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Transcripts For CNN Watergate Blueprint for a Scandal 20240707

national election. we had left the 1960 election, which he lost narrowly to john f. kennedy with bitterness. in a sense, the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demons that he always had within him to play during elections. it s about lust for power and absence of morality. it was all about holding on to power. no one can find out about this, whatever it takes. when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. i told the american people i did not trade arms for hostages. there will not be a cover-up. there will not be an abuse of power in this office. when you have a president who thinks he can do anything he develop weapons of mass destruction. i just want 11,780 votes. and that s really when you reach a tipping point in a democracy. that s how dictators come to power. . within hours of the arrests at the watergate, the nixon white house started covering up. i was the desk officer of the cover-up. i get the information ....

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Transcripts for CNN This Is Life With Lisa Ling 20240604 01:48:00

So colson laid this all out in front of ehrlichman, and ehrlichman said you absolutely cannot mention clemency to the president. offering clemency to one of the burglars so he wouldn t talk, that would be obstruction. but colson goes to the president. the president promised colson executive clemency, in other words, a pardon for hunt with the understanding that colson would tell hunt and hunt would stay quiet. seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged with the break-in and burglary of democratic national headquarters in the watergate building last june. two are former white house aides. the other five were caught during the break-in at 2:00 in the morning wearing rubber gloves and carrying photocopying equipment. hunt and the cubans plead guilty. mccord and liddy plead innocent and decide to go to trial. and there was a very savvy judge sitting there. his name was john sirica. ....

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Transcripts for CNN This Is Life With Lisa Ling 20240604 02:02:00

i have no prior knowledge of the watergate break-ins. 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 watergate building last june. the white house managed to contain the break-in at the watergate to only seven people. but john sirica knew that people had lied in his court, and it pissed him off. what he wanted to do is find out if there was anybody above those seven who should be going to jail. and he thought the only way for that to happen would be to give them tough sentences. as white house counsel, i was the desk officer of the cover-up. i get the information and gather it, and then i share it with the people who need to know. ....

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Transcripts for CNN Watergate Blueprint for a Scandal 20240604 01:02:00

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 house managed to contain the break-in at the watergate to only seven people, but john siricca knew that people had lied in this court and it pissed him off so what he wanted to do was to find out if there was anybody above those seven who should be going to jail, and he thought the only way for that to happen would be to give them tough sentences. as white house counsel, i was the desk officer of the cover-up. i get the information and gather it, and then i share it with the people who need to know. one of the things i suggest to the president is that it s very likely that the cover-up is going to blow. i don t know who is going to go, ....

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Transcripts for CNN Watergate Blueprint for a Scandal 20240604 04:02:00

seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged with a break in and burglary of democratic national headquarters in the watergate building last june. the white house managed to contain the breaking of the watergate to only seven people. but, john new that people had lied and it passed him off. so, what he wanted to do was to find out if there was anybody above those seven who should be going to jail. he thought the only way for that to happen would be to give them tough sentences. as white house counsel i was the desk officer of the cover-up . i get the information and gather it and then i shared with the people who need to know. one of the things i suggest is that it is very likely that the cover-up is going to blow. ....

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