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(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 24, 1974 View of the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, which will discuss on the impeachment proceedings as part of the Watergate scandal in the Rayburn House Office Building, in Washington DC. - A sprawling conspiracy, a cornered president clinging to power, a White House cover-up: for Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks the mushrooming controversy around Donald Trump's alleged plot to take down US democracy is a movie she's seen before. It is 50 years to the day since five burglars were arrested at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington -- touching off a firestorm that would go on to bring down president Richard Nixon. The break-in plunged Wine-Banks when she was barely out of her 20s into a starring role in perhaps the most enduring political scandal in history, as the only woman on the Watergate prosecution team. (Photo by CONSOLIDATED NEWS PICTURES / AFP) (KEYSTONE/CONSOLIDATED NEWS PICTURES/-)