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>> deep throat was out there and we began to hear about it from the ground up that bob had this special source. >> when will the rest of the world know who is deep throat? >> when that source passes away or releases us from our agreement and pledge of confidentiality. >> the inevitable question, who is deep throat? >> we've said deep throat is a man. >> you can rule out some suspects like diane sawyer, a former nixon press aide, now network anchor. woodward says deep throat was a man. >> you've built a fairly strong case for the identity of alexander haig. >> do you have any idea who deep thro...

The first thing he indicated, he intimated that they had done this before. he didn't say we did it for johnson, yes we did it for this president or that. and he also indicated these things usually don't work out very well. >> get those files. are we going to go after some of these democrats or not? bob, please get me the names of the jews. can we please investigate some of the [ bleep ]? >> he was a paranoid man. he was sure that people were out to get him. i'm sure some people were out to get him. but he gave them a lot to get him with. >> he wasn't glamorous. he wasn't social. this kind of a...

40 years later it's a moment to ask what the greatest political scandal in modern political history means to us. >> it's an evolutionary tale, and we've evolved and we're older. bob and i brought very different baggage to the story and it meshed. >> so this was when you were 29, 30 years old. you'll never see a story like this good again. >> well, who knows? you know? >> who knows. >> it's a tale to maybe inspire a whole new generation, maybe. a generation who are now learning about watergate for the very first time.

Too, was not willing to do it. so the deputy attorney general also resigned. >> he said well, you're commander in chief is ordering you to do this, i don't know what added to the discussion. he said well, who else was around? >> i said bob borkus here, he was the last one that was eligible to do it. >> the commander in chief finally found someone willing to carry out his orders. cox was fired. >> i asked all the people in the department to stay. so ended what would become know as a saturday night massacre. the president's motive was to remove the possibility confrontation as quickly and early ...

But you had to be as close as you could get and you had to be closer the next day and then closer the day after that. >> they knew that haldeman was controlling the campaign's secret fund. the question was who was controlling haldeman? i was amazed by woodward and bernstein's resolve. there's nothing glamorous about what they were doing. but i thought it was important to portray the tedium, the hard work, and of course the feelings about the film from a studio standpoint was non-commercial. newspapers, typewriters, phones. mm-mm. washington, uh-uh. >> and bob did something which was brilliant....