louis cato tonight what an honor bob woodward and carl bernstein are here woodward and bernstein
are here we're gonna break break it down and just uh we're talking about watergate in just a moment
here i just wanna i just wanna throw on the plug in uh for a guest we had here a couple of weeks
ago we had julia robertson who is uh producing and starring in gaslit over on the stars uh
network i believe if you haven't seen it it's about it's about watergate it's about watergate
it's amazing he's plays margaret mitchell martha mitchell she plays martha mitchell sean penn is
an amazing john mitchell attorney general for for nixon uh dan stevens is john dean and betty gilpin
is amazing as mo dean i'm not getting paid extra for this right this is just purely from the heart
it's a great series go check it out all right now i will they could they could pay me if they wanted
folks if you're enjoying the january 6th hearings fun fact this friday happens to be
the 50th anniversary of the watergate break-in in june of 1972 my guest tonight reporters bob
woodward and carl bernstein began reporting in the washington post one of the biggest political
stories in american history the break-in and bugging of the democratic national headquarters
at the watergate hotel aided by their secret fbi source mark felt aka deep throat
named of course after the infamous 1970s porn film mark felt
their reporting linked the crime to president richard nixon and soon after the watergate
committee was established holding 51 sessions televised gavel to gavel and which produced a
slew of the 1970s equivalent of viral moments that changed public opinion like when committee vice
chairman republican senator howard baker asked this now famous question what did the president
know and when did he know it as opposed to today when it's who did the president text and why was
it sean hannity the committee compelled explosive testimony from insiders like former white house
counsel john dean who testified that nixon himself orchestrated the cover-up and ordered the fbi
not to investigate it it was stunning for the president to be sold out by a member
of his inner circle it would be like the january 6 committee hearing testimony from a 12-piece bucket
but the biggest bombshell was the revelation that nixon had a tape recorder in the oval
office that captured the whole cover-up a bombshell that nixon's one-time deputy
assistant alexander butterfield dropped very reluctantly mr butterfield are you
aware of the installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president
i was aware of listening to vices yes sir damn that is the pause of a kid who knows dad has the
goods tyler are you aware of any pornography sites in my work laptops browser history
i am aware of those sites yes sir nixon ordered the tapes withheld then he ordered the tapes
destroyed but thanks to the work of the committee he was ordered by the supreme court to turn them
over and they were loaded with evidence of him incriminating himself so pro tip if you're ever
committing a crime against the united states remember do not record your self-doing crimes
the watergate hearings had a massive impact from the day they began to the day nixon resigned
the number of americans who thought nixon should be removed from office jumped from 19
to 57 the only case ever made more persuasively on television
is the one curtailing the real housewives legal access to white wine the process worked exactly
as it should 50 years ago so i hope the january 6 committee follows the example they set in 1973
right down to forcing all the witnesses to enter the chamber via soul train dance line