential party. so i made arrangements to get on the next flight to california. and nixon keeps saying, i want that place firebombed. and he comes back to it the next day. have you broken into brookings yet? day after day. i get hold of eric man and i tell him this horror story of what i ve heard. and he sort of sits there and takes it all in. at this point i have no idea richard nixon has ordered this. i suspected that might be the case, but i didn t know for certain. i d heard the president say, i don t care what it takes,
when i got back to the white house, i went immediately to erlichman s office. to tell him of my conversation with liddy. and erlichman, who is a good poker face, didn t even blink. john, i said, i have no background in the criminal law. i don t have anybody on my staff, i don t know anybody on the white house staff who has criminal defense background. i need somebody in my office so we don t make mistakes. his reaction? we re not going there, john, we don t need that kind of assistance. that was my first really serious mistake, by just buying into that. we did need somebody. mitchell and erlichman, they d gone over the press statement denying burglars were acting on their behalf, when that was an outright lie. neither the president, obviously, or anybody in the white house or anybody in