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>> "the new york times" called your new book "a eulogy for the newspaper business." others called it a love letter. which is it? >> it's both. and it also, bob woodward and i did a program last night online from politics and pr ose, the great bookstore, and what you see in this book is this straight line from what i learned at the "evening star" about having two sources. about the best obtainable version of the truth. a straight line about what real reporting is to the watergate reporting we did at "the washington post," even though this book takes place only about this kid who had his one foo...

Maybe because it's true. >> yes. >> all the protestations that we're hearing from the white house may not have an effect because there's some truth to this. and we know a little bit the history of watergate teaches us something here, right? >> yes, it does, because it turns out that deep throat had denied that he was deep throat for decades and then he finally admitted, mark felt, that he was deep throat and we know that bob woodward's reporting was proven true. so here is ben bradlee's autobiography, this is of the with a post, he was executive editor during water kate, he says little by litt...

Main source for bob woodward in the watergate reporting, of course, repeatedly denied that he was deep throat. a lot more to come on "kasie dc." is one of the most powerful figures in media on his way out. new reporting on les moonves. plus, president obama gets some things off his chest on the campaign trail. but first, you might have noticed there was a little news this week in the capitol. as we go to break, a look back at the whiplash week that was in washington. and, yes, this really all happened this week. ♪ biden went to church along with bob casey. president trump is taking on at...

Clear me as soon as possible. whether they start giving out lie detector tests, i have not confirmed they'd do that but you can imagine president trump on monday or even over the weekend is saying, we have to get to the bottom of this and they're trying to strategize how they'll do that. in terms of whether or not the cabinet members and all the people that -- i think bob woodward's credibility is kind of unmatched. if you're going to put up bob woodward's reporting versus donald trump saying that never happened, you'll choose bob woodward 99% of the time. even if the president can find this o...

Works, his methodology. >> well, the methodology goes back to the watergate reporting, particularly the final days of the book he we wrote about nixon's last year, the final year in office. of which we went to literally 100, 200 people, tape recorded all our interviews, the major participants, those closest to the president. and what emerges and what's so important about this book is that it's not about using the word idiot. it's not about a phrase here or there. this is a disturbing narrative scene after scene after scene of those closest to the president of the united states in his white hou...