again, bob woodward not a proven liar. quite the opposite. >> here's the president's latest lob in the battle tonight. he's tweeted, "the woodward book has already been refuted and discredited by general secretary of defense james mattis and general chief of staff john kelly. their quotes were made up frauds, a con on the public. likewise other stories and quotes. woodward is a dem operative? notice timing?" tim o'brien, various white houses have accused at different times bob woodward of being of the opposite party whenever these books come out. >> it's interesting that trump even now cannot help himself but give free publicity that's going to boost sales to this very critical book just like he did to omarosa and just like he did to michael wolff because he personalizes all of these and in the midst of it he can't think strategically. and anybody who's covered trump knows that the full picture of what woodward is present sng only consistent with all the reporting that's been out there for the last 2 1/2 years since trump b

>> what i'm intrigued by and hasn't gotten a lot of concentration until your conversation with bob woodward tonight is the way the governing actually works in this white house. in that sense, that part -- those parts of the book you can compare them to previous woodward books inside previous presidencies and he made a reference to the book he wrote about the first book he wrote about the clinton administration and nafta and the way nafta worked its way through the legislative process. you can see in the story titled agenda, it is an extremely careful process, and every decision being made about nafta in its implementation and what the government would have to do to implement it, is done with extreme care, both inside the clinton white house and in the congress when they're doing it. and then you cut to the 21st century version of this in the trump white house where we heard bob woodward tonight describe to you how he just wants to throw it all away and people are surrounding him telling him all of the things that nafta has done that he does not know about. he clearly does not know about. an

don't give it to bob woodward. we're glad to have it in any way it comes.ny but why not at the time? one of the questions presented by this book is should you serve this president? for people who are doing it for the right reasons and are in national security roles, i commend them and thank them for serving the president. t but if you are going to leave or if you're forced out, make your resignation count. do it in a group. do it on the same day. and then immediately spell out in detail why you're doing it. >> david frum, tim o'brien, john heilemann, thank you for starting us off tonight. when we come back, the most revealing moment in the kavanaugh confirmation hearing today came when brett kavanaugh refused to shake the hand of a man whose daughter was killed in the mass murder at her high school in parkland, florida. that man, fred guttenberg, will join us and tell us what he wanted to say to the nominee. also tonight, we have more revelations from bob woodward's book and the "new york times" is reporting that s

this is a theme in bob woodward's book he reports. these national security advisers, these generals, according to woodward, they are staying for one reason and that is they are the thin blue line. the title of bob woodward's book is "fear." they fear if they're not there, if they leave, if they get fired, there's no one standing between donald trump and endangering national security. >> can we put a reality check in here that one of the reasons why donald trump did what he did is because he rightly so thinks that he is his own best spokesman but as you said it was his rebuttal and there still is that 30 and change percent of people who believe, who will choose to believe what he says about "new york times," about the fact that this is not true, this is not real. and the idea that he wanted to get out there to kind of bring all of those very, very loyal supporters in to the fold immediately and catch them is really telling. is very, very telling. it is his anger. it is his rage. but also strategic. >> i also think he wanted to be on tv.

bob woodward hours of time, and that he himself did not participate, the president thinks he is his own best mes n messenger, they they did not bring the opportunity to him aggressively to participate in the book. >> this audiotape that bob woodward recorded with the president. bob recorded it and he was saying he was disapointed that president trump did not participate and president trump said i did not know about it, nobody brought it to me, and he says i spoke to kellyanne co conway, and he says i didn't know anything about it, and she walks into the office and is confronted by president trump. >> she said he spoke to you, but you never told me. why didn't you tell me? >> remember two-and-a-half months ago you came over and i laid out they wanted to talk to the president. >> i do, and i put in the request, but it was rejected. i can only take it so far. >> so the president now saying he would have wanted to participate. >>> he says some of them are scared of me, and he was frustrated that he wa

what is new and -- you and i have seen a lot of bob woodward books over every president since nixon, ve. maybe not carter. there's been a woodward book and its not unusual to get a sense of chaos in an administration or they're stabbing each other behind closed doors. what's different here is the extent to which people in the administration are questioning the basic capacity of the president, whether its talking about him with an understanding of a fifth grader or saying he cannot tell the truth, that is, i think qualitatively different than what we have seen in these books before that have edged in that direction but this portrait if, in fact, borne out by the full book is something different and one that will give accentuate the concerns of voters who believe that their needs to be more of a check on tlump. >> i want to put a graphic on the screen. you see some of the things in this book that the president of the united states says about some of the top officials current and former, jeff sessions, the attorney general of the united states, according to the book is mentally retarded,

bob woodward reached out to kellyanne conway for an interview and one of the surreal moments is that the president puts kellyanne conway on the phone with bob in the middle of the interview and kellyanne says yes, yes, she did have it, it went through the right channels. kellyanne conway has direct access to the president. she's standing in the oval office when he's on the phone with woodward. the idea that the press office that kellyanne conway -- that woodward's request did not get to trump, he admits he heard it from lindsey graham, it strains credulity. >> hold on. isn't it possible the whole theme of this book are his toppedtop adviser s trying to keep him from himself and protect him from the country and that they made a decision, kellyanne conway and the communications directors made a decision, we won't let him talk to bob woodward, that would be bad for him. his impulse is he wants to but they decided against hit. >> but he admit he is knew about it. >> from lindsey graham. >> but lindsey graham -- that wasn't an accidental thing. woodward asked lindsey graham would you also

bob woodward is a man who deserves respect. you can't -- >> i think bob woodward is a good reporter, but he has a history of being a hostage to his sources. many books he's done where if you're giving him information, administrative sources, administration sources, get good portrayals in the books. people that don't give him good information, they don't come across so well. >> he reached out to the president. he wanted to talk to him. you heard the phone call between the two of them, right? >> the way this book has turned out. >> i think the president was smart not to talk to him because he talked to a lot of people who were ex-administration people who are not happy with the president. at least that's what we were led to believe. it's anonymous sourcing. >> right. but that doesn't mean it's not true. as we all know, most of the best reporting we get is from anonymous sources because they don't want to be revealed, and they're often likely to tell you the most truthful things. >> but, chris, i'm watching your network. they're s

yes, i spoke to bob woodward.ublic to know they're trying to blow the whistle or save the country. incredible set of circumstances. and as you said, this is very, very rare. only a few times in the paper's history to publish something like this. >> thank you so much. let's bring the panel back. from an anonymous senior trump official. the bigger concern is not what mr. trump has done to the presidency but what we have allowed him to do to us. we have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility. senator john mccain put it best. all americans should heed his words and break free of the tribalism trap with the high aim of uniting through the shared values and love of this great nation. jeffrey toobin, i don't think this op-ed is going to make that point so much as underlining the point of the woodward book. what do you think? >> no. i think it is cumulative with the woodward book, with the omarosa book and the journalism we see every day. i mean, you know, journalists, our cnn colleagues wh

that's bob woodward's characterization. may have happened -- >> that's gary cohn's characterization according to the book. >> do you know if that memo was properly vetted and signed off by gary or others to be put on the president's desk at that time? i don't know the facts behind it but i do know those gentlemen's job was to control paper flow on and off -- >> that's not how it was described in the book. >> of course it's not described that way. of course it's not described that way -- >> remember who you're talking about. that is bob woodward. it's not omarosa. it's not some disgruntled staffer. >> again, i will stand by general kelly and general mattis every day, 10 days out of 10, rather than bob woodward. >> i'll tell you what, the things they're accused of saying, it's not the first time i've heard them accused of it. >> you're saying you don't believe the credibility -- >> i'm saying they say what they say, and i can't disprove it. i'm just saying bob woodward -- >> i've got to say -- >> go ahead. >> as somebody who'

this is the conversation between bob woodward and president trump, which bob woodward recorded. and he told the president he was recording. >> with his permission. >> with the permission of the president. and kellyanne conway was in the oval office when they had the conversation. listen to this. >> you and i spent a whole lunch on it, kellyanne. and i said i want to cover the substantive issues in foreign policy and domestic policy. and you said you would get back to me. nothing. >> yeah. so i did. i presented it to the people here who make those decisions, but -- but anyway. i'll give you back to the president. and i'm glad to hear that you tried through seven or eight different people. >> yeah. >> that's good. you should tell him all the names. thank you. >> but you never called for me. it would have been nice, bob -- if you called for me in my office. i have a secretary. i have two, three secretaries. if you would have called directly, a lot of people are afraid -- i hardly -- i do, i do. and kellyanne went to somebody. but she didn't come to me. >> well -- >> and she should

this as bob woodward's book bombshell portrays the white house as crazy town. president trump: the book is a work of fiction. if you look at woodward's past he had the same problem with other presidents. he likes to get publicity and sell some books. >> i talked to dozens and dozens of people and have notes and documentation of lots of things. >> bob woodward's book on the trump administration is like nothing we have ever heard. it's like everything we have heard except worse and scarier. >> there are a bunch of people who say the president said these things. >> it's time for the come to say the trump presidency is a national knowledge. >> apparently hundreds of anonymous people painting the trump presidency in a very negative light. howie: are the books undermining the president's credibility. howie: serena breaks down. ' was the umpire sexist? this is "mediabuzz." what began as a media furor took a serious turn when the ' "new york times" op-ed said trump is unstable and i am norm. his impulsiveness results in half baked and reckless decisions that have to be

does he know that the public will trust bob woodward a lot more than they'll trust snim woodward has a good track record. he brought down nixon on truth. he had no other weapon to bring nixon down with. it was by truth. all he had was truth. and this guy says i can outmaneuver this guy on truth telling. it's not his weapon of choice. trump isn't reliable at truth. he's good at b.s., salesmanship, but truth is bob woodward's game. >> bob woodward has a long record of meticulous reporting. none of us sitting here having this conversation, nobody in washington is going to take donald trump's word over bob woodward's. but donald trump is not necessarily playing to that crowd and his base will assume that bob woodward is just part of the deep state and the elitist -- >> really? >> yes, to trump's base, absolutely, yes. everybody else will believe woodward. >> ryan, i've known bob woodward 40 years. i don't even know what party he's in. never heard a liberal sentiment once come out of his mouth, annie. >> he comes across as a sober mind the counter point to trump. the recording that was re

bob woodward is a good journalist. there's no doubt in my mind that whatever he wrote in that book, he had sources for. but at the end of the day, he's going to be judged by results. president trump, in my world, where i live, in south carolina, most people are very pleased with what the president's doing. >> because this individual who wrote this article in "the new york times" clearly is -- "the new york times," you believe "the new york times" would not have published it if they had not confirmed it was a senior trump administration official. >> i'm sure that it could be one of a bunch of people. all i can say is i've never heard this before. i'm going to judge the president by the results. and i like what he's doing with judges, what he's doing with the military, what he did with taxes. and that will matter in my world. in my world, when "the new york times" speak, most of us don't listen. nothing against the paper, but it's sort of seen as the voice of the left. >> because the author of this article -- >> because

so the only one that he was denying for some reason was the word idiot, but to bob woodward, bob woodward is a legendary investigative journalist. he is a two-time pulitzer prize winner. he interviewed dozens of sources, all firsthand people who have been in the room with trump, and when you read the book what you will see is that they're all quoted extensively. and why are they quoted extensively? bob woodward did hundreds of hours of taped interviews with his sources. he is known for his credibility and in the past when he's been questioned, you know, there's the great denial that happens when a book comes out and people don't like the way they've been quoted, but then it's proven that it was accurate. >> all coming back to tapes, jamie. >> that's right. >> it's all coming back to the tapes. >> right. >> jamie, stick around. i want to add to the conversation right now, john dean is here and eliana johnson, a correspondent for politico. john, i've got many questions, but an attorney to the president warning him that he can't testify because he's going to person perjure himself and the pr

talking to bob woodward, telling bob woodward that bob woodward has always been fair to him. >> that's right. >> we'll play that tape coming up. it's not just the president. a number of administration officials have come out against the book in different ways. >> that's true. and anderson, one thing we should point out, this did not all come out when these excerpts came out this morning. this took some time. this white house was caught somewhat flat-footed by all of this. they did not have a response for several hours, but sarah huckabee sanders put out a statement, the press secretary saying this book is nothing more than fab indicated stories, many by former disgruntled employees told to make the president look bad. but anderson, as you know, many of the people quoted in the book are still in the administration, including john kelly, the chief of staff who, yes, is pushing back on some of the comments, but not all of the comments. but, yes, the secretary of defense james mattis has put out a statement saying that portions that have been attributed to him are not true, as has rudy giu

this is bob woodward and people are not going to listen. will democrats take the house and impeach the president? this is not something the president should be looking at right now. this is distractioning awaydist the mid-terms. >> i used the italian pronunciation here. the president and the white house do have a point. you have a number of officials issuing public denials with things contained in the books. woodwa woodward's explanation is these are folks who are not telling the truth to save their jobs. you have 20 something or 30 something or senior officials s sayi sayi saying they were not responsible. that was quick to deny he was deep throat in the 70s. >> it took a while and will be revealed who this source was. i actually think the "new york times" op-ed took a window of sales of the account. bob woodward is the most reported of our time. his incidence are airtight.

i think we should take seriously, though, bob woodward's reporting. done eight or nine presidents now. his reporting has held up over the years. i'm about ten chapters into the book. it's a better read than i thought it would be. so i think this book's going to emerge, and he's on the right side of history, and he's disclosing what i think is really just book one of a multi-volume set. >> yeah. well, i'm behind because i haven't started it yet. but, you know, good luck. i will start soon. thank you, john dean. i appreciate your time. >> thank you, don. >>> make sure you stay with cnn, everyone, for the very latest on hurricane florence, okay? stay tuned because we have a lot more. we're going to keep you posted on that. >>> when we come back, though, tonight on the 17th anniversary of 9/11, a new assessment of the dangers of terror attacks. i'm going to ask fareed zakaria would our allies still come to our aid today like they did after 9/11? can be relentless. tremfya® is for adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. i'm ready. with tremfya®, y

or his lie to bob woodward that he had no idea that the book was being written. >> they're both pretty bad, but this one woodward describes two and a half hour lunch he had with kellyane conway where he put in the request. she gets on the phone, gets on the phone and then trump holds her the phone and handle this and talks bob down a little bit. yeah, your request was denied never made it to the president's desk. that are among the things in this book, that's trivial. when you have people like jim mattis and other high-ranking people quoted as saying this president is erratic, saying that he has the understanding and the intelligence of a fifth or sixth grader, it's things we've heard privately from people around the president, but to see them put together and splashed into a book is pretty extraordinary. >> kasie, everybody in the white house -- we've said this for a long time, knows this, of course, people in the white house act shocked, shocked, shocked that we would have suggested such a thing for a year and a half. let's take it a step further. everybody on capitol hill knows this

because it is bob woodward.ds are to reconstruct dialogue based on what two sources told him what was said. and so, of course, is it possible that some of the dialogue is inaccurate, not 100% right on the money? of course. memories are faulty. people remember different things. but the way he triang lates information, generally the accuracy of his books have not been challenged. and the picture he paints here is so deeply disturbing, though it won't be surprising to anyone who watches msnbc or regularly reads "the new york times" or "the washington post." in fact, he confirms some previous nbc reporting like the fact that trump called his chief of staff john kelly and idiot and erupted volcanically in a secret meeting about afghanistan policy because he was so frustrated with the proposals that his generals were presenting him. but, i mean, just the words that people are using even in reviews of the woodward book to describe the president of the united states. emotionally overwrought, unpredictable leader, childi

no one knows bob woodward like my next guest carl bernstein.w by carl as well as patrick healey, the politics editor at the "new york times." i would like to talk about the woodward book and the "new york times" op-ed book that's making waves. we have just heard from woodward for the first time on cbs. he talked about what he hopes people will take away from this book. let's take a look at what woodward said. >> this one was in the belly of the beast. >> and what did you conclude about the beast? >> that people better wakeup to what's going on. >> and to what woodward is saying in this book and what he wants the public to know? carl, do i have you? i'm sorry -- >> i think i couldn't hear you, brian. >> you're a little bit far away from me today. i was asking for your reaction to what woodward was say about t the fact that the public needs to wake up. this needs to be a wakeup call. >> i think that's true because this book is an astonishing book with detail piled upon detail, with memoranda in which people in the administration of the united sta

good to have you on. >> mike, you've known bob woodward for a little while. the book? >> take it to the bank. if you edit woodard's stuff, some would say bob is plotting. that's a compliment because he is fully versed in everything he brings to the table, fully sourced out. i mean, take it to the bank. take it to the bank. >> elise, what about you? i know you're from the south. maybe the president will listen to you any way. >> i'm kind of slow, but thank you for still respecting my opinion. according to donald trump. but i was impressed by the call, the transcript of the call that bob woodward had with donald trump, how much information just in that one call where donald trump thought that he could woo bob woodward into shelving a book and started out by praising him and slid huddenly he knew i going to be a bad book and it was over. no one on the staff thought it was a good idea to sit down with bob woodward. >> philip rucker, you are looking at the book as well. and getting a sense of not only just the emotion involved with everybody using very colorful la

and everyone speaks to bob woodward, they know that he is the first draft of history. says oh, he got the story wrong, he got this detail -- the guy goes back, he does dozens of interviews with all these principals and the people that deny it are embarrassed in the end. everybody makes mistakes. but the scope of bob woodward's work, the overall content of his work, has proven to be an incredibly infallible guide to presidential history. he's had an insight into operations of the oval office, and when he looks at this as the most chaotic, shambolic and dangerous he's seen i believe him. >> i've got ten seconds if you want to respond to that. steve or april. >> look, i would say this. i do think when you talk about the scope, i do believe this is happening. i believe there's a cabal of crony insiders within the administration who are working to thwart the president. we know that from the "new york times" op-ed. and i implore the president to take action against those people who are trying to nullify the will of the people from 2016. you can laugh, but it's very real and

was bob woodward believed back then? >> it was bob woodward and carl bernstein. they were metro reporters on the washington post. they were relatively new to it and they were out there on an island along for quite a while before anyone else was reporting what they were. so it took a while, but as bob said, our editor in that period, ben bradley would say the truth eventually emerges, and it did, but there was a long time when they were out there alone, and it took the truth a while to emerge. >> christian, it has been by my count, two and a half weeks without a white house briefing. >> ali, pretty stunning. we are hoping for one our fingers and toes are crossed they'll add one to the schedule today. the question why, it's not exactly clear. we know that obviously there's a new communications director in bill shine. of course, the former fox news executive, and there's a sense and a feeling within the administration that they want to as much as possible allow this president to drive the headlines and the narrative coming out of this white house. and so that's why

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sarah huckabee sanders responding to a lot of questions about bob woodward's book and about that anonymous op-ed in the "new york times." woodward giving his first live television interview on the "today" show earlier today, defending his work, defending his methodology. sarah sanders pressed on the fact that, look, this is someone whose record stands up, bob woodward of watergate fame is known for getting it right. take a look at what sarah sanders had to say. >> we've been extremely clear from the beginning that many of the book's sources have already spoken out to refute a couple of them, chief of staff john kelly aggressively pushed back on this, general mattis aggressively pushing back, john dowd pushing back to things attributed to him, and a number of them said woodward never reached out to corroborate statements attributed to them, which seems incredibly reckless for a book to make such outrageous claims, to not even take the time to get a $10 fact checker to call around and verify that some of these quotes happened when happened. when no effort was made, it seems like a careless a

even the president, in that phone conversation with bob woodward, admitted that he was fair.i think many readers will see in this book an accurate rendering of history. nick bryant reporting. president trump's latest nominee for the us supreme court, brett kava naugh, has stressed his belief in impartiality at a chaotic confirmation hearing before a senate committee. opponents believe he will make the supreme court substantially more conservative. he said it should never be viewed as a partisan institution. protesters shouting their opposition to his appointment were removed. here is how the first few minutes played out. i welcome everyone to this confirmation hearing on the nomination of... mr chairman... ..judge brett kavanaugh. mr chairman... you're out of order, i'll proceed. we cannot possibly move forward, mr chairman, with this hearing... i extend a very warm welcome to judge kavanaugh, . .. we have not been given an opportunity to have a meaningful hearing on this nominee. ..to his wife, ashley. mr chairman, we received 42,000 documents that we haven't been able to re

but bob woodward has a lot of credibility.e has written major books on eight different presidents, won two pulitzer prizes. he is known for his investigative reporting and his accuracy. >> thank you all. i appreciate it. it was a great conversation. >> thank you. >> i'll see you next time. when we come back, another stunning primary upset tonight. boston's first woman of color to serve on the city council, ayanna pressley. tonight, defeating a ten-term democratic congressman, michael capuano in the race for his own seat. ♪ celebrate good times ♪ come on from the very beginning ... it was always our singular focus. to do whatever it takes, use every possible resource. to fight cancer. and never lose sight of the patients we're fighting for. our cancer treatment specialists share the same vision. experts from all over the world, working closely together to deliver truly personalized cancer care. and these are the specialists we're proud to call our own. expert medicine works here. learn more at cancercenter.com appointments avai

clearly when you get into a battle of credibility between bob woodward and this white house bob woodward wins hands down. i'm sure he learned everything he knows from carl, he has a 50-year track record of get things right. on the other hand you have president trump, just today they came out with the latest fact checker saying president trump lies an average eight times a day. they lie more than the nixon white house did. they have negative credibility, less than zero credibility, so it's just hard to take on faith anything they say and denying anything in this book especially because it paints a consistent picture if you read like what michael wolf said or omarosa said, it's very similar where people around trump have contempt around him. they view him as an an idiot, a liar. >> and it's very consistent the credibility -- >> yes, he adds details. >> this is something because when you were telling me to go down the line and name all these people. this is cohn and one that illustrates a level of distrust for president trump. president trump was about to sign a letter that would have ended

even in this administration two years in, explosive new details from legendary journalist bob woodward'sew book sure to shake the white house and anger the president of the united states. cnn has obtained a copy of the book. woodward reports, among other things that, the president's closest aides have taken extraordinary measures in the white house, because they don't trust him, including removing papers off the president's desk, hiding them to prevent him from signing them or seeing them, in an effort, they say, to protect national security. this explosive revelation just one of many uncovered in this new book, which is being released next week. cnn's special correspondent is with us now. you've read through this book. woodward makes some startling revelations. >> the first thing is it opens with this dramatic scene where former chief economic adviser gary cohn sees something on the president's desk. he thinks it's a danger to national security. he swipes it off the president's desk and hides it. he says when he saw it, he was, quote, appalled, according to woodward, and he did it for p

bob woodward finally managed to speak to the president, but only after the book was finished.help me god. it's certainly a bad one for the embattled attorney general, jeff sessions, who mr trump apparently described as "mentally retarded" and "a dumb southerner". and there are insights into the legal advice the president received about talking to the special counsel, robert mueller. "don't testify", his former lawyer told him. "it's either that or an orange jumpsuit". the president last appeared before the cameras yesterday, on what looked like an aborted golf trip. and now, yet another diversion. the white house claims the book is nothing more than fabricated stories, many by former disgruntled employees. now, the white house chief of staff, john kelly, has also issued a statement saying he didn't call the president an idiot. he's also referred to a statement in may, saying the allegation then was "total bs", in his words. it's crucial that the white house hasn't used the term "fake news," its usual blanket condemnation of the media. maybe that will come, but it is worth reme

so says bob woodward. why they say americans should not believe what they read. ♪ >> a number of people have come out and said that woodward never even reached out to corroborate statements that were attributed to them. no effort was made, it seems like a very careless and reckless way to write a book. ♪ your brain changes as you get older. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. ♪ >> harris: tributes, and a new monument to honor the victims of 9/11. 17 years later. the terror attacks took nearly 3,000 people, as you know, when hijackers flew planes into the twin towers, the pentagon, and a field near shanks hill, pennsylvania. president trump visited that field today, where he paid tribute to the victims. >> we grouped together for every mother and father, sister and brother, son and daughter, who was stolen from us at the twin towers, the pentag

veteran journalist bob woodward says even trump's closest aides saw him as a danger to national security. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme: we'll have the latest on a bridge collapse in kolkata, where many are feared to be trapped under the rubble. and they're crazy, rich, and asian. it had box office success in america. now the blockbuster movie comes to the uk. we do so people feel represented and heard, understood and valued. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. glad you could join us. it's 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 8 am injapan, which has been hit by the strongest typhoon in 25 years. winds have been gusting over 200 kilometres per hour. at least six people have been killed, and more than a million have been told to leave their homes. robin brant has more from tokyo. screaming japan knew that this storm was coming, but some were still caught out, and had a very lucky escape from the torrent of water below. typhoonjebi is the strongest to hitjapan in 25 years. in the worst—hit area, around osaka, the dama

the tillerson anecdote in the book which bob woodward fleshes out much more but we've known about that for a long time about tillerson saying that the president is, in his view, a moron. >> if history is your guide, the one thing that woodward's books result in is the presidential circle getting smaller and smaller. we saw it in the bush administration towards the end. we saw it during the obama administration, but he has a way of getting inside, talking to people who used to work there, who still work there, they get these anecdotes. my guess is if you're answer is who the president trusts that circle becomes tighter and tighter. >> can i disagree with you on the idea that bob woodward's books about george w. bush or barack obama were at all comparable to that? no one in those books was calling the president a clown, a crazy person -- >> there were -- >> that's a very different portrait of presidents than -- than the one of donald trump. >> i agree with that, although i will say in the context of 2006 when we had a bush at war book dropped in the last six weeks of the election cycle,

but bob woodward has a lot of credibility. has written major books on eight different presidents, won two pulitzer prizes. he is known for his investigative reporting and his accuracy. >> thank you all. i appreciate it. it was a great conversation. >> thank you. >> i'll see you next time. when we come back, another stunning primary upset tonight. boston's first woman of color to serve on the city council, ayanna pressley. tonight, defeating a ten-term democratic congressman, michael capuano in the race for his own seat. ♪ celebrate good times ♪ come on ♪ (gasps) l'oréal's magic root cover up. 3 seconds to flawless roots. 3, 2, 1. roots gone! magic root cover up by l'oréal paris. look for the turquoise one. but allstate actually helps you drive safely... with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast... ...and brake too hard. with feedback to help you drive safer. giving you the power to actually lower your cost. unfortunately, it can't do anything about that. now that you know the truth... are you in good hands? ♪ ♪ the

stand losing, i'll write the real book. >> yeah, well, he's not going to win an argument with bob woodward in this town or in the national media. i think that much is obvious. and, you know, lawrence, the fact of the woodward book and that "times" op-ed piece coming out is the one-two punch. they just excerpted the woodward book and the next day "the new york times" posted that op-ed, and those two events just so reinforced each other and so said the same thing. and now woodward's book is going to go onto sell i don't know how many copies 1 million to 3 million perhaps. people are going to read it. americans are going to read that book and it's really going to sink in. we've now reached a point where this opinion of him seems to have really settled in. >> yeah, and we have scratched the surface of the woodward book. there's just a mountain of horrifying things in there having to do with policy, the president's lack of comprehension and basic things. and we'll be covering more of that book as the week goes on. thank you for starting us off tonight. >>> and coming up, as we said at the begin

the president was tweeting again today about the book, calling reporter and author bob woodward a liar. the white house line is pretty much the same, that woodward, of woodward and bernstein fame, does sloppy work. >> a number of people have come out and said that woodward never even reached out to corroborate statements that were attributed to them, which seems incredibly reckless for a book to make such outrageous claims to not even take the time to get a $10 fact checker to call around and verify that some of these quotes were happen, when no effort was made, it seems like a very careless and reckless way to write a book. >> the president has called it fiction, a scam, et cetera, but as we know, the president also thinks that you shouldn't believe your eyes and ears about anything, that only his words are true. sanders was asked whether the president thinks he can actually win a credibility battle with bob woodward. now, before we play you what she said about that, a new cnn/ssrs poll just out today shows just 32% say the president is honest and trustworthy. 65% say he's not. >> i w

ledgen daretry journalist bob woodward and the senior administration official behind the anonymous new york times op ed. the president focused not on their message, but the messengers. trump tweeting five times today about woodward and the claims inside the explosive tell all, which hits book stores tomorrow. the president calling woodward a liar. a democratic operative, calling his book a joke, a scam. that on top of what he said about woodward over the past few days. >> then this idiot woodward who wrote this book, which is all fiction. this woodward book is a total fraud 37. >> back at the white house, aides literally dusted off the podium for the first white house briefing in 19 days. they did not verify some of the most damning statements and stories that have been so far released. >> a number of people have come out and said that woodward never even reached out to corroborate statements that were attributed to them, which seems incredibly reckless for a book to make such outrageous claims to not even take the time to get a $10 fact checker to call around and verify that some of t

even the president, in that phone conversation with bob woodward, admitted that he was fair. fair. so i think many readers will see in this book and accurate rendering of history. nick bryant in washington for us. and we can talk now to our correspondent david willis in los angeles. the books in the relatively short life of this presidency that have entered a less than wholly flattering picture of life in the oval office copy —— have been a number of books. none with quite the credence of this book, coming from a man who has won two pulitzer prizes, one for his work with the watergate scandal, which led to the demise of richard nixon. this is a book full of damning allegations, no wonder then, that people at the white house are already running for cover. we heard from nick that the white house chief of staffjohn kelly is already denying quite strenuously, that he called the president and idiot copied but there are other allegations as well. not least that the former economic adviser gary —— cohen. , he actually kid documents from donald trump. and in a sense that the presiden

that's why bob woodward decided to release audio recordings to prove he did make an effort to interview the president for his side of the story. listen now to the conversation between woodward and mr. trump when they connected by phone three weeks ago. >> and as you know and are living, we are at a pivot point in history. >> right. >> and i would have liked to have done that, and i maximized my effort, and somehow, it didn't get to you or -- >> it's really too bad, because nobody told me about it, and i would have loved to have spoken to you. you know i'm very open to you. i think you've always been fair, but we'll see what happens. >> no doubt, the president concedes on tape that woodward has always been fair. overnight, mr. trump suggested the legendary journalist included lies and phony sources in his book. i should note, he also added, christine, on that phone call, well, okay, lindsey graham did actually tell me that you did want to interview me for this book. so, he lied on that very phone call about knno one having told him. >> and he had lunch with kellyanne conway about that an

the fake news card is not going to cut a lot of ice against bob woodward who's rorred on presidents from both presidents his whole year. journalists have been marveling at woodward's reporting and backing him up. woodward is "straight and never makes up quotes." fox news is treating the book as true, noting it depicts a dysfunctional white house. woodward has his own receipts showing his high-level contacts with trump aides. they had a long phone call about that. woodward reiterated his reporting is from firsthand sources. >> and i think there's nothing in this book that doesn't come from a firsthand source. is that correct, evelyn? >> are you naming names or do you just say sources? >> well, names, real incidents. >> no, but do you name sources? i mean, are you naming the people or just say, you know, people have said? >> i say at 2:00 on this day the following happened and everyone who's there, including yourself, is quoted. and i'm sorry i didn't get to ask you about these. >> now, finally, perhaps no inside trump account would be complete without some baby talk. the president is noto

but we'll see what happens. >> the president did later acknowledge lindsey graham told him that bob woodward wanted to interview him. also note that the president concedes on tape that woodward has always been fair. overnight, mr. trump suggested the legendary journalist included lies and phony sources in his book. >>> it appears less likely special counsel robert mueller will subpoena testimony from the president. mueller's investigators making a concession to the trump legal team. they say they will accept written responses from the president on whether the trump campaign conspired with russia to sway the 2016 election in his favor. sources say a letter from mueller's team left open the possibility of an in-person interview as part of the wide-ranging russia probe. >>> today, day two for brett kavanaugh's confirmation hearings after what happened yesterday. boy, an ugly scene. warring senators, jeering protesters, dramatic demonstrations rocking kavanaugh's hearing on tuesday. democrats came ready to attack. senator richard blumenthal, one of the leading voices opposing president trump's s

it is written by bob woodward, known for cracking the watergate scandal.the syrian regime, assad dropped chemical weapons on his own people, donald trump's initial reaction apparently was to kill the (bleep) lot of them. and he told secretaryjim mattis he wanted told secretaryjim mattis he wanted to assassinate president assad. jim mattis said they would get right on it, and then said no, we're not going to do that. they are not going to just kill everyone. and although pa rt to just kill everyone. and although part of me does think that all of this stuff, as entertaining as it is to read, it is almost priced in. people expect it to be unconventional, controversial and chaotic. all it does is confirm those suspicions that it was chaos. it is interesting because the book by bob woodward is entitled fear, trump in the white house. it is so silly that it is funny, and some of this stuff seems pretty serious, actually. it does, and it is almost like water off a duck‘s back. he has had so many what one would assume very damaging quotes and things that have been

journalists bob woodward. >> widely anticipated book, the product of bob woodward. >> bob woodward. >> bob woodward wrote this book. >> more on that blockbuster new reporting from bob woodward -- >> bob woodward's new book. >> sean: and while the abusively biased crisis to crisis media runs with wall-to-wall coverage of a book filled with salacious rumors, anonymous sources, they are totally ignoring what is the biggest scandal in america political history, tonight the plot thickens around bruce ohr and his efforts to spread christopher steele's clinton bought and paid for phony, dirty, russian dossier throughout the entire highest levels of the government and lying to you, the american people. catherine herridge not only reporting that the bruce ohr remained a close relationship with christopher steele, but also fed the steele dossier. let's see, to andrew weissmann, remember, weissman is robert mueller's top deputy. "the new york times" called him robert mueller's pit bull if you recall. and in a case against anderson, remember his aggressive prosecution tactics, tens of thousands

the high court rosalyn jordan al-jazeera capitol hill a new book by washington post journalist bob woodward has claimed that u.s. president donald trump wanted to have syrian president bashar al assad killed last year there at that request was ignored by his defense secretary fear trump in the white house has quotes from the president's own aides questioning his ability to lead the white house says the book is in its words a full of fabricated stories woodward is known for his investigative reporting that helped bring down president richard nixon in the watergate scandal of the washington post has published a telephone conversation between trump and bob woodward in which they discussed the book. look at the world in your industry in you. you write well i assume that means it's going to be a negative book but you know i'm some sort of fifty percent used to that it's the right some are good and they regret it sounds like they're going to be. a petticoat hain has more. some really explosive reporting coming from bob woodward the preeminent and pretty one of the more credible journalists in the