i want to thank you, and commissioner, i want to thank you very much. thank you, everybody. think you. harris: the president reminding everybody of why they are gathered inside the oval office today, regarding e-cigarettes and the youth population that is using them. whether or not they want to put forth some regulations with regard to age. so on and so forth, with those e-cigarettes. that was one point. the reason why they gathered. of course the questions immediately went because this is the first time we ve heard from the president on camera about his national security advisor who has left, john bolton, as of yesterday. i want to bring in republican senator from pennsylvania, pat toomey. he said your name in that briefing, during those question-and-answer periods with the media. we will get to why that wasn t just a moment. first of all, your reaction to fresh remarks about the departure of the national security advisor, john bolton? i did not hear the president s remarks toda
conclusions about this being the first signs of a gigantic political conspiracy that would take down the sitting president, richard nixon. which it did. it s interesting. somewhat lost to history. the democratic party actually did kind of go right there right away when the watergate burglary happened. the press didn t see it that way. the dnc, the democratic party, they went right to the end game immediately. watergate break-in was june 17th. on june 20th, a couple days later, the dnc filed a civil lawsuit against the re-election campaign for president nixon. saying that that little burglary at the headquarters, that wasn t just a moment of intrigue, it was a trick by the president and the president should have to answer for it. lawrence o brien chairman of the democratic national committee today filed suit for $1 million against the committee for the re-election of the
everybody got access. they are signaling they thought they found a closer link between the burglary and president nixon and his campaign. indeed, mr. pack of lies, the finance chair for nixon s campaign, did end up pleading guilty on multiple charges. that was late 1972, that clip we showed you. the public at that point still wasn t all that interested in the watergate scandal. good evidence of that fact is the fact that in november 1972, nixon was getting re-elected while all the burglars were under indictment. people didn t care about watergate. the democrats using this lawsuit to try to pry out new information in the case. they got sworn depositions that helped them establish the links between the campaign and the burglary. they keep filing amendments to try to get people to cover it as an ongoing and widening scandal. in part that lawsuit was their way of keeping the story alive.
he knows more than he is telling he says and he says he feels he is on the right track in suing the committee as a co-conspirator with the five men. carl stern, nbc news, washington. right after the watergate burglary happened, right away, the dnc filed a civil lawsuit against the committee to re-elect the president saying that wasn t just some random assemblage of burglars. the lawsuit said, president nixon, you did this. your campaign did this. you have to answer for it. you saw the sober coverage the night the lawsuit was filed there on nbc news. honestly, people thought they were nuts for doing this and for saying this was some conspiracy that went to nixon. to people at the time, it seemed over the top. democratic party blames the republicans for sending five men to burglarize or bug its national headquarters. accordingly, it s suing for $1
famed criminal lawyer william bennett will try to question the five intruders a week from tomorrow and to take depositions inside the committee to re-elect the president to the white house. two of the intruders had a name and phone number of another ex-cia agent who works as a part-time consultant to the white house. o brien refused to link the committee and white house directly to what happened. he knows more than he is telling he says and he says he feels he is on the right track in suing the committee as a co-conspirator with the five men. carl stern, nbc news, washington. right after the watergate burglary happened, right away, the dnc filed a civil lawsuit against the committee to re-elect the president saying that wasn t just some random assemblage of burglars. the lawsuit said, president nixon, you did this. your campaign did this. you have to answer for it. you saw the sober coverage the night the lawsuit was filed