president nixon. saying that burglary at the headquarters, that was not just a burglary, it was a dirty trick by the president and the president should have to answer for it. lawrence o brien today filed a suit for $1 million for the reelection of the president and five men arrested early saturday who were charged with breaking into the party s national headquarters at the watergate in washington. carl stern has the report. i wish to emphasize that the deadly seriousness of which we view of this entire matter. i am pleased to know that the fbi is investigating this case. i am shocked to learn that the white house through its official spokesperson deems unworthy of notice of blatant act of
itself to law and order four years ago. o brien s lawyer thought he should be careful about accusing the president of criminal activity. the chairman of the dnc was not worried. i have studied nixon since the kennedy campaign. i have no doubt the trail will lead to the oval office if we can hang in there long enough. that was on the slow burn podcast a couple months ago d digging out that artifact from how the democrats fought their side of the fight in watergate. now today, surprise, that artifact from watergate not only proved itself to be dug up, today it reanimated and came back to life. look. today the dnc, the democratic party today, filed a forgotten watergate-style civil freaking lawsuit against the trump campaign over the russia scandal. it s about the way they were broken into in this scandal like
under investigation by the fbi as far back as 2014. the fbi knew that when manafort unexpectedly became chairman of the campaign of donald trump in 2016. is there some duty to warn or any sort of is there some action that the fbi should take. you are not asked to do background checks for people on political campaigns but when you know of what you know of these folks and ongoing investigations involve with these people seriously matter. should something be said. in general, it depends on what the facts are that started the investigation and what you learned. the goal is to disrupt the adversary s action. sometimes they ll do a criminal case and locking up the person that s with foreign power, hey, you are hooked up with them, knock it off. sometimes it is a laying in the weeds trying to develop source of information to get close to them.
there was no real assurance that there would be a proper investigation. we know that there was a senate watergate committee and two special prosecutors got in on the act. foo finally, the house judiciary committee voted impeachment. this was larry o brien the chairman and the dnc s way of saying, we want to make sure this is investigated, because we think this wasn t just a break-in. we think this was connected not only to the nixon campaign but the nixon white house. am i right looking back on that era, in remembering or at least thinking about the time because i wasn t born yet that i was. that george mcgovern running against nixon in 72, that other democratic candidates hadn t figured out a way to talk about the watergate scandal or decided they didn t want to talk about the watergate scandal in a way that resonated with people.
quarters a as major campaign issue attempted to lay responsibility at the door of the white house. he said that there is a developing clear line to the white house and cited the potential involvement of the white house counsel. o brien made his remarks as the dnc filed a million dollar lawsuit against the committee for the re-election of the president whose chief security agent was one of the five men arrested at the break-in at 2:30 a.m. on saturday. president nixon s campaign chair denied any party responsibility and called the lawsuit another example of sheer demagoguery on the part of mr. o brien. mr. mitchell called o brien s lawsuit a political stunt. a stunt. sheer demagoguery. that was the line from the president s re-election campaign. nobody in the press took it seriously. but we now know that those wacky over the top democrats were on to it. they were right. i mean, the dnc chair said we think there s potential involvement here by president nixon s special counsel.