It was 50 years ago today, John Burman here in for Anderson, two and a half sergeant

peppers ago, burglars acting on behalf of an American president, broke into the Watergate

headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and began the scandal that would be until

now the single gravest assault on American democracy in this country's history.

In a moment, a conversation with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who is reporting in the

Washington Post over the two years and two months it took before Richard Nixon was forced

to resign, did more than most to make it clear that Watergate was far more than the simple

break-in it first appeared to be.

It's worth mentioning now because, contrary to the impression people might have today,

knowledge about what Watergate truly was in size and scope and the threat to democracy

had posed did not come all at once, all neatly wrapped up in a bow.

It was revealed in day-by-day slices of the truth from Bob and Carl and so many others.

That notion seems just as true tonight.

50 years later, when it comes to the latest assault on democracy.

We've had plenty of revelations almost since the day the Capitol was attacked, so many

that it's hard to keep track and harder still to be surprised to imagine any of it changes

what we think we already know.

Yet this week, the House January 6th Committee, even as tries to bundle up the scandal and

tie a bowl around it, has also delivered plenty that is new.

And today, promised more.

Listen, he can be a member of the Zill Loughgren today on CNN talking about Donald Trump's

effort to strong arm Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffinsberger after the election.

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