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bob woodward played this. ... well, now joining us on bookv is tony patino.oauthor of this book, creating reading rainbow the untold story of a beloved children's series. he's also the co-creator of reading rainbow. where did the concept come from? mr. patino? well, i was where did the concept come from mr. buttino? >> it became a coordinator of instructional television in the interim for the public television station in buffalo, new york and my boss came up to me and wanted to know if i wanted to be involved in something like this so i said sure and as i was thinking about instructional television i came across the idea that children do not read during the summer months and therefore the mission the idea that kids can't read and not that they can, they don't read during the summer and when they go back to school they had to catch up and i'm thinking television can do something aboutab that. i was sure that so we started looking into the possibilities of runninges some programs durig the summer and we did come upd with one program called studio c and interest

and there's the woodward and bernstein rumors her having an alcohol problem. being reclusive.ction of that mysterious image. she's not really mysterious at all. immediate labels i view with a lot of suspicion they are so often not true or i character of a person. and indeed when i started digging i found that was true. she was not mysterious at allno. she didn't keep a distance from the press and people sometimes. good to a certain level with her and then her thoughts on her own. see what you have three to 15 footnotes in your book the mysterious mrs. nixon through acknowledgments mentioned tricia and ed cox assisted you. what was their input? >> that was critical. the books i rights, i like to very much alike and require the family, the people who knew them. i need to have thatil access to really understand them. and i talked to all kinds of outside people who are not connected with the family. having trisha's input, julie's and david's input it makes all the difference. there are so many things of both of the girls told me that made such a difference in the details. small th

there is plastic pat, the moniker given to her by john fairchild, things like that and then the woodward and bernstein rumors about her having an alcohol problem and being reclusive. these added to the mysterious portrait and the whole book, however, is an excavation and deconstruction of that mysterious image, but she is not really mysterious at all. the media i always view with a level of suspicion because they are often not true and when i started reading, i found she was not really mysterious at all, she kept a distance from the press and even from people sometimes so you can get to a certain with her and then her thoughts are her own. peter: you mentioned that trisha and ed cox and julie and david eisenhower assisted you. what was their role? peter: heath: -- yes, that was critical. the books i write, i really require the family, the people who knew them, i need that access to really understand them and then i ask all kinds of outside people not connected with the family. but having tricia's input, julie's input, david and ed's input, it makes all the difference. there are so many t

third place is journalist bob woodward's book called war and finally annie jacobson.ook is called nuclear war of samaria. those four books were the most watch books apple tv.org in 2024 just a reminder that all are available online. joining us on book tv is tony pitino. he is the co-author of this book creating reading rainbow the of a beloved children's series. also a cocreator of reading rainbow. where does the concept come from >> i was in instructional television. i became a coordinator. interim for the public television station in buffalo new york. my boss came up to me and wanted to know if i wanted to be involved in something like this so i said, sure. as i was thinking about instructional television, i was thinking about the idea that children do not read during the summer months and therefore the mission, the idea that kids cannot read, not that they cannot, they don't read during thed summer and teachers have o catch up and that sort of thing. television can do something about that. i wasn't sure of that. we started looking into the possibilities of running

bob woodward's latest book called war. and finally, annie jacobsen. her book is called nuclear war a scenario. and those four books for the most watched books at booktv dot org in 2024. just a reminder that all booktv programs are available online to be watched any time, any place. the website booktv dot org. org. well, now joining us on booktv is tony patino. he is the coauthor of this book, creating reading rainbow the untold story of a beloved children's series. he's also the co-creator of reading rainbow. where did the concept come from? mr. patino? well, i was in instructional television and i became a coordinator of instruction. i was the interim for the public television station w.a. in buffalo, new york. and my boss came up to me and wanted to know if i wanted to be involved in something like this. so i said, sure. and as i was thinking about instructional television, i came across the idea that children do not read during the summer months and therefore it's called, you know, the mission that the idea that kids can't read, not that they can't

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he also co-wrote it with bob woodward, the bestselling peril about the tumultuous transition between the trump and biden presidencies. plus, he has his own connection to churchill, which he will explain in a minute. so ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming bob small and bob costa costa. thank you so much, brad. appreciate it. good evening to everyone. thanks much for coming out here tonight. i'm bob costa with cbs. and i'm really to be here not only with one of the great authors in, professors, but my former professor at the university of notre dame, robert small. he a terrific journalist. professor, academic. over the years, he has written about everyone from father theodore hesburgh to essay collections about his journalism to writing about the easter in ireland's children, to my one of my most favorite books, recent memory the glory and the burden about the american presidency. and so when brad, about the literary marriage that has led to this project, mr. churchill in the white i was so intrigued because. it also does have a personal element for me as a journalist and

he is suing a book publisher for bob woodward's book that uses donald trump's own words. his quotes . he is suing cbs for editing a 60 minutes interview with vice president kamala harris and we know he settled a massive lawsuit with abc. what in the world is mark zuckerberg talking about when this is about freedom of expression? i do not see it. >> it is again part of the problem. we are couching it as protecting free speech. these platforms every day decide what they will do with speech through how they tune their algorithms and what content they recommend, through who they suppress. the idea it's about being a champion of free speech, it is very convenient to him if that's what we focus on. to be really clear on this point, fact-checking is not actually suppressing free speech. now, it's true some of the moderation policies have over moderated. there is no question about that, and there are some things i could've fixed to improve that. fact-checking or community notes any of these things they are talking about, that is about looking from a third- party at content and pu

. >> but now this filing is coming from john irving, other attorneys, stan woodward who just got a jobstration i should note. they represent the other two co- defendants in the classifiedclassified documents case. they seem to have an issue with the report overall but specifically with jack smith issuing part of a report on the classified documents case since, one, it was thrown out and since, two, it still is going up against these two co-defendants. >> right. but the evidence -- well, let's back up. the whole point of a report is that per law inin u.s. law when there's a special counsel the special counsel by law submits a report to the attorney general and the attorney general can choose to make that public. now, all of these matters that jack smith is investigating would necessarily have made their way into a final report. those are investigations of the former president both in washington, d.c. and in florida. these defendants in florida just don't like that their names i think are appearing in this report. and that's a little bit perplexing because we knew that evidence was going

in the wake of the watergate scandal, where every journalist in washington wanted to emulate bob woodwardand and bernstein and, you know, become known as an investigative journalist. so they went out trying to find dirt on the carter administration, very unsuccessfully. but it was also a time when the washington post was inventing the style section and so you had journalists who were going like sally quinn, who were writing very gossipy pieces about hamilton jordan and jody powell and the georgia boys surrounding the carter white house, who she would make fun of for their southern accent, the way they dressed the way they they talked about issues, the fact that they weren't interested in the georgetown set, they didn't circulate on the cocktail circuit. and carter himself, you know, sally quinn, when was very critical of carter for turning down dinner in imitations from katherine graham, the publisher of the washington post, and, you know, carter just didn't he as you said, he he would rather spend time with rosie in the white house in a quiet dinner than go out and shake hands and talk t

you know, we hear a lot the october surprise when bob woodward says that that trump has had seven contact with vladimir putin. what's going on there? is he making foreign policy without us? he's also doing it with bibi netanyahu. i don't know. we have one president at a time. and if we let that slide, really, i think our democracy is lost. i think that's what's happening now in a much more way. it was extraordinarily covert back then, it was, you. i finally got in touch with one of bill casey, had a secret network, a secret intelligence network. and i finally sort of got people to talk to me from it. there was a guy named robert sensi, and i tried to get him to talk in 1991. he wouldn't talk to me. 33 years later, he talked to me and he told me he helped. he traveled with casey, setting up some of these these meetings with the iranians in madrid. and casey, he said wore a yellow wig. he traveled on it with a phony passport. the name of daniel o'neill. and he gave me all the details and how he set up these meetings and, why they were so important. similarly, casey was meeting with illegal

he is suing a book publisher, simon & schuster, for bob woodward's book that uses donald trump's own words, his quotes. he's suing cbs for how they edited a "60 minutes" interview with vice president harris and we know he just settled a massive lawsuit with abc. what in the world is mark zuckerberg talking about, yael, when this is about freedom of expression? i don't see it. >> yeah. this is again part of the problem. we're couching this as being about protecting free speech. these platforms every single day decide what they're going to do with our speech through how they tune their algorithms, through the content they recommend, through who they suppress. so this idea this is about being a champion of free speech, again, it's very convenient to him if that's what we focus on and just to be really clear on this point. fact checking is not actually suppressing free speech. now it is true some of their moderation policies have overmoderated over the years. there is no question about that and there are some things they could have fixed to improve that, but fact checking or community no

. >> reporter: it was reported in bob woodward's recent book "war" that after biden's shaky debate performancebetter or worse. blinken has defended the chaotic u.s. pullout from afghanistan on their watch, reminding the world the first trump administration made a deal with the taliban, forcing withdrawal. on their rocky relationship with prime minister benjamin netanyahu, over the devastation of gaza in response to the october 7th, 2023, hamas attack on israel. blinken said this. >> it appears that at least to some people on the outside that netanyahu's government is not particularly respecting the role that the united states is trying to play and has helped to finance in its support of israel, that calls for protecting people, feeding people have been ignored. >> the quickest way, the most effective way to get people what they need is actually through what we have been trying to achieve for many months now, a ceasefire with the hostages coming home, massive assistance going in. we are very close to a ceasefire and hostage agreement. >> reporter: even this late in the game, blinken is hoping a

i had no journalism or no newspaper, and i got to the washington post and i was sitting next to woodward, was there. called tony kornheiser. and yeah, and, uh, great sportswriter and wilbon were like, there mike isikoff was a great political writer. yeah. was next to be and i was so i was i would just go in there. i had no idea what i was doing. i didn't a single thing for the first night. god knows how many weeks. i just sat there and i just listened. i just watched like just make one phone call after another. and i can remember over the phone is the car chase down the most impossible stories. and i that my education that's how i learned how to be a journalist listening to these guys and cole was all his guys there steve cole did this thing we all had pushbutton phones and normally we'd go like this and that wasn't fast enough for so he would do it like a concert. he'd be like, look at the white house, you know, whatever. so he could make like twice as many phone calls a day. cause this is like this is a guy who wrote a pulitzer prize winning, like, his phone calls, like while being man

i do admire bob woodward, who is the only major reporter in town who reported the rest of what i said right after that. which was which was that in the meantime, we had plenty of work to do and we had to look for ways we could work together. michael tackett, author of the price of power. mitch mcconnell on his relationship with president barack obama. in word frosty never really thought he was celebrated obama's election like he mentioned that his private oral histories that he thought it was a wonderful thing for the country. but it was also a political battle. and he was going try to wage that political battle and the one term president comment gets so much attention and what's interesting is that in addition to what he just said, what he actually said in the rest of the quote was, i don't want to fail. i want him to change. and of course, only the one term president part gets quoted. so i ask him about that. and it was interesting because he didn't deny what he meant by the first part of it. first of all, he said it's sort of obvious i'm a republican, he's a democrat, and i wanted

ed the distinction between how you deal with a citizen army versus how you deal with the regular woodward reading the book, talking about you know, these this is a citizen army in the civil war, but they are going to go back to the small the regular army in which there's less outside scrutiny. so the army would be free to discipline its own the way it sees fit. and there are prosecutions of four atrocities after the civil war there all of guerillas are the ones that i know of. are the u.s. government arresting people like champ ferguson and tennessee and prosecuting him for murder? this happens with two or three guerrillas who are also executed. sometimes it's only henry wirtz is the only who was executed for war crimes and i would say that's not true that these post war, this is of may, june, july of 1865. there are because there are some guerrillas of war use refused to surrender. and when captured, if they aren't killed in capturing and of course many of them are accidentally killed in being captured, they might be formally prosecuted and some of them are in i think we're on this side

woodward about mr. woodward and i read the jay curve and i've read oh, that's a couple more i've read. 1% doctrine. ron kind of analysis of the iraqi war. do you read any fiction days? yes, as a matter of fact, i'm not reading of some fiction by a man named james nelson, who's writer who wrote a series of books similar. the one we mentioned earlier about patrick o'brien. that was about the british navy. this is about the american navy during the revolutionary war period. and my my one of my sons who's read the patrick o'brian books, found this series, so he sent it to me and i'm on this trip that i just talked to the new york and washington and to other cities to sell books or get my spare time to read that book. are you still a big fan? yes, i am. i have a good collection of faulkner books, as you probably noticed in my in my bookshelves and of all of the southern writers, he's by far the best. and obviously i like to read biographies and history as well. next is east haven, connecticut. hello. hello,

we have been involved with one that has been going on for a while, successfully, against bob woodward he didn't quote me properly from the tapes. on top of everything else, he sold the tapes, which she wasn't allowed to do. he could only use them to report, not sell, and he admits that and we will be successful on that one. we have one very interesting on pulitzer. reporters at "the new york times" got pulitzer prizes for their wonderful, accurate, highly professional reporting on the russia hoax. it turned out to be a hoax. they were exactly wrong. people, like many people, john solomon, sean hannity, got it right. many people got it right. tucker got it right. laura got it right. janine got it right. a lot of people. got it right. didn't get anything. they gave it to reporters who got it wrong. everyone admits it was a hoax. i want them to get back, take back the prizes. big damages. we are doing well on that one. they have no excuse for it. they gave a price to writers who got russia wrong. i think we are doing well. i feel i have to do this. i shouldn't really be the one to do it.

we have been involved with one that has been going on for a while, successfully, against bob woodwardre he didn't quote me properly from the tapes. on top of everything else, he sold the tapes, which she wasn't allowed to do. he could only use them to report, not sell, and he admits that and we will be successful on that one. we have one very interesting on pulitzer. reporters at "the new york times" got pulitzer prizes for their wonderful, accurate, highly professional reporting on the russia hoax. it turned out to be a hoax. they were exactly wrong. people, like many people, john solomon, sean hannity, got it right. many people got it right. tucker got it right. laura got it right. janine got it right. a lot of people. got it right. didn't get anything. they gave it to reporters who got it wrong. everyone admits it was a hoax. i want them to get back, take back the prizes. big damages. we are doing well on that one. they have no excuse for it. they gave a price to writers who got russia wrong. i think we are doing well. i feel i have to do this. i shouldn't really be the one to do i