pleased to welcome today Alex Gregory and Peter Hike were co-creators, riders,

and executive producers of White House Plumbers, five-part miniseries airing on

HBO and HBO Max beginning May 1.

Guys, congratulations.

It's great to have you both.

Thanks, Carl.

Thank you very much, Carl.

It looks amazing, and I gotta say, I mean,

the first reaction, Alex, is thinking about Watergate as a subject that we've had half a century to absorb.

And trying to understand from you guys, you must have seen something original, some story that had not yet been told.

Was this in your mind, had this been brewing for many years as a dream project?

Well, the funny thing is, is I don't... for many years as a dream project?

Well, the funny thing is I'd always consider myself a Watergate

junkie.

And our EP, Dave Bernard, his dad is a neurologist in Washington DC and one of his patients was Eagle

Bud Krogh who had hired Hunt and Liddy to destroy Dan Ellsberg on behalf of the president and he was always telling Dave you've

got to meet this guy he has these amazing Watergate stories and and Dave Burnett said

well you know I feel like Watergate's been done.

And his dad kept telling him to go meet this guy.

So finally he did.

And Bud Krogg was telling him stories about the plumbers that he had never heard before and he kept laughing and and Bud was

telling him very seriously and Dave was laughing and he said oh my god this is this

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