In june of 1973 during testimony before the Senate Watergate committee, mr. Dean implicated president nixon and administration officials, including himself in the watergate coverup. He later pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for his role in watergate and served four months in prison. Discovering the tapes system, was it lucky or inevitable, is what were looking at. The nixon taping the whole story of the nixon tapes has been only partially told. Its taken me years to gather and find out what happened. Since its one of the most important factors in the watergate story, i think its important to get that history straight, and were going to try to do that in a very summary fashion today. Before i start, though, i would like to remind you that other president s did tape, starting with franklin roosevelt, who used a when they first went to talking movies and they had a soundtrack, he had a system that was put in the oval office that was recorded. Im going to try a very, very quick sam
Good day at 9a starts right now. Good right now. Going to be cold a whole lot later. Get ready to snuggle in. Were glad youre with us on this tuesday, december 12th. All right. Ahead this morning were celebrating National Gingerbread house day. With major sugar rush. Well catch up with local chefs at National Harbor to see how they brought this giant display honoring the district live and get this, the entire thing took 340 hours and 200 pounds of powdered sugar to build. Wow. It looks spectacular. I wouldnt where it goes after its done. Somebodys belly. A lot of sugar. Every attempt ive made at Gingerbread House forget about it. You have to have double the candy. You eat the candy. Put it on. Eat the candy. Expert on the way to get the answers to all of our questions. Outside right now. You better get yourselves ready by this time tomorrow well be dealing with arctic blast. Weve been talking about it all morning. Expected to keep temperatures below the freezing mark. Lets send things
Had been so concerned about just a short time ago, with the s p trading up nearly 1 . And nasdaq is over a percent. Former trump advisor rick gates will appear before a judge any minute now. He is expected to plead guilty to conspiracy and making a false statement in the ongoing russia probe. I want to be very clear here, there is still no mention of collusion. We have more coming up later in the hour. First to blake burman at white house where were about to hear from the president in just a short couple minutes. Hey, blake. Reporter momentarily what we were told. President trump, the australian Prime Minister as well here for a joint press conference. The president saying earlier today that the issues of trade of course, security would come up, this is one of those instances where they are going to get questions from both sides. You know the issues of guns and School Safety will be most likely asked upon the president today. Earlier today he made several comments both in the speech at
Three or four months ago maybe we should get some people together. And i thought that sounds like a good idea. I started trying to find people. It was difficult. Then stuff started happening in dc that was vaguely reminiscent to some of the things we worked on. And all of a sudden everybody seemed to want to show up. This is just fantastic. On a personal level. Raise your hand if you were on the the committee staff. This is pretty amazing. So, we said goodbye to each other 43, 44 years ago. And when i got ready to do this i called jim hamilton who was my boss back then. I say jim, i mean it ill have it in tomorrow. He says gordon you better have it in tomorrow. So it was just like no time has passed for a lot of us. The other thing i was struck with, when we broke up. I dont know how many remember this. Sam dash had a final meeting and we were all stuffed into his office. And he said this has been the most important thing thats happened in my life and im sure it will ever happen in my
Three or four months ago maybe we should get some people together. And i thought that sounds like a good idea. I started trying to find people. It was difficult. Then stuff started happening in dc that was vaguely reminiscent to some of the things we worked on. And all of a sudden everybody seemed to want to show up. This is just fantastic. On a personal level. Raise your hand if you were on the the committee staff. This is pretty amazing. So, we said goodbye to each other 43, 44 years ago. And when i got ready to do this i called jim hamilton who was my boss back then. I say jim, i mean it ill have it in tomorrow. He says gordon you better have it in tomorrow. So it was just like no time has passed for a lot of us. The other thing i was struck with, when we broke up. I dont know how many remember this. Sam dash had a final meeting and we were all stuffed into his office. And he said this has been the most important thing thats happened in my life and im sure it will ever happen in my