i think he was ready to soften the last years i'm so sick of leonard bernstein. because he had become this kind of industry. there he had to travel with this large entourage and it was always told listen to you you know first he always enjoyed being famous he loved it in love being famous but it really became. more pressure than fun. you know which was a man not blessed with many talents but cursed with him i think as a genius and it's not easy being a genius i wouldn't know that watching him if he never felt he was doing enough. and that he was. living up to his own inner standard whatever that was. he couldn't get enough life he couldn't live enough life and if you tried. at me he left nothing out. here. belief exists and love to. play and what remains of the unsightly superfoods the vitality to the falsity the sight of him on the video the limitless chametz. even eternal contemporary was long as we lived he lives with us. he left us with a moral to live by and to be better human beings i don't think there's a greater gift you can leave. the a.a.a.s. bigger. bi

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. he said these guys, even though they're from separate -- you know, diverse backgrounds, think of them as one. particularly when they're interviewing people. he said let's learn not only our own lines but let's memorize the other guy's lines. >> what's this? what are you -- sloan. >> sloan was treasurer of the committee -- >> his wife did what? >> his wife is pregnant and she made sloan quit because apparently he no longer wanted to be part of it. >> we've got to go see sloan. >> make a note of it. what have we got? where is that -- >> each of us would come in at any time. we would take one half of a sentence, we'd finish it -- >> how do you know that? >> because she said it.

this morning we would like to invite you into a wonderful conversation with kanter sharon bernstein, so to jump into this wonderful conversation thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you for having me. it's a joy to be here. >> let's just jump in and ask you something basic, what is a cancer and how do you trained to be one, how did you become a kanter, some basic inks for folks to understand -- basic things for folks to understand. >> kanter is the english word which means to sing or chant. the hebrew word is house on and there are other words but basically there are several aspects to the origin of it. the prayers in judaism are always sung. so the candor is someone who has an expertise in that. somebody who has been trained and in the different types of jewish muprayers and torah and text. so there are a lot of aspects to it. the origins of it are the seeing of the prayers but it has expanded into many areas. >> so kanter is related to the english word canticles in christian tradition. it is something that is sung ? >> yes. >> how did you become a kanter? >> i kind of fell

he called bernstein sloppy, a man who lives in the past. carl bernstein defended himself in his own tweet saying i have spent my life as a journalist. no taunt will diminish my commitment to that mission. mollie: there is a fantasy held by the media that they hold democratic administrations accountable. many americans were awake during the last administration. and they saw how the administration was tweeted. carl bernstein has an image of himself i'm not sure is matched by reality. they claimed he wasn't a source, they put that in the original thing. and he declined to comments. and they have not done anything near what they need to to deal with the problems with that story. now they are trying to strongly suggest the other story is michael cohen himself. and they need to restore credibility. they have a pattern of false stories on the trump administration and this is the latest one. howie: does cnn have to do more than put out a one-sentence statement. and to report on the president's attacks on the network. it may be uncomfortable, but it

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and who was the host, leonard bernstein. and he was hosting a beautiful musical program, one of many, in fact that, took place at the white house. and it featured our own beloved artistic adviser at large, yoyo ma as a 7-year-old. very special program. and you can find it on youtube. it reminds you of the reality of seeing president and mrs. kennedy with those artists living today and can tell you about it and leonard bernstein who was probably the most influential american musician that we all will remember. now leonard bernstein went on to then compose the work that was brand new commissioned for the opening of the kennedy center in 1971. the white house actually, and i'd love to be able to share this and maybe we'll hear more in the panel, but the white house was actually a place of musical performances. in my understanding, i'm sure david rubenstein knows more, that john adams was the first. and he had and hosted the marine band who is just barely in existence back on new year's day on 1801. and president eisenhower was

bernstein about the book and did he help shape it in any way? guest: carl and i talk all the time. he did. he had all kinds of ideas. he is working for cnn and he has done a lot of his own reporting and we would talk back and forth about where this is, where it is going, what the outcome might he. my general approach is reporting becauseuture is futile you do not know what is going to happen. is an ending there , the president's lawyer, john that theluding president is a liar. think,paper has, i established there are 4200 plus matters the president has said that are false or misrepresent what occurred. on the outcome of the mueller investigation or the trump presidency, this is, i believe, a slice of reality, covering the period during the campaign a little bit up through the first 15 months of his time in office. host: let's go to minnesota, democrats line. this is bob. go ahead. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i have got a couple of questions . one of my biggest concerns is that trump seems to be -- -media and guest: you noticed. caller: i'm wondering if you a

prosecutors say woodward stabbed bernstein in a fit of rage after bernstein tried to kiss him. woodward, who's 21, told investigators that he was disgusted when bernstein kissed him on the lips in his suv... and pushed him back, but didn't say he did anything more violent. today an investigator testified that woodward had bunch of anti- gay.. anti semetic... and other hateful content on his phone. the violent hate group atom-waffen's insignia was woodward's wallpaper. (grant) bernstein was both gay and jewish. woodward has pleaded not guilty to the crimes. (pam) new at six tonight -- the california highway patrol wrapped up a busy labor day weekend... reporting a major drug bust in redwood city last night. take a look at this -- police found more than 10-thousand dollars in cash... 12- pounds of marijuana... 45- grams of cocaine... plus -- several bottles of prescription drugs and drug paraphernalia... the driver was taken into custody after police stopped him to do a welfare check. the c-h-p says, the driver was under the influence ... and also had three prior d-u- i's. coming

no one knows bob woodward like my next guest carl bernstein. i'm joined now by carl as well as patrick healey, the politics editor at the "new york times." i would like to talk about the woodward book and the "new york times" op-ed book that's making waves. we have just heard from woodward for the first time on cbs. he talked about what he hopes people will take away from this book. let's take a look at what woodward said. >> this one was in the belly of the beast. >> and what did you conclude about the beast? >> that people better wakeup to what's going on. >> and to what woodward is saying in this book and what he wants the public to know? carl, do i have you? i'm sorry -- >> i think i couldn't hear you, brian. >> you're a little bit far away from me today. i was asking for your reaction to what woodward was say about t the fact that the public needs to wake up. this needs to be a wakeup call. >> i think that's true because this book is an astonishing book with detail piled upon detail, with memoranda in which people in the administration of

so let's discuss now carl bernstein, max boot and timothy natalia. as you know bernstein and woodward, depending on who you're talking to, so carl i've got to start with you because a couple of questions, no one knows his work better than you. many administration officials are being quoted in this book, right, and here's what he said tonight. he gave an interview. he told the daily caller it's just another bad book -- >> the president. >> the president said this, yeah. the president, not bob. he says disgruntled employees just made it up. it could just be made up by the author. talk to me about how woodward 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 phras

much of bob woodward and carl bernstein's reporting relied heavily on confidential sources. most famously the man who came to be called deep throat. their work eventually helped bring down president richard nixon, forcing him to resign. woodward has written books about every president in almost half a century. but none like his latest. "fear" tells an extraordinary story about the trump administration. bob woodward, pleasure to have you on. >> thank you. >> let's first explain why you began all those years ago when reporting on the watergate break-in. to use what was then a fairly unconventional technique, which was these confidential sources, sometimes called anonymous sources. >> well, they're not anonymous to us. i mean that's very important to understand. the reason carl bernstein and i used those confidential sources, it's the only way you can get people to tell you the truth. they were not going to go out and if you said, gee, this is on the record, you're going to get the press release version, the official version. of course in watergate, there were so many secrets t

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when bernstein wrote the hillary clinton book, you liked him fine. they are not men where you got a lot of space to go after their integrity. it's not like it's done by some hack. >> i have to respectfully disagree with that. i think there has been a complete pattern of fabrication in both of their work. i like carl bernstein. i think he's a great guy to have a beer with. a story he put on here because his source misled him turns out to be incorrect. he should now say, my source misled me. i was incorrect. i think it would be baltimore h >> the story was accurate as reported. >> there's a disparity between the sworn testimony to the intelligence community -- >> that's on him and his people. that's not carl's problem. right? >> that's why carl should throw him over the side. say the story was incorrect. >> i know a lot about the reporting in that story. i don't know what carl's specific sourcing is. you don't out of source. you don't go bad on a source because of the reaction to the reporting. put that to the side. talk about you specifically. nine of

my colleague, carl bernstein, always says this and he's exactly right. it's the criminality. in the case of trump, we don't know. the mueller investigation is not over. and so we're going to have to wait on that. >> is there true allegiance to the president, among the people in the white house? >> well, it depends. you can't put everyone together. what i do is cite specific examples. and i think there are kind of three pockets here of people taking actions like gary cohn, the chief economic adviser, swiping, stealing something from the resolute desk in the oval office -- >> what he said he was doing for the good of the country. >> yeah, not just for the good, but to save the country, to protect the country, because if that had been signed, you begin the unraveling of our relationship with south korea. not just in trade, but in terms of the 28,000 military personnel we have in the country. and the top-secret intelligence programs. and so, you can't separate those. and to do what the president wanted to do, just summarily say, we're out of this trade agreement, the experts and

bernstein set up a conference call with 1100 institutional investors. remember, wall street's analysts were muffled at this point because all of their firms were involved in the crisis, they couldn't talk. so the beauty of being the bernstein analyst, i was the only one who could talk. the question from the 1100 major institutional investors was why did lehman fail? the fed stepped in to save it. it provided access to financing. so the surprise of that caused everyone to panic. so i guess the debate will always be, you know, should you have done an aig for lehman because that would have -- that would have delayed the crisis, spread the crisis more it certainly caused institutional investors and banks around the world to pull in, right? they pulled in all of their exposure and in the process cut lending, cut foreign exchange lines, and the world teetered at the edge the fed pulled it back you know, we need to take our hats off to those guys but that was a mistake letting lehman go down was a mistake. >> ten years later, i mean you're a professor, you're

we are launching a number of programs to make sure people know that we have not only leonard bernstein's collection but also the world's largest collection of comic books and a new baseball exhibit. we have the largest collection of baseball cards. that was really exciting. >> host: you are holding a folder with a new logo. >> guest: we are starting and launching a new strategic plan that the library of congress is for you, this is our representation, new visual identity, the word library bookends on that word can contain anything. the collections, videos, people, all kinds of things to be contained. >> host: our viewers, the insight, that wonderful folder you showed me. >> guest: i had to keep up with the names of all the authors. and photographs. and people see all kinds of things contained in it in these bookends. >> host: in this past summer. >> i have much more appreciation for interviewers, the honor of interviewing first lady michelle obama at the american library association conference and i was nervous because i admire what you do in terms of being an interviewer. she shared tho

so is the legendary investigative reporter carl bernstein. maggie, if i can begin with you, listen, the president here clearly wants to find out as quickly as possible who wrote this op-ed. cnn reporting that the white house at least has said it has narrowed down the list of suspects, similar to your reporting from last night. i'm curious. what have you been learning about that, and do you believe they're actually narrowing down this list, or as jeff was saying earlier, trying to distract from the message of this op-ed? >> i don't think it's trying to distract from the message. i think they're trying to please the president. the president has raised the question of treason, as you noted, not just publicly, but in private conversations with several people. it is not treason, to your point for a variety of reasons. but, look, i think that you are seeing, as we often see, the split between this president and the presidency. not just in the fact of what this op-ed writer was saying, but how everything has unfolded since. the president wants doj t

the reason carl bernstein and i used the confidential sources, it's the only way you can get people to tell you the truth. they were not going to go out and if you said gee this is on the record, you wouldn't get the official version. in watergate there were so many secrets that were buried and hidden so how are you going to do that. you have to find people who will be truth tellers where you can establish -- and this is the key -- a relationship of trust where you'll protect them. you can check out the information from other sources so you present a version that is authentic and real rather than something that is manufactured and in the case of the nixon presidency peppered with lies and deceit. >> to explain to people your process, i was cautious about anonymous sources because you don't want to create the opportunity for something that can't be checked. if you say something happened at a meet ing meeting and off quot where the president or secretary of defense said something, how do you arrive? >> from somebody who is there. lots of people keep diaries, there are extensive notes. th

the idea is that basically when you see the names bob woodward and carl bernstein, you think of that wonderful feel all the king's lynn with robert redford. these guys do not make statements that they can't back up. so it is all very well, sarah saunders, saying these are disgruntled people trying to make the administration look worse than it is, there is no smoke without fire here. and following on from michael wolff, trust me, there is more than a grain of truth in it. —— king's men. we're all going to work in the grand old age. you are not retiring soon, are you? though, of course not. japan has got a very strange work culture, having worked there for a number of years. this is inevitable, it is going to happen all over the world. interest rates are very low in most of the world's developed economies, you can't afford to sustain people. the japanese have a very strange culture, they look after people. for instance, if you lost yourjob, the whole street would look after you to make sure that you got sorted until you got thejob. anybody make sure that you got sorted until you go

bernstein advisers and a cnbc contributor. we talked about sentiment quite a bit since the beginning of the show because i think everybody knows the backdrop of the economy would be very positive for stocks right now, which makes me worry that that's so well known i don't know whether people immediately think that you can link the two on a real-time basis, that a good economy means good stocks. is it too bullish right now? is the story out already >> no, i don't think so. i don't think so. >> really? >> look, the economy is cooking. the economy is hitting on all eight cylinders. i think most people know that. i still think, though, the big question in most people's minds is when is the next 2008 coming. that's creating an immense amount of hesitancy. some among investors on the positive side, that's still happening among ceos and cfos too. >> all this focus on the repeat of a 2008-like crisis, people talk about that in a once in 100-year or 75-year phenomenon. >> right. >> should that be the thing people are worried about >> i

we are joined by bloomberg opinion columnist jonathan bernstein. we just got the latest lines right now from judge kavanagh saying that is sending a letter to the senate judiciary chairman chuck grassley that he will be at the september 24 hearing on monday, that he wants the hearing as soon as possible and denies categorically those claims. what does this mean for the supreme court nomination going w?ward jonathan: we know that he is denying these serious acquisitions, we don't know yet how it will play out next week, but certainly, we think he will show up and we have to hear from the lady making the accusations. shery: they are accusations of sexual harassment which they had before with justice clarence thomas, and there were also allegations against president trump. if the nomination goes forward, will the gop face an image problem here? jonathan: i think the supreme court will face a real problem. to have two problem on the supreme court, two justices, one of them with very serious accusations of sexual harassment that are as close to proven a

even someone like carl bernstein. she should know -- he should know better. he broke one of the biggest stories of the century. he vetted that source and they had documents. i'm kind of surprised he would take a guy like this at his word at this point. >> if you took this story and everything that is happened since then to any journalism school, one thing they would look at and talk about is the line in the story which they said that lanny davis it declined to comment. some or all of the three on the biline had some sort of contact with lanny davis. what are we to make of that part of this story? >> i have to wonder about that line. what was that line doing in there? what does it make to throw people off the truth? did they put it in there to try to make it look like lanny davis was not the source for that story. if they i wanted put that line in there, they could have said, lanny davis decide -- declined to comment on the record. there's no reason for that line to have been in there. they could have went to michael cohen himself and asked if he wanted to com

there may be many fools in this story but carl bernstein is not one of them. so says cnn. after cnn's tepid response, the president geared up and let the media have it. saying -- "the hatred and extreme bias of me by cnn clouded their thinking, making them unable to function. but actually as i've always said this has been going on for a long time. little jeff z. has done a terrible job. his ratings suck. and at&t should fire him to save credible." he continues. "what is going on at cnn is happening to different degrees at other networks. with nbc news being one of the worst. the good news is that andy looky -- get it -- is about to be fired for incompetence and much worse. when lester holt got caught fudging my tape on russia, they were hurt badly." the left wing media apoplectic because president trump will not back down. vice president mike pence says this is a major reason that mr. trump was elected president. >> vice president pence: all i know, a lot of the liberal media met their match in president trump. they understand the american people elected this man because h

bernstein were covering president nixon and the watergate investigation, you and the "washington post" and other newspapers faced threats and things i can't even imagine in today but today it seems that the free press is under assault worse than ever. how in your opinion does what happened to you and the post and other journalists in 1973-74 compare to what is happening today? >> i'm sorry. what's the question? there's an echo. >> the criticisms of the press when you're covering watergate, how dogs that compare to the criticism of today. >> well, nixon and his spokespeople were tough. we were called character assassins and -- >> the original fake news? >> yeah, but i'd rather be called fake news than a character assassin. i'm sorry. but to answer the question this way. it was january 1973, carl and i had written these stories that really said watergate was a nixon white house re-election campaign operation, and the key was that it wasn't just the watergate burglary. it was a series of sabotage and espionage operations, and we had a bit of a problem. no one believed the stories. nixon

bernstein were covering, you and the washington post and other newspapers faced threats and things that i can't even imagine. today it seems that the press is under assault worst ever. how in your opinion, does what happened to you and the most and other journalist in 1973, compare to what is happening today? >> what's the question? >> have at the criticisms of the press, how does it compare to the criticisms of today? >> nixon and his spokespeople were pretty tough. the original -- i would rather be called fake news. i'm sorry -- >> to answer the question, it was january 1973, carl and i had written these stories that really said the nixon white house, reelection campaign operation and the key was that it wasn't just the watergate burglary, it was a certain ease of operations. we had a bit of a problem, no one believed the story. nixon won a massive reelection in november of 72. so they invited them for lunch. january of 73. she supported the story and i knew her a little bit, not well. carla had to go to a funeral that day. she sat down in the lunchroom and said, she truly blew my min

and a few years ago i produced a documentary about woodward and bernstein's detective story to uncover the truth. and it struck me as prophetic and worth repeating today. we thought watergate changed america and our political prs.

people and getting records and documents and notes and files and tell people what you found what carl bernstein and i have said the best of all versions is the church then after we presented in this book. >> host: from georgia, hello. >> caller: i didn't hear the conversation before now but i heard somebody denigrating our president obama. we all remember how these fatcat republicans sought to it that this guy didn't get reelected. i wanted to call and thank you for your work. i just want to ask. [inaudible] i'm in my 71st year and people don't say hello to each other. [inaudible] >> host: got you caller, thanks. >> guest: i'm not sure what the question was if there was one. >> host: we will go to maryland then, gloria how low. >> caller: good morning mr. woodward. there's a m reason why i called. i don't have enough god bless you's to this though. thank you for your service. i pray for you when you were previously wanted while embedded on foreign soil and the ou a great deal because the truth is you're a journalist that we all need. i want to encourage america to continue to stay wedded to the

and impeachment. >> tucker: do you think that if karl bernstein doesn't like you, that you should be allowed to be president? it comes down to that. >> if american people vote, then whoever wins the presidency, that is the person that is going to be president. >> tucker: oh, there you go, we're back to democracy, i'm for that. >> right, most of us are. but when you talk -- >> tucker: i thought that. >> when you're talking about fear-mongeri fear-mongering, i was listening to the tape, the sound you had, people were saying apocalyptic. it is president trump that said that there is going to be violence in the streets of america if the republicans do not win the mid terms. the stock market is going to crash. everyone is going to be poor. so if we're really talking about fear-mongering, the biggest fear mongerer is donald trump. >> tucker: well, i think, wasn't he predicting -- i don't think any president should predict the stock mast, i agree with you on that. but i don't think the president was saying republicans were going to hurt anybody. it's pretty much democrats that create violen

former associate director of the fbi served as a anonymous source for "washington post" reporters carl bernstein and bob woodward. his leads proved watergate ultimately led to the resignation of richard nixon and as it was going down the president, of course, raged about woodward and bernstein. so tonight fast-forward to another presidency dealing with a damaging anonymous source from within as another president rages about bob woodward. with us tonight to talk about all of it, pulitzer prize winning author and historian jon meacham, who also happens to be an msnbc contributor. jon, i'll start with a small question. how does our country and democracy stand tonight, in your estimation? >> i actually think we're in better shape than we were maybe two or three weeks ago. >> please tell me how that is possible after the day we've just had. >> i will. i will tell you because we're talking about it and there is increasing evidence, there's facts in a post-truth world, facts are coming into play. look at the institutions that have been functioning over the past three weeks. the rule of law, the justice

jamie gang gel, john dean and cl bernstein who knows a little bit about something about working with bob woodward. jamie, i want to start with you because we are getting a statement from bob on these white house attacks. >> we just e-mailed and bob woodward sent the following, quote, i stand by my reporting. he said that yesterday and he's saying it again today. >> well, he's sanging that because there's been pushback. james mattis says the words were never uttered by me or in my presence. so let's talk about woodward's tactic. basically he spoke to -- he says dozens of people. he recorded them but it was on deep background, meaning he can't reveal who said what. >> correct, so carl can explain this even better but bob did hundreds of hours of taped interviews with almost every person he spoke to and there were dozens of sources, people inside the room with donald trump, first-hand sources. but he does do it on what we call deep background which means he can use whatever they said he said to them. he didn't want anything that was off the record. so he can use it but he protects their

we're back with gloria allred, carl bernstein, and david gergen, john dean. the president talking about a lingering stench. what do you think he means? do you see rosenstein being removed by the president? >> it's hard to tell. he finds stenches in lots of places. i think the thing with rod rosenstein and his leaked information about his behavior, i don't think it's a fireable offense. if you look at the sequence of when this happened, this was at the time of the comey firing. they had done a job on him. they lured him into writing a memo and said that was, made that the pretext for firing comey. he was under a lot of heat as a result of that, and he had a lot of reason to distrust the white house at that point. the other thing is apparently he was present when some people went over there for interviews to be fbi director, and he was appalled at the president's interview techniques. so, who knows what really goes on inside that white house. that might be why he was suggesting it. i don't find it outrageous. and i'll tell you, it's not unprecedented either. i