Trump is allegedly back at the white house. We should mention, this happens under president s of both parties. Usually a motorcade snafu. They were eventually gathered up. And we show you what we keep out back here, the Rockefeller Center tree is up and lit. A 75footer from the new york suburbs. It certainly changes the view from here at this time every year, at least for a while. And that is our broadcast tonight. Thank you so much for being here with us. And good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. And thanks for joining us this hour. In the summer of 1974, the Special Counsel who was investigating the Watergate Scandal wrote a letter to congress, to the Judiciary Committee in congress detailing what his investigation, what his prosecutors and investigators
had turned up about Criminal Behavior by the president at the time, president Richard Nixon. Now, by this point, by the summer of 1974, the president s Campaign Chairman, who would also have been his Attorney Genera
beginning no later than march 21st, 1973, the president joined an ongoing criminal conspiracy to obstruct a criminal investigation and to commit perjury, including making and causing to be made false statements and declarations, making offers of clemency and leniency, and obtaining information from the justice department to thwart its investigation. there s evidence that the president conspired with others to defraud the united states, and to commit violations of certain federal criminal laws, to wit, obstruction of justice, including paying of funds and offs of clemency and other benefits to influence the testimony of witnesses. making and facilitating, the making of false statements and declarations, obtaining information about the ongoing information from the justice department for the purpose of diverting or thwarting the investigation. also perjury, including the president s direct and personal efforts to encourage and facilitate the giving of
said, okay, here you go, dear mr. chairman, happy to. you send us a subpoena, we ll happily send you over our summary of evidence pertaining to president nixon s conduct in the watergate matter. and the prosecutor then produced page after page after page after page of detailed allegations that nixon had, in fact, committed tons of crimes, including lots of criminal obstruction of justice. beginning no later than march 21st, 1973, the president joined an ongoing criminal conspiracy to obstruct a criminal investigation and to commit perjury, including making and causing to be made false statements and declarations, making offers of clemency and leniency, and obtaining information from the justice department to thwart its investigation. for example, there s evidence that the president conspired with others to defraud the united states, and to commit violations of certain federal criminal laws, to wit, obstruction of justice,
review his option. that s page one. page two, that message is relayed to the white house counsel, john dean. page three, the white house counsel tells the top aide to the president who says, oh, we better tell the attorney general about this. page four, the attorney general is told about this. page five, the next day, the president convenes a big meeting to talk about this matter, to talk about how much money the watergate burglar wants to stay quiet about the burglary, and the amount of money that would be required to keep him and other watergate defendants silent. that s the content of that meeting involving the president. how do we know that? check the footnotes. that s where we get the footnote referencing the president s dictabelt recording. page seven, they authorize the hush money payment to the burglar. he asks for $120,000, he s going to get $75,000. page ten, the hush money payment gets dropped off on the late evening of march 21st, 1973. fred larue caused $75,000 in
page ten, the hush money payment gets dropped off on the late evening of march 21st, 1973. fred larue caused $75,000 in cash funds to be placed in the mailbox at the residence of the burglar s attorney. page 11, the next morning, the attorney general tells the white house counsel, white house chief of staff, nixon s top aide, that the burglar was no longer a problem. page 12, later that day, another meeting with the president, handily taped by the white house taping system, according to the footnotes, were at that meeting and discussed what they just did and prepared a written report for the president so he can deny any involvement in case this becomes known. it s all just there, step by step by step, everything the grand jury learned about the president s criminal acts. a ready-made road map to the evidence on which you would base impeachment proceedings against the president. they didn t indict them, they give this to the congress so the congress would impeach him.