Tim Kaine Compares Russian Hacking to Watergate

EXCERPT:

KAINE: "I was chairman of the Democratic National Committee for a couple of years, and we had a file cabinet in the basement that had a plaque over it. It was a file cabinet that was rifled by burglars in an invasion of the Democratic National Committee in 1972. It was a bungled effort to take some files and plan some listening devices. That small event led to one of the most searching and momentous congressional inquiries in the history of this country. It was nonpartisan. One of the leaders of the congressional investigation was a great Virginian Caldwell Butler, who was my father-in-law’s law partner in Roanoke, Virginia before he went to Congress and played a major role. It was not an investigation driven because something affected the election, the 1972 presidential election was one of the most one-sided in the modern era. But it was a high moment for Congress, because Congress in a bipartisan way stood for the principle that you couldn’t undertake efforts to influence and an American presidential election and have there been no consequences."