in 1972 the dnc sued the committee for the reelection of the president, aka creep, the fund raising arm of richard nixon's reelection campaign at the center of the watergate scandal. the campaign settled with the democrats for $750,000 on the very day nixon left office. fast forward to today, and the democrats are suing over another break-in, alleging the trump campaign, wikileaks and russia conspired to disrupt the 2016 election by hacking dnc's e-mails. trump seems to think she's named wendy. the lawsuit comes as a group of house republicans have formed a veritable committee to protect the president by attacking fired fbi director james comey. the republican chairs of several key committees forced the doj to release memos written by comey about his interactions with trump. the memos were promptly leaked