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i think people have to understand that for jill abramson who became editor of the new york time and for myself as a reporter for set the "wall street journal" and out the new yorker there is one agenda, which is to find out what's true and so when we interviewed anita hill, she had her back up because we weren't there to say, you are wonderful or you are right. we were there to find out what was true, so we asked her a number of tough questions and she was a little offended, i think, at some points about it. i mean, we were really doing our job. that is our job and sometimes it ends up with everyone being offended, but in the end we went up weighing all the evidence we could get in the evidence was very damning for clarence thomas and was very supportive of anita hill. had it gone the other way, we would have gone the other way because our reputation and our interests are all about telling the truth and so the truth just came out badly for clarence thomas in the book because the truth comes out badly, and afraid. >> host: jane mayer, in a columbia universal oral history did in 2013 and

your good friend, jill abramson, twice was doing her job, which she had been fired if she was a male?o say her predecessor at the "new york times", paul raines, was pushed out right before her, so it's not as if male editors necessarily don't come under scrutiny also. partly, what i think the brief was against paul who is a very talented writer, but i think there was something about the wake he handle people that became the issue in addition to the fact that there was a reporting scandal that took place at the weber at the time and and it was the way that jill handle people that then became issue for her at least according to them, so i do think all of these jobs, you reach the top, you are under a cuter scrutiny. these news organizations now struggling to survive and there is a lot of criticism of everything they do that doesn't succeed and they are blamed personally for at the top. it's hard to have these jobs. so, i don't-- i'm not at the times. i think it's a shame, what happened to jill. jill is really truly one of the most talented and smartest journalists i know and i think she

the first woman editor of the new york times, jill abramson, or the year of the woman we were talking about their in congress. many many more women in congress today. still only 20%. thoug. the percentage of women ceos is still in the single digits. i think i would've been surprised. much more uniform marched on progress. maybe that is what you always have a sense of. it is interesting to see the debate this year over hillary and what seems to be a generational divide between older women who have a sense of the barriers still existing for women in professions whether it is politics or journalism and a new group of voters these , who seem toters bridling at the idea that you should vote for a woman just because of her gender. it is surprising. it is a small number. manyl say that having editor of for policy magazines before i moved over to politico there are even fewer women in foreign policy circles and international affairs circles than there are in political journalism. peter: susan has been very blessed by having a lot of opportunities and she has made the most of them. watching he

. >> host: here's what you had to say about jill abramson and working with her. i am not surprised she became the editor of the new york times. judgment is amazing and she is a killer reportedly she gets right to the nub of it and knows what to look for. she has a great nose, tucker then i am. i sort of soften people attend worry how they feel. she just goes plane for the heart. >> guest: that is really true. she is amazing least march, i have to say. i have known who chill since high school she was the class ahead of me in new york state, she was also a really good dresser early on. she is great. we are very close friends and it was fun working with her. she held my reporting a lot because i learned a lot from her. >> host: i saw some people out and worry about that. >> guest: i suppose being an investigative reporter people expect you to be a tough person. i write tough stories. i don't write some in order to hurt people's feelings and i don't like hurting people's feelings. i feel my responsibility is to my readers, and telling what is true. sometimes that mea

the first woman editor of the new york times, jill abramson, or the year of the woman we were talkingbout their in congress. many many more women in congress today. still only 20% though. the percentage of women ceos is still in the single digits. i think i would've been surprised. a much more uniform marched on progress. maybe that is what you always have a sense of. it is interesting to see the debate this year over hillary clinton and what seems to be a generational divide between older women who have a sense of the barriers still existing for women in professions whether it is politics or journalism and a new group of voters these millennial voters, who seem to be bridling at the idea that you should vote for a woman just because of her gender. it is surprising. it is a small number. it is small and political journals and i will say that having been the editor of foreign policy magazines before i moved over to "politico" there are even fewer women in foreign policy circles and international affairs circles than there are in political journalism. brian: how do you view it? peter: s