so it's particularly getting that jodi and megan will be in conversation here this evening with bob woodward [applause] bob of course has been observing and reporting on major developments in washington for nearly half a century. yet shared into nick kosir prices for for coverage of the watergate scandal, the second 2003 as three as a lead reporter of the "washington post" coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. but the prizes alone hardly begin to reflect his enormous journalistic legacy. fear is debiting look inside the trump presidency came out last year, his 19th book, all have national bestsellers and i wouldn't bet against another one coming out in the not-too-distant future. [laughing] please join me in welcoming jodi kantor, megan twohey, and bob woodward. [cheers and applause] >> thanthank you, brad. it's great to be here. let's get right to it, and first of all, this book is a masterpiece, a landmark -- [applause] of journalism, but as people who were not journalists should read it because it's about how you sort out information, test it, decide to publish and share it with others.

. >> the second term continued with the reporting from bob woodward from the washington post broughtal right to the doors of the white house. >> people have to know whether their president is a crook. i'm not a crook. i have earned everything i have done. >> in addition to his involvement congressional committees one member asked the question was massachusetts senator kennedy. >> by that time he knows the power of washington so he is behind the scene starting the impeachment process he is the one who still has ties to the justice department from his brother robert so he is the driving force. so he plays a major role he wants to take out nixon and he can do that. >> without revelation secretly recording hours of conversations it is soon exposed he ordered the cia to halt the investigation of the watergate break-in with a near certain prospect of impeachment with obstruction of justice nixon sought no way out. >> therefore i shall resign the presidency effective noon tomorrow. president ford will be sworn in at that hour in his office the next day the 38th president of the united state

also led to an economic boom in west germany on the votes of good contacts not up on the good dr bob woodward on the 1950 s. postwar prosperity it was referred to as the economic miracle and ultimately led to the triumph of capitalism. over communism. the fall of the berlin wall signaled the end of this ideological conflict. it seemed that overcoming borders would lead to a lasting end to war i think the best example of trade bringing peace that i can i can think of is the creation of the european union. having france and germany inextricably tied to each other as partners it's very hard to imagine a conflict arising between these 2 great friends. the era of world wars had come to an end but with the fall of the iron curtain a series of regional conflicts took center stage. there are seldom been as many of these conflicts as there are today many of them are fueled by the struggle to acquire natural resources. for example in the democratic republic of congo a country rich in mineral deposits. in metallic or called contains elements that are used in the manufacture of many high tech products wh

tom brokaw, bob woodward, alan .ershowitz, and jonathan turley i remind viewers jonathan turley was onhis program on monday, spent an hour talking about the impeachment hearing. you can go back and watch it at c-span.org. caller: did he update his position? host: what position do you want to hear about? isler: the last i heard there is not the level of impeachment that even comes close to richard nixon, which bob woodward spoke about. that is why nixon resigned, they had him cold. ofwas authorizing millions dollars in bribes to cover up the break-in at the watergate hotel. i don't believe president clinton should have been impeached. he lied under oath. was that a high crime? he did not put the country in jeopardy. host: go back and watch that jonathan turley segment, there it is on monday. caller: did he state he thinks there is enough here to bring articles of impeachment? give me the short story. host: he called it the narrowest impeachment effort in history and he does not think it is a wide enough, broad enough impeachment effort that he thinks it may topple over in the end. i wil

. >> this book comes into after bob woodward has taken us into similar scenes in his inside the trump white house book. how does this read compared to those? what is the difference when you're holding an account that is written by someone who is part of the team in that room? >> this -- i mean, clearly one of the things that is somewhat unique about this is that it's written from the perspective of a senior administration official and somebody who did not come into it disinclined towards president trump's agenda. so it's written from the point of view of somebody who isn't -- isn't there to be critical and isn't there to observe. it's from the point of view of somebody who's there to try to make government. so when i think you've had other authors characterize the feelings of their sources, even multiple sources in terms of how people around trump reacted to him or felt about his behavior, in this case you get in it in the first person, you also are privy to conversations according to anonymous that this author had with people in a similar role. other people in senior administration j

you remember in bob woodward's book when he reported that president trump said to general mattis to go assassinate the syrian president and mattis said to an aide, well, we'll deal with that another way. there is a problem for a lot of these officials who were on the call or listening to some of this that they get used to something that is not normal. >> here is the interesting thing. it is more than language though. it is more than language. because as you heard kurt volker and morrison describe a cogent u.s. policy toward ukraine which was the official policy. we oppose the russia's annexation of crimea and want to give them aid to push back the invasion. the fact is this president has repeatedly undermined that u.s. policy not just by words by by actions. he shokin. that ukraine needs to fight back against russia. he has made public statements that maybe crimea belongs to russia and not ukraine. so the president, they were describing a great textbook u.s. policy regarding ukraine. the fact is the president beyond words, his action was undermined. >> you have this picture at the whit

also the man whose reporting alongside bob woodward helped make what was called at the time a third-rate burglary onto front. page news. jeff bernstein. cnn legal analyst jeffrey toobin, he's done a lot, too. >> not like that. >> gloria borger. cnn political analyst and "usa today" columnist kirsten powers. former republican presidential candidate and u.s. senator rick santorum. former obama administration communications director jen psaki. jeff, what was the standout to you? was it taylor's revelation about phone call that he was apparently informed of more recently? >> absolutely. because the one point that the republicans made over and over again, and i think an effective point, was that the two witnesses, as learned, as honorable, as honest, as they were, did not have direct contact with donald trump, and this is, after all, an impeachment of the president of the united states. if it is established that the president on the day after his notorious phone call with the president of ukraine, told ambassador sondland that investigations is what this were about and if sondland then repeat

what's happening in the white house commencing at like to know if you saw the chaos described in bob woodward's book in michael wolff's book. guest: the answer is yes. i saw the chaos. i have a different take on it. i expect a lot of this chaos was calculated. i did that because i worked in the white house for george h w bush. so much what we did was calculated. some of my best friends who were journalists could not believe some of the things we did were actually calculated, but they were. it was spy versus spy versus spy versus spy. when you think you got the story straight, there is a politician manipulating it. i was in the white house not expecting it to be the way -- that way. i came out thinking everything was cockaded. son sue said out of cast comes opportunity. nato, donald trump blew up nato. isa is our oldest treaty -- this is our oldest treaty. look what he's doing to this treaty. they were talking to the media trump. mouthing donald donald trump came in and he impersonated the generals. they would say sir, these are our friends. they are our friends, sir. trump would say if they are

what's happening in the white house commencing at like to know if you saw the chaos described in bob woodward'sook in michael wolff's book. guest: the answer is yes. i saw the chaos. i have a different take on it. i expect a lot of this chaos was calculated. i did that because i worked in the white house for george h w bush. so much what we did was calculated. some of my best friends who were journalists could not believe some of the things we did were actually calculated, but they were. it was spy versus spy versus spy versus spy. when you think you got the story straight, there is a politician manipulating it. i was in the white house not expecting it to be the way -- that way. i came out thinking everything was cockaded. son sue said out of cast comes opportunity. nato, donald trump blew up nato. isa is our oldest treaty -- this is our oldest treaty. look what he's doing to this treaty. they were talking to the media trump. mouthing donald donald trump came in and he impersonated the generals. they would say sir, these are our friends. they are our friends, sir. trump would say if they are o

read bob woodward's book, dumb southerner in, there southerner in, there's another word i won't put out. he has complete disdain. he's said it time and again. donny and i talk about this all the time. what's the thing where you're able because you need a job so desperately to surrender your soul to donald trump. can't you get some job working in a law firm? as claire mccaskill says, guys, it's pretty good out here. no job is worth that. >> donny, let's take the case of ted cruz. donald trump planted the story that he cheated on his wife five times, plants that in the "national enquirer." and then says in the same publication that his father killed jfk. and then tweets out that ted cruz' wife is ugly. >> can you imagine? >> no, i can not imagine because i -- no, no, because my life, my entire existence would be nothing more -- >> get him. >> -- than to destroy the political career of this man. i would stay away 20 four hours a day, seven days a week. i would reduce his political bones to dust. and yet ted cruz and jeff sessions and all of these republicans, they sell their soul to a man