but also discuss what some of the principles of the washington post? principles that the post at the time of the watergate scandal have had to say about this interpretation of watergate. and will consider why itat

[applause] >> hello and welcome to washington post life. washington correspondent at the post. before we get into the program want to say how nice it is to see a real life human beings washington post live event. our life team has done a spectacular work over the course of the pandemic to provide remotely an amazing array of programming and they will continue to do that but to see everybody here in the seats for this moment is incredibly gratifying and i can think of no better day and no better guest that we have here today. this is the first third of three sessions we have done marking the 50th anniversary of the watergate break-in . and today we have to to reporters whose names are synonymous with that story. bob woodward and carl bernstein. they obviously need no introduction. they've been rather well exposed recently. to go over the history but we are thrilled to have them here today and i want to say both our longtime friends of mine and so for me it's a double pleasure to have both of you so gentlemen, welcome and thank you . >> one other note, remember you can if you wan

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>> afternoon everyone, welcome to the washington post for this event. years ago today good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the washington post for this very special event. 50 years ago today, a break-in took place at the democratic national committee headquarters in the watergate building, just two miles from here. the white house press secretary at the time refer to the incident as nothing more than, quote, a third rate burglary. that may have been how history would have recorded it but for the reporting of two men who are about to take the stage. a former publisher of the washington post, phil graham, once said that journalism is the first rough draft of history. bob woodward and carl bernstein wrote their first draft of this story and then a second. under the guidance of legendary editor ben bradley, whose wife sally is here with us today, and the support of the publisher catherine graham, whose son don is here with us today, they exposed a tale of cover-up, corruption at the highest levels of government. the totality of their work changed journalism

not necessarily a place like washington post. we have our hands full covering whatever is going on at the moment. it's pretty difficult for us to have a full unit you would call a history unit. we do some of that. we have a set of running features called group topless and we look back on things. but those tend to be -- group triple lists -- i don't think we've ever looked at the stuff you are talking about. it sounds interesting. with those things, as you suggest, there's a lot of reactions and blank pages. it tends to be something that the historians do. >> the access to documents. >> right. one of the things i've admired about bob woodward is his ability to get documents. i board with bob over the years and we worked very closely only particular project which is looking at the 10 days of decision-making after the attacks of 9/11. one of the things that i learned from working that closely with bob is that he never fails to ask people did they have any documents. do you have memos of meetings? do you have emails that took place?

but also discuss what some of the principles of the washington post? principles that the post at the time of the watergate scandal have had to say about this interpretation of watergate. and will consider why it matters we'll consider the so what question. why debunking this myth? matters along the way we'll have some time for q&a. here are a few names that will encounter. during our class today. bob woodward and carl bernstein these are these were reporters for the washington post the lead reporters on the watergate scandal for the post. and they teamed up in 1972 and were together through the scandal in 1974. together they wrote two books about the watergate scandal. catherine graham is another name that will encounter she was the posts publisher. during the watergate period the post then was a family-owned newspaper. and she was publisher from 1969 to 1979. she backed the watergate investigation. sometimes in the face of government pressure catherine graham died in 2001 ben bradley is another name will encounter today. he was the posts executive edit

washington posts reporting. in the next hour will discuss and examine how the heroic journalist journalist myth of watergate took hold. and why i in the next hour, we will discuss and examine how the heroic journalist myth of watergate took hold, and why -- we will also discuss some of the principles of the washington post. the principles of the post at the time of the watergate scandal, and what they've had to say about this interpretation of watergate. and we will consider why it matters. we will consider the so what question. white debunking this myth matters. along the way, we will have some time for q&a. here are a few names that we will encounter during our class today. carl bernstein and bob woodward, these were reporters for the washington post, the lead reporters on the watergate scandal. and they teamed up in 1972 and worked together through the scandal in 1974. together, they wrote two books about the watergate scandal. catherine graham is another name you will encounter. she was the post publisher du

these were reporters of the washington post, the lead reporters in the watergate scandal for the post, they teamed up in 1972 and worked together through the scandal in 1974. together they wrote to books about the washington scandal. kelsey graham is another name that will encounter. she was the post publisher during the watergate scandal. the post was a family own newspaper and she was the publisher from 1969 to 1979. she backed the watergate investigation. sometimes in the face of government pressure, catherine graham died in 1970. he was the post-executive at the time. that is the top news from official of a newspaper. then broadly broadly oversaw the watergate coverage with his newspaper. me he was the executive editor for 1968 to 1991, aperiodic that watchfully coincided with the posts rise to the top ranks of american journalism. bradley died in 2014. another name that will here is that of michael get lure. he was the posts on his ban, or in house media critic. he was there for 2000 to 2005. during his tenure, he has a very interesting reminder about the post and the watergate s

hates the washington post. and so colson has a plan. to drive down the washington post share price. i think it was 38 dollars and colson has succeeded in driving it down to as he says 25 dollars. actually 28 dollars and so he's boasting about this to nixon. he's delighted to inform nixon that the economy was doing great. everybody's fortunes are up except those of the post. oddly enough their stock has dropped three more points since i told you last it's now $28. that's too -- bad. nixon replied sarcastically. isn't that a shame says colson? it was 38 dollars in december and had record earnings and has dropped 10 points. keep them busy nixon instructed. it was nearly 2 am finally time to go to bed. the president had to be up early the next morning for the inauguration day ceremonies. he said goodnight to his special counsel and hung up the phone. two floors below in a locked cabinet in the west wing basement. you are 4,000 real to real tape recorder. stop worrying. now if any of you did ap literature in school,

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there was certainly nervousness at the washington post. if you read the histories of that era, there was nervousness at the washington post about why is it that we are the only ones who have this? there was a very important moment in the fall of 1972 -- walter cronkite, the anchor at cbs news, a very trusted news source, devoted 14 minutes of one of his programs and 8 of another of his nightly newscasts to the watergate story, and that brought it to public consciousness in a way it had not. it was very important, obviously, for the washington post, but it said to the country this is a story that you should be paying attention to. host: jeff out of new york, independent. good morning. caller: good morning. and thank you for taking my question. i would like to point out that you mentioned the public trust after vietnam, there were terrible consequences that followed. i think one of the underestimated, untold stories is the lack of trust in public health after the vietnam era. we successfully were able to trust both the polio and smallpox epi

of course, no one has the right to defame someone in "the washington post," even if the post is moreppy to publish it. we will have more on the media mob angle in just a moment but first, he with reaction to all of this saga, she has a host of "crime stories" on foxnation.com, our own nancy grace is with us. nancy, first of all, i don't see any winners here, to start with, and secondly, i look at the utter, evil brutality, darkness, use every adjective you can think of, and i know these situations arise. my advice to anyone if you find yourself in one, get out as soon as possible. don't pass go. do not collect 200. leave immediately. thoughts? >> well, as to the verdict that has just come down the last hour, as i said at the get-go, it is like two white cats in the barrel. the only question was, which one is going to crawl out on top of the other, and in this case, depp called out on top. and i can tell you another thing, sean hannity, it will be a cold day in h-e-double-l what i would let my daughter stay in a relationship where someone used drugs and raped with a bottle. right now

and now, this is the lead from the "washington post" today. in terms of what to watch out for in donations in the next cycle. this, linked in founder reid hoffman, one of the nation's top political donors, gathered more than a dozen billionaires or their representatives over zoom on friday, to sound an alarm about the coming elections. hoffman was pitching some of the nation's wealthiest people on a domesday idea that has become a growing obsession. one slide of the power point presentation that hoffman gave to the group that quote maga, make america great gain leaders intend to use the 2022 midterm to install trump in 2024, regardless of the vote. a second slide, titled how maga midterms can install trump laid out a step by step doomsday hypothetical scenario. republicans win statewide offices in key battleground states, this year, in 2022, and then they change state laws in 2023 to give legislators control over presidential electors. this new group of billionaires for democracy is called investing in u.s., the "washington post" points out th

that was the washington post, again, first on the story. they've been updating the story all day, as this is been developing. we've been learning more about these federal subpoenas across the country. the new york times and cnn have since matched and expanded on the post reporting. what's coming into focus from all these different new -- agencies is that in georgia, pennsylvania and in michigan, at least, fbi agents, today, serves subpoenas on multiple people who appear to have been involved in the fake elector scheme. people who served, themselves, as fake electors. people who helped organize the fickle lectures effort for the trump campaign. also, at least one subpoena was deliberately crump campaign staffer edison virginia. he appears to have worked for the trump campaign in arizona and new mexico. so that means the federal investigation implicate the fickle lectures in those states to. even the republican party state chairman in georgia. who reportedly played a major role in organizing the illegal, fickle actors plot in georgia. he appa

he sat down with david from "the washington post." they also talked about the housing and labor markets and criticism of jeff bezos' on the biden administration's tax policy. this is 25 minutes. i would like to ask what you see coming out of this meeting and what do you think the chairman will say to the president about what he is doing? larry: i think the president's column today in "the wall street journal" articulated the broad principles, that inflation is our preeminent short run economic bubble, that it has to take priority over other problems, that the first part of any strategy or -- the first part of any strategy has to be monetary policy, that the president has to respect the independence of the federal reserve as the federals -- as the federal reserve does what is necessary to contain inflation. the fed was slow to recognize the gap -- the gravity of the gathering inflation score even though there was substantial evidence of it. in recent weeks in the last several months, chairman powell's statements about the importance an

>> hello and welcome to washington post live. on the national security reporter with the washington post and am thrilled to be joined here today by sergiy kyslytsya, the ukrainian abbasid to the united nations discussed the worn ukraine, the international response and prospects for peace. ambassador, welcome to washington post live. thank you so much for joining us. we always want to hear from you, our audience. you can share your thoughts and questions for our guest. ambassador let's dive in. is a lot to discuss. i wanted to start with the biden administration's decision to provide medium-range rocket systems to ukraine. it is a new step that is been taken before. i would like to ask you what significance do you see in this provision of the system, a new system to ukraine and what do you think it says about the you've all -- about the overall western response to the conflict. amb. kyslytsya: i think it has a very fundamental impact and importance, what we currently observe and our colleague to washington dc said in one of the pu

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in the washington post online edition.en two years ago, i became a public figure, representing domestic abuse, and i felt the full force of our culture's wrath for women who speak out." you find that mr. depp has proven all the elements of defamation? answer, yes. as mr. depp proven by a greater weight of the evidence that question the statement was made or published by ms. heard? answer, yes. question, the statement was about mr. depp. answer, yes. question, the statement was false. answer, yes. question, the statement has a defamatory implication about mr. depp. answer, yes. question, the defamatory implication was designed and intended by ms. heard. answer, yes. ndinthe publication of this statement, it conveyed a defamatory implication to someone who saw it other than mr. depp. answer, yes. do you find that mr. depp has proven by ear and convincing evidence that ms. heard acted with actual malice? answer, yes. three, as to the statent appearing in the op-ed entitled "a transformative mt for women in "the washington pos

some of my colleagues from "the washington post" are there and john graham is here, so i know we will have some heavy-duty journalism happening. william of the brookings institution told my colleague recently, we have been living for nearly half a century in the world watergate made. and as of today, the word nearly goes away. it is nearly 50 years. with that, we want to understand what that means. i think he will forgive me if i have the first question go to len downey. with the benefit of hindsight, how much of what happened, including nixon's resignation, can be tied to investigative journalism in your view? len: it began with investigative journalism. it began with the break-in, a local story which carl and bob were assigned to. and it stayed on the local desk of "the washington post" for the duration of the scandal. >> you were on the metro desk? len: i was number two on the metro desk. harry rosenfeld was my boss. he was brilliant. he died recently. he was the third part of that team with carl and bob. he was the one who could tell them, what they were telling him about what the

i immediately said to the editor at "the washington post," hey, there is some guy in florida doing theigation and they got me onto the next plane. there was a check. $25,000. i called woodward and i said some where in this world is a guy named kenn kenneth dalhberg. >> then he would have gone into the bank account of the watergate burglars. this was the key connection between the committee for real e section of the president and higher ups. >> "the washington post" discovered 25,000 in political contribution to president biden's campaign. >> over the summer, there was a number of newspaper stories about all different kinds of things going on and the committee to reelect the president, that's how the banking committee got involved. >> so why break into a place in june? >> the burglar was an effort by the white house bank in committee. to find out the source of the money for the burglars. it was headed very force full congressman from texas. >> him and patman to appear before televised meeting. >> mr. patman, we'll start the investigation in mid hug. >> on september 12th, 15th, the water

they would try to make our conduct at "the washington post" the issue in watergate rather than the conduct him. >> using innuendo, third person hearsay, unsubstantiated charges, anonymous sources, and huge scary headlines, "the post" has maliciously sought to give the appearance of a direct connection between the white house and watergate. >> when somebody denies something that you know is true, it actually was a stimulus to us to keep working on this story, no matter how harsh the criticism and denunciation was. >> we started at the bottom. we learned from this bookkeeper who worked at the committee for the reelection of the president that there had been a secret fund that paid for undercover operations against the democrats. there were five people who controlled the funds, and finally we get to the point where we know that nixon's campaign manager john mitchell, former attorney general of the united states, had been among those five people who controlled the secret funds. so we decided we're going do a story on this. i had this number for mitchell, and i called him, and mitchell answered

of course, no one has the right to defame someone in the washington post even if m the post is more than happy to publish. we'll have more on the media mob angle in just a moment. butea first here with reaction o all of this saga. she is the host of crimet stories right on fox nationur .com or on . nancy grace is with us. nancy oy , first of all, i don't see any winners here to starty with . and secondly, i look at the utter evil brutality, darkness, use every adjective you can think. k and ino know that these situations arise. on my advice to anybody if you find yourself in one, get out g as soon as possible. don't pass go do not collect two hundred leave immediately. >> thoughts? well, as to the verdict that has just come out in the last hours, as i said at the get go it's like two wete cats in the barrel. o the only question was whichf one is going to crawl out on top of the other in this case deep crawled out on top. and il can tell you another thing, sean hannity, it woulday be a cold day and age awol that i or would let my daughter stay in a relationship where-e somebody cavity sea

some of my colleagues from the washington post are here. so, i know that we will have some heavy-duty journalism happening. so, william golson of the working institution told my colleague dan both recently that we've been living for nearly half a century in the world that water make -- watergate made. as of today, the word watergate nearly goes away. it has been 50 years. so, with that, we want to understand just what that means. and i think you will forgive me if i have the first question go to linn downey. so land, -- with the benefit of hindsight, how much of what happened including nixon's ultimate resignation can be tied to investigative journalism in your view. >> it began with investigative journalism. it began with a break-in. a local story. it was with the -- we were assigned to. and we stayed on the washington post for the duration of the scandal. >> -- [inaudible] >> mary was brilliant. he was the third part of that team. he could tell them what they were telling him about what they were finding. he could give them an idea what t

from the "washington post" this is 25 minutes. >> hello, welcome to "washington post live." my name is leigh ann caldwell. i am an anchor your "washington post live" and also the co-author of the early 202 newsletter. today for our children are talking to representative tony gonzales, a republican from texas who represents uvalde, such a timely conversation. thanks so muchim for joining us today. >> happy to be here, thank you. >> great. and first to our listeners and our watchers, feel free to send questions, we would love to hear from you come on twitter at "washington post live", or post live, excuse me. we will be looking out for those and hope to answer or i get those questions asked. congressman, let's start of course with the latest news on the gun mental health debate. the senate just agreed to or a a group ascenders i should say agreed to a proposal to address both mental health components and also tighten up some gun safety regulations and laws. what is youran initial reactiono that?? >> yes, today is day 20 after the shooting in uvalde and i've been in contact wit

from the "washington post" this is 25 minutes. >> hello, welcome to "washington post" life my name is leon caldwell i meant anchor "washington post" life and also the co-author of the early 202 newsletter. today we are talking to representative tony gonzalez. a republican from texas who represents uvalde in a timely conversation, congressman thanks so much for joining us today. >> yes happy to be here thank you. >> great. first, to our listeners and our watchers feel free to send questions. we would love to hear from you on twitter at post live. we will be looking out for those and hope to get those questions asked. congressman let's start of course with the latest news on the gun mental health debate. the senate just agreed to a group of senators i should say agreed to a proposal to address both mental health components then also tied up some gun safety regulations and laws. what is your initial reaction to that? >> today is day 20 after the shooting in uvalde. i have been in contact with the senator conant and others every day as a matter fact. senator cornyn and i had breakfast tog

should sue the washington post.ou know, not everyone has, you know, dep p's pockets. i wonder how many pieces were run in the washington post that were just as falsely malicious but nobody had the power to fight them but he has the power to put up his dukes and you have to wonder how much input did the washington post have? it's clear she didn't write the piece, allegedly she didn't write it, aclu claimed somebody put it together but i'm sure the washington post was happy to get it. maybe they helped her. why didn't they name dep p? because they knew they didn't have to. it was going to be obvious. so it seems to me they're getting away with it and they've got deeper pockets than amber heard so it would be really nice to see a nick sandman type move, you know, and then dep p can play nick sand man in the nick sandman movie. >> jesse: once i get dep p's pockets i'm going to sue the washington post. >> greg: i'm going to sue you. >> jesse: you can't sue me. >> greg: yes i can. >> jesse: no you can't. >> greg: i have p

government with washington post chief correspondent dan balz. then more on the watergate scandal with jill wine-banks, a former prosecutor involved with the case, and geoff shepard, who worked with the nixon administration's special white house counsel. host: good morning. it is friday, june 17, 2022. day three of the house january 6 hearings is in the books. and the longest hearing yet, the panel detailed how donald trump pressured his vice president to delay or overturn the results of the 2020 election. committee members also made the case that pence positive refusal to go along with that scheme -- that pence positive refusal to go along with that scheme put him in danger. phone lines split by political party. (202) 748-8001 for republicans, democrats (202) 748-8000, independents, (202) 748-8002. you can send us a text. that number (202) 748-8003. if you do, include your name and where you are from. otherwise, catch up with us on social media, on twitter, @c-span w j, and facebook.com/c-span. you can start calling in now. this is the front pag

since then, it's been awoke civil war at "washington post."it's the best story ever. i don't think you gave it justice. they're eating each other alive. they're calling each other out on twitter, this is what hans when adults hand the reins to children. they can't tell the difference between real and imagined misery. bezos should say grow up but he won't. he's too busy hanging out with the new chic. this is the predict of the death of blue collar journalism. a lot of people in the newsroom didn't have collage degrees. now they're overdim diplomaed, right? you don't see this on a factory line or construction site. you see it with people that all they do is go to class and complain and report their professors. wapo got suckered by people that get attention on social media. a journalist is looking for objects to bring attention to it. all of these hires are people used to having people click, click, click. so now they're eating each other alive. the reason why is you can't field a unified team with everyone that wants to be the center of attentio