ARE NOT GOING TO GET THE UNDERSTANDING OF CASSIDY HUTCHINSON FROM READING THIS BOOK AS YOU -- YOUR FAMILY IN NEW JERSEY, THE FAMILY WE BEGIN WITH IN THIS BOOK WHICH HAS ITS OWN STRUGGLES. AND THEN THERE IS THE TRUM FAMILY, WHAT MARK MEADOW REFERS TO YOU AS STAYING IN TH FAMILY, AND OTHERS REFERRED TO THE FAMILY, MEANING STAYING ON THE TEAM, OR THE TRUMP TEAM. AND THEN TOWARDS THE END OF TH STORY THERE IS THE FAMILY OF SUPPORT THAT YOU DISCOVER THAT NOW INCLUDES YOUR LAWYERS. AND YOU WERE LED TO THAT FAMIL BY MAY BE THE KEY PERSON I THAT FAMILY, WAS A 97 YEAR OLD MAN WHO I KNOW IS WATCHING THI SHOW TONIGHT WHO DECADES BEFOR YOU WERE BORN DID WHAT YOU DID AND WENT INTO A CONGRESSIONA INVESTIGATION OF A REPUBLICA PRESIDENT AND TOLD THE TRUTH LET'S LOOK AT THAT MOMENT. >> - -- ARE YOU AWARE OF ANY LISTENING DEVICES IN THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT? >> I WAS AWARE OF LISTENIN DEVICES, YES, SIR. >> MR. BUTTERFIELD, AS FAR A YOU KNOW FROM YOUR OWN - 1970S UNTIL THE PRESENT TIME ALL OF THE PRESIDENT CONVERSATIONS AND ALL OF HIS - AND ON THE TELEPHONE MENTIONED WERE RECORDED. AS FAR AS YOU KNOW >> THAT IS CORRECT >> AND AS FAR AS YOU KNOW, THOSE TAPES ARE STILL AVAILABLE? >> AS FAR AS I KNOW. BUT I HAVE BEEN AWAY FOR FOU MONTHS, SIR. >> I HAVE NO FURTHER - >> HOW DID ALEXANDER BUTTERFIELD BECOME YOUR GU THROUGH THIS CHALLENGE >> I HAD REACHED A POINT I APRIL OF 2022 WHERE I WA READING THROUGH PAGES OF M TRANSCRIPTS THAT HAD BEEN MADE PUBLIC AND IT WAS, FOR LACK OF BETTER PHRASING, BUT I SORT OF HAD THIS MENTAL BREAKDOWN. BECAUSE I SAW THAT I BECAME TH PERSON THAT I NEVER WANTED T BECOME AND I KNEW HOW FAR GONE I WA FROM THAT PERSON, AND HOW FA GONE I WAS FROM THAT PERSON WANTED TO BECOME WHEN I ENTERE PUBLIC SERVICE BUT I ALSO WAS ABLE TO RECOGNIZE THAT THERE WAS A SLI WINDOW WHERE I COULD CORRECT COURSE, AND I COULD FIND A SECOND CHANCE. AND IT WOULD BE HARD BUT I WANTED TO TRY. SO, I CONNECTED WITH AN OL FRIEND, ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN WHO IS MY FIRST GUIDING LIGH IN THIS JOURNEY. AND IT WAS HER I WORKED WITHIN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND SHE SPOKE OUT AFTER JANUAR 6TH, ON THE SEVENTH, AGAINST WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY BUT THEN I WAS DRIVING UP TO NEW JERSEY, AS I DO EVERY NIGHT. NEED TO GET A LITTLE BIT O RELIEF FROM D.C. AND I START GOOGLING WATERGATE AND I WAS THINKING, THERE HA TO BE SOMEBODY - THERE HAD TO BE SOMEBODY I WATERGATE THAT HAD A SIMILAR POSITION TO ME THAT HAD KNOWN LOT, AND THAT HAD A POSITION THAT REQUIRE THIS INCREDIBLE INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF TRUST AND CONFIDENCE THAT ENDED UP DOING THE RIGHT THING. AND THAT'S WHEN I CAME ACROS ALEXANDER BUTTERFIELD'S NAME I SEARCHED HIS NAME AND I WA LIKE, HE MUST HAVE HAD TO WRIT A BOOK AND HE DIDN'T, IN TH IMMEDIATE. AND I FOUND THIS BOOK THAT H WORKED ON WITH BOB WOODWARD. THE LAST OF THE PRESIDENTS MEN -- >> WE BOTH HAVE OUR COPY >> - IN NEW JERSEY, AND I WROTE I THREE TIMES IN A NIGHT AND I SAW IN ALEX THE PERSON I WANTED TO BE AND I SAW THI INCREDIBLE MORAL CHARACTER THIS INCREDIBLE AMERICAN PATRIOT. BUT HE KNEW THAT IF HE WAS EVE ASKED TO TESTIFY, HE WOULD B FORTHCOMING. HE WOULD TELL THE TRUTH. AND HE HAD NO RESERVATIONS ABOUT THAT AND THAT IS HOW I WANTED TO BE AND THAT'S WHY WANTED TO GET MYSELF I WAS IN A VERY DARK PERIOD OF MY LIFE, BUT - SHARING THIS STORY NEARLY 50 YEARS LATER WITH BOB WOODWAR IS THE REASON I'M SITTING HERE WITH YOU TODAY AND IF THERE IS ANYTHING - HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE MORE TIME TO DISCUSS IT AS WELL, BECAUSE THIS BOOK WAS PROFOUND AND I THINK ALEXANDE BUTTERFIELD IS ONE OF THE MOST INCREDIBLE PEOPLE I'D BE HONORED TO KNOW IN - BUT THE FACT THAT HE WAS WILLING TO SHARE HIS STORY, BU ALSO SHARE THE TRUTH HISTORY WILL REPEAT ITSELF I WE DON'T HAVE GOOD MORE CLEA FOR HIM ALL THE WAY THROUGH, I I GET THAT SUBPOENA, THIS IS WHAT I HAVE TO DO. BUT IT IS SO STRIKING TO M THAT SOMEONE WHO DID WHAT YO DID 50 YEARS AGO SPEAKS TO YOU THROUGH THIS BOOK, IN EFFECT 50 YEARS AFTER THE FACT, AND HELPS YOU FIND YOUR WAY TO D THE SAME THING AND NOW YOU GIVE US A BOOK THA SOMEONE IS GOING TO PICK U THIS BOOK 50 YEARS FROM NOW, 150 YEARS FROM NOW WE DON'T KNOW. SOMEBODY IS GOING TO PICK UP THIS BOOK AND DO THE SAME THIN THAT YOU DID BECAUSE O ALEXANDER BUTTERFIELD GIVING - >> ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS ALE AND I SPOKE ABOUT -- WELL, HE ACTUALLY REACHED OU TO YOU AND YOUR STAFF AFTER WE SAW ALEX ON YOUR PROGRAM THIS PART IS NOT IN THE BOOK BUT I WILL SHARE WITH YOU HERE WHEN YOU HAVE ALEX ON YOUR PROGRAM, I WAS IN A HOTEL IN ATLANTA. AND MY MOM TEXTED ME SHE WAS LIKE, YOU NEED TO TURN ON LAWRENCE O'DONNELL. I TURNED ON THE TV AND I TRY TO GET IN TOUCH WITH ALEX IN DIFFERENT WAYS WE JUST KEPT HITTING DEAD ENDS AND I SAW THAT YOU HAD ALEX ON YOUR PROGRAM I JUST STARTED TO CRY BECAUSE SAW THE MAN, AND I HOPE HE HAD WATCHED THAT TESTIMONY, AND HAD TRIED TO GET IN TOUCH WITH HIM. AND IT WAS JUST THAT CONNECTIO TO HIM THAT -- I KNEW HE HAD SEEN IT. AND I FELT THAT CONNECTION WHERE, IF I NEVER GOT TO SPEAK WITH HIM, I HAD THAT MUCH, WHERE I HAD YOUR CAPSULE O WHAT HE SAID TO YOU THAT NIGHT THE FIRST TIME THAT ALEX AND I SPOKE OVER IZIUM, HE ASKED M TO PROMISE HIM THAT, I SOMEBODY EVER CAME TO ME 5 YEARS OR HOWEVER LONG FROM NOW WITH A SIMILAR PROPOSITION, OR FINDING THEMSELVES IN A SIMILA POSITION THAT WE FOUND OURSELVES IN, WHEN HE ASKED ME TO PROMISE THEM THAT I WOULD HELP THEM. AND IT WAS ONE OF THOS PROFOUND YET SAID FULL MOMENTS AS WELL BECAUSE, I AM SURE THA ALEX DID NOT THINK THAT, 5 YEARS FROM THEN, THAT HE WOULD HAD THE IMPACT THAT HE HAD O MY LIFE, IN HIS DECISION T COME FORWARD BUT I HOPE FROM 50 YEARS FRO NOW WE DON'T HAVE THE SAME ISSUES, WHERE WE ARE DEALING WITH CORRUPT PRESIDENCIES. BUT I PROMISED HIM I WOULD, AN THAT'S ALSO A BIG REASON WHY I WROTE THE BOOK, BECAUSE IF I CAN -- WORKING IN A CORRUPT PRESIDENCY, AND YOU ARE AFRAID TO SPEAK, U AND YOU NEED TO SPEAK UP AND YOU NEED TO STICK UP FOR YOURSELF SOMEWHERE ELSE, I ANOTHER PART OF YOUR LIFE. THE IMPACT ON HIS STORY HAD ON ME, THERE'S NO WAY I CAN FULFILL HIS PROMISE. >> ANYONE IN HIGH SCHOOL OR -- ANYONE WHO HAS STARTED TO WORK IN WASHINGTON AND IS IN THEI EARLY TWENTIES HAD BETTER READ THIS BOOK IT IS ALL THERE IT IS -- ALEXANDER BUTTERFIELD GETS THE LAST LINE OF THIS BOOK, WHICH HAD THOUGHT ABOUT READING ON THE SHOW AND I DON'T WANT TO, AS SPOILER ALERT, AND ALSO BECAUS I WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO READ IT WITHOUT TRYING BECAUSE I WOULD BE A CRYBABY THIS MOMENT. WE WILL SKIP THAT. AND IN LIEU OF THAT, ALEX SENT US A LITTLE MESSAGE TODAY, JUS FOR YOU. LET'S LOOK AT THAT >> CASSIDY, I WANT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING. I WAS SO IMPRESSED, AS WER OTHERS WHO HEARD YOU, WHEN YOU GAVE YOUR TESTIMONY BEFORE CONGRESS YOU ARE VERY EFFECTIVE AND IT COMES THROUGH WE'LL THAT YOU ARE YOUR OWN PERSON I MEAN, YOU SAID I INSPIRED YOU. I AM HAPPY IF I DID. BUT I DON'T THINK SO I DON'T THINK SO YOU ARE VERY MUCH YOUR OWN PERSON AND YOU COME ACROSS WONDERFULL WELL AND I THINK YOU WILL LEARN AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE AN INSPIRATION TO OTHER YOUNG PEOPLE I DIDN'T HAVE THE PRESSURE WHEN I TESTIFIED THAT I AM SUR YOU HAD. AND THAT IS A BIG FACTOR BUT AS I SAY, YOU DID VERY WELL YOU COME ACROSS AS THOUGH YO ARE SPEAKING FROM THE HEART. AND THAT IS VERY CLEAR >> WHEN YOU MET HIM OUT IN CALIFORNIA, WENT OUT TO SEE HIM, YOU SHED A FEW TEARS INTO THAT CASHMERE SWEATER OF. HIS >> ON HIS GRAY CASHMER SWEATER. THANK YOU FOR THAT ALEX JUST HAS ONE OF THOSE SOULS THAT I AM SO FORTUNATE T HAVE HIM IN MY LIFE. AND IT SOUNDS SO HOKEY BUT I THINK THAT WE ALL SHOULD STRIVE TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE LIKE ALEXANDER BUTTERFIELD JUST SOMEBODY THAT HAS THI OUTSTANDING MORAL INTEGRITY AN CHARACTER. AND IT'S NOT JUST THAT HE CAME FORWARD AND TESTIFY TRUTHFULLY HONORABLY. BUT HE CARES DEEPLY ABOU PEOPLE HE CARES DEEPLY ABOUT THIS COUNTRY. AND ALEX HAS HELPED ME IN MORE WAYS THAN I CAN DESCRIBE BUT EVEN IN THE TW
