watergate affair. ly do everything in my power to ensure that the guilty are brought to justice and that such abuses are purged from our political processes in the years to come, long after i have left this office. i looked at my own calendar this morning as i was working on this speech. it showed exactly 1,361 days remaining in my term. i want these to be the best days in america s history. god bless america. and god bless each and every one of you. stwrcentral to the problems d by president nixon is the tapes and their history. it all began suddenly when an obscure white house official named alexander butterfield appeared as a surprise witness before the senate watergate committee. are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president? i was aware of listening devices, yes, sir. when i got the confirmation that there was a taping system, i was elated. they would tell much more than i would remember in those conversations.
reportedly discussing among themselves about using their own constitutional power to stop the president. what those who talked already have said to the committee and what others might say, we just don t know, but what they could say given the positions they held and what they were privy to is formidable. they include secretary of state mike pompeo, who we first reported last night is expected to sit down with the house select committee, perhaps as soon as this week. also former treasury secretary steven mnuchin, who we learned today has already been interviewed by the committee. negotiations are underway with the former director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, for a sitdown with him. and finally there s former acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney, who we spoke with earlier this week on the program. he was spotted on his way out, after speaking with the committee today. mulvaney, as you know, was serving as envoy to northern ireland when the attack happene
this is a cnn exclusive. the former president s lawyer is now in direct talks with the justice department for the first time, talks about his attempts to use executive privilege from testifying about their conversations with him while he was president. and we know that pat cipollone and his deputy, patrick filament has both been subpoenaed this week. this may be all about preventing witnesses like don from testifying about everything that they know and you ve got to wonder why the former president is so determined to keep under wraps, when is it? there is more. sources telling cnn that trump s own attorneys are warning him that there could be indictments on the horizon. he is apparently skeptical, and whether they really believe he ll face criminal charges. a lot more to come about who the former president still talking to, even though some of his own advisers are warning him not to talk to those people. he is doing it anyway. in the face of all of that there is this warnin
mar-a-lago, florida home. and what potential crimes are being investigated. agents say they recovered 11 sets of classified documents, at least one was marked as top secret/sci which is one of the highest levels of classification. the warrant also reveals some of the potential crimes officials are looking at including violations of the espionage act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. at this point, no charges have been filed. cnn s evan perez is live for us with details on this. evan, what more are you learning about what was seized by the fbi? reporter: good morning, fredericka. you re highlighting the most important part of this and what the fbi found when they went into mar-a-lago to retrieve these 20 boxes. the top item, obviously, are these documents that were labeled as ts/sci. this is among the most tightly guarded secrets of the u.s. government. these are things that in order to view them you have to go to special rooms that are des
reversal scheme was based on lies but proceeded with it anyway. there s no clear example of the menacing spirit that has devoured the american left and the disgraceful performance being staged by the unselect committee. the unselect s entire sham presentation is based on video that has been deceptively edited. they re taking six, eight, and nine-hour depositions and they re putting up five-second clips. this guy ludig, whoever the hell ludig is, a former judge, and he was saying pence had no choice. more lies from donald trump. in the meantime, the january 6th committee will detail how the trump team tried to get states to fraudulently change their 2020 election results. it was a pressure campaign that trump distilled into one infamous phrase. find 11,780 votes. on tuesday, the man trump said that to will give his side of the story, georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger will testify publicly along with his deputy in that office, but the plan went beyond georgia. a