laura: totally. but it wouldn t be watergate without dragging out the two key figures in the scandal. the gum shoe reporters who now get are issued poorly sourced books off their books poorly sourced and of course their cnn hits u of m. just ahead bob woodward and karl bernstein are here to talk to us today about very today s very big developments. is this bigger than watergate? i will ask them. no president has engaged in any including richard nixon, has engaged in anything like we heard today. the january 6th committee has written donald trump s political obituary. laura: really? laura: political obituary. their predictability is as pathetic as their lame talking point. as they keep searching for watergate. we will bring you the stories that matter. speaking of which joe biden finally announced he was going to visited fire ravaged maui after ignoring questions about
we are always happy to have people on the program when they bring something that makes the act of reading and freshly experiencing a moment in time a pure pleasure. that goes double tonight. our guest is legendary journalist carl bernstein. his new book chasing history: a kid in the news room tells us how it began. it is such a great read. viewers familiar with your work in the washington post, they may be surprised to know you began your work at the washington star. it is really a love letter to a newspaper industry which, sadly, in so many ways no longer exists. what made you decide to revisit that time? it was in some ways the most joyous experience of my life. i went to work in this great news room, got the greatest seat in the country at the age of 16. worked at the washington star from 1960 to 65 when so much
about 70% of the state s population in colorado over the age of 5 is fully vaccinated, so the spokesperson for the governor says that they are kind of moving beyond passed this idea of a small group of unvaccinated people in that state infringing on everyone else s ability to move beyond the pandemic. so you clearly get the sense they re trying to strike this balance between pushing the vaccine and getting people s lives back to normal as quickly as possible to kind of unravel the economic disruptions that the state and the country has suffered for most of the last two years. appreciate it. thank you. up next, karl bernstein joins us to talk about his first big assignment covering the kennedy inauguration to how his career led him to become the legend we all know. a new book out chasing history. it feels too good to be true. it s kicking back and relaxing
in the early 1970s our country was rocked by presidential scandal. after a security guard botched the burglary in a d.c. hotel, the american public learned the name watergate. it was a long, drawn out political catastrophe that led to president richard nixon s downfall. because of the watergate matter, i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. jesse: while nixon wasn t the man behind the burglary, he was involved in the cover-up and, as we all know, the cover-up is worse than the crime. back then an enterprising press corps held our political leaders feet to the fire. bob woodward and karl bernstein exposed the president and his role in the containment of the scandal. must have been nice. the media actually trying to hold the president accountable for the actions of those around him. now fast forward 50 years to today and we re looking at a drastically different media