one of them, of course, young jim reston came in as a rabid nixon hater. he wanted blood. frost was a show man but he also wanted serious credentials and i think he saw this as a good thing. in much of it he was a good interviewer. it wasn't a loud exchange the way it came through in a lot of the movie or some of it did there. i was not there for, again, the negotiations. i think they were all handled by nixon's -- had been nixon's agent for his memoirs and then he was also the agent for the frost interviews for nixon. >> what year were they done? >> they were done in, what, 1977, i believe. >> and at the time david frost, what was he doing? >> he -- what was he doing before this? i'm trying to remember now. >> he says he was in australia at the time. >> he might have been. he was british, of course, and he traveled a lot around the world, and i think i remember from frost's book that he was in australia. frost wrote a book. frost himself wrote a book about the shows. >> there actually have been three books that have been written. bob zelnick was another character in the m

but david did with jim reston come up with a piece of information that had never been publicly expressed before and that was the catalyst that caused nixon to say, okay, i did something that i regret and i'm -- and i let down the country, i'm sorry for it, it's what they needed. it's only about 40 seconds worth of material, but it's what made those interviews so famous, that 40 seconds. >> is that your recollection? >> which part of it? >> the fact that he admitted that he'd done something wrong and he regretted it? >> no, that was part of the -- that was part of the interview, but i don't think it was that dramatic a part. my -- watching the movie, my sense was that it was over -- they did rather overly draw ma tiz that part of it. >> what do you think -- at one point you worked for william paley who started cbs and ran it, and before i ask you, what did you do for him? >> he was -- he recruited me when he was about to step down i think at the age of 81, having founded cbs in 1928. he was finally about to step down as chairman and he was trying to figure out what to do for the rest of h

this is reggie a kron 4 news there >>mark: al plaza reston must pay more than to jim million dollarsis serving probation for hiring more than 100 a legal immigrant grandstand filing the taxes went if they such as security numbers. >>darya: callebs box is being held without bail. on tuesday he handed a note to a bank teller demanding money. a silent alarm went off. the police arrived in the man to get pregnant woman hostage by knife point. healy's the lawmen and was taken into custody. >>james: the pockets in town and have a 715 start time. let's take a look at the condition. don't forget this is going to let out after the golden keep closure. do not he had in the direction of the golden gate bridge. will be back with more headlines a more weather when we come back. morning news. >>mark: the golden gate bridge to be shut down less than 12 hours. there will be taking down a doyle drive in replacing it with his city of drive and reopened by the and the morning when the morning. pleaser investigating a carjacking where please driver -- a cabdriver was locked in his trunk. the final fligh