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With this time you tell the inside story of the trump administration in the book "fear." we knew you were working on it. we knew you were working on something. and you disappear and when you come out, theres an explosion, a political explosion. theres been one here, as well, bob. i want to ask you, though, what is your biggest take away? lets just look at this entire project from 30,000 feet. if you were trying to describe to somebody 30 years from now a historian, what was the big idea with the...

>> marie: im not sure we can read all that from the cryptic text from two years ago that we have no context for. im not defending them because i dont know but their attorneys as this was a strategy to stop leaks and lisa page and peter strzok knew much more about the investigation into donald trump and his campaign that never was reported before the election. if they had really wanted to hurt donald trump, they couldve leaked everything about his investigation in his campaign so i think we need ...

I think its important to keep in mind woodwards methods. he had hundreds of hours of interviews with all sorts of officials. you read that book, and you can draw your own conclusions about who some of the key sources might have been. woodward doesnt explain who the sources are in the book, but his interviews are meticulous. he has notes, diary entries. hes built this narrative on a foundation of reporting. so its very difficult for people to challenge aspects of the book. >> i do want to talk ab...

That this is what they do to somebody with some power, someone wanting to be the president of united states and with some finances, how is the fbi as a whole then treating others around these issues of conflicts of interest and so on and so forth. it just makes me ask the question of if there is no rule in place and he didnt break it, we got a bigger problem. >> chris: is actually primary documents, so much of what has been given out so far to the public has been with the republicans think this ...

In american history. >> became clear he was not going to produce them voluntarily of the theres a reason he drew the line taking up all this flak. there must be damaging things on there. we were concerned that he might dispose of the tapes, that in and of itself could be a criminal offense. burning of the tapes, destroying the tapes. nixon never thought the tapes he was making secretly would surface publicly. >> it was never designed they would come out so theres a spontaneity and free flow of p...

>> is it, though? i think a lot of people would argue its pretty straightforward. >> i think that you cant look at the 2016 election and come to any conclusion other than donald trump won and it was a fairly weak field. i think the danger in it is looking at it and drawing these conclusions that the party has to be a predominantly white party. that the party shouldnt reach out. that the party should write off california. just because you won an election, he got less percentage of the overall vot...

>> thats a very complicated torturous question. its difficult to talk about race in this. i dont think -- >> is it, though? i think a lot of people would argue its pretty straightforward. >> i think that you cant look at the 2016 election and come to any conclusion other than donald trump won and it was a fairly weak field. i think the danger in it is looking at it and drawing these conclusions that the party has to be a predominantly white party. that the party shouldnt reach out. that the part...

Is truths gold standard. he is a reporters reporter. he bases his conclusions on fact, on accounts from the individuals in the white house. this is a little different than michael wolffs book. >> on page 331 where it says details in the books, one of the excerpts about how they had gone through some practice here with his counsel at the time, dowd, and it turned out to be disastrous. this is what happened in the practice session. basically john dowd saying youre not just a good witness. michael,...

He spoke in glowing term of the courts experience during the nixon administration in u.s. versus nixon. he has been in that white house and outside the white house. now he has been a judge and he has been considering presidential power in a range of cases and come to a range of conclusions including ruling against the president who appointed him to the circuit court. im sure he will rule against president trump from time to time. that is not how he thinks b he is not going to the court to think ...

Andy mccabe, who has been fired, is now still under investigation, significance of that? >> its significant, i wouldnt draw too many conclusions but the inspector generals report recommended a criminal investigation. if these reports are correct that would be what a criminal investigation is. >> for specifically? >> for lying to congressional investigators. mccabe it appears was behind a leak to the media about the fbis involvement in the clinton foundation and appears to have denied he was the ...