Amb. Monica Crowley

So when he became president, and this is actually what gave the deep state the context to do what they did.

Nixon understood the threat within, but also understood he couldn't bring it to the American people in the late 60s, early 70s.

They would go, what are you even talking about?

It took the next 50 years for people to wake up.

Go ahead.

Yes.

So when Nixon becomes president, he understands what Eisenhower was warning about.

So he decides that he is going to consolidate all foreign policy and national security decision making in the hands of two people, he

And his national security advisor at the time, Henry Kissinger, who we later learned was a deep state operative.

Okay.

So Nixon is getting input from one man who he really trusted, who perhaps he should not have.

All right.

That creates the environment where he is excluding the military, his own State Department, his own Secretary of State, the CIA.

They're all going crazy, Glenn, because he is keeping all of the secrets to himself.

The opening to China, detente with the Soviet Union, shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East, all of these huge, peaceful foreign policy initiatives

He and Kissinger are keeping close to the vest.

That then gives rise to this military spy ring that pops up in the White House to spy on Nixon and Kissinger, rifling through their papers when they go home.

You know, when Nixon goes upstairs to go to bed, they come in in the middle of the night in the White House, in the Oval Office, in Kissinger's office, in the White House.

They're rifling through their papers.

They're examining their telephones.