Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Historically, because a lot of our viewers will remember. When you and bob woodward were working on the watergate related stories, was president nixon as anxious publicly during your reporting as we now see this president being very anxious, deeply concerned about the Mueller Probe . First, i think what were seeing is more than anxiety on the part of donald trump. We are seeing a president who is behaving and acting unhinged. Nixon did not really publicly act unhinged, but i think we need to look at something larger. That is that in watergate, the system worked. The president of the United States did not publicly declare the press an enemy of the people and seek to undermine the First Amendment and the very legitimacy of what the press did, though he did try to make our conduct an issue, or the issue in watergate, rather than his own conduct. Can share my own personal perspective. Ive certainly received my fair sh
disinformation, leveraging economic resource, and escalating divisive issues. but it s important to understand this is note just an election cycle threat. our adversaries are trying to undermine our country on a persistent and regular basis whether it s election season or not. there s a clear distinction between on the one hand activities that threaten the security and integrity of our election systems and on the other hand the broader threat of influence operations designed to manipulate and influence our voters and their opinions. with our partners, we re trying to counteract both threats. we have three pillars to our operational strategy. the first pillar is our investigations and our operations. and for a variety of reasons, which i hope are obvious, including operational sensitivities, i m not going to be able to describe the full extent of those efforts, but i will tell you our foreign influence task force works with fbi personnel in all 56 fbi