bob costas a little younger, about half of bob woodward age as woodward notes in acknowledgment but he's already made a name for himself as national political reporter at the post where he's worked for nearly eight years following several years at the "national review." he's also served as moderator and managing editor of washington week on pbs and as a political analyst for nbc news and msnbc. no doubt many of you watching have heard or read some of the highlights of "peril." general milley has called -- chinese fears about trump possibly launching an attack or vice president mike pence searching for whether there indeed was some way he and cox could reject the election result only be told by none other than dan quayle to forget it. there's much more to this explosive page turner of a book which reads like like a thd will lead you aghast not only at how close the country came to the brink but also how perilous the future remains. the conversation with the authors will be pulitzer prize-winning columnist at the post who in his four decades with the paper also has covered city hall, repor

bob. costas told me, no, you'll absolutely love this. marvin comes out of providence. he's a player man. he can really play, he can post up. he, you know, he can shoot the jumpers, he's just all around her. but a little flaky. so he sit with bob costas, who bob's 21 years old. and he's the announcer for the a v. a spirit to say louis, they're sit not at lambert field in the morning. they're flying over to louisville to play artist gilmore and the kentucky colonels. and it's one time zone away, but it's a short hop flight. so they're sitting in the waiting area. and marvin says the bob, bob, can i ask you something like 8 in the mornings? yeah, go ahead. marmie says we leave here at 9 o'clock and we arrive in louisville at 845 . and is that correct? because of the time change 45 flight bob says, yeah, that's correct, that is a what say on the robert, i'm not getting on a time machine. but as a sales guy or a very restore is over anyway, man love. and i love bob. great guys, always, you know, want to say louis is on. yeah, he stays true to his who like you do, man, what

please welcome, bob woodward and robert costa. ( band playing ) ( cheers and applause ) hi, bob.s. thanks for being here. bob, always good to have you on. >> thank you, thank you. >> stephen: ronice tet hinyou on forir . confessed already,edthis book. and it's not because it's not a good read. it is really compelling. it's just that i have to close it every so often to quietly weep. ( laughter ) and then start it again. and i mean that somewhat sincerely, because what really is upsetting about this is not even so much what you're reporting in here. because having read "fear" and "rage," nothing in here is surprising. while shocking and upsetting, the path was laid for the behavior that is in this book. but it is-- it is-- it is upsetting to read. and i was wondering, was it upsetting to write? >> yes. we were-- look, the theme here-- and it was a discovery for us, that this was a national security crisis. we've kind of thought all of trump was a domestic problem politically. but in china, russia, and iran, they said, "my god, what's happening here?" so they went on military alert

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i want to bring in now cnn contributor bob costas. bob, good evening to you. he's resigning. my first question i want to get to you, though, ask you, the players, some of the players who he offended, jon gruden, actually stood by him. i wonder how those players feel now after all this trove of e-mails have been uncovered. >> yeah, i guess the first, which was the insulting comment about demaurice smith with obvious racial implications, maybe some players who know gruden in a different context and in a different way were inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt, say that was ten years ago, trying to be funny, it was awkward, however they want to rationalize it. but i think it's important in any of these situations that come up now where we look for a pattern of of behavior rather than something that might have been a mistake or might have been out of context or might have been unintended and is wholly inconsistent with the person's body of work or everything we know about that person. this is a pattern of retrograde notions, not confined to race, not confined to sexual or

. >> but we look at this, and i talked to bob costas about this.he national football league runs deep in our society. it is a reflection of what's happening in the larger culture and you see this in our politics and in our culture today. people all the time, emmanuel, saying i am not racist. donald trump says i am the least racist person, what have you. and i have said there is a new racism not knowing that you are racist or denying there is racism because he said in is not who i am. he said it over and over last night. >> i say this. i say there is a difference between being racist and racially ignorant. at a minimum jon gruden was racially ignorant and racially insensitive. at minimum jon gruden was ignorant of mississippi oggy. at worst he is racist and misogynistic and homophobic. let's clarify the delineation between the two. but in 2011 jon gruden was still 48 years of age. at the point in which you are saying that the vice president of the -- rather the director of the nfl players association, a pb black man, demaurice smith has lips the siz

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as mitch mcconnell told him after the election, i think that is documented in the new bob costa book, that ultimately trump was going to say the election was rigged and fraudulent anyway and he has been searching for evidence that backs up that predetermined assertion and has not presented anything compelling. that is corrosive. i think it is fair to say. i will certainly not both sides that particular piece of it. host: to arizona, nathan, a republican. good morning. caller: good morning to both of you. i wanted to say the last time polarization had gotten out of hand it was the civil war. we will blame democrats for that because it was a democrat-caused war. i used to be able to say voters on the democratic side should not be blamed, but they have as much responsibility now as they did and we found out the democratic national committee created russia-gate, the special prosecutor confirmed that last month. to consider all of this talk about insurrection and stealing an election, it is the democratic leadership creating all of this. i was just listening to chuck schumer this morning o

eastman is someone who a lot of americans hadn't heard of until bob costa and bob woodword talked about in their book. it's about what's happened january 6th and bringing those responsible to justice perhaps or at least hold them accountable. but it's also about trying to stop what could happen again in 2022, in 2024. >> mr. costa, i'd like to play for you something we heard earlier today from veteran fed neal katyal, now a lawyer in private practice but knows his way around doj. he talked about the possibility of a doj investigation into the former president. >> merrick garland is just about the most cautious, principled, careful person in this town. so, it's possible that he has an investigation that hasn't, you know, gone public. but at some point patience runs thin. and the investigation has to take shape. >> indeed, general garland is a patient man, too patient for the likes of so many democrats these days who want action and consequences now. but, robert, talk about the kinds of pressure the a.g. is under right now. >> the a.g. is under enormous pressure from democrats and some re

but now we have bob costa and bob woodward and others telling us, one of the surprises, didn't we know there was planning? they had t-shirts, ever since the t-shirts saying maga civil war 2020, saying some planning went into this. your eyes would tell you that but there they were, that they were working on it. they had to have been working on it and that their backup plan after that justice department meeting didn't get jeff rosen removed so that trump could have the justice department saying they thought there was fraud. the backup plan was violence. that's the backup plan. can you imagine sitting around in a room and saying, okay, well, if pence doesn't come through and pence is saying it was just another january day now, if pence doesn't come through, we have this backup plan because we have all these people coming to washington. the other surprise is that $50,000 bill goes to the willard hotel and not the trump hotel. trump was so crazed by this time, here's a guy who wanted the g-7 at the doral. he didn't want to have his war room. he was so crazed and possessed he didn't have the

bob costa and i and doing our book "peril" did this research and found that two of trump's biggest supportersaham and senator mike lee of utah investigated these claims in depth and found zero, absolutely zero evidence and this was not somebody who was opposed to trump. these big trump supporters. >> listen, colin powell was, again, as we said a lifelong republican until he said he couldn't be republican anymore considering what the trump administration had done but he was, you know, a type of old school republican with integrity. this isn't the first time he had concerns about someone in power and especially possible racism. am i correct? >> that's correct. when he first was asked to join the bush senior administration, i have in my book the commanders, how powell was very reluctant because bush senior in the run against due caucus 1988, the very famous race baiting willy horton ads, powell was app appalled. found this was unacceptable and so he wouldn't take the initial jobs that were offered. stayed in the army and eventually bush made him chairman of the joint chiefs and powell accepted a

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robert costa, national political reporter with the washington post, his latest book coauthored with bob woodward, peril, is now in its fourth week on the new york times bestseller list. and lisa lahren, national political correspondent for the new york times, good evening, and welcome to your all. mr. costa, because it's your papers report reporting tonight that we lead with, and because it's your book which basically told the story of the command center across the street from the white house, more or less. at the willard hotel. i'd like to begin with you. let's talk about this potential eastman subpoena, what more can you tell us about it and him? >> this is an important crossroads for the january six committee. to try to figure out what's where the discussions like beyond what has already been reported on the night of january 5th, the day of january six, about not just having a president trump we block biden certification, but maybe even move the election into the house of representatives. bob woodward and i and our book, reveal the eastman memo, this two -- to have pence put into mot

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>> the actual thought behind the memo he wrote, which you mentioned bob woodward and bob costa have inction results and stage a bloodless coup in doing so. the questions are abundant that the lawmakers had and do have for him, not the least of how involved was the president of the united states? and what did he and eastman do with that memo? how far did they go, how far did they push? because it's one piece of a broader puzzle which is becoming more and more clear, but it could become even more crystal clear if they got cooperation from the people who they've now sent subpoenas to who seem to have been extremely involved. again, it's not just about january 6, it's the days and weeks leading up to as the president continued to try to chip away at the foundations of democracy, and that is how the votes were set out, how they were counted and how they were certified. >> this all speaks to your new spernl report that premieres tonight. i want to play a preview and then we can talk more about it. to set up a clip this gets to president's speech to georgia. you spoke about the voting laws si

bob costa. i'm excited to talk to you about susan glasser's comment there about books. you unearthed many things not many days ago. i wanted to start with breaking news up on capitol hill. a 25-year veteran of the u.s. capitol police force was charged today for trying to protect a man who was accused of illegally entering the capitol during the riot. he was told to delete all social media that provides proof. he said i support your political stance in a facebook dm. they are investigating and everyone who was in the building is going to be charged. just looking out. >> your reaction. >> who was he looking out for, nicole? was he looking out for the safety of the 150 officers who lost an eye, lost fingers, still have not yet come back to work? was he looking out for our democracy? because for five hours, it was suspended and for the first time we did not see a peaceful transition of power? now. he was looking out for donald trump. he was looking out for a radical republican party that is so dangerous to our cup they don't believe in majority rule anymore. he was look out

bannon has admitted that you and bob costa's reporting was correct. here he is. >> this illegitimate regime is starting to collapse. you know, there's a quote from me i guess in the book and they're all over about it that i was talking to the president in late january that we could kill the illegitimate biden regime in the crib. well, guess what? it killed itself. but we told you from the very beginning, just expose it. just expose it. never back down. never give up. and this thing will implode. >> so, how crucial is bannon to the committee's investigation from all of your reporting? >> i'm sorry, what? >> how crucial is bannon to the investigation? >> everyone's crucial but you have to tell the whole story. and the whole story would involve not just bannon but key people in the trump circle. people from the white house. people from maybe the cia. i mean, i've -- one thing we have in our book -- just to be very specific. this is one week after the election last year. gina haspel, the cia director, is quoted -- this -- this is on november 10th. this is

costa joining us. he is the co-author of peril with bob woodward. mr. the relationship in your book between the former president and the former speaker of the house, paul ryan a particular over a series of events. can you recount some of those? host: he features in the -- guest: paul ryan is an interesting story as you tell the trump story, because he is in effect the leader of the republican party in congress when trump is elected in 2016. he is the speaker of the house. so much power. and he has to figure out how to deal with this new outsider president, and he sees in some ways that he is someone he can have a transactional bond with, someone who can help him to announcer: enact republican policies, at the same time he found trump odd and almost hard to connect with on a personal basis and on a political basis. and what we discovered in our reporting is that we discovered in our reporting is that paul ryan as speaker of the house was given manuals and documents from a doctor friend of his, wealthy republican donor in new york about narcissistic perso

news where tens of thousands of gallons of water is rush into the streets in one contra costa county neighborhood. >> bob, any chance that is getting better? >> reporter: no, it's still gushing. it has been gushing for a good -- i'd say about 5 1/2 hours now. you are looking at hemme avenue and danville boulevard in alamo where an old pipe bursts. as can you see -- i hope you can see this, the water is gushing out and tearing up the road. right now east bay mud that operates the water out here, and they have workers out here trying to turn it off. the issue is the handle valve they would use to shut off this line is underwater itself, and it's along the road somewhere and they are trying to figure it out. there's 182 customers without power. there's a creative learning center right here. i can't tell if that property is flooded or if vegetation kept the water from going in there. there's a house across the street, and i spoke to the woman off camera earlier that lives there, and she had mud on her and did not look happy, and she said her garage was flooded and she has been able to keep the water and mud

bob costa when you hear eastman on tape saying trump was going to go with them, it was certainly something trump said to his supporters, you know, we'll all go. i hadn't heard anyone inside or in the room before say it was trump's plan to go down there, until he thought that it was a set-up. do you have any insight into what eastman's view of how 1/6 turned out? >> there is still more reporting and investigations to be done on were there direct connections between those planning the violence to have an insurrection, a takeover of the u.s. capitol, and those steps away in a suite of rooms at the willard hotel and those, perhaps, each inside of the west wing. id i would add a point from history. eugene makes a great point about history. there is nothing stopping members of the trump white house and others from stepping out and testifying under oath. think back to watergate. john dean -- >> right. >> puts his hand in the air and acknowledges he participated in a criminal conspiracy. and he detailed the criminal conspiracy inside the white house. it took a john dean to really break that open i

what john carl is doing and phil rucker and bob costa and woodward did is just peeling back the layers. we want to know exactly, and the american people want to know, what exactly was going on in the white house. past the tv watching. and what actions could the president have taken to stop this earlier? >> phil, that seems to be just to pull all this together. the real rumble is going to be around how hard the committee members fight to hear from kevin mccarthy. i mean, as you reported, as yammish reported, as it came up during the impeachment trial. the contents of the call are in dispute. i wonder if it makes it impossible for mccarthy not to be the next person subpoenaed. >> we should keep in mind the call from mccarthy was only a couple of minutes in a multihour span when the capitol was under siege by these violent rioters. when the nation was under attack and the commander in chief did nothing. there were multiple hours when trump was in the white house watching tv, having untold numbers of phone conversations with different people. talking to advisers in and out of the oval offi

. >> yeah, that reporting came from our colleague bob costa. but, look, pence's people have pushed back time and time again. they have said that pence did not ultimately agree to eastman's memo. but that wasn't the pressure that this group were under. they thought through january 6th there was some potential. until vice president pence released that letter saying he would in fact certify the electoral results that there was a chance here. they were under the impression, true believers that they had made an effective case. you had people like bernard karrick and rudy giuliani who stayed in the willard until january 19th, inauguration day because they were so convinced of their own reporting, the investigation that they were running out of the willard hotel, out of bernard karrick's suite, people who had been, you know, previously proven to be tied up in a lot of conspiracy theories and had no success in finding this alleged fraud. but needless to say they were a block from the white house and had full access to the former president and were able

in their new book "peril," bob woodward and robert costa recall a late december phone call he had withi'm quoting now from the book. "bannon told trump to focus on january 6th. that was the moment for a reckoning. people are going to go what the expletive is going on here, bannon believed. we are going to bury biden on january 6th. blank bury him." woodward and costa also report that the former president called bannon at the willard hotel in washington on january 5th. so you can see why members of the select committee, including republicans liz cheney and adam kinzinger, want to know more. as for nearly every other republican on the rules committee today and throughout congress, it's a different story. congresswoman cheney closed her remarks today with a challenge to them which we think bears listening to in its fullness. >> i urge you to do what you know is right. to think of the long arc of history. we are told that it bends towards justice. but it does so only because of the actions of men and women in positions of public trust. in many nations democracy has failed because those wit

did you talk to bob woodard or bob costa? >> woodward yes, costa no? >> "can i fix it?" >> did you talk to michael bender for his book? >> yes. >> and were you accurately represented in these books? >> i haven't read any of these books. so, i don't know. >> let's have you read the books and let us know if you're accurately portrayed. >> happy to do that. >> i yield back my contact. >> thank you. >> senator rosen, please. >> thank you, chairman reed, ranking member, for holding today's very important hearing. a critical part of the oversight responsibilities. it's an opportunity for the american people to get answers about our withdrawal from afghanistan and how we plan to counterterrorist threats in the future. i want to sincerely thank the brave men and women who served our country in afghanistan, many who made the ultimate sacrifice and, of course, their families as well. secretary austin and general mckinsey, i appreciate you being here to address the lingering concerns we have about the last two decades of war and the last two months in particular. you are all men of

as mitch mcconnell told him after the election, i think that is documented in the new bob costa book, trump was going to say the election was rigged and fraudulent anyway and he has been searching for evidence that backs up that predetermined assertion and has not presented anything compelling. that is corrosive. i think it is fair to say. i will certainly not both sides that particular piece of it. host: to arizona, nathan, a republican. good morning. caller: good morning to both of you. i wanted to say the last time polarization had gotten out of hand it was the civil war. we will blame democrats for that because it was a democrat-caused war. i used to be able to say voters on the democratic side should not be blamed, but they have as much responsibility now as they did and we found out the democratic national committee created russia-gate, the special prosecutor confirmed that last month. to consider all of this talk about insurrection and stealing an election, it is the democratic leader creating all of this. i was just listening to chuck schumer this morning on c-span talking abo

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that is according to bob woodward and costa. to vice president dan quayle who told pence according to the authors, mike, you have no flexibility on this. you have no power. in the end, pence refused to go along with eastman's alleged plan and a bipartisan group of former public officials and lawyers is now urging the california bar association to investigate whether john eastman violated ethics rules. he says the claims are hyper partisan and political. analysts say pence could be downplaying january 6 so he could join trump in 2004. >> that could be hard for your political future. that's what we see in vice president pence saying things that minimize january 6, but perhaps maximize his ability to stay on former president trump's good side. >> reporter: and what might be yet another political headache for mike pence as he navigates whether to run for president in 2024, a member of the house select committee investigating january 6th says pence will be investigated by that committee. democratic congressman jamie raskin recently t

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thousands of gallons of water flooding one contra costa county neighborhood. >> today in the bay's bobis live in alamo. looks like you are at water front property? >> reporter: this is the third water main break here in the city of alamo within the past week. east bay mud that runs the water service here acknowledges many pipes are old and in need of replacement, and we are at danville boulevard and hemme avenue. this pipe is close to the flashing lights. it broke around 12:30, 12:40 this morning, and you can hear the rushing sound and tkpwur tkpwuling under the street. the workers are having trouble locating the valve, because that valve is in a box under the water. it could be several hours before the water is restored. they have to get the water off first. it's hard to tell if any properties have flooded. the water is draining down the driveway of a woman who lives across the street. she tells me her garage is flooded, but that she has been shoveling mud to keep her home dry, so so far so good in that effect. >> the cause of the break is not known. the main is an 8-inch pipe that wa

in their current hit book "peril" bob woodward and robert costa tell the story about president biden's inauguration. two former presidents went out of way to greet and praise my next guest who each called a sa savior. george bush and bill clinton used the same word to describe senator clyburn who is the house majority w.h.i.p. they used the description without their endorsement of biden, trump would have been re-elected. given the myriad of what i've discussed, the biden administration, the inflation, the border, and the withdrawal from afghanistan, i thought it was great to have congressman clyburn here and see if he has any buyer's remorse. thanks for joining me. which worries you more, that trump to run and steal it, or that he might win? >> well, first of all, thank you for having me, i suspect the former, if i were in the worrying business, which i'm not. i would much rather a contest to be won outright. ther therefore, a contest to be stolen. so i would be worried about the former, rather than the latter. >> something tells me you have a response to my critique of where things st

in their new book the washington post bob woodard and robert costa report that the day before the insurrectiondviser steve bannon joined trump allies in a room where the crew worked to encourage legislatures to oppose electoral vote count. a situation the january 6th select me seemed well aware of to hold bannon in criminal contempt last night. >> based on the committee's investigation, it pyres that mr. man e bannon had substantial advanced nono knowledge of the plans for january 6th and likely had an important role in formulating those plans. mr. bannon was in the war room at the willard on january 6th. >> it's not a crazy inference that cheney is drawing there. another member of trump's circle that appears to be engaging with the committee and not taking the route is trump's former chief of staff, mark meadows. he's hired a top republican lawyer named george and served as deputy attorney general under george h.w. bush and replaced bill barr as acting attorney general in 1993. he's been around. in 2000, following the presidential election he co-lead george w. bush legal team during the flori

robert costa and bob woodward, i believe everything. can pretty much say that costa is a good reporter and woodward is. donald trump, a kkk member. with that insurrection. these people that were following him on the steel, they deplorable. host: we will have to leave it there. we talked about a lot of topics, but what are some things that maybe you haven't talked about at length in talking about the book? guest: we wanted to work to provide a portrait of america in a moment. read the whole book to understand what happened two days after january 6 with chairman millie and others. it was such an explosive moment, but the decision to run, the campaign, the transition, contending with the virus, and then when he comes in, the rescue plan, ultimately making a major decision on afghanistan, the boat -- the book broke new ground there. the trump cheerio is active and compelling with the committee and the house, but this is the biden presidency and if you want to learn more about it, pick up a copy. host: the book, co-authored by robert costa an

. >> reporter: on december 30th of last year, according to the book peril by bob woodward and robert costa, bannon was feverishly preparing for january 6 when congress would certify the election results. telling trump, quote, we're going to bury biden on january 6, f-ing bury him. we're going to kill the biden presidency in the crib. in the war ream recently bannon didn't deny saying that. >> because of legitimacy. look at what the illegitimate regime is doing. it killed itself. we told you from the very beginning, just expose it, just expose it, never back down, never give up and this thing will implode. >> reporter: now the house committee investigating january 6th wants information from bannon on what he did just before the insurrection. the committee says on january 5th, bannon was involved in a war room at washington's willard hotel, helping plan trump's stop the steal rally which took place the morning of the attack. on the 5th, bannon said this on his podcast. >> all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. just understand this, all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. >> reporter:

we learned from the bob woodward and robert costa book he came up with this memo and strategy of trying to get the electoral college to declare a result without some states counting, and then if that proved a problem then throw it to the house of representatives. it was a crazy scheme. it was ultimately thwarted by mike pence, but it seems to be integrally connected to what happened on january 6th. susing out what exactly happened on january 6th does, in fact, trace back to the white house, people close to the president and people like john eastman. we have to figure out how strong the connections are. >> john avalon, i want to turn to democrats racing to reach a deal on biden's economic agenda. senators manchin and sinema were at the white house tonight. negotiations seem to be changing by the minute. how critical do you think the next 24 hours are? >> absolutely critical. i mean the white house has tried to impose another deadline before biden leaves for europe, but they need to pass something soon. you know, you have elections that are coming up next week in virginia. you have got th

parrel, report on transition between trump and biden administrations by the washington post bob woodward and robert costa. followed by two memoirs, chased my life through food and musician dave, the storyteller. next is cnn anderson cooper and mr. cooper mother's family the vanderbilts. elections from humorous david's dairy, some of the authors appeared on book tv and you can watch their programs any time at booktv.org. >> interviewed by associated press chief congressional correspondent lisa, watch book tv every weekend and find full schedule on guide or watch any time at book tv.org. >> good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. i would like to welcome you to our event, the best defense strategy for america, elbridge