1 00:01:04,259 --> 00:01:09,220 With President Nixon facing an uncertain re -election, candidates for the 2 00:01:09,220 --> 00:01:13,320 Democratic Party are accusing him of failing to end American involvement in 3 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:14,320 Vietnam. 4 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:18,800 Members of the committee to re -elect the president were in Jacksonville today 5 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:23,060 on their campaign trek through Florida. And for a report on that, here's Georgia 6 00:01:23,060 --> 00:01:26,440 Wilson. Wife of the Attorney General, Mrs. Richard Klein. 7 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:39,740 In Washington, yet another public demonstration by some citizens opposed 8 00:01:39,740 --> 00:01:40,740 Vietnam War. 9 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:42,460 Reporter Alan Whitten. 10 00:01:42,700 --> 00:01:47,220 It was festive as the crowd chirped to Capitol Hill. In an hour's time, several 11 00:01:47,220 --> 00:01:51,340 thousand people had joined hands to form a complete circle of war protests 12 00:01:51,340 --> 00:01:52,760 around the U .S. Capitol. 13 00:02:01,740 --> 00:02:03,440 Clean and shine to the rescue. 14 00:02:03,660 --> 00:02:06,000 Clean the stable, only the shine remains. 15 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:10,139 No rubbing, no dripping, no fountain smell. A sharp recession has shaken 16 00:02:10,139 --> 00:02:11,140 economic confidence. 17 00:02:11,380 --> 00:02:15,400 As a result, a large field of democratic challengers has emerged and will feed 18 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:17,280 Nixon if the election were held today. 19 00:02:17,540 --> 00:02:18,680 Five different flavors. 20 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:19,960 Five different meals. 21 00:04:01,599 --> 00:04:02,960 Gentlemen, Mr. Dean. 22 00:04:03,660 --> 00:04:05,400 Goddamn Russian Revolution out there. 23 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:07,800 Why aren't we arresting anybody? 24 00:04:08,420 --> 00:04:10,340 Because that isn't a crime. 25 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:16,180 Right now, the president needs your advice. 26 00:04:16,579 --> 00:04:22,400 Hoover's run the FBI, what, 40 years? 50. 50 goddamn years. 27 00:04:22,980 --> 00:04:25,620 You know, Johnson and Kennedy wanted to fire him, don't you? 28 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:27,840 But they didn't have the balls. 29 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:29,920 If the president were to... 30 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:31,519 Ask Mr. 31 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:32,600 Hoover to step aside. 32 00:04:33,780 --> 00:04:35,440 How would you suggest he do it? 33 00:04:38,580 --> 00:04:42,140 We know you to be a friend to this administration, and we'd like to see our 34 00:04:42,140 --> 00:04:43,360 friends get what they deserve. 35 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:45,080 You're next in line. 36 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:47,120 There isn't a line, Mr. Mitchell. 37 00:04:48,140 --> 00:04:49,560 The president is asking. 38 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:56,320 Mr. Hoover would want to keep his bulletproof car. 39 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:01,760 Well, you're a real politician, Felt. 40 00:05:04,020 --> 00:05:05,580 Then thanks for popping by. 41 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:16,180 If I may, there is one thing Mr. Hoover knows that's been on all your 42 00:05:16,180 --> 00:05:17,180 minds. 43 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:25,940 Whenever the FBI hears a piece of gossip or information such as, I saw so -and 44 00:05:25,940 --> 00:05:28,600 -so out with another woman, not his wife, 45 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:32,540 Or a man, not his wife. 46 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:37,520 We're supposed to write everything down, and we do. We write it all down in 47 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:38,520 memos. 48 00:05:39,060 --> 00:05:44,080 These memos come to me, and I decide what information Mr. Hoover needs to 49 00:05:44,700 --> 00:05:46,440 And send that up to Mr. Hoover. 50 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:50,780 And Mr. Hoover puts it all away in his private files. 51 00:05:51,660 --> 00:05:52,760 To be kept safe. 52 00:05:53,660 --> 00:05:55,840 Out of the hands of people without discretion. 53 00:05:57,100 --> 00:05:58,380 People who could do harm. 54 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:03,260 should that information be leaked, for instance, and put before the court of 55 00:06:03,260 --> 00:06:04,260 public opinion. 56 00:06:06,460 --> 00:06:11,120 And then sometimes Mr. Hoover will go, for instance, to the president's closest 57 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,420 dates and say, Mr. 58 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:19,960 Ehrlichman or Mr. Mitchell, I want you to know that we received that report 59 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:24,760 about you and that other woman, and I want to tell you that there is 60 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:27,520 no reason for us to take any further action. 61 00:06:28,810 --> 00:06:30,610 There is no violation. 62 00:06:32,130 --> 00:06:33,130 You're safe. 63 00:06:34,010 --> 00:06:40,590 We, the FBI, all your secrets are safe with us. 64 00:06:44,870 --> 00:06:47,310 How long have you been in the FBI, Phil? 65 00:06:47,810 --> 00:06:48,810 30 years. 66 00:06:49,190 --> 00:06:50,190 30 years. 67 00:06:52,450 --> 00:06:55,010 That's a lot of information, a lot of files. 68 00:07:00,590 --> 00:07:01,590 Thank you, Mr. Phil. 69 00:07:01,890 --> 00:07:02,990 Thank you, gentlemen. 70 00:07:03,490 --> 00:07:04,490 Mr. Dean. 71 00:07:13,130 --> 00:07:15,330 So, and you're Manhattan? 72 00:07:15,750 --> 00:07:17,390 How's it? Okay. Here he is. 73 00:07:17,930 --> 00:07:24,410 I give you the chief dragon player and guardian of the American dream. 74 00:07:26,490 --> 00:07:29,130 Oh, come on, Mark. Crack a smile at least. 75 00:07:29,750 --> 00:07:30,750 Okay, 76 00:07:31,150 --> 00:07:34,010 let me go. Eddie, leave her alone. She's the best. Come here, you. 77 00:07:34,290 --> 00:07:36,950 Did you hear that? I need a drink. I am the best. I heard that. 78 00:07:37,190 --> 00:07:38,190 I did. 79 00:07:41,850 --> 00:07:43,750 That's what I did. That's what you're doing. Look at what you're doing. 80 00:08:03,790 --> 00:08:04,790 Keep the hip tilt. 81 00:08:07,270 --> 00:08:08,450 Look at their feet. 82 00:08:08,770 --> 00:08:09,770 Come on. 83 00:08:10,430 --> 00:08:13,430 Attitude. And they're elegant. Pick elegant. 84 00:08:13,650 --> 00:08:14,650 Come on. 85 00:09:18,860 --> 00:09:19,980 Good morning. Good morning. 86 00:09:22,860 --> 00:09:24,920 All right, we're in? Not yet. 87 00:09:31,780 --> 00:09:33,340 Here's that Weather Underground file. 88 00:09:48,650 --> 00:09:49,650 How many bombings now? 89 00:09:50,170 --> 00:09:51,170 Couple dozen. 90 00:09:51,350 --> 00:09:53,010 Precise numbers, Mr. Miller? 91 00:09:53,330 --> 00:09:54,330 29. 92 00:09:54,850 --> 00:09:57,670 Nails and bald bearings. These kids aren't messing around. 93 00:10:00,850 --> 00:10:02,350 They're embarrassing the FBI. 94 00:10:04,010 --> 00:10:05,290 Get the New York office. 95 00:10:07,990 --> 00:10:08,990 He's dead? 96 00:10:09,630 --> 00:10:10,630 Who? 97 00:10:11,930 --> 00:10:12,930 Mr. Hoover's dead. 98 00:10:15,450 --> 00:10:17,450 His housekeeper found him on the floor. 99 00:10:18,090 --> 00:10:19,090 He wasn't breathing. 100 00:10:19,330 --> 00:10:20,750 He looked like a stroke. 101 00:10:26,890 --> 00:10:28,470 Put everything into motion. 102 00:10:29,910 --> 00:10:31,530 No mistakes, gentlemen. 103 00:11:19,500 --> 00:11:23,180 Good morning, Felton. The Assistant Attorney General. Pat Gray. 104 00:11:24,460 --> 00:11:26,380 Complicated morning for all of us. Indeed. 105 00:11:26,820 --> 00:11:29,400 Mr. Miller here will be handling the funeral arrangements. 106 00:11:29,780 --> 00:11:32,960 I have the Attorney General's instructions on seating and protocol. 107 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:35,860 will be handled by the FBI. The Attorney General will sit beside the Vice 108 00:11:35,860 --> 00:11:39,500 President. Handled by the FBI in its own way, Mr. Gray. 109 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:44,760 I also have instructions on Mr. Hoover's files. 110 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,880 I am to take possession of them and bring them to the White House. 111 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:49,400 What files? 112 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:56,400 Mr. Hoover's secret files, the personal and confidentials. 113 00:11:56,860 --> 00:12:01,620 Official and confidentials. There are no secret files. 114 00:12:53,230 --> 00:12:58,830 For his lifelong trust in thee, his steadfast devotion to the nation, his 115 00:12:58,830 --> 00:13:04,330 elevated patriotism, his commitment to justice and peace in the nation. 116 00:13:07,070 --> 00:13:13,770 We ask that we may be as strong, brave as he was brave, loyal 117 00:13:13,770 --> 00:13:20,630 as he was loyal, serve as he served, love the nation as he 118 00:13:20,630 --> 00:13:21,630 loved it. 119 00:13:41,459 --> 00:13:42,459 Phelps. Jesus. 120 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:43,480 Bill Sullivan. 121 00:13:45,740 --> 00:13:46,740 I'd like a move with you. 122 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:53,940 Bill Sullivan, Mark Phelps. 123 00:13:54,940 --> 00:13:55,879 Together again. 124 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:56,880 Who would have thought it? 125 00:13:57,060 --> 00:13:59,660 I think I was the one who recommended you to the old man for your first big 126 00:13:59,660 --> 00:14:00,660 promotion. You know you were. 127 00:14:00,820 --> 00:14:02,600 That's right. Mark Phelps never forgets. 128 00:14:03,660 --> 00:14:04,660 That's why everyone likes you. 129 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:07,620 Hell, I even like you. 130 00:14:08,250 --> 00:14:09,250 I don't like anybody. 131 00:14:09,630 --> 00:14:10,630 What do you want? 132 00:14:12,730 --> 00:14:14,390 I had 30 years in the Bureau. 133 00:14:15,510 --> 00:14:18,810 Same as you. You were the director's bag man. 134 00:14:19,110 --> 00:14:23,270 Oh, yeah? You taped Martin Luther King with other women and sent the pictures 135 00:14:23,270 --> 00:14:24,270 his wife. 136 00:14:24,610 --> 00:14:26,650 Do you need me to actually say it? 137 00:14:27,670 --> 00:14:29,030 Those days were gone. 138 00:14:29,630 --> 00:14:30,630 You had to go. 139 00:14:33,610 --> 00:14:34,830 You could be you, Mark. 140 00:14:35,170 --> 00:14:36,170 Only because. 141 00:14:56,530 --> 00:14:59,490 You're the president's new best friend. 142 00:15:02,790 --> 00:15:04,030 Mark Felt. 143 00:15:05,859 --> 00:15:06,859 Integrity. 144 00:15:07,340 --> 00:15:08,580 Bravery. Fidelity. 145 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:12,160 Ladies and gentlemen, the G -Man's G -Man. You want to know what everybody 146 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:13,160 really thinks of you? 147 00:15:13,180 --> 00:15:14,180 Do you? 148 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:16,200 Competent. 149 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,000 Reliable. 150 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:19,880 Loyal. What's wrong with that? 151 00:15:20,220 --> 00:15:21,220 Nothing. 152 00:15:22,100 --> 00:15:26,660 If you're a golden retriever, Hoover's gone. 153 00:15:28,420 --> 00:15:29,420 You're alone now. 154 00:15:32,260 --> 00:15:34,600 Holding the end of your own. 155 00:15:35,180 --> 00:15:36,180 Leash. 156 00:15:55,100 --> 00:15:56,500 Attorney General, line one. 157 00:16:08,329 --> 00:16:09,329 Dick. 158 00:16:10,690 --> 00:16:11,690 Yes. 159 00:16:12,850 --> 00:16:13,850 Well, 160 00:16:14,330 --> 00:16:16,210 I have enjoyed every day of it. 161 00:16:16,810 --> 00:16:21,250 The FBI has been home to me and my family for 30 years. 162 00:16:23,030 --> 00:16:24,030 Yes. 163 00:16:32,590 --> 00:16:33,610 A new day. 164 00:16:36,170 --> 00:16:37,170 Yes. 165 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:39,000 A fresh start. 166 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:41,100 It's what I would do. 167 00:16:43,620 --> 00:16:45,440 Who do you have in mind? 168 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:50,540 I'm sorry, can you repeat that? 169 00:16:51,140 --> 00:16:52,140 Who? 170 00:16:56,940 --> 00:16:58,180 Welcome to the FBI. 171 00:16:58,520 --> 00:16:59,560 A friendly face. 172 00:17:00,100 --> 00:17:01,100 Gentlemen. 173 00:17:01,980 --> 00:17:05,900 Now, Mr. Gray. I know the Bureau has its closets and skeletons. 174 00:17:06,839 --> 00:17:08,700 You can count on me to keep those doors shut. 175 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:10,819 I'll be candid with you. 176 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:16,020 I was a submarine commander in the Navy. I was father, confessor, and friend to 177 00:17:16,020 --> 00:17:17,119 18 -year -olds. 178 00:17:17,460 --> 00:17:18,460 Did you know that? 179 00:17:19,740 --> 00:17:21,500 I'm not a suspicious man by nature. 180 00:17:21,740 --> 00:17:26,119 That probably makes me a strange choice to run the FBI. In fact, when the 181 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,340 president called, my wife begged me to turn him down. 182 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:34,320 But the president wasn't asking, if you know what I mean. 183 00:17:37,159 --> 00:17:39,280 Now, let me be candid with you, Mr. 184 00:17:39,500 --> 00:17:40,419 Gray. 185 00:17:40,420 --> 00:17:45,440 The FBI is the most respected institution in the world. It is one of 186 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:46,900 cockpits that fly America. 187 00:17:47,300 --> 00:17:50,980 And it is what it is because no one from the outside ever got inside. 188 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:57,940 Mr. Hoover has been old a long time. I know it's been you running the FBI, 189 00:17:58,080 --> 00:17:59,780 Your reputation is... Let me finish. 190 00:18:01,460 --> 00:18:04,140 You have no law enforcement experience. You're an outsider. 191 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:05,740 That is your battle to fight. 192 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:09,540 But I'm going to help you. I appreciate that. Don't. 193 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:11,400 It's not an act of generosity. 194 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:16,500 This is about this building and what goes on in here and what it means to the 195 00:18:16,500 --> 00:18:17,500 country. 196 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:19,180 That is all I care about. 197 00:18:20,060 --> 00:18:24,900 As long as you keep the FBI first, you'll be able to count on me. 198 00:18:31,120 --> 00:18:32,120 This is your office. 199 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:01,880 I thought the job was yours. 200 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:06,480 What did I miss? 201 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:16,560 You and Mr. Hoover. 202 00:19:20,180 --> 00:19:24,000 Don't you remember why he said he liked you so much? 203 00:19:24,660 --> 00:19:28,640 He always said you and he had the same enemies. 204 00:19:31,950 --> 00:19:32,950 That's why. 205 00:19:39,250 --> 00:19:40,450 30 years. 206 00:19:44,150 --> 00:19:45,770 13 transfers. 207 00:19:46,950 --> 00:19:51,610 13 homes to leave. 208 00:19:53,430 --> 00:19:55,170 13 homes to make. 209 00:19:56,030 --> 00:19:58,710 I left behind every friend I ever made. 210 00:20:00,590 --> 00:20:01,790 And I kept my mouth shut. 211 00:20:02,550 --> 00:20:04,730 Like the perfect little FBI wife. 212 00:20:07,190 --> 00:20:10,990 Until one day you wake up and you're so different than you used to be, you can't 213 00:20:10,990 --> 00:20:13,130 even remember what the point was in the first place. 214 00:20:15,570 --> 00:20:19,630 Until there's just one thing left in my head. 215 00:20:20,730 --> 00:20:26,190 The one idea left in my head is at least Mark's going to get that job. 216 00:20:26,910 --> 00:20:28,750 And that will make up for everything. 217 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:35,480 I don't deserve... 218 00:21:08,270 --> 00:21:09,790 The Bureau's in better hands. 219 00:21:12,750 --> 00:21:13,750 Then I'll go. 220 00:21:32,050 --> 00:21:33,050 What is it? 221 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,960 white gloves and carrying cameras were caught early today in the headquarters 222 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,220 the Democratic National Committee in Washington. 223 00:21:44,460 --> 00:21:48,860 They apparently were unarmed and nobody knows yet why they were even there. 224 00:22:07,500 --> 00:22:12,300 Mr. Kunko, straight into the Democrat offices in the Watergate. 225 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:15,240 Who's our spy? 226 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,200 Baldwin, Alfred C., checked in six weeks ago. 227 00:22:19,580 --> 00:22:23,440 Says he was more than just the lookout. Says he was supposed to listen for girly 228 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:25,940 stuff. Guess the Dems are having a lot of trouble with their wives. 229 00:22:26,360 --> 00:22:27,800 You say where he got his instructions? 230 00:22:28,500 --> 00:22:30,060 Baldwin is one of ours. 231 00:22:31,060 --> 00:22:32,060 Ex -FBI. 232 00:22:33,580 --> 00:22:35,020 You work under Bill Sullivan. 233 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,540 When he was in the Bureau, was he in Mr. Sullivan's group? 234 00:22:38,780 --> 00:22:39,780 We think so. 235 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:41,520 What about CIA connections? 236 00:22:42,300 --> 00:22:43,380 No idea. Why? 237 00:22:43,940 --> 00:22:48,600 Because 30 minutes ago, four of those burglars told a judge they are ex -CIA. 238 00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:52,180 What the hell is that? 239 00:22:54,220 --> 00:22:58,420 One of the most fascinating and exotic stories ever to come out of Washington, 240 00:22:58,420 --> 00:23:00,360 .C., is the talk of the Capitol today. 241 00:23:00,620 --> 00:23:02,380 Robert Endicott covered the story. 242 00:23:03,100 --> 00:23:06,760 Democratic officials today held a series of meetings to talk about tighter 243 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,460 security at their national headquarters here in Washington. The White House has 244 00:23:09,460 --> 00:23:12,900 so far offered no official comment, but a close advisor to the president seen 245 00:23:12,900 --> 00:23:16,720 here visiting China last month has said the president is most concerned about 246 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,820 the break -in and will be keeping a very close eye on the investigation. 247 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:21,960 Now turning to other news. 248 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:25,540 Mr. Lano is running straight on this. 249 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:30,360 Uh, 2 -15, Sunday morning, Metro finds our purpose inside the Democratic 250 00:23:30,360 --> 00:23:31,600 National Committee office. 251 00:23:32,190 --> 00:23:33,350 We ID'd the lead. 252 00:23:34,010 --> 00:23:35,010 He's a pro. 253 00:23:35,470 --> 00:23:38,350 Five years in the FBI, 19 in the CIA. 254 00:23:39,630 --> 00:23:42,350 Then he left the CIA to run security for the Attorney General. 255 00:23:43,390 --> 00:23:47,190 And he ran security for the White House, for the committee to re -elect the 256 00:23:47,190 --> 00:23:50,170 president. The lead burglar ran security for the committee to re -elect the 257 00:23:50,170 --> 00:23:51,270 president? Is that what you said? 258 00:23:51,470 --> 00:23:52,449 That's what he said. 259 00:23:52,450 --> 00:23:53,289 Keep going. 260 00:23:53,290 --> 00:23:54,530 Yeah, it gets weirder. 261 00:23:54,770 --> 00:23:55,870 The lookout in here? 262 00:23:56,130 --> 00:23:57,130 Three years FBI. 263 00:23:57,390 --> 00:24:00,630 Then the Attorney General recruits him to be his wife's personal bodyguard. 264 00:24:05,870 --> 00:24:06,870 Just keep going. 265 00:24:07,150 --> 00:24:09,990 The lookout makes a Howard Hunt the ringleader. 266 00:24:10,510 --> 00:24:12,770 Hunt's also ex -TIA. But get this. 267 00:24:13,050 --> 00:24:16,490 A year ago, we were asked to do a background check on Hunt for a 268 00:24:16,670 --> 00:24:17,569 Did we clear him? 269 00:24:17,570 --> 00:24:22,930 Yeah. For a job at the White House as a consultant on highly sensitive 270 00:24:22,930 --> 00:24:24,170 confidential matters. 271 00:24:26,290 --> 00:24:27,310 That's a job title? 272 00:24:31,810 --> 00:24:32,810 White House? 273 00:24:33,379 --> 00:24:36,600 Justice and the CIA are going to want to know everything we know. 274 00:24:39,660 --> 00:24:42,200 But we aren't going to tell them anything. 275 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,100 The Attorney General already called. 276 00:24:44,460 --> 00:24:46,340 Nobody talks to the Attorney General. 277 00:24:46,580 --> 00:24:48,860 We answer to the Attorney General. You answer to me. 278 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:51,960 What about the Director? 279 00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:54,500 I'll take care of the Director. 280 00:25:02,060 --> 00:25:05,200 for the Attorney General said yesterday, the FBI is already investigating. 281 00:25:05,500 --> 00:25:08,700 Their report will be turned over to the Criminal Division for appropriate 282 00:25:08,700 --> 00:25:09,700 action. 283 00:25:30,939 --> 00:25:34,200 John Dean, the president's counsel, just went into the director's office. 284 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:38,060 Let me know when he comes out. Yes, Mr. Feltz. 285 00:26:01,580 --> 00:26:03,980 What's John Dean doing here in this building? 286 00:26:07,940 --> 00:26:14,280 This is a remarkable amount of information about the break -in. We're 287 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,380 gathering string. This is just the beginning. 288 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:18,520 Okay. 289 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:26,800 First of all, no more interviews with White House or CIA people without 290 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:28,460 permission. What? Who's permission? 291 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:32,920 Give us a minute. 292 00:26:37,620 --> 00:26:38,620 Get out. 293 00:26:42,260 --> 00:26:44,620 The FBI is an independent body. 294 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:49,000 I'm aware of that. Are you also aware that means we don't need permission to 295 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,400 anything from anybody? 296 00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:54,500 You get that up just one time, you don't ever get it back. 297 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:58,080 Ever. Let's not get dramatic. We don't even know what this is. That's right. We 298 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,470 don't. But we're going to find out, and that's what we do. 299 00:27:02,490 --> 00:27:03,890 You don't work for them. 300 00:27:04,730 --> 00:27:07,170 You're the director of the FBI now. 301 00:27:17,650 --> 00:27:18,650 48 hours. 302 00:27:20,750 --> 00:27:25,310 We put the investigation to bed and get on with the rest of our lives in two 303 00:27:25,310 --> 00:27:26,310 days. 304 00:27:29,580 --> 00:27:30,760 You've got 48 hours. 305 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:34,080 Thank you. 306 00:28:19,050 --> 00:28:20,050 Nice to see you. 307 00:28:20,070 --> 00:28:21,530 What brings you back? 308 00:28:23,130 --> 00:28:24,130 Two words. 309 00:28:26,290 --> 00:28:27,290 Revenge. 310 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:27,380 You look like hell. 311 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:32,060 Have some food. 312 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,480 Just coffee. Thanks. 313 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:38,600 So. 314 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,680 What does this look like to you, Sandy, and your pals at Time Magazine? 315 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:45,120 The water, you think? 316 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:53,700 Honestly, I... No one at Time Magazine or any newspaper I know can figure it 317 00:29:53,700 --> 00:29:54,619 out. 318 00:29:54,620 --> 00:29:57,320 Ex -boots get caught planting bugs. 319 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:05,280 Does have a particular... 320 00:30:29,740 --> 00:30:30,920 Sullivan wants back in. 321 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,960 The president wants him back in to run the FBI their way. 322 00:30:38,340 --> 00:30:39,580 Nixon and Sullivan. 323 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:43,420 House who were made for each other. 324 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:49,240 Here you go. 325 00:30:52,260 --> 00:30:54,040 Could we have some pie, please? 326 00:30:54,340 --> 00:30:55,339 What kind? 327 00:30:55,340 --> 00:30:56,960 We have apple, blueberry. 328 00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:58,280 You pick. 329 00:31:05,290 --> 00:31:06,310 given 48 hours. 330 00:31:08,250 --> 00:31:09,270 To do what? 331 00:31:11,390 --> 00:31:13,250 Wrap up the Watergate investigation. 332 00:31:15,310 --> 00:31:16,310 By who? 333 00:31:20,110 --> 00:31:21,110 Gray? 334 00:31:24,310 --> 00:31:30,050 Pat Gray, the director of the FBI, ordered the FBI to stop its own 335 00:31:30,050 --> 00:31:31,050 investigation? 336 00:31:31,980 --> 00:31:36,180 There are calls we are not allowed to make on phone and bank records we can't 337 00:31:36,180 --> 00:31:42,000 near In 338 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:56,740 all 339 00:31:56,740 --> 00:31:58,200 the years I've known you you've never 340 00:32:01,370 --> 00:32:02,410 real secret? 341 00:32:05,970 --> 00:32:07,550 Nothing but the company line. 342 00:32:12,430 --> 00:32:14,330 Is there unfurled waters for you? 343 00:32:20,490 --> 00:32:22,170 One more time, what are we doing? 344 00:32:23,550 --> 00:32:24,950 You looking for a little help? 345 00:32:26,890 --> 00:32:27,890 Payback? 346 00:32:28,910 --> 00:32:31,130 I want the FBI left alone to do its job. 347 00:32:33,050 --> 00:32:34,050 That's all I want. 348 00:32:36,050 --> 00:32:38,410 And you want me to light a fire around the edges? 349 00:32:39,770 --> 00:32:40,770 What a story. 350 00:32:43,190 --> 00:32:44,890 Well, I can see why they didn't give you the job. 351 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:01,159 I miss you. 352 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:02,640 I know I'm not supposed to say that. 353 00:34:04,340 --> 00:34:05,520 It's okay to say that. 354 00:34:05,900 --> 00:34:06,900 No. 355 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:08,820 It's too touchy -feely. 356 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:11,719 I need you too much. 357 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:15,500 Where were you tonight? 358 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,219 The switchboard said they didn't know where you were. 359 00:34:19,679 --> 00:34:23,440 Because I didn't tell them. But what about Mrs. Chudy? 360 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:25,340 She didn't know either. 361 00:34:27,260 --> 00:34:28,260 But you. 362 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:30,100 Taught her to always say that, didn't you? 363 00:34:38,679 --> 00:34:40,880 Have you been making the calls about Joan? 364 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:43,679 I called all her friends. 365 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:48,239 They haven't heard from her in nearly a year. 366 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,300 Are you looking for her? 367 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,860 Is the most powerful law enforcement agency in the world looking for her? 368 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:02,120 I can't do that. 369 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:04,360 Oh. 370 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:06,680 It's against the rules. 371 00:36:20,700 --> 00:36:22,340 Where the hell did they get that? 372 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:52,400 Mr. Bates, this Washington Post story says we know who the Watergate 373 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:53,400 is. 374 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:58,620 Then, this morning, our Time magazine pal, Sandy Smith, called the acting 375 00:36:58,620 --> 00:37:03,340 director to say that he is prepping a story that the FBI is plotting a 376 00:37:03,340 --> 00:37:07,740 whitewash. He said the director has put a 48 -hour cap on the investigation. 377 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:09,839 What's your point? 378 00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:10,738 That's true. 379 00:37:10,740 --> 00:37:14,120 Someone in this office is talking to the press. The point. 380 00:37:14,570 --> 00:37:17,110 Mr. Lano, is that leaks kill investigations? 381 00:37:17,330 --> 00:37:20,470 Whoa, whoa. Okay. Take it down, Andrew. Okay. You want to conduct a leak 382 00:37:20,470 --> 00:37:22,190 investigation, be my guest. 383 00:37:22,730 --> 00:37:26,670 But you got 200 field agents from here to L .A. all chasing down leads, so 384 00:37:26,670 --> 00:37:27,770 you're going to have to ask them all, too. 385 00:37:28,290 --> 00:37:29,670 Tone in front of Mr. 386 00:37:29,890 --> 00:37:33,350 Phil. I can guarantee it wasn't me or any of the guys in this room. 387 00:37:33,990 --> 00:37:34,990 Donald H. 388 00:37:35,430 --> 00:37:38,550 Segretti. He pulled that name from Howard Hunt's phone records. 389 00:37:38,870 --> 00:37:40,630 He called Hunt a few dozen times, yeah. 390 00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:45,400 It said Segretti used to be a lawyer in the Treasury Department, paid out of the 391 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:49,120 account that funded the Watergate, an account belonging to the committee to re 392 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:50,120 -elect the president. 393 00:37:50,260 --> 00:37:54,300 Who's the head of the committee? John Mitchell. Former Attorney General John 394 00:37:54,300 --> 00:37:55,300 Mitchell. 395 00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:59,260 The best we can make out of Segretti is some kind of prankster. You know, like 396 00:37:59,260 --> 00:38:03,420 he's spying on the Dems, sending their wives dirty pictures. It's all bottom 397 00:38:03,420 --> 00:38:06,300 -feeder crap with stuff. Indictable under election law. Forget the plot of 398 00:38:06,300 --> 00:38:08,740 story, Mr. Kunkel. What's the theme? What's it saying? 399 00:38:09,150 --> 00:38:12,810 What does it mean? Like Angie, like Mr. Lano said, we're still vetting the lead. 400 00:38:12,970 --> 00:38:17,670 All the ugly politics, all the dirty money, all the sleaze. It means the 401 00:38:17,670 --> 00:38:19,310 punks are running the country. 402 00:38:27,910 --> 00:38:28,910 Keep going. 403 00:38:30,610 --> 00:38:32,650 You might want to talk to the White House about those leaks. 404 00:38:39,150 --> 00:38:41,830 Because whenever I'm lucky enough to get someone over there to actually talk to 405 00:38:41,830 --> 00:38:44,630 me, they know what I'm going to ask before I ask it. 406 00:38:47,450 --> 00:38:48,850 It's like they already know what I want to know. 407 00:38:57,210 --> 00:38:59,970 Mr. Felt, I have the White House on the phone. Mr. John Dean. 408 00:39:25,580 --> 00:39:26,379 Mr. Dean. 409 00:39:26,380 --> 00:39:28,960 The White House is concerned about these press leaks. 410 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:32,560 Of course. 411 00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,800 We think the source must be someone in the FBI. 412 00:39:42,500 --> 00:39:43,500 Why FBI? 413 00:39:44,860 --> 00:39:46,700 That's where the information is. 414 00:39:48,100 --> 00:39:50,860 Those stories could have come from someone in the White House. 415 00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,680 We want you to do something about it, Mr. Phil. 416 00:39:56,980 --> 00:39:57,980 Okay. 417 00:39:58,440 --> 00:39:59,440 Now. 418 00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:02,240 Fine. But I don't understand. 419 00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,280 Which part? The part about you calling me. 420 00:40:07,020 --> 00:40:10,040 The White House has no authority over the FBI. 421 00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:17,380 We can... At all, Mr. Dean. 422 00:40:20,660 --> 00:40:24,340 But we can suggest... I'm afraid the White House has nothing to suggest to 423 00:40:24,340 --> 00:40:25,340 FBI. 424 00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:30,600 Thank you, Mr. Phil. 425 00:40:30,900 --> 00:40:31,940 Thank you, Mr. Dean. 426 00:41:01,450 --> 00:41:04,510 I want you to disappear our investigation on these two names. 427 00:41:05,090 --> 00:41:06,630 Get them off the interview list. 428 00:41:07,190 --> 00:41:08,510 I don't get it. They're nobody. 429 00:41:09,070 --> 00:41:10,070 Just do it. 430 00:41:14,790 --> 00:41:17,930 Then make sure you say you did it in Monty's memo for the director. 431 00:41:30,190 --> 00:41:31,430 Your daily Watergate briefing? 432 00:41:34,390 --> 00:41:35,390 Thanks, Charlie. 433 00:41:35,590 --> 00:41:36,890 May I call you Charlie? 434 00:41:39,210 --> 00:41:42,370 How much of what we're getting on Watergate am I actually seeing? 435 00:41:45,070 --> 00:41:48,910 Mr. Felt gives me the headlines, I type them up, I give Mr. Felt the original 436 00:41:48,910 --> 00:41:49,910 and bring you a copy. 437 00:41:51,210 --> 00:41:53,270 Mr. Felt doesn't want to waste your time with details. 438 00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:04,920 Okay, Mr. Gray. 439 00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:18,520 Mr. Coco! 440 00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:23,580 Director Gray wanted you to know that he understands you and your boys are doing 441 00:42:23,580 --> 00:42:24,580 a hell of a job. 442 00:42:25,220 --> 00:42:28,400 Thank Mr. Gray, and not to worry, we'll gather the whole ball of yarn. 443 00:42:28,720 --> 00:42:32,320 Mr. Gray also wanted you to know that there was going to be a small change in 444 00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:33,320 procedure. 445 00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:34,640 In the information flow? 446 00:42:35,420 --> 00:42:38,120 How, and more precisely, where it flows? 447 00:42:38,700 --> 00:42:41,120 Not just the headline, but the story itself. 448 00:42:42,140 --> 00:42:43,800 The details, as it were. 449 00:42:45,820 --> 00:42:46,840 Is Mr. Feld now? 450 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:50,200 Of course. 451 00:43:46,390 --> 00:43:47,790 Angelano called me last night. 452 00:43:49,370 --> 00:43:52,450 He told me that he called the White House to set up a round of interviews. 453 00:43:53,550 --> 00:43:57,690 Half hour later, the White House called back to tell me that we can't talk to 454 00:43:57,690 --> 00:44:01,230 two of the guys because their names were taken off the list. 455 00:44:02,830 --> 00:44:04,250 The two names you told me. 456 00:44:05,450 --> 00:44:06,770 How would the White House know? 457 00:44:08,610 --> 00:44:10,390 I guess somebody told them. 458 00:44:11,850 --> 00:44:13,930 The only people who knew were me and you. 459 00:44:16,170 --> 00:44:17,170 And Mr. Gray. 460 00:44:19,170 --> 00:44:20,069 And Mr. 461 00:44:20,070 --> 00:44:21,070 Gray. 462 00:44:23,530 --> 00:44:25,230 We need to find out what Gray had. 463 00:44:27,050 --> 00:44:28,210 And how he's getting it. 464 00:44:32,810 --> 00:44:33,950 Did I do something wrong? 465 00:44:34,890 --> 00:44:40,130 Mr. Bates tells me you've been giving Mr. Gray everything we're collecting on 466 00:44:40,130 --> 00:44:41,130 Watergate. 467 00:44:42,090 --> 00:44:43,810 All our interviews, all our files. 468 00:44:46,860 --> 00:44:48,920 Did Mr. Gray tell you to bypass me? 469 00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:51,240 He didn't say it was a secret or anything. 470 00:44:54,740 --> 00:44:56,160 But he said that you knew. 471 00:44:58,780 --> 00:45:02,120 How often did you give him our files? Every day. 472 00:45:02,500 --> 00:45:03,500 Why? 473 00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:05,800 We know why. 474 00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:14,780 Did you give the Attorney General any information about our investigation? 475 00:45:15,220 --> 00:45:16,500 I don't talk to the Attorney General. 476 00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:17,800 Mr. Bates? 477 00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:19,680 Mr. Miller? 478 00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:29,740 The Attorney General called me this morning about something he could only 479 00:45:29,740 --> 00:45:30,820 heard from the FBI. 480 00:45:38,220 --> 00:45:40,260 He's putting a box around Watergate. 481 00:45:42,030 --> 00:45:44,350 We can't touch anything before the break -in. 482 00:45:45,330 --> 00:45:47,970 We have to stay away from all the White House corruption. 483 00:45:49,630 --> 00:45:52,890 In other words, the crimes that matter don't matter. 484 00:45:54,190 --> 00:45:59,590 For the first time in its history, the FBI has been quarantined. 485 00:46:00,850 --> 00:46:03,710 Crimes that it knows about will go uninvestigated. 486 00:46:09,010 --> 00:46:11,030 Mr. Fell. Thank you, Mr. Conkle. 487 00:46:24,910 --> 00:46:31,330 So, with everything we have right now, if we could get indictments, 488 00:46:31,330 --> 00:46:36,730 in your opinion, who would we get? 489 00:46:37,790 --> 00:46:38,790 How high? 490 00:46:42,770 --> 00:46:44,150 Maybe Attorney General. 491 00:46:47,890 --> 00:46:49,270 What about the President? 492 00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:03,220 If the president's lying, is the president lying? 493 00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:04,960 They're all lying. 494 00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:08,080 Then yes. 495 00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:12,520 Maybe the president. 496 00:47:14,700 --> 00:47:21,000 As the investigations went forward, I repeatedly asked those conducting the 497 00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:25,820 investigation whether there was any reason to believe that members of my 498 00:47:25,820 --> 00:47:28,200 administration... were in any way involved. 499 00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:33,480 I received repeated assurances that there were not. 500 00:47:34,260 --> 00:47:36,280 I discounted the stories in the press. 501 00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:38,860 Who do you think gave the orders to bug the Watergate? 502 00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:44,400 Well, the persons who the grand jury indicted in Washington, D .C. last week 503 00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:48,400 gave the orders to do it. You don't think they were following orders then? 504 00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,140 don't know. There's nobody higher than me. There has been no evidence 505 00:47:51,140 --> 00:47:53,100 anybody that did that. I think the opposition is. 506 00:47:53,630 --> 00:47:58,070 It's disappointing that after such a thorough, intensive investigation, that 507 00:47:58,070 --> 00:48:00,050 seven persons were indicted. 508 00:48:00,270 --> 00:48:04,230 Watergate break -in took a dramatic turn when one of the defendants, former 509 00:48:04,230 --> 00:48:07,990 White House consultant E. Howard Hunt, changed his plea to guilty. Judge 510 00:48:07,990 --> 00:48:11,930 accepted the guilty pleas of the poor Miami man on the condition of answering 511 00:48:11,930 --> 00:48:15,070 his questions on who else was involved in Watergate. 512 00:48:15,290 --> 00:48:20,890 With the crucial questions of who and what were behind it all, still 513 00:48:20,890 --> 00:48:21,950 Still unanswered. 514 00:48:22,170 --> 00:48:24,170 You got a call from across the river. 515 00:48:25,370 --> 00:48:26,470 Which river is that? 516 00:48:27,250 --> 00:48:28,250 Potomac. 517 00:48:28,530 --> 00:48:29,530 The CIA. 518 00:48:30,410 --> 00:48:33,030 The CIA is telling us we need to taper off. 519 00:48:33,270 --> 00:48:34,610 Taper off. 520 00:48:35,770 --> 00:48:36,950 You're getting too close. 521 00:48:37,530 --> 00:48:39,750 Too close to what? I can't tell you. 522 00:48:39,990 --> 00:48:41,470 You can't or you won't. 523 00:48:41,850 --> 00:48:43,650 It's a matter of national security. 524 00:48:44,110 --> 00:48:48,210 We are doing everything that we can to investigate this incident. 525 00:48:48,450 --> 00:48:50,810 No one on the White House staff. No one. 526 00:48:51,260 --> 00:48:55,840 in this administration was involved in this very bizarre incident. 527 00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:57,340 A 528 00:48:57,340 --> 00:49:06,120 bomb 529 00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:12,920 exploded early this 530 00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:16,880 morning in the Pentagon and left -wing terrorists telephoned newspapers to say 531 00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:17,880 they were responsible. 532 00:49:24,100 --> 00:49:25,740 What about the White House? 533 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,880 It's at the top of their list. I told you that three months ago. 534 00:49:29,100 --> 00:49:32,900 But can they really hit it? They just hit the Pentagon. 535 00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:38,020 I want us to open files on every member of every counterculture organization in 536 00:49:38,020 --> 00:49:38,738 the country. 537 00:49:38,740 --> 00:49:39,780 Hunt them to exhaustion. 538 00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:41,200 No holds barred. 539 00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:44,200 The president is fighting for the White House. 540 00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:45,460 That's not my job. 541 00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:49,900 The president needs order. I promised the president he'd have order. 542 00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:59,700 Which brings me to my next point. I spoke to the attorney general. 543 00:50:01,180 --> 00:50:05,940 The attorney general is going to officially announce we have found 544 00:50:05,940 --> 00:50:08,300 connecting the president on work. What? 545 00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:10,060 But that's not real. 546 00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,660 I know. And the president knows you are still. 547 00:50:27,210 --> 00:50:29,590 I hear you and your wife are registered Democrats, Mark. 548 00:50:30,430 --> 00:50:32,370 I hope you're not going to let that get in the way. 549 00:50:37,190 --> 00:50:40,750 The weather underground, they're combining, they're multiplying. 550 00:50:41,650 --> 00:50:43,270 We'll never get warrants, not now. 551 00:50:43,890 --> 00:50:47,470 Warrants? We're not talking about the kids sleeping out there in the parks. 552 00:50:47,650 --> 00:50:51,530 We're talking about people who would burn your children alive in their beds. 553 00:50:51,730 --> 00:50:54,750 People die because we stick to the letter of the law. We lose everything, 554 00:50:54,950 --> 00:50:56,250 including the law. 555 00:50:57,100 --> 00:51:02,500 We're taking off the gloves, entries, tabs, nothing on paper, no warrants. 556 00:51:03,220 --> 00:51:07,060 Mr. Miller's people report to Mr. Miller. Mr. Miller reports to me. Just 557 00:51:07,060 --> 00:51:08,080 the bad old days. 558 00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:11,720 Where's Bill Sullivan when you need him? He's over at the White House, 559 00:51:11,860 --> 00:51:16,680 protecting the nation by spying on senators and their mistresses, while 560 00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:19,660 here just trying to keep all this goddamn mess together. 561 00:51:29,710 --> 00:51:30,710 We're on your side here. 562 00:51:31,450 --> 00:51:35,490 All I'm saying is all that was behind us. Even Hoover knew the dirty stuff was 563 00:51:35,490 --> 00:51:36,490 over. That's why Bill's gone. 564 00:51:37,730 --> 00:51:40,630 All I'm saying is everyone is watching. 565 00:51:41,050 --> 00:51:43,190 How many more kids do we have to lose? 566 00:51:43,610 --> 00:51:46,530 How many more do we let just vanish into eternity? 567 00:51:47,410 --> 00:51:49,570 I am not Bill Sullivan. 568 00:51:50,050 --> 00:51:51,950 This is still the goddamn FBI. 569 00:52:15,820 --> 00:52:16,820 Don't intrude. 570 00:52:17,660 --> 00:52:18,800 Then don't. 571 00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:24,600 You heard from her? 572 00:52:26,380 --> 00:52:27,380 Don't? 573 00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:33,240 You think she's involved with all this? 574 00:52:34,180 --> 00:52:35,240 The underground? 575 00:52:37,020 --> 00:52:38,180 How could she? 576 00:52:39,140 --> 00:52:42,740 She's just like me. Exactly like me. She worships you. 577 00:52:49,390 --> 00:52:50,390 She's okay. 578 00:52:52,350 --> 00:52:53,650 I can feel it, Luke. 579 00:52:56,870 --> 00:52:59,350 There's a price to pay for what we do, Mr. Miller. 580 00:52:59,590 --> 00:53:01,590 There's a price to pay for what we become. 581 00:53:03,750 --> 00:53:05,990 We all pay it one way or another. 582 00:53:09,010 --> 00:53:15,170 Watergate was the most intensive, objective, and thorough investigation in 583 00:53:15,170 --> 00:53:17,530 history of the U .S. Attorney's Office. 584 00:53:18,250 --> 00:53:19,250 And the FBI. 585 00:53:20,410 --> 00:53:26,770 The Justice Department has now completed its criminal investigation without 586 00:53:26,770 --> 00:53:33,670 implicating any present official of either the White House or the committee 587 00:53:33,670 --> 00:53:34,930 re -elect the president. 588 00:53:35,790 --> 00:53:36,810 Completed? Any questions? 589 00:53:37,050 --> 00:53:38,050 What the hell, man? 590 00:53:38,690 --> 00:53:40,090 Give me Feld on the phone. 591 00:53:40,450 --> 00:53:42,250 As to the White House? Hold on, hold on, wait a second. 592 00:53:42,570 --> 00:53:47,590 I understand the FBI's Watergate investigation is in a state of repose 593 00:53:47,590 --> 00:53:51,010 unlikely to be reopened. Anybody tell us this was over yet? 594 00:53:51,830 --> 00:53:54,650 Get me Felt on the phone, or Bates. 595 00:53:55,990 --> 00:53:59,010 God damn it, get me Felt! She can't. Why the hell not? 596 00:53:59,470 --> 00:54:02,950 Because he's right there. And now, let's return to the press conference of the U 597 00:54:02,950 --> 00:54:03,950 .S. Attorney General. 598 00:54:51,180 --> 00:54:52,180 Maybe she's dead. 599 00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:57,620 Maybe she just gave up. 600 00:54:58,780 --> 00:55:00,160 Didn't think anybody cared. 601 00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:05,800 Maybe she's right out there watching us. 602 00:55:07,100 --> 00:55:11,960 To see what a man like you does when your daughter just vanishes one night 603 00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:12,960 no good reason. 604 00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:14,660 Joan had a reason for everything. 605 00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:16,740 You hated her. 606 00:55:23,240 --> 00:55:24,620 Mothers don't hate their daughters. 607 00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:28,380 It's not always easy being one. 608 00:55:29,060 --> 00:55:34,540 You dressed her up like a doll until she got old enough to look just like you. 609 00:55:34,700 --> 00:55:38,700 Mark. You kept telling her to get out until one day she listened to you. 610 00:55:38,700 --> 00:55:39,700 to me. 611 00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:42,340 I had no mother. 612 00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:43,600 But she did. 613 00:55:44,140 --> 00:55:45,140 Yes. 614 00:55:46,180 --> 00:55:47,180 She did. 615 00:55:47,820 --> 00:55:49,540 My father just left. 616 00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:52,280 So, yes. 617 00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:57,740 She gave me up to foster homes, then the orphanage. 618 00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:02,640 You know all about that, don't you? 619 00:56:09,820 --> 00:56:11,400 And then I made my own way. 620 00:56:14,020 --> 00:56:17,340 Until you, my white knight. 621 00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:23,580 are the only homes I've ever known. 622 00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:34,000 You were both mine. 623 00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:38,920 How's home, Mark? 624 00:56:42,460 --> 00:56:43,640 Why are you asking? 625 00:56:44,140 --> 00:56:46,260 That daughter of yours, Jill? 626 00:56:47,900 --> 00:56:48,900 Joan. 627 00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:55,700 My here she's terrific Fulbright scholar first girl in the country 628 00:56:55,700 --> 00:57:02,340 I Want 629 00:57:02,340 --> 00:57:09,020 you to be the first to hear my statement press 630 00:57:09,020 --> 00:57:15,920 No pressure has been 631 00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:16,920 put on me 632 00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:22,760 or any of my special agents in the FBI's investigation, and that it's strange. I 633 00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:26,900 thought I would just nib this in the bud. It's strange credulity that 634 00:57:26,900 --> 00:57:30,040 Nixon could have done a con job on the whole American people. 635 00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:33,380 What do you think? 636 00:57:36,740 --> 00:57:38,020 It's just fine. 637 00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:45,820 The Democrats have issued a statement this morning. 638 00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:51,420 The FBI's Watergate investigation is a whitewash. 639 00:57:53,840 --> 00:58:00,100 What is involved here is not only the political life of this nation, but the 640 00:58:00,100 --> 00:58:06,840 very morality of our leaders at a time when the United States desperately 641 00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:10,160 needs to revitalize its moral standards. 642 00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:14,660 The FBI's... 643 00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:20,480 Watergate investigation is a whitewash. 644 00:58:25,500 --> 00:58:26,500 That's it. 645 00:58:32,780 --> 00:58:35,580 Well, gentlemen, here's what we know. 646 00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:41,360 We know what we've heard out of the Department of Justice the past two days 647 00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:42,360 bullshit. 648 00:58:44,300 --> 00:58:51,160 We know the men who broke into the Watergate are not the end of this thing, 649 00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:52,160 the beginning. 650 00:58:53,060 --> 00:58:58,720 We know this is the latest link in a chain of illegal, covert intelligence 651 00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:02,260 operations by the president's re -election campaign. 652 00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:08,200 We know we are facing obstruction from multiple fronts, from the White House, 653 00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:12,580 from the CIA, from the Attorney General. 654 00:59:13,070 --> 00:59:15,030 Of the United States. Who is our boss? 655 00:59:15,950 --> 00:59:21,230 By the way, it is not our job to speculate on the involvement of the 656 00:59:23,550 --> 00:59:26,290 It is our job to follow the breadcrumbs. 657 00:59:27,290 --> 00:59:32,910 But those breadcrumbs appear to be taking us on a tour of the West Wing of 658 00:59:32,910 --> 00:59:33,910 White House. 659 00:59:35,410 --> 00:59:37,910 And in the general direction of the Oval Office. 660 00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:45,200 We also know we've been ordered to shut down our pursuit of all this as of 661 00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:46,200 today. 662 00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:54,200 And we know that except for the 30 men in this room, no one in the entire 663 00:59:54,200 --> 00:59:57,980 country knows any of this and may never know any of this. 664 01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:05,560 No one can stop the driving force of an FBI investigation. 665 01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:08,460 Not even the FBI. 666 01:00:37,770 --> 01:00:38,770 Socrates. 667 01:01:16,780 --> 01:01:20,100 I'm going to give you the name of a man who was asked to work for the Nixon 668 01:01:20,100 --> 01:01:23,340 administration in an unusual way. 669 01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:25,440 What are you talking about? 670 01:01:26,280 --> 01:01:30,500 There's only one way to understand what Watergate really means, and this is it. 671 01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:38,200 The name is Alex Shipley. 672 01:01:38,700 --> 01:01:39,700 Shipley. 673 01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:41,840 He lives in Nashville. 674 01:01:42,480 --> 01:01:44,260 The man who approached him... 675 01:01:44,650 --> 01:01:48,010 With a lawyer out of L .A. named Donald Segretti. 676 01:01:49,130 --> 01:01:50,130 Segretti. 677 01:01:51,850 --> 01:01:53,890 Shipley can tell you everything you need to know. 678 01:01:54,830 --> 01:01:55,830 Will Shipley talk? 679 01:01:57,170 --> 01:01:59,490 I guess you're going to have to find that out. 680 01:02:00,310 --> 01:02:01,310 One more thing. 681 01:02:03,150 --> 01:02:05,630 This comes from classified FBI files. 682 01:02:06,410 --> 01:02:09,410 The Department of Justice has it. The White House has it. 683 01:02:10,510 --> 01:02:11,730 And now you have it. 684 01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:20,660 election and stop this nonsense about there having been a political espionage 685 01:02:20,660 --> 01:02:21,920 campaign against the Democrats. 686 01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:24,180 Here's what's making the news at the top of the hour. 687 01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:29,120 North Vietnamese military attempts to break through South Vietnamese lines 688 01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:32,020 been met with an intense bombing attack by U .S. aircraft. 689 01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:37,040 General Creighton Abrams, the United States commander in Vietnam, ordered 690 01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:40,260 available B -52 into the northern sector of South Vietnam. Even though the 691 01:02:40,260 --> 01:02:44,520 baseball season's over, the Philadelphia Bills went to the Ozarks for a new 692 01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:45,520 manager today. 693 01:02:45,770 --> 01:02:50,210 Los Angeles coach Danny Ozark was a surprise choice of Phil's general 694 01:02:50,390 --> 01:02:51,390 Paul Owens. 695 01:02:51,670 --> 01:02:53,590 Ozark has had no big league manager. 696 01:03:39,140 --> 01:03:40,220 Mr. Woodward. 697 01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:44,040 The story isn't moving. 698 01:03:45,420 --> 01:03:47,180 Everyone, stop listening to you. 699 01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:48,780 It isn't the same as before. 700 01:03:52,260 --> 01:03:53,500 We're lost in detail. 701 01:03:55,120 --> 01:03:56,240 That's their plan. 702 01:03:57,560 --> 01:03:59,520 They want everyone confused. 703 01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:02,600 Confusion is control. 704 01:04:09,610 --> 01:04:11,850 The truth could ruin the administration. 705 01:04:15,270 --> 01:04:16,410 How high? 706 01:04:17,310 --> 01:04:18,770 How high does it go? 707 01:04:27,470 --> 01:04:30,150 You still don't understand what I'm giving you. 708 01:04:34,170 --> 01:04:37,330 This is dangerous stuff you're playing with. 709 01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:40,960 if it's known before November 7th. 710 01:04:43,120 --> 01:04:44,220 It's election day. 711 01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:47,420 You put out the right story, the public will scream. 712 01:04:48,880 --> 01:04:51,120 The Attorney General will have to let me keep going. 713 01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:18,000 My editors know that I'm talking to somebody, but not who. 714 01:05:18,460 --> 01:05:19,500 They don't ask. 715 01:05:24,980 --> 01:05:29,860 No one understands how one person knows so much. No one can possibly know how 716 01:05:29,860 --> 01:05:30,860 much I know. 717 01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:39,060 With all this mystery, there's a nickname for you at the paper. 718 01:05:41,980 --> 01:05:42,980 Deep Throat. 719 01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:46,240 What? They didn't know what else to call you. 720 01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:52,000 That's just... They shouldn't have to call me anything. 721 01:06:02,400 --> 01:06:03,500 Take out your notebook. 722 01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:04,960 There's more. 723 01:06:17,900 --> 01:06:23,200 FBI agents have established Watergate bugging incident, massive campaign of 724 01:06:23,200 --> 01:06:25,640 political spying and sabotage. 725 01:06:25,900 --> 01:06:29,140 There is some very powerful information, said one federal official. 726 01:06:30,040 --> 01:06:33,860 The White House is vigorously denouncing a story in the Washington Post this 727 01:06:33,860 --> 01:06:37,480 morning, accusing the administration of engaging in a secret political war. 728 01:06:38,020 --> 01:06:41,440 White House press secretary Ron Ziegler is calling the story a pack of 729 01:06:41,440 --> 01:06:46,320 scurrilous lies and innuendo. Based on faceless, cowardly sources inside the 730 01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:47,320 Department of Justice. 731 01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:53,519 He's here, Mark. 732 01:06:53,520 --> 01:06:56,300 He has to be. There's a spy in the FBI. 733 01:06:57,020 --> 01:07:01,560 FBI agents have established one federal investigative official said, according 734 01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:04,540 to FBI reports, that's us, goddammit. 735 01:07:06,600 --> 01:07:12,260 There is information in here that the Bureau only got 72 hours ago. Are you 736 01:07:12,260 --> 01:07:13,300 goddamn joking? 737 01:07:15,060 --> 01:07:18,120 Mr. Felt, you had something you wanted to say. 738 01:07:23,080 --> 01:07:27,700 The last few days, I've heard various people accuse Mr. Lano of leaking to the 739 01:07:27,700 --> 01:07:29,340 press. You've got to be kidding me! 740 01:07:30,200 --> 01:07:34,340 And that he and certain newspaper reporters have been seen together. 741 01:07:34,600 --> 01:07:37,480 You're going to be sick. I wanted to say to you, Mr. Lano, in front of everyone 742 01:07:37,480 --> 01:07:41,540 here, that I know these are vicious lies by jealous agents. 743 01:07:43,600 --> 01:07:47,240 You're doing a fine job, and no matter what, the director and I will support 744 01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:48,240 you. 745 01:07:48,440 --> 01:07:49,440 Mr. Gray. 746 01:07:51,370 --> 01:07:54,430 I may not be an FBI lifer like some of you. 747 01:07:55,170 --> 01:07:56,950 I'm certainly no Mark Felt. 748 01:07:57,390 --> 01:08:03,110 Since I arrived here, I have put up with paranoia, insubordination, second 749 01:08:03,110 --> 01:08:05,690 -guessing gentlemen. It's come to Jesus' time. 750 01:08:07,650 --> 01:08:14,550 Whoever the leaker is, whoever is the Judas among you, betraying me, the other 751 01:08:14,550 --> 01:08:17,470 good men in this room, his family, God! 752 01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:21,800 Not to mention the bureau and the legacy of J. Edgar Hoover. Step forward. 753 01:08:23,899 --> 01:08:24,899 Right here. 754 01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:27,080 Right now. 755 01:09:19,630 --> 01:09:21,029 Just one big game, Charlie. 756 01:09:22,850 --> 01:09:25,330 Or all just chess pieces. You gotta remember that. 757 01:09:27,830 --> 01:09:28,830 What's the body count? 758 01:09:30,770 --> 01:09:32,069 Eight so far. 759 01:09:32,790 --> 01:09:36,130 You, me, a few guys on my team. 760 01:09:39,510 --> 01:09:40,609 Where are they thinning you? 761 01:09:41,430 --> 01:09:42,430 St. Louis. 762 01:09:44,250 --> 01:09:46,450 But I don't know how much more I have left in me. 763 01:09:48,430 --> 01:09:49,430 You? 764 01:09:52,720 --> 01:09:53,920 Well, at least it's Frisco. 765 01:09:54,980 --> 01:09:55,980 Yeah. 766 01:09:58,380 --> 01:09:59,380 Great. 767 01:10:01,240 --> 01:10:03,020 How many years you put in here, Charlie? 768 01:10:10,560 --> 01:10:11,560 The whole run. 769 01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:14,180 My kids were born here. 770 01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:28,920 People don't seem to understand, nor can, as Nixon has won in a landslide. 771 01:10:33,300 --> 01:10:33,920 I appreciate 772 01:10:33,920 --> 01:10:40,820 you taking the 773 01:10:40,820 --> 01:10:41,820 time, Mr. Bell. 774 01:10:41,980 --> 01:10:45,260 I always take care of my people, Mr. Banks. 775 01:10:47,620 --> 01:10:51,460 In fact, my father always said to me, Mark... 776 01:10:52,720 --> 01:10:58,680 Whatever we do, we have to make our lives vectors, lines with force. 777 01:11:01,380 --> 01:11:07,280 You have to 778 01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:13,800 destroy anything that is sick beyond repair to rescue it from its 779 01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:20,800 agony. And the agony it causes everyone 780 01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:22,720 else. Mr. Bain. 781 01:11:28,480 --> 01:11:29,480 Mr. Bain. 782 01:11:36,100 --> 01:11:37,100 What are you doing, Charlotte? 783 01:13:27,240 --> 01:13:31,020 Genesis Commune, Ben Lomond, California 784 01:13:56,080 --> 01:13:58,720 These leaks are driving the White House crazy. 785 01:14:00,440 --> 01:14:02,740 The White House thinks it knows who it is. 786 01:14:04,260 --> 01:14:05,660 Your name came up. 787 01:14:09,180 --> 01:14:14,940 You have any idea what that would mean? 788 01:14:15,520 --> 01:14:16,520 Treason, for one. 789 01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:21,960 Betrayal of everything the FBI stands for, for another. Everything you stand 790 01:14:21,960 --> 01:14:22,960 for. 791 01:14:23,260 --> 01:14:24,640 So why would I do it? 792 01:14:25,870 --> 01:14:26,870 I don't know. 793 01:14:27,950 --> 01:14:29,850 I can't imagine their thinking. 794 01:14:33,150 --> 01:14:34,970 Why don't they fire me, then? 795 01:14:35,750 --> 01:14:36,950 You know everything. 796 01:14:38,270 --> 01:14:41,770 To them, the only thing worse than keeping you is firing you. 797 01:14:46,730 --> 01:14:48,510 Dean did say something strange. 798 01:14:49,090 --> 01:14:51,830 Apparently, they know everything going on inside our shop. 799 01:14:52,310 --> 01:14:53,550 They have a source. 800 01:14:54,190 --> 01:14:59,170 Inside the FBI, he sent me here. 801 01:15:00,110 --> 01:15:01,150 Everything. 802 01:15:20,670 --> 01:15:24,560 We just went... Your office for bugs, Mr. Do it again. 803 01:15:39,700 --> 01:15:44,060 The knives are out. 804 01:15:45,100 --> 01:15:46,420 More than you know. 805 01:15:47,820 --> 01:15:48,820 Am I safe? 806 01:15:49,700 --> 01:15:50,700 No one is. 807 01:15:51,790 --> 01:15:56,390 The White House is going to sanitize the entire town. The director of central 808 01:15:56,390 --> 01:15:58,430 intelligence will be gone by morning. 809 01:15:58,650 --> 01:16:03,130 Why? Well, apparently he couldn't smoke you out fast enough. 810 01:16:04,430 --> 01:16:08,790 The source of all those stories. 811 01:16:11,090 --> 01:16:12,930 Where does the CIA stand? 812 01:16:14,130 --> 01:16:16,650 The CIA is building a wall. 813 01:16:17,870 --> 01:16:22,510 We'll stay out of your way, but if we're forced to protect ourselves, we will. 814 01:16:23,450 --> 01:16:26,830 The FBI will never reach the CIA on this. 815 01:16:27,230 --> 01:16:28,270 And the White House? 816 01:16:29,170 --> 01:16:30,430 Presidents come and go. 817 01:16:31,450 --> 01:16:33,050 But the CIA stays. 818 01:16:33,710 --> 01:16:35,110 The FBI stays. 819 01:16:37,350 --> 01:16:38,570 We are the constants. 820 01:16:40,590 --> 01:16:41,790 Oh, I almost forgot. 821 01:16:43,250 --> 01:16:46,790 Time magazine's person of the year is going to be Richard Nixon. 822 01:16:51,370 --> 01:16:56,430 i thought you'd like to know happy holidays 823 01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:38,860 and told me the unthinkable has happened. 824 01:17:39,660 --> 01:17:41,460 He actually misses Hoover. 825 01:17:42,800 --> 01:17:44,960 Hoover would have gotten the dogs off him, he said. 826 01:17:45,820 --> 01:17:47,780 He'd have everyone scared to death. 827 01:17:52,060 --> 01:17:58,960 The White House is going to 828 01:17:58,960 --> 01:18:00,120 make me director permanently. 829 01:18:01,640 --> 01:18:02,640 Congratulations. 830 01:18:07,340 --> 01:18:09,460 Bill Sullivan will be my number two. 831 01:18:20,340 --> 01:18:24,900 You know what the president said to me today? He said the Germans had the right 832 01:18:24,900 --> 01:18:26,440 idea during World War II. 833 01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:31,860 If they went through a town and one of their soldiers got hit by a sniper, 834 01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:34,980 they'd line up the whole goddamn town and kill everyone. 835 01:18:38,030 --> 01:18:41,570 He said, it's time to clean out the FBI. 836 01:18:47,170 --> 01:18:49,010 You know what that will mean for me. 837 01:18:49,430 --> 01:18:50,850 Remember, they're afraid of you. 838 01:18:57,750 --> 01:19:00,110 Mark, if you did know something, you could come to me. 839 01:19:01,090 --> 01:19:03,770 You'd be able to work it out together. We could do something about it. 840 01:19:06,090 --> 01:19:07,550 I can't protect you anymore. 841 01:19:10,990 --> 01:19:12,470 Just give them what they want. 842 01:19:14,210 --> 01:19:16,170 The traitor's head on a platter. 843 01:20:05,000 --> 01:20:09,440 So the president asked me what he should do. And I tell him, get rid of everyone 844 01:20:09,440 --> 01:20:11,000 in the interest of the nation. 845 01:20:11,540 --> 01:20:12,980 I didn't mean me, of course. 846 01:20:18,180 --> 01:20:19,640 You don't have many friends left, you know. 847 01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:22,220 How about your FBI pals? 848 01:20:22,900 --> 01:20:24,360 Told me to cut your nuts off. 849 01:20:27,940 --> 01:20:29,040 Think I'll let you keep it bad? 850 01:20:30,940 --> 01:20:32,600 You got a lot of people worried, Marston. 851 01:20:33,450 --> 01:20:34,930 I think you're going to unwrap everything. 852 01:20:35,750 --> 01:20:36,830 Everything from all the years. 853 01:20:37,930 --> 01:20:42,310 Everything we, you and I, know. 854 01:20:42,610 --> 01:20:44,090 Is that what you want to know, Bill? 855 01:20:45,870 --> 01:20:48,070 This your last little errand? 856 01:20:50,510 --> 01:20:52,010 Bill, the president will sleep at night. 857 01:20:54,250 --> 01:20:59,070 I'm just saying, you open those scabs, there's a lot of things underneath. 858 01:21:00,530 --> 01:21:02,450 Just remember, no one likes informers. 859 01:21:03,300 --> 01:21:04,900 They only remember you as a rat. 860 01:21:05,560 --> 01:21:08,700 Even if you were their... Even if you were their rat. 861 01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:19,720 Mr. Felt, Mr. Miller's on the phone. He needs to speak with you. 862 01:21:37,710 --> 01:21:39,830 This is Special Agent Clark. I don't want to know his name. 863 01:21:41,150 --> 01:21:42,790 Tell him what you told Mr. Bates and me. 864 01:21:43,730 --> 01:21:45,730 I don't think I have anything to worry about, Mr. Fell. 865 01:21:47,510 --> 01:21:48,870 You don't think? 866 01:21:49,550 --> 01:21:50,550 Specific. 867 01:21:56,090 --> 01:22:00,530 The commune where the subject, Joan Fell... Do not say her name. 868 01:22:05,610 --> 01:22:06,650 Where the target is. 869 01:22:08,810 --> 01:22:10,670 Definitely some people of interest in there. 870 01:22:12,650 --> 01:22:14,470 Maybe some with an underground target. 871 01:22:18,010 --> 01:22:22,710 If you ask me, it's just someone's kid looking for a way home. 872 01:23:08,520 --> 01:23:09,620 Do you know your physics, Sandy? 873 01:23:11,740 --> 01:23:17,020 If you tap repeatedly on the post of the building and the tapping is relentless, 874 01:23:17,500 --> 01:23:20,860 it creates a rhythm. 875 01:23:22,380 --> 01:23:25,720 If you do that long enough and steadily enough, it will feed back. 876 01:23:25,960 --> 01:23:31,300 The frequencies will align, the molecules will scramble, and the whole 877 01:23:31,460 --> 01:23:34,620 the whole building will come apart from the inside. 878 01:23:35,370 --> 01:23:38,870 and collapse in on itself and all come tumbling down. 879 01:23:40,370 --> 01:23:44,330 The molecules are beginning to scramble. The FBI is coming apart. 880 01:23:44,550 --> 01:23:45,690 Do you know what that takes us? 881 01:23:46,070 --> 01:23:49,950 Do you want a country this big, this angry, this confused without a police 882 01:23:49,950 --> 01:23:50,950 department? 883 01:23:55,910 --> 01:23:57,090 Get out your notebook. 884 01:23:59,650 --> 01:24:03,110 May 1969 and February 1971. Mark. 885 01:24:05,100 --> 01:24:06,100 You sure about this? 886 01:24:06,220 --> 01:24:10,840 Between those states, White House employees were wiretapped, many of them 887 01:24:10,840 --> 01:24:15,140 to the Secretary of State, and five reporters, including the New York Times. 888 01:24:16,620 --> 01:24:17,620 You're kidding. 889 01:24:22,320 --> 01:24:23,860 This is hard for you. 890 01:24:24,060 --> 01:24:25,060 What part? 891 01:24:27,340 --> 01:24:28,560 All this truth. 892 01:24:31,460 --> 01:24:34,460 The truth is hard for you. 893 01:24:43,820 --> 01:24:49,660 illegally, unconstitutionally, unreprehensibly bugged and taped and 894 01:24:49,660 --> 01:24:53,460 photographed and memorialized every move those people made. 895 01:24:54,100 --> 01:24:57,760 Them and their wives and their mistresses and homosexual lovers. 896 01:25:00,560 --> 01:25:04,980 Who did the wiretaps? Bill Sullivan. He became a rogue FBI operation. 897 01:25:05,880 --> 01:25:09,180 Sullivan drove Sullivan and the White House by the mills. 898 01:25:10,820 --> 01:25:11,840 How about you? 899 01:25:14,640 --> 01:25:15,478 What did you know? 900 01:25:15,480 --> 01:25:19,940 About everything else, I knew every sordid little detail. 901 01:25:20,220 --> 01:25:21,220 But not this. 902 01:25:22,420 --> 01:25:24,240 They knew they couldn't tell me about this. 903 01:25:25,100 --> 01:25:26,480 Yeah, they couldn't count on you. 904 01:25:27,900 --> 01:25:32,340 The White House is packing all its crimes in separate little boxes. 905 01:25:32,960 --> 01:25:35,740 Watergate, it's buying the ugliness, the rot. 906 01:25:36,060 --> 01:25:40,140 Each thing in a different box so that no one can put it together. So that no one 907 01:25:40,140 --> 01:25:41,380 sees it's all connected. 908 01:25:41,660 --> 01:25:42,660 And no one will care. 909 01:25:43,230 --> 01:25:45,390 But it's all the same big thing. 910 01:25:48,790 --> 01:25:51,910 And Watergate, just the gateway. 911 01:25:57,870 --> 01:26:00,730 Can you get the story out before Gray's confirmation hearing? 912 01:26:02,090 --> 01:26:07,570 What you're doing will bring down the whole House of Cards. 913 01:26:19,630 --> 01:26:20,630 where it leads. 914 01:26:36,290 --> 01:26:37,950 Any last minute invite? 915 01:26:40,470 --> 01:26:41,970 We've gone over everything. 916 01:26:43,250 --> 01:26:44,270 I'll go easy. 917 01:26:45,670 --> 01:26:47,470 You're the president's man. 918 01:26:50,419 --> 01:26:52,760 Mr. Gray, what about this? 919 01:26:54,280 --> 01:26:56,040 I don't know what my position should be. 920 01:26:57,860 --> 01:26:59,420 It was before your time. 921 01:27:01,340 --> 01:27:02,340 Tell the truth. 922 01:27:03,980 --> 01:27:05,640 No one can argue with the truth. 923 01:27:08,160 --> 01:27:12,800 Mr. Gray, this Time Magazine article by Sandy Smith contains information on 924 01:27:12,800 --> 01:27:16,980 alleged wiretaps requested by the White House installed by the FBI. 925 01:27:17,280 --> 01:27:19,100 How do you respond to these charges? 926 01:27:19,950 --> 01:27:21,770 It was before my time, Senator. 927 01:27:24,410 --> 01:27:30,070 What about the assertion in this article that a White House aide slipped Donald 928 01:27:30,070 --> 01:27:34,890 Segretti, a target of the Bureau's Watergate investigation, copies of what 929 01:27:34,890 --> 01:27:35,890 FBI had? 930 01:27:36,210 --> 01:27:37,530 We didn't look into that. 931 01:27:37,790 --> 01:27:38,790 Why on earth not? 932 01:27:39,070 --> 01:27:40,150 I'll have to look into that. 933 01:27:40,350 --> 01:27:42,950 Did you know that the White House had your confidential file? 934 01:27:44,930 --> 01:27:46,570 I did, yes, Senator. 935 01:27:56,360 --> 01:27:58,160 Let me tell you how that might have happened. 936 01:27:58,380 --> 01:27:59,299 Please do. 937 01:27:59,300 --> 01:28:04,500 White House counsel John Dean told me the White House wanted everything the 938 01:28:04,500 --> 01:28:07,980 had on Watergate to help with its own investigation. 939 01:28:08,760 --> 01:28:13,940 So Mr. Dean took all those FBI files. How many bureau reports are we talking 940 01:28:13,940 --> 01:28:17,380 about? How many reports did you give Mr. Dean? 941 01:28:18,280 --> 01:28:19,880 I believe it was 82. 942 01:28:20,740 --> 01:28:23,240 As the acting director of the FBI. 943 01:28:23,900 --> 01:28:27,480 Why on earth would you do that? Because I was told to. By who? 944 01:28:27,680 --> 01:28:28,900 Who would have ordered that? 945 01:28:36,820 --> 01:28:37,820 President? 946 01:28:41,140 --> 01:28:45,580 One of the most difficult decisions of my presidency, I accepted the 947 01:28:45,580 --> 01:28:50,440 resignations of two of my closest associates in the White House, Bob 948 01:28:50,620 --> 01:28:51,740 John Ehrlichman. 949 01:28:52,330 --> 01:28:56,870 The counsel to the president, John Dean, has also resigned. 950 01:28:57,450 --> 01:29:01,010 The nation tonight is in the midst of what may be the most critical 951 01:29:01,010 --> 01:29:06,170 constitutional crisis in its history. As a result of the president's action, the 952 01:29:06,170 --> 01:29:07,950 attorney general has resigned. 953 01:29:09,230 --> 01:29:14,490 L. Patrick Gray, head of the FBI for nearly a year, will now never take the 954 01:29:14,490 --> 01:29:16,590 chair occupied by J. Edgar Hoover. 955 01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:20,800 John Dean told me during a conversation that the White House masterminded a 956 01:29:20,800 --> 01:29:24,180 cover -up. I began by telling the president that there was a cancer 957 01:29:24,180 --> 01:29:27,760 the presidency, that it was important that this cancer be removed immediately 958 01:29:27,760 --> 01:29:30,580 because it was growing more deadly every day. 959 01:29:40,000 --> 01:29:41,180 I found that one. 960 01:29:42,820 --> 01:29:43,820 Let's go get it. 961 01:30:00,650 --> 01:30:01,650 Oh, my God. 962 01:30:02,470 --> 01:30:03,470 It's my parents. 963 01:30:53,610 --> 01:30:54,610 This is your grandson. 964 01:30:57,670 --> 01:30:59,090 Come here, sweetheart. 965 01:31:00,630 --> 01:31:01,630 There you go. 966 01:31:13,170 --> 01:31:17,130 I had this feeling when I was little. 967 01:31:20,950 --> 01:31:22,630 That I couldn't see into his eyes. 968 01:31:28,460 --> 01:31:29,640 that he didn't approve of me. 969 01:31:33,220 --> 01:31:37,820 He was... holding me up to some impossible standard. 970 01:31:42,340 --> 01:31:43,340 That was me. 971 01:31:48,680 --> 01:31:52,080 When you were sick and you were little, it was your father who climbed into bed 972 01:31:52,080 --> 01:31:53,080 with you. 973 01:31:53,540 --> 01:31:54,540 In his shoes. 974 01:31:56,300 --> 01:31:57,820 His holster, his suit. 975 01:32:00,720 --> 01:32:04,180 He'd sit with you for hours and rock you till you fell back asleep. 976 01:32:58,460 --> 01:33:00,260 Oh, look at that big boy. 977 01:33:03,120 --> 01:33:04,120 Mr. 978 01:33:16,940 --> 01:33:17,898 Director, we're ready. 979 01:33:17,900 --> 01:33:18,900 Mr. Powell. 980 01:33:25,720 --> 01:33:26,920 Mark. It's a record. 981 01:33:34,060 --> 01:33:38,280 Mr. Felt, thank you for 31 years of service to the Federal Bureau of 982 01:33:38,280 --> 01:33:40,040 Investigation. Thank you. 983 01:34:33,030 --> 01:34:36,150 I have never been a quitter. 984 01:34:36,670 --> 01:34:41,810 To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct 985 01:34:41,810 --> 01:34:42,810 body. 986 01:34:44,130 --> 01:34:49,450 But as president, I must put the interests of America first. 987 01:34:57,480 --> 01:35:01,500 Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. 988 01:35:02,960 --> 01:35:09,940 Vice President Ford will be sworn in as president at that hour in this office. 989 01:35:19,860 --> 01:35:21,460 Counter -espionage expert. 990 01:35:22,340 --> 01:35:23,340 Nazi hunter. 991 01:35:25,160 --> 01:35:27,460 You, Mr. Felder, are the G -man's G -man. 992 01:35:28,400 --> 01:35:29,760 A hero and a patriot. 993 01:35:30,760 --> 01:35:32,460 And we are a grateful nation. 994 01:35:34,100 --> 01:35:38,820 Ladies and gentlemen, for the past few weeks, you've heard through testimony 995 01:35:38,820 --> 01:35:42,760 sounds of the bombs, of the PLO and the weather underground ringing in your 996 01:35:42,760 --> 01:35:44,440 ears. People died. 997 01:35:45,300 --> 01:35:47,840 We were a nation at war at home and abroad. 998 01:35:48,800 --> 01:35:49,940 We don't dispute that. 999 01:35:51,060 --> 01:35:53,580 Now we ask you to listen for the sound of the Constitution. 1000 01:35:56,270 --> 01:35:57,270 You hear that? 1001 01:35:58,970 --> 01:36:01,030 Doesn't make quite as much noise as a bomb, does it? 1002 01:36:02,630 --> 01:36:08,090 Just sits there, silent like our conscience, just as it's done for the 1003 01:36:08,090 --> 01:36:09,090 years. 1004 01:36:09,990 --> 01:36:16,870 Mr. Felt, on September 8, 1972, did you order 143 FBI 1005 01:36:16,870 --> 01:36:20,750 agents across the country to break into the homes of relatives of alleged 1006 01:36:20,750 --> 01:36:24,550 members of the Weather Underground to wiretap their phones and bug their 1007 01:36:24,770 --> 01:36:26,040 Yes. Who else? 1008 01:36:26,460 --> 01:36:29,760 Who else what? Who else participated in giving those orders? 1009 01:36:33,060 --> 01:36:34,460 Assistant Director Edward Miller. 1010 01:36:35,040 --> 01:36:37,860 I gave the order. Acting Director L. Patrick Gray III. 1011 01:36:38,620 --> 01:36:40,260 I gave the order. 1012 01:36:40,740 --> 01:36:41,740 Charles Bates. 1013 01:36:47,100 --> 01:36:48,720 You're really going to sit there and do that? 1014 01:36:50,540 --> 01:36:52,740 You're really going to take that on for everybody? 1015 01:36:54,250 --> 01:36:55,330 I gave the order. 1016 01:36:56,490 --> 01:37:01,490 Mr. Felt, you stated that you frequently briefed the Nixon White House on the 1017 01:37:01,490 --> 01:37:05,690 case. Maybe you could just give us a quick snapshot on how that all worked. 1018 01:37:06,970 --> 01:37:11,270 I was in constant contact with the White House on many matters. 1019 01:37:13,990 --> 01:37:20,230 In fact, I was in the Oval Office so often, people used to say I had to be 1020 01:37:20,230 --> 01:37:21,230 -throated. 1021 01:37:27,950 --> 01:37:28,950 What did you just say? 1022 01:37:29,750 --> 01:37:32,930 I said I was with the White House, Dean, and so forth. 1023 01:37:33,250 --> 01:37:37,750 So often, people thought I was the Washington Post source for Watergate. 1024 01:37:38,730 --> 01:37:40,450 The person they call Deep Throat. 1025 01:37:49,290 --> 01:37:54,190 Before the witness is excused, are there any questions from the jury? 1026 01:37:58,090 --> 01:37:59,850 Well, were you? 1027 01:38:00,610 --> 01:38:01,790 Say what? 1028 01:38:02,010 --> 01:38:04,670 Were you deep throat?