On Monday, former Nixon White House counsel John Dean testified before Congress about what he sees as troubling information in the Mueller Report and the parallels he sees between Watergate and Trump's actions concerning the Russian attempts to meddle in the 2016 elections.

Dean became a hero on the political left for testifying against Nixon and his White House colleagues.

But what many Americans do not know, however, is how the plot started, what the plumbers were looking for in the DNC headquarter, why they got caught, and how the man lionized by liberals for breaking the scandal wide open actually deserves much of the blame.

The leader of the plumbers was G. Gordon Liddy, a former FBI special agent and official in the office of the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP). In 2012, while a talk show host and colleague of mine at the Radio America network, Liddy detailed how the road to the Watergate break-in began.

“I was down in the office of what came to be known as the plumbers. I was called by Egil Krogh, who was an assistant to John Ehrlichman, and he said, ‘(White House Counsel) John Dean wants to pitch you on something and I think I ought to be there.’ That’s because nobody trusted John Dean. So I went up to Dean’s office. He said that he wanted an intelligence operation to operate against the Democratic Party in the 1972 election,” said Liddy.

Listen to the full podcast to hear Liddy's explanation of Watergate and why he holds Dean in such low regard.