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 nixon s 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 break-in. woods took responsibility for that gap. she tried to explain it away as
to obstruct justice, making false statements, and corruptly altering, destroying, or mutilating a document or other objects. in echoes of nixon and rosemary woods, he is accused of trying to delete surveillance camera footage at mar-a-lago. the 56 year old for more than a decade, rising up to the ranks rising up the ranks to the position of property manager. deliver is not your typical member of the ex presidents inner circle. people close to him describe as a person who came to the u. s. from portugal to seek a better life. that is one of quote, he is not familiar with how the government here works. he was probably just being loyal to his boss, who is paying his bills. the family feels like he got trapped. de oliveira is set to appear in front of a miami judge tomorrow for his arraignment. just today, nbc news learned that he is not yet secured a florida-based lawyer. the new superseding indictment for federal prosecutors describing it as a plot by trump, deal of era, and tr
she was later asked to demonstrate that stretch, resulting in this now infamous photo. not many people bought her story, and it s largely six factored that nixon was behind the deletion. why am i telling you about this? it is something that carlos de oliveira might want to google. as of thursday, de oliveira became to the latest character in donald trump s story legal saga. when he was named as the third defendant in the first ever federal criminal case against former president. the doj hit him with four charges, including conspiracy to obstruct justice, making false statements, and corruptly altering, destroying, or mutilating a document or other objects. in echoes of nixon and rosemary woods, he is accused of trying to delete surveillance camera footage at mar-a-lago. the 56 year old for more than a decade, rising up to the ranks rising up the ranks to the position of property manager.
good evening. i am mehdi hasan. 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 nixon s 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 break-in. 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 u
former watergate prosecutor, nick ackerman, who drew a parallel from nixon to trump s current legal mess. this is exactly what richard nixon had his secretary do. rosemary woods, with the 18 minute gap in the tape! i mean the most important tape that was going to be turned over to her office at the time! she just happened to hit the pedal at the wrong point to delete that portion of the tape! this is exactly watergate all over again in steroids. joining me now, eddie glug, junior, james-esque macdonnell, distinguished university professor at princeton university and msnbc political analyst. eddie, what this superseding indictment drop, they really thought there s nobody else i want to talk to about the impact of this. because you know, at the time of nixon s watergate scandal, there was condemnation that we saw on both sides of the aisle. yet today, the majority of republicans are circling the