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But that's the only -- there is a lot of work for reporters, the committee in the house, the january 6th committee is making a big effort there. they don't, as ben bradley the editor of the post used to say, they have a low pair. but the justice department could take the high pair in this. >> so speak to that a little bit. during your history changing coverage of watergate, you covered obviously what the doj did and you covered what congress did. and they were able to achieve quite a lot. i know your expectations are a little lower for what this house committee can achieve. >> well, and nixon ...

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....

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 awkward and very smart, but it's h...

Us a better idea of how big the conspiracy was. >> 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 alexa...

Willing to do. >> so the deputy attorney general also resigned. >> well, they'll be an announcement out of the white house later on. >> there will be? >> have to do with the resignation of the attorney general in. >> well, it might, but you'll have to get it from them. >> he said, well, your commander in chief is ordering you to do this, you know, i don't know what that added to the discussion, but he said, well, who else is around? i said, well, bob is here, he was a number three guy in the department, and borque was the last one eligible to do it. >> the commander in chief finally found some...