blackmail. high crimes against the very structure of our constitutional state. the nixon team receives an overwhelming mandate from the american voters sweeping every state but one, massachusetts. as a result of the cover-up, richard nixon stayed in office a lot longer than he should have, but imagine if the american people had known in the summer of 1972 the extent to which richard nixon had participated in criminal enterprises. it s not just a desire for political power. it s a lust. i mean, that s what nixon said. i lust for power. the man in the middle in the watergate scandal. it s 34-year-old john wesley dean iii. i thought the cover-up was going to end after the election. i was wrong. i had no prior knowledge of the watergate break-in. it s going to get worse, much worse. seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged with the break-in and burglary of democratic national headquarters in the water building last june. the white ho
state department s assessment of what this balloon was used for. that had been a bit of a question after that initial fbi briefing that we re getting clarity on? so the fbi is beginning to sift through some of this debris that s been extracted out of the water off south carolina, but much of the evidence is still under water but they said that s right, whatever they have seen so far including pieces of the balloon very much is consistent with the balloon being some kind of a surveillance airship. now, the state department today give us some more details. they said that supply planes took high resolution photos of that balloon, eves dropping and picking up radio signals, multiple antennas, attached to the balloon, and solar panels that generated enough power, saying all the spying equipment could work. they also said this balloon is part of a program operated by the chinese military, and that the manufacturer of the balloon is basically part of the chinese defense industry, and is an
i m getting death threats and about a week before my testimony i have two marshals with me 24-7. they literally move in the basement of our house and that went on for about 18 months. the senate select committee said the hearings be televised because it has a very important role to play in informing the public. the very confusion and story of political espionage and eves dropping that has become to be known as watergate today came under the scrutiny of the united states senate. the senate hearings, they really result in what they called the summer of watergate. every single network shut down its regular programming and broadcast hearings. now from our studios in washington. here is abc news correspondent frank reynolds. good morning. at this hour a select committee of the united states senate is
want their children to be happy. for the past year george h.w. bush has been caught up in the storm of a huge political scandal. five men were arrested saturday trying to install eves dropping. one is in the committee for the reelection of the president. these are the so called water gate burglars. this is the start of the watergate scandal. zb they are revealed to have been spying on the democratic party. suspicion of complicity begins to fall on president nixon himself. he thinks the best of people and can t imagine the president of the united states being involved in espionage.
want their children to be happy. for the past year george h.w. bush has been caught up in the storm of a huge political scandal. five men were arrested saturday trying to install eves dropping. one of them has an office in the headquaters for the committee of the office of the president. this is the watergate burglars. this is the beginning of the watergate scandal. they are revealed to have been spying on the democratic party. suspicion of complicity begins to fall on president nixon himself. he thinks the best of people and can t imagine the president of the united states being involved in espionage.