Host joining us now is bob woodward, author of the new book rage and Washington Post associate editor. Mr. Woodward i want to begin the , headline in your newspaper, trump will not commit to peaceful transition. Give us your insight after writing two books about the president on his comments. Guest it makes no sense for anybody, even him, but of course he thinks he can bully his way , through on this. The information i have, it is going to be just a train wreck upon a train wreck at election or after election time. How do you count the votes . How do you make sure there is a fair and square election . We are heading into another chapter, chapter 73, of trump world, and we are just going to have to watch it day by day, hourbyhour. Host you spoke with the president , i believe 19 times for this book. How did it come about, and how did he agree to talk with you . Guest i did a book in 2018 on his first two years, and he did not cooperate. I tried to talk to him. He regretted it. He, of co
Lead reporter for coverage of the 9 11 terrorist attacks. His books also have made big news and drawn many readers pick his nose book rage is his 20th. All of been national bestsellers. We are accustomed to bobs books taking us behind the scenes of highlevel meetings and into the minds of those making critical u. S. Policy decisions. His extraordinary about United States is at this time donald trump himself spoke with bob not once or twice but 17 times while the book was being written providing a remarkable series of glimpses into the president s thinking at key moments. The conversation with bob the cd will be another prizewinning journalist jane mayer, chief washington correspondent for the new yorker magazine which is been for 25 years. Jane is also the author of authoritative books that helped deepen our understanding of such important topics as the money behind the rise of the radical right, the war on terror, the Clarence Thomas hearings, and the irancontra affair. So jane and bo
Bullies with way through on this, and the information i have, its going to be just a a train wreck upon a train wreck at election or after election time. How do you count the votes, how do you make sure that there is a fair and square election . Were were heading into another chapter, chapter 73 of trump world and were just going to have to watch it day by day, hour by hour. You spoke with the president , i believe, 19 times, for this book. How did it come about . And how did he agree to talk with you . Well, i did a book in 2018 fear, on his first two years, and he did not cooperate. I tried to talk to him. He regretted that he, of course, denounced the book. Said i was a democratic operative. Some people close to him said, oh, by the way, the book is true, and so the president , when i wanted to do the second book, said he would cooperate. I went into the oval office, put my little tape recorder down op the resolute desk and said its all on the record. Im going to record it all, and
Sense of whats driving this in the Mainstream Media that youre part of . First of all, theres a virus against republicans for a bias against republicans in general. Reagan was portrayed as dangerous and the same thing with, hes dangerous according to the media and you just cant break out of that. I think they feel that if they did they would be ostracized by their colleagues and i know for example from people within the white house correspondents of all that among themselves they laugh at him. They mock him. That is the overriding theme and many people just inherently think independently and in fact thats one reason i left college after 2 years like a few other people, michael dell. I didnt want to be told how to think i didnt want to be told what to read. I wanted to get firsthand what actually happened and thats the way ive operated. I dont have blinders on. Id like to penetrates secrets and thats what ive done in this book with all these details about the real donald. Thats excellen
harrowing days in our history. the attempted assassination of president reagan. screaming, yelling. it s chaos. now, an unprecedented look into the mind and new life of the gunman, john hinckley junior. stories you haven t heard before. the cop, who questioned him, speaks out in his first nationally televised interview. i just didn t think he realized the magnitude of what he had done. from behind the hospital walls. he turned to her and said, will you marry me? secrets from his diary uncovered by dateline. his obsession with actors, jody foster. the letters were sent to and the most controversial question of all, is hinckley really fit to be free? he s a potential k dangerous character. hello, welcome to dateline. he shot a president and shook the country. since that day, more than 40 years ago, gunman, john hinckley jr. has remained an enigma. now, we re about to reveal an extraordinary trove of his most private thoughts and feelings, and provi