To pandemic, that there will be little room for a serious discussion either on Foreign Policy issues or domestic issues . That remains to be seen. But clearly back in the day, Foreign Policy matters a lot more than it does now. The republican landslide in 1920 was a direct result of the uncertainties and challenges in the wake of the first world war. Fdr broke the twoterm president in 1940, 1944, and gained enormous legitimacy in response to impending war and war as well. In 1952 korea was the dominant issue, the stevenson ike issue. In 68 lbj was literally drifen from the consequence of vietnam. In the election, vietnam did not play a singular role. Of course, 1980, you have the iranian hostage crisis and afghanistan. Increasingly, though, after the cold war, it seems that Foreign Policy had more or less dropped out of the president ial electoral cycle and the debates. You had the iraq war in 04 and 08 and figured prominently 9 11. August 20, just last month, registered voters on r12
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
According to rachel by coffer whos a pretty talented pollster theres still about 6 and a half percent of the american electorate thats undecided about the election theres a believable Bob Woodwards new book revealing that trump knew how serious covert 19 was and didnt reveal it what do you make of that. Well i have the book here on my desk i finished reading that book last night. Its a its a pretty damning book obviously the recordings of the president or hurtful as well but i think you know of bob 7750 plus years as the investigative journalist he finishes the book by basically saying a distillation of his interviews and his fact finding the president is not fit donald trump doesnt have the right personality for that office and so i think thats something that i believe its something that jim mattis believes general kelly believes Rex Tillerson believes h. R. Mcmaster is coming out with a book next week on sure we should try to get him on politicking i mean hes got a lot to say about t
You remember that . Joe was willing to sacrifice american lives to placate the radical left open border extremists, and we saved tens of thousands of lives, probably hundreds of thousands of lives, and we saved millions of lives by doing the closing and now the opening the way we did it. Joes decision to publicly attack the china ban proved he lacks the character or intelligence or instinct to do what is right. Lou biden, the radical dems, the rinos and the leftwing National Media have exploded over Bob Woodwards new book. Woodward reporting President Trump intentionally downplayed the china virus in the earliest stages of what later would be a pandemic. And a deadly one. President trump addressed woodwards claims head on today, and in the process smacked down abcs illmanneredded, disrespectful jonathan carl. Why did you lie to the American People, and why should we trust what up to say now . Thats a terrible question and the phraseology, i didnt lie. What i said is we have to be calm,
Doing i think is very very dangerous and i think that responsible people that i work for him its miles taylor at the department of Homeland Security people like myself or at least trying to offer a patriotic warning to our fellow citizens who i know him for 40 years i still cant figure out can you get all i did he call woodward widely speak with woodward more of them a dozen times knowing what words passed. Well i think its the same way you would speak to larry king you know i mean you you had the highest rated show on c. N. N. I think forever frankly and that tracks President Trump it hes somebody that struck by stars bob woodward is the investigative journalist of record frankly for 9 president s and what was fascinating about the book if you read it larry it wasnt bob woodward just initializing the calls of the president gave bob woodward his cell phone number and he was also calling bob woodward late into the evening at his home to talk with him so it was a total of 18 times approx