house? i would like to preface my remarks, if i may. i m sorry. i do believe you have go right ahead. although i do not have a staumt as such i would simply like to remind the committee membership that whereas i appear voluntarily, this afternoon, i appear with only some three hours notice. i was enjoying my hair cut at 11:00 today. are you aware of installation of listening devices in the oval office of the president. i tried to think is that direct? yeah, that s direct. that s a very direct question. i m not trying to sound dramatic here, but i knew then that the jig was up. i was aware of listening devices, yes, sir. i was under the assumption that this tape recording system
we know that because nixon had a secret tape recording system in the oval office. what s the dope on the watergate incident? there s nothing new. because i think the country doesn t give much of a [ bleep ] about it. and most people around the country think that this is routine, everybody s trying to bug everybody else. it s politics. the great thing about this is it is so totally [ bleep ] up and so badly done that nobody believes that we could have done it. that s right. it s just beyondprehension. well, it sounds like a comic era. it would make a funny [ bleep ] damn movie. it reay is like a comic opera. it would make one hell of a movie. but not very funny. haldeman and ehrlichman knew what they had to do, cover all the tracks leading to the white house. they started by enlisting another of the president s men, legal adviser john dean, to monitor day-to-day changes.
lie level employees of trump saying trump would sometimes tape conversations during his trump tower office. when biographer timly o brien was sued by trump ed that trump threatened he had taped him. during our deposition with trump when was over two days in december of 2007, we asked him do you, indeed, tape people and ed, no. and we had so you don t have a tape recording system set up in trump tower? ed, no, i do not have that set up. reporter: in talking to reporters trump rah raihas raisr questions. they say he would speak to reporters on the phone mass ka ra masquerading. he has a lot of options and frankly you get the ball by
leftist. brab pho [ phone ringing ] hello? here s one of the men around the president we don t hear much about. alex butterfield, deputy assistant, who handles much of the paperwork. my first meeting, i can t tell it without acting it. nixon came out from behind his desk and looked very tentative. he had no idea what to do. so he began to gesture. okay. no words came out. no discernible words. it s just this deep guttural rrrrr. this is the president. i couldn t believe it. alexander butterfield would play a crucial role in the watergate investigation. he had direct knowledge of the secret taping system in the office. haldeman came to me and he said the president wants a tape recording system. the secret service has a technical security division, electronics guys and
russian investigation. and that s what comey was really looking at, whether the campaign of donald trump was colluding with the russians the democratic national committee s internet operation. and why the campaign why the campaign could have been involved or what donald trump s role in that was, that s still a product that s still under investigation now. okay, let s look at then versus now. how much do you think presidential tweets, which you do not have to deal with with regard to president nixon and watergate, how much do they compare to tapes that were made by president nixon? well, kind of the same thing. president nixon ultimately was brought down 100% by the fact he had a tape recording system in the white house and said he didn t know anything about the break-in and cover-up. and the tapes out of his own mouth show he was orchestrating