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(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 10, 2019, former White House Counsel John Dean testifies during a House Judiciary Committee hearing about Lessons from the Mueller Report - Presidential Obstruction and Other Crimes, on Capitol Hill 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 SAUL LOEB / AFP) (KEYSTONE/AFP/SAUL LOEB)