Have you heard of the Rosemary Woods stretch . It is named after this woman, Rosemary Woods. The longtime secretary of richard nixon. Woods became her career with nixon in 1950, went long before his time with the white house. She was so close to the family the nixons daughters referred to her as aunt rose. In 1974, route woods was thrust into the National Spotlight during the watergate scandal when investigators discovered a Mysterious 18 and a half gap on one of the tapes handed over from the nixon white house. The tape was believed to contain a conversation between president nixon and his Chief Of Staff three days after the watergate breakin. Woods took responsibility for that gap. She tried to explain it away as an accident. As she tells, it she was simply transcribing the tape at her desk when the phone rang. As she reached for the phone, she mistakenly struck the wrong key on the recorder while her foot was on the machines pedal. The motion ended up somehow destroying the tapes co
server room at trump s mar-a-lago, the same servers storing the security surveillance video from trump s resort. this as mr. trump s lawyers meet with justice department officials today. then, come on in, the water s fine. the 2024 race set to grow by three more candidates as governor nikki haley lands her sharpest blow yet on the republican front runners. plus military fighter jets going super sonic when a private plane doesn t respond while flying near the nation s capitol. investigators are trying to figure out what went so horribly wrong. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper, apologies for my voice. we start today with the law and justice lead and serious questions as to whether donald trump could face his first federal indictment ever. today, lawyers for the former president met with justice department officials here in washington for 90 minutes, a possible sign that special counsel jack smith s investigation into how trump handled classified documents and whet
from the president. plus, i would ask politicians in texas and washington how we get past empty platitudes of thoughts and prayers to create real change. i m a gunman, i have guns, i m a former police officer, i m a former army officer. these ar-15s, they have to get off the streets where this is gonna keep happening. or this is gonna keep happening. also, this hour, new legal questions surrounding former president trump. what did he really know about the classified documents in the basement of barr law go? we re gonna dive into what the special counsel was trying to learn. the surprising reason why it s great test scores and u.s. history are dropping around the country, a hint, the nation s covid lockdown three years ago is only partly to blame. and then, coming up in our next hour, one man is doing everything he can to help migrants left on el paso streets. my conversation with his concerns for so many people right now and when title 42 ends in just four days time. we w
understand about january 6th and the conspiracy, the plan to carry out a coup. the hearing centered around the explosive testimony of a single witness, 25-year-old cassidy hutchinson. she s a trump white house aide who did what so many of her colleagues and her bosses, including her direct boss, chief of staff mark meadow have so far refused to do. she told the truth. she cooperated with the panel having sat for four taped interviews before today s testimony. this afternoon in public she made it clear that the brutal unsparing violence that took place at the united states capitol was not just something unexpected, something that got out of hand, as many in the republican party would want you to believe. it was part of a planned, premeditated coup attempt. hutchinson testified that the white house was fully aware that january 6th could turn violent before that day. they let it happen anyway. chief of staff mark meadows was told on the morning of the 6th that the attendees for
welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. surprisingly strong new jobs numbers are capping off what has been a big week for the biden administration. let s go straight to jeremy diamond. amid fears of a recession, the president has some momentum when it comes to the u.s. economy. at least in the short term. give us the latest. no doubt about it, this jobs report which the president called outstanding is more evidence that the u.s. is not in a recession. we saw the unemployment rate tick down to 3.5%. more than half a million jobs created last month. all of that painting a picture of a very strong and resilient jobs market. now of course, this strong jobs market doesn t do anything to address americans chief concern. and that is inflation. and the president and the white house very much aware of that. we heard the president talking about americans who may still feel they re struggling december fate st