in the watergate, but i was far away from where the break-in took place. it was the height of the 72 primary campaign season. nixon was running for office again. the bureau was empty. i was brand new at cbs news. the assignment editor looks around and he s like let the new girl go. i bought into the idea that it was a nothing burger. i went to the court, and the room was empty. there was one other reporter, this guy from the washington post metro page, and it was bob woodward. in come the five burglars dressed in business suits. nine months on the police beat i had never seen a burglar who was well-dressed. it just telegraphed mystery. you would little things that cropped up that were suspicious. our police reporter had
it was the height of the 72 primary campaign season. nixon was running for office again. the bureau was empty. i was brand new at cbs news. the assignment editor looks around and he s like let the new girl go. i bought into the idea that it was a nothing burger. i went to the court, and the room was empty. there was one other reporter, this guy from the washington post metro page, and it was bob woodward. in come the five burglars dressed in business suits. nine months on the police beat i had never seen a burglar who was well-dressed. it just telegraphed mystery. you would little things that cropped up that were suspicious. our police reporter had
i will read his. you published something about him. he said, there s no question that if i m replaced by matthew, democracy falls in michigan. not maybe, not possibly, certainly. he made it clear that not only he supports the big lie, that he is one of the originators of the big lie, to which he tweets, marxist ag says democracy falls in michigan. she s afraid because when i m elected, she will go from wearing business suits to orange jumpsuits. that is ridiculous, dictatorial, authoritarian talk, unless he believes you committed a crime for which you should be sentenced to prison. thank you for having me. yes, that s not the only time that he has threatened to lock me up or imprison me. he never is specific about what crime i might have done that would lead to that.
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we provided for japan s defense and nuclear deterrent. we implicitly steered its foreign policy. we wrote the rules of global capitalism that had allowed them to thrive. we developed the technologies that were reshaping how their companies managed information. we shaped the culture of international business that led us to be sitting there wearing business suits in a hotel conference room that could have been anywhere. they could tolerate acts of temporary insanity the invasion of iraq, for instance. they could weather the results of our excesses, the financial crisis for instance. but they could not gamble o know a country that had elevated someone like trump, who praised fascists marching in the streets and steered the national discourse into the depths of conspiracy theory. that was more dangerous than north korea, and nothing i could say was going to convince them otherwise. that s from the new book after the fall by ben rhodes that comes out tomorrow. ben rhodes joins us live h