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>> in your draft for "the times," you used the exact words in the book, that i deliberately left off the name because that passage begins with the name. >> yes. >> and so in their removal of the name, they ended up removing the whole -- >> the whole sentence. so i think it was just an editing -- done in haste, in the editing process as you know for closing the section. >> were you involved in the decision to amend this? >> we discussed it. we felt like there was so much heat. everyone has been kind of seizing on various aspects that we didn't want this to be an issue anymore. and he we certain...

>> right. you know, it's like saying the sun is going to set later for the president to bash "the new york times." but with respect to the article that came out in collaboration with the el paso "times," the texas "tribune" needs to work with the "new york times." we know their editing process, they're fiercely accurate. i know some of them personally. i don't think anything is a fabrication. as we said before on this report, you have the government inspector general saying there have been warning flags for a long time about these facilities. you have members of congress coming to visit them, ...

He's not portrayed as a bad individual. he's portrayed as someone who is tough but he's not necessarily portrayed as someone with a bunch of deep character flaws. nowadays we have so many tv shows you have the anti-hero, where you have their flaws put on display and is actually part of what makes them compelling. do you sense there was any sort of room for having -- when you were interviewing for this piece was there a sense that folks didn't want to have any of his flaws on display, or how did that factor in? >> trump is trump. i think mark burnett saw that and is a magnetic personality, no q...

Hair gel. but i don't want to use the silicons. what should i use? we start to r&d it. that didn't work and that didn't work. i created a gel made out of starch. you can use it to thicken your gravy. it's tapioca starch and cornstarch. that's where the editing process comes in. that didn't work. that didn't work. take the one little thing that works and expand it. not every idea is a good idea. you need to write the ideas down, let them live a little bit and you come back. i think that's the essence of california baby. there are no shortcuts. you learn as you go. you take your time. you make t...

You and khashoggi's family at what i'm sure is an incredibly difficult time. can you talk through the decision to go ahead and publish what may be now the last column from khashoggi? >> sure. thank you. thanks for the words and thanks for having me on. he sent that column in the day before he disappeared in the saudi consulate in istanbul. we held out publishing it because we hoped he would reappear and we would do what we always did, which was go through the editing process with him and, you know, we've held -- tried to hold on to that hope as long as we could. we finally decided the couple s...