[laughter] >> how do people who are in college know who gordon liddy is? >> when you put out this book, enormous amount of attention, certain things like taking the letter off the desk gets a lot of attention. what telling reporting died you do you felt -- sometimes do great reporting and it doesn't get as much attention and people sort of miss, and you said, man, i killed myself to do that, anded kind of fell flat. >> there was a rationale for doing that, and because at risk was a special access program, one of to great secret intelligence operations that i don't -- do not dare describe because it buys a degree of security for this country that we don't realize, and then i actually got the document and got a picture of it and put it in the book, so if somebody like president trump said, oh, if that had happened i would have fired gary cohen who has done it in two seconds but there it is so there's a kind of -- you can't get around that. you can't get around some of the things, but there is this war of truth going on, and some of your best stories that i k

caller: i thought it interesting the burglars in the watergate hotel were the same crew under g gordon liddy that were in the bay of pigs invasion. guest: ok. look, i stand by that in history in the nixon tapes established what happened in watergate. who the sources are in the trump book, that is going to come out some day and there are all kinds of people. in fact, somebody in a key position after the book came out who is in office now called me and said, everyone knows what you have in this book is 1000% correct. reality and in my view, i think people need to wake up to reality and not deal in some conspiracy theory that the fbi is behind all of this. the people behind my reporting work or worked for the president. from phoenix, arizona, democrats line. bob, hello. caller: yes, good morning, thank you for c-span and thank you for having mr. woodward on. this is a call of thank you and i give bob five stars for accurate reporting. i am about a third of the way through the book and i feel like i am reading a confidential report i should not be reading. i have been a fan for 4.5 decades and i

under g-letter gordon liddy. >> so with the nixon tapes of watergate who those sources are that will come out some day and all kinds of people after it came out that said everyone knows what you have ininok this book is 1000 percent correct. and to wake up to reality and not wake up to a conspiracy theory with the fbi to be behind this that people with my reporting work for the presiden president. >> good morning. thank you for having mister woodward on. this is a call of think you and i give bob five stars for reporting i feel like i'm reading a confidential report. i have been a fan four and a half decades i have read most of the things you have written and i give you an a+ that is all i have to say. thank you. >> thank you. >> from washington state. >>caller:ca good morning. thank your for your many years of service to our country. two quick questions. if you believe the fifth or sixth grader could beat hillary clinton and multiple debates what do you believe has happened to investigative journalism? >> because there doesn't seem to be a lot of that going on anymore. do you believ

that nobody ever talks about that were caught in the watergate hotel where the same crew under g gordon liddy that were in the pigs invasion. >> i stand by that in history and the nixon piece. what happened in watergate. who the sources are in the trump book that is in a has been to come out someday. .. .. to reality and not deal in some conspiracy theory that the fbi is behind all of this. the people behind my reporting work or worked for the president. >> host: from phoenix arizona democrat on the line, hello. >> caller: yes, good morning thank you for c-span and thank you for having mr. woodward on. this is a call of thank you and i give up five stars for accurate b reporting and i'm a third of the way through the book and i feel like i'm reading a confidential report that i should not be reading. it has banned for four and a half decades. i have read all of your watergate stuff and i love it. i gave you an a+ and that's all i have to say. thank you. >> thank you. >> michael from washington state, good morning. >> caller: good morning. hi mr. woodward. thanks very much for your many years

gordon liddy. i don't know if you remember him, of watergate fame.rder called intercept 1969. president nixon said, we're going to do everything we can to stop the drugs from coming into our country, including take away their foreign aid. so two weeks. we actually didn't close the border. came pretty close. searched every car backing up to mexico city. that sent a message. mexico hated us. just by chance, i took over as a director of mexico in south america. how do i get the mexicans on our side? i love it when the president goes to see putin and the rocket man and all that. i love it. you deal with your enemies. you go in a back room and light up a cigar -- well, he doesn't smoke. i don't know about what putin does. that's how you do it. i had the attorney general of mexico over at my house. and the first time he said he liked blueberry pie. so my wife of 61 years -- i'm still eating blueberry pie -- cooked blueberry pie for the attorney general. and i was pretty sharp. i went to the px whiskey. so the point is i got more done with whiskey and blueb

caller: i thought it interesting the burglars in the watergate hotel were the same crew under g gordon liddyhat were in the bay of pigs invasion. guest: ok. look, i stand by that in history in the nixon tapes established what happened in watergate. who the sources are in the trump book, that is going to come out some day and there are all kinds of people. in fact, somebody in a key position after the book came out who is in office now called me and said, everyone knows what you have in this book is 1000% correct. reality and in my view, i think people need to wake up to reality and not deal in some conspiracy theory that the fbi is behind all of this. the people behind my reporting work or worked for the president. from phoenix, arizona, democrats line. bob, hello. caller: yes, good morning, thank you for c-span and thank you for having mr. woodward on. this is a call of thank you and i give bob five stars for accurate reporting. i am about a third of the way through the book and i feel like i am reading a confidential report i should not be reading. i have been a fan for 4.5 decades and i r

you a story about how things can be done, i think the president is slowly getting i renumber g gordon liddydo not know if you remember him of watergate fame, he end i ran an operation at the border in 1969. president nixon said we will do everything we can to stop the drugs from coming into our country, including takeaway their foreign aid. weeks, we did not actually close the border, came close, searched every car, back it up to mexico city. that sent a message. mexico hated us. just by chance, i took over as director. how do i get the mexicans on our side? i love it when the president goes to see putin, the rocket man. i love it. you deal with your enemies. you go in the back room, light up a cigar -- well, he does not smoke. that is how you do it. i had the attorney general of mexico over to my house, and the first time he said he he liked blueberry pie so my wife of 61 years, i'm still eating blueberry pie, cook blueberry pie for the attorney general. i was pretty sharp. i went and got some whiskey. the point is, i got more done with whiskey and blueberry pie than the big stick. that is