paying the legal fees of many of his codefendants and potential witnesses. in watergate, more than $300,000 was raised by the white house, and paid to howard hunt, to distribute, partly to his lawyer, partly to the other defendants. so that they would stay in line, keep quiet. that echoes 50 years later. you write in your latest opinion piece, for msnbc.com, quote, just as the rule of law punished the guilty almost five decades ago, the prosecutions of those who broke the law to do trump s bidding must succeed in order to preserve our democracy. what would that mean sorry, go ahead. absolutely true. in a way, we could look at these bumbling attempts of the plumbers and try to burglarize ellsberg psychiatrist office, or the coffee county officials who can tampered with the machines. but the fact that they failed