Группа оперативников должна выявить утечку информации о нацбезопасности США в правительстве.

Марта, супруга генерального прокурора США Джона Митчелла, первой заметила, что ее муж замешан в каком-то заговоре. Как в итоге оказалось, Республиканская партия во время президентской кампании 1972 года установила прослушку в штабе демократов в отеле «Уотергейт». Разбирательство по этому делу закончилось импичментом президента Никсона и вошло в историю, как Уотергейтский скандал.

The Watergate crisis as viewed by John Dean and his wife Maureen, based on their personal accounts -- his best-seller, her book on how it affected their marriage -- and distilled into an eight-hour drama with all of the political figures of the day parading by as Dean relates his story to his attorney when his world, based on blind ambition, begins crashing down on him.

An immersive look inside Nixon’s inner circle and the schemes that took place behind closed doors by the Committee to Re-Elect the President that would eventually unravel his presidency.

A look at the constitutional crisis that resulted in President Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974.