, and author of the new book "chasing history: a kid in the newsroom", carl bernstein. vestigation into watergate, you've been known as the preeminent journalist on washington corruption, the second being worthless hack bob woodward. how has unmasking government corruption changed now that instead of covert meetings with "deepthroat", reporters just take notes as mike lindell broadcasts a seven-hour long manic episode? >> carl: i think that washington has always had huge problems with all kinds of conflicts of interest, with all kinds of fakers, with all kinds of wannabes. um, i wouldn't be too nostalgic. i think we're in an era where the real difference that we're talking about, say from the watergate era and today, is the people of the country, and the politicians, particularly the republican party, which has been captured, by forces that embrace and are enthusiastic about authoritarianism. uh, about a kind of dishonesty and conspiratorial viewpoint that has little to do often with the truth, and it is hijacked, to a large extent, mainstream conservatism. >> moving on

journalist carl bernstein is the author of chasing history kid in the newsroom and cnn contributor johnn from the white house counsel to richard nixon. so, carl, what does it say to you that, among other laws, the presidential records act is looming so large over the former president's legal faith. what has all along because, among other things, the president of the united states and as he was leaving the presidency seems to have directed the illegal movement of these documents at mar-a-lago, but i want to take a little bit of an issue in the following way with what you said his lawyers may think that this is the primary vulnerability. but in fact he has three locomotives bearing down on him. former president trump legally and probably the most serious is the january 6th insurrection that the special counsel is looking at, and that investigation is premised on the huge volumes of fact about the insurrection about trump's role. in seditious lee trying to stop the peaceful transfer of power to the next president of the united states that case itself there is a record, like the senate wate

i hate to sound like carl bernstein here, but it's true. you have a president working with 51 former top officials without seeing the evidence on hunter biden's laptop conclude that it's true, when it turned out to be anything but true, and this is one of the biggest acts of collusion we've seen, trace, in quite some time, and there should be hell to pay, but the media simply is not covering this story, trace. >> good to see you. thank you, sir. >> have a good night. >>> brian coburger charged with killing four university of alabama students for months ago, one was in the basement room during one of the murders and has information that is, quote, exculpatory to the defendant that no one else can provide, though she is fighting a subpoena to appear. >>> we showed you this footage when two teens crashed into a truck which killed a six-month-old baby. the only thing these teens have been charged with is to a baby. >> it's not a matter of if this is going to happen to another child, it's when. this is a daily occurrence in chicago. it's absolut

i hate to go all carl bernstein on you here, but think about what happened here. a presidential campaign, working many concert with 51 former top intelligence officials who, without seeing the evidence, the access to the laptop itself all in unison come to the conclusion that it must be russian disinformation, it came from the kremlin. today didn't say it because they necessarily believed that, they were trying to manipulate the electoral system themselves. you want to talk about collusion, social media from there, they cent censor -- censor accounts that share the story, engage in the type of behavior that would make pyongyang proud, and then the final baton is passed to traditional media who outside of this network and a small handful of others worked to squash and mock and dismiss this bombshell. if that isn't an attack on democracy9 and the electoral positive, i don't know -- process, i don't know what is. it's obviously being slow-walked to extend past the 2024 the will election so swamp and social media and traditional media can install this president again,

i'm carl quintanilla and sara eisen. setting the agenda, bernstein remaining bearish on tesla after what he calls a meaningful shift in rhetoric. >>> plus, citi's nathan sheets pushing back the timeline for recession in the u.s he joins us to tell us why. >>> regional banks, an exclusive with ceo of synovus, seeing deposits rise in this quarter. >>> we'll start with stocks. recovering s&p 500 lower by 0.3%. the nasdaq down 0.4% we were down almost 200 points at the last of the last hour renewed focus on the slowdown. philly fed posting eighth straight lowest month. jobless claims rising more than expected continuing claims hit the highest level since november 2021 existing home sales weaker, now down 22% from last year. leading indicators falling more than 1%. then spotty big cap earnings from the likes of tesla and netflix and the fed's picture for may meeting. gets a little murkier. fed speakers continue to say, more hikes are ahead let's bring in cnbc senior markets commentator mike santoli. they're more worried about inflation than recession they

i'm carl quintanilla and sara eisen. setting the agenda, bernstein on tesla after what he calls a meaningful shift in rhetoric. >>> plus, citi's nathan sheets pushing back the timeline for recession in the u.s he joins us to