ellsberg. in the pentagon he's the he's the star of the piece you're right but i can't think of him. raise them right now and deal with are you can have to wait and see that was he would be the future that he steals i'm well you don't know overeating about our movie you can't do the movie without daniel ellsberg we'll see about that ok allison maybe you make a more restless movie everything we put a little game of if you only knew oh ok ok just so it's not a court you know what childhood soberly crush. i know i liked joseph gordon levitt he was on that show third rock from the sun that sitcom where he played an alien and he had the hair down to his shoulders. but i was really into it and also jonathan taylor thomas was a big one for me so i was a kid j t t we would say j t t h o t. would you go up a group in south pasadena california secret talent sleeping can sleep anywhere and great at it you like to sleep love it person you'd trade places with for a day. maybe meryl streep because you know j

ellsberg we'll see about that ok allison maybe you make him a wrestler it's a movie everything's ok we put a little game of if you only knew ok ok just so it's not a court you know what childhood soberly crush. i know i liked joseph gordon levitt he was on that show third rock from the sun that sitcom where you played an alien and he had the hair down to his shoulders. but i was really into it and also jonathan taylor thomas was a big one for me so i was a kid j t t we would say j t t h o t. would you go up a group in south pasadena california secret talent. sleeping can sleep anywhere and great at it you like to sleep love it person you'd trade places with for a day. maybe meryl streep because you know just getting to watch her work for a minute i think god. comes so naturally the depth there like what i just want to see how that mind works created she does a dirty strangers job you've ever heard well i did work as a clown and characters for children's parties for a summer when i was getting on my school in cards was seventeen are you good i was pretty good clone guilty pleasure i

. >> daniel ellsberg, an official who had served in the defense department, had access to these materials. he's the one who leaks this to the press. >> i was the lead reporter in the pentagon papers. ellsberg turned against the war, and he copied these papers with the hope that eventually they would be used to embarrass an awful lot of people and which would show that we had made a terrible mistake. fighting this war in vietnam. >> starting with the ellsberg story front page. >> i know him well. he was a hard liner. he volunteered for service and then flipped. >> i think kissinger was obsessed with secrecy and so was nixon. my first three articles were published. and the nixon administration then wanted to stop the whole thing. >> my argument inside was, if you want to make the case against the pentagon papers, get up and charge "the new york times" with publishing national security secrets, gross irresponsibility, and sabotaging the war in vietnam. >> the justice department went to court in new york today and got a temporary order restraining the "times" from publishing the next and last

. >> in 1971 daniel ellsberg had been a defense consultant, decided that the war was wrong and so he took this vast volume of secret papers and he leaked it to the "new york times." >> i felt, as an american citizen, i could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the american public. >> names on paper never mentioned the name richard nixon, but its leak drove richard nixon nuts. >> i think it is time in this country to quit making national heroes out of those who steal secrets and publish them in the newspapers. >> this is a product of the president's paranoia about his ability to control his own government. >> they actually broke into the psychiatrist's office of ellsberg. now, come on! somebody's psychiatrist's office files are raided by people who are commissioned by the white house? >> it's one thing to disclose breaking into the offices of the democratic national committee. it's another to have broken into the offices of a person's psychiatrist. and the public would really have an adverse reaction to that, much more so than the democratic national committee head

ellsberg's psychiatrist office. but there were other plans for the brookings institute and things like that. of course, they tried unsuccessfully to break into watergate. that was the break-in that actually got them caught, but i think it revealed that many people in the white house -- they were all in on the cover-up, and that is quite amazing as we look back. ms. stahl: you were telling me about patrick gray at the fbi because the white house tried to get the fbi to come into the cover-up. mr. weicker: the nixon people tried to take him over to do their dirty work, and this was an especially poignant scenario. he was a man who was a submarine commander in the u.s. navy, and he had gone on one dangerous mission after another and excelled as a hero. he comes back to his country, serves in a political position, and he is used. i managed to have pat tell his story to the press because i wanted to get out front of the news. fortunately, number one, he did that, and fortunately, number two, he did not go ahead and suffe

the president was outraged by it and they turned out to be a fellow i guess with daniel ellsberg. mr. nixon and i don't pick it was a wise idea, but pushed them to get an investigation going of ellsberg and run it right out of the white house because hoover, ellsberg's father-in-law, former father-in-law apparently was very close to hoover and hoover was not doing it so they said the president wants you to do it, buchanan, the investigation. i said i'm not eliot ness. i don't know how to investigate anything and so they kept pushing me to head it up and get together a team, so i said i will go talk to these investigators and people they had gotten together from various departments and who knows where. i went into this meeting with these characters. they had sideburns and guns and none of them had jackets on or anything and i'm supposed to head up this group and as i understood it not only to get-- tight ellsberg to everything that was done which would not be difficult. the fbi was doing that, but to dig up anything on his background which would discredit these people. one of these