current law. woodward published them in the trump tapes which provides reporting to support his assessment that trump is a unique, unparalleled danger to the nation. that conclusion goes farther, quite frankly, than much of the journalism that woodward has been known for, chronicling ten presidents, breaking stories across watergate that upended the nixon era and history itself, deep looks at clinton, bush, the obama years. 20 books in all, two pulitzer prizes. up front, this special we re doing tonight is built around woodward s reporting along with additional government material, public sourcing, and a walk through the recent archives of this pandemic era. so after we show you what we are learning tonight, we will turn to mr. woodward who joins us later in this program. first, we re going to walk through some of his reporting. largely chronologically as the pandemic first hit america. if journalism is the first draft
who are entitled to beneath err vote nor a country. ironically, the young bibi understood that it was impossible to keep the palestinians in such serflike conditions forever. listen to him advocating that palestinians should be given citizenship, either in jordan or in israel. in the event that this negotiation process will continue, i am sure that what we re talking about is, in fact, eventual citizenship of some kind, either jordanian or israeli or any other arrangement. if the palestinians were smart, they d take the prime minister up on citizenship in israel, and then bibi would wish he d been for a two-state solution all along. let s get started. so what does it look like to thomas friedman, the author of from beirut to jerusalem, winner of two pulitzer prizes,
but first up the chances of peace in the middle east after the latest round of speeches by prime minister netanyahu and president obama. i ll be joined by tom friedman of the new york times who is just back from the middle east. now, here s my take for this week. we ve just gone through an arcane debate about whether barack obama said anything new when he called for an israeli/palestinian settlement based on 1967 borders with mutually agreed upon land swaps. in fact, that has been the working assumption of all negotiating parties, america, israel and the palestinian authority, for over 20 years. it is what the camp david talks of 2000 were based on. it s what elmerit s talks were based on. the real shift in u.s. policy was president obama publicly condemning the palestinian strategy to seek recognition as a state from the u.n. general assembly in september. instead of thanking obama for this, prime minister netanyahu chose to stage, in the words of the former israeli di
but first up the chances of peace in the middle east after the latest round of speeches by prime minister netanyahu and president obama. i ll be joined by tom friedman of the new york times who is just back from the middle east. now, here s my take for this week. we ve just gone through an arcane debate about whether barack obama said anything new when he called for an israeli/palestinian settlement based on 1967 borders with mutually agreed upon land swaps. in fact, that has been the working assumption of all negotiating parties, america, israel and the palestinian authority, for over 20 years. it is what the camp david talks of 2000 were based on, it s what elmert s talks were based on. the real shift in u.s. policy was president obama publicly condemning the palestinian strategy to seek recognition as a state from the u.n. general assembly in september. instead of thanking obama for this, prime minister netanyahu chose to stage, in the words of the former israeli dip
winner of two pulitzer prizes, new york times columnist. this week, questions you may have or i may have, bb netanyahu goes back to israel, and he is hailed a hero. there s no question when you stand up to foreign power, you insert your demands, that s going to support that. it s good work if you can get it. but what happens next week? i think we have to step back and really ask the big strategic question, why is israel popular? why has this been an enduring relationship all these years? why is that cameraman and that sound person support israel, whether they re jewish or not jewish? because we see them like us, we see them as a country that shares our values. and most importantly, we see israel as a bastion of democracy in the middle east. that s israel s greatest strategic strength vis-a-vis the united states. and those of us who have been critical of prime minister netanyahu on this issue are basically saying is that s precisely what is imperilled if